Phenomenology and Existentialism Books
Fordham University Press The Visible and the Revealed
Book SynopsisDealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology, this work is useful for understanding the progression of the author's thought on such topics as the saturated phenomenon and the possibility of something like "Christian Philosophy". It explores the boundary line between philosophy and theology or their mutual enrichment and influence.Trade Review"Jean-Luc Marion has become an essential conversation partner for all serious systematic theologians and philosophers of religion. Not to know his work, as presented in the luminous essays of The Visible and the Revealed, is to have missed an important connection in contemporary thought." -- -Kevin Hart University of Virginia "Anyone interested in the state of art in Continental philosophy of religion will find this required reading." -Choice "Asks many questions and presents many answers, solidly recommended reading." -Library Bookwatch
£29.45
Fordham University Press Material Phenomenology
Book SynopsisOffers an investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. This book is suitable for those interested in the future of phenomenology or in a philosophy of life in the truest sense.Trade Review"A very important contribution to the foundation and the method of philosophy." -- -Adriaan Peperzak Loyola University, Chicago " ... Henry's book is a powerful advocate for life and affectivity, showing repeatedly that the dominant mode of phenomenology (and Western philosophy in general) priviledges ek-stasis and objectification at the expense of absolute subjectivity." -Christianity and Literature "Michel Henry's re-definition of Husserl's phenomenology can be compared only with that of Levinas. He was able to uncover some possibilities actually reached by Husserl, but kept hidden by his idealist turn, as in the primacy of Leib, the originarity of the self-affection of the self, and the limits of intentionality. This led him to reach one of the very few rigorous concepts of life ever achieved in philosophy. It is time to pay serious attention to one of the most important philosophers of the last century." -- -Jean-Luc Marion Universite Paris-Sorbonne, University of Chicago "This book will be of great value and interest to those interested in Henry's philosophy of life, Husserlian scholars, ad for thos interested in the future of phenomenology." -Kinesis "Translation of a 1990 work by the French philosopher (1922-2002)." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Published originally in French in 1990, this book is an important contribution to phenomenology. Henry (1922-2002; formerly, Univ. Paul Valery) argues that phenomenology must be grounded in the radical immanence of life. He elaborates on this argument through a careful, detailed analysis of Husserlian conceptions of hyle (matter), the method of phenomenological reductions, and intersubjectivity in chapters 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Henry consistently responds to phenomenological claims of transcendence with his own claims of immanence focusing on the "pathos of life." He defines the substance of the material phenomenology of the title as "the pathetic immediacy in which life experiences itself." So where Husserl speaks of reduction to a sphere of pure phenomenological seeing, Henry counters that such a reduction focuses too much on what is outside, visible, and at a distance, rather than on the materiality and self-affectivity of life. The analysis presumes significant knowledge of Husserlian phenomenology, but is an original and creative contribution to phenomenological research. Davidson (Oklahoma City Univ.) provides a clear translation of this work and an elucidating introduction. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty/researchers." -Choice
£63.00
Fordham University Press Event and World
Book SynopsisThe world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. This title seeks to change all that, to describe what sort of phenomenon an event is and to establish how it can be grasped via a phenomenology.Trade Review"Claude Romano's powerful investigation of a world that is first made out of "eventful" and meaningful events, and not of mere happenings or facts opens an entirely new horizon for present-day phenomenology and hermeneutics. For many readers it will be an "event" in Romano's sense, changing radically their way of looking at the world, at the others and at themselves. (Professor Jean Greisch, Paris) Please tell me whether this proposal suits you and my congratulations for publishing this otustanding work." -- -Jean Greisch Institut Catholique "Compellingly taking the notion of event as his leading clue, Claude Romano analyzes the human "adventure" in an exceedingly rich and creative phenomenological hermeneutics. _Event and World_ lucidly examines the very process of something happening to us as we human beings are interpreted as the opening to events. This eloquent and profound work brings to the English speaking world one of France's leading contemporary thinkers. It marks a significant contribution to the philosophy of event, time, and world." -- -Anthony J. Steinbock Southern Illinois University at Carbondale "In this first volume of his ground-breaking phenomenology of the event, Claude Romano re-describes the human being as the being that is capable of events. The result is something new and provocative: an evential hermeneutics. All philosophers and theologians have things to learn from this study." -- -Kevin Hart The University of Virginia
£78.30
Fordham University Press The Early Heideggers Philosophy of Life
Book SynopsisThe topic of this book is the facticity of life and language in the early work of Martin Heidegger, looking at the early lecture courses (1919 to1925). Its aim is to show that Heidegger presents a meaningful view of human life as both riddled with deception and open to insight.Trade Review"Scott Campbell's book is an impressive piece of scholarship concerning a neglected topic, and contains insights that will prove to be of great benefit to the existing Heidegger literature." -- -Marc Lucht Alvernia University "This is a marvelous, painstaking work. Its analyses of Heidegger's lecture courses over a crucial six-year period are meticulous and insightful, and a real contribution to Heidegger scholarship." -- -Anne O'Byrne Stony Brook University
£25.19
Fordham University Press Futurity in Phenomenology
Book SynopsisThis book examines the methodological significance of the future in the work of Husserl, Levinas and Derrida. In doing so, it reveals phenomenology to be, in its essence, a promissory discipline.Trade Review"An important contribution to the literature, this volume sees the future of phenomenology as bright indeed...Recommended." -Choice "DeRoo's original study of futurity in phenomenology constitutes a close and methodical reading of some of the most difficult pages written by Husserl, Levinas and Derrida on time and its relation to subjectivity. The effort of opening for us this lucid path through such a dense forest is, without a doubt, worth taking, and the service provided to the reader gratefully appreciated, for a phenomenology that is not understood as essentially open to the future in its multiple modalities of awaiting, anticipation, and eschatology is not worth its name. I see DeRoo's labors in the present book as indispensable for the future of phenomenology." -- -John Panteleimon Manoussakis College of the Holy Cross "Futurity in Phenomenology is an important book. It is the only one that places Husserl, Levinas, and Derrida in conversation. In fact, Deroo shows himself to be a master of all three figures. Deroo finds a common ground among the three in the idea that intentionality must be understood through futurity. And what makes Futurity in Phenomenology a true contribution to philosophy is how common ground opens out onto ethical and religious questions." -- -Leonard Lawlor Pennsylvania State University
£45.00
Fordham University Press Trust
Book SynopsisWithout trust (in other persons, social connections, a host of natural phenomena and events, cultural symbols and structures, historical traditions, and religious or quasi-religious interpretation) no human life is possible. What is trust and how does it unfold in the various dimensions that compose human existence in a world of exhilarating splendor and incomprehensible horror?Trade ReviewThere are relatively few philosophers capable of producing a book like this one. Trust represents the work of a seasoned philosopher who has spent a lot of time thinking through the perennial and fundamental questions that persons interested in the pursuit of genuine wisdom must ask. It is a book that shows remarkable coherence, brevity, and depth. -- Norman Wirzba, Duke Divinity SchoolBy these particular studies of trust as related to society, nature and self, the author leads the reader to a conclusive and original study of trust in philosophy (existential wisdom) as distinct from Cartesian doubt to undergird scientia and to retrieve the traditional philosophical understanding of the centrality of trust for producing philosophy as sapientia (existential wisdom). -- David Tracy, University of Chicago
£59.40
Fordham University Press Trust Who or What Might Support Us
Book SynopsisWithout trust (in other persons, social connections, a host of natural phenomena and events, cultural symbols and structures, historical traditions, and religious or quasi-religious interpretation) no human life is possible. What is trust and how does it unfold in the various dimensions that compose human existence in a world of exhilarating splendor and incomprehensible horror?Trade ReviewThere are relatively few philosophers capable of producing a book like this one. Trust represents the work of a seasoned philosopher who has spent a lot of time thinking through the perennial and fundamental questions that persons interested in the pursuit of genuine wisdom must ask. It is a book that shows remarkable coherence, brevity, and depth. -- Norman Wirzba, Duke Divinity SchoolBy these particular studies of trust as related to society, nature and self, the author leads the reader to a conclusive and original study of trust in philosophy (existential wisdom) as distinct from Cartesian doubt to undergird scientia and to retrieve the traditional philosophical understanding of the centrality of trust for producing philosophy as sapientia (existential wisdom). -- David Tracy, University of Chicago
£22.79
Fordham University Press Malicious Objects Anger Management and the
Book SynopsisThis study investigates the relationship of objects and affects in literary and philosophical texts from the 18th to the 20th century. It focuses on the obstinate obtrusiveness of objects, which refuse to disappear into their automatic, unconscious functionality, instead remaining conspicuous thereby causing humorous outbursts of anger and rage.Trade Review"Kreienbrock's study moves with ease between literary theory, anthropology, epistemology, and psychology while never leaving the main thrust of his investigation from sight: the singular status of literature in articulating the pathos of the modern subject as seemingly overwhelmed and overcome by the world of things." -- -Paul Fleming Cornell University "Kreienbrock's work is a welcome contribution to the recent trend for Thing Studies." -Sean Williams, Monatshefte "The story Kreienbrock tells here is an interesting and thorough one, and it makes a contribution to the history of the modern subject amid the menagerie of objects from which he differentiates himself." -Daniel Bowles, German Studies Review
£73.80
Fordham University Press Malicious Objects Anger Management and the
Book SynopsisThis study investigates the relationship of objects and affects in literary and philosophical texts from the 18th to the 20th century. It focuses on the obstinate obtrusiveness of objects, which refuse to disappear into their automatic, unconscious functionality, instead remaining conspicuous thereby causing humorous outbursts of anger and rage.Trade Review"Kreienbrock's study moves with ease between literary theory, anthropology, epistemology, and psychology while never leaving the main thrust of his investigation from sight: the singular status of literature in articulating the pathos of the modern subject as seemingly overwhelmed and overcome by the world of things." -- -Paul Fleming Cornell University "Kreienbrock's work is a welcome contribution to the recent trend for Thing Studies." -Sean Williams, Monatshefte "The story Kreienbrock tells here is an interesting and thorough one, and it makes a contribution to the history of the modern subject amid the menagerie of objects from which he differentiates himself." -Daniel Bowles, German Studies Review
£22.49
Fordham University Press The Body of Property
Book SynopsisExplores the embodied aspects of ownership and private property as these emerge in a range of American literary texts across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.Trade Review"Luck's focus on the phenomenological experience of ownership in the early nineteenth century is new and revealing. Whether looking at the frontier romance, the urban gothic, the domestic novel, or the plantation narrative, Luck convincingly shows how changing notions of property were intimately linked to evolving notions of embodiment and selfhood." -- -David Anthony Southern Illinois University, Carbondale "Written with force and grace, The Body of Property shows how antebellum literature stepped in to address questions that legal thought largely evaded: how do we come to own a thing? Why does property require bodies? Offering us a 'phenomenology of possession' in authors ranging from Brown to Stoddard, from J. P. Kennedy to George Lippard, Chad Luck provides a genuinely new account of the cultural work undertaken by antebellum fiction, as it thinks through embodiment and possession in a range of social locations: frontier, parlor, plantation, cityscape. This is a terrific book, well-researched, theoretically nimble, and full of interpretive insight." -- -Jonathan Elmer Indiana University "Luck combines a truly impressive archive of antebellum writing, legal and cultural history, Enlightenment philosophy, and phenomenology with an innovative methodology to tell a new history of property in American literature and culture -- the history of what property feels like, from the body to the spaces of the home, the plantation, and the city." -- -Jennifer Greiman University at Albany, SUNYTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Pierson v. Post and the Literary Origins of American Property American Literature and the Problem of Property Property in Antebellum Culture A Phenomenology of Property The Space of Property Chapter One - Walking the Property: Ownership, Space, and the Body in Motion in Edgar Huntly Condillac's Statue and the Primacy of Touch Touching on the Other: Bodily Frontiers and the Production of Space Walking the Property: Mobility and the Appropriation of Space Chapter Two - Eating Dwelling Gagging: Hawthorne, Stoddard and the Phenomenology of Possession Possession without Acquisition: Eating, Enjoyment, and the "Beginning of Property" Home Bodies: Domestic Space and Possession Proper Mother's Milk: Private Property and the Feminine Economy of the Gift Chapter Three - Anxieties of Ownership: Debt, Entitlement and the Plantation Romance Southern Discomfort: Debt in the Slaveholding South Owning and Owing: Woodcraft and the Phenomenology of Debt Slave Narrative and the Senses of Entitlement The Structure of the Debt: Swallow Barn and the Space of the Plantation Chapter Four - Feeling at a Loss: Theft and Affect in George Lippard A Culture of Theft Distress Signals: Theft, Body, Affect Kleptophobia and the Architecture of Loss Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Market in the Grave Epilogue - Wisconsin, 2004: Racial Violence and the Bodies of Property Notes Works Cited
£71.10
Fordham University Press Whats These Worlds Coming To
Book SynopsisOur contemporary challenge, according to the authors, is that a new world has quietly cropped up on us and is, in fact, already here. In this book, the authors invite us on an uncharted walk into barely known worlds when an everyday French idiom, "What's this world coming to?," is used to question our conventional thinking about the world.
