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Stanford University Press Book of Addresses
Book SynopsisThis book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another''s address. The book''s main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference; fiction or literature; and political or public discourse. The book engages principally with contemporary French thought and includes important new readings of work by Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Trade Review"What pleasure, what serious and playful pleasures I had reading this magnificent, substantial book. It is thoroughly knowledgeable, concerned both to guide the reader who is uncertain and to satisfy the one who is informed." -- Hélène Cixous, Collège International de Philosophie * Paris *"Those of us uprooted by the force of Derrida's writing are fortunate to have Kamuf's book to guide us." -- L'Esprit CreateurTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments 0 @toc2:Introduction: Disavowals (A Foreword) 0 @toc1:Home Address Unknown (love, jealousy, sexual difference) @toc2:1 Deconstruction and Love 00 2 Deconstruction and Feminism: A Repetition 00 3 Jealousy Wants Proof 00 4 The Other Sexual Difference 00 5 The Sacrifice of Sarah 00 6 To Give Place: Semi-Approaches to Helene Cixous 00 @toc1:Fictions of Address @toc2:7 "Fiction" and the Experience of the Other 00 8 The Experience of Deconstruction 00 9 Deconstruction Reading Politics: Democracy's Fiction (Everything, Anything, and Nothing at All) 00 10 The Other Fiction 00 11 Syringe (at the point) 00 @toc1:Public Address Systems @toc2:12 The Ghosts of Critique and Deconstruction 00 13 The Haunts of Scholarship 000 14 Derrida on Television, or "Applied Derrida" 000 15 Singular Sense, Second Hand 000 Afterword: On Leaving No Address, by Branka Arsi? 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
£91.80
Stanford University Press Inheriting the Future
Book SynopsisThis book explores several canonical works of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. The surprising juxtaposition of Kant''s moral philosophy, Freud''s reflections on obsessional neurosis, and Flaubert''s peculiar late novel Bouvard et Pécuchet forms the basis of a compelling argument linking each of these central works around the problem of moral thought as it fundamentally determines the modern subject in relation to time. The book engages an area of emerging importance in contemporary critical thought, the problem of ethics or otherness as a crucial factor at play in speculative and literary works. The readings in this book provide insight into the ways in which three fundamental philosophical, psychoanalytic, and literary texts can be reread in light of their confrontation with a seemingly inhuman force at the heart of the foundation of the human subject.Trade Review"Such brilliant and original work is rare. Rottenberg demonstrates remarkable skills as a close reader, as a philosophical thinker, and as a scholar. Her extensive experience as a translator of difficult philosophical texts gives her a particularly fine-tuned sensitivity to the linguistic complexities of the languages with which she works. The book provides an unusual example of the finest comparatist work in the humanities and attests to the remarkable illumination that true interdisciplinary work can provide. This book will appeal to scholars of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis; to literary critics and theorists; and to teachers who will use it for teaching all three of the authors as well as literary criticism and theory." -Shoshana Felman,Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations and Translations xiii Prefatory Note xix Introduction: Of Human Bondage 1 * 1 The Legacy of the Future: Kant and the Ethical Question 21 * 2 Freud: When Morality Makes Us Sick: Disavowal, Ego Splitting, and the Tragedy of Obsessional Neurosis 51 * 3 Flaubert: Testament to Disaster 88 Postscript: Last Words 124 Notes 135 Works Cited 165 Index 171
£18.99
Stanford University Press The Equivocation of Reason
Book SynopsisKleist is a famous misreader of Kant, but this study pitches the latter's principles against the more restricted scope of his own examples in order to develop an ethics and an account of the sublime in keeping with Kleist's literary works.Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface iii @toc2:Introduction 1 1. Penthesilea and the Law Before Oedipus 000 2. A Universal Sublime 000 Conclusion 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
£49.30
Stanford University Press ThoughtImages
Book SynopsisIn this book, Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer. The Denkbild is a poetic mode of writing, a brief snapshot-in-prose that stages the interrelation of literary, philosophical, political, and cultural insights. Richter''s careful analysis of the linguistic characteristics of this mode of writing sheds new light on pivotal concerns of modernity, including the fractured cityscape, philosophical problems of modern music, the experience of exiled homelessness, and the disaster of Auschwitz. Thought-Images not only reorients our understanding of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory in important ways but also establishes significant links between these writers and contemporary French thinkers sTrade Review"Richter's truly fresh look at the Frankfurt School writers through the genre of the philosophical miniature of the Denkbild is a stroke of genius. Richter demonstrates how the Denkbild was both a manifestation of a particular shared conception of aesthetics and a genre with which to expand this conception. The book's major accomplishment is to establish a significant connection between the work of the Frankfurt School and contemporary French thinkers, in particular, Deleuze and Derrida." -- Rodolphe Gasché * SUNY Buffalo, author of The Honor of Thinking(Stanford, 2007) *"Masters of the philosophical miniature, Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, and Kracauer were able to shine light through the smallest cracks in the facade of an increasingly opaque world. Building on their legacy, Gerhard Richter reveals himself to be no less adept at fashioning illuminating thought-images of his own. This collection of scintillating essays is a welcome addition to the ongoing and still lively reception of Frankfurt School ideas." -- Martin Jay * University of California at Berkeley *
£89.10
Stanford University Press ThoughtImages
Book SynopsisIn this book, Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer. The Denkbild is a poetic mode of writing, a brief snapshot-in-prose that stages the interrelation of literary, philosophical, political, and cultural insights. Richter''s careful analysis of the linguistic characteristics of this mode of writing sheds new light on pivotal concerns of modernity, including the fractured cityscape, philosophical problems of modern music, the experience of exiled homelessness, and the disaster of Auschwitz. Thought-Images not only reorients our understanding of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory in important ways but also establishes significant links between these writers and contemporary French thinkers sTrade Review"Richter's truly fresh look at the Frankfurt School writers through the genre of the philosophical miniature of the Denkbild is a stroke of genius. Richter demonstrates how the Denkbild was both a manifestation of a particular shared conception of aesthetics and a genre with which to expand this conception. The book's major accomplishment is to establish a significant connection between the work of the Frankfurt School and contemporary French thinkers, in particular, Deleuze and Derrida."—Rodolphe Gasché, SUNY Buffalo, author of The Honor of Thinking(Stanford, 2007)"Masters of the philosophical miniature, Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, and Kracauer were able to shine light through the smallest cracks in the facade of an increasingly opaque world. Building on their legacy, Gerhard Richter reveals himself to be no less adept at fashioning illuminating thought-images of his own. This collection of scintillating essays is a welcome addition to the ongoing and still lively reception of Frankfurt School ideas." —Martin Jay, University of California at Berkeley
£21.59
Stanford University Press The Messianic Reduction
