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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James v. 9 July
Book SynopsisThe ninth volume of William James's correspondence, covering the period July 1899 to 1901. It covers the period of James's great collapse, of his years of exile in Europe in search of health, and of the beginning of his withdrawal fron full time teaching at Harvard.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James v. 10 July
Book SynopsisConsisting of some 572 letters, with another 460 calendared, this tenth volume in a series of 12, offers a complete account of William James's known correspondence - with family, friends and colleagues - from the beginning of 1902 through to March 1905.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James v. 11 April
Book SynopsisConsisting of more than 500 letters to family with an additional 650 calendared, this volume offers a complete account of William James's known correspondence from April 1905 to March 1908.
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Wayne State University Press Walter Benjamin An Intellectual Biography Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
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University of Minnesota Press Thinker On Stage
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University of Minnesota Press The New Spinoza
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays suggests that Spinoza is an unsuspected but very real presence in the work of contemporary philosophers from Deleuze to Derrida. This text articulates that presence, aiming to make the influence and significance of Spinoza clear for a new generation of philosophers.
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University of Minnesota Press On Posthuman War
Book SynopsisTrade Review "On Posthuman War offers a compelling new account of the systemic militarization of human experience. Describing the weaponization of thought that has turned the brain itself into a combat zone, Mike Hill shows that the most basic epistemological and ontological questions can now only be posed from within the war machine."—Jan Mieszkowski, author of Watching War "As Mike Hill demonstrates, war has become woven into the fabric of all our lives through the woof and warp of data and virtuality, and his discussion reaches deeply into the ontological import of this process. This is a book for our times, at once compelling and chilling, lively and optimistic."—Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine "Flowing between philosophy, communication methods and the politics of diversity and race, the book bridges fields and informatively navigates the politics of war."—International Journal of Communication Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface: Supping with the Devil DogsIntroduction: Number RulesThe Terrorist Recognition HandbookCybernetics and Netcentric WarThe Lords of Things as They AreRealism and Posthuman WarSystem-of-SystemsSummary of Remaining Chapters1. War DemographyThe Revolution in Military AffairsU.S. Census Politics and the Coming White MinorityThe Graveyard of the Human RaceRace WarThe Algorithmic Unconscious2. War AnthropologyThe Human Terrain System ProgramData as Physical TransmissionNational Character Study in World War IICounterinsurgency Theory and VietnamQuantum Systems and Asymmetrical WarWhite Afghans3. War NeuroscienceThe Functional CombatantLiving MatterCartography and Virtual RealityThe Human Brain as Image GeneratorOpto-ElectronicsVirtuality and WarWhite MatterNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press On Posthuman War Computation and Military
Book SynopsisTrade Review "On Posthuman War offers a compelling new account of the systemic militarization of human experience. Describing the weaponization of thought that has turned the brain itself into a combat zone, Mike Hill shows that the most basic epistemological and ontological questions can now only be posed from within the war machine."—Jan Mieszkowski, author of Watching War "As Mike Hill demonstrates, war has become woven into the fabric of all our lives through the woof and warp of data and virtuality, and his discussion reaches deeply into the ontological import of this process. This is a book for our times, at once compelling and chilling, lively and optimistic."—Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine "Flowing between philosophy, communication methods and the politics of diversity and race, the book bridges fields and informatively navigates the politics of war."—International Journal of Communication Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface: Supping with the Devil DogsIntroduction: Number RulesThe Terrorist Recognition HandbookCybernetics and Netcentric WarThe Lords of Things as They AreRealism and Posthuman WarSystem-of-SystemsSummary of Remaining Chapters1. War DemographyThe Revolution in Military AffairsU.S. Census Politics and the Coming White MinorityThe Graveyard of the Human RaceRace WarThe Algorithmic Unconscious2. War AnthropologyThe Human Terrain System ProgramData as Physical TransmissionNational Character Study in World War IICounterinsurgency Theory and VietnamQuantum Systems and Asymmetrical WarWhite Afghans3. War NeuroscienceThe Functional CombatantLiving MatterCartography and Virtual RealityThe Human Brain as Image GeneratorOpto-ElectronicsVirtuality and WarWhite MatterNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press CIFERAE
Book Synopsis The Greek philosopher Protagoras, in the opening words of his lost book Truth, famously asserted, “Man is the measure of all things.” This contention—that humanity cannot know the world except by means of human aptitudes and abilities—has endured through the centuries in the work of diverse writers. In this bold and creative new investigation into the philosophical and intellectual parameters of the question of the animal, Tom Tyler explores a curious fact: in arguing or assuming that knowledge is characteristically human, thinkers have time and again employed animals as examples, metaphors, and fables. From Heidegger’s lizard and Popper’s bees to Saussure’s ox and Freud’s wolves, Tyler points out, “we find a multitude of brutes and beasts crowding into the texts to which they are supposedly unwelcome.” Inspired by the medieval bestiaries, Tyler’s book features an assortment of “wild animals&rdTrade Review "Tom Tyler’s reinvention of the bestiary is a remarkable achievement, and Tyler emerges as an engaging storyteller. The book’s teeming pages are full of improbable pleasures, pictorial and philosophical. Presented with modesty and wit, the result is an audacious account of what it is not to be human. This is a beautifully written book of exceptional imaginative range and it amounts to nothing less than a poetics of the posthuman." —Steve Baker, author of The Postmodern Animal "CIFERAE is a remarkable accomplishment. Tyler provides the most subtle and thorough analysis of anthropocentrism I have encountered; and his critical reworking of the relationship between animals and philosophy allows for an extraordinarily rich understanding of more-than-human subjectivities." —Matthew Calarco, California State University, Fullerton "CIFERAE engages and pushes forward the theoretical foundation of human-animal studies. Tyler aptly develops a critique that encourages the recognition of a perspective that decenters human experience as the primary mode through which knowledge is produced. This work also has pragmatic implications, as it clears a path to understanding people’s subjective experiences as ‘more than human.’ " —Society and Animals"Delivers tremendous insight into philosophy’s indefensible anthropocentrism, concluding that pragmatic knowledge (and its refusal of a “God’s eye view”) is most promising." —CHOICE"Sizable but thoroughly convincing. . . [CIFERAE] is a thoroughly enjoyable experiment in literary analysis and creation, a very original attempt at weaving very different themes — epistemology, animals, and hands — into a broad discussion that constantly plays with its own elements." —Journal for Critical Animal Studies"The book is not merely an astute jeu d’esprit around our ways to count and account animals. It also carefully probes the ostensible anthropocentricism of three dominant epistemological paradigms in Western thought: realism, relativism, and pragmatism." —Humanimalia"This book is an experience." —Environmental Values"CIFERAE is a playful philosophy with a serious purpose. This is a cogently argued and beautifully produced (and illustrated) argument for why the persistent invocation of animals in philosophy is significant, and for why animal knowing (as Nietzsche recognized) drives a cart and horses through anthropocentricism." —New Formations"For scholars in science studies and animals studies, CIFERAE offers a thought-provoking and entertaining opening onto a question of central importance: whether and how our membership in the human species, or in any other species, determines what we can know." —ConfigurationsTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Prelude 1. VALLATUS INDICIBUS ATQUE SICARIISSurrounded by Informers and AssassinsLike Water in WaterInto Your Hand They Are Delivered Deciphering DecipheringPrickly Porcupines and Docile DogsAn ABC of AnimalsIf a Lion Had HandsQuia Ego Nominor LeoTaking Animals in Hand 2. RIDETO MULTUM ET DIGITUM PORRIGITO MEDIUM Laugh Loudly and Flip Them the BirdTwo Hands Are Better Than OneThe Truth about Mice and DucksThe Philosopher and the GnatThe Birds and the BeesThe Back of a Tiger 3. MEDICO TESTICULI ARIETINIOn the Ring Finger a Ram’s TesticlesThe Digestive System of the MindAn Unknown SomethingPraying to the AliensNothing to Phone Home AboutFrom Noumena to NebulaThose Who Like to Think SoOne Ring to Rule Them All 4. DIGITO MINIMO MUNDUM UNIVERSUM EXCITESWith Your Little Finger You Would Awaken the Whole WorldThe Eyes Have ItA Tale of Three FishHanding On and Gathering InBird BrainsGetting Stuck In 5. MANUS PARVA, MAIORI ADIUTRIX, POLLEXThe Thumb Is a Little Hand, Assistant to the GreaterTo We or Not to WeIf I Had a HammerThe Rule of ThumbFour Hands Good, Two Hands BadReport to an Academy Coda NotesBibliographyPublication History and PermissionsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Universe of Things
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Steven Shaviro has long been the most dignified and helpful of Speculative Realism’s critics. In this new book, in prose devoid of rancor or backstabbing ambition, he patiently develops the metaphysics of Whitehead into an alternative to the four main strands of Speculative Realism: object-oriented, speculative materialist, vitalist, and scientistic. Shaviro’s arguments will interest both the supporters and the detractors of this still young philosophical movement." —Graham Harman, author of Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism"Shaviro has done a tremendous service by detailing in clear and precise prose the key tenets and developments of what has come to be known as the 'speculative realist' tradition in contemporary continental philosophy. A standard reference and a useful guide for many years to come."—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"Shaviro’s summaries of the four Speculative Realists’ main doctrines are helpful to beginner and advanced student alike."—TLS"The Universe of Things is the most important monograph yet to address Whitehead’s relevance for contemporary philosophy."—Los Angeles Review of Books"As for The Universe of Things, I found it to be extraordinary."—Configurations"An illuminating critical account of the development of speculative realism to date and a significant contribution to speculative realist thought in its own right."—Cultural CritiqueTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Whitehead and Speculative Realism1. Self-Enjoyment and Concern2. The Actual Volcano3. The Universe of Things4. Panpsychism and/or Eliminativism5. Consequences of Panpsychism6. Noncorrelational Thought7. AisthesisBibliographyIndex
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Ohio University Press Placing Aesthetics
Book SynopsisExamining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinkerâs philosophy.In
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Ohio University Press Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity
Book SynopsisHusserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity analyzes the transcendental relevance of intersubjectivity and argues that an intersubjective transformation of transcendental philosophy can already be found in phenomenology, especially in Husserl.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Athens and Jerusalem
Book SynopsisFor more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem).
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Ohio University Press The Crisis of Meaning and the LifeWorld
Book SynopsisUčník examines the existential conflict that formed the focus of Edmund Husserl’s final work: how to reconcile scientific rationality with the meaning of human existence. To investigate this conundrum, she places Husserl in dialogue with three of his most important successors: Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Jan Patočka.Trade Review“Učník contributes to a clarification of the phenomenological call to return ‘back to the things themselves.’ Putting these four thinkers in conversation around a well-formulated question that also addresses significant questions of today is a great contribution to understanding the development of phenomenological thought in the twentieth century from new angles.”“This timely book makes a significant and thoughtful contribution both to philosophical discourse and to grappling with our contemporary world situation.”
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Ohio University Press Thinking between Deleuze and MerleauPonty
Book SynopsisQuestioning the dominant view that Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty have little of substance in common, Judith Wambacq draws on unpublished primary sources and current scholarship in English and French to bring them into a compelling dialogue to reveal a shared concern with the transcendental conditions of thought.Trade Review“Wambacq’s book breaks new ground in scholarship on Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, and Continental philosophy in general. Well written, well organized, lucid, and insightful, it will open new lines of scholarly investigation.”“Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty provides us with the most complete comparison of the two philosophers’ thought. This is an impressive investigation. It brings forth a Deleuze and a Merleau-Ponty that we have not seen before: a Merleau-Ponty devoted to immanence and a Deleuze who is a genuine transcendental philosopher. Both Merleau-Ponteans and Deleuzians will come away from this study having seen something new.”
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Duke University Press Constituting Critique
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Providing a sense of the complex intellectual and historical context in which Kant functioned, Constituting Critique calls attention to the concern with language that pervades not just the three Critiques, but the earlier writings as well."—Samuel Weber, University of California, Los Angeles"This is a study that anyone seriously interested in Kant will have to take into account. Goetschel’s writing is intellectually compelling. His interpretation enriches our understanding of Kant, bridging the gap between the literary and systematic aspects of Kant’s writing."—Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Project Career Trajectory 15 2. Cosmological Family Romance 23 3. Short Essays 37 4. System Crisis 43 5. Observation as Indirect Literary Strategy 58 6. Wit as a Formal Principle 79 7. Double Satire and Double Irony 89 8. Toward the Form of Critique 115 9. Publicizing Enlightenment: Kant's Concept of Enlightenment 144 Bibliographic Essay 167 Notes 187 Bibliography 225 Index 237
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Duke University Press Beyond Prejudice
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Evelyn Pluhar has written an important book that discusses key issues in developing moral thought about our treatment of non-human animals. Arguing that past writing in the area has failed to justify the moral significance of non-humans, Pluhar offers an original contribution designed to provide that justification. Her scholarship is exacting; her writing style lively, lucid, and accessible. There can be no doubt that Beyond Prejudice will stimulate much important debate about the topic of the rights of nonhumans."—Gary L. Francione, Rutgers University, School of Law"This book joins the illustrious company of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation and Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights as one of the most important books of the last two decades dedicated to changing our prejudiced attitudes and practices toward non-human animals."—Owen Flanagan, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Bernard E. Rollin ix Preface xi Human "Superiority" and the Argument from Marginal Cases 1 Responses to the Argument from Marginal Cases 67 Speciesism and Full Personhood 124 Utilitarianism and the Protection of Innocent Life 179 Justification and Judgment: Claiming and Respecting Basic Moral Rights 224 Notes 303 Bibliography 349 Index 361
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Duke University Press Early Postmodernism
Book SynopsisIn the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. This title gathered many of those foundational essays.Table of ContentsPreface / Paul A. Bove 1 The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination / William V. Spanos 17 Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in American Poetry / David Antin 40 The New Gnosticism: Speculation on an Aspect of the Postmodern Novel / Ihab Hassan 77 From Symbolist Thought to Immanence: The Ground of Postmodern American Poetics / Charles Altieri 100 Charles Olson: Preliminary Images / Catharine R. Stimpson 140 The Dialectics of Literary Tradition / Harold Bloom 163 At Circe's, or, The Self-Opener / Helene Cixous 175 Postmodern Oral Poetry: Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, and David Antin / Barry Alpert 188 From Heidegger to Derrida to Chance: Doubling and (Poetic) Language / Joseph N. Riddel 207 Scientific Discourse and Postmodernity: Francis Bacon and the Empirical Birth of "Revision" / Gerald Gillespie 232 Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy / Cornel West 265 Index 291
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Duke University Press Lukács After Communism
Book SynopsisFeatures ten interviews with a diverse group of international scholars to address the continued relevance of Gy'rgy Lukacs's theories to the post-communist era. This book provides a biographical synopsis of Lukacs and discusses his important theoretical concepts. It is aimed at students and scholars of Marxism and critical theory.Trade Review“These interviews have a spontaneity and range of inquiry that show a creative, synthetic, and first-rate intellect at work. Lukács After Communism contributes significantly to the current critical reassessment of the Marxist tradition.”—Barbara Foley, Rutgers University“This is an important project. Lukács remains a vital thinker, whom we must not dismiss but seek to understand more deeply in light of recent history. Corredor is a very skillful interviewer, with an obvious command of both the Lukácsean corpus and of the various theoretical and critical tendencies represented by her interviewees.”—Neil Larsen, Northeastern University
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Duke University Press Humanism and Secularization
Book SynopsisExplores the Renaissance movement known as humanism that spread from Italy eventually to all of Western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being debated.Trade Review“A splendid collection. Fubini’s studies offer a powerful and coherent account of Italian humanism from Petrarch to Valla. They make a strong case for the seriousness of humanism as an intellectual movement, rather than a simply literary or pedagogical one. They thus do us the important service of making our image of humanism at once more complex and more responsive to primary sources. . . . Fubini lays the basis for a whole new approach to humanist texts.”—Anthony Grafton, Princeton University“Fubini is a major figure in the study of Italian humanism today. In this collection he addresses what has always been since Burckhardt a central issue in the interpretation of humanism, namely, to what extent and in what ways is the humanist movement responsible for secularizing Western cultural traditions at the end of the Middle Ages. His is an important voice urging us to see the full range and complexity of humanist attitudes to religion and helping us to situate the humanists more precisely vis a vis the Protestant Reformers and the Deists and philosophes of the Enlightenment.”—James Hankins, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Consciousness of the Latin Language among Humanists: Did the Romans Speak Latin? 2. Humanist Intentions and Patristic References: Some Thoughts on the Moral Writings of the Humanists 3. Poggio Bracciolini and San Bernardino: The Themes and Motives of a Polemic 4. The Theater of the World in the Moral and Historical Thought of Poggio 5. An Analysis of Lorenzo Valla’s De Voluptate: His Sojourn in Pavia and the Composition of the Dialogue Notes Index
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University of Pittsburgh Press Egoism Without Permission
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University of Pittsburgh Press Dancing Into Darkness
Book SynopsisDancing Into Darkness is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for the art form of butoh.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents
Book SynopsisAnthropocentrism and Its Discontents is the first-ever comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy A Pitt Poetry Series
Book SynopsisA prose poetry/flash fiction collection that interrogates Bertrand Russell's classic A History of Western Philosophy through scathing wit and acute observation.Trade Review“Imagine, as Daniel Grandbois has, a conflation of Marxes (Karl and Groucho) and a hipster Plato, and you can begin to understand the enterprise of reimagining the history of Western philosophy as a series of comic summaries, complete with abstracts for the novice and infused with a storyteller’s sense of the need to entertain, while shedding light on the great intellectual enterprises from ancient to modern times. This book is a marvel.”—Christopher Kennedy
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Dialogic Emergence of an Ancestral Worldview Living Language in Kazakhstan Central Eurasia in Context
Book SynopsisA fascinating anthropological inquiry into the deeply ingrained presence of ancestors within the cultural, political, and spiritual discourse of Kazakhs.
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Fordham University Press The Tradition of Natural Law
Book Synopsis"[A] treasure trove of philosophic wisdom... this book will be welcomed, and indeed cherished, by all students of natural law."-Journal of PhilosophyTrade Review"[A] treasure trove of philosophic wisdom... this book will be welcomed, and indeed cherished, by all students of natural law." -Journal of Philosophy
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Fordham University Press Work Society and Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a book that is stimulating, provocative, as well as very enjoyable reading." -Modern Age
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Fordham University Press The Definition of Moral Virtue
Book SynopsisTrade Review"... the great Catholic philosopher Yves Simon explains with admirable clarity just in what the Aristotelian conception of virtue consists." -Crisis
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Fordham University Press An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge
Book SynopsisFirst published more than half a century ago, this book contains Simon's answers to the questions - what is the nature of knowledge? what kind of activity is it to know? and what is involved in the development of human knowledge?Trade Review"A must-have book for any student of epistemology and the foundations of knowledge. -The Thomist
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Fordham University Press Foresight and Knowledge
Book SynopsisSimon develops a philosophy of science from a realistic perspective, metaphysics in the exercise of its critical function.
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Fordham University Press Acquaintance With the Absolute
Book SynopsisThe first collected volume of essays devoted to the thought of Simon.Trade Review"[He] was the best and clearest philosopher in his school." -- -Mortimer J. Adler
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Fordham University Press A Critique of Moral Knowledge
Book SynopsisAn English version of a work first published in 1934. It addresses a number of fundamental problems in moral knowledge, such as: how moral knowledge differs from other practical knowledge; the controlled range of meanings of moral knowledge; and whether politics is part of moral philosophy.
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Fordham University Press Freedom and Community
Book Synopsis"As political theorists try to discern the distinguishing features of democratic political order... they can profit from the thoughtful, theoretically sophisticated formulations of Simon."-American Political Science ReviewTrade Review"As political theorists try to discern the distinguishing features of democratic political order... they can profit from the thoughtful, theoretically sophisticated formulations of Simon." -American Political Science Review
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Fordham University Press Giving Beyond the Gift
Book SynopsisExplores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers - Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas.Trade Review"This is a wonderful contribution to the field of philosophy and theology by one of the most important thinkers writing in English. His command of the material is masterful and his argument persuasive. It is outstanding and a real intellectual tour de force." -- -Aaron W. Hughes University of Rochester "We are used to apophatic theology in the service of Christianity. Here, though, Elliot Wolfson brings his deep knowledge of Kabbalah and modern Jewish thought to a rich consideration of apophaticism in Judaism. His readings of Buber, Cohen, Derrida, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Wyschogrod are nothing less than riveting, as are his readings of thinkers such as Heidegger and Marion. This is a book that all students of modern Jewish thought and its interactions with European philosophy will want to read." -- -Kevin Hart The University of Virginia "This book, at once meticulous and daring, makes an important contribution to theology-one that may end up, uncomfortably, moving the discourse beyond itself. The argument is developed through a remarkable combination of reason, mysticism, analysis of experience, and historical knowledge." -- -Karmen MacKendrick Le Moyne CollegeTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagination and the Prism of the Inapparent 1. Via Negativa and the Imaginal Configuring of God 2. Apophatic Vision and Overcoming the Dialogical 3. Echo of the Otherwise and the Lure of Theolatry 4. Secrecy of the Gift and the Gift of Secrecy 5. Immanent Atheology and the Trace of Transcendence 6. Undoing (K)not of Apophaticism: A Heideggerian Afterthought Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press The Government of Life
Book SynopsisAn examination of Foucault's last thought, centered on his ideas about biopolitics, governmentality, and subjectivity. This volume aims to explain why the politics and policies of neoliberalism are best understood as a government of life whose effects and consequences still remain to be fathomed.Trade Review"The Government of Life does not simply analyze Foucault's ideas about governmentality. It reconsiders Foucault's thought from the standpoint of recent developments in continental and especially Italian philosophy with philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Toni Negri." -- -Michael Behrent Appalachian State University "We are facing an explosion of research on biopolitical questions today, and this volume certainly represents a welcome addition to this growing literature." -Nicolae Morar, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Over the last twenty years, few concepts have been more investigated and used than the one of "biopolitics". However, only rarely has it been attempted to compare these uses in their variety and in their contradiction. This volume has the merit of offering a subtle and rich, complete and articulate view on what "biopolitics" means today, and in this way contributes to establish a political grammar for the start of this century." -- -Antonio Negri "An extraordinarily incisive and comprehensive collection of essays by an internationally distinguished list of contributors, Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism brilliantly discloses how Foucault's thinking continues to challenge and provoke 30 years after his death. No memorializing of Foucault, these essays think with and against his work in a spirit of critical engagement which could provide no better tribute to him." -- -Michael Dillon Professor Emeritus, Lancaster University "The Government of Life reminds us of how prescient Foucault was. We have so few guides in our present age of unbridled neoliberalism and biopolitics; Foucault was one of the few who saw what was coming. The authors in this volume richly plumb Foucault's work in order to make sense of our predicament, to recuperate from the maw of biopolitics a more affirmative way of life. These authors speak to one another and to Foucault through a focus on common texts. In doing so they engage in critical questions about sovereignty, bodies and human life that make for essential reading for anyone interested in the underlying fabric of our time and our politics." -- -James Martel San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter Part I. The Nomos of Neoliberalism 1. The Fourth Age of Security Frederic Gros 2. The Law of the Household: Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Iranian Revolution Melinda Cooper 3. The Risks of Security: Liberalism, Biopolitics and Fear Thomas Lemke Part II. Genealogies of Biopolitics 4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life in Canguilhem and Foucault Maria Muhle 5. Power over Life, Politics of Death: Forms of Resistance to Biopower in Foucault Francesco Paolo Adorno 6. Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopolitical Deconstructions Judith Revel Part III. Liberalism between Legality and Governmentality 7. From Reason of State to Liberalism: The Coup d'Etat as Form of Government Roberto Nigro 8. Foucault and Rawls: Government and Public Reason Paul Patton 9. Foucault and Hayek: Republican Law and Liberal Civil Society Miguel Vatter Part IV. Philosophy as Ethics and as Embodiment 10. Parrhesia Between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence Simona Forti 11. The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Foucault and the Cynics Vanessa Lemm Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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Fordham University Press Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ
Book SynopsisTransplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philosophical discourses about biological function and speculative thought. Organology attempted to think a politically and scientifically destabilized world, and offered a metaphysics meant to alter the structure of that world.Trade Review"This is an ambitious, disciplined study that reveals new aspects of Romanticism: it is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in German Romanticism." -- John D. Caputo -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "In Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ, Leif Weatherby gives us a fundamentally new view on Romanticism and its contribution to German Idealism. In Holderlin, Schelling, and Novalis, Weatherby unearths a surprisingly coherent discussion of the 'organ.' We see the Romantic philosophers and poets intervene in the age old Western debate on techne, physis and metaphysics, with the emphasis, however, on techne's interventions in it. A discourse emerges which neither subordinates techne to nature in the Aristotelian tradition nor hypostatizes technology in a Heideggerian reversal of the order of things. Rather, Romantic 'organology' is shown to introduce historicity and contingency into the heart of metaphysics. This is a discovery in the history of ideas, and it opens new ways of thinking technology today." -- -Rudiger Campe Yale University "Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ is a truly impressive work of scholarship. The author has a breathtaking command of the German philosophical tradition, including major figures, such as Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, as well as those who are less well-known outside the field of German studies. He has taken a single, somewhat innocuous concept-the 'organ'-and revealed it to be at the crux of a rapidly changing philosophical landscape whose terrain encompasses metaphysics, subject philosophy, the history of science, literature, and aesthetics. Accordingly, it should be of interest to anyone working in these fields." -- -Jocelyn Holland University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents1. Introduction: Romantic Organology: Terminology and Metaphysics Part I: Towards Organology 2. Metaphysical Organs and the Emergence of Life: From Leibniz to Blumenbach 3. The Epigenesis of Reason: Force and Organ in Kant and Herder 4. The Organ of the Soul: Vitalist Metaphysics and the Literalization of the Organ Part II: Romantic Organology Romantic Organology: Towards a Technological Metaphysics of Judgment 5. The Tragic Task: Dialectical Organs and the Metaphysics of Judgment (Holderlin) 6. Electric and Ideal Organs: Schelling and the Program of Organology 7. Universal Organs: Novalis's Romantic Organology 8. Between Myth and Science: Naturphilosophie and the Ends of Organology Part III: After Organology 9. Technologies of Nature: Goethe's Hegelian Transformations 10. Instead of an Epilogue: Communist Organs, or Technology and Organology Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Hawai'i Press Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples India China
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University of Hawai'i Press Zen ActionZen Person
Book SynopsisProvides a clear and perceptive accounts of Zen. Kasulis locates the Zen understanding of the person in secular Japanese assumptions.Trade ReviewFor the thoughtful Westerner this must be one of the most clear and perceptive accounts of Zen available. Thoroughly new is Kasulis' attempt to locate the Zen understanding of the person in secular Japanese assumptions." - Times Literary Supplement
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University of Hawai'i Press Heidegger and Asian Thought National Foreign
Book SynopsisExplores problems presented by several Sanskrit works: the lower limit of the date of the original Harivamsa, Kalapriyