Phenomenology and Existentialism Books
Indiana University Press Genealogy as Critique Foucault and the Problems
Book SynopsisShows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformationTrade ReviewGenealogy as Critique breathes fresh air into a number of stale scholarly debates about the periodization of Foucault's work, the viability of genealogy as a method, and the relationship between Foucault and his interlocutors. It is a must read for anyone interested in Foucault and especially in the relationship between Foucault and critical theory. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *This impressive book by Koopman . . . exposes what he perceives to be inaccurate readings of Foucault's work stemming from Habermas, Derrida, and other 'Weberian' interpretations. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Colin Koopman's 'Genealogy as Critique' is critical theory at its best: informed by incisive intellectual reconstructions, guided by immanent critique, and aiming at practical transformations that speak to our unique historical challenges.Oct. 2014 * Foucault Studies *Genealogy as Critique is an excellent book. . . After the academic industry that Foucault's works have spawned, it is difficult to imagine yet another treatment of them that could possibly offer new insight or open up a dimension of his thought that hadn't already been noticed. However, Colin Koopman's book does just that. . . Although I have studied and written on Foucault for over thirty years now, I found much in the book that was fresh and interesting.Oct. 2014 -- Todd May * History & Theory *In Genealogy as Critique, Colin Koopman traces the contours of Foucault's critical method of genealogy, presenting it not as a catch-all term for approaching history as a nonhistorian, but rather as a method of inquiry valuable to many fields, including communication, cultural studies, history, and sociology.8, 2014 * INTL JRNL OF COMMUNICATION *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Genealogy Does1. Critical Historiography: Politics, Philosophy & Problematization2. Three Uses of Genealogy: Subversion, Vindication & Problematization3. What Problematization Is: Contingency, Complexity & Critique4. What Problematization Does: Aims, Sources & Implications5. Foucault's Problematization of Modernity: The Reciprocal Incompatibility of Discipline and Liberation6. Foucault's Reconstruction of Modern Moralities: An Ethics of Self-Transformation7. Problematization plus Reconstruction: Genealogy, Pragmatism & Critical TheoryNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Heidegger and Language Studies in Continental
Book SynopsisTakes a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophyTrade ReviewThe essays in this volume . . . provid[e] worthwhile reading for anyone coming to Heidegger's work on language for the first time, and some help for those who have been thinking about, with, or against him already. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *The 14 original essays in this indispensable volume trace the transformations in Heidegger's thinking about language and discourse, hiddenness and unhiddenness, and, most importantly, the limits of language and the significance of silence. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction \ Jeffrey Powell1. Heidegger's Ontological Analysis of Language \ Daniel O. Dahlstrom2. Listening to the Silence: Reticence and the Call of Conscience in Heidegger's Philosophy \ Walter Brogan3. In Force of Language: Language and Desire in Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics \ William McNeill4. The Secret Homeland of Speech: Heidegger on Language, 1933–1934 \ Richard Polt5. The Logic of Thinking \ John Sallis6. Giving Its Word: Event (as) Language \ Krzysztof Ziarek7. Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to Das Ereignis \ Daniela Vallega-Neu8. Poets as Prophets and as Painters: Heidegger's Turn to Language and the Hölderlinian Turn in Context \ Robert Bernasconi9. Truth Be Told: Homer, Plato, and Heidegger \ Dennis J. Schmidt10. The Way to Heidegger's "Way to Language" \ Jeffrey L. Powell11. Is There a Heidegger—or, for That Matter, a Lacan—Beyond All Gathering? \ David Farrell Krell12. Heidegger and the Question of the "Essence" of Language \ Françoise Dastur13. Dark Celebration: Heidegger's Silent Music \ Peter Hanly14. Heidegger with Blanchot: On the Way to Fragmentation \ Christopher FynskContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Hölderlins Hymns Germania and The Rhine
Book SynopsisComing at a crucial time in his career, this title illustrates Martin Heidegger's turn toward language, art, and poetry while reflecting his despair at his failure to revolutionize the German university and his hope for a more profound revolution through the German language, guided by Holderlin's poetry.Trade Review[This translation], including a clear and concise introduction and useful glossaries, attains both accuracy and clarity, rarely faltering in its choice of words. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Translated with skill and precision, these lectures . . . not only present the most penetrating analysis of two of Hölderlin's most significant hymns but also constitute Heidegger's most illuminating and fully argued encounter with Hölderlin. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsTranslators' ForewordPreliminary RemarkIntroduction 1. Outline of the Beginning, Manner of Procedure, and Approach of the Lecture CoursePart One"Germania"Chapter OnePreliminary Reflections: Poetry and Language 2. Provisional Path of Approach to the Poem as a Piece of Text 3. Entering the Domain in which Poetry Unfolds its Power 4. Concerning the Essence of Poetry 5. The Question Concerning the 'We' in the Turbulence of the Dialogue 6. Determining the 'We' from out of the Horizon of the Question of Time 7. The Linguistic Character of PoetryChapter TwoThe Fundamental Attunement of Poetizing and the Historicality of Dasein 8. Unfolding the Fundamental Attunement 9. Historical Time and Fundamental Attunement 10. The Locale of Dasein Founded in "Germania" within the Horizon of the Heraclitean Thought11. Transitional Overview and Summary: Revisiting the Domains Opened Up Thus Far as a Way of Determining More Precisely the Intent of the Lecture CoursePart Two"The Rhine"Transitional RemarkThe Question Concerning What is 'Innermost' in a Poetic Work as a Question of the Opening Up and Founding of Beyng in the Each Time New Prevailing of its Fundamental AttunementChapter OneThe Demigods as Mediating Middle between Gods and Humans. The Fundamental Attunement of the Poem. The Beyng of the Demigods and the Calling of the Poet12. Thinking the Essence of the Demigods in the Founding Projection of the Poet13. Strophe I. The Point of Departure for the Telling, and the Composure through which it is Experienced. The Apprehending of a Destiny14. Strophes II and III. The River Rhine as Destiny. Hearing its Origin and Assuming its VocationChapter TwoA More Incisive Review. Poetizing and Historical Dasein15. The Task of the Lecture Course: Entering the Domain in Which Poetry Unfolds its Power, and the Opening Up of its Actuality16. The Fundamental Approach in which our Interpretation Moves, Taking "Germania" as our Point of Departure17. The Interpretation in Detail. The River Rhine as Demigod18. Interim Reflection on the Metaphysics of PoetizingChapter ThreeThat which has Purely Sprung Forth as Strife in the Middle of Beyng19. Strophe IV. The Enigma of what has Purely Sprung Forth and the Origin of Poetizing20. Strophes V to IX. Unfolding the Essence of what has Purely Sprung Forth in the Conflict between Springing Forth and Having Sprung-Forth21. Strophes X Through XIII. Thinking the Beyng of the Demigods Starting From the Gods and From Humans22. Strophe XIV. Retaining the Mystery. The Thinking of the Poet Grounded in the Poetizing of the Thinker23. Strophe XV. The Poet as the Other24. The Metaphysical Locale of Hölderlin's PoetizingEditor's EpilogueTranslators' NotesGlossaryEnglish—German German—English
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Indiana University Press Heidegger in France
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJanicaud shows himself to be a charming writer, and the English translation admirably conveys the clarity and deftness of his French prose into English. Indeed, one largely unsung quality of Janicaud's writings, be it this text or his more properly philosophical works, is his prose; combining clarity with wit, he is much more enjoyable to read than many of his contemporaries, and his translators are to be complemented for bringing those elements with them into the English translation. * The Heythrop Journal *In sum, this book is informed, interesting,well written, useful, and as accurate as it could have been for someone writing at a time when relevant documentation was being withheld by Heidegger's followers. * American Historical Review *Heidegger in France is a major contribution to the history of Continental philosophy and to French phenomenology. . . Essential. * Choice *Janicaud sheds light on the contemporary French philosophical scene and he has done this from an angle seldom seen by others. It is a lively story and reminds us that the life of ideas, the destiny of a thought, is an exciting matter. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsTranslators' IntroductionPart I.Introduction1. First Crossings of the Rhine2. The Sartre Bomb3. Postwar Fascinations4. Humanism in Turmoil5. The Bright Spell of the '50s6. Renewed Polemics, New Shifts7. Dissemination or Reconstruction?8. Death and Transfiguration?9. The Letter and the Spirit10. The Return of the Repressed?11. Between Erudite Scholarship and Techno-Science12. At the CrossroadsConclusionPart II. InterviewsFrançoise Dastur: Interview of March 3, 2000Jacques Derrida: Interviews from July 1 and November 22, 1999Éliane Escoubas: Interview of October 19, 2000Jean Greisch: Interview of December 2, 1999Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Interview of June 22, 2000Jean-Luc Marion: Interview of December 3, 1999Jean-Luc Nancy: Interview of June 23, 2000NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Country Path Conversations
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBret Ellis . . . provides a thoughtful, clear and highly readable translation of these conversations. He includes key German terms in the text and occasionally provides a brief discussion of the resonances of certain German terms likely to be unfamiliar to even those readers with second language German. His informative introduction places the work in the context of Heidegger's biography and philosophy as well as within the work's social and historical context. * Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword1. 'Aí: A Three-way Conversation on a Country Path between a Scientist, a Scholar, and a Guide2. The Teacher Meets the Tower Warden at the Door to the Tower Stairway3. Evening Conversation: In a Prisoner of War Camp in Russia, between a Younger and an Older ManEditor's AfterwordGlossaries
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Indiana University Press Introduction to PhilosophyThinking and Poetizing
Book SynopsisTrade Review[This] translation is readable and admirably unobtrusive. Phillip Jacques Braunstein (independent scholar and entrepreneur) renders Heidegger's key terms in recognisable ways. He has a keen sense of when and how to include the original German in order to reveal translation choices and Heidegger's wordplay without sacrificing the flow of the text.2011 * Notre Dame Philosophical Review *[Abiding] within the depths of Holderlin's way of speaking, Heidegger arrives at the crossing between philosophy and poetry: the creative tension or 'essential sway' within language . . . .Sept. 2011 * REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS *Table of ContentsEditor's ForewordTranslator's ForewordIntroductionIntroduction to Philosophy as a Guide to Genuine Thinking through the Thinker Nietzsche and the Poet Hölderlin1. The Impossibility of an Intro-duction to Philosophy2. The Need for a Guide to Become at Home in Genuine Thinking3. The Manifold Ways for a Guide to Genuine Thinking. The Question: "What Now Is?"4. The Consideration of Thinking in its Relation to Poetizing as One of the Ways for a Guide to Genuine Thinking. Nietzsche and Hölderlin5. The Confrontation with Thinking that Encounters us Historically: Nietzsche's Main and Fundamental ThoughtReview (First Draft)Chapter 1The Fundamental Experience and Fundamental Attunement of Nietzsche's Thinking6. The Godlessness and Worldlessness of the Modern Human as Nietzsche's Fundamental Experience a) The "Creation" of the Gods by Humans b) The Scope of the Thought of the Human as the "Creating One," the "Creative" in the Human c) The "Metaphysical" Ground of the Thought of the Creative Human: The Modern Determination of the Essence of the Human d) Thought in a Greek Way e) The Worldlessness of the Modern Human7. The Homelessness of the Modern Human as Nietzsche's Fundamental Attunement a) The Loss of the Previous Home in the Anticipating and Searching for the New Home b) Rationality that Merely Calculates and the Forgetting of the Western Historical DeterminationChapter 2The Creation of the New Home Out of the Will to Power8. The Homeless Ones as the Conquerors and Discoverers of the New Home9. Nietzsche's Main Thought: The Will to Power as Essenz (Essence) of Beings and as the Final Fact. The Veiled Difference between Being and BeingsThinking and PoetizingConsiderations for the LectureIntroductionThinking and Poetizing: Philosophy and Poetry ( and )1. The Comparing of Thinking and Poetizing. Genuine Comparing2. The Measure-Setting of the Decisive Thinkers and Poets for the Assessment of the Essence of Thinking and Poetizing3. The Necessity of a Preparation for the Hearing of Thinking and Poetizing4. Reflection on Thinking and Poetizing and Their Relationship. The Question-Worthy as the Standard for ContemplationSupplementsSecond Version of the Review: Introduction to Philosophy—Thinking and PoetizingReview of pp. 105ff. (Nietzsche. On the Relationship between Thinking and Poetizing)Second Version of the Manuscript pp. 4–5: On Thinking and Poetizing. Considerations for the Lecture (Preliminary Questions for the Reflection on Thinking and Poetizing)Two Fragmentary Versions of Manuscript p. 12a) First Fragmentary Versionb) Second Fragmentary VersionNotes to the Lecture: Introduction to Philosophy—Thinking and Poetizing The Eternal Return of the Same The Will to Power—the Eternal Return of the SameAppendix to Nietzsche's MetaphysicsNotes to Nietzsche's MetaphysicsWho Is Zarathustra? A Confrontation with NietzscheNietzsche's Thus Spoke ZarathustraReturn and ÜbermenschEternal Return of the Same and bermenschZarathustra's PrefaceLecture Announcements: Transcriptions and FacsimilesEditor's Afterword
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Indiana University Press Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness
Book SynopsisTrade Review Holland is to be praised for writing such a clear, readable, and important work on such a difficult issue. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Heidegger, Nature, and Consciousness1. The Problem of Consciousness2. The Earliest Vision3. The Essence of Truth4. The Later Heidegger5. "Something Non-Material. . .But Also Not Unmaterial"Conclusion: " [is] Not a Soul but the Unmediated Discovery of Being"Epilogue: Charlemagne's MonogramEndnotesReferences
£26.99
Indiana University Press Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness
Book SynopsisTrade Review Holland is to be praised for writing such a clear, readable, and important work on such a difficult issue. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Heidegger, Nature, and Consciousness1. The Problem of Consciousness2. The Earliest Vision3. The Essence of Truth4. The Later Heidegger5. "Something Non-Material. . .But Also Not Unmaterial"Conclusion: " [is] Not a Soul but the Unmediated Discovery of Being"Epilogue: Charlemagne's MonogramEndnotesReferences
£62.90
Indiana University Press The Way of the Platonic Socrates
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Adds to a vital and growing body of work dedicated to rethinking and reinterpreting one of the most, if not the most, important authors in Western philosophy and literature—Plato."—Jeremy Bell, editor of Plato's Animals"By his own acknowledgement, Ewegen is not attempting in this stimulating book to definitively "solve" the issue of the way of the Platonic Socrates. What he does do is establish convincingly that one crucial but underestimated aspect of Socrates' way can be articulated by a congeries of terms that include: openness, receptivity, releasement, even weakness, passivity, withdrawal, and poverty, among others. This important book demonstrates insightfully that these themes have not received the attention they deserve."—Drew A. Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Trinity College"The Platonic Socrates presented in this extraordinary new work is not only, as the tradition has handed him down to us, poor, wandering, powerless, knowing only that he does not know, but also radically open, receptive, in withdrawal, less a thinker or questioner than a space for thinking and questioning that opens up the entire history of philosophy. By focusing on that space in the Platonic dialogues, Shane Ewegen has given us nothing less than a radically new Socrates."—Michael Naas, author of Plato and the Invention of Life"Ewegen's book elaborates both on what it means for the Platonic Socrates to be somehow lacking and on the assorted ways in which Socrates' character is defined by it. It offers important insights into the highly enigmatic character of the Platonic Socrates and the philosophical significance thereof. This will become essential reading for anyone who takes Socrates' depiction in the dialogues to be philosophically relevant and for anyone interested in how Socrates creates the space in which philosophy can occur."—Sonja Tanner, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, author of Plato's Laughter"In The Way of the Platonic Socrates, S. Montgomery Ewegen approaches the enigma of Socrates. Through the analysis of a broad array of Platonic texts, Ewegen investigates the philosophical implications of the Socratic posture and comes to an outcome paradoxical no less than fascinating, and genuinely Lacanian in tenor: a portrait outlining the ancient thinker in his lack and withdrawal, placelessness and spaciousness, in brief, in his abiding and generative mystery."—Claudia Baracchi, Università di Milano-BicoccaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Wandering: Apology1. Retreat: Phaedo / Timaeus2. Power(lessness): Gorgias3. Poverty: Symposium4. Indebtedness: Statesman5. Ignorance: Protagoras6. Releasement: RepublicEpilogue: Plato BibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press The Way of the Platonic Socrates
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Adds to a vital and growing body of work dedicated to rethinking and reinterpreting one of the most, if not the most, important authors in Western philosophy and literature—Plato."—Jeremy Bell, editor of Plato's Animals"By his own acknowledgement, Ewegen is not attempting in this stimulating book to definitively "solve" the issue of the way of the Platonic Socrates. What he does do is establish convincingly that one crucial but underestimated aspect of Socrates' way can be articulated by a congeries of terms that include: openness, receptivity, releasement, even weakness, passivity, withdrawal, and poverty, among others. This important book demonstrates insightfully that these themes have not received the attention they deserve."—Drew A. Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Trinity College"The Platonic Socrates presented in this extraordinary new work is not only, as the tradition has handed him down to us, poor, wandering, powerless, knowing only that he does not know, but also radically open, receptive, in withdrawal, less a thinker or questioner than a space for thinking and questioning that opens up the entire history of philosophy. By focusing on that space in the Platonic dialogues, Shane Ewegen has given us nothing less than a radically new Socrates."—Michael Naas, author of Plato and the Invention of Life"Ewegen's book elaborates both on what it means for the Platonic Socrates to be somehow lacking and on the assorted ways in which Socrates' character is defined by it. It offers important insights into the highly enigmatic character of the Platonic Socrates and the philosophical significance thereof. This will become essential reading for anyone who takes Socrates' depiction in the dialogues to be philosophically relevant and for anyone interested in how Socrates creates the space in which philosophy can occur."—Sonja Tanner, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, author of Plato's Laughter"In The Way of the Platonic Socrates, S. Montgomery Ewegen approaches the enigma of Socrates. Through the analysis of a broad array of Platonic texts, Ewegen investigates the philosophical implications of the Socratic posture and comes to an outcome paradoxical no less than fascinating, and genuinely Lacanian in tenor: a portrait outlining the ancient thinker in his lack and withdrawal, placelessness and spaciousness, in brief, in his abiding and generative mystery."—Claudia Baracchi, Università di Milano-BicoccaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Wandering: Apology1. Retreat: Phaedo / Timaeus2. Power(lessness): Gorgias3. Poverty: Symposium4. Indebtedness: Statesman5. Ignorance: Protagoras6. Releasement: RepublicEpilogue: Plato BibliographyIndex
£18.99
Indiana University Press Kant and the Spirit of Critique
Book SynopsisJohn Sallis presents his lecture courses on Immanuel Kant. Each course takes up one of Kant's three Critiques, and thus the text as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. For students and seasoned scholars who require a step-by-step interpretation of Kant, these texts by Sallis are attuned to the spirit, structure, and principle of these foundational works.
£59.50
Indiana University Press Kant and the Spirit of Critique
Book SynopsisJohn Sallis presents his lecture courses on Immanuel Kant. Each course takes up one of Kant's three Critiques, and thus the text as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. For students and seasoned scholars who require a step-by-step interpretation of Kant, these texts by Sallis are attuned to the spirit, structure, and principle of these foundational works.
£25.19
Indiana University Press How to Measure a World
Book SynopsisHow to Measure a World? examines the vastness of the Jewish philosophical record and the full intellectual scope and range of Emmanuel Levinas's claim that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism.Trade ReviewAn introductory study that will have enormous appeal for both students and non-specialist general readers, How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism is as informative as it is thought-provoking, and very highly recommended * Midwest Book Review *Overall, this book is a valuable contribution to not only modern Jewish studies, but also the broader field of continental philosophy of religion. With a clear mastery of his sources, Shuster carefully weaves his thesis through deeply complicated figures in a way that is both artful and textually sound. -- Josiah Solis * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionHaving a World1. Wonder and World: Maimonides's Phenomenology2. Suffering and World: Adorno's NegativityPreconditions of Having a World3. History and World: Benjamin and Adorno on Ethical Depth4. Language and World: Levinas and Cavell on Ethical FoundationsConclusionWorks CitedIndex
£59.40
Indiana University Press Politics Money and Persuasion Democracy and
Book SynopsisIn Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic.Trade Review"Early in his introduction, John Russon comments that the Republic is the source of seemingly never-ending insights and fresh interpretations. He then goes on to substantiate this insight with his own fresh and provocative reading of this much-interpreted dialogue. His own reading sets out as a guiding insight that logos, the peculiarly human ability to "give an account," to formulate abstractions from specific instances, is a double-edged sword, at once a source of wondrous achievement and destructive misunderstanding, of philosophic insight and sophistic deception. This guiding principle leads to one thought-provoking insight after another—a genuinely fresh reading of the Republic."—Drew Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Trinity College"Like all truly excellent works of interpretation, John Russon's reading of the Republic is an original and quite radical departure from traditional approaches, which nonetheless once it is set out in his characteristically lucid and direct philosophical prose, presents itself as almost obvious and common-sensical."—Sean D. Kirkland, author of The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues"Politics, Money, and Persuasion is a challenging and far-reaching exploration of the core issues of Plato's Republic, doing justice to what John Russon calls the 'concrete rationality' of the text, while opening up new perspectives on the meaningfulness of democracy, opinion, persuasion, rationality, and the philosophical life."—Robert Metcalf, coauthor of Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece"Russon's book is a timely exploration of how our habits of reason inform the possibility of healthy cities and souls. Russon examines the political consequences of how human beings "take account" of the world and of themselves, and in doing so also offers a vision of what a philosophical engagment with politics might look like. This work shows us the continued relevance of reading Plato's Republic today."—Marina McCoy, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translations and CitationsIntroductionPolitics, Money and Persuasion1. The Problem of Abstraction2. The Currencies of PowerThe Vicissitudes of Opinion3. True Opinion4. PersuasionConclusionBibliographyIndex of subjectsIndex of passages
£59.50
Indiana University Press Politics Money and Persuasion
Book SynopsisIn Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic.Trade Review"Early in his introduction, John Russon comments that the Republic is the source of seemingly never-ending insights and fresh interpretations. He then goes on to substantiate this insight with his own fresh and provocative reading of this much-interpreted dialogue. His own reading sets out as a guiding insight that logos, the peculiarly human ability to "give an account," to formulate abstractions from specific instances, is a double-edged sword, at once a source of wondrous achievement and destructive misunderstanding, of philosophic insight and sophistic deception. This guiding principle leads to one thought-provoking insight after another—a genuinely fresh reading of the Republic."—Drew Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Trinity College"Like all truly excellent works of interpretation, John Russon's reading of the Republic is an original and quite radical departure from traditional approaches, which nonetheless once it is set out in his characteristically lucid and direct philosophical prose, presents itself as almost obvious and common-sensical."—Sean D. Kirkland, author of The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues"Politics, Money, and Persuasion is a challenging and far-reaching exploration of the core issues of Plato's Republic, doing justice to what John Russon calls the 'concrete rationality' of the text, while opening up new perspectives on the meaningfulness of democracy, opinion, persuasion, rationality, and the philosophical life."—Robert Metcalf, coauthor of Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece"Russon's book is a timely exploration of how our habits of reason inform the possibility of healthy cities and souls. Russon examines the political consequences of how human beings "take account" of the world and of themselves, and in doing so also offers a vision of what a philosophical engagment with politics might look like. This work shows us the continued relevance of reading Plato's Republic today."—Marina McCoy, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translations and CitationsIntroductionPolitics, Money and Persuasion1. The Problem of Abstraction2. The Currencies of PowerThe Vicissitudes of Opinion3. True Opinion4. PersuasionConclusionBibliographyIndex of subjectsIndex of passages
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Indiana University Press Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life is a major work that recasts phenomenology as a phenomenology of life. In turn, life is investigated in its phenomenological senses, approached through the duality of its intransitive and transitive senses, i.e., being in life (leben) and feeling, having an experience of something (erleben), intertwining subjective life with a radical insertion in the world."—François Raffoul, author of Thinking the EventTable of ContentsIntroduction: Phenomenology and LifePart 1: The Divisions of Life1. Exteriority and Immanence2. Existence and Incarnation3. The Division of MovementConclusion: The Epoche of DeathPart 2: Life and ExteriorityIntroduction: The Failure of Bergsonism1. The Absolute Domains of Survey2. Metabolism3. Towards a Privative AnthropologyPart 3: Life and Desire1. Desire as the Essence of Being-Alive2. Desire and the Correlation3. The Subject and the WorldConclusionIndex
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Indiana University Press On Inception
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Texts such as On Inception are among Heidegger's most difficult, owing in equal parts to the liminal and exacting character of his thinking therein and the experimental vocabulary with which he articulates such thinking. Hanly does a truly admirable job of rendering Heidegger's often abstruse German syntax into elegant English prose, without, however, doing violence to Heidegger's always difficult and sometimes terse manner of expression. Hanly capably threads the needle between fidelity to Heidegger's necessary opacity and a commitment to bringing the German text into comprehensible English."—S. Montgomery Ewegen, author of The Way of the Platonic SocratesTable of ContentsPrefaceI. The Incipience of Inception1. What Does "Inception" Say?2. The Incipience of Inception3. The Remoteness of Inception4. "Inception" and "Event"5. Beyng?6. Beyng? The Event of Inception as the Receding into the Parting7. The Parting8. Inception and Veiling and Event9. Inception and Uprising10. Beyng as Remaining11. The Inexplicability of Beyng12. The Event of Inception and the Location of the Essence of the Human13. Being and the Historically Human14. The Telling of Difference15. How Saying Becomes the Acknowledgment of the Event of Inception16. The Modern Essential Sojourn of Planetarism and Idiocy17. The Guide-words of Beyng18. The Essence of Beyng19. The Incipience of Inception20. The Remaining21. Inception is the Dignity of Beyng22. The Ultimate Step of Thinking23. Inception and Concealment24. "Concealment"25. Inception and Truth26. Beyng and Singularity and Truth27. The First Inception28. Inception29. Event30. Inception and Intimacy31. Beyng32. Inception and the Nothing33. Event and the Nothing34. Inception—Beyng—Beings35. Beyng Is Telling36. The Other Inception37. Inception and Άλήθεια38. The Inceptions39. Inception40. Of Inception41. Of Inception42. "Inception"43. The Inceptive Essence of Beyng44. Inception (Peculiar Property)45. Inception and Advancing-away46. Inception and Truth47. Inception and Truth48. The Inceptions49. Truth and Straying50. Unconcealment (Ἀλήθεια)51. The Inceptions52. The Inceptions53. The Inceptions54. The Inceptions55. The Inceptions56. Beyng as the Other InceptionThe Differentiation and the Difference57. The Differentiation58. The Differentiation59. Differentiation and Inception60. The Differentiation61. The Open That Is Unnamed in the Differentiation62. The Overcoming of Metaphysics is the Abandonment of the Differentiation63. The Differentiation and the "As"The Inception as Receding64. Receding65. Receding and Bestowal66. Inception and Receding67. Why and How Does Receding Belong to Inception?68. Receding and Beings69. The First Inception and the Receding70. Receding and the Other Inception Crossing and Receding71. RecedingII. Inception and Inceptive Thinking the Creative Thinking of Inception72. The Few Must Restore the Inception into the Inceptive73. Inception74. Onto-Historical Thinking75. The Onto-Historical Thinking of Inception76. The Claim of Onto-Historical Thinking77. From Inception78. Outline79. Outline of the Telling of Inception80. From Inception81. From Inception82. From Inception (The Belonging into the Clearing of Beyng)83. From Inception84. The Relation to Being85. From Inception86. Dialogue in the Inception87. Inception88. The Inception and the Distinctive Mark of Western History89. Onto-Historical Thinking90. Inceptive Thinking in the Crossing into the Other Inception91. The More Inceptive Questioning92. The Leap93. The Inceptiveness of Inception94. The Thinking ahead into the Inception95. Claim and Response96. Inception and the SimpleIII. Event and Being ThereA. The Event97. Event and BeingsB. Event and Dis-propriation98. The Beingless and Beings. Dis-propriation99. [Beings] as the BeinglessC. Being-There100. Being-There101. Being-There and Vibration102. Being and the Human103. Being-There104. Being-There105. Being-There106. Being-There107. Being-There108. Being-There and the Human109. The Other Inception110. Divinity in the Other Inception111. Event, Proper Domain, Indigence112. Being-There and Attunement113. Attunements and Beyng114. Attunement115. "Anxiety"116. Beyng—Being-There—the Disposition117. Awe118. The History of the Human119. The Human and Being as "Will"120. The Onto-Historical Essence of DeathD. Inter-venings121. Inter-venings122. The Recollective Thinking ahead into the Inception123. Inceptive Thinking124. Onto-Historical Thinking as Inceptive125. Sheltering Concealment and Being-There. Impulse126. Being and Time—Being-There127. "Analysis" and "Analytic of Dasein"IV. Interpretation and the PoetA. Remarks on Interpreting128. Interpretation129. The Interpreting130. The Interpreting131. Interpretation132. Interpretation133. The "Circle-structure" of Interpreting134. Approach to Interpretation135. Meaningfulness of Poetry and Ambiguity of InterpretationB. The Poet (Hölderlin) in the Other Inception136. Thinking ahead into the Inception137. Whither?138. The Holy and Beyng139. Towards the Interpretation of the Hymns140. Hölderlin141. Poet and Thinker142. Thinking and Poetizing143. The Claim of an InterpretationC. Hölderlin-Interpretation144. Towards the Interpretation of Hölderlin145. The "Interpretation"146. The Interpretation of Hölderlin's Hymns147. The Interpretation as Pledge-saying148. Interpretation Affirming the Saying and the Telling149. Hölderlin the Poet of Poets150. Hölderlin151. Interpretation (the "Circle")V. The History of Beyng152. The History of Beyng153. The History of Beyng154. Being "Is" Inception and thus History155. The History of Beyng156. The Abjection of the AgeHistory and Historiography157. The Fissure of the Incepting of the Inceptions158. The History of Being and "World"—History159. Being and History160. History161. History162. The Essence of History163. History and Historiography164. History and Historiography165. To What Extent "Encounter" Belongs to the Essence of Historical Beings166. History167. The Crossing (History and Inception)168. History Inceptuality and Historicity Decision of the Essence of Truth169. History170. History171. Inception—Advancing-away—Receding—CrossingVI. Being and Time and Inceptive Thinking as the History of Beyng172. Being and Time173. Onto-Historical Thinking and Absolute Metaphysics174. German Idealism and Onto-Historical Thinking175. Being and Time176. "Being and Time" and Inceptive ThinkingEditor's AfterwordGerman-English GlossaryEnglish-German Glossary
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Indiana University Press Derrida and Husserl
Book SynopsisA systematic study of Derrida's writings on Husserl.Trade ReviewThis is the strongest of all Lawlor's writings on Derrida to date.2005 * Husserl Studies *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsThe Original Motivation: Defend the Derridean FaithPart 1. Phenomenology and Ontology1. Genesis as the Basic Problem of Phenomenology2. The Critique of Phenomenology: An Investigation of "'Genesis and Structure' and Phenomenology"3. The Critique of Ontology: An Investigation of "The Ends of Man"Part 2. The "Originary Dialectic" of Phenomenology and Ontology4. Upping the Ante on Dialectic: An Investigation of Le Problème de la genèse dans la philosophie de Husserl5. The Root, that is Necessarily One, of Every Dilemma: An Investigation of The Introduction to Husserl's The Origin of GeometryPart 3. The End of Phenomenology and Ontology6. More Metaphysical than Metaphysics: An Investigation of "Violence and Metaphysics"7. The Test of the Sign: An Investigation Voice and PhenomenonPart 4. The Turn in Derrida8. Looking for Noon at Two O'Clock: An Investigation of Specters of MarxThe Final Idea: Memory and LifeBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Existentialism
Book SynopsisExistentialism entered the public consciousness after the Second World War, especially through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Indeed, these charismatic and engaged thinkers gave philosophy a level of glamour it had not before enjoyed, while existentialismâs forefathersâincluding Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaardâwere soon rediscovered and embraced anew. Moreover, in addition to the initial connection between existentialism and literature, the movement developed many interdisciplinary approaches: feminist existentialism, religious existentialism, and political existentialism, to name just a few. As a broad philosophical doctrine, as well as in its interdisciplinary combinations, existentialism is of lasting significance, and remains a thriving enterprise.To make sense of existentialismâs hugeâand growingâcorpus of scholarly literature, this new Routledge collection answers the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference work. In four volumes, it assembles the foundational and the very best cutting-edge research.Volume I (âKey Figures and Definitionsâ) maps the development of existentialism from the first existentialist to the classic and contemporary existentialists. It also gives users an impression of the most prominent definitions of existentialism. Volume II (âBasic Themes and Conceptsâ), meanwhile, collects the most important texts on the key notions of existentialism, such as subject/object, authenticity, ambiguity, humanism, and emotions. Volume III (âExistentialist Aesthetics and Psychologyâ) attends to those areas outside philosophy which have been most influenced by existentialism: aesthetics (literature, theatre, art, theory) and psychology (psychoanalysis, psychotherapy). The final volume in the collection (âHorizons of Existentialismâ) considers several other interdisciplinary areas, including: religion, feminism, communications, and politics.Existentialism is supplemented with a full index, and includes a newly written comprehensive introduction which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. The collection will be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource.
£1,235.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Paradox Passion in Psychotherapy An Existential
Book SynopsisParadox and Passion in Psychotherapy an existential approach to therapy and counselling Emmy van Deurzen Schiller International University, London, UK This book confronts the taboo of the psychotherapista s personal history and emotions being involved in the therapeutic process.Table of ContentsParadox. Passion. Psychotherapy and Counselling. Conclusion. References. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Existential TimeLimited Therapy
Book SynopsisAs people struggle with a sense of crisis and confusion they search for clarity and meaning. Increasingly they turn to psychotherapists and counsellors, who will find in this book a powerful existential approach to therapy that helps people to make sense of themselves by addressing their social, cultural and political context as well as their personal and interpersonal issues. It makes room for paradox and the acceptance of the inevitable. It allows for questioning and re-evaluation. The existential approach lends itself to time-limited work. Existential therapists do not encourage dependence. But this book also shows that such a brief, tough approach does not mean it is task oriented or superficial, rather that it is possible to allow for the free play of existential concerns and cover much territory in limited time. Clients and therapists will find this approach effective, topical and relevant. ... an important contribution to the literature on existential psychotherapy. The book briTable of ContentsOverview of a Commonsense Existential Approach. The Mystery of Time. Time-limited Existential Therapy Limitations and Possibilities. Concepts and Methods. The Mystery of the 'Insight'. The Body. The 'Givens'. 'Connectedness'. The Tyranny of High Morality. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
£47.45
Harvard University Press Adorno and Existence
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis extraordinary study is a marvelous interpretation of the whole of Adorno’s philosophical thinking by making convincingly clear to what surprising degree it is dependent on some constitutive ideas of Kierkegaard. Gordon successfully integrates two aims, the systematic re-interpretation of Adorno’s philosophy and the subtle reconstruction of his intellectual development. This is a tour de force for which Peter Gordon deserves highest admiration. -- Axel Honneth, Goethe University Frankfurt and Columbia UniversityAdorno and Existence struck me as almost inevitable: how is it that no one had thought to write this necessary book previously? With a rare combination of narrative brio and analytic insight, Peter Gordon tracks Adorno’s repeated confrontations with Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Kafka, & co. This is a fine, even irreplaceable study with a superb and riveting final chapter. -- Jay Bernstein, The New SchoolOn first reading Adorno’s early study of Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin intuited that it was ‘very possible that the author’s later books will spring from this one.’ When Adorno reissued it many years later, he admitted to Ernst Bloch that it had ‘the character of a dream-like anticipation.’ With Peter Gordon’s arresting new interpretation of Adorno’s life-long struggle with Kierkegaard’s legacy, a struggle generating the dynamic force field of theology, aesthetics and social critique he called negative dialectics, we can understand for the first time how right both of these observations actually were. -- Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyWritten with elegance and meticulously researched, the book focuses on Adorno’s successive encounters with Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger over the years as a key to unlock Adorno’s own difficult thinking. A major contribution to Adorno studies and beyond. -- Seyla Benhabib, Yale UniversityA perceptive philosophical inquiry. -- Samuel Freeman * New York Review of Books *Gordon, in a detailed, sensitive, fair-minded way, leads the reader through Adorno’s various, usually quite vigorous, rhetorically pointed attacks on both transcendental and existential phenomenology from 1930 on…[A] singularly illuminating study. -- Robert Pippin * Critical Inquiry *Adorno and Existence is an expansive and ambitious undertaking and Gordon deserves praise for elucidating the dense constructions of Adorno’s texts, especially in the often elliptical prose of Negative Dialectics. He traces a constant concern in Adorno, from the 1930s onwards, to associate the ontology of existentialism with idealism while also acknowledging an underlying value in idealism’s resistance to the merely given…[An] elegantly composed study. -- Sean Sheehan * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *Gordon’s book offers a significant contribution to our understanding of Adorno’s thought. He writes with expertise, authority, and compendious scholarship, moving with confidence across the thinkers he examines. Throughout his argument, he effectively places Adorno’s work in the context of contemporary debates and events. His well-organized exposition and lucid prose are particularly noteworthy, conveying complex ideas with clarity and nuance. Above all, I found myself persuaded of his central claim, as it seems quite clear that Adorno’s engagement with the thought of Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger played a decisive role in the development of his own philosophy, rather than entailing merely a straightforward rejection. After this book, it will not be possible to explain Adorno’s philosophical development without serious consideration of his reactions to them. -- Richard Westerman * Symposium *Gordon masterfully reconstructs Adorno's lifelong engagement with existentialist thinkers and themes…The lucid and concise way in which he writes about Adorno is no less than exemplary…The book brilliantly succeeds in its aims. It indicates the path for a further exploration of the hidden affinities between one of the main theorists of the Frankfurt school and existential philosophy. -- Helmer Stoel * Universa Recensioni di Filosofia *
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Princeton University Press The Seducers Diary
Book SynopsisMatters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.Table of ContentsFOREWORD, by John Updike vii THE SEDUCER'S DIARY 1 NOTES 201
£10.44
McGill-Queen's University Press Not Even a God Can Save Us Now
Book SynopsisA lively interpretation of Machiavelli’s thought, applied to contemporary philosophy.Trade Review" This book is a refreshing and bold attempt to rethink Machiavelli' s political philosophy in light of recent trends in continental philosophy of religion. Harding has a distinguished publication record in French phenomenology and now brings his critical attention to bear on a thinker who is frequently stereotyped and, occasionally, dismissed as simply a defender of sovereignty and political expediency." J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University " Those who study intellectual history, and those interested especially in the philosophy of religion, will find the book an interesting contribution to the dialogue. Harding brings disparate thinkers into conversation with one another with considerable skill." William B. Parsons, Carroll College
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Stanford University Press Naturalizing Phenomenology Issues in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis work aims to shed new light on the relations between Husserlian phenomenology and the present-day efforts toward a scientific theory of cognition with its complex structure of disciplines, levels of explanation, and conflicting hypotheses.Trade Review"Every student of cognition will somewhere in [Naturalizing Phenomenology] find something new and interesting."—APA Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword 1. Beyond the gap: an introduction to naturalizing phenomenology Jean-Michel Roy, Jean Petitot, Bernard Pachoud and Francisco J. Varela Part I. Intentionality, Movement and Temporality: 2. Intentionality naturalized? David Woodruff Smith 3. Saving intentional phenomena: intentionality, representation, and symbol Jean-Michel Roy 4. Leibhaftigkeit and representational theories of perception Elisabeth Pecherie 5. Perceptual completion: a case study in phenomenology and cognitive science Evan Thompson, Alva Noë and Luiz Pessoa 6. The teleological dimension of perceptual and motor intentionality Bernard Pachoud 7. Constitution by movement: Husserl in light of recent neurobiological findings Jean-Luc Petit 8. Wooden iron? Husserlian phenomenology meets cognitive science Tim van Gelder 9. The specious present: a neurophenomenology of time consciousness Francisco J. Varela Part II. Mathematics in Phenomenology: 10. Truth and the visual field Barry Smith 11. Morphological eidetics for a penomenology of perception Jean Petitot 12. Formal structures in the phenomenology of motion Roberto Casati 13. Godel and Husserl Dagfinn Follesdal 14. The mathematical continuum: from intuition to logic Giuseppe Longo Part III. The Nature and Limits of Naturalization: 15. Naturalizing phenomenology? Dretske on Qualia Ronald McIntyre 16. The immediately given as ground and background Juan-Jose Botero 17. When transcendental genesis encounters the naturalization project Natalie Depraz 18. Sense and continuum in Husserl Jean-Michel Salanskis 19. Cognitive psychology and the transcendental theory of knowledge Maria Villela-Petit 20. The movement of the living as the originary foundation of perceptual intentionality Renaud Barbaras 21. Philosophy and cognition: historical roots Jean-Pierre Dupuy Notes Bibliography Index of persons Index of topics.
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Stanford University Press A Finite Thinking
Book SynopsisThis book is a rich collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger''s Being and Time as its permanent point of reference and dispute, this collection also confronts other important philosophers, such as Kant, Nietzsche, and Derrida. The projects of these pivotal thinkers of finitude are relentlessly pushed to their extreme, with respect both to their unexpected horizons and to their as yet unexplored analytical potential. A Finite Thinking shows that, paradoxically, where the thought of finitude comes into its own it frees itself, not only to reaffirm a certain transformed and transformative presence, but also for a non-religious reconsideration and reaffirmation of certain theologemes, as well as of the body, heart, and love. This book shows the literary dimension of philosophical discourse, providing important enabling ideas for scholars of literature, cultural theory,Trade Review"This book is a splendid demonstration of the many joys of thinking about thought itself. The finitude highlighted in the title applies to the concepts of thinking that Nancy expertly and adroitly elucidates: sense, sacrifice, existence, presence, love, the body. Nancy shows us that thinking is not a chess game of large, ungainly abstract pieces; it is a dance of specificity much akin to poetry and art themselves." -Henry Sussman,State University of New York at Buffalo
£25.19
Stanford University Press Theories of Distinction
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society.Trade Review“Luhmann’s thought has become more and more influential internationally as one of the very rare examples of the ability of social theory to enlarge its theoretical resources and thereby gain a new grasp of significant empirical phenomena. This book presents Luhmann as a thinker who advances existing difference theories by combining them with systems theory.”—Dirk Baecker, University of Witten/HerdeckeTable of ContentsContents Rasch William PART I. 1. 2. PART II. 3. 4. 5. 6. PART III. 7. 8. PART IV. 9.
£21.59
Stanford University Press Releasing the Image
Book SynopsisFrom painting to poetry to new media technologies, this book theorizes "the image" beyond the logic of representationalism and provokes new ways of engaging topics of embodiment, agency, history, and technology.Trade Review"Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media is essential reading for those wishing to track the continued growth of the image as an unsettled figure in current philosophy and media theory. Dynamically viewed through the different perspectives of this book, the image appears multifaceted, protean, alive, and proliferating—as far from the classical framework of the image-as-static-representation as can be."—Chris Burnett, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism"Releasing the Image is a stunning collection of essays by leading philosophers and media theorists who break with notions of the image as frozen or static, and refocus the debate around topics of embodiment, agency, virtuality and temporality. A brilliantly orchestrated work of intelligence and scope."—Tim Lenoir, Duke University
£81.90
Stanford University Press Releasing the Image
Book SynopsisFrom painting to poetry to new media technologies, this book theorizes "the image" beyond the logic of representationalism and provokes new ways of engaging topics of embodiment, agency, history, and technology.Trade Review"Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media is essential reading for those wishing to track the continued growth of the image as an unsettled figure in current philosophy and media theory. Dynamically viewed through the different perspectives of this book, the image appears multifaceted, protean, alive, and proliferating—as far from the classical framework of the image-as-static-representation as can be."—Chris Burnett, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism"Releasing the Image is a stunning collection of essays by leading philosophers and media theorists who break with notions of the image as frozen or static, and refocus the debate around topics of embodiment, agency, virtuality and temporality. A brilliantly orchestrated work of intelligence and scope."—Tim Lenoir, Duke University
£19.79
Stanford University Press Phenomenology of the Visual Arts even the frame
Book SynopsisThe book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.Trade Review"This is perhaps the most systematic phenomenological theory of the visual arts ever written. A book of philosophic meditation that makes direct contact with art history and art criticism, it will be the center of discussion and controversy by a very wide range of contemporary art historians, critics, artists, and theorists." -- James Elkins"Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame) speaks to the present moment of speculation about visual art, both by the critique of currently prominent art theories and by giving a convincing new theory that is at once more generous and more nuanced than previous efforts. Highly original and yet confirmatory of virtually every experience of art, this book is a singular contribution to contemporary theory of the visual arts." —Edward S. Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook"This book should interest a variety of scholars with a theoretical interest in the visual arts. The book addresses pictures, sculpture, abstract art conceptual art, photography, digital art, and architecture... Recommended" * J. O. Young Choice. *
£77.35
Stanford University Press Critical Excess
Book SynopsisThis lucidly written book looks at the interpretative audacity of five major "overreaders"—Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek and Stanley Cavell—and asks what is at stake and what is to be gained by their approaches to literature and film.Trade Review"This is a book about how certain philosophers read works of literature and film, and whether literature and film become or can be shown to be themselves philosophical in virtue of this reading. But what sort of reading? The figures under study here—Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek, and Stanley Cavell—approach ('attack' might be a better word) literature and film in ways that we lack concepts to describe, and they do not hesitate to call their ways of reading (not to mention what they read) 'philosophy.' 'Overreading' is Colin Davis's covering term for how these philosophers work on their texts, but no one of them is like any of the others, so their ways of reading are to that extent untheorizable. Instead of large concepts Davis gives us close readings of their readings of particular texts or films—this against the background of lucid and accurate accounts of their particular philosophical or theoretical orientations. This is a fine and timely piece of work, and beautifully written in the bargain." -- Gerald Bruns * University of Notre Dame *"A superb book, at once lucid and passionate, arguing the case for the wise folly of willful, outrageous, and unconventional critical thinking, thanks to which we might learn new and valuable things about the world we live in. Davis is a friendly, learned, and judicious guide, and his commitment to the ethical possibilities of adventurous critical thought is nothing short of inspirational. Read!, he exhorts us, Watch!, and Think!—who knows what you might find out?" -- Martin Crowley * Cambridge University *"Critical Excess is an important book . . . Throughout Critical Excess, Davis choose interesting texts, not always the most obvious ones, in which to explore the given critics' practice . . . Colin Davis' examination of these radically divergent critical practices has much to teach us, or remind us, about the value of and necessity for over-reading or over-interpretation." -- Clint Burnham * Electronic Book Review *"This is an admirable book. Davis writes beautifully, and his readings are models of clarity and precision. They are also narrowly focused, and this is a strength rather than a weakness. Rather than surveying entire bodies of work, Davis examines just a few texts by each thinker—often texts that are not well known. The result is a study which is wide-ranging but not superficial." -- Robert Piercey * University of Regina, Philosophy in Review *"Davis's book demonstrates, in exemplary fashion, the extent to which practices of overreading have come to constitute one of the key techniques of the philosophical thinking that has emerged in the wake of the closure or deconstruction of metaphysics . . . Davis has produced a work of highly original and important literary theory that draws on the more modest techniques and scholarly protocols of what he rather self-deprecatingly dubs the 'pedestrian critic'. Yet, in so doing, he has demonstrated the extent to which the techniques of literary criticism and scholarship can make indispensable contributions to contemporary and philosophical debate." -- Ian James * French Studies *"These readings in praise of overreading are detailed, patient, and rewarding. At its core, Davis's overreading is an openness to the uncanny potential for works of art to be familiar and strange, far removed from a hermeneutics of suspicion, feeding and feeding on art's—and criticism's—capacity for surprise. In this excess lies criticism's chance to be interesting." -- Mark Robson * Modern Language Review *
£17.99
Stanford University Press Heidegger Among the Sculptors
Book SynopsisIn the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subjecta catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition, a speech at a gallery opening for Bernhard Heiliger, a lecture on bas-relief depictions of Athena, and a collaboration with Eduardo Chillidahe formulates his later aesthetic theory, a thinking of relationality. Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein. Filled with illustrations of works that Heidegger encountered or considered, Heidegger Among the Sculptors makes a singular contributiTrade Review"Heidegger Among the Sculptors is an insightful exploration of the role sculpture plays in Heidegger's thinking of the interrelationship between corporeality and space." -- Sculpture Journal"In Heidegger Among the Sculptors, Andrew Mitchell offers an abundance of detailed information, as well as subtle and insightful reflections. His book is interspersed with extremely well-chosen images of works of sculpture. Throughout his discussions, Mitchell is attentive to the works and their specific character, and yet he never loses sight of the major philosophical questions that inform his reflections. This is a work of absolutely first-rate scholarship, of acute artistic sensitivity, and of philosophical profundity." -- John Sallis * Boston College *"This is a truly exceptional book: beautifully written, carefully argued, and deploying a detailed knowledge of Heidegger's oeuvre with a light touch. It is the first to be written on Heidegger and art that concentrates on sculpture and looks at the specific sculptural works discussed by Heidegger. Mitchell's achievement in this area is truly significant. Not only will this book appeal to Heidegger scholars, it will be of genuine interest to anyone who studies or is moved by sculpture." -- Andrew Benjamin * Monash University *
£16.14
Stanford University Press Testing the Limit
Book SynopsisThrough three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self.Trade Review"Sebbah's noteworthy book is perhaps the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between three thinkers in the French phenomenological tradition, two of whom are well known in the Anglophone world (Levinas, Derrida) and one of whom (Henry) is gradually better understood by English-speaking audiences. That all three are arrayed together in this study makes it a pioneering enterprise and one that allows the English reader to apprise the worthiness of Henry's association with his better-known compatriots."—Jeffrey Hanson, Continental Philosophy Review"Convincing and well executed. A wide range of texts and thinkers is treated with evident familiarity and thought. . . This book makes an important contribution to the larger debate about the contemporary status and trajectory of phenomenology."—Christina Gschwandtner, International Philosophical Quarterly"François Sebbah, who practices phenomenology above all through a testing of readings—readings that jostle each other—uses phenomenology to experience limits that he neither denounces nor overcomes. Rather, he plunges in headfirst, engulfing himself so as to better draw on that experience, an a-theological baptism of sorts."—Bernard Stiegler
£112.20
Stanford University Press Testing the Limit
Book SynopsisThrough three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self.Trade Review"Sebbah's noteworthy book is perhaps the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between three thinkers in the French phenomenological tradition, two of whom are well known in the Anglophone world (Levinas, Derrida) and one of whom (Henry) is gradually better understood by English-speaking audiences. That all three are arrayed together in this study makes it a pioneering enterprise and one that allows the English reader to apprise the worthiness of Henry's association with his better-known compatriots."—Jeffrey Hanson, Continental Philosophy Review"Convincing and well executed. A wide range of texts and thinkers is treated with evident familiarity and thought. . . This book makes an important contribution to the larger debate about the contemporary status and trajectory of phenomenology."—Christina Gschwandtner, International Philosophical Quarterly"François Sebbah, who practices phenomenology above all through a testing of readings—readings that jostle each other—uses phenomenology to experience limits that he neither denounces nor overcomes. Rather, he plunges in headfirst, engulfing himself so as to better draw on that experience, an a-theological baptism of sorts."—Bernard Stiegler
£28.80
Stanford University Press Phenomenology of the Visual Arts even the frame
Book SynopsisThe book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.Trade Review"This is perhaps the most systematic phenomenological theory of the visual arts ever written. A book of philosophic meditation that makes direct contact with art history and art criticism, it will be the center of discussion and controversy by a very wide range of contemporary art historians, critics, artists, and theorists." -- James Elkins"Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame) speaks to the present moment of speculation about visual art, both by the critique of currently prominent art theories and by giving a convincing new theory that is at once more generous and more nuanced than previous efforts. Highly original and yet confirmatory of virtually every experience of art, this book is a singular contribution to contemporary theory of the visual arts." —Edward S. Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook"This book should interest a variety of scholars with a theoretical interest in the visual arts. The book addresses pictures, sculpture, abstract art conceptual art, photography, digital art, and architecture... Recommended" * J. O. Young Choice. *
£19.79
Stanford University Press The NeuroImage
Book SynopsisArguing that today''s viewers move through a character''s brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the neuro-image. Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domainsDeleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, digital networked screen culture, and neuroscientific research. These domains return in the book''s tripartite structure. Part One, on the brain as neuroscreen, suggests rich connections between film theory, mental illness, and cognitive neuroscience. Part Two explores neuro-images from a philosophical perspective, paying close attention to their ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic dimensions. Political and ethical aspects of the neuro-image are discussed in Part Three. Topics covered along the way include the omnipresence of surveillance, the blurring of the false and the real and the affTrade Review"Drawing on recent research in neurobiology and cognitive psychology as well as her own thinking about currently prevalent topics in cinema studies and film-philosophy, [Pisters] builds a case for the neuro-image that is usually persuasive and sometimes dazzling . . . I recommend The Neuro-Image to everyone interested in Deleuzian film theory . . . I commend her intellectual derring-do in expanding the Deleuzian dyad of movement-image and time-image with an innovative new meta-image paradigm. Its grounding in the particularities of twenty-first-century screen practice makes it a timely intervention, and I suspect that Deleuze would have welcomed it." -- David Sterritt * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"[A] magisterial work . . . Like all books worth reading, Pisters's work on the neuro-image raises more questions than it answers." -- Claire Colebrook * Deleuze Studies *"This outstanding work of scholarship makes a major contribution to the field of film studies and to the understanding of the work of Gilles Deleuze. The Neuro-Image extends Deleuze's questions and concerns by thinking through recent developments in film and moving-images culture and succeeds magnificently in mobilizing Deleuze's ideas in order to discover something new." -- Steven Shaviro * Wayne State University *
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Stanford University Press Between Philosophy and Literature
Book SynopsisThis book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences.Trade Review"A recurrent motif of the book, reflecting both Bakhtin's work and human experience in general, is the subject's need for a framing structure alongside the need to transcend those frames. The ethical subject pushes through the frame while understanding its deep dependence on that very frame - the individual acting at the limits of being even if those limits are impossible to fully cross. In her study, Erdinast-Vulcan has distilled the complexity of Bakhtin's thought while preserving its core of humanity - achieving that rare feat of a scholarly work that deals with questions that are pressing in human life." -- David Stromberg * Partial Answers: Journal of LIterature and the History of Ideas *"Erdinast-Vulcan provides an interpretation of Bakhtin's neglected early writings that effectively makes them available for the first time to a general audience. Her readings are critical, but they insightfully convey the essence of what Bakhtin was trying to do in his earliest phase. Her lucid exposition will result in a discovery of those writings as the important documents they are in the formation of new paths in linguistics, ethics, aesthetics—and even theology." —Michael Holquist, Yale University"By uncovering the layers of Bakhtin's understanding of the subject, Erdinast-Vulcan's offers an in-depth interpretation of his 'philosophizing under the mask' at a time when literary theory came under the threat of totalitarianism. She portrays his vision of the subject in the process of its formation, and by placing it in a broad historical context she discloses the range of his influence on modern philosophy and the humanities." -- Boris Gubman * European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms *"Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan's study avoids the standard lines of inquiry into the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. It aspires neither to provide a full exposition of his thought, nor to situate it in its cultural context or trace its intellectual genealogies. Drawing largely on sources that are less widely known—the early philosophical manuscripts and the suggestive notebooks—she provides instead a compelling account of Bakhtin's idiosyncratic place within the Western philosophical tradition, and in particular within the tradition of thinking about subjectivity and ethics....Bakhtin's work emerges as neither a curiosity from the past, fit for little more than intellectual-historical unpacking, nor a repository of helpful terms to be applied to our respective domains of study, but rather as our untimely contemporary, still grappling with the deadlock between a discredited foundationalism and an unsatisfying relativism....Lucid and beautifully written." -- Ilya Kliger * Comparative Literature *"Between Philosophy and Literature is profoundly interesting . . . [I]ts vision of a better way to live is genuinely persuasive . . . The chapters in which Bakhtin is compared to Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Lévinas are particularly well-achieved and show how the examination of a concrete, historically situated, and creative self became a sustained philosophical concern in the 20th century." -- Andre van Loon * Review 31 *
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Stanford University Press Between Philosophy and Literature
Book SynopsisThis book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences.Trade Review"A recurrent motif of the book, reflecting both Bakhtin's work and human experience in general, is the subject's need for a framing structure alongside the need to transcend those frames. The ethical subject pushes through the frame while understanding its deep dependence on that very frame - the individual acting at the limits of being even if those limits are impossible to fully cross. In her study, Erdinast-Vulcan has distilled the complexity of Bakhtin's thought while preserving its core of humanity - achieving that rare feat of a scholarly work that deals with questions that are pressing in human life." -- David Stromberg * Partial Answers: Journal of LIterature and the History of Ideas *"Erdinast-Vulcan provides an interpretation of Bakhtin's neglected early writings that effectively makes them available for the first time to a general audience. Her readings are critical, but they insightfully convey the essence of what Bakhtin was trying to do in his earliest phase. Her lucid exposition will result in a discovery of those writings as the important documents they are in the formation of new paths in linguistics, ethics, aesthetics—and even theology." —Michael Holquist, Yale University"By uncovering the layers of Bakhtin's understanding of the subject, Erdinast-Vulcan's offers an in-depth interpretation of his 'philosophizing under the mask' at a time when literary theory came under the threat of totalitarianism. She portrays his vision of the subject in the process of its formation, and by placing it in a broad historical context she discloses the range of his influence on modern philosophy and the humanities." -- Boris Gubman * European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms *"Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan's study avoids the standard lines of inquiry into the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. It aspires neither to provide a full exposition of his thought, nor to situate it in its cultural context or trace its intellectual genealogies. Drawing largely on sources that are less widely known—the early philosophical manuscripts and the suggestive notebooks—she provides instead a compelling account of Bakhtin's idiosyncratic place within the Western philosophical tradition, and in particular within the tradition of thinking about subjectivity and ethics....Bakhtin's work emerges as neither a curiosity from the past, fit for little more than intellectual-historical unpacking, nor a repository of helpful terms to be applied to our respective domains of study, but rather as our untimely contemporary, still grappling with the deadlock between a discredited foundationalism and an unsatisfying relativism....Lucid and beautifully written." -- Ilya Kliger * Comparative Literature *"Between Philosophy and Literature is profoundly interesting . . . [I]ts vision of a better way to live is genuinely persuasive . . . The chapters in which Bakhtin is compared to Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Lévinas are particularly well-achieved and show how the examination of a concrete, historically situated, and creative self became a sustained philosophical concern in the 20th century." -- Andre van Loon * Review 31 *
