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Book SynopsisAnalysis of the author-characters in translations of the works of the eighteenth-century Baron d'Holbach.Table of ContentsIntroductionI. Holbach et la traduction1. Traduction et textualité collective2. Aux sources de la traduction holbachique3. Holbach traducteur des textes scientifiquesII. Traductions hétérodoxes4. Sources anglaises et personnages d’auteur5. Allonymes holbachiques et auteurs anglais6. Ethos anglais et présences sans nom7. Traduction et altéritéIII. Nom supposé, auteur et autorité8. Comment être auteur9. Se donner de l’autoritéConclusionsBibliographieIndex nominum

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Book SynopsisHistory of British radicalism in the years preceding the French Revolution of 1789.Trade Review'L’ouvrage de Rémy Duthille, élaboré à partir des archives des deux principales sociétés londoniennes, la Revolution Society et la Society for Constitutional Information, ainsi que des écrits de Price et de Cartwright, est une contribution importante à l’histoire du radicalisme britannique au XVIIIe siècle. [... Duthille] se livre à une analyse fouillée du « discours radical », non pas seulement comme production d’idées et de revendications politiques, mais comme une toile mouvante et dynamique, tendue entre les différents pôles.'Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq, CerclesReviews'Duthille’s Le Discours radical en Grande-Bretagne is an important book, both for its treatment of a neglected subject and for its innovative, complex, and forensically argued claims [...] this book constitutes a significant contribution to the study of English radicalism and of eighteenth-century political thought more generally, and deserves to be widely read.' XVII-XVIIITable of ContentsIntroduction1. Le patriotisme de deux sociétés radicales londoniennes2. Le discours radical, entre droit naturel et constitutionnalisme3. Richard Price, ou les droits de l’homme à l’anglaise (1776-1778) 4. John Cartwright, ou la constitution anglaise normée par le droit naturel5. Le peuple aux urnes, le peuple en armes: tous citoyens? 6. Projets britanniques et solidarités atlantiques7. A Discourse on the love of our country de Richard Price: synthèse du patriotisme radical à l’aube de la Révolution française? Conclusion: Patriotes et citoyens du mondeAnnexe : Position des sept radicaux anglais sur la réforme parlementaire en Irlande (1783) BibliographieIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a clear and highly readable introduction to the ethical and social-political philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Dale Miller provides a cogent and careful account of the main arguments offered by Mill, considers the critical responses to his work, and assesses its legacy for contemporary philosophy.Trade Review"A unified and carefully argued account that deserves to be a cornerstone of Mill studies for years to come."Utilitas"Simply the best book on Mill available today ... the achievement for which the author deserves eternal praise is that Miller's Mill makes sense. It is pleasant to see how Mill, who is often accused of being a 'muddled thinker' presents such a consistent philosophy."Ethical Perspectives "An excellent book for all Mill scholars as well as the general reader."Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "An excellent study of Mill's moral, social, and political thought."Choice "Refreshing and intellectually satisfying."Koninklijke Brill NV"Well written, well researched and comprehensive. Persuasively argued, it achieves its objectives in an insightful way."Political Studies Review "A high quality work - scholarly, open-minded, engaging, and accessible. The book has admirable breadth, the discussions of political economy and democracy being especially welcome."Roger Crisp, University of Oxford "Dale Miller's book is a superb piece of work. It is comprehensive, compelling, informative and polished. The volume really does cover all of Mill's moral and political philosophy and its arguments are downright persuasive. The book will be the state of the art discussion of the topic and will also provide a clear and straightforward introduction for advanced undergraduate students."Brad Hooker, University of Reading "Succinct, lucid, and well informed, this is quite simply the best volume there is on the moral, social, and political side of Mill's thought. Although accessible to those studying Mill for the first time, professional philosophers will learn much from Miller's insightful, judicious, and philosophically acute commentary."William Shaw, San Jose State University and author of Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Foundations of Mill's Moral, Social and Political Thought1. A Singular Life2. Mill's Understanding of Human NaturePart II: Mill's Moral Philosophy3. The 'Proof' Principle of Utility4. The Higher Pleasures5. Utilitarianism: The 'Happiness Morality'6. Mill's Theory of Right and WrongPart III: Mill's Social and Political Thought7. Mill on Liberty and Individuality8. Millian Normative Political Economy9. Millian DemocracyPART IV: Concluding Remarks10. Mill's Utopian UtilitarianismNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno's major work, Negative Dialectics. These lectures focus on developing the concepts critical to the introductory section of that book. They show Adorno as an embattled philosopher defining his own methodology among the prevailing trends of the time.Trade Review"The best introduction to Adorno's thought is Adorno's lectures: patient and expansive, they provide the darkest corners of his thought with light and air. Aiming to elaborate the basic assumptions and working method behind his philosophical practice in general, these lapidary lectures touch on many of the most difficult aspects of Adorno's philosophy." J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note Editor’s Foreword Lectures One to Ten Lecture One: The Concept of Contradiction Lecture Two: The Negation of Negation Lecture Three: Whether negative dialectics is possible Lecture Four: Whether philosophy is possible without system Lecture Five: Theory and practice Lecture Six: Being, Nothing, Concept Lecture Seven: ‘Attempted breakouts’ Lecture Eight: The concept of intellectual experience Lecture Nine: The element of speculation Lecture Ten: Philosophy and ‘depth’ Lectures Eleven to Twenty-Five: Negative Dialectics Additional Notes Appendix: The Theory of Intellectual Experience Bibliographical Sources

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Book SynopsisAlthough Islamic philosophy represents one of the leading philosophical traditions in the world, it has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves in the non-Islamic world. This text provides introduction to the major movements, thinkers and concepts within that tradition, from the foundation of Islam onwards.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition viii Author’s Note and Abbreviations xi Glossary xii 1 A SHORT HISTORY OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY 1 The growth of Islam 2 Neoplatonism 3 Major thinkers 5 2 MAIN CONTROVERSIES 13 What is Islamic philosophy? 13 Early reactions to Greek philosophy in Islamic culture: the Great Debate 22 Al-Ghazali and philosophy: the question of creation 24 The nature of time 26 Mulla Sadra on change 28 Iqbal on time 29 Ibn Rushd on time 31 What can God do? 33 Miracles and meaning 34 The afterlife 36 What can God know? 37 Philosophical accounts of religious concepts 39 How free is God? 40 Essence, existence and miracles 41 The meaning of words 45 Meaning and unity 46 bi-la kayfa 48 Ibn Taymiyya on talking about God 49 3 KNOWLEDGE 51 The notion of Islamic science 52 Science and rationality 55 The nature of knowledge 56 What is knowledge for? 58 Imagination 60 Ibn Sina on knowledge and the ‘oriental’ philosophy 63 Sufi sm, knowledge and imagination 65 Knowledge by presence 67 4 MYSTICISM 71 Mysticism as a system 71 Being 74 Mysticism as a science 76 The perfect man 80 The deepening of prayer 82 Criticisms of Sufism 84 5 ONTOLOGY 86 Being and existence in Islamic philosophy 87 Ibn Rushd vs Ibn Sina on existence 87 Mulla Sadra vs al-Suhrawardi on existence 88 The equivocality of being 90 Mulla Sadra and mysticism 94 The imaginal realm 95 Different routes to one truth and the role of imagination 98 Allegory and meaning: the imaginal realm again 99 Prophecy and its psychological basis 101 Is being really the fi rst question in metaphysics? 104 6 ETHICS 106 Theological background: Mu_tazilites vs Ash_arites 106 Ethics and divine power 107 Al-Ghazali’s attack on objectivism in ethics 108 Trusting authority 112 The need for guidance 116 7 POLITICS 118 Plato vs Aristotle 118 The diversity of human beings 122 Islamic accounts of history 123 The notion of the ‘medieval’ 125 Liberalism vs Islam 129 The case of jihad 133 Modern political consequences 137 8 THE QUESTION OF TRANSMISSION 142 Philosophy and religion 142 The notion of cultural contact 146 The Andalusi connection 148 Getting back to basics 151 Falsafa and hikma: philosophy and wisdom 155 The concept of religious reason 156 The concept of inclusive reason 158 Robinson Crusoe and Hayy ibn Yaqzan 160 9 LANGUAGE 162 The case of Ibn Rushd 164 Ibn Rushd on meaning 165 Ibn Rushd and elitism 169 The Enlightenment Project 173 Ibn Rushd as a critic of mysticism 175 The implications for language 176 10 ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY TODAY 179 The West as decadent 182 Confronting tradition 183 Islamic exceptionalism 186 Did al-Ghazali destroy Islamic philosophy? 188 11 DOES ISLAM NEED AN ENLIGHTENMENT? 191 Jewish and Muslim reactions to modernity 195 Moses Mendelssohn and Muhammad _Abduh 196 Islamic exceptionalism again 197 The Enlightenment and theology 200 Christianity as the symbol of modernity 202 The need for an Enlightenment 204 The lack of radicalism in Islamic Qur’an commentary 207 References and Bibliography 211 Guide to Further Reading 223 Index 225

