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Book SynopsisIssues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his readers surefootedly through this thicket, informed both historically and at the level of contemporary discussion of relevant themes. His main aim is to develop a `bundle' or `set of properties' interpretation of Meinong's theory of nonexistent objects (as opposed to a set of properties neo-Meinongian metaphysics), and to defend this nonstandard interpretation against competing views in both the philosophical and scholarly literature on Meinong. The Meinong who emerges is neither the hero nor the villain his friends and foes have commonly led us to believe. This clearly written book is a valuable addition both to the literature on Meinong and to contemporary metaphysics of modality. It is written for students and professionals interested in these, and related, areas.Table of ContentsPreface. 1: Introductory Considerations. 1.1. The impasse. 1.2. What might the claim that there `are' nonexistent objects mean. 1.3. Methodological concerns. 2: Meinong's Theory of Objects. 2.1. The Independence and Indifference principles. 2.2. The Independence principle: initial reaction. 2.3. The Indifference principle: initial reaction. 2.4. Is there a third mode of being? 2.5. Meinong and his historical precursors. 3: The Nature of Meinong's Objects: Existent and Nonexistent. 3.1. Incomplete objects and the nature of existents. 3.2. Incomplete objects and the nature of nonexistents. 3.3. More on the particular-general and concrete-abstract distinctions. 4: Two Main Arguments for Nonexistents. 4.1. The argument from negative existentials. 4.2. The argument from intentionality. 5: Main Arguments against Nonexistents. 5.1. Definitions of object-possiblity and object-impossibility. 5.2. Theories of nonexistents are inconsistent or apt to infringe the law of non-contradiction. 5.3. Nonexistent aren't objects. 5.4. An existence objection. 5.5. There are no impossible worlds or individuals. Bibliography. List of Meinong's Writings Consulted. General Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe movement of German idealism culminates in the revelation of the re? ective boundaries of theoretical knowledge. The history of the most important intellectual developments thereafter could be described, following a recent remark of Jurgen Habermas, as a his- 1 tory of the de-transcendentalization of the cognizing subject. In this context, the epistemological interpretation proposed in this book must be speci? cally understood. Examining the problem of knowledge in the development of German idealism, it aims not at an epistem- ogy of the Cartesian type, and even less at a formal logical analysis of knowledge which lacks the re? ective element of the devices it employs as "the search for the immutable structures within which knowledge, 2 life, and culture must be contained. " These "structures" do not only condition the process of knowledge, they are themselves conditioned. There is thus an unsurpassable circle in this process, a circle which German idealism brings to the surface and profoundly scrutinizes. Therefore, the task is to re? ectively account for the historical horizons in which cognition arises (being ultimately thereupon dependent), instead of searching for an ultimate Archimedean point for its deduction. Rather than searching for inexplicably transc- dental concepts, this argument points to their determination from within a given Lebenswelt. It does not renounce but rather rede? nes 3 objectivity, by seeing the subject as a coming-to-know-itself totality. 1 J. Habermas, Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung. Philosophische Aufsatze (Frankfurt a. M. : Suhrkamp, 1999), p. 186.Trade ReviewPRAISE FOR THE BOOK FIRST REVIEWER This is a very important, well thought out, extremely well documented, useful, very intelligent account and analysis of the epistemological problem in German idealism in general. The German idealist approach to the problem of knowledge has increasingly attracted attention in recent years. This is the first effort at an overall account with detailed discussion of all the main figures. So far as I know, there is nothing comparable to this book available in any language. It is therefore a kind of instant classic, which will attract attention from those interested in this problem or in a widespread account of some main features of the entire range of figures in German idealism. Limnatis knows his materials very well. What he has to say is interesting and important. There is probably nothing comparable to Limnatis's work in the literature since Kroner, perhaps earlier. Someone like Cassirer would have been proud of this kind of book. In discussing German idealism in great detail, Limnatis calls us back to the origin of the problems that are now central in the contemporary discussion. SECOND REVIEWER ….philosophically first-rate, original, much needed, and scrupulous in a genuinely daring way in its attempt to work through, philosophically, the central innovation of the tradition that runs from Kant to Hegel (and beyond), including, in a sustained and continuous way, an analysis of the contribution and limitations assigned to Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel chiefly. Efforts of this kind are extraordinarily rare and even more rare when informed by a commanding grasp of the accumulating scholarship and applied to all four figures. It seems more than reasonable to believe that the subsequent discussion of the issues Limnatis raises will have to come to terms with his range of scholarship and innovativeness. …the overall impression….is one of unusual competence, breadth of reading, and dialectical skill (on the author's part), which justifies viewing his own contribution as a continuation of the classic discussion. That, I would say, is as grand a compliment as any contemporary author could hope for. …Very skilful indeed – and very difficult to equal… ….a signal contribution to the literature.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. 1. Epistemology or Metaphysics? The Kantian Background.1.1 Scientific Metaphysics? 1.2. Transcendentalism versus Realism? 1.3. The Ontological Facet: the Transcendental Self and the Thing-in-itself 1.4. From the Ontological to the Logical. Understanding, Reason and Totality 1.5. The Logical Facet: Kant’s Relation to Formal Logic and the Problem of Contradiction 2. From Epistemology to Metaphysics: Fichte and Schelling2.1. Fichte: The Thing-in-itself and the Dialectical Leap 2.2. Schelling: Epistemology and the Resurrection of Metaphysics 3. From Metaphysics to Epistemology I: From the Phenomenology to the Logic or Hegel’s Claim for Absolute Knowing and its Meaning3.1. Idealism, Reason and Contradiction in the Early Hegel 3.2. Hegel’ Phenomenology. The Coming to be of the Self and the Question of Intersubjectivity 3.3. The Transition to Self-Consciousness and Idealism 4. From Metaphysics to Epistemology II: Logic and Reality4.1. The Idea of an Epistemological Reading of the Science of Logic 4.2. Toward an Epistemological Totality. CONCLUSION. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisSetting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber’s writings on ‘the rise of modern capitalism’. Notably it subjects Weber’s argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber’s discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber’s RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the “little dragons” of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the “big dragons” of Japan and the People’s Republic of China.Trade Review“The book is an interesting and reliable contribution to the discourses on contemporary Chinese sociology of religion; as a result, it is warmly recommended to all specialists in the field and to the general reader of Chinese culture, as well.” (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 45 (2), June, 2019)“Max Weber's fascination with China has been well documented … . It is a must read for both Weber scholars and China specialists, and will be of great interest to comparative-historical sociologists. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students/faculty.” (J. Li, Choice, Vol. 55 (9), May, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- China in Germany.- Confucianism.- Daoism.- Self-interest.- Magic.- Capitalism.