Book SynopsisThe Messianic Reduction is the first study of Benjamin's early philosophy that takes into consideration the full range of his work, with particular emphasis on its complex relation to phenomenology, Kant and neo-Kantianism, and certain developments in mathematics.Trade Review"Fenves's focus on the messianic reeduction and the shape of time is in its own right an important contribution to the non-specialist's general understanding of Benjamin's thought . . . Fenves's book is certainly valuable as a serious introduction to key elements of Benjamin's early thought, elements that have been relatively overlooked amidst the extensive literature on Benjamin." -- David Gleicher * Critical Sociology *"This book is an exceptional study of Walter Benjamin's early writings in the philosophical context. Of particular interest is the sustained argument regarding Benjamin's contributions to phenomenology and is engagement in the debate with neo-Kantian thinkers. . . Most valuable, perhaps, is the meditation, weaving its way through the entire book, on the transformation of phenomenological reduction in Benjamin's oeuvre. . . This is necessary reading for anyone interested in the intersection of phenomenology and critical theory. Highly recommended." -- M. V. Marder * CHOICE *"Peter Fenves's The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time traces Benjamin's rethinking of experience and temporality to his formative years as a student of philosophy during and after the First World War . . . [U]ltimately revelatory." -- Brian Hanrahan * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Each of the authors, arguments, and problems that Peter Fenves delicately yet disruptively touches upon appears in a new light. This book reveals to us more than a new Benjamin. In the compelling interpretation that constitutes its center and theoretical nucleus, The Messianic Reduction also offers us a meditation on the shape of time that every reflection on history and time, from now on, will need to confront." -- Giorgio Agamben * University of Venice *"What The Messianic Reduction accomplishes is simply astonishing. It is an intricate dance among meticulous readings of the early Benjamin and readings of the philosophical context in which he wrote. Fenves offers us not simply an original window on Benjamin's early works, but also takes up issues that are critical to his entire opus. This extraordinarily ambitious volume will be a keystone to the understanding of Benjamin's work and of his place in twentieth-century philosophy." -- Carol Jacobs * Yale University *
£19.79
Stanford University Press Acting Out
Book SynopsisActing Out is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In How I Became a Philosopher, he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in phenomenological research. Inspired by the Greek stoic Epictetus, Stiegler began to read, write, and discover his vocation, eventually studying philosophy in correspondence with Gérard Granel who was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including Jacques Derrida, who was later Stiegler''s teacher.The second book, To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us, is a powerful distillation of Stiegler''s analysis of the contemporary world. He maintains that a growing loss of a sense of individual and collective existence leads to a decreased ability to love oneself, and, by extension, others. This predicament is viewed through a tragic eveTrade Review"Bernard Stiegler is among the most important and original French philosophers to emerge after the generation of Derrida and Deleuze, broadly more consequent—and more of a 21st century thinker—than some better known names. With the two short and more "personal" monographs that form Acting Out, he will reach a wider audience and find his way toward the center of critical debate. Both monographs are superb portals to his thought and are seminal episodes in his vaster project. How I Became a Philosopher, a fascinating and arresting account of the non-academic "origins" of Stiegler as writer-thinker, raises the specter of where philosophy "changes the world" (Marx), but also where the world can be reinscribed in a philosophic-social act of an authorship; To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us interrogates the figure of "love" in the context of a contemporary "technology of the spirit," penetrating and challenging the cognitive regimes of contemporary politics." —Tom Cohen, SUNY at AlbanyTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc2:How I became a Philosopher 1 To Love, To Love Me, to Love Us 00 @toc3:I. The destruction of primordial narcissism 00 II. The destruction of the process of psychic and collective individuation and the question of evil 00 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
£71.10
Stanford University Press Acting Out
Book SynopsisActing Out is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In How I Became a Philosopher, he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in phenomenological research. Inspired by the Greek stoic Epictetus, Stiegler began to read, write, and discover his vocation, eventually studying philosophy in correspondence with Gérard Granel who was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including Jacques Derrida, who was later Stiegler''s teacher.The second book, To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us, is a powerful distillation of Stiegler''s analysis of the contemporary world. He maintains that a growing loss of a sense of individual and collective existence leads to a decreased ability to love oneself, and, by extension, others. This predicament is viewed through a tragic eveTrade Review"Bernard Stiegler is among the most important and original French philosophers to emerge after the generation of Derrida and Deleuze, broadly more consequent—and more of a 21st century thinker—than some better known names. With the two short and more "personal" monographs that form Acting Out, he will reach a wider audience and find his way toward the center of critical debate. Both monographs are superb portals to his thought and are seminal episodes in his vaster project. How I Became a Philosopher, a fascinating and arresting account of the non-academic "origins" of Stiegler as writer-thinker, raises the specter of where philosophy "changes the world" (Marx), but also where the world can be reinscribed in a philosophic-social act of an authorship; To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us interrogates the figure of "love" in the context of a contemporary "technology of the spirit," penetrating and challenging the cognitive regimes of contemporary politics." —Tom Cohen, SUNY at AlbanyTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc2:How I became a Philosopher 1 To Love, To Love Me, to Love Us 00 @toc3:I. The destruction of primordial narcissism 00 II. The destruction of the process of psychic and collective individuation and the question of evil 00 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
£18.04
Stanford University Press ReFiguring Hayden White
Book SynopsisRe-Figuring Hayden White is a reconsideration of the work of Hayden White by a group of internationally prominent scholars from the fields of history, philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural studies.Trade Review"This book constitutes a fresh and welcome understanding of the work of Hayden White, the foremost history theorist of the last forty years. Anyone interested in developments in historical thinking and practice must read this book." —Alun Munslow University of Chichester
£112.20
Stanford University Press Dialectic and Dialogue
Book SynopsisThis book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and, beginning with the ancient Greeks and moving through modern philosophy, traces a historical and systematic relation between the two.Trade Review"Nikulin's newest book on dialogue and dialectics displays a beautiful combination of great scholarship, fine storytelling, and innovative ideas." -- Ágnes Heller"Dialectic and Dialogue is a very important work, potentially a classic. It is stimulating throughout, as well as original in conception and execution—the first study to bring together these two signal concepts." -- Mark Roche"This book is one of the most interesting, intelligent, and engaging discussions of dialogue and dialectic in recent decades. While it returns us to certain practices of ancient philosophy, it can be seen paradoxically as serving the contemporary continuation of philosophy as a meaningful mode of engaged mindfulness." -- William Desmond * Catholic University of Leuven *"In this beautifully written and erudite book, Dmitri Nikulin brings philosophy to life in a double sense. He shows how the method of dialectic originates in the open-ended practice of dialogue, and he engages us in a lively dialogue with thinkers of the past, both ancient and modern. Nikulin's narrative is full of original insights and surprises, such as a defense of the philosophical dignity of interruption (for which many of us have long been waiting)." -- Rainer Forst, Goethe-University * Frankfurt am Main *