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Book Synopsis* Gives a thorough overview of all aspects of Locke s thought * Draws on notebooks and archival materials to add a wealth of empirical detail * Expertly contextualises Locke in relation to philosophical history * Sheds new light on Locke s understanding of the Enlightenment .Trade Review"A really superb introduction to Locke's work. It is highly recommended both for students and scholars of early modern philosophy, not least because of the refreshingly coherent and unified picture it presents of the thought one of England’s 'premier league' philosophers." Metascience "This book is an excellent commentary on the major areas of Locke’s philosophy. It is informed with a deep respect for the complexity of Locke’s thought and a wide reading in the sophisticated contemporary literature, both on Locke and more widely." John Rogers, Keele University "A superb introduction to the philosophy of John Locke. It is balanced and insightful in its interpretations and displays a keen grasp of the whole sweep of Locke’s philosophy. While there is much here for the scholar, this book is just the right length and pitch for an undergraduate student text." Peter Anstey, University of Otago, New Zealand "A. J. Pyle has written an excellent book on the philosophy of John Locke. It is thorough, scholarly, historically informed, lucidly written, provocative and engaging. It leads the reader through thorny and conceptually difficult material with an effortless fluidity that neither sacrifices precision nor loses the reader in minutiae. This volume should be of interest to undergraduates, graduate students and non-specialists who are interested in Locke and his contribution to Western philosophy. I highly recommend it." Jan-Erik Jones, Southern Virginia UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations vi Introduction: The Unity of Locke's Thought 1 1 Life, Contexts and Concerns 8 2 The Theory of Ideas 31 3 Human Knowledge and Its Limits 54 4 The Material World 77 5 God and Religion 101 6 The Soul and the Afterlife 125 7 The Two Treatises of Government 147 8 Problems of Church and State 173 Notes 196 Select Bibliography 208 Index 214

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Book Synopsis* Gives a thorough overview of all aspects of Locke s thought * Draws on notebooks and archival materials to add a wealth of empirical detail * Expertly contextualises Locke in relation to philosophical history * Sheds new light on Locke s understanding of the Enlightenment .Trade Review"A really superb introduction to Locke's work. It is highly recommended both for students and scholars of early modern philosophy, not least because of the refreshingly coherent and unified picture it presents of the thought one of England’s 'premier league' philosophers." Metascience "This book is an excellent commentary on the major areas of Locke’s philosophy. It is informed with a deep respect for the complexity of Locke’s thought and a wide reading in the sophisticated contemporary literature, both on Locke and more widely." John Rogers, Keele University "A superb introduction to the philosophy of John Locke. It is balanced and insightful in its interpretations and displays a keen grasp of the whole sweep of Locke’s philosophy. While there is much here for the scholar, this book is just the right length and pitch for an undergraduate student text." Peter Anstey, University of Otago, New Zealand "A. J. Pyle has written an excellent book on the philosophy of John Locke. It is thorough, scholarly, historically informed, lucidly written, provocative and engaging. It leads the reader through thorny and conceptually difficult material with an effortless fluidity that neither sacrifices precision nor loses the reader in minutiae. This volume should be of interest to undergraduates, graduate students and non-specialists who are interested in Locke and his contribution to Western philosophy. I highly recommend it." Jan-Erik Jones, Southern Virginia UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations vi Introduction: The Unity of Locke's Thought 1 1 Life, Contexts and Concerns 8 2 The Theory of Ideas 31 3 Human Knowledge and Its Limits 54 4 The Material World 77 5 God and Religion 101 6 The Soul and the Afterlife 125 7 The Two Treatises of Government 147 8 Problems of Church and State 173 Notes 196 Select Bibliography 208 Index 214

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Book SynopsisFew philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry.Trade ReviewThis is a lucid, informative and original book. With marvellous clarity and authority, Arthur paints a very sympathetic and very useful portrait of Leibniz’s philosophy, its development and the context in which it develops. Leibniz’s scholars will appreciate the original positions it takes and the solid arguments (textual and historical) the author assembles to support them. If you can read only one book about Leibniz's philosophy, read this one. Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan University, Israel An engaging introduction to Leibniz's philosophy. Arthur succeeds in rendering Leibniz's often arcane views accessible to the general reader, while defending an illuminating interpretation of the development and unity of his thought in logic, linguistics, mathematics, physics and metaphysics. A first-class work from a leading Leibniz expert. Donald Rutherford, University of California, San Diego Fluently tracing the development of Leibniz’s thought, Arthur seamlessly interweaves and unites Leibniz’s interests in language, the natural and life sciences, mathematics, law, and religion with a philosophy that endorses the reality of bodies. The result is a fascinating and illuminating account of the man and his thought that not only deepens and enriches our understanding but also bears testimony to the enduring significance of his ideas. Pauline Phemister, University of EdinburghTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Logic, language and the Encyclopaedia project Chapter 3: Natural philosophy and the science of life Chapter 4: Mathematical philosophy Chapter 5: The reform of metaphysics Chapter 6: Dynamics: the physics and metaphysics of action Chapter 7: The philosophy of space and time Chapter 8: Morals and politics Chapter 9: Leibnizian posterity