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Stanford University Press The Problem of Distraction
Book SynopsisRejecting the current conflation of distraction with diversion, this book presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin's early twentieth-century use of distraction to revolutionize the humanities.Trade Review"With his thorough treatment of various concepts of distraction through the centuries, North contributes to the understanding of the complex nature of human thoughtValuable for scholars of literature and philosophy." -- R. C. Conard * Choice *"This thoughtful, original, and timely study asks not only what distraction is, but also what would be involved in theorizing the interpretive framework through which an interrogation of distraction would first became thinkable. It will be significant to scholars in German Studies and European Critical Thought, as well as to those interested in the conditions and possibilities of repressed, abjected modes of thought more generally." -- Gerhard Richter * University of California, Davis *"North situates distraction as a fundamental question whose long history of being ignored is witness to the challenge it posed in a century, the twentieth, when distraction itself became more than a fact of experience: it became a fact of existence. This superb analysis of distraction and our lack of attention to it breaks significant new ground in our critical history." -- David Ferris * University of Colorado *
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Stanford University Press Spinoza Contra Phenomenology
Book SynopsisSpinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. This book recounts how a series of French philosophers used Spinoza to erect a bulwark against the nominally irrationalist tendencies of phenomenology. From its beginnings in the interwar years, this rationalism would prove foundational for Althusser''s rethinking of Marxism and Deleuze''s ambitious metaphysics. There has been a renewed enthusiasm for Spinozism of late by those who see his work as a kind of neo-vitalism or philosophy of life and affect. Peden counters this trend by tracking a decisive and neglected aspect of Spinoza''s philosophyhis rationalismin a body of thought too oftenTrade Review"It's rare to finish a book in the history of philosophy and say to oneself that it's indispensable for an adequate understanding of the period and the context that it deals with. But for those who have a serious interest in Spinoza's reception or even in the history of French philosophy in the twentieth century, Peden's book certainly belongs in this category." -- Mogens Lærke * Archives de Philosophie *"Knox Peden's Spinoza Contra Phenomenology is now the definitive statement on what it meant for some of French philosophy's most influential 20th century thinkers to begin, in Hegel's words, 'at the standpoint of Spinozism' . . . [I]t is an enviable work of scholarship, both massive in its intellectual scope and nuanced in its attention to detail. For those interested in 20th century French intellectual history, Spinoza Contra Phenomenology is sure to become essential reading." -- Steven Swarbrick * Theory & Event *"[I]t is exhilarating to think along with Peden. In Peden's hands, Spinozism becomes a powerful tool for critique: it is not the Spinoza of substance monism but of an 'essentially critical rationalism' that the author wields with finesse to ferret out unwarranted ontological claims, deflating arguments that would seek to derive a politics from Spinoza's metaphysics." -- Audrey Wasser * Critical Inquiry *"Peden provides a dramatic and compelling retelling of the intellectual history of postwar France. Instead of the familiar succession of existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism, Peden sees a set of variations of a fundamental struggle between two radically opposed ways of thinking." -- Edward Baring * Modern Intellectual History *"Peden's work is to be praised for drawing these philosophers to our attention, and for providing what will hopefully be a spur to further research. In addition, he provides interesting readings of more familiar figures which draw our attention to aspects of their work that have not previously received sufficient scholarly attention . . . Knox Peden has written a well-researched and well-argued book, which makes a meaningful contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century French philosophy. It is essential reading for those working in this area, as well as for any English-speaking philosophers whishing to purge themselves of unhelpful preconceptions they may well have inherited concerning philosophy in France in the twentieth century." -- David J. Allen * British Journal for the History of Philosophy *"Not only does [Spinoza Contra Phenomenlogy] contribute excellent biographical sketches of the less well known figures of Jean Cavaillès, Martial Gueroult, Ferdinand Alquié, and Jean-Toussaint Desanti; it effectively reveals the world that shaped them, and their effect on the conceptual universe of continental philosophy today . . . One cannot do justice here to Peden's rich discussion of Cavaillès' work on mathematics and set theory." -- Harrison Fluss * Radical Philosophy *"Peden offers an important book that seeks to challenge the dominant narrative that 20th-century French philosophy was in large part a series of responses to developments in post-Kantian German philosophy . . . [P]hilosophers and intellectual historians will find that this carefully researched book offers much to learn. An important acquisition for academic libraries building collections in 20th-century European philosophy . . . Summing Up: Highly Recommended." -- A. D. Schrift * CHOICE *"In this signal contribution to the study of European thought, Knox Peden shows that the importation of German phenomenology to France in the twentieth century was only part of the story. In appealing to Benedict Spinoza's version of rationalism, neglected figures whom this book restores to their centrality made conceptual moves of lasting importance, setting a context for the careers of Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze, with which Peden's absorbing reinterpretation culminates. Thanks to his sure grasp of the theoretical materials and ability to address them in lucid writing, Spinoza Contra Phenomenology redraws the map, not simply for the sake of having a better one, but because debates across the contemporary humanities need its orientation." -- Samuel Moyn * Columbia University *"The conventional understanding of twentieth-century French thought is just beginning to fracture, and we are now coming to appreciate the complexity and significance of intellectual trends that once-dominant schools—such as phenomenology and existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism—have too long obscured. In this brilliant new study, Knox Peden breaks free of received wisdom to cast a new light on the movement of French philosophical rationalism that borrowed both its energies and its name from the metaphysical writings of a seventeenth-century heretical Jew. Spinozism, as reimagined in France by heterodox intellectuals such as Althusser and Deleuze, was something more than a philosophy: it was a veritable ethos. With verve and sophistication, Peden maps this inheritance and guides us through the formidable debates that have not yet reached their end." -- Peter Eli Gordon * Harvard University *"Spinoza Contra Phenomenologyis a serious and important endeavor, and it is perhaps not for the faint of philosophical heart. But for those interested in either Spinozism or developments in twentieth-century French thought, the book should be necessary reading." -- Tracie Matysik * Journal of Modern History *
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Stanford University Press Sonic Intimacy
Book SynopsisArguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, this book explores different types of voices, both natural and artificial, in the name of helping us to decipher the complex cacophony of an increasingly imperiled planet.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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Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres The Visible and the Invisible Studies in
Book SynopsisContains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, and Sartrean method, followed by the extraordinary "The Intertwining - The Chiasm", that reveals the central pattern of Merleau-Ponty's own thought.
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Northwestern University Press The Crisis of European Sciences and
Book SynopsisEdmund Husserl's last great work is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and existentialism.
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Northwestern University Press La Nature
Book SynopsisCollected in this text are the written notes of courses on the concept of nature give by Merleau-Ponty at the College de France in the 1950s. The ideas that animated the philosopher's lectures emerge in an early, fluid form in the process of being elaborated, negotiated, critiqued and reconsidered.
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Northwestern University Press Bakhtin and the Classics Rethinking Theory
Book SynopsisMikhail Bakhtin's critical and theoretical experiments have inspired little work in the realm of classical studies. This text focuses on the relationship between Bakhtin and the study of classical antiquity and demonstrates the importance of classical literature in his work.
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Northwestern University Press The Human Place in the Cosmos Studies in
Book SynopsisA translation of Scheler's The Human Place in the Cosmos. It addresses two main questions: What is the human being? And what is the place of the human being in the universe? It also covers various levels of being: inorganic reality, organic reality (including plant life and psychological life), and the way up to practical intelligence.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Eugene Kelly; Translator's Note; The Human Place in the Cosmos,; Preface to the First Edition; The Human Place in the Cosmos; Translator's Glossary of Words of Intricate Meanings; Current Translations into English.
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Northwestern University Press The Retrieval of the Beautiful
Book SynopsisPresents the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. This book formulates that the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together, for Desire, Love, and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world's element, Flesh itself.
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Northwestern University Press The Unity of Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit A
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