£18.89
Fordham University Press There Is The Event and the Finitude of Appearing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a philosophical project that attempts to face the fundamental challenges that need to be addressed by contemporary phenomenology, and which builds an original and extremely stimulating pathway in order to redefine the stakes and outcomes of the phenomenological heritage." -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an 'evential hermeneutics' that takes as its starting point the life-changing events that upend our world. He studies the structure of these events in terms of the genuine change and novelty that they open up, distinguishing them from mere occurrences, which can be explained as a subject realizing pre-existing possibilities. Because such events introduce radically new possibilities by transforming me and my world, Romano argues that they must be understood as establishing a world rather than as happening in the world." -- -Shane Mackinlay Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, MelbourneTable of ContentsPreface PART I: EV ENT AND METAPHYSICS 1. Some Sources and Prolongations of "Evential Hermeneutics" 2. Possibility and Event 3. Bergson as Metaphysician and Critic of Metaphysics PART I I: BEYOND SUBJECT AND OBJECT? 4. Sartrean Freedom, or Adam's Dream 5. The Mirror of Narcissus: On the Phenomenology of the Flesh 6. The Ecological Phenomenology of J. J. Gibson PART I I I: THE NOTHING AND THE "THERE IS" 7. Is a Phenomenology of Nothingness Possible? The Carnap-Heidegger Controversy 8. "Between Emptiness and the Pure Event": Phenomenology Notes
£27.90
Fordham University Press Sensible Life A Microontology of the Image
Book SynopsisThis book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion and language.Trade Review"La vita sensibile (2011) is Emanuele Coccia's first book to be translated into English. Rendered as Sensible Life: a micro-ontology of the image, it comes with an insightful prologue by Kevin Attell, and it belongs to the excellent "Commonalities" series edited by Timothy Campbell...Sensible Life is not a book about the ontology of the image in the pictorial or phenomenological sense, but an investigation into the metaxy of existence and being in the world." -- -Gerardo Munoz Infrapolitical Deconstruction Initiative "What Emanuele Coccia has done in Sensible Life is to create a path through which I might imagine myself-and all of us-richly obliged in the nature of the image, open to encounters that are not only of the material world, encounters that resonate as a whole that exists between the material, dematerial, psychological, and sociological spaces of things. Through Sensible Life, I partake in both the world I am in and the world I can see, whether in my mind, in my dreams, or on a glass slide. I want to do more with the layers of the world, more with the possibility of things manifested in my work." -- -Theaster GatesTable of ContentsI. Sensible Life II. Man and Animal III. Intentional Species Part I. Physics of the Sensible IV. The World of the Sensible V. Intermediaries VI. Mirrors VII. The Place of the Images VIII. The Image in the Mirror IX. Micro-ontology X. Transparency XI. The Multiplication of the Real XII. The Primacy of the Sensible XIII. Natural Theater XIV. The Unity of the World Part II. Anthropology of the Sensible XV. "Vita Activa XVI. Transforming Spirit into Sensation XVII. Medial Existence XVIII. Intentional Projections XIX. Becoming What One Sees XX. Losing Oneself in Images XXI. Dream XXII. The "Intrabody" XXIII. Being Constantly Elsewhere XXIV. Seeds XXV. Influences XXVI. On the Surface of the Skin XXVII. Metaphysics of Clothing XXVIII. Fashion XXIX. Making the World Our Skin XXX. The Body of Clothing XXXI. "Ethos" XXXII. Living in Images Notes
£59.50
Fordham University Press The Body of Property Antebellum American Fiction
Book SynopsisExplores the embodied aspects of ownership and private property as these emerge in a range of American literary texts across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.Trade Review"Luck's focus on the phenomenological experience of ownership in the early nineteenth century is new and revealing. Whether looking at the frontier romance, the urban gothic, the domestic novel, or the plantation narrative, Luck convincingly shows how changing notions of property were intimately linked to evolving notions of embodiment and selfhood." -- -David Anthony Southern Illinois University, Carbondale "Written with force and grace, The Body of Property shows how antebellum literature stepped in to address questions that legal thought largely evaded: how do we come to own a thing? Why does property require bodies? Offering us a 'phenomenology of possession' in authors ranging from Brown to Stoddard, from J. P. Kennedy to George Lippard, Chad Luck provides a genuinely new account of the cultural work undertaken by antebellum fiction, as it thinks through embodiment and possession in a range of social locations: frontier, parlor, plantation, cityscape. This is a terrific book, well-researched, theoretically nimble, and full of interpretive insight." -- -Jonathan Elmer Indiana University "Luck combines a truly impressive archive of antebellum writing, legal and cultural history, Enlightenment philosophy, and phenomenology with an innovative methodology to tell a new history of property in American literature and culture -- the history of what property feels like, from the body to the spaces of the home, the plantation, and the city." -- -Jennifer Greiman University at Albany, SUNYTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Pierson v. Post and the Literary Origins of American Property American Literature and the Problem of Property Property in Antebellum Culture A Phenomenology of Property The Space of Property Chapter One - Walking the Property: Ownership, Space, and the Body in Motion in Edgar Huntly Condillac's Statue and the Primacy of Touch Touching on the Other: Bodily Frontiers and the Production of Space Walking the Property: Mobility and the Appropriation of Space Chapter Two - Eating Dwelling Gagging: Hawthorne, Stoddard and the Phenomenology of Possession Possession without Acquisition: Eating, Enjoyment, and the "Beginning of Property" Home Bodies: Domestic Space and Possession Proper Mother's Milk: Private Property and the Feminine Economy of the Gift Chapter Three - Anxieties of Ownership: Debt, Entitlement and the Plantation Romance Southern Discomfort: Debt in the Slaveholding South Owning and Owing: Woodcraft and the Phenomenology of Debt Slave Narrative and the Senses of Entitlement The Structure of the Debt: Swallow Barn and the Space of the Plantation Chapter Four - Feeling at a Loss: Theft and Affect in George Lippard A Culture of Theft Distress Signals: Theft, Body, Affect Kleptophobia and the Architecture of Loss Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Market in the Grave Epilogue - Wisconsin, 2004: Racial Violence and the Bodies of Property Notes Works Cited
£21.59
Fordham University Press Intoxication
Book SynopsisPhilosophy holds an ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication, this excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy’s sober ambitions for conceptual clarity and appropriate behavior. Displacing established dualities—mind and body, reason and desire, logic and eros—Nancy’s subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebrius—I am, I exist—drunk.Trade Review"Intoxication, a short reflection from Jean-Luc Nancy, explores the ambivalent pleasures of intoxication as it has been configured within histories of philosophical and poetic thought. This abundant meander through the work of Plato, Hegel and Baudelaire among others offers readers a rewarding, even intoxicating, experience." -Bjarke Morkore Stigel Hansen, LSE Review of Books "Read Nancy's wonderfully exhilarating Intoxication and you'll understand why it is urgent to be, like Rimbaud's boat, ivre. Make no mistake: French ivresse has little to do with intoxication's dull thud of medical measure. Leave intoxication for breathalyzers; ivresse is pure elation, sublimated elevation, an ecstatic Bacchic frenzy soaring to poetic rapture, a rapture that, as Hegel stated, achieves the dizzy dissolution of all absolutes." -- -Jean-Michel Rabate University of Pennsylvania "The originality of Intoxication lies in the acuity and patience (and indeed the touch of humor) with which it teases out the surprising concurrence, or interaction, of two apparently unrelated terms-that of the "Absolute" on the one hand, and that of "ivresse" or "drunkenness" on the other." -- -Richard A. Rand University of Alabama
£13.29
Fordham University Press Husserls Missing Technologies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Husserl's Missing Technologies is a natural and informative companion to Heidegger's Technologies. It deepens Ihde's analysis of technology and offers important new perspectives on pragmatism, science, and technology studies. An insightful and probing work." -- -Carl Mitcham Colorado School of Mines "Don Ihde offers a highly original perspective on main themes of his post-phenomenology. This splendid study should be read by every STS researcher and every Husserl scholar." -Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface: First Encounters with Husserl's Phenomenology Introduction: Philosophy of Technology, Technoscience and Husserl 1. Husserl's Missing Technologies 2. Husserl's Galileo needed a Telescope 3. Embodiment and Reading-Writing Technologies 4. Whole Earth Measurements Revisited 5. Dewey and Husserl; Consciousness Revisited 6. Adding Pragmatism to Phenomenology 7. From Phenomenology to Postphenomenology Appendix: Epistemology Engines Notes References Index
£63.00
Fordham University Press Celebricities Media Culture and the
Book SynopsisA phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Exordium Introduction Part I 1. The phenomenology of television 2. The life not ours to live 3. The celebrity and the nobody 4. Being(s) 5. The life of things 6. The essence of ideology; the essence of truth 7. The truth of the commodity 8. Value, publicity, politics 9. Reproduction 10. The gadget 11. Back to the things themselves Part II 12. Methods Concepts of criticism Language is the EL of being Satanic laughter Techniques of writing Vita contemplativa The raccoon trap 13. Celebrity Epic form Celebrity and singularity Innocence Of celebricity, or: toward a phenomenology of Madonna The strange celebrity The Uncandy Candy Candy What percentage of the American population are celebrities? Specters of Spector Excrement and enterprise The dissociating pleasure of things Abstract pleasures Experiences The theory of suffering Advertising The next top model Television and celebrity Politics and humor The visionary Things Listening to Radiohead for the first time, 17 years too late. 14. Television/Gadget It's bicycle repairmanEL Dialectica gizmotica The Trojan horse The personal computer Terror-vision The Joker Gigi Nip/Tuck The Following The Ring House Disjecta membra Dexteri Boogie Nights Man or Muppet The sweatshops of Hollywood Muppetation and mediation Demectomy Action figures Liberal Arts Glee Bunheads Breaking Bad/Elective Affinities 15. Epilogue How I met my mother (French Theory, by Francois Cusset) Bibliography Videography Notes
£74.70
Fordham University Press Resistance of the Sensible World An Introduction
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) which guides through the three main phases of his work. Both for beginners and for confirmed scholars.Trade Review"This challenging yet engaging work is part and parcel of a vanguard of creative new scholarship that carries forward Merleau-Ponty's late thought so as to address contemporary philosophical concerns. What specifically it challenges is the 'ideology of transparency' that informs the Western understanding of embodiment, perception, language, and art. The book opens up new perspectives for a phenomenological ontology of 'transphenomenality' and 'co-belonging.'" -- -Veronique Foti Pennsylvania State University "Resistance of the Sensible World is a work of substance and erudition that focuses on Merleau-Ponty's central themes of perception, language, and ontology. It is a welcome addition to the growing body of new scholarship on this enduringly pertinent phenomenologist." -- -Richard M. Shusterman author of Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
£74.70
Fordham University Press Resistance of the Sensible World
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) which guides through the three main phases of his work. Both for beginners and for confirmed scholars.Trade Review"This challenging yet engaging work is part and parcel of a vanguard of creative new scholarship that carries forward Merleau-Ponty's late thought so as to address contemporary philosophical concerns. What specifically it challenges is the 'ideology of transparency' that informs the Western understanding of embodiment, perception, language, and art. The book opens up new perspectives for a phenomenological ontology of 'transphenomenality' and 'co-belonging.'" -- -Veronique Foti Pennsylvania State University "Resistance of the Sensible World is a work of substance and erudition that focuses on Merleau-Ponty's central themes of perception, language, and ontology. It is a welcome addition to the growing body of new scholarship on this enduringly pertinent phenomenologist." -- -Richard M. Shusterman author of Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
£22.79
Fordham University Press The Rigor of Things
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Jean-Luc Marion’s philosophical and theological work in the form of a conversation with the author. Marion reflects on major 20th century French figures and their varied influence on his work, while giving an overview of his writings in the history of philosophy, theology, and phenomenology.Trade Review"This beautiful dialogue, led by student-come-philosopher Dan Arbib, affords readers a new opportunity to acquaint themselves with a brilliant mind." -La CroixTable of ContentsForeword by David Tracy Preface Translator's Note 1. My Path 2. Descartes 3. Phenomenology 4. Theology 5. A Matter of Method 6. The World as It Runs-and as It Doesn't
£85.50
Fordham University Press The Rigor of Things
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Jean-Luc Marion’s philosophical and theological work in the form of a conversation with the author. Marion reflects on major 20th century French figures and their varied influence on his work, while giving an overview of his writings in the history of philosophy, theology, and phenomenology.Trade Review"This beautiful dialogue, led by student-come-philosopher Dan Arbib, affords readers a new opportunity to acquaint themselves with a brilliant mind." -La CroixTable of ContentsForeword by David Tracy Preface Translator's Note 1. My Path 2. Descartes 3. Phenomenology 4. Theology 5. A Matter of Method 6. The World as It Runs-and as It Doesn't
£25.19
Fordham University Press Practicing Caste
Book SynopsisPracticing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.Table of ContentsForeword by Anupama Rao vii Introduction 1 1. Touch and Its Elements and Kinds 11 2. Touch—An A Priori Approach 37 3. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects I 61 4. Touch in Its Social and Historical Aspects II 93 5. Touch and Texts: Ancient and Modern 119 6. (Un)touchability of Things and People 148 7. Society, Sociality, Sociability 170 8. Recapitulation with Variations 190 Coda 205 Notes 209 Bibliography 223 Index 233
£102.60
Fordham University Press Welcoming Finitude
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does the experience of ritual affect us and shape our emotions or dispositions? How is liturgy experienced as a communal event, and how does it form the identity of those who participate in it? Welcoming Finitude explores these broader questions about religious experience by focusing on the manifestation of liturgical experience in the Eastern Christian tradition. Drawing on the methodological tools of contemporary phenomenology and on insights from liturgical theology, the book constitutes a philosophical exploration of Orthodox liturgical experience.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Acknowledgments | xxi Introduction | 1 1 Temporality | 31 2 Spatiality | 57 3 Corporeality | 80 4 Sensoriality | 101 5 Affectivity | 125 6 Community | 146 7 Intentionality | 167 Conclusion | 189 Notes | 205 Bibliography | 275 Index | 299
£96.90
Fordham University Press MerleauPontys Poetic of the World
Book SynopsisMerleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Abbreviations of Works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Other Writers | xi Introduction Galen A. Johnson | 1 Part I: Merleau-Ponty's Poets 1 “The Proustian Corporeity” and “The True Hawthorns”: Merleau-Ponty as a Reader of Proust between Husserl and Benjamin Mauro Carbone | 17 2 A Poetics of Co-Naissance: Via André Breton, Paul Claudel, and Claude Simon Emmanuel de Saint Aubert | 31 3 From the World of Silence to Poetic Language: Merleau-Ponty and Valéry Galen A. Johnson | 68 Part II: Merleau-Ponty's Poetics 4 The Clouded Surface: Literature and Philosophy as Visual Apparatuses According to Merleau-Ponty Mauro Carbone | 101 5 Metaphoricity: Carnal Infrastructures and Ontological Horizons Emmanuel de Saint Aubert | 121 6 On the Poetic and the True Galen A. Johnson | 159 Acknowledgments | 191 Notes | 193 Index | 241
£25.19
Fordham University Press MerleauPontys Poetic of the World
Book SynopsisMerleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Abbreviations of Works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Other Writers | xi Introduction Galen A. Johnson | 1 Part I: Merleau-Ponty's Poets 1 “The Proustian Corporeity” and “The True Hawthorns”: Merleau-Ponty as a Reader of Proust between Husserl and Benjamin Mauro Carbone | 17 2 A Poetics of Co-Naissance: Via André Breton, Paul Claudel, and Claude Simon Emmanuel de Saint Aubert | 31 3 From the World of Silence to Poetic Language: Merleau-Ponty and Valéry Galen A. Johnson | 68 Part II: Merleau-Ponty's Poetics 4 The Clouded Surface: Literature and Philosophy as Visual Apparatuses According to Merleau-Ponty Mauro Carbone | 101 5 Metaphoricity: Carnal Infrastructures and Ontological Horizons Emmanuel de Saint Aubert | 121 6 On the Poetic and the True Galen A. Johnson | 159 Acknowledgments | 191 Notes | 193 Index | 241
£81.90
Temple University Press,U.S. The Heidegger Case
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays, by both American and European philosophers, on issues raised by Heidegger's involvement with the Nazis. This book considers such matters as the relationship between Heidegger's philosophical theories and his public statements and activities, and his ideas on social and political life compared to other philosophers.Trade Review"[These] essays together form an extraordinary response, and radical but not self-righteous challenge, to Heidegger's unambiguous complicity with Hitler and Nazism....This book will provoke intense dialogue and controversy about issues which, for too long, too many philosophers have chosen either to gloss over or ignore."—Ronald E. SantoniTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. Heidegger's Apology: Biography as Philosophy and Ideology Theodore Kisiel 2. Ontological Aestheticism: Heidegger, Junger, and National Socialism Michael E. Zimmerman Part II 3. Biographical Bases for Heidegger's "Mentality of Disunity" Hugo Ott 4. Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Politics Otto Poggeler 5. Heidegger and Hitler's War Domenico Losurdo Part III 6. Heidegger and the Greeks Rainer Marten 7. Heidegger and Praxis Jacques Taminiaux 8. The History of Being and Political Revolution: Reflections on a Posthumous Work of Heidegger Nicolas Tertulian Part IV 9. Philosophy, Politics-and the "New" Questions for Hegel, for Heidegger, and for Phantasy Hans-Christian Lucas 10. A Comment on Heidegger's Comment on Nietzsche's Alleged Comment on Hegel's Comment on the Power of Negativity Leszek Kolakowski Part V 11. Heidegger's Scandal: Thinking and the Essence of the Victim John D. Caputo 12. Heidegger and Politics: Some Lessons Fred Dallmayr 13. Riveted to a Monstrous Site: On Heidegger's Beitrage zur Philosophie Reiner Schurmann Part VI 14. Foreword to the Spanish Edition, Heidegger and Nazism Victor Farias 15. The Purloined Letter Dominique Janicaud 16. The Political Incompetence of Philosophy Hans-Georg Gadamer Part VII 17. Heidegger's French Connection and the Emperor's New Clothes Tom Rockmore 18. Discarding and Recovering Heidegger Joseph Margolis Contributors Index
£28.80
University of Chicago Press No Higher Court Contemporary Feminism and the
Book SynopsisThis work traces the roots of the contemporary abortion debate in the tradition of existential philosophy of the Sartrian type. It studies the geneology of contemporary feminist theory and theology with Simone de Beauvoir as the founding mother.