£17.99
Stanford University Press The Power of Life
Book SynopsisA study of Giorgio Agamben's philosophy of life within the field of political theory and beyond.Trade Review"Through the combination of biographical research and textual analysis of Giorgio Agamben's work a picture emerges of a life infused and transformed by philosophy . . . Kishik's work is an insightful and engaging companion to Agamben's lifework." -- J. Paetkau * Useful Illusions *"An outstanding piece of work." -- Simon Critchley * New School for Social Research *"Combining novel biographical research with lucid textual analysis, Kishik's illuminating The Power of Life shows the reader how Agamben's work can help us to imagine new forms of life and radically transform philosophical thought and practice. His reading of Agamben is precise and informative, and I can think of no better or more reliable guide for working through Agamben's complex writings." -- Matthew Calarco, California State University * Fullerton *
£18.04
Stanford University Press On Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book re-examines important figures from the entire history of philosophy to show how and why philosophy must renew itself as a critical practice dedicated to dialogue with women, people of color, LGBTs, and others who seek liberation from age-old oppressions.Trade Review"Prolific philosopher John McCumber gives us a new treat and a new angle for reconsidering the history of philosophy in this book." -- Wendy Hamblet * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *"John McCumber's On Philosophy is an engaging, provocative, well-argued analysis of philosophy's current situation. Grounded in a strong reading of philosophy's history from Aristotle to the present, it is richly suggestive and provocative." -- Gary Shapiro * University of Richmond *"This book will be useful for any educated reader interested in learning about the state of philosophy today. Graduate students wondering whether they have made the right choices in life might find it particularly helpful, since the book contains a number of reflections on professional philosophy in the academy. Recommended." -- B. T. Harding * CHOICE *"This is a highly original book that makes a distinctive and significant contribution to a number of different philosophical debates, including the nature of reason, the philosophy of history, the modernity/postmodernity debate, and the relationship between metaphysics and oppression. Along the way, McCumber stakes out interesting and well-defended interpretive positions vis-à-vis Hegel and Heidegger. This is an outstanding work and deserves to be widely read and discussed." -- Amy Allen * Dartmouth College *
£98.60
Stanford University Press Philosophy and Melancholy
Book SynopsisThis book establishes first, that melancholy serves as an important focal point in the interpretation of Benjamin's early work, and second, that Benjamin's approach to melancholy releases it from its customary psychological context, turning it into a philosophical premise.Trade Review"Ilit Ferber's meticulous reconstruction of the role of melancholy in Benjamin's Origin of the German Trauerspiel, participates in [the] scholarly return to Benjamin's philosophical beginnings . . . [H]er analysis offers a fresh, concise, and insightful presentation, formulated in exemplary clarity, of Benjamin's early inquiry into the interrelations among melancholy, language, and truth." -- Rolf J. Goebel * Monatshefte: For German-language Literature & Culture *"It is the merit of Ferber's Philosophy and Melancholy to let such a call of an infinite responsibility reach us through such a careful, loving, and attentive reading of Benjamin . . . I know very few books in our contemporary time which have so powerfully intervened in debates concerning mood as linguistic and philosophical phenomenon . . . [T]he book as it stands is still beautiful and an important to some of the deepest concerns of our time." -- Saitya Bras Das * Comparative and Continental Philosophy *"Ferber enters the burgeoning field of Benjamin scholarship with her meticulous study . . . Readers interested in working through the details of Benjamin's philosophy will find much in this book . . . Recommended." -- M. Donougho * CHOICE *"An impressive work of articulate scholarship, Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections in Theater and Language is a highly recommended and welcome addition to academic library Philosophical Studies reference collections and an important critique for students of Walter Benjamin's life and work." -- The Midwest Book Review"This is a remarkable and timely study of Walter Benjamin's early writings. No longer an obscure hermetic work from some distant historical moment, Benjamin's Trauerspiel becomes central to contemporary philosophical concerns." -- Andrew Benjamin * Monash University *"Ilit Ferber's study of the structuring role played by the concept of melancholy in Benjamin's Origin of German Trauerspiel offers a penetrating and absolutely original account of a central problem in Benjamin's development of a philosophically-based criticism. Ferber's book reveals melancholy, usually treated as something merely subjective and psychological, as a 'fundamental mood of philosophical disclosure' and a 'philosophical, structural edifice.' By displacing the emphasis from personal pathology to historical and philosophical structures, she is able to open up melancholy as a structure of loss with profound consequences for narrative, history, and philosophy. The full thrust of Benjamin's emphasis on Baroque eschatology emerges here for the first time: the loss of the world, both present and impending, is represented as the melancholic structure of an era.Philosophy and Melancholy intervenes powerfully in contemporary debates on the ongoing role of psychoanalytic criticism, on the philosophical problem of the relationship of consciousness to objects, and on the role of affect in language." -- Michael Jennings * Princeton University *
£81.90
Stanford University Press Philosophy and Melancholy
Book SynopsisThis book establishes first, that melancholy serves as an important focal point in the interpretation of Benjamin's early work, and second, that Benjamin's approach to melancholy releases it from its customary psychological context, turning it into a philosophical premise.Trade Review"Ilit Ferber's meticulous reconstruction of the role of melancholy in Benjamin's Origin of the German Trauerspiel, participates in [the] scholarly return to Benjamin's philosophical beginnings . . . [H]er analysis offers a fresh, concise, and insightful presentation, formulated in exemplary clarity, of Benjamin's early inquiry into the interrelations among melancholy, language, and truth." -- Rolf J. Goebel * Monatshefte: For German-language Literature & Culture *"It is the merit of Ferber's Philosophy and Melancholy to let such a call of an infinite responsibility reach us through such a careful, loving, and attentive reading of Benjamin . . . I know very few books in our contemporary time which have so powerfully intervened in debates concerning mood as linguistic and philosophical phenomenon . . . [T]he book as it stands is still beautiful and an important to some of the deepest concerns of our time." -- Saitya Bras Das * Comparative and Continental Philosophy *"Ferber enters the burgeoning field of Benjamin scholarship with her meticulous study . . . Readers interested in working through the details of Benjamin's philosophy will find much in this book . . . Recommended." -- M. Donougho * CHOICE *"An impressive work of articulate scholarship, Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections in Theater and Language is a highly recommended and welcome addition to academic library Philosophical Studies reference collections and an important critique for students of Walter Benjamin's life and work." -- The Midwest Book Review"This is a remarkable and timely study of Walter Benjamin's early writings. No longer an obscure hermetic work from some distant historical moment, Benjamin's Trauerspiel becomes central to contemporary philosophical concerns." -- Andrew Benjamin * Monash University *"Ilit Ferber's study of the structuring role played by the concept of melancholy in Benjamin's Origin of German Trauerspiel offers a penetrating and absolutely original account of a central problem in Benjamin's development of a philosophically-based criticism. Ferber's book reveals melancholy, usually treated as something merely subjective and psychological, as a 'fundamental mood of philosophical disclosure' and a 'philosophical, structural edifice.' By displacing the emphasis from personal pathology to historical and philosophical structures, she is able to open up melancholy as a structure of loss with profound consequences for narrative, history, and philosophy. The full thrust of Benjamin's emphasis on Baroque eschatology emerges here for the first time: the loss of the world, both present and impending, is represented as the melancholic structure of an era.Philosophy and Melancholy intervenes powerfully in contemporary debates on the ongoing role of psychoanalytic criticism, on the philosophical problem of the relationship of consciousness to objects, and on the role of affect in language." -- Michael Jennings * Princeton University *
£19.79
Stanford University Press Requiem for the Ego
Book SynopsisThe attack on psychoanalysis launched by Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein converged on Freud's construction of the modernist ego, thereby providing the competing notions of subjectivity and agency that characterize postmodernism.Trade Review"This is an important book in the philosophy of science, but it is also an important critique of the history of 20th century philosophy and its relationship to psychology. The blurred lines are here clarified and the denial on the part of philosophy that it was and is in a dialogue with psychology is laid to rest for once and for all." -- Sander Gilman * Emory University *"[T]he chief value of [Requiem for the Ego] . . . is to create a basis for now reconsidering Freud's intellectual accomplishments, as well as the enduring elements of the Enlightenment that may yet prove useful in an era of postmodernism. This book reanimates part of this hidden conversation, without either predictions or prescriptions. Summing up: Recommended." -- D.W. Sullivan * CHOICE *"Requiem for the Ego, is a remarkable piece of work. It is exhaustive scholarship of the first order, and clearly written on a subject about which it is very difficult to be clear. I have no doubt it will be of enormous use to a great many people." -- Marcia Cavell * Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research *
£98.60
Stanford University Press Requiem for the Ego
Book SynopsisThe attack on psychoanalysis launched by Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein converged on Freud's construction of the modernist ego, thereby providing the competing notions of subjectivity and agency that characterize postmodernism.Trade Review"This is an important book in the philosophy of science, but it is also an important critique of the history of 20th century philosophy and its relationship to psychology. The blurred lines are here clarified and the denial on the part of philosophy that it was and is in a dialogue with psychology is laid to rest for once and for all." -- Sander Gilman * Emory University *"[T]he chief value of [Requiem for the Ego] . . . is to create a basis for now reconsidering Freud's intellectual accomplishments, as well as the enduring elements of the Enlightenment that may yet prove useful in an era of postmodernism. This book reanimates part of this hidden conversation, without either predictions or prescriptions. Summing up: Recommended." -- D.W. Sullivan * CHOICE *"Requiem for the Ego, is a remarkable piece of work. It is exhaustive scholarship of the first order, and clearly written on a subject about which it is very difficult to be clear. I have no doubt it will be of enormous use to a great many people." -- Marcia Cavell * Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research *
£25.19
Stanford University Press Borrowed Light
Book SynopsisA critical revaluation of humanism, this book makes a case for the 20th-century as the "anticolonial century" by returning to the scientific Enlightenment and following a neglected intellectual tradition that led to what we today call Marxism.Trade Review"This surprising, provoking book re-charts the intellectual map by reassembling lineages of anticolonial thought, and rescuing with new readings old texts that were supposedly behind us. Vigorously engaged on the battlefield of contemporary theoretical debates, the book's argument and its execution are classic Brennan." -- Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center and Professor Emeritus * Cornell University *"Timothy Brennan's Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies, Volume I is a powerful and provocative work of intellectual history and critical theory. Brennan challenges us to rethink many of our contemporary theories in light of the historical relationship between philosophy and colonialism. He is particularly invested in a tradition of philological thought that begins with Vico and passes through Hegel and Marx on its way to the anticolonial movements of the twentieth century. And he is especially concerned to combat an anti-humanist and 'counterphilological' trend that he traces from Spinoza and Nietzsche into Bataille and a variety of contemporary theorists." -- Avram Alpert * Journal of Modern Literature *"Borrowed Light is a significant contribution to postcolonial studies by a scholar widely acknowledged as a leading figure in the field. Written in the polemical spirit of the author's teacher, Edward Said, and drawing on a genuinely impressive command of the field, it outlines how an important strand in the history of European philosophy was connected to imperialism, whether affirmatively or critically." -- Simon During"This is a work of vast ambition, dazzling erudition and lapidary brilliance. Centering on Vico, the 'Vichian tradition', and philology-as-method, the book's agenda is to give us a different version of the past of anti-colonial thought." -- Neil Lazarus
£84.15
Stanford University Press Borrowed Light
Book SynopsisA critical revaluation of humanism, this book makes a case for the 20th-century as the "anticolonial century" by returning to the scientific Enlightenment and following a neglected intellectual tradition that led to what we today call Marxism.Trade Review"This surprising, provoking book re-charts the intellectual map by reassembling lineages of anticolonial thought, and rescuing with new readings old texts that were supposedly behind us. Vigorously engaged on the battlefield of contemporary theoretical debates, the book's argument and its execution are classic Brennan." -- Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center and Professor Emeritus * Cornell University *"Timothy Brennan's Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies, Volume I is a powerful and provocative work of intellectual history and critical theory. Brennan challenges us to rethink many of our contemporary theories in light of the historical relationship between philosophy and colonialism. He is particularly invested in a tradition of philological thought that begins with Vico and passes through Hegel and Marx on its way to the anticolonial movements of the twentieth century. And he is especially concerned to combat an anti-humanist and 'counterphilological' trend that he traces from Spinoza and Nietzsche into Bataille and a variety of contemporary theorists." -- Avram Alpert * Journal of Modern Literature *"Borrowed Light is a significant contribution to postcolonial studies by a scholar widely acknowledged as a leading figure in the field. Written in the polemical spirit of the author's teacher, Edward Said, and drawing on a genuinely impressive command of the field, it outlines how an important strand in the history of European philosophy was connected to imperialism, whether affirmatively or critically." -- Simon During"This is a work of vast ambition, dazzling erudition and lapidary brilliance. Centering on Vico, the 'Vichian tradition', and philology-as-method, the book's agenda is to give us a different version of the past of anti-colonial thought." -- Neil Lazarus
£21.59
Louisiana State University Press The History of the Race Idea From Ray to Carus
Book SynopsisPlaces the rise of the race idea in the context of the development of modern philosophy. The history of the race idea, according to Eric Voegelin, begins with the post-Christian orientation toward a natural system of living forms.