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Book SynopsisThe salon was of particular importance in mid- to late-seventeenth-century France, enabling aristocratic women to develop a philosophical culture that simultaneously reflected and opposed the dominant male philosophy. In The Suspicion of Virtue, John...Trade ReviewThis work is a very important first step, and long overdue, in turning our attention to the philosophical thought of early modern French women. -- Katharine J. Hamerton, Columbia College * Sixteenth Century Journal *The Suspicion of Virtue is, above all, a study of the inspired participation of five female authors in a renascent catholicism during the second half of the seventeenth century. John Conley believes that gender and religion came together, enabling these women to develop a distinctly female philosophical voice.... Conley has developed an interesting argument about the existence of female moralistes with a distinctly feminine approach to ethics, and it is to be hoped that he continues his investigations. -- David Klinck, University of Windsor * H-France *Conley's investigation repositions the study of women philosophers by shifting the focus of philosophical inquiry away from the 'male bastion of the early modern university' to the world of the salon.... Conley's study is essential for scholars and students alike who wish to broaden their knowledge of neoclassical philosophy. Clearly written, it provides both biographical information and insightful analyses of the question of virtue and offers a broad introduction to the main trends in neoclassical moral philosophy. The appendices, which include the Maximes of Sable, the Reflexions diverses of Deshoulieres, the Maximes chretiennes of Sabliere, and Sur les vertus cardinales of Maintenon, add to the value of this work. They not only make these difficult-to-consult texts available and allow the reader to explore further the moral philosophy of these writers, they also demonstrate the diversity of genres in which women philosophers voices are to be heard. -- Edith K. Benkov, San Diego State University * Renaissance Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisWith an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the...Trade ReviewAcademic literary criticism continues to be dominated by 'theory' and the struggle between deconstructionist and humanist approaches to the business of reading. Jonathan Culler's On Deconstruction is a typically patient, thoughtful, illuminating exposition of the ideas of Jacques Derrida and their application to literary studies. -- David Lodge * Commonweal *As a practicing critic, Culler has always been a deconstructor, and he approaches this topic with special immediacy and force. In On Deconstruction, he offers generous summaries of numerous representative articles and a fine annotated bibliography.... His magisterial way of tracing particular topics and techniques through our diaspora of critical texts, and his provocative analyses, cannot fail to focus any critic's thinking about deconstruction. * Modern Language Quarterly *Culler is lucid and thorough, can move into and out of other people's arguments without losing the sense of his own voice and argument, and can manage to seem equally at home with Freudianism, feminism, and traditional literary criticism. * Times Literary Supplement *Gifted with grace and clarity, Culler provides us with a stimulating survey of contemporary literary criticism. * Antioch Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the 25th Anniversary EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroductionChapter One. Readers and Reading1. New Fortunes2. Reading as a Woman3. Stories of ReadingChapter Two. Deconstruction1. Writing and Logocentrism2. Meaning and Iterability3. Grafts and Graft4. Institutions and Inversions5. Critical ConsequencesChapter Three. Deconstructive CriticismBibliographyTranslations BibliographyBibliography for the 25th Anniversary EditionIndex

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Book Synopsis"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges."—from...Trade Review"In this lively, important book, Polt struggles with Heidegger's mid-1930s effort to invent the peculiar terms and expressions of his later thinking, beginning with his keyword Ereignis, event, appropriation, enowing, but really Heidegger's word for 'the impossibility of starting at the beginning..... Highly recommended.""Readers will be grateful for the clarity of Richard Polt's prose, for his providing a historical context for the Contributions, and for his ability to communicate with those who are not expert in Heidegger's work. Reformulating Heidegger's thought is an undertaking filled with difficulty and demands for exceptional originality; Polt meets the challenge." -- Charles E. Scott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Vanderbilt University Center for Ethics"Richard Polt's book is unique: it provides an eminently accessible introduction to, and commentary on, the major themes of Heidegger's text, and does so in a philosophically sophisticated and critical way. This combination of accessibility and erudition is a most impressive accomplishment. The Emergency of Being will appeal both to students who may be approaching Heidegger's work for the first time and Heidegger specialists seeking a critical 'take' on what is even for them a difficult and largely inaccessible text. Polt's book is an indispensable introduction and companion guide to the Contributions." -- William McNeill, DePaul University

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Book SynopsisIn this accessible interpretation of Kant's political philosophy, Allen D. Rosen concentrates on the relation between justice, political authority (the state), and individual...Trade ReviewThis is a consistently illuminating and, in terms of its own aims, successful study of a topic long neglected, especially in the English-speaking literature. For the care and intelligence with which Rosen addresses it, the author is owed a special debt of gratitude. -- Susan Meld Shell, Boston College * American Political Science Review *

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Book SynopsisIn this work, Kathleen V. Wider discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of consciousness in Being and Nothingness in light of recent work by analytic philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.Trade ReviewA coherent and convincing theory of consciousness. * The Review of Metaphysics *Wider's discussion is coherent, detailed, and fascinating, and her account of recent work on consciousness and embodiment is well informed. A major strength of her book is its clarity, both organizational and conceptual. She writes in a direct and unpretentious style, and presents frequent summaries and reminders of earlier points, so the intricacies of the argument are easy to follow. -- Natika Newton, Suffolk County Community College * Behavior and Philosophy *This book is a complex and intriguing work. Wider has woven a sustained argument from a wealth of scholarly material drawn from distinct traditions in support of her two interrelated theses: that consciousness is invariably self-consciousness and that the body is the subject of self-consciousness... It certainly challenges students of Sartre to reconsider his notion of human freedom in light of our incarnate nature. -- Elizabeth Murray Morelli * Sartre Studies Interantional *This book is a product of that all too rare blindness to the boundary separating philosophy into analytic and continental; if not a blindness, then a healthy disregard... Wider's open-mindedness and expansive erudition find their rewards in a treatment of the issues raised that is likely to appeal to any philosophy convinced that an acknowledgement of both first-person and third-person perspectives is necessary for an understanding of mind. -- Maurice Larkin, University College Dublin * International Journal of Philosophical Studies *A thoughtful book.... Wider does a great job of guiding the reader through her theses and presenting clearly written arguments. * Philosophy in Review *

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Book SynopsisSixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged.Trade ReviewThis rangy and precise book deserves to be read even by those historians who think they are bored with Descartes. While offering surprising and detailed readings of bewildering texts like the Description of the Human Body, Des Chene constructs a powerful, sad narrative of the Cartesian disenchantment of the body. Along the way he also delivers provocative views on topics as various as teleology, the role of illustrations in the history of mechanism, theories of the sexual differentiation of the foetus, and problems of simulation in scientific method. -- Paula Gould Chester * British Journal for the History of Science *A very impressive body of research.... Des Chene provides much thought-provoking discussion.... For the growing number of scholars with a serious interest in late scholasticism and its relationship to early modern philosophy, the book should be very stimulating and a rich source of information. * Philosophical Review *Des Chene successfully shows that these philosophers were fully aware of the problems in Aristotle's notion of the soul. He also shows that the questions fundamental to the Aristotelian psychology were not so much answered by Descartes and his followers as mooted. -- Peter Lautner * Bryn Mawr Review *

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Book SynopsisIs it possible to apply a theoretical approach to ethics? The French philosopher Catherine Chalier addresses this question with an unusual combination of traditional ethics and continental philosophy. In a powerful argument for the necessity of moral...Trade ReviewChalier's accounts of Levinas's views draw on extensive knowledge of his works as a whole and are often exciting in scope and detail.... If you have wondered whether Levinas is a Kantian, you will find Chalier's knowledgeable book helpful for reflection on the question. -- Deborah Achtenberg, University of Nevada Reno * Review of Metaphysics *Chalier's reflection on a possible dialogue between these figures in illuminating for moral philosophy in general, and for an understanding of Levinasian ethics in particular. -- Brigitt Sassen, McMaster University * Philosophy in Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBolotin has provided us with a novel interpretation of this dialogue, which must be seriously reflected on by anyone who wishes to give an account of this work in the future. * Review of Metaphysics *The translation is... accurate—indeed, meticulous.... It gives us... as close a guide to the style of Plato as is possible in English. * Philosophy and Rhetoric *

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Book SynopsisOn the Study Methods of Our Time remains a key text for anyone interested in the development''s of Vico''s thought and serves as a concise introduction to his work. Scholars and students in such disciplines as the history of philosophy, intellectual history, literary theory, rhetoric, and the history and philosophy of education will find this volume helpful and fascinating. Giambattista Vico''s first original work of philosophy, On the Study Methods of Our Time (1708–9) takes up the contemporary quarrel between the ancients and the moderns and provides a highly interesting statement of the nature of humanistic education. This edition makes available again Elio Gianturco''s superb 1965 English translation of a work generally regarded as the earliest statement by Vico of the fundamentals of his position.An important contribution to the development of the scientism-versus-humanism debate over the comparative merits of classical and mTable of ContentsPreface by Donald Phillip Verene Translator's Introduction by Elio GianturcoChronology of Vico's Principal Writings Note on the TextON THE STUDY METHODS OF OUR TIME I. Subject of the present discourse: the comparison, not of the various branches of learning, but of the study methods of our time and of antiquity. What factors make up every method of study? Distribution of the topics to be discussed, new instruments of the sciences. New aids to studies. Which is, today, the aim of our studies?II. Advantages of our study methods that derive from the instruments used by modern sciences. Advantages of philosophical criticism. Analysis. Introduction of the geometrical method into physics; of chemistry into medicine. Pharmaceutical chemistry. The introduction of chemistry into physics, and of mechanics into medicine. The microscope. The telescope. The mariner's compass. Introduction of modern geometry and physics into mechanics. Advantages accruing to us from the use of new devices: reduction to theoretical precepts of matters pertaining to human discretion in the conduct of life. Masterpieces of art. Printing. Universities. Advantages. deriving from the aim we have in view in our studiesIII. Drawbacks of modern criticism. Criticism injurious to prudence. Criticism an obstacle to eloquence: it hinders the arts, which thrive on imagination, memory, or both. How the ancients obviated the drawbacks of modern criticism. Modern neglect of topics, i.e., the art of forms of arguments employed in probable reasoning, to the benefit of criticism. Drawbacks of this neglect. How the disadvantages inherent in philosophical criticism may be avoided.IV. Drawbacks caused by the introduction of the geometrical method into physics. It kills the desire to explore nature further. How we can study physics as philosophers, namely, as Christian philosophers. The use of the geometrical method impairs the faculty to express oneself tastefullv and with acuteness. It forms an obstacle to free and ample utterance. It generates a sluggish diction, to be avoided as much as possible in eloquence. How its drawbacks may be obviated.V. Analysis. It may be useless to mechanics. How the disadvantages of analysis can be avoided.VI. Drawbacks of our modern method of studying and practicing medicine. How to remove them.VII. Disadvantages of our modern study methods in the fields of ethics, civil doctrine, and eloquence, from the viewpoint of the purpose at which we aim. Civil doctrine. Eloquence. Civil doctrine and eloquence again. How the drawbacks of our study methods may be remedied in regard to the guiding principles of the conduct of life, and in the domain of eloquence.VIII. Poetry. Under what conditions the modern critical procedure is useful to poetry. Suitability of the geometrical method to poetry. "Ideal" or "universal" truth is the proper guiding principle of poetry. Study of modern physics is conducive to poetry.IX. Christian TheologyX. Disadvantages of preceptive handbooks framing rules on matters that pertain to the practical conduct of life. How to eliminate these disadvantages.XI. The practice and study of law. Greek jurisprudence. Roman jurisprudence. Jurisprudence of the free Roman republic. Jurisprudence under the Emperors, prior to Hadrian. Jurisp1-udence under Hadrian. Under Constantine. Advantages and drawbacks of the study of law. First advantage and first drawback; second advantage, second drawback; third advantage, third drawback; fourth advantage, fourth drawback; fifth advantage, fifth drawback; sixth advantage, sixth drawback tentatively expressed. Advantage of the jurisprudential method of Accursius and of his disciples. Its drawbacks: first and second. How disadvantages in the study of law may be avoided.XII. 70 Masterpieces of art. What drawbacks their existence produces. How these drawbacks may be got rid of.XIII. Typographical characters. The disadvantages of printing.' How they may be overcome.XIV. Universities. Their drawbacks; how they may be remedied.XV. Conclusion.Appendix: The Academies and the Relation between Philosophy and Eloquence - Translated by Donald Phillip Verene

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Book SynopsisTropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.Trade ReviewLike most of White's work, the book arises from a boldly imaginative transaction between the philosophy of history, literary criticism and semiotics. Notes and Queries No other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integrating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas. In this White seems a successor to A. O. Lovejoy and Ernst Cassirer. Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tropology, Discourse, and the Modes of Human ConsciousnessChapter 1. The Burden of HistoryChapter 2. Interpretation in HistoryChapter 3. The Historical Text as Literary ArtifactChapter 4. Historicism, History, and the Figurative ImaginationChapter 5. The Fictions of Factual RepresentationChapter 6. The Irrational and the Problem of Historical Knowledge in the Enlightenment Chapter 7. The Forms of Wildness: Archaeology of an IdeaChapter 8. The Noble Savage Theme as FetishChapter 9. The Tropics of History: The Deep Structure of the New ScienceChapter 10. What is Living and What is Dead in Croce's Criticism of VicoChapter 11. Foucault Decoded: Notes from UndergroundChapter 12. The Absurdist Moment in Contemporary Literary TheoryIndex

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Book SynopsisThe thinking of these philosophers, and scores of others, cannot be understood without being placed in the context of the times in which they lived.Trade ReviewA richly detailed picture of the works of philosophy... [Delacampagne] proves to be an enlivening guide to the labyrinth of recent philosophical thought... He lucidly outlines the convergence and divergence of lines of thought in the bewildering maze of modern intellectual life. -- Neal Leavitt Boston Book Review This is no ordinary history of philosophy. Its novelty lies not only in the fact that it locates the great philosophers of the twentieth century within the tragic events of our century, but, so far as I know, it is the first history of philosophy that points out the effects on and the responses of different philosophers to the Holocaust. Dimensions Delacampagne relates major philosophical trends over the past 120 years on both sides of the Atlantic to their historic settings... The scope of this survey is impressive. ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the English-Language Edition Preface to the Original Edition Introduction: The Birth of Modernity 1 The Sure Path of Science Progress in Logic From Logic to Phenomenology From Logic to Politics Wittgenstein's Dissidence 2 Philosophies of the End The End of Europe The End of Oppression The End of Metaphysics After the End 3 Conceiving Auschwitz Paths of Exile Heidegger's Choice Preliminary Inquiries Investigation of the Case 4 In the Cold War Partisans of Liberalism Defender of Liberty In Search of a Third Way Avatars of Marxism 5 Reason in Question Structure versus Subject A History of Truth From Deconstruction to Neopragmatism Communication or Investigation? Epilogue: The Unfinished Cathedral Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImmanuel Kant's moral philosophy is almost universally understood as the attempt to analyse and defend a morality based on individual autonomy. In The Kantian Imperative, Paul Saurette challenges this interpretation by arguing that Kant's 'imperative' is actually based on a problematic appeal to 'common sense' and that it is premised on, and seeks to further cultivate and intensify, the feeling of humiliation in every moral subject.Discerning the influence of this model on a wide variety of historical and contemporary political thought and philosophy and critical of its implications, Saurette explores its impact on the work of two seminal and contemporary thinkers in particular: Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas. Saurette also shows that an analysis of the Kantian imperative allows a better understanding of current political problems such as the U.S. torture scandal at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and broader post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy. The Kantian Imperative thus demonsTrade ReviewWith this fresh and provocative new work, Paul Saurette presents a minority view of Kant that has few antecedents. His re-reading of Kant's moral philosophy as a species of ethical cultivation - deeply indebted to an ascetics of humiliation - is innovative, challenging, and very well executed. This is a major contribution to research.' Ian Hunter, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland The Kantian Imperative is a first-rate book: thoughtful, distinctive, provocative, engaging, eye-opening, even disturbing. It is one of those rare books where a reader can say, I wish I'd written it. With great insight and an elegant prose style, Paul Saurette has unearthed problematic dimensions of Kant's thought that demand serious attention.' Steven Johnston, Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South FloridaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Humiliation, Common Sense, Morality Part I - The Kantian Imperative 1 Kant's Imperative Image of Morality 2 Common Sense Recognition 3 Cultivating a Kantian Moral Disposition 4 Kantian Humiliation: The Mnemotechnics of Morality 102 Interlogue: Implications and Speculations Part II - The Contemporary Kantian Imperative 5 Habermas's Kantian Imperative 6 Taylor's Common Sense Ontology Epilogue: The Post-9/11 Kantian Imperative Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In any circumstances Andrzej Walicki's book would be interesting and very useful, for it covers virtually all the significant Russian thinkers from the age of Catherine the Great down to the eve of the 1905 Revolution. What makes it of particular interest is the fact that it comes from an Eastern European country yet presents a picture of Russian philosophical developments that shows wide and open sympathies of a kind hard to imagine finding expression within Russia itself... A fascinating presentation of the intellectual ambience of Russia in the era before the revolutionary twentieth century... A full and satisfying survey, well populated with personalities, events, and ideas... A History of Russian thought is a fine and courageous work... The effects of the book, which is as informative as it is provocative of thought, is enhanced by the fluency of the English translation by Hilda Andrews-Rusiecka." --George Woodcock ,The New Leader "Walicki succeeds admirably in his task... He has written a comprehensive, erudite study which should serve well both students and specialists in Russian studies." --Mark G. Pomar ,Slavic and East European Journal "The value of Walicki's book resides ... in his ability to see the development of individual thinkers against a complex background and to relate them to earlier and later aspects of the movement... It is good to have Walicki's scholarship ably summed up in a convenient text." --Philip Pomper ,Russian History