£17.66
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Authentic Leadership Revisited
£29.40
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Guide to Hegels Phenomenology of
Book SynopsisProviding a groundbreaking collective commentary, by an international group of leading philosophical scholars, Blackwell's Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit transforms and expands our understanding and appreciation of one of the most challenging works in Western philosophy. Collective philosophical commentary on the whole of Hegel's Phenomenology in sequence with the original text. Original essays by leading international philosophers and Hegel experts. Provides a comprehensive Bibliography of further sources. Trade Review“This collection of essay is an invaluable guide to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit for graduate students and Hegel Scholars. As well as being a lucid and detailed commentary on the entire of the Phenomenology of 1807, it also offers original contributions, which on certain occasions challenge traditional interpretations or the received view.” (Evangelia Sembou, The Owl of Minerva, 1 November 2012) "This collection reunites the leading experts on Hegel's philosophy who systematically address key issues in the notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit. In every chapter the authors accompany the unfolding of Hegel's argument and guide the reader through the intricacies of dialectical transitions." (CHOICE, August 2009) "A very impressive collection of essays by some of the most acute readers working on Hegel today. ... The essays in this volume provide many accessible points of entry into Hegel's thought. Scholars and teachers of Hegel's most rewarding and perplexing work should be grateful." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, December 2009)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. References. Introduction. 1. Hegel’s Phenomenological Method and Analysis of Consciousness: Kenneth R. Westphal (University of Kent, Canterbury). 2. Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord: Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia University, New York). 3. Freedom and Thought: Stoicism, Skepticism, and Unhappy Consciousness: Franco Chiereghin (University of Padua). 4. The Challenge of Reason: From Certainty to Truth: Cinzia Ferrini (University of Trieste). 5. Reason Observing Nature: Cinzia Ferrini (University of Trieste). 6. Shapes of Active Reason: The Law of the Heart, Retrieved Virtue, and What Really Matters: Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University, Washington, DC). 7. The Ethics of Freedom: Hegel on Reason as Law-Giving and Law-Testing: David Couzens Hoy (University of California, Santa Cruz). 8. Hegel, Antigone, and Feminist Critique: The Spirit of Ancient Greece: Jocelyn B. Hoy (University of California, Santa Cruz). 9. Hegel’s Critique of the Enlightenment in “The Struggle of the Enlightenment with Superstition”: Jürgen Stolzenberg (Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenburg). 10. “Morality” in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Frederick C. Beiser (Syracuse University, New York). 11. Religion, History, and Spirit in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: George di Giovanni (McGill University, Montreal). 12. Absolute Knowing: Allegra de Laurentiis (SUNY-Stony Brook, New York). 13. Spirit and Concrete Subjectivity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University). General Bibliography. Index of Names. Subject Index. Table of Concordances
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ideas about Substance
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1969. Ideas about Substance is a part of the Seminars in the History of Ideas series at Johns Hopkins University Press.Table of ContentsPublisher's NotePrefaceChapter 1. Pre-Socratic Pre-emptionsChapter2. Athenian ElaborationChapter3. Cartesian SimplesChapter4. The English Way of IDeasChapter 5. Phenomenalism and PostphenomenalismIndex
£23.85
Temple University Press,U.S. The Phenomenology of Dance
Book SynopsisWhen The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: When we look at a dance, what do we see? Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed art, are still provocative and acutely significant today. Sheets-Johnstone considers dance as an aesthetic mode of expression, and integrates theories of dance into philosophical discussions of the nature of movement. Back in print after nearly 20 years, The Phenomenology of Dance provides an informed approach to teaching dance and to dance education, appreciation, criticism, and choreography. In addition to the foreword by Merce Cunningham from the original edition, and the preface from the second edition, this fiftieth anniversary edition includes an in-depth introduction that critically and constructively addresses present-day scholarship on movement and dance.
£56.95
University of Toronto Press Hegels Introduction to the System
Book SynopsisThe book includes a fresh translation of Phenomenology and Psychology, an extensive section-by-section commentary, and a sketch of the system to which this work is an introduction.Trade Review'There is much to admire in Wood's book... His work is a welcome addition to the Hegel literature, and should be of interest to Hegel novices as well as seasoned scholars.' -- C. Jeffery Kinlaw American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly vol 89:04:2015 'This is a very fine introduction to Hegel's System of philosophy... For philosophers-whether rookie or veteran-wishing to enhance their appreciation of the breadth, depth, and lasting relevance of Hegel's system, this is the book to read.' -- Michael Baur The Review of Metaphysics vol 69:02:2015Table of ContentsForeword by William Desmond Part I: Introduction Preface * Hegel's Life and Thought Part II: Overview of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences * Overview of "Logic", Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences * Overview of the "Philosophy of Nature", Part Two of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences * Overview of the "Philosophy of Spirit", Part Three of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences Part III: Hegel's Introduction to the System, Translation and Commentary: The Key Sections of "Philosophy of Spirit", Part Three of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences * ANTHROPOLOGY Conclusion * PHENOMENOLOGY * PSYCHOLOGY Part IV: Overview of the Concluding Sections of the "Philosophy of the Spirit", Part Three of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences * Objective Spirit Summary * Absolute Spirit Summary Bibliography
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Duke University Press Anaesthetics of Existence
Book SynopsisDrawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Cressida J. Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against them.Trade Review“‘Anaesthetics of Existence,’ writes Cressida J. Heyes, ‘is a book about refusal, exclusion and liminality.’ More than this, it is a book about the unevenness of attention, about the tendency of bodies to flicker in and out of consciousness, and about extreme ordinariness and the increasing ordinariness of the extreme. This book is timely, original, and offers new insights within the philosophy of experience.” -- Jack Halberstam, author of * The Queer Art of Failure *“Incredibly smart, wide ranging, inventive, and timely, Cressida J. Heyes's Anaesthetics of Existence offers a detailed and philosophically rigorous phenomenological exploration of experience. Heyes does not merely report on phenomenology, she does it with an aliveness to her prose and an expansiveness to her thinking that feels fresh, original, and exciting. A marvelous book.” -- Gayle Salamon, author of * The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia *“Without a doubt, Heyes’ Anaesthetics of Existence is a marvelously written, timely, and exciting book. It is both a scholarly feat—impeccably researched and persuasively argued—and a pleasurable read that offers some respite and solace amidst the chaos of postdisciplinary time.” -- Corinne Lajoie * Contemporary Political Theory *“Anaesthetics of Existence is delivered with impressive brevity and wit. . . . Anaesthetics of Existence is a remarkably timely text because, as we desperately hope for an end to pandemic time, we must also critically consider the prepandemic world we’ve missed and how, in light of this disruption, we might establish different habits.” -- Lauren Guilmette * Political Theory *“Anaesthetics of Existence exudes a prescience for our current era unmatched by monographs composed in the period immediately preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. Heyes, a philosopher, undertakes poignant phenomenological case studies into urgent feminist issues, including date rape, the pressures of parenting, and childbirth.” -- Evangeline Holtz-Schramek * Humanities *
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Duke University Press Diminished Faculties
Book SynopsisJonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment, in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself.Trade Review“In this intimate critical phenomenology, Jonathan Sterne shows us that the agential subject of disability studies is interpretive, nonstandard, somewhat unreliable, and nevertheless political. Diminished Faculties is at once an account of the lived experience of impairment and an inventory of what it can engender. Crip humor, technological hacks, imaginary archives, and material metaphors form the myriad registers of Sterne's authorial voice.” -- Aimi Hamraie, author of * Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability *“Offering a compelling account of the phenomenology of impairment, this fascinating, brilliant, and witty book will take disability studies in at least three new directions.” -- Michael Bérubé, author of * The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read *“With its capacious, unpressured mode of being, theorizing, and storytelling, this profound book teaches us how to think and how to be.” -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds *"Diminished Faculties is a lyric, genre-bending book, that is forcefully argued, rendered beautifully, and will open the path for further research. It is deeply generous both to reader and future scholar, as Sterne’s work always is. But additionally, this is a book that so many have needed, and need now, a way of situating the present emergency in a much longer, political history." -- Hannah Zeavin * boundary 2 *"A new book by Sterne is a seismic event, an idea drop so heavy that it takes time to fully process. Sterne is preternaturally skilled at taking apart prosaic, everyday objects . . . connecting them to history and culture and formulating elegant arguments that make you see and hear the world in new ways. His scholarship is rigorous, but he also maintains a fluid, approachable style that isn’t dry, as much academic prose tends to be. . . . His wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary outlook is not only instructive, but also empowering and inspiring." -- Geeta Dayal * 4Columns *"An intimate and rigorous journey, indispensable for anybody who wants to engage with the issue of disability in media and reflect on its importance for organisations, accessibility and inclusion." -- Domenico Napolitano * punt0org *"So often disabled people are expected to clarify to others what is wrong with them, a pedagogical task that more sophisticated critical explorations of disability can’t quite accomplish. But through his multi-genre approach, Sterne is able to assert and justify his existence while studying the cultural and technological forces that shape it. This is why it’s gratifying to read disability scholarship written by disabled scholars." -- Sophia Stewart * The Baffler *"A triumph from beginning to end. . . . The use of humility and humor, specifically sourced from the collective and individual lived experiences of disabled people (i.e. crip humor), is a major strength of the manuscript. Sterne is also skillful at bringing disability scholars into conversation with one another and engaging readers interactively as interlocutors." -- Meryl Alper * New Media & Society *"A thoughtful analysis of originality and imagination in the midst of so-called diminished faculties. . . . Sterne’s exploration of what constitutes valued labor within the academy is particularly illuminating. Sterne also provides useful resources on impairment theory and extensive notes and references providing an excellent foundation for future research in the subject area." -- Nancy Hansen * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"Diminished Faculties offers a new theoretically and methodologically accessible impairment theory as a political phenomenology of bodies and technologies. The book provides a rigorous study of technology, hearing, and voice with respect to impairment. In addition, Sterne engages with his own lived experiences of diminished faculties in speech, voice, hearing, and the feeling of wellness. . . . The book is not only insightful, but also funny and quite quirky." -- Slava Greenberg * Film Quarterly *"Sterne’s exploration of experiences of speech and hearing across theory, autoethnography, art practice, and activism makes Diminished Faculties a rigorous yet personal account of impairment as an inherent part of human embodiment." -- Dorothy R. Santos * Public *Table of Contents1. Degrees of Muteness 1 2. Meet the Dork-o-Phone 41 3. In Search of New Vocalities: An Imaginary Exhibition 69 4. Audile Scarification: On Normal Impairments 117 5. There Are Never Enough Spoons 157 Impairment Theory: A User's Guide 193 Credits 209 Notes 217 Bibliography 249 Index 281