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Book SynopsisThis book uniquely recovers and assesses Stoic political thought by tracking its uptake into Western modernity and exploring the extent of its impact. Classical Stoicism has lately seen a popular resurgence inspiring self-help books and therapeutic treatments for anxiety and depression. As a scholarly source for the Western political tradition, it is even more important. Yet, as A.A. Long once observed: “[o]f all the ancient philosophies, Stoicism has probably had the most diffused” yet least “adequately acknowledged influence on Western thought.” This close textual study not only provides the first systematic study of the political content of Stoic thought but also establishes the hitherto under-appreciated influence of classical Stoicism on the political thought of the long eighteenth century and beyond in Europe and particularly Britain. The Stoic ideas upon which we focus include their cosmopolitanism, their contribution to sociability and self-interest debates, their influence on modern feminism and utilitarianism, and their prefiguration of modern conceptions of personal rights.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Stoic Political Thought and its Relevance for the Early-Modern PeriodChapter 2: Eighteenth Century Sociability Debates: Stoicism and the Battle with Modern EpicureanismChapter 3: Stoic Cosmopolitanism and Enlightenment InternationalismChapter 4: Stoicism and Utilitarian ThoughtChapter 5: Stoicism, Proto-rights, Self-ownership and John LockeChapter 6: Stoic Feminism and Early Modern Women Writers.Chapter 7: Conclusion.Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNietzsche''s The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deeply personal book, yet also an important work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a philosophical autobiography, a record of his own self-transformation. In beautifully composed aphorisms he communicates his central experience of overcoming pessimism and recovering the capacity to affirm joyfully the tragedy of life. On the basis of his experiments in living, Nietzsche articulates his most famous philosophical concepts and images: the death of God, the exercise of eternal recurrence, and the ideal of self-fashioning. This book explains the ancient and modern philosophical contexts that shape Nietzsche''s central concern with the affirmation of life. It surveys Nietzsche''s philosophy as a whole, explains the pivotal place of The Gay Science as the source of his ideal of tragic joy, and shows how he revives an ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life and the philosopher as physician.Trade Review'Michael Ure's new book is a timely and assured contribution to Nietzsche scholarship. It makes a persuasive case for The Gay Science to be recognised as a key philosophical text, which revives an ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life and the philosopher as physician. Ure writes very well, and the whole makes for a very rich interpretation.' Duncan Large, University of East Anglia'Ure's crisp writing is both penetrating and remarkably clear, making the book suitable for an introductory commentary (now this reviewer's top choice) as well as a worthy scholarly read for all ranges of readers of Nietzsche … Highly recommended.' D. P. Prianti, Choice'Michael Ure's introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche's The Gay Science is a welcome contribution to the secondary literature. He provides a clear and coherent account of this complex text and situates his interpretation within Nietzsche's larger oeuvre and philosophical project. Ure advances an original thesis - GS is Nietzsche's attempt to revive an ancient understanding of philosophy as a way of life - that will be of interest to scholars more generally, and yet he still succeeds in introducing the text to the novice reader … the best introduction to GS currently available in the English language.' Journal of Nietzsche Studies'[Michael Ure's] readings of individual aphorisms, especially when they concern aesthetics and the influence of Schopenhauer and Wagner on Nietzsche, are often lucid and penetrating. The book will serve as a fine introductory guide to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and is an interesting contribution in its own right to the scholarly work on The Gay Science.' Journal of the History of Philosophy'The interpretations proposed are original and convincing, well supported, and the book overall undoubtedly provides the reader with a better, more subtle and grounded, understanding of Gay Science.' Stéphanie Martens, Focault StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Nietzsche's tragicomedy; 2. Nietzsche's new nobility: book one; 3. Redeeming art: book two; 4. Shadows of God: book three; 5. Sanctus Januarius: book four; 6. Eternal recurrence: personal infinity; 7. Dionysian pessimism: book five; 8. Nietzsche's Saturnalia: 1886 preface.