£47.70
Southern Illinois University Press Malebranches First and Last Critics Simon
Book SynopsisIn this engrossing double volume, the work and thought of Nicolas Malebranche is examined through the eyes of Simon Foucher and Dortous de Mairan. Part 1 consists of Richard A. Watson's translation of the first published critique, by Simon Foucher, of Malebranche's main philosophical work, Of the Search for the Truth. In the second part, Marjorie Grene presents a meticulous translation of the long correspondence between Malebranche and Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan that ended shortly before Malebranche's death. Both Watson and Grene provide insightful introductions to their translations.The influence of the works of Malebranche has been extensive, as has the influence of the lesser works of his first critic, Simon Foucher. Although Foucher was a minor philosopher of the seventeenth century, he provided arguments that led to a crucial turning point in modern philosophy. Listened to with care and treated with respect by Leibniz, Foucher's arguments were utilized by Bayle, Berkeley, and Hume toward the destruction not only of Cartesian metaphysics but of substance philosophy as well. In this translation of Foucher's work, it is now possible for readers of Malebranche's Of the Search for the Truth to evaluate the immediate response of a young philosopher about town to one of the most important philosophical works of his day. The correspondence between Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, an obscure provincial, and Nicolas Malebranche has usually been viewed as a small addendum to the works of Malebranche. Marjorie Grene, however, in her translation of this correspondence, considers it not only a contribution to the Malebranchian corpus but also an example of a reaction to Spinoza. Born at Béziers in the south of France in 1678, Mairan went to Paris in 1698, where he studied mathematics with Malebranche. Their correspondence began four years later when Mairan returned to Béziers to accept a position with the local bishop. In his letters to Malebranche, Mairan reveals himself to be one of no more than a handful of known readers of Spinoza who, in the early eighteenth century, admitted fascination with Spinoza's presentation of his thoroughly unorthodox God and his equally unorthodox nature.
£30.95
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon
Book SynopsisConsidered the first significant teacher of rhetoric in America, John Witherspoon also introduced Scottish moral philosophy to the US. Thomas P. Miller argues that Witherspoon’s career exemplifies the Ciceronian ideal, and the eight selections Miller presents from the 1802 American edition of the Works corroborate that claim.
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Language Beyond Postmodernism Saying and Thinking
Book SynopsisEugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays Each essay is followed by a comment from Gendlin himself. The work investigates how concepts grow out of experience, and compares Gendlin's work to that of Wittgenstein, Dilthey and Heidegger.
£29.96
Northwestern University Press The Human Experience of Time The Development of
Book SynopsisThis anthology provides an overview of the concept of time in the Western philosophic tradition. Using writings dated from the Book of Genesis to the work of 20th century philosophers, this text offers a synoptic view of the changing philosophic notions of time.
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Northwestern University Press Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
Book SynopsisAfter more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche explicitly acknowledged Dostoevsky's relevance to his work, noting its affinities as well as itspoints of opposition. Both of them are credited with laying much of the foundation for what came to be called existentialist thought. The essays in this volume bring a fresh perspective to a relationship that illuminates a great deal of twentieth-centuryintellectual history. Among the questions taken up by contributors are the possibility of morality in a godless world, the function of philosophy if reason is not the highest expression of our humanity, the nature of tragedy when performed for a bourgeois audience, and the justification of suffering if it is not divinely sanctioned. Above all, these essays remind us of the supreme value of the questioning itself that pervades the work of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche.
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Northwestern University Press Kants Conception of Pedagogy
Book SynopsisAlthough he was involved in the education debates of his time, it is widely held that in his mature philosophical writings Immanuel Kant is silent on the subject. In her groundbreaking Kant's Conception of Pedagogy, G. Felicitas Munzel finds extant in Kant's writings the so-called missing critical treatise on education; it appears in the Doctrines of Method with which he concludes each of his major works. Here Kant identifies the fundamental principles for the cultivation of reason's judgment when it comes to cognition, beauty, nature, and the exercise of morality while subject to the passions and inclinations that characterize the human experience. From her analysis, Munzel extrapolates principles for a cosmopolitan education that parallels the structure of Kant's republican constitution for perpetual peace. With the formal principles in place, the argument concludes with a query of the material principles that would fulfill the formal conditions required for an education for freedom.