£76.50
New York University Press The Life and Death of Latisha King
Book SynopsisWhat can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim as Larry, a gay boy, instead of Latisha, a trans girl, Gayle Salamon draws on the resources of feminist phenomenology to analyze what happened in the school and at the trial that followed. In building on the phenomenological concepts of anonymity and comportment, Salamon considers how gender functions in the social world and the dangers of being denied anonymity as both a particularizing and dehumanizing act. Salamon offers close readings of the courTrade ReviewThis beautifully crafted work in slow and critical phenomenology allows us to understand the fatal consequences of skewed gender perception. Salamon takes us through the trial of Latisha King, murdered by a classmate who understood transgendered expression as an aggressive assault. Paying close attention to how the participants in the murder trial discuss and enact their normative passions about how the body should appear, Salamon shows us how phenomenological description that open up for strong criticism modes of perception and action that bear lethal consequences for those who contest hegemonic gender norms. This book is a model of careful and thoughtful philosophy and cultural criticism, bringing to life the resources of a phenomenological tradition that can name, describe, and oppose the obliteration of queer and trans lives. This work is as electric as its slow, making us think, and teaching us to see. -- Judith Butler,author of Gender TroubleUndertakes exactly the kind of parsing, original thinking, attention to detail, and care for its subject that the act of violence at the story's core aimed to hollow out.Salamon's combination of courtroom reportage and phenomenological thinking feels fresh here, as her book bends the conventions of academic discourse to witness enmeshed bodies moving in real time space and time. -- Maggie Nelson,author of The ArgonautsWith transness facing the threat of possible governmental erasure, I can think of no book more important than Gayle Salamons The Life and Death of LatishaKing. . . . Salamon brilliantly renders how gendered violence, trans erasure, and what the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl calls 'retroactive crossing out' can produce a transphobic imagination. * The Paris Review *[Salamon] turns our perspective on the trial away from its grueling examination of the gender non-conformity of Latisha King and onto the gendered embodiments of the teachers and attorneys instead. * Lambda Literary *The Life and Death of Latisha Kingis no ordinary true-crime narrative, but a hard-hitting philosophical investigation into gender and its cultural depiction. * Foreword Reviews *Gayle Salamon's writing in The Life and Death of Latisha King is sparse, giving a sense of stillness and quiet as if every word of the text were heavy with the weight of mourning. Short sentences and simple wording bring the point to the surface,[1] laying bare a reality that readers cannot but contend with … As a work of critical theory and philosophy, the book continues Salamon's earlier Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (2010) and makes an important contribution to scholarship in feminist, queer, and trans studies that engages with phenomenology (including by scholars such as Beauvoir, Bettcher, Butler, Diprose, Heinämaa, Stryker, Weiss, Young). Insofar as the book is a personal account of Salamon's experience during the trial and her processing of that experience, it can also be at home alongside works such as Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015) and Claudia Rankine's Citizen (2014) … The balancing between the heaviness of loss and mourning, and the hope and love that sustain Salamon's account, is noteworthy. -- HypatiaWhy is there so much hate and transphobic violence in the world? Gayle Salamons new book is a powerful response to this question. . . points towards the difficult task of thinking about forms of difference and the violence that often attends them, and suggests that examining how gender is differently perceived is a crucial step beyond acknowledging that transphobic violence exists. * Medical and Health Humanities *Although the author’s primary focus is to carefully study the perception of a brown trans body, delicate passages describing testimonies of Latisha’s skill and confidence while gliding in high-heeled boots or a supportive teacher gifting her a green prom dress conjure the child’s stunning personhood in a visual field beyond the court proceedings. -- The Drama Review
£66.60
New York University Press The Life and Death of Latisha King
Book SynopsisWhat can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim as Larry, a gay boy, instead of Latisha, a trans girl, Gayle Salamon draws on the resources of feminist phenomenology to analyze what happened in the school and at the trial that followed. In building on the phenomenological concepts of anonymity and comportment, Salamon considers how gender functions in the social world and the dangers of being denied anonymity as both a particularizing and dehumanizing act. Salamon offers close readings of the courTrade ReviewThis beautifully crafted work in slow and critical phenomenology allows us to understand the fatal consequences of skewed gender perception. Salamon takes us through the trial of Latisha King, murdered by a classmate who understood transgendered expression as an aggressive assault. Paying close attention to how the participants in the murder trial discuss and enact their normative passions about how the body should appear, Salamon shows us how phenomenological description that open up for strong criticism modes of perception and action that bear lethal consequences for those who contest hegemonic gender norms. This book is a model of careful and thoughtful philosophy and cultural criticism, bringing to life the resources of a phenomenological tradition that can name, describe, and oppose the obliteration of queer and trans lives. This work is as electric as its slow, making us think, and teaching us to see. -- Judith Butler,author of Gender TroubleUndertakes exactly the kind of parsing, original thinking, attention to detail, and care for its subject that the act of violence at the story's core aimed to hollow out.Salamon's combination of courtroom reportage and phenomenological thinking feels fresh here, as her book bends the conventions of academic discourse to witness enmeshed bodies moving in real time space and time. -- Maggie Nelson,author of The ArgonautsWith transness facing the threat of possible governmental erasure, I can think of no book more important than Gayle Salamons The Life and Death of LatishaKing. . . . Salamon brilliantly renders how gendered violence, trans erasure, and what the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl calls 'retroactive crossing out' can produce a transphobic imagination. * The Paris Review *[Salamon] turns our perspective on the trial away from its grueling examination of the gender non-conformity of Latisha King and onto the gendered embodiments of the teachers and attorneys instead. * Lambda Literary *The Life and Death of Latisha Kingis no ordinary true-crime narrative, but a hard-hitting philosophical investigation into gender and its cultural depiction. * Foreword Reviews *Gayle Salamon's writing in The Life and Death of Latisha King is sparse, giving a sense of stillness and quiet as if every word of the text were heavy with the weight of mourning. Short sentences and simple wording bring the point to the surface,[1] laying bare a reality that readers cannot but contend with … As a work of critical theory and philosophy, the book continues Salamon's earlier Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (2010) and makes an important contribution to scholarship in feminist, queer, and trans studies that engages with phenomenology (including by scholars such as Beauvoir, Bettcher, Butler, Diprose, Heinämaa, Stryker, Weiss, Young). Insofar as the book is a personal account of Salamon's experience during the trial and her processing of that experience, it can also be at home alongside works such as Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015) and Claudia Rankine's Citizen (2014) … The balancing between the heaviness of loss and mourning, and the hope and love that sustain Salamon's account, is noteworthy. -- HypatiaWhy is there so much hate and transphobic violence in the world? Gayle Salamons new book is a powerful response to this question. . . points towards the difficult task of thinking about forms of difference and the violence that often attends them, and suggests that examining how gender is differently perceived is a crucial step beyond acknowledging that transphobic violence exists. * Medical and Health Humanities *Although the author’s primary focus is to carefully study the perception of a brown trans body, delicate passages describing testimonies of Latisha’s skill and confidence while gliding in high-heeled boots or a supportive teacher gifting her a green prom dress conjure the child’s stunning personhood in a visual field beyond the court proceedings. -- The Drama Review
£19.94
University of Toronto Press Hermeneutics and Reflection
Book SynopsisFriedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann is known as a major figure in phenomenological and hermeneutics research: he was Martin Heidegger’s personal assistant for the last ten years of Heidegger’s life, and assistant to Eugen Fink, who in turn was primary assistant to Edmund Husserl. However, his own philosophical commentaries and readings of Heidegger’s work are not familiar to many in the English-speaking world.Von Herrmann’s Hermeneutics and Reflection, translated here from the original German, represents the most fundamental and critical reflection in any language of the concept of phenomenology as it was used by Heidegger and by Husserl. It provides a careful rendition of Husserl’s essential contribution to phenomenology, then draws a clear demarcation between Husserl’s reflective phenomenology and Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology. While showing the fullest respect for Husserl’s phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Refl
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Stanford University Press Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How
Book SynopsisSonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, the book explores four different types of voices: the cybernetic, the gendered, the creaturely, and the ecological. Through both a conceptual framework and a series of case studies, Dominic Pettman tracks some of the ways in which these voices intersect and interact. He demonstrates how intimacy is forged through the ear, perhaps even more than through any other sense, mode, or medium. The voice, then, is what creates intimacy, both fleeting and lasting, not only between people, but also between animals, machines, and even natural elements: those presumed not to have a voice in the first place. Taken together, the manifold, material, actual voices of the world, whether primarily natural or technological, are a complex cacophony that is desperately trying to tell us something about the rapidly failing health of the planet and its inhabitants. As Pettman cautions, we would do well to listen.Trade Review"With Sonic Intimacy, we are manifestly in the hands of a skilled and not a little playful writer who connects new media to long developed philosophical conversations. This is a book that catalyzes thinking as much as it documents thoughts, and its influence should be wide and varied."—David Cecchetto, York University"Sonic Intimacy is a perceptive, engaging, and clever set of meditations on a topic of increasing scholarly importance: how sound produces human, technical, and nonhuman intimacies. Pettman's treatment of sound across the human and nonhuman is innovative, refreshing, and quite needed at this time."—Richard Grusin, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee"The form and style of Pettman's book capture the character of this roving ear, always pricking up with the possibility of another intriguing example. Pettman is a very engaging writer, and the way he traverses contexts and theoretical horizons is thrilling...Pettman's writing is perhaps at its most exciting when it ignores expectations to pin down the voices of interlocutors and instead revels in throwing the voice, in making it seem as if it emanates from somewhere else. Pettman himself, whose body of writing gives the impression of an insatiable curiosity, is no doubt already chasing down other voices and other worlds. I urge readers, though, to let their ear linger a little longer over this intriguing little book that promises to help us discern voices where we least expect to hear them."—Naomi Waltham-Smith, Boundary 2Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Aural Phase 1. The Cybernetic Voice 2. The Gendered Voice 3. The Creaturely Voice 4. The Ecological Voice (Vox Mundi) Conclusion: In Salutation of All the Voices
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Stanford University Press What Is Philosophy?
Book SynopsisIn attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas of philosophical discourse. A summa, of sorts, of Agamben's thought, the book consists of five essays on five emblematic topics: the Voice, the Sayable, the Demand, the Proem, and the Muse. In keeping with the author's trademark methodology, each essay weaves together archaeological and theoretical investigations: to a patient reconstruction of how the concept of language was invented there corresponds an attempt to restore thought to its place within the voice; to an unusual interpretation of the Platonic Idea corresponds a lucid analysis of the relationship between philosophy and science, and of the crisis that both are undergoing today. In the end, there is no universal answer to what is an impossible or inexhaustible question, and philosophical writing—a problem Agamben has never ceased to grapple with—assumes the form of a prelude to a work that must remain unwritten.
£57.60
Stanford University Press What Is Philosophy?
Book SynopsisIn attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas of philosophical discourse. A summa, of sorts, of Agamben's thought, the book consists of five essays on five emblematic topics: the Voice, the Sayable, the Demand, the Proem, and the Muse. In keeping with the author's trademark methodology, each essay weaves together archaeological and theoretical investigations: to a patient reconstruction of how the concept of language was invented there corresponds an attempt to restore thought to its place within the voice; to an unusual interpretation of the Platonic Idea corresponds a lucid analysis of the relationship between philosophy and science, and of the crisis that both are undergoing today. In the end, there is no universal answer to what is an impossible or inexhaustible question, and philosophical writing—a problem Agamben has never ceased to grapple with—assumes the form of a prelude to a work that must remain unwritten.
£15.29
Stanford University Press Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics,
Book SynopsisPhilosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques of caring for and communicating with the dead. The premise of Being with the Dead is that we can explore our lives with the dead as a cross-cultural existential a priori out of which the basic forms of historical consciousness emerge. Care for the dead is not just about the symbolic handling of mortal remains; it also points to a necropolitics, the social bond between the dead and living that holds societies together—a shared space or polis where the dead are maintained among the living. Moving from mortuary rituals to literary representations, from the problem of ancestrality to technologies of survival and intergenerational communication, Hans Ruin explores the epistemological, ethical, and ontological dimensions of what it means to be with the dead. His phenomenological approach to key sources in a range of fields gives us a new perspective on the human sciences as a whole.Trade Review"This stunning book is unlike any other I have read on the topic of death. Hans Ruin's philosophical analysis does important work that previous books simply have not attempted or achieved. His investigation into what we do with the dead allows us to gain purchase on what is at stake in the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, literature, religion, and above all history."—Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University"Hans Ruin's excellent book extends the phenomenology of death in new and interesting ways. His insights into the cultural significance of death, integrating it with the philosophical literature, make this a remarkable achievement."—James Risser, Seattle University"What is the historian's relationship to death? What does it mean to be with the dead: as their caretakers, keepers of their legacy, guardians of their afterlife? These are the questions at the center of Hans Ruin's highly original exploration of the connections between burial practices and historical writing. This beautifully written book is an example of interdisciplinarity at its best, combining deft philosophical argument with the insights of social and cultural history. It should provoke historians, especially, to think critically about the ethical, spiritual, and political stakes of the work they do."—Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study"Being with the Dead is beautifully written and offers interdisciplinary breadth and philosophical rigour on a subject that lies at the very core of memory studies."—Siobhan Kattago, Memory Studies"Being with the Dead [is] a work whose clarity, interdisciplinary prowess, and originality rank it among the best and most provocative philosophical works in the continental idiom in recent years."—Jason M. Wirth, Los Angeles Review of Books"Ruin's study offers a subtle yet by no means recondite project, broad and interdisciplinary in scope."—Babette Babich, History and Theory"Ruin's critique offers a compelling argument for the ways in which necropolitics reveal the othering practices and colonialist discourse of many disciplines in the academy."—Candi K. Cann, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"Ruin's book is... a well-written reading that seems incredibly worthwhile for historians. His thoughts about what it means 'to be with the dead' open the view to the fact that death and the deceased are playing a role in every area of society. This is supported above all by the logical structure and the clearly structured argumentation in the book. Numerous connectivities for further research are offered to the reader, through which the ontological, ethical and political dimensions of what it means to be with the dead can be explored. And, above all, Being with the Dead is a successful contribution to give the dead more space in the human sciences." –Ekkehard Coenen, Human Studies"In contemporary phenomenology, grief and death are growing areas: Ruin's interdisciplinary attempt to think of being-with as a being with the dead in a spectral community makes of his book a novel approach in this field. More generally, it is a fascinating reading for sociologists, historians and anyone interested in how the relation to the dead shapes the sense of history and of the community."—Manon Piette, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences"One of the finest philosophical works in the Continental idiom in the last two decades."—Jason M. Wirth, Research in PhenomenologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Thinking after Life: Historicity and Having-Been 2. Thanatologies: On the Social Meanings of Burial 3. Ancestrality: Ghosts, Forefathers, and Other Dead 4. Necropolitics: Contested Communities and Remains of the Dead 5. Ossuary Hermeneutics: Necropolitical Sites of Archaeology 6. Visiting the Land of the Dead: History as Necromancy 7. The Tomb of Metaphysics: Writing, Memory, and the Arts of Survival
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Stanford University Press Heidegger's Fascist Affinities: A Politics of
Book SynopsisReexamining the case of one of the most famous intellectuals to embrace fascism, this book argues that Martin Heidegger's politics and philosophy of language emerge from a deep affinity for the ethno-nationalist and anti-Semitic politics of the Nazi movement. Himself a product of a conservative milieu, Heidegger did not have to significantly compromise his thinking to adapt it to National Socialism but only to intensify certain themes within it. Tracing the continuity of these themes in his lectures on Greek philosophy, his magnum opus, Being and Time, and the notorious Black Notebooks that have only begun to see the light of day, Heidegger's Fascist Affinities argues that if Heidegger was able to align himself so thoroughly with Nazism, it was partly because his philosophy was predicated upon fundamental forms of silencing and exclusion. With the arrival of the Nazi revolution, Heidegger displayed—both in public and in private—a complex, protracted form of silence drawn from his philosophy of language. Avoiding the easy satisfaction of banishing Heidegger from the philosophical realm so indebted to his work, Adam Knowles asks whether what drove Heidegger to Nazism in the first place might continue to haunt the discipline. In the context of today's burgeoning ethno-nationalist regimes, can contemporary philosophy ensure itself of its immunity?Trade Review"Heidegger's insistence on the authority of the silent led him to view National Socialism as a panacea for modernity's technological attempt to render transparent all that is spoken and known. Adam Knowles's exceptional book opens up a new window onto the philosopher's embrace of Nazism and its attack on World Jewry." -- Michael Meng * Clemson University *"Adam Knowles integrates a rigorous reading of Heidegger's published writings and lecture courses with a nuanced discussion of the notorious Black Notebooks. The result is a new and challenging approach to the philosopher's silence about the Holocaust that cannot be ignored." -- Robert Bernasconi * Pennsylvania State University *"Adam Knowles's innovative and elegantly written book invites everyone concerned about the impact of authoritarian regimes to ponder the past—and the present—anew. Knowles illuminates the integral nature of Heidegger's politics and philosophy with amazing clarity, never losing sight of the big-picture question: how the humanities respond to totalitarian rule." -- Debórah Dwork * Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies *"This game-changing book delivers a profound assessment of Martin Heidegger's anti-Semitism and Nazism. Combining painstaking historical research with astute analysis, Adam Knowles raises key questions about philosophy's resolve to resist complicity in oppressive politics." -- John K. Roth * Claremont McKenna College *"[Heidegger's Fascist Affinities] raises grave questions about Heidegger's thought, politics and continuing reception, as well as their relation to the intellectual foundations of Nazism, and the relationship between philosophy and authoritarianism. The book deserves and will reward critical debate." -- Matt Sharpe * Marx & Philosophy *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue: Hidden in Plain Sight chapter abstract 1Heidegger's Politics of Silence chapter abstract 2Völkisch Affinities and the Renewal of the German Spirit chapter abstract 3The Unsaid in Being and Time chapter abstract 4Withdrawal in Aristotle's Metaphysics chapter abstract 5Being the Measure: The Pedagogy of Male Self-Mastery chapter abstract 6Being without Measure: Silencing the Feminine chapter abstract 7Land and Volk: The Silent Place of the Black Notebooks chapter abstract Epilogue: Philosophy and Totalitarianism chapter abstract chapter abstract
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Stanford University Press Heidegger's Fascist Affinities: A Politics of
Book SynopsisReexamining the case of one of the most famous intellectuals to embrace fascism, this book argues that Martin Heidegger's politics and philosophy of language emerge from a deep affinity for the ethno-nationalist and anti-Semitic politics of the Nazi movement. Himself a product of a conservative milieu, Heidegger did not have to significantly compromise his thinking to adapt it to National Socialism but only to intensify certain themes within it. Tracing the continuity of these themes in his lectures on Greek philosophy, his magnum opus, Being and Time, and the notorious Black Notebooks that have only begun to see the light of day, Heidegger's Fascist Affinities argues that if Heidegger was able to align himself so thoroughly with Nazism, it was partly because his philosophy was predicated upon fundamental forms of silencing and exclusion. With the arrival of the Nazi revolution, Heidegger displayed—both in public and in private—a complex, protracted form of silence drawn from his philosophy of language. Avoiding the easy satisfaction of banishing Heidegger from the philosophical realm so indebted to his work, Adam Knowles asks whether what drove Heidegger to Nazism in the first place might continue to haunt the discipline. In the context of today's burgeoning ethno-nationalist regimes, can contemporary philosophy ensure itself of its immunity?Trade Review"Heidegger's insistence on the authority of the silent led him to view National Socialism as a panacea for modernity's technological attempt to render transparent all that is spoken and known. Adam Knowles's exceptional book opens up a new window onto the philosopher's embrace of Nazism and its attack on World Jewry." -- Michael Meng * Clemson University *"Adam Knowles integrates a rigorous reading of Heidegger's published writings and lecture courses with a nuanced discussion of the notorious Black Notebooks. The result is a new and challenging approach to the philosopher's silence about the Holocaust that cannot be ignored." -- Robert Bernasconi * Pennsylvania State University *"Adam Knowles's innovative and elegantly written book invites everyone concerned about the impact of authoritarian regimes to ponder the past—and the present—anew. Knowles illuminates the integral nature of Heidegger's politics and philosophy with amazing clarity, never losing sight of the big-picture question: how the humanities respond to totalitarian rule." -- Debórah Dwork * Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies *"This game-changing book delivers a profound assessment of Martin Heidegger's anti-Semitism and Nazism. Combining painstaking historical research with astute analysis, Adam Knowles raises key questions about philosophy's resolve to resist complicity in oppressive politics." -- John K. Roth * Claremont McKenna College *"[Heidegger's Fascist Affinities] raises grave questions about Heidegger's thought, politics and continuing reception, as well as their relation to the intellectual foundations of Nazism, and the relationship between philosophy and authoritarianism. The book deserves and will reward critical debate." -- Matt Sharpe * Marx & Philosophy *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue: Hidden in Plain Sight chapter abstract 1Heidegger's Politics of Silence chapter abstract 2Völkisch Affinities and the Renewal of the German Spirit chapter abstract 3The Unsaid in Being and Time chapter abstract 4Withdrawal in Aristotle's Metaphysics chapter abstract 5Being the Measure: The Pedagogy of Male Self-Mastery chapter abstract 6Being without Measure: Silencing the Feminine chapter abstract 7Land and Volk: The Silent Place of the Black Notebooks chapter abstract Epilogue: Philosophy and Totalitarianism chapter abstract chapter abstract
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Stanford University Press Photography and Its Shadow
Book SynopsisPhotography and Its Shadow argues that the invention of photography marked a rupture in our relation to the world and what we see in it. The dominant theoretical and artistic paradigm for understanding the invention has been the tracing of shadows. But what photography really inaugurated was the shadow's disappearance—a disappearance that irreversibly changed our relationship to nature and the real, to time and to death. A way of negotiating impermanence, photography was marked from the start by an inherent contradiction. It conflated two incompatible configurations of the visible: an embodied human eye, deeply sensitive to nature, and a machine vision that aimed to reify the instant and wallow in images alone. Photography's history is replete with efforts to conceal the mystery of its paradoxical constitution. Born in the century of Nietzsche's "death of God," it long enacted the fraught subjectivity of its age. Anxious, haunted by a void, it used an array of strategies to take on ever-new identities. Challenging the hitherto most influential accounts of the practice and taking us from its origins to the present, Hagi Kenaan shows us how photography has been transformed over time, and how it transforms us.Trade Review"Hagi Kenaan theorizes photography as powerfully as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes did, and in a completely new way. This book is erudite but accessible, dense but patient. It meditates on a foregone world, a loss of the visible, a loss of God, and photography's fundamental role in these developments. Yet the author is hopeful as well as elegiac: Nothing is set in stone, not even the shadows."—Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University"Writing movingly and poetically, Hagi Kenaan offers a fresh way of understanding the medium of photography, one that escapes the coils of nostalgia and mourning that have enveloped its study since the writing of the late Roland Barthes."—Keith Moxey, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction I: Photography's Nature: The Picture II: The Butades Complex III: Photography and the Death of God IV: Photography's Goodbyes
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Stanford University Press Theory of the Earth
Book SynopsisWe need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or longer. Crafting a philosophy of geology that rewrites natural and human history from the broader perspective of movement, Thomas Nail provides a new materialist, kinetic ethics of the earth that speaks to this moment. Climate change and other ecological disruptions challenge us to reconsider the deep history of minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals and to take a more process-oriented perspective that sees humanity as part of the larger cosmic and terrestrial drama of mobility and flow. Building on his earlier work on the philosophy of movement, Nail argues that we should shift our biocentric emphasis from conservation to expenditure, flux, and planetary diversity. Theory of the Earth urges us to rethink our ethical relationship to one another, the planet, and the cosmos at large.Trade Review"One of the most remarkable books I've read in some time. Thomas Nail forges a mode of materialist philosophy in conversation with recent, cross-disciplinary movements in the environmental humanities, generating a mode of thinking and theorizing that moves beyond the scale of human life." -- Claire Colebrook * Pennsylvania State University *"Thomas Nail has developed a much-needed, and previously underrepresented philosophy of geology. In elaborating a process theory of a kinetic earth, this book helps us imagine our planet as neither a static place of habitation nor a protective Mother Earth." -- Matthias Fritsch * Concordia University *"Is ecocide, unconsciously practiced by industrio-techno-capitalist humans to their own detriment and potential extinction, a direct result of the reduction and destruction of Earth's complex energy dissipation? In an ambitious and fabulous synthesis, with a Lucretian sensibility and deep scientific rapprochement, Thomas Nail gives us back a real Earth, where life is part of a planetary more-than-human dissipative system and humans better get with the flow. A fascinating, difficult, needed scientifico-philosophical document, Theory of the Earth should interest and irritate scientists as it provides a needed provocation to much modern environmental philosophy." -- Dorion Sagan * author of Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science *"While Anthropocene ideology focuses on the destructive action of humans on a passive Earth, Nail posits that conceptual refocusing—away from conservation toward an ethics of energy transformation—can help address the serious environmental problems we face. Though chiefly a work of philosophy, this text is accessible for any advanced reader interested in environmental meta issues. Recommended." -- E. Kincanon * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractWe are witnessing a second Copernican revolution, in which the earth is not just moving around the sun but is itself internally on the move. Terrestrial events that we could in the past only have imagined taking place over huge time scales are now happening before our eyes. Flora and fauna are headed north in mass migrations, throwing tens of thousands of species into motion around the world. Today, half of all species on earth are on the move, including insects, viruses, and microbes. However, since not all species are moving at the same rate or in the same way, species are coming into contact with one another in new ways and producing new hybrids. A new history of the earth is necessary in order to understand the immanent conditions of the present and the kind of earth that we are. 1The Flow of Matter chapter abstractThe earth flows because the matter of the cosmos flows through it. It is not an unchanging or even uniformly changing substance following its own autonomous processes. Geology is also cosmology, and the cosmos flows. Flows of matter continually compose, cycle through, and flow out of the earth. The earth is only a regional circulation of a much larger kinetic and entropic process. Historically, however, philosophy, politics, and much of geology have not taken the ongoing flow of cosmic matter seriously. This has led to a complete inversion of what the earth is and the human relationship to it. The earth is not a planet, but rather a process of terrestrialization. 2The Fold of Elements chapter abstractThe pedetic flow and fluctuation of matter is constitutive of the earth and its elemental body. The word "earth" designates not only a planet and its soil but also one of the four classical elements. The earth is elemental and elementary only because the universe is—and the latter is the key to understanding the former. If the element "earth" is mineral, then the earth must share its elemental namesake with the mineral bodies of the cosmos. In this sense, earth is not just on the earth, but in the universe and from the universe. In other words, the universe was already earthly before the earth was terrestrialized. 3The Planetary Field chapter abstractMatter flows and folds into elements, but these elements are in turn distributed into celestial and planetary fields. Elements are conjoined into atomic and molecular composites that in turn are arranged and ordered together in a field of celestial and planetary circulation. This is the third core concept of geokinetics. If matter flows and elements fold into periodic cycles, planetary fields organize them all in a continuous feedback loop. This chapter provides a geokinetic theory of how conjoined flows become organized according to distinct regimes or planetary fields. 4Centripetal Minerality chapter abstractThe earth is material, kinetic, and thus historical; it is possible for different, coexisting, and mixed planetary fields to emerge. In other words, it is possible for matter to distribute itself differently over time into different patterns or orders of arrangement. There is no way to know what the earth is without understanding its historical process of becoming. If this is the case then it is possible to study this material history and to discern the planetary regimes or fields along with the different elements and beings that are distributed there: minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals. What this means is that the contemporary earth is not defined by a single geokinetic field or pattern of motion, but is composed of a motley mixture of everything that has ever been. 5Hadean Earth chapter abstractIn this chapter we look closely at the kinetic patterns produced by three major geokinetic phenomena that define the Hadean earth: meteors, the moon, and water. The argument of this chapter is that each of these major phenomena is defined predominately by a distinctly centripetal pattern of motion and a geokinetics of mineralization. Centripetal mineralization was the first major transcendental kinetic regime invented by the earth. This first movement inward toward the center from the periphery along differentiated layers continues today as the immanent condition of planetary life and mineral-based technologies. 6Centrifugal Atmospherics chapter abstractThe second major geokinetic field to rise to dominance in the earth's history was the atmospheric field. This second type of field became increasingly prevalent over the course of the Archean Eon, from about 4 billion years ago to about 2.5 billion years ago. Three major events define this transition: the end of heavy meteor bombardment, the emergence of living organisms, and the rise of a highly oxygenated atmosphere. These events were the cause of a dramatic historical shift in the earth's pattern of motion, from one of largely centripetal accretion and crystallization to one of increasingly centrifugal movements of outward expansion, respiration, and reproduction. 7Archean Earth I: Pneumatology chapter abstractDuring the Archean Eon (4 to 2.5 billion years ago), the entire planet began to move in an increasingly centrifugal pattern of motion from the center out to the periphery (and back). This chapter argues that the emergence of a prevailing centrifugal pattern of motion occurs increasingly over the course of the Archean Eon. The deep history of atmospherization is the material condition of terrestrial motion for all subsequent eons, up to the present. In this chapter we look closely at the kinetic patterns produced by four major geokinetic phenomena that define the Archean earth: sky, clouds, mountains, and life. The argument of this chapter is that each of these major phenomena is defined predominately by a distinctly centrifugal pattern of motion and a geokinetics of atmospherics. 8Archean Earth II: Biogenesis chapter abstractThe second major historical event of the Archean Eon was the emergence of living organisms (prokaryotic bacteria and archaea) with metabolism, genetic multiplication, and natural selection. Organisms are dissipative or vortical systems that have the distinct ability to remember and reproduce the material kinetic patterns that produced them. During the Archean, the entire earth erupted into centrifugal motion. Volcanoes blasted themselves into the air, the ocean evaporated into the clouds, and organisms released an incredible amount of volatiles and stored energy. However, by the end of the Archean Eon, around 2.5 billion years ago, a new form of life emerged that would change the motion of the planet yet again: plants. 9Tensional Vegetality chapter abstractThe third major geokinetic planetary field to rise to dominance in the earth's history was the vegetal field. Over the course of the Proterozoic Eon, the longest eon in the earth's history, from about 2.5 billion years ago to 541 million years ago, three major events occurred: the emergence of eukaryotes (cells with a nucleus and organelles), the development of multicellular organisms (such as protozoa, fungi, and plants), and the arrival of life on land. All these events were defined by a new kind of tensional motion inside, between, and through these organisms. But this new pattern of motion defined by a system of held contrasts was not limited to life alone. Life, like mineral and atmospheric flows, is not just one discrete region among others, in isolation. Vegetal life completed, saturated, and transformed all planetary processes. 10Proterozoic Earth chapter abstractDuring the Proterozoic Eon, the entire life-saturated planet began to fold itself up into a vast knotwork of cellularized tensions. The birth of cellular and complex cellular life was not just the birth of a new type of substance "on" the earth but a new kinetic relation of the earth to itself. This chapter argues that the emergence of a prevailing tensional pattern of motion occurred increasingly over the course of the Proterozoic Eon. I argue that the deep history of phytality is the material condition of terrestrial motion for all subsequent eons, up to the present. In this chapter we look closely at the increasingly tensional kinetic patterns produced by vegetal bodies and that eventually defined the Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic earth: thallus, stem, leaf, root, seed, and flower. 11Elastic Animality chapter abstractAnimality is the fourth major geokinetic planetary pattern of motion. The rise of animality overlapped with the end of the Proterozoic Eon as vegetality slowly dovetailed into the Phanerozoic Eon, from 541 million years ago to the present. The Phanerozoic Eon began with the Cambrian explosion of diverse animal and plant life. This explosion was itself made possible by increased oxygen in the atmosphere and mineral-rich soils produced by vegetal life across the continents. The emergence and proliferation of animals on the earth was the source of a radical new regime of elastic motion defined by the ability of living matter to expand, contract, stretch and oscillate back and forth to a degree never before seen on the earth. 12Phanerozoic Earth I: Kinomorphology chapter abstractThe Phanerozoic Eon (541 million years ago to the present) is our geological eon. It began with the Cambrian explosion of living forms, the greatest number of evolving creatures in a a single period in the history of the earth. During the Phanerozoic, the entire planet became increasingly elastic as the proliferation of life forms expanded, contracted, and mutated more rapidly than ever before. The more new organisms emerged, the faster they changed their environment. This chapter argues that the emergence of a prevailing elastic pattern of motion occurred increasingly over the course of the Phanerozoic Eon. In this chapter we look closely at the increasingly elastic kinetic structures produced by animal bodies that eventually saturated the late Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic Earth: body, head, and tail. 13Phanerozoic Earth II: Terrestrialization chapter abstractThe third major historico-morphological event of the Phanerozoic Eon was the explosion of elastic sensory organs and limbs in the animal body. With the evolution of mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates, an enormous transformation occurred as animal life in the seas spread to the land and the skies. The process of terrestrial animality saturated the untapped energy of these new regions—completing the transformation of the earth into its full animality. The material evolution of animal morphology is also a kinetic evolution toward the increasingl elasticity, mobility, sensitivity, and energy expenditure of the earth more broadly. Animals are not on the earth but aspects of the earth itself—the becoming animal and becoming elastic of the earth. 14Kinocene Earth chapter abstractToday, the earth is in increasingly unstable motion. The earth, as we have seen in this book, has always been in motion, but today these four major patterns of geological motion have become increasingly disrupted due to the coordinated efforts of certain human groups. What I am calling the "Kinocene" in the final Part of this book is a new geological period not because motion is new to the earth, as we have seen, but because of the increasing mobility of the earth's geological strata, described in Parts I and II. At the same time, however, we are also witnessing for the first time in a long time a significant reduction in the net kinetic expenditure of the planet as a whole. 15Kinocene Ethics chapter abstractThe ethics of kinetic expenditure is not a universal ethical ground but a hypothetical ethical ground that allows us to say not only that capitalism is descriptively wrong about nature but that it is unethical (assuming we want to survive), on the grounds that it leads to the reduction of planetary expenditure (including the reduction of human and ecological diversity). Furthermore, the ethics of expenditure relates to the material conditions of all human society as such. If we even want to have humanist ethics in the first place, there must be humans alive to practice it. Thus, implicit in all humanist ethics is the assumption of planetary existence and survival. In short: If we want human ethics, then we need to be alive and survive, and if we want to survive then we need to try to increase planetary expenditure (with all that entails). Conclusion: The Future chapter abstractEverything is in motion. The earth is in motion because so is the cosmos. The West's historically mistaken belief in a static or stable earth is one of the biggest mistakes ever made. This mistake is symptomatic of a similar belief in stasis in politics, ontology, science, and the arts. Together, the belief in stasis of one form or another across the major domains of human knowledge and activity is the source of our contemporary world crisis. Movement and expenditure had always been primary. Human history was not the progressive realization of static forms. Progress and development in the Western tradition are dead. Human history can now be seen for what it is: a series of kinetic patterns iterated in the material diffusion of the cosmos itself.
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Stanford University Press Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the
Book SynopsisA lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectuals Philosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures of the Enlightenment. But how might we delineate the contours of his diverse oeuvre, which, unlike the works of his contemporaries, Voltaire, Rousseau, Schiller, Kant, or Hume, is clearly characterized by a centrifugal dynamic? Taking Hegel's fascinated irritation with Diderot's work as a starting point, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht explores the question of this extraordinary intellectual's place in the legacy of the eighteenth century. While Diderot shared most of the concerns typically attributed to his time, the ways in which he coped with them do not fully correspond to what we consider Enlightenment thought. Conjuring scenes from Diderot's by turns turbulent and quiet life, offering close readings of several key books, and probing the motif of a tension between physical perception and conceptual experience, Gumbrecht demonstrates how Diderot belonged to a vivid intellectual periphery that included protagonists such as Lichtenberg, Goya, and Mozart. With this provocative and elegant work, he elaborates the existential preoccupations of this periphery, revealing the way they speak to us today.Trade Review"Innovative, lively, and full of ideas and insights, Prose of the World is a major contribution to our understanding and appreciation of Diderot's thought."—Thomas Pavel, author of The Lives of the Novel: A History"This book represents a significant contribution by one of the world's leading literary scholars and public intellectuals, whose deep familiarity with the history of ideas and philosophy display a rare ingenuity."—Markus Gabriel, author of Why the World Does Not Exist"Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Literature Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, brings to bear his 50-year intellectual love affair with Diderot to give us this magisterial study."—Dr. Cliff Cunningham, Sun New Austin"Does Diderot (1713–84) have a particular affinity with the present time? Could the 21st century become, in terms of reception and resonance, the Age of Diderot, as the 19th was the Age of Voltaire and the 20th the Age of Rousseau? These questions drive this ambitious, erudite work by one of today's leading cultural historians and literary critics...Essential." CHOICE"Gumbrecht's readings of these texts are astute, rigorous, and thought-provoking, and resist any straightforward or reductive explanation of Diderot's ideas.... By turns effortlessly readable and intriguingly opaque, intellectually provocative in its reflections and yet hard to pin down to one thesis, this study encapsulates something of its genial yet complex subject matter in its very approach."—Joseph Harris, Lessing Yearbook
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Stanford University Press Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt’s
Book SynopsisWhat does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today? In this provocative new work, Adriana Cavarero weighs in on contemporary debates about the relationship between democracy, happiness, and dissent. Drawing on Arendt's understanding of politics as a participatory experience, but also discussing texts by Émile Zola, Elias Canetti, Boris Pasternak, and Roland Barthes, along with engaging Judith Butler, Cavarero proposes a new view of democracy, based not on violence, but rather on the spontaneous experience of a plurality of bodies coming together in public. Expanding on the themes explored in previous works, Cavarero offers a timely intervention into current thinking about the nature of democracy, suggesting that its emergence thrives on the nonviolent creativity of a widespread, participatory, and relational power that is shared horizontally rather than vertically. From digital democracy to selfies to contemporary protest movements, Cavarero argues that we need to rethink our focus on individual happiness and turn toward rediscovering the joyful emotions of birth through plural interaction. Yes, let us be happy, she urges, but let us do so publicly, politically, together.Trade Review"Adriana Cavarero's characteristically provocative new work is once again central to debates about the nature of democracy. As always, her writing is striking for its clarity and economy." -- Barbara Spackman * author of Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy *"Adriana Cavarero gives us an inspiring vision of what democracy might mean if we stay true to the Arendtian spirit of identifying a space where individualities can flourish in their togetherness—ultimately, a space of public happiness." -- Silvia Benso * author of Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers *
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Stanford University Press Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt’s
Book SynopsisWhat does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today? In this provocative new work, Adriana Cavarero weighs in on contemporary debates about the relationship between democracy, happiness, and dissent. Drawing on Arendt's understanding of politics as a participatory experience, but also discussing texts by Émile Zola, Elias Canetti, Boris Pasternak, and Roland Barthes, along with engaging Judith Butler, Cavarero proposes a new view of democracy, based not on violence, but rather on the spontaneous experience of a plurality of bodies coming together in public. Expanding on the themes explored in previous works, Cavarero offers a timely intervention into current thinking about the nature of democracy, suggesting that its emergence thrives on the nonviolent creativity of a widespread, participatory, and relational power that is shared horizontally rather than vertically. From digital democracy to selfies to contemporary protest movements, Cavarero argues that we need to rethink our focus on individual happiness and turn toward rediscovering the joyful emotions of birth through plural interaction. Yes, let us be happy, she urges, but let us do so publicly, politically, together.Trade Review"Adriana Cavarero's characteristically provocative new work is once again central to debates about the nature of democracy. As always, her writing is striking for its clarity and economy." -- Barbara Spackman * author of Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy *"Adriana Cavarero gives us an inspiring vision of what democracy might mean if we stay true to the Arendtian spirit of identifying a space where individualities can flourish in their togetherness—ultimately, a space of public happiness." -- Silvia Benso * author of Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers *
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