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Book SynopsisRobert Boyle, one of the most important intellectuals of the seventeenth century, was a gifted experimenter, an exceptionally able philosopher, and a dedicated Christian. In Boyle’s two Excellencies, The Excellency of Theology Compared with Natural Philosophy and About The Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis, he explains and justifies his new philosophy of science while reconciling it with Christian theology. These pioneering works of early science and theology are now available in a modernized and accessible new edition.This Broadview edition brings spelling and punctuation into line with current conventions and includes notes and references to set the works in their historical and philosophical context. The appendices include works by Boyle’s predecessors in the philosophy of science, other philosophical writings by Boyle, and an appendix of the other figures mentioned in the texts.Trade Review“To the Excellencies of Boyle published here we can add a third—the excellence of J.J. MacIntosh’s more-than-welcome edition that will make these important works accessible to an unprecedented degree. The edition animates the texts in the way that Boyle’s contemporary Richard Baxter thought that ‘his philosophy was the life of his theology (and conversely).’ The introduction, annotations, and appendices alone will be of great value to all those interested not only in Boyle, but also in any of the intellectual figures of the period.” — Thomas Lennon, University of Western Ontario“In his edition, J.J. MacIntosh offers a modernized text of Boyle’s Excellencies, together with a lengthy introduction comprising a discursive biographical account of Boyle, a synopsis of his argument, and an account of the thinkers who influenced him. MacIntosh provides helpful extra headings indicating the content of the different components of the main treatise, and elucidatory footnotes that sometimes give analogous passages from other writings by Boyle and others. At the end appear a series of appendices, notably one giving biographical notes on people mentioned in the text. In all, this edition should do much to make Boyle accessible to a wider audience.” — Michael Hunter, Birkbeck, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Robert Boyle: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text: Conventions, Terminology, TranscriptionsThe Excellency of Theology, Compared with Natural Philosophy The Publisher’s Advertisement to the Reader The Author’s Preface The Introduction The First Part: The Positive Reasons for Studying Theology The First Section: The Nobility of Theology’s Object The Second Section: Our Obligation to Study Theology The Third Section: The Advantages Accruing from a Study of Theology The Second Part: A Comparison of the Advantages of Natural Philosophy and Theology The First Section: The Delights and Drawbacks of Natural Philosophy The Second Section: The Practical Goods Resulting from Natural Philosophy and from Theology The Third Section: The Supposed Certainty and Clearness of Physics as Opposed to the Darkness and Uncertainty of Theological Matters The Fourth Section: The Natural Philosopher’s Unjustified Pride of Achievement The Fifth Section: The Value of the Fame that Scientific Attainments Bring The Conclusion About The Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical HypothesisThe Publisher’s AdvertisementAppendix A: People Mentioned in the Text Appendix B: Boyle’s “Corpuscularianism”Appendix C: Aristotle’s Arguments against the Void Appendix D: The Requisites of a Good Hypothesis Appendix E: Boyle on Fame Appendix F: Future Contingents Appendix G: Moral Demonstrations: Boyle, Smith, and “A Person of Honour”Appendix H: Jonathan Swift’s “Broomstick” and Boyle’s Occasional ReflectionsAppendix I: Coke, Boyle, and Edwards on Testimony Appendix J: A Review of the Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis (May 1674) Appendix K: John Evelyn to Boyle (20 June 1774)Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWittgenstein and the Practice of Philosophy introduces Wittgenstein’s philosophy to senior undergraduates and graduate students. Its pedagogical premise is that the best way to understand Wittgenstein’s thought is to take seriously his methodological remarks. Its interpretive premise is that those methodological remarks are the natural result of Wittgenstein’s rejection of his early view of the ground of value, including semantic value or meaning, as something that must lie “outside the world.”This metaphysical view of meaning is replaced in his transitional writings with a kind of conventionalism, according to which meaning is made possible by the existence of grammatical conventions that are implicit in our linguistic practices. The implicit nature of these conventions makes us vulnerable to a special kind of confusion that results from lacking a clear view of the norms that underlie our linguistic practices. This special confusion is characteristic of philosophical problems, and the task of philosophy is the therapeutic one of alleviating confusion by helping us to see our grammatical norms clearly.This development of this therapeutic view of philosophy is traced from Wittgenstein’s early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus through his transitional writings and lectures to his great masterwork, Philosophical Investigations, and his final reflections on knowledge and scepticism in On Certainty. Wittgenstein’s discussions of naming, family resemblances, rule-following and private language in Philosophical Investigations are all examined as instances of this sort of method, as is his discussion of knowledge in On Certainty. The book concludes by considering some objections to the viability of Wittgenstein’s method and speculating on how it might be extended to a discussion of moral value to which Wittgenstein never explicitly returns.Trade ReviewA wide-ranging and extraordinarily clear introduction to Wittgenstein's treatment of central philosophical problems about the nature of science, logic, language, and knowledge, the relationship between his earlier and his later philosophy, and his therapeutic conception of philosophical method." – David Stern, University of Iowa"This book is a clear and sensible introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy, which, rightly, gives pride of place to his extraordinary conception of the subject: his striving for conceptual clarity instead of new philosophical theories. At a time when uncritical emulation of scientific methodology is common in philosophy, this accessible presentation of Wittgenstein's unorthodox methodological views should be particularly salutary and useful to students." – Severin Schroeder, University of ReadingTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionCHAPTER 1 PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE A Foundation for the Sciences The Queen of the Sciences Philosophy as an Under-labourer to the Sciences Locke, the Under-labourer Philosophy as Logic: Russell Philosophy as Logic: The Vienna Circle Quine’s Naturalism CHAPTER 2 PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE IN THE TRACTATUS The Tractatus Facts and Propositions Analysis and Extensionality Logical Pictures Silence The Transcendental Saying and Showing Philosophy as an Activity Russell and Wittgenstein CHAPTER 3 AFTER THE TRACTATUS Certainty in a Time of Doubt The Demise of Logical Atomism Verification for a While Whistling in the Dark? Implicit Conventions The Synopsis of Trivialities Tidying Up Lost in the City Against Explanation Illusion, Weakness, Illness, Therapy Farewell to Philosophy? CHAPTER 4 LANGUAGE WITHOUT ESSENCE Language-games Learning Names Analysis and Bearerless Names Proper Names Meaning and Use From Necessary Objects to Contingent Conventions The Multiplicity of Language-games The Problem of Universals Beyond Realism and Nominalism The Family of Numbers The Voices of the Investigations CHAPTER 5 RULES AND PRIVATE LANGUAGE Kripke’s Problem Kripke’s “Sceptical Solution” Contra Kripke Kripke on Private Language Some Arguments against Private Language A Refutation of the Possibility of Private Language? “Robinson Crusoe” Expressivism Other Minds CHAPTER 6 SCEPTICISM, KNOWLEDGE, AND JUSTIFICATION Moorean Propositions and Sceptical Doubts Definitive Refutation? Reminders and Diagnoses ‘I Know’ Doubt Requires Certainty Contextualism The Riverbed of Thought The Hard Rock of the Riverbed Back to the Tractatus? CHAPTER 7 OBJECTIONS AND EXTRAPOLATIONS Farewell to Philosophy? Ordinary Language Philosophy Quietism and Pessimism Conservatism How General Is Wittgenstein’s Method? Wittgenstein’s Silence about Ethics Ethical Concepts and Family Resemblances Wittgenstein and Quine BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis study spans, in a single monograph, the entire life and work of the Russian philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938). It offers keys to understanding his thought, while also tracing the historical itinerary of his work. Shestov's thought is not only interesting in itself, as a "philosophy fighting against philosophy," but also because it reveals an entire world of cultural connections in its extraordinarily keen exploration of other "souls." The reader will find in Shestov some of the sharpest analyses of authors such as Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Tolstoi, Dostoevskii, Luther, Plotinus, Pascal, Kierkegaard and many others. This study will better determine the controversial and fascinating philosopher's place in the history of Russian and Western thought.Trade Review“Oppo’s study is impressively comprehensive…Students of Shestov will appreciate the meticulousness of Oppo’s research, which is reflected in an excellent bibliography that is in itself a reason to invest in this book.”— Ruth Coates, Slavic ReviewTable of Contents Acknowledgments Editorial Notes Introduction Part One: Shestov in Russia Chapter I: The Philosophy of Tragedy (1898-1905) 1.1 Introduction: The Birth of a Tragic Conscience 1.2 Shestov before Shestov: Shakespeare and Pushkin 1.3 Tolstoi's Struggle between "Yasnaya Polyana" and "Astapovo" 1.4 Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth against Morality 1.5 Dostoevskii and Nietzsche as "Philosophers of the Underground" 1.6 Apotheosis of "Bespochvennost'": Towards a Philosophy of Tragedy Chapter II: Art as Negativity-The Literary Criticism Years (1901-1910) 2.1 Introduction: Shestov and the Philosophical Problem of Art 2.2 Aestheticism and Ideology: On Merezhkovskii and Turgenev 2.3 Creatio ex Nihilo: Chekhov's Aesthetics 2.4 The "Oracular" Gratuity of Sologub's Prose and Poetry 2.5 Ibsen and the Destiny of Art 2.6 Retracting Tragedy: Dostoevskii as an Essayist 2.7 The "Magnificent" Vyacheslav Ivanov Part Two: Shestov in France Chapter III: Wandering Through the Souls (1914-1929) 3.1 Introduction: The Events of History-Shestov's Political Views 3.2 The Power of Keys: Faith and Church in Martin Luther 3.3 The Two Histories of Western Philosophy 3.4 The Fight against Self-Evidences: Dostoevskii, Pascal, and Spinoza 3.5 Philosophy's Revolt against Itself: Plotinus's Ecstasies 3.6 Audacities and Submissions: Shestov's Intellectual World 3.7 Shestov and the Russian Philosophers Chapter IV: Athens and Jerusalem-The Logic and the Thunder (1930-1938) 4.1 Introduction: Shestov as a "Jewish Philosopher" 4.2 The Bible and the Original Sin: In Dialogue with Martin Buber 4.3 The Last Encounter: Kierkegaard 4.4 Étienne Gilson and the Spirit of Medieval Philosophy 4.5 Philosophers in Chains: At the Sources of Metaphysics Conclusion 1. Reception and Legacy of Shestov's Philosophy 2. The Question of Irrationalism and of "Antiphilosophy" 3. The (Neo-)Platonic Paradigm: Shestov's "Third Sailing" 4. Afterword: Reading between the Lines Appendices 1. Shestov and Husserl 2. Shestov and Berdyaev 3. Shestov and Fondane Bibliography and Works Cited 1. Shestov's Works A.1 Books A.2 Articles and Correspondence 2. Selected Studies on Shestov B.1 Biographies, Memoirs, Specific Journals, and Bibliographies B.2 Books on Shestov B.3 Articles and Book Chapters on Shestov 3. Further References Index