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely, he is perhaps best known for rekindling interest in the great classical German tradition from Kant to Hegel.The first essay summarizes Henrich''s research into the development of the Kant''s moral philosophy, focusing on the architecture of the third Critique. Of special interest in this essay is Henrich''s intriguing and wholly new account of the relations between Kant and Rousseau. In the second essay, Henrich analyzes the interrelations between Kant''s aesthetics and his cognitive theories. His third essay argues that the justification of the claim that human rights are universally valid requires reference to a moral image of the world. To employ Kant''s notion of a moral image of the world without ignoring the insights and experience of this century requires drastic changes in theTrade Review"Henrich is one of today's leading scholars on classical German philosophy. A striking feature of his work is the combination of historical scholarship with deep concern about intellectual and ethical relevance of authors like Kant, Fichte, or Hegel. . . . The essays are clearly written and well translated. . . . Their scholarly mastery will be appreciated by students of Kant and German idealism." -- ChoiceTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. II 3. 4.

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Book SynopsisThis is the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy.Trade Review'Analytic philosophers have invested enormous amoun ts of energy attempting to analyse various terms that play a central role in our everyday thinking about the epistemic and ethical dimensions of our lives. It is often supposed that the conceptions underlying these terms are universals of human culture. The fascinating thesis of this intriguing little book is that supposition is false.' EthicsTable of ContentsForeword W. V. O. Quine Preface Barry Hallen Foreword Dorothy Emmet Introduction 1. Indeterminacy and the translation of alien behaviour 2. An African epistemology: the knowledge-belief distinction and Yoruba discourse 3. The secrecy of the 'aje;' Conclusion Afterword Barry Hallen Appendix Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisTrade 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 SynopsisThe essays in this volume consider figures in the history of philosophy such as Plato, Plotinus, Spinoza, and Hegel; and 20th-century thought, most notably Walter Benjamin, but also Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, the historian Aby Warburg, and the linguist J.-C. Milner.Trade Review"Agamben has been attracting attention recently in the English-speaking world, thanks to the increasing availability of his work in translation. This volume is indicative of Agamben's broad range of interests. . . . Despite this range of interests, however, a sustained commitment to certain theoretical issues—particularly language and history—lends the volume a coherence. . . . Daniel Heller-Roazen's introduction does a nice job of outlining the philosophical program that motivates these essays, and his translation in general is to be commended for its elegance. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers."—ChoiceTable of ContentsEditor's note Editor's introduction Part I. Language: 1. The thing itself 2. The idea of language 3. Language and history: linguistic and historical categories in Benjamin's thought 4. Philosophy and linguistics 5. Kommerell, or on gesture Part II. History: 6. Aby Warburg and the nameless science 7. Tradition of the immemorial 8. *Se: Hegel's absolute and Heidegger's Ereignis 9. Walter Benjamin and the demonic: happiness and historical redemption 10. The messiah and the sovereign: the problem of law in Walter Benjamin Part III. Potentiality: 11. On potentiality 12. The passion of facticity 13. Pardes: the writing of potentiality 14. Absolute immanence Part IV. Contingency: 15. Bartleby, or on contingency Notes Index of names.

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Book SynopsisIn arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy.Trade Review"This is an original and exciting interpretation of Nietzsche's most difficult, hermetic, and influential book. The interpretation is carefully articulated, moreover, in such a way that it situates Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the center of Nietzsche's life and career. The reader thus gains not only a wealth of unprecedented insights into the structure and flow of Zarathustra, but also comes to appreciate it within the context of Nietzsche's greatest philosophical challenge—his confrontation with modernity, in which he attempts to take the measure of all things modern." -- Daniel Conway * Pennsylvania State University *"Robert Gooding-Williams's book is a dazzling achievement....elegant, erudite, and imaginative..." -- ConstellationsTable of ContentsIntroduction: explaining the possibility of modernism 1. Philosophizing with a stammer 2. Incipit Zarathustra: a reading of 'Zarathustra's Prologue' 3. Dionysus, the German Nation, and the body 4. Cartesian subjects, prometheam heroes, and the sublime 5. Eternal recurrence, acts I and II 6. Eternal recurrence, act III Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisThis translation is a 20-volume English-language edition of "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche", the first complete, critical, and annotated translation of all of Nietzsche's work.Trade Review"The Colli-Montinari edition has revolutionized our understanding of one of the greatest German thinkers. As a result of the new view opened up by this edition, Nietzsche has clearly come into his own as one of the more important philosophers of modern times. The English-language edition should become a classic that will be used by generations of scholars."—David E. Wellbery, The Johns Hopkins University"The Colli-Montinari critical edition of Nietzsche's works is one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last quarter century. It was not until after World War II that one began to realize the extent to which Nietzsche's notebooks had been tampered with, jumbled, badly deciphered, and poorly edited, and it was not until the Colli-Montinari edition that scholars could be confident for the first time of having a trustworthy text."—Van A. Harvey, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsContents First Piece Second Piece Third Piece Fourth Piece

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Book Synopsis"Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself", wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general.Trade Review"Hamacher's Premises is the heir and successor to the most important theoretical and critical work done in American departments of comparative literature from the 1960s through the 1980s. . . . With the gesture that is genuinely called post-structural . . . the book's act of freedom is freedom to read and write language tout court."—Timothy Bahti, University of MichiganTable of ContentsPremises; 1. Hermeneutic ellipses: writing the Hermeneutic circle in Schleiermacher; 2. The promise of interpretation: remarks on the Hermeneutic imperative in Kant and Nietzsche; 3. 'Disgregation of the Will': Nietzsche on the individual and individuality; 4. 'Lectio': de Man's imperative; 5. Position exposed: Friedrich Schlegel's poetological transposition of Fichte's absolute proposition; 6. The quaking of presentation: Kleist's 'Earthquake in Chile'; 7. The gesture in the name: on Benjamin and Kafka; 8. The second of inversion: movements of a figure through Celan's poetry; Sources; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the third volume to appear in an edition that will be the first complete, critical, and annotated English translation of all of Nietzsche's work. It provides for the first time English translations of all of Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks from the summer of 1872 to the end of 1874.Trade Review"The Colli-Montinari edition has revolutionized our understanding of one of the greatest German thinkers. As a result of the new view opened up by this edition, Nietzsche has clearly come into his own as one of the more important philosophers of modern times. The English-language edition should become a classic that will be used by generations of scholars."—David E. Wellbery, The Johns Hopkins University"The Colli-Montinari critical edition of Nietzsche's works is one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last quarter century. It was not until after World War II that one began to realize the extent to which Nietzsche's notebooks had been tampered with, jumbled, badly deciphered, and poorly edited, and it was not until the Colli-Montinari edition that scholars could be confident for the first time of having a trustworthy text."—Van A. Harvey, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsA note on this edition; Abbreviations and conventions; Unpublished writings; Reference matter; Notes; Translator's afterword; Index.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. It traces the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opens the way to a fresh view of his later thinking.Trade Review"Students of Nietzsche will welcome this fine study, which focuses on the philosopher's early philological writings in order to demonstrate that there is far more continuity in the Nietzschean oeuvre than is often thought. . . . Highly recommended for all upper-division undergraduates and above."—Choice"This is an excellent book, exhaustively documented and subtly written. Its greatest contribution will probably be to students of Nietzsche, for whom it presents cogent, intelligent readings of under-discussed material. But it should not be ignored by classical philologists, for whom it will serve as a challenge and a source of strength. Books like this, and debates about them, will help foster a dialogue between students of ancient and modern philosophy and literature that is weaker than it should be."—Bryn Mawr Classical Review"This work will be of interest to, and should be studied by, a wider audience than its title may initially suggest . . . .Porter's provocative readings . . . .convincingly demonstrate the need for more attention to this largely neglected area of Nietzsche's writing."—The Review of Metaphysics"This fascinating analysis of Nietzsche's first book challenges the assumption of a post-Birth of Tragedy rupture in Nietzsche's thought and shows its essential continuity with his later works. . . . This beautifully written book is a valuable study of what the author rightly calls Nietzsche's most underanalyzed text."—German Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Skeptical philology 2. The poetry of atomism and the fictions of philology 3. Being on time: the studies in ancient rhyme and meter (1870-72) 4. Inversions of the classical ideal: the 'Encyclopedia of classical philology' (1871) 5. After philology: the reinvention of antiquity Notes Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. It shows that many of the book's elements are reminiscent of Nietzsche's earlier revisions of philology and anticipate the later writings.Trade ReviewThe Invention of Dionysus breaks new ground in our appreciation of Nietzsche...Porter's minute and innovative reading...is both challenging and stimuling, requiring us to return to a work too often glossed over." -- Thomas L. Cooksey * Armongstrong Atlantic State University *Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Introduction; 1. The problem of periodization: Nietzsche's appearances; 2. Abyssal metaphysical surfaces: F. A. Lange; 3. The appearance of metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy and beyond; 4. The complication of appearances; 5. Anticipations: the physiology of dreams; 5. 'Delicate boundaries'; 6. 'On Schopenhauer'; 7. Transfiguration; 8. Beyond metaphysics - to its banality; 9. Narrative appearances; 10. 'Raving Socrates'; 11. The Platonism of The Birth of Tragedy; 12. 'The goal of the Antipodes'; 13. The Socratic fallacy; 14. 'Eternal' phenomena: culture's illusions.

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Book SynopsisIn this study, Paola Marrati approachesin an extremely insightful, rigorous, and well-argued waythe question of the philosophical sources of Derrida''s thought through a consideration of his reading of both Husserl and Heidegger. A central focus of the book is the analysis of the concepts of genesis and trace as they define Derrida''s thinking of historicity, time, and subjectivity. Notions such as the contamination of the empirical and the transcendental, dissemination and writing, are explained as key categories establishing a guiding thread that runs through Derrida''s early and later works. Whereas in his discussion of Husserl Derrida problematizes the relationship between the ideality of meaning and the singularity of its historical production, in his interpretation of Heidegger he challenges the very idea of the originary finitude of temporality.This book is essential reading not only for those interested in the philosophical roots of deconstruction, but for all those iTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgements ii Translator's Note ii Introduction ii @to1:Part One: Derrida, Reader of Husserl @toc2:1.1. Eidos and Time 000 @toc3:1. The Problem of Genesis: Time and Truth 000 2. Being has Always Already Begun: Phenomenological, Ontological and Empirical Geneses 000 3. Transcendental Teleology and its Empirical Crisis: the Eidos of Europe 000 @toc2:1.2. The Absolute is Passage 000 @toc3:1. Reactivating the Origin: The Return Inquiry 000 2. Truth Lives Only By Surviving 000 3. Writing and the Transcendental Sense of Death 000 4. The Crisis of History: Fact, Eidos and Fault 000 @toc2:1.3. Forgetting and Memory (Of Ideality) 000 @toc3:1. Difference Dwells in Language Alone 000 2. Memory and Forgetting of Ideality 000 3. Epoch? and Solitary Mental Discourse 000 4. Originary Intuition and Signification 000 5. Duration of the Augenblick: The World in Time 000 6. Widersinnigkeit and Sinnlosigkeit: Ideality of Bedeutung and Non-Intuition 000 @toc1:Part Two: Derrida Before Heidegger @toc2:2.1. Being is Not Gathered 000 @toc3:1. On the Epoch of Representation 000 2. Sendings [Des envois] 000 3. The Paradox of the Origin in Heidegger 000 @toc2:2.2. Whence the Future? 000 @toc3:1. Originary Temporality and Originary Historicality 000 2. Genesis and Origin of Time 000 @toc2:2.3. Dasein's Life 000 @toc3:1. Dasein Does Not Pass Away 000 2. Is My Death Possible? 000 @toc2:Conclusions @toc4:Notes 000 Works Cited 000

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Book SynopsisIn this study, Paola Marrati approachesin an extremely insightful, rigorous, and well-argued waythe question of the philosophical sources of Derrida''s thought through a consideration of his reading of both Husserl and Heidegger. A central focus of the book is the analysis of the concepts of genesis and trace as they define Derrida''s thinking of historicity, time, and subjectivity. Notions such as the contamination of the empirical and the transcendental, dissemination and writing, are explained as key categories establishing a guiding thread that runs through Derrida''s early and later works. Whereas in his discussion of Husserl Derrida problematizes the relationship between the ideality of meaning and the singularity of its historical production, in his interpretation of Heidegger he challenges the very idea of the originary finitude of temporality.This book is essential reading not only for those interested in the philosophical roots of deconstruction, but for all those iTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgements ii Translator's Note ii Introduction ii @to1:Part One: Derrida, Reader of Husserl @toc2:1.1. Eidos and Time 000 @toc3:1. The Problem of Genesis: Time and Truth 000 2. Being has Always Already Begun: Phenomenological, Ontological and Empirical Geneses 000 3. Transcendental Teleology and its Empirical Crisis: the Eidos of Europe 000 @toc2:1.2. The Absolute is Passage 000 @toc3:1. Reactivating the Origin: The Return Inquiry 000 2. Truth Lives Only By Surviving 000 3. Writing and the Transcendental Sense of Death 000 4. The Crisis of History: Fact, Eidos and Fault 000 @toc2:1.3. Forgetting and Memory (Of Ideality) 000 @toc3:1. Difference Dwells in Language Alone 000 2. Memory and Forgetting of Ideality 000 3. Epoch? and Solitary Mental Discourse 000 4. Originary Intuition and Signification 000 5. Duration of the Augenblick: The World in Time 000 6. Widersinnigkeit and Sinnlosigkeit: Ideality of Bedeutung and Non-Intuition 000 @toc1:Part Two: Derrida Before Heidegger @toc2:2.1. Being is Not Gathered 000 @toc3:1. On the Epoch of Representation 000 2. Sendings [Des envois] 000 3. The Paradox of the Origin in Heidegger 000 @toc2:2.2. Whence the Future? 000 @toc3:1. Originary Temporality and Originary Historicality 000 2. Genesis and Origin of Time 000 @toc2:2.3. Dasein's Life 000 @toc3:1. Dasein Does Not Pass Away 000 2. Is My Death Possible? 000 @toc2:Conclusions @toc4:Notes 000 Works Cited 000

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Book SynopsisSpeech act theory has taught us how to do things with words. Arresting Language turns its attention in the opposite directiontoward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume, arresting language is seen as language at rest, words no longer in service to the project of establishing conventions or instituting legal regimes. Concentrating on both widely known and seldom-read texts from a variety of philosophers, writers, and criticsfrom Leibniz and Mendelssohn, through Kleist and Hebel, to Benjamin and Irigaraythe book analyzes the genesis and structure of interruption, a topic of growing interest to contemporary literary studies, continental philosophy, legal studies, and theological reflection.Beginning with an exposition of Hölderlin''s rigorous account of interruption in terms of the pure word, in which the event of representation alone appears, Arresting Language identifies critical moments iTrade Review"Eight unique essays . . . recommended for lage academic or specialized collections." -- Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.Trade Review"[An] imporatant and timely book."—Philosophy in Review"Nancy is indeed one of the most interesting thinkers in France today."—Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsPreface 1. Of being singular plural 2. War, right, sovereignty - Techne 3. Eulogy for the Mele;e 4. The surprice of the event 5. Human excess 6. Cosmos Baselius Notes.

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Book SynopsisIn The Angel of History, Moses looks at three philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem-who formulated a new vision of history informed by Jewish messianism in 1920s Germany.Trade Review"Moses examines how and why these three great German Jewish thinkers turned away from conceptions of history that were rooted in the Enlightenment, and formulated a view of messianism informed by Jewish beliefs. . . Recommended for university and special collections."—Ellen Share, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter"Mosès's literary style is a model of clarity, and The Angel of History is an outstanding and important work of scholarship. It is a reliable and highly readable guide to Rosenzweig, Benjamin, and Scholem that gives insight into the structure of early twentieth-century German Jewish thought, especially as it concerns the problem of history. It deserves a large readership not only in academia but beyond."—Peter Fenves, Northwestern University"With the attentive ear of a literary scholar to the rhetorical texture of texts, the analytical acumen of a philosopher, and the erudition of an intellectual historian, Stéphane Mosès probes the historical consciousness of three of the most seminal figures of German Jewry. Emerging from the trauma of World War One, they questioned the vision of inevitable historical progress. Yet they did not utterly abandon hope in redemption. Evoking the Angel of History who dwells at the dialectical intersection of profane history and messianic time, they continued to affirm the hidden redemptive possibilities of history." —Paul Mendes-Flohr, The University of Chicago"The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem, which first appeared in France in 1992 but has just been published in English by Stanford University Press (in a translation by Barbara Harshav), is a brilliantly lucid introduction to the work of these three figures...The Angel of History offers an introduction to some of the most brilliant and influential Jewish thinkers of the last century. Anyone who is interested in how German Judaism responded, at the highest and most passionate levels, to its imminent destruction should start by reading Stephane Moses."—Adam Kirsch, NextBookTable of ContentsContents Introduction 000 Part 1. Franz Rosenzweig: The Other Side of the West 1 Dissimilation 000 2 Hegel Taken Literally 000 3 Utopia and Redemption 000 Part 2. Walter Benjamin: The Three Models of History 4 Metaphors of Origin: Ideas, Names, Stars 000 5 The Esthetic Model 000 6 The Angel of History 000 Part 3. Gershem Scholem: The Secret History 7 The Paradoxes of Messianism 000 8 Kafka, Freud, and the Crisis of Tradition 000 9 Language and Secularization 000 Notes 000

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Book SynopsisThis is an annotated English translation of one of Nietzsche's seminal early works in which his philosophical concerns and methodologies can be glimpsed.Trade Review"The Colli-Montinari edition has revolutionized our understanding of one of the greatest German thinkers. As a result of the new view opened up by this edition, Nietzsche has clearly come into his own as one of the more important philosophers of modern times. The English-language edition should become a classic that will be used by generations of scholars."—David E. Wellbery, The Johns Hopkins University"The Colli-Montinari critical edition of Nietzsche's works is one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last quarter century. It was not until after World War II that one began to realize the extent to which Nietzsche's notebooks had been tampered with, jumbled, badly deciphered, and poorly edited, and it was not until the Colli-Montinari edition that scholars could be confident for the first time of having a trustworthy text."—Van A. Harvey, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Of the first and last things 2. On the history of the moral sensations 3. The religious life 4. From the souls of artists and writers 5. Signs of higher and lower culture 6. In relations with others 7. Woman and child 8. A glance at the state 9. By oneself alone Among friends: an epilogue.

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Book SynopsisPeter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two parts consists of a series of commentaries on philosophical and aesthetic texts from twelve thinkers and poets between 1795 and 1915: Schelling, Hölderlin, Hegel, Solger, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Vischer, Kierkegaard, Hebbel, Nietzsche, Simmel, and Scheler. The various definitions of tragedy are read not so much in terms of their specific philosophies, but rather in the way their views assist in analyzing tragedies with an aim to establish a general concept of the tragic.The second part presents exemplary analyses of eight tragedies: Sophocles''Oedipus Rex, Calderons Life Is a Dream, Shakespeares Othello, Gryphius Leo Armenius, Racines Phaedra, Schillers Demetrius, Kleist''s The Schroffenstein Family and Büchner''s Danton''s DeathTrade Review“This is a gem of a book. Few critics would be capable of engaging a significant number of the great tragedies and important theorists of tragedy in such short compass. But Szondi does it in completely remarkable fashion. Not only does this make for captivating reading, it also makes this a virtually ideal teaching tool, for it features the signature of Szondi’s writing: great clarity, about complex matters. No one has really replaced Szondi in his role as a theoretically informal interpreter of comparative literature.”—Ian Balfour, York University

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Book SynopsisCompleting the translation of Derrida''s monumental work Right to Philosophy (the first part of which has already appeared under the title of Who''s Afraid of Philosophy?), Eyes of the University brings together many of the philosopher''s most important texts on the university and, more broadly, on the languages and institutions of philosophy.In addition to considerations of the implications for literature and philosophy of French becoming a state language, of Descartes'' writing of the Discourse on Method in French, and of Kant''s and Schelling''s philosophies of the university, the volume reflects on the current state of research and teaching in philosophy and on the question of what Derrida calls a university responsibility.Examining the political and institutional conditions of philosophy, the essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is thereTrade Review"From each of these punctual documents, supplemented by numerous helpful translator's notes, emerges the clear profile of Derrida's principled and relentless commitment to the teaching of philosophy as a right in any democracy worthy of the name."—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Some books recommend themselves by what is written therein; others are to be recommended for what they may inspire their readers to think, say, and do. Few books fall into both categories; the collection of pieces that is Eyes of the University does. But here, near the end, I have chosen my words carefully: "what they may inspire." The rest is up to us."—Philosophy and Rhetoric

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Book SynopsisCompleting the translation of Derrida''s monumental work Right to Philosophy (the first part of which has already appeared under the title of Who''s Afraid of Philosophy?), Eyes of the University brings together many of the philosopher''s most important texts on the university and, more broadly, on the languages and institutions of philosophy.In addition to considerations of the implications for literature and philosophy of French becoming a state language, of Descartes'' writing of the Discourse on Method in French, and of Kant''s and Schelling''s philosophies of the university, the volume reflects on the current state of research and teaching in philosophy and on the question of what Derrida calls a university responsibility.Examining the political and institutional conditions of philosophy, the essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is thereTrade Review"From each of these punctual documents, supplemented by numerous helpful translator's notes, emerges the clear profile of Derrida's principled and relentless commitment to the teaching of philosophy as a right in any democracy worthy of the name."—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Some books recommend themselves by what is written therein; others are to be recommended for what they may inspire their readers to think, say, and do. Few books fall into both categories; the collection of pieces that is Eyes of the University does. But here, near the end, I have chosen my words carefully: "what they may inspire." The rest is up to us."—Philosophy and Rhetoric

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Book SynopsisExamining Levinas's critique of the Heideggerian conception of temporality, this book shows how the notion of the feminine both enables and prohibits the most fertile territory of Levinas's thought.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Ontological difference, sexual difference, and time 2. Heidegger and feminism: bodies, others, temporality 3. Heidegger's critique of metaphysical presence 4. The temporality of saying: politics beyond the ontological difference 5. Giving time and death: Levinas, Heidegger, adn the trauma of the gift 6. Impossible possibility: thinking ethics after Levinas with Rosenzweig and Heidegger in the wake of the Shoah 7. A mourning of philosophy: Levinas's legacy as traumatic response 8. The betrayal of philosophy Conclusion Notes.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some clichés about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture (faith and reason, or idealism and materialism). The use of the Buddhist notion of the Two Truths as a hermeneutic device leads to a double or multiple exposure that will call into question our mental habits and force us to ask questions differently, to think in a new key.Double Exposure is somewhat of an oddity. Written by a specialist for nonspecialists, it is not a book of vulgarization. Although it aims at a better integration of Western and Buddhist thought, it is not an exercise in comparative philosophy or religion. It is neither a contribution to Buddhist scholarship in the narrow sense, nor a contribution to some vague Western spirituality. Cutting across traditional disciplines and blurring established genres, it provides a leisurely but deeply insightful stroll through phTrade Review"Faure's analysis is agile, complex, and perceptive....Double Exposure is a subtle and challenging reflection on both Buddhist and Western culture and thought and should be read by anyone concerned with their encounter in the contemporary world."—The Journal of Religion

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Book SynopsisAs one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt is well known for her writings on political philosophy. Less familiar are her significant contributions to cultural and literary criticism. This edition brings together for the first time Arendt's reflections on literature and culture. The essays include previously unpublished and untranslated material drawn from half a century of engagement with the works of European and American authors, poets, journalists, and literary critics, including such diverse figures as Proust, Melville, Auden, and Brecht.Intended for a wide readership, this volume has the potential to change our view of Arendt by introducing her not only as one of the leading political theorists of her generation, but also as a serious, committed, and highly original literary and cultural critic. Gottlieb's introduction ties the work together, showing how Arendt developed a form of literary and cultural analysis that is entirely heTrade Review"The late German-Jewish political theorist Arendt returned repeatedly in her work to the effects and proper uses of power and authority. This career-spanning collection of essays will reinforce for any reader that these preoccupations followed her even into literary criticism..."—Publishers Weekly"Reading this collection of essays, lectures, reviews, and pieces is a wonderful experiences as one follows Hannah Arendt's thinking on specific artists as well as on general themes."—Consciousness, Literature and the Arts"The insightful essays in this wonderful compilation all focus on the literary figures and cultural themes that Arendt considered pertinent to 20th-century life... And because the collection spans Arendt's career, the reader is granted access to Arendt's early writings and English translations of German originals."—CHOICE"Arendt was one of the most important American political thinkers of the 20th century. The 34 selections in this volume, which span 1930-75, offer great insight into her less notable works of cultural and literary criticism...Gottlieb arranges the selections chronologically, letting readers see both the consistency and the change in ideas."—Library Journal"Reflections on Literature and Culture contains fascinating essays on Kafka, Proust, and Brecht."—New York Review of Books"This work provides clear insight into the intellectual and creative character of the 20th century and is recommended for academic libraries."—Association of Jewish Libraries NewsletterTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Rilke's Duino Elegies (with Gunther Anders) 2. Review of Hans Weil, The Emergence of the German Principle of "Bildung" 3. Friedrich von Gentz: On the 20th Anniversary of his Death, June 9, 1932 4. Adam Muller-Renaissance? 5. Berlin Salon 6. Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke's Revisions 7. Review of Kate Hamburger, Thomas Mann and Romanticism 8. Stefan Zweig: Jews in the World of Yesterday 9. The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition 10. Nightmare and Flight 11. Franz Kafka, Appreciated Anew 12. Great Friend of Reality: Adalbert Stifter 13. French Existentialism 14. No Longer and Not Yet 15. Proof Positive 16. The Streets of Berlin 17. The Too Ambitious Reporter 18. Beyond Personal Frustration: The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht 19. Introduction to Bernard Lazare's Job's Dungheap 20. The Achievement of Hermann Broch 21. Between Vice and Crime (On Proust) 22. The Imperialist Character (On Kipling) 23. The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art 24. Culture and Politics 25. Foreword to Carl Heidenreich's Exhibition Catalog 26. The Social Question (On Melville and Dostoevski) 27. Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits 28. What Is Permitted to Jove': Reflections on the Poet Bertolt Brecht and his Relation to Politics 29. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 30. Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962 31. Dostoevski's Possessed 32. Emerson Address 33. Afterword to Robert Gilbert, No Donkey Has Lost Me While Galopping 34. Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died in the Night of the Twenty-eighth of September, 1973 Editorial Note: On German and English Texts Index

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Book SynopsisRogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term État voyou is the French equivalent of rogue state, and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida rigorously and exhaustively examines.Derrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of democracy to come, which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked Trade Review"Rogues is Derrida's most sustained reflection on deconstruction's relation to political theory in general and to the idea of democracy in particular. . . . Highly recommended."—CHOICE"It is clear that Derrida was keen that the idea of 'democracy to come' would be central to the legacy of his thought, and for those who choose to take up that burden, Rogues will prove essential."—Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Preface: Veni iii @toc1:The Reason of the Strongest (Are there Rogue States?) @toc2:1 The Free Wheel 000 2 License and Freedom: the roue 000 3 The other of democracy, the "by turns": alternative and alternation 000 4 Mastery and Measure 000 5 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or How Not to Speak in Mottos 000 6 The Rogue that I Am 000 7 God, What More Do I Have To Say? In What Language To Come? 000 8 The Last of the Rogue States: The "Democracy to Come," Opening in Two Turns 000 9 (No) More Rogue States 000 10 Sending 000 @toc1:The "World" of the Enlightenment to Come (Exception, Calculation, Sovereignty) @toc2:1 Teleology and Architectonic: The Neutralization of the Event 000 2 To Arrive--at the Ends of the State (and of War, and of World War) 000 @toc4:Notes 000

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