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Northwestern University Press Subject Lessons Hegel Lacan and the Future of
Book SynopsisResponding to the ongoing objectal turn throughout contemporary humanities and social sciences, the eleven essays in Subject Lessons present a sustained case for the continued importance - indeed, the indispensability - of the category of the subject for the future of materialist thought.Trade ReviewThink of it as 'object ontology' meets 'objet a ontology.' In this volume of superb essays, the 'new materialism' associated with figures like Harman, Meillassoux, Bennett, and Bryant finds a Lacanian rejoinder well spoken for by Hegel's famous line: 'Not only as substance but also as subject!' An invaluable exchange between two major currents of contemporary theory." —Richard Boothby, author of Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan"A band of new materialists has come after the subject, knives drawn. In what ways do these thinkers differ from materialists past? From each other? What do they mean when they speak of materialism, of objects, or subjects? By confronting these basic questions directly, the essays in this collection cut through the babble of confused debate to offer clear accounts of the issues at stake." —Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There's No WomanTable of Contents Introduction: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism - Russell Sbriglia and Slavoj Žižek Part I. Hegel and Philosophical Materialism 1. What 's the Matter? On Matter and Related Matters - Mladen Dolar 2. Subjectivity in Times of (New) Materialisms: Hegel and Conceptualization - Borna Radnik 3. Objects after Subjects: Hegel 's Broken Ontology - Todd McGowan 4. Elements of Dialectical Materialism in Hegel and Marx - Andrew Cole 5. Intellectual Intuition and Intellectus Archetypus: Reflexivity from Kant to Hegel - Slavoj Žižek Part II. Lacan and Psychoanalytic Materialism 6. Fear of Science: Transcendental Materialism and Its Discontents - Adrian Johnston 7. Ontology and the Death Drive: Lacan and Deleuze - Alenka Zupancic 8. Why Sex is Special: Psychoanalysis against New Materialism - Nathan Gorelick 9. Twisting "Flat Ontology": Harman 's "Allure" and Lacan 's Extimate Cause - Molly Anne Rothenberg 10. Becoming and the Challenge of Ontological Incompleteness: Virginia Woolf avec Lacan contra Deleuze - Kathryn Van Wert 11. From Sublimity to Sublimation: Hegel, Lacan, Melville - Russell Sbriglia Notes Contributors
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University of Pennsylvania Press On the Old Saw
Book SynopsisIn this famous essay, first published in 1793, Kant considers the alleged conflict between theory and practice in the conduct of human affairs in three widening contexts: those of the common person faced with a moral decision, of the politician and the citizen concerned with the extent and limits of political obligation, and, finally, of the citizen of the world whose actions have a bearing on war and peace among nations.Unlike other animals, Kant reminds us, people must decide how they will live their lives. They therefore ask for a guide to action, a set of principles—a theory.From the outset, Kant rejects the ancient claim that the practical possibilities of action cannot always be reconciled with moral demands. He offers his own moral theory, a theory starting out from the principle of the right as an unequivocal guide to action. In partial disagreement with the rival theories of Hobbes and Locke, he proposes that the only condition under which the individual cTrade Review"The old objection to philosophy that it is 'impractical' seems to have as one of its best targets Kant's philosophy. In this essay, Kant responds to this objection in the name of philosophy in general and in his own name as a philosopher whose thoughts were and still are commonly believed to be singularly applicable to the realities of politics and everyday life. This essay is of prime importance in reaching a just estimate of the contribution philosophy, including Kantian philosophy, can make to the practical solution of human problems." * Lewis White Beck *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna Ibn Sina
Book SynopsisIslamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna''s contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna''s psychology and poetics and to the ways in which they influenced strains of theological, mystical, and literary thought in subsequent Islamic—and Western—intellectual and religious history.Heath begins by showing how Avicenna''s writings fit into the context and general history of Islamic allegory and explores the interaction among allegory, allegoresis, and philosophy in Avicenna''s thought. He then provides a brief introduction to Avicenna as an historical figure. From there, he examines the ways in which Avicenna''s cosmological, psychological, and epistemological theories find parallel, if diverse, expression in the disparate formats of philosophical and allegorical narration. InTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Dates List of Abbreviations Journals and Reference Works Titles of Works by Avicenna Preface PART I. INTRODUCTION 1. Avicenna and Islamic Allegory 2. Avicenna: Courtier, Physician, Philosopher PART II. ALLEGORY AND PHILOSOPHY 3. The Structure and Representation of the Cosmos 4. Avicenna's Theory of the Soul 5. Avicenna's Theory of Knowledge PART III. THE MI'R J N MA 6. Translation of the Mi'râj Nâma 7. The Translation of the Mi'râj Nâma (The Book of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven) PART IV. INTERPRETATION AND ALLEGORY 7. The Interpretation and Function of Allegory 8. Allegory and Allegoresis APPENDICES Appendix A On Allegory Appendix B On the Attribution of the Mi'râj Nâma Appendix C The Manuscripts Appendix D The Text of Avicenna's Version of the Mi'râj (without his attendant commentary) BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Neoplatonic Socrates
Book SynopsisThe Neoplatonic Socrates explores the portrait of the great philosopher as developed by the Platonists in the first six centuries C.E. and examines Neoplatonic attitudes toward themes relevant to the contemporary studies of Socrates.Trade Review"This volume, full of scholarly, well-written, and helpful articles, is a must for those interested in Socratic and Platonic studies, ancient hermeneutics and ethics, Neoplatonism, and the critical history of ancient philosophy." * Journal of the History of Philosophy *"A welcome addition to growing scholarly interests in Neoplatonism and Socratic studies. These essays open up the fascinating world of how later Platonists read the dialogues and allow us to glimpse the Socratic dialogues in a way that defamiliarizes them, yielding a substantially new view of Socrates from prevailing modern analytic tendencies." * Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan *"An invaluable contribution to Neoplatonic studies. Through the eyes of later Neoplatonists and in an appropriate scholarly and rigorous manner, it reconsiders and frequently challenges current trends in the study of the Socratic problem and the role of Socrates in the Platonic tradition. [Even though] the volume is centered on later Neoplatonic thinkers, the various essays also encourage a reexamination of the reception of Socrates in Middle Platonists and early Neoplatonists such as Plutarch, Plotinus and Porphyry, and they may well trigger a rethinking of our own image of Socrates." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction —Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant Chapter 1. Socratic Love in Neoplatonism —Geert Roskam Chapter 2. Plutarch and Apuleius on Socrates' Daimonion —John F. Finamore Chapter 3. The Daimonion of Socrates: Daimones and Divination in Neoplatonism —Crystal Addey Chapter 4. Socrates in the Neoplatonic Psychology of Hermias —Christina-Panagiota Manolea Chapter 5. The Character of Socrates and the Good of Dialogue Form: Neoplatonic Hermeneutics —Danielle A. Layne Chapter 6. Hypostasizing Socrates —Michael Griffin Chapter 7. Socratic Character: Proclus on the Function of Erotic Intellect —James M. Ambury Chapter 8. The Elenctic Strategies of Socrates: The Alcibiades I and the Commentary of Olympiodorus —François Renaud Chapter 9. Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius's Commentary on Epictetus's Encheiridion —Marilynn Lawrence Chapter 10. The Many-Voiced Socrates: Neoplatonist Sensitivity to Socrates' Change of Register —Harold Tarrant Conclusion —Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant Appendix: The Reception of Socrates in Late Antiquity: Authors, Texts, and Notable References Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Who Speaks for Nature On the Politics of Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This exquisitely written book poses a question that sits at the intersection of political theory and science studies: how do natural scientists come to be privileged spokespersons for nature? . . . Ephraim makes the case that the scientific authority to speak for non-humans (i.e. 'nature') is as worldly as is the political authority to speak for humans . . . [A] thoughtful, creative, and illuminating work." * Theory & Event *"Laura Ephraim brilliantly unsettles and constructively reorganizes the terms of political theory's approach to the intersection of science and politics. Who Speaks for Nature? is an outstanding book, deeply informed by the history of modern political and scientific thought yet engaged with the immediate political stakes of controversies about scientific authority, in the social and natural sciences alike." * Patchen Markell, University of Chicago *"Who Speaks for Nature? is an impressive piece of scholarship and a fascinating book filled with new and creative readings of Arendt, Vico, Hobbes, and Descartes. It will be an important book for anyone interested in the political theory of scientific authority." * Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Platos Persona