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Book SynopsisVoltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged alphabetically, than a conventional dictionary - considers such diverse subjects as Abraham and Atheism, Faith and Freedom of Thought, Miracles and Moses. Repeatedly condemned by civil and religious authorities, Voltaire's work argues passionately for the cause of reason and justice, and criticizes Christian theology and contemporary attitudes towards war and society - and claims, as he regards the world around him: 'common sense is not so common'.

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Book SynopsisSlavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era.No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the ''wired brain'' what happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a digital machine emerges. Žižek explores the phenomenon of a wired brain effect, and what might happen when we can share our thoughts directly with others. He hones in on the key question of how it shapes our experience and status as ''free'' individuals and asks what it means to be human when a machine can read our minds.With characteristic verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, Žižek connects Hegel to the world we live in now, shows why he is much more fun than anyone gives him credit for, and why the 21st century might just be Hegelian.Trade ReviewHegel in a Wired Brain, mixes perspicacity and paradox in brain-teasing ways that have become his signature style but there is novelty too in this punchy addition to his oeuvre. * PopMatters *With characteristic verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, the author connects Hegel with the world we live in now, shows why he's so much funnier than what has been believed until now, and why the 21st century can be precisely Hegelian. * Diálogo Filosófico (Bloomsbury Translation) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Un jour, peut-être, le siècle sera hégélien” 1. The Digital Police State: Fichte’s Revenge on Hegel 2. The Idea of a Wired Brain and its Limitation 3. The Impasse of Soviet Tech-Gnosis 4. Singularity: the Gnostic Turn 5. The Fall that Makes Us Like God 6. Reflexivity of the Unconscious 7. A Literary Fantasy: the Unnamable Subject of Singularity A Treatise on Digital Apocalypse Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsKey to the citations of Nietzsche's works1. Introduction2. Nietzsche's life3. The Greeks4. Truth5. History6. Morality7. The death of God8. Thus Spoke ZarathustraEditor's AfterwordIndex

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Book SynopsisRicoeur on Time and Narrative strikes just the right balance by providing a succinct and substantive presentation of Ricoeur’s argument in Time and Narrative.Trade Review"The scholarship in William C. Dowling's Ricoeur on Time and Narrative is impeccable; Dowling knows Ricoeur inside out. He highlights Ricoeur's most important arguments, presents them in a limpid, concise language, and links them to the relevant nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical developments. Dowling's book provides us with a lucid, intelligible version of Ricoeur's major work, one that will be of considerable significance to philosophers, historians, and literary theorists." —Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of French Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago"William C. Dowling's Ricoeur on Time and Narrative is a subtle and remarkably well-sustained piece of work. It provides a detailed introduction to a major work of philosophy and narrative theory—already a considerable achievement, given the difficulty of Ricoeur's text. However, Dowling also shows us, sometimes explicitly, sometimes simply through the way he conducts his argument, why we should bother with Ricoeur—what we have to gain from knowing him better than we do, however well we may think we know him." —Michael Wood, Princeton University“This subtle and remarkably well-sustained piece of work provides a detailed introduction to a major work of philosophy and narrative theory.” —Michael Wood, Princeton University“Ricoeur on Time and Narrative strikes just the right balance by providing a succinct and substantive presentation of Ricoeur’s argument in Time and Narrative. . . . Teachers of Ricoeur’s work will appreciate Dowling’s ability to contextualize Ricoeur’s engagement with a wide range of his contemporaries, while scholars are likely to turn to it as a valuable reference point for their own engagements with specific issues in Ricoeur studies.” —Philosophy in Review

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Book SynopsisPhilosophers—professionals and the armchair variety—are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time, dispenses with this ambition for intellectual unity. Ranging across the history of art and ideas, Geuss argues for flexibility, doubt, and the accommodation of unresolved complexity.Trade ReviewMany of the joys of Who Needs a World View? lie not only in the encouragement Geuss offers to see through the need for a worldview but also in his pithy and enlightening insights into the works of the philosophers, artists, and writers he discusses. -- Georgia Warnke, Director, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, RiversideRaymond Geuss has undertaken in recent years to resuscitate the genre of the classical philosophical essay, and he has by now made himself an absolute master of it. This is abundantly evident in his new collection of essays, which takes us on a vertiginous and often exhilarating journey that easily passes from Homer to the present in pursuit of his leading question, ‘Who needs a world view?’ -- Hans Sluga, University of California, BerkeleyWho Needs a World View? is a brilliant collection of essays that richly yet deftly challenges a broad range of pieties and settled assumptions on how we are supposed to understand our lives and our circumstances. Raymond Geuss shares with us the philosophical motivations behind his approach to those questions, with absorbing accounts of the two teachers who deeply impressed his thinking. This is a book of unfailingly resonant, sometimes poignant, and characteristically timely interventions. -- Brian O’Connor, Professor of Philosophy, University College DublinGeuss wants to replace collective creeds and manifestos, which tend to be dogmatic and encompassing, with personal confessions…These essays glitter with insights…Makes a compelling case, by argument and example, that one can live well without adopting any view of one’s life as a whole, let alone a systematic worldview. -- Kieran Setiya * Los Angeles Review of Books *Geuss’s startling scholarly range, from ancient Greek and biblical history to Brexit and Donald Trump, and his command of languages (French, German, Latin, Greek) and knowledge of figures both philosophical (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche) and artistic (Bruegel, Tristan Tzara, Paul Klee, Antonin Artaud) are on full display here, alongside his usual acuity and wit. -- Hugo Drochon * Times Literary Supplement *Probing and playful essays. -- Graham Ambrose * Chicago Review of Books *Some of his most personal [essays] and they have a perceptive depth to them where each feels like a glimpse at life in its most spontaneous, creative, unruly, and ultimately, unknowable aspects, and the implications these have for how we orientate ourselves in the world. -- Alex Tebble * Marx and Philosophy *Geuss [is] among the most renowned philosophical essayists alive today…In one way or another, all of [his] work sets out to puncture the pretensions of contemporary Anglophone philosophical thinking…Who Needs a World View? is perhaps Geuss’s most personal and existential book yet…This collection of essays confirms Geuss’s status as a subtle, perceptive, and deep thinker with estimable gifts and an enviable range. -- Edward Hall * Society *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A profoundly insightful and indeed magisterial new book. . . . [The Two Greatest Ideas] is a wild and informative ride through the centuries and up to what may intellectually come next in the human adventure. It was a marvel of an experience."---Tom V. Morris, Plato's Lemonade Stand: Stirring Change into Something Great"Zagzebski offers a fascinating meta-level view of these two foundational ideas, taking readers on a journey that includes the many connections between cultural developments, not least the current politically polarized situation in the US. The book is well written and should be accessible to intelligent lay readers." * Choice *"A brilliant, panoramic and original contribution to the history of ideas, providing a new framework that sheds light on many of our current social and political tensions."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"[A]n ambitious essay in intellectual history. . . . [Zagzebski] has written a highly original study of what it is that makes the modern world modern."---John Crosby, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisDe-centering the human, the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewed intimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamic environmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.Trade Review"The mixture here is rich, exhilarat- ing, and while the processes of creating this collection were evidently equally so for the contributors, and while the result is illuminating and at times almost heady for the reader, it behoves us to bear in mind the toxic within such intoxication and seek a little grit amongst the mud."—Green LettersTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Eleven Principles of the ElementsJeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert1. Pyromena: Fire’s DoingAnne Harris2. PhlogistonSteve Mentz3. Airy SomethingValerie Allen4. The Sea AboveJeffrey Jerome Cohen5. Muddy ThinkingSharon O'Dair6. The Quintessence of WitChris Barrett7. Wet?Julian Yates8. Creeping Things: Spontaneous Generation and Material CreativityKarl Steel9. Earth’s ProspectsLowell DuckertLove and Strife: Response EssaysElementalityTimothy MortonElemental Relations at the EdgeCary WolfeElemental Love in the AnthropoceneStacy AlaimoCoda: Wandering Elements and Natures to ComeSerpil Oppermann and Serenella IovinoAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics—of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of the story of Moses, from Michelangelo to Spinoza to Freud to Schoenberg to Derrida, have seized on the story's ambivalences, its critical and self-critical power. These literal returns form the first level of the afterlife of Moses. They spin a persistent critical and self-critical thread of European and transatlantic art and argument. And they enable the second strand of Steinberg's argument, namely the depersonalization of the Moses and Exodus story, its evolving abstraction and modulation into a varied modern history of political beginnings. Beginnings, as distinct from origins, are human and historical, writes Steinberg. Political constitutions, as a form of beginning, imply the eventuality of their own renewals and their own reconstitutions. Motivated in part by recent reactionary insurgencies in the US, Europe, and Israel, this astute work of intellectual history posits the critique of myths of origin as a key principle of democratic government, affect, and citizenship, of their endurance as well as their fragility. Trade Review"Personal in this book in all the right ways, Michael Steinberg reaches the human and universal by turning over the German-Jewish past and connecting it to contemporary politics."—Samuel Moyn, Yale University"Steinberg's application of Said's distinction between 'origins' and 'beginnings' to the Moses myth of political founding is a tour de force powerful enough to force a rethinking much beyond Freud or Assmann."—Omri Boehm, The New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction 1. Moses and Modernism 2. Under Lincoln's Eyes 3. Hannah Arendt Crosses the Atlantic 4. Yaron Ezrahi: Democracy and the Post-Epic Nation

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Book SynopsisWhat is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of what 'critique' is in the first place. Roy Ben-Shai inspects critique as an orientation of critical thinking, probing its structures and assumptions, its limits and its risks, its history and its possibilities. The book is a journey through a landscape of ideas, images, and texts from diverse sources—theological, psychological, etymological, and artistic, but mainly across the history of philosophy, from Plato and Saint Augustine, through Kant and Hegel, Marx and Heidegger, up to contemporary critical theory. Along the way, Ben-Shai invites the reader to examine their own orientation of thought, even at the moment of reading the book; to question popular discourse; and to revisit the philosophical canon, revealing affinities among often antagonistic traditions, such as Catholicism and Marxism. Most importantly, Critique of Critique sets the ground for an examination of alternative orientations of critical thinking, other ways of inhabiting and grasping the world.Trade Review"Ben-Shai exposes the rhizomatic orientations of critique, its multiple topologies, chronologies, positionalities, perversions and betrayals. A masterful analysis of where we are and what we are doing when we engage in critique."—Peg Birmingham, DePaul University"This is one hell of a book—a decisive intervention in the inheritance of the critical theory tradition. Political philosophers and political theorists will want to read this, as will everyone concerned with criticism in film and the arts today."—Anne O'Byrne, Stony Brook University"What does it mean to orient ourselves critically rather than in some other way? In answering this question Ben-Shai brilliantly shows how to critically circumscribe the limits of critique."—Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University Chicago"Ben-Shai orients, in a remarkable way, the critical theory that emerged in particular from Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno'sDialectic of Enlightenment(1944).... Valuable for those interested in social philosophy and critical theory. Highly recommended."—J. C. Swindal, CHOICE"If critique is the act of pointing, Ben-Shai points both at the hand of the finger that is pointing and its environment. The book aims to bring the structural premises and essential features of critique into view to limit its scope, which Ben-Shai fears has become relentlessly repetitious and blind to its own repetitions."—O. L. Silverman, Theory & EventTable of ContentsIntroduction: Critique as Orientation Overture 1. Chapter 1: Critique of the Spectacle or the Spectacle of Critique 2. Chapter 2: Critique of Power or the Power of Critique 3. Chapter 3: Critique of Injustice or the Injustice of Critique 4. Chapter 4: Critique of External Authority or the External Authority of Critique 5. Chapter 5: Moral Ontologies of Critique 6. Chapter 6: Political Ontologies of Critique 7. Chapter 7: Topologies of Critique 8. Chapter 8: Chronologies of Critique Conclusion: Critique and Its Betrayals.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970–71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an exclusive new interview with GIP member Hélène Cixous and writings by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. These archival documents—public announcements, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, interventions, press conference statements, interviews, and round table discussions—trace the GIP’s establishment in post-1968 political turmoil, the new models of social activism it pioneered, the prison revolts it supported across France, and the retrospective assessments that followed its denouement. At the same time, Intolerable offers a rich, concrete exploration of Foucault’s concept of resistance, providing a new understanding of the arc of his intellectual development and the genesis of his most influential book, Discipline and Punish.Presenting the account of France’s most vibrant prison resistance movement in its own words and on its own terms, this significant and relevant collection also connects the approach and activities of the GIP to radical prison resistance movements today.Trade Review"The Prisons Information Group was a crucial part of Foucault’s political trajectory, but it was an intensely collaborative project between intellectuals, prisoners, and their families. Expertly translated and introduced, this is the definitive collection of the group’s writings. Although the focus is France, the texts also illuminate other European countries, while the Algerian war opens up questions of colonialism, and the group’s links to the Black Panthers make it important for an understanding of the politics of race. A significant book that is both long overdue and a timely intervention in contemporary debates about police and prison abolition and reform."—Stuart Elden, author of The Early Foucault"Intolerable contributes to incarceration studies by highlighting the contributions (and pointing to the contradictions) of the Prisons Information Group (GIP). By emphasizing the activism of the GIP, it demonstrates how the author and theorist as an academic activist was influenced by the militancy of political actors and revolutionaries who took great risks, especially as incarcerated intellectuals and rebels, to challenge repression structured by racial/colonial capitalism and captivity."—Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader"Though ‘resistance’ in the Trump Era became more of a brand than a battle plan, it is not hard to see the relevance of the Prisons Information Group to the current movement for prison reform and abolition: lessons of past resistance are always important to the future."—Literary Hub

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Book SynopsisIn Ennead I.5, Plotinus responds to popular theories on human flourishing, and insists emphatically that well-being belongs to the present moment. Layne analyzes Plotinus' unique conception of the present moment by highlighting his dialogue with Aristotle and Hellenistic conceptions of the soul, pleasure and pain, time and eternity, etc.

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Book SynopsisThis translation of The Science of Logic (also known as 'Greater Logic') includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813) and Book III (1816). Recent research has given us a detailed picture of the process that led Hegel to his final conception of the System and of the place of the Logic within it. We now understand how and why Hegel distanced himself from Schelling, how radical this break with his early mentor was, and to what extent it entailed a return (but with a difference) to Fichte and Kant. In the introduction to the volume, George Di Giovanni presents in synoptic form the results of recent scholarship on the subject, and, while recognizing the fault lines in Hegel's System that allow opposite interpretations, argues that the Logic marks the end of classical metaphysics. The translation is accompanied by a full apparatus of historical and explanatory notes.Trade Review"...The Science of Logic is a very provocative and interesting book, inspiring thinking in directions not thought before." --George Lăzăroiu, PhD, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, New York, Analysis and MetaphysicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Notes on the translation; The Science of Logic: Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Book I. The doctrine of being; Book II. Essence; Book III. The doctrine of the concept; Appendix. Hegel's logic in its revised and unrevised parts; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisUniting 30 years of scholarship, this book is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. It reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly and the ultimately partisan character of his project.