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With an enviable erudition and a superb command of printed and manuscript sources, as well as of the rhetorical tradition, Robichaud's book has enriched this already impressive tradition of Ficino scholarship. A mere glance into the index locorum of the book reveals the scope of Robichaud's research. Plato's Persona is an important and timely contribution to our understanding of Ficino's work; the book has enormous potential to engender new scholarship on Renaissance Platonism and its cultural environment in general. It is a must-read for any specialist in the field, because its author substantially enhances our sensitivity to Ficino's approach to Platonism in some crucial, but hitherto rather neglected, aspects." * Journal of the History of Philosophy *"Well documented and nicely written, this volume is a fine contribution to our understanding of the history of Platonism as well as to our grasp of the contributions of Marsilio Ficinio to Renaissance humanism. It is a model for how to conjoin research into the history of thought with an active engagement of philosophical questions." * International Philosophical Quarterly *"In Plato's Persona, Robichaud takes his place alongside Chastel, Kristeller, and Allen as one of the new generation's leading Ficino specialists. He does this by attempting something that has not been done before, 'writing a single volume analyzing Ficino's hermeneutics for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole . . . ' Plato's Persona is a work of serious scholarship that gives us a Ficino for our time."" * Neo-Latin News *"In Plato's Persona, Denis Robichaud studies Italian Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino's writings with the keen eye and skills of a multilingual classical philologist, yet also through the broad perspective of an intellectual historian. Noting that Ficino is usually read for his scholarly contributions rather than his rhetorical skills, Robichaud aptly employs that additional lens to highlight the Italian philosopher's importance for both intellectual and creative letters. The result is an impressive study that elucidates the surprisingly poetic aspects of Ficino's thought and practices." * Bulletin of the Comediantes *"The breadth of sources which Robichaud analyses in detail and in their original languages is remarkable… Robichaud’s sensitivity to various literary forms, his rhetorical ingenuity and his detailed, as well as imaginative, analyses of manuscripts, including their paratexts, makes this book as valuable for literary scholars as it is for historians of philosophy. Both will also embrace Robichaud’s compelling account of Ficino and his engagement with the Platonic corpus." * International Journal of the Classical Tradition *"Plato's Persona is a valuable contribution to our understanding of Ficino and his complex engagement both with Plato and the Pythagoreans and with Augustine and the later Neoplatonists." * Michael J. B. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles *"Plato's Persona contains much new information on Ficino's self-conception as a philosopher and on his approach to understanding Plato. I am impressed by Robichaud's control of the literature, ancient and modern, and the linguistic range it demonstrates." * John Monfasani, University at Albany, State University of New York *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Prosopon/Persona: Philosophy and Rhetoric Chapter 2. Ficino and the Platonic Corpus Chapter 3. Socrates Chapter 4. Pythagoras and Pythagoreans Chapter 5. Plato Conclusion Appendix. Heuristic Prosopography of Ficino's Pythagoreans Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisFriedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place. Robert C. Holub counters this narrative, arguing that Nietzsche was very well attuned to the events and issues of his era and responded to them frequently in his writings. Organized around nine important questions circulating in Europe at the time in the realms of politics, society, and science, Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century presents a thorough investigation of Nietzsche's familiarity with contemporary life, his contact with and comments on these various questions, and the sources from which he gathered his knowledge. Holub begins his analysis with Nietzsche's views on education, nationhood, and the working-class movement, turns to questions of women and women's emancipation, colonialism, and Jews and Judaism, and looks at Nietzsche's dealings with evolutionary biology, cosmological theorieTrade Review"Nietzsche famously described himself as an 'untimely' thinker. Yet his thought was deeply embedded in the debates of his time. In nine sharp chapters ranging from the women's question and colonialism to anti-Semitism and eugenics, Robert Holub sheds revealing light on the oftentimes surprising origin and development of Nietzsche's ideas from out of the arguments and disputes that shaped intellectual life during the latter half of the nineteenth century. A must read for anyone interested in understanding Nietzsche and his importance for us today." * Hugo Drochon, University of Cambridge *Table of ContentsA Note on Citations Introduction: The Timely Meditator Chapter 1. The Education Question Chapter 2. The German Question Chapter 3. The Social Question Chapter 4. The Women's Question Chapter 5. The Colonial Question Chapter 6. The Jewish Question Chapter 7. The Evolution Question Chapter 8. The Cosmological Question Chapter 9. The Eugenics Question Concluding Remarks Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Carnal Spirit
Book SynopsisIt is rare for a thinker of Charles Péguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship. The neglect may be in part because so much about Péguy is contestable and paradoxical. He strongly opposed the modern historicist drive to reduce writers to their times, yet he was very much a product of philosophical currents swirling through French intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a passionate Dreyfusard who converted to Catholicism but was a consistent anticlerical. He was a socialist and an anti-Marxist, and at once a poet, journalist, and philosopher. Péguy (1873-1914) rose from a modest childhood in provincial France to a position of remarkable prominence in European intellectual life. Before his death in battle in World War I, he founded his own journal in order to publish what he thought most honestly, and urgently, needed to be said about politics, history, philosophy, literature, art, and religion. His writing and life weTrade Review"[D]ensely argued, empathetic . . . Matthew Maguire deftly addresses such subjects as Péguy's socialism, which had nothing to do with Karl Marx, but derived from an earlier Gallic source, Charles Fourier, who prophesised a pleasure-based society where libido was a motivating element in work and societal interactions." * Catholic Herald *"[A]n excellent, thorough, engaging critical biography . . . In Carnal Spirit,, Matthew Maguire maps Péguy's complex intellectual world in fin-de-siècle Paris . . . We need, Maguire calls out from the text, a thinker like Péguy who 'upholds the legitimacy of embodied and particular lives, individual and communal, as well as the demands of universal justice and the dignity of all human beings.' And he is right." * French History *"Matthew W. Maguire's mastery of Charles Péguy's voluminous writings is impressive. His book will bring certain contemporary questions into sharp relief, not least the new forms of totalization and control whose early versions Péguy detected at the turn of the twentieth century." * Annette Aronowicz, author of Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Péguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Modernity, Antimodernity, and Beyond Chapter 2. His Youth Chapter 3. An Answer to the Question: What Is Modernity? Chapter 4. The Revolution of Critique Chapter 5. Revolutions of the Body and Work Chapter 6. Continuity and Revolution: War and Honor Chapter 7. Universal Particulars, Particular Universalities Chapter 8. Mysticism and Politics Chapter 9. The Style of Infinite Reality Chapter 10. The Christian Revolution Chapter 11. Despair and Exaltation Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Western Creed Western Identity Essays in Legal
Book SynopsisInvestigates the classical roots of Western culture and its religious sources in order to find its underlying intellectual and spiritual commitments. The essays are written from a single vantage point - one associated with Thomas Aquinas, though their natural law outlook is far older.