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Book SynopsisThis original critique of Wittgenstein's analogy between language and games, written by one of the philosopher's literary executors and closest friends, has now been updated to include two additional articles. Updated edition of this original critique of Wittgenstein's analogy between language and games. Rush Rhees was one of Wittgenstein's literary executors and closest friends, as well as being an outstanding philosopher in his own right. D.Z. Phillips was Director of the Rush Rhees Archive and the Associated Centre for Wittgensteinian Studies. Constitutes a major contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship and to philosophical debates about the possibility of discourse. The second edition includes as a preface Rhees' article, The Fundamental Problems of Philosophy', first published in 1994. It also includes as a second appendix some of Rhees' reflections of Wittgenstein, his teTable of ContentsNote to the second edition vii Preface: The Fundamental Problem of Philosophy viii Note in editing xxi Introduction xxv Analytic table of contents xlv Part One Philosophy and Language I Plato, language and the growth of understanding 3 II “What is language 21 III The reality of language 33 Part Two Games and Language IV Discussion and discourse 65 V Games, calculations, discussions and conversations 81 Part Three Beyond Wittgenstein’s Builders VI Signals and saying something 97 VII Language: a family of games? 116 VIII Understanding what is said 130 IX Wittgenstein’s builders – recapitulation 151 Part Four Belonging to Language X Conversation and institutions 173 XI Language and generality 181 XII Language, speaking and common intelligibility 210 XIII Philosophy, life and language 243 Appendix: On Wittgenstein 257 Rush Rhees: a biographical sketch 266 Index 276

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Book Synopsis How might an oceanic Gramsci speak to Black aquafuturism and other forms of oceanic critique? This succinct work reads Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the sea, focused in his prison notes on waves of imperial power in the inter-war oceans of his time. Sharad Chari argues that the imprisoned militant’s method is oceanic in form, and that this oceanic Marxism can attend to the roil of sociocultural dynamics, to waves of imperial power, as well as to the capacity of Black, Drexciyan, and other forms of oceanic critique to “storm” us on different shores.

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Book SynopsisFriedrich Nietzsche''s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale in Penguin Classics. Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche''s utterance ''God is dead'', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in

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Book SynopsisThe author, a leading feminist and psychoanalyst, holds an imaginary dialogue with Nietzsche designed to interrogate the philosopher on his views of the feminine. She links their dialogue with a pre-Socratic examination of the elements.

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Book Synopsis''it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings''Mill''s four essays, ''On Liberty'', ''Utilitarianism'', ''Considerations on Representative Government'', and ''The Subjection of Women'' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes - whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first. They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the late nineteenth century, tackling as they do the appropriate grounds for protecting individual liberty, the basic principles of ethics, the benefits and the costs of representative institutions, and the central importance of gender equality in society.These essays are central to the liberal tradition, but their interpretation and how we should understand their connection with each other are both contentious. In their introduction Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen set the essays in the context of Mill''s other works, and argue that his conTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION; NOTE ON THE TEXT; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; A CHRONOLOGY OF JOHN STUART MILL; ON LIBERTY; UTILITARIANISM; CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT; THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN; EXPLANATORY NOTES; INDEX

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Book Synopsis“The most exciting intellectual adventure I''ve been on since reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.”—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York TimesGary Zukav’s timeless, humorous, New York Times bestselling masterpiece, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, is arguably the most widely acclaimed introduction to quantum physics ever written. Scientific American raves: “Zukav is such a skilled expositor, with such an amiable style, that it is hard to imagine a layman who would not find his book enjoyable and informative.” Accessible, edifying, and endlessly entertaining, The Dancing Wu Li Masters is back in a beautiful new edition—and the doors to the fascinating, dazzling, remarkable world of quantum physics are opened to all once again, no previous mathematical or technical expertise required.

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Book SynopsisMudimbe addresses the multiple scholarly discourses that exist-African and non-African-concerning the meaning of Africa and being African.

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Book Synopsis“By far the most profound thinker of the 19th century” — Ludwig WittgensteinOne of Soren Kierkegaard''s most important writings, Works of Love is a profound examination of the human heart, in which the great philosopher conducts the reader into the inmost secrets of Love. Deep within every man, Kierkegaard writes, there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the household of millions upon millions. Love, for Kierkegaard, is one of the central aspects of existence; it saves us from isolation and unites us with one another and with God. This new edition of Works of Love features an original foreword by Kierkegaard scholar George Pattison.Trade Review“The one book in which all these aspects of Kierkegaard’s authorship flow together into a single work. . . . Works of Love is the central work in Kierkegaard’s entire authorship . . . Be warned! Works of Love is the kind of book that can change your life.” — George Pattison, Oxford University, from the "Introduction" “By far the most profound thinker of the 19th century” — Ludwig Wittgenstein “Kierkegaard’s great contribution to Western philosophy was to assert, or to reassert with Romantic urgency, that, subjectively speaking, each existence is the center of the universe. He offered himself as a corrective to idealism, from Plato to Hegel.” — John Updike, The New Yorker “The father of existentialism, Kierkegaard asserted the primacy of the individual in all his or her raging contradiction” — New York Times

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"From the beginning to the end of this compact but lucid book, Becker skillfully brings to life both the arguments and the intuitive appeal of stoicism... In its essentials [the new stoicism] is recognizable, with its particularly astringent rational charm enhanced by Becker's focused and self-disciplined argumentation. Zeno, I suspect, would be pleased."--Brad Inwood, Apeiron "A stimulating discussion of ethics that is free of the jejune or overly technical attitudes characteristic of much current writing on the subject."--Joseph Shea, n.b.: new from The Reader's Catalog

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Book SynopsisA joyful celebration (NPR) that shows us why silence is essential to our sanity and happiness—and how it can open doors to wonder and gratitude—from a renowned explorer and acclaimed author. In this astonishing and transformative meditation, Erling Kagge, famed Norwegian explorer and the first person to reach the South Pole alone, explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experiences and discussing the observations of poets, artists, and explorers, Kagge shows us what silence is, where it can be found, and why it is now more important than ever.

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Book SynopsisHow poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system and all life-forms that it supports. The challenge it poses—how to live in our present moment alongside deep pasts and futures—brings into sharp focus the importance of grasping the nature of our intimate relationship with geological time. In Anthropocene Poetics, David Farrier shows how contemporary poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Evelyn Reilly, and Christian Bök, among others, provides us with frameworks for thinking about this uncanny sense of time.Looking at a diverse array of lyric and avant-garde poetry from three interrelated perspectives—the Anthropocene and the “material turn” in environmental philosophy; the Plantationocene and the role of global capitalism in environmental crisis; and the emergence of multispecies ethics and extinction studies—Farrier rethinks the environmental humanities from a literary critical perspective. Anthropocene Poetics puts a concern with deep time at the center, defining a new poetics for thinking through humanity’s role as geological agents, the devastation caused by resource extraction, and the looming extinction crisis. Trade Review"The Anthropocene spells trouble: not only with respect to the global environmental changes, largely for the worse, to which it refers; but also in terms of the troublesome nature of the word itself. David Farrier’s brilliant elucidation of a multi-faceted ‘Anthropocene poetics’ delves into these troubles with great philosophical, scientific, social-ecological and aesthetic discernment. Whilst acknowledging the limited efficacy of poetry in response to the immense challenges of our perilous times, his carefully contextualized close readings of exemplary texts do indeed demonstrate how literature, and other art forms, can ‘help to frame the ground on which we stand as we consider which way to turn.’ This is, moreover, not only a work about poetry: it is also an exquisitely poetic work of scholarship."—Catherine Rigby, Bath Spa University, author of Dancing with Disaster "In Anthropocene Poetics, David Farrier ventures into a poetics of the Anthropocene and calls for the need to create ‘an Anthropocenic literary imagination.’ Exploring the Anthropocene conundrums and dysphorias with avant-garde and lyric poetry, Anthropocene Poetics will certainly change the way we perceive deep time as well as our understanding of the poem. Imagine a creative becoming enfolded by the new poetics of deep and thick time!"—Serpil Oppermann, Cappadocia University "The Anthropocene needs poetry. With its vorticular temporalities, swift shifts in scale, enmeshment of the human and the nonhuman, and constant challenges to the adequacy of language, this age of ecological crisis may never be better understood by any other technology—even as the Anthropocene changes what we understand a poem to do. David Farrier’s brilliant new book is a rapturous meditation on ecocriticism, time, the limits of human comprehension, and the power of the humanities in a turbulent era."—Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, author of Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman"A beautiful textual exploration of Anthropocentric art, experiments, and other visual attempts to capture the vastness of time in terms humans can understand."—Philosophy in Review"Like a poem, Farrier creates an exquisite form within which ideas grow, point, echo, and develop to where the linear progression blossoms into a nonlinear realm of thought."—Humanimalia"Farrier advances poetry as a crucial tool for applying the generative imagination to the complex environmental crises of this unfolding era. Readers and scholars of contemporary ecopoetry will find Anthropocene Poetics both a useful guide to the work of challenging poetic experimentalists and an incisive treatise on poetry in our time."—ISLE"Anthropocene Poetics assembles a curious and thoughtful collection of poetic and artistic vignettes forcing us to reconsider what it means to be human in the Anthropocene."—Literary Research "It is worth asking what these nimble and informative tools can learn from poetry’s attentive intensity, just as it is worth carefully listening out." —H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Life Enfolded in Deep Time1. Intimacy: The Poetics of Thick Time2. Entangled: The Poetics of Sacrifice Zones3. Swerve: The Poetics of Kin MakingCoda: Knots in TimeIndex

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Book SynopsisWith this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's notebooks and early unpublished writings. Scrupulously edited so as to establish a new standard for the field, each volume includes an Afterword that presents and contextualizes the material therein. This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks from 1882–1884, the period in which he was composing the book that he considered his best and most important work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Crucial transitional documents in Nietzsche's intellectual development, the notebooks mark a shift into what is widely regarded as the philosopher's mature period. They reveal his long-term design of a fictional tetralogy charting the philosophical, pedagogical, and psychological journeys of his alter-ego, Zarathustra. Here, in nuce, appear Zarathustra's teaching about the death of God; his discovery that the secret of life is the will to power; and his most profound and most frightening thought—that his own life, human history, and the entire cosmos will eternally return. During this same period, Nietzsche was also composing preparatory notes for his next book, Beyond Good and Evil, and the notebooks are especially significant for the insight they provide into his evolving theory of drives, his critical ideas about the nature and history of morality, and his initial thoughts on one of his best-known concepts, the superhuman (Übermensch).Trade Review"This series will become the definitive resource for English readers, a resource much needed given the great wave of philosophical, literary, and political interest in Nietzsche's thought. The excellent translations draw on the latest scholarship and are based on the state-of-the-art Colli-Montinari edition. The editors and translators have taken care to provide consistency in rendering Nietzsche's German and explaining important terms and variants. With their extensive and helpful annotations, the translations are indispensable for the scholar and appealing to the general reader."—Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond"Stanford University Press is doing Nietzsche studies and readers in the English-speaking world a great service through its support and publication of this series of translations of Nietzsche's texts. The Colli-Montinari (de Gruyter) critical edition of Nietzsche's writings, on which they are based, is the German-language 'gold standard' for Nietzsche scholarship. The Stanford series, as it fills out, will undoubtedly come to hold comparable pride of place for English-speaking readers world-wide."—Richard Schacht, University of Illinois"Nietzsche scholars have many reasons to be grateful to Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley: for their meticulous scholarship, their literary skill, and, not least, their exemplary consideration for the reader. Their work in this volume sets a benchmark for future English translations of Nietzsche's writing."—Robin Small, Journal of Nietzsche Studies

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Book SynopsisThis collection contains hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Wittgenstein and the most important of his Cambridge friends and includes editorial notes based on archival material not previously explored. * Incorporates many previously undiscovered unique and significant letters.Table of ContentsWittgenstein-Works Cited 10Editor's Preface 11Wednesday, 18 December 1929 (at Schlick's house) 33Sunday, 22 December 1929 (at Schlick's house) 38Wednesday, 25 December 1929 (at Schlick's house) 51Monday, 30 December 1929 (at Schlick's house) 66Thursday, 2 January 1930 (at Schlick's house) 73Sunday, 5 January 1930 (at Schlick's house) 8422 March 1930 (at Schlick's house) 9719 June 1930 (at Schlick's house) 10225 Septmber 1930 107Wednesday, 17 December 1930 (Neuwaldegg) 115Friday, 26 December 1930 (at Schlick's house) 121Sunday, 28 December 1930 (at Schlick's house) 121Tuesday, 30 December 1930 (at Schlick's house) 130Thursday, 1 January 1931 (at Schlick's house) 142Sunday, 4 January 1931 (at Schlick's house) 152Monday, 21 September 1931 166Wednesday, 9 December 1931 (Neuwaldegg) 1821 July 1932 209Appendix AAppendix BIndex 263

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Book SynopsisThe new standard anthology of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy.

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