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy
Book SynopsisProvies a major interpretive study of Heidegger's complex relationship to medieval philosophy. S. J. McGrath's contribution is historical and biographical as well as philosophical, examining how the enthusiastic defender of the Aristotelian-Scholastic tradition became the great destroyer of metaphysical theology.Trade Review“McGrath's book is an impressive study of Heidegger's philosophy, which sheds light on almost all aspects of the early Heidegger and undoubtedly the book is an important contribution to the understanding of the relationship between Heidegger's philosophy and theology.” - Christian Lotz, The Medieval Review“Over the last fifteen years or so, inquiry into Heidegger has been greatly enriched by studies of Heidegger's early development. . . . McGrath's study provides a useful addition to this body of scholarship, extending our understanding of Heidegger's relation to medieval theology, while offering a novel critical perspective on the course of this relation.” - Glenn Branch, Philosophy in Review
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Thomas Aquinas A Historical and Philosophical
Book SynopsisReflecting the highest standards of philological and textual scholarship accompanied by judicious philosophic analysis, Pasquale Porro explores the philosophical issues in each of Thomas Aquinas' writings, which he interprets within the parameters of the temporal circumstances and institutional imperatives of their composition and in respect of the authoritative texts that Thomas encountered.Trade Review“Biographically situating this thinker’s thought and works in time, place, and philosophical and theological context, Porro accomplishes his ambitious task with lucid accounts of major philosophical teachings spelling out the reasoning of Aquinas and Avicenna in the development of his teachings throughout his career. Porro’s unique contextual approach to the writings of Aquinas and his astute analyses of arguments make this work both an invaluable introductory volume for students and at the same time an insightful overview for philosophers, theologians, and historians of ideas.” – Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University
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The Catholic University of America Press A Gift of Presence The Theology and Poetry of
Book SynopsisExplores the sacramental theology, lived spirituality, and Eucharistic poetry of the Church's doctor communis, St. Thomas Aquinas. Although Aquinas' Eucharistic poetry has long occupied an important place in the Church's liturgical prayer and her repertoire of sacred music, the depth of these poems remains hidden until one grasps the rich sacramental theology underlying it.
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The Catholic University of America Press Cooperation with Evil Thomistic Tools of
Book SynopsisDescribes a number of ideas in Thomas Aquinas' writings that might serve as effective tools for the analysis of cases of possible immoral cooperation. The book also includes, as appendices, translations of relevant passages in both Alphonsus and Thomas.
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The Catholic University of America Press Grace Predestination and the Permission of Sin A
Book SynopsisAnalyses a revisionist movement within Thomism in the 20th century over and against the traditional or classical Thomistic commentatorial treatment of physical premotion, grace, and the permission of sin, especially as these relate to the mysteries of predestination and reprobation.
£56.25
The Catholic University of America Press Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive interpretation of Aquinas's oft-repeated claim that the human intellect is immaterial, and assesses his arguments on behalf of this claim. Adam Wood argues that Aquinas's claim refers primarily to the mode in which the human intellect has its act of being.
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The Catholic University of America Press Reading the Song of Songs with St. Thomas Aquinas
Book SynopsisSt. Thomas Aquinas never commented on the Song of Songs. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, however, that he meditated on it and absorbed it, so that the words of the Song are for him a familiar repertoire and a theological source.
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The Catholic University of America Press Grace and Freedom in a Secular Age Contingency
Book SynopsisOffers a concise exposition of key ideas - contingency, otherness, freedom, vulnerability and mutuality - that inform Charles Taylor’s probing analyses of the dynamics of religious belief and religious denial in the pervasive contemporary culture he calls a ‘a secular age’, within which religious belief and practice have become just an option.
£56.25
The Catholic University of America Press Aquinas on Prophecy Wisdom and Charism in the
Book SynopsisExamining Aquinas's treatment of prophecy in the Summa Theologiae, Paul Rogers reveals how prophetic testimony is central to the understanding of Christian revelation, faith, and theology, since it presents a model for a pedagogy that attempts to affect intellectual and moral transformation through communicating knowledge about God.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James v. 4 18561877
Book SynopsisThis volume contains 309 letters which start when William James was 14 years old and conclude when he was 35. The letters range from his relations with family and friends to his courtship of Alice Howe.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James v. 5 187884
Book SynopsisThis fifth volume of letters chronicles James's emergence into professional and personal maturity. The correspondence is dominated by letters to his wife, Alice, and they reflect difficult events of the period such as the death of his parents and the responsibility he took for heading the family.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James Vol 6
Book SynopsisConsisting of 400 letters with an additional 400 calendared, this volume offers an account of William James' correspondence for the years 1885-89. During this period, he completed most of the work on his book, ""The Principles of Psychology"" and became more directly involved with psychical research.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James v. 7 189094
Book SynopsisThis seventh volume continues the series of William James's correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that was begun in volume four. Consisting of some 488 letters, with an additional 510 calendared, it offers an account of the academic's correspondence for the years 1890 to 1894.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James 1895June 1899
Book SynopsisThe eighth volume of William James's correspondence, covering the period 1895 to June 1899. During this period, James struggles against various temptations, never completely successfully, to devote all of his attention to philosophy, the first and great love of his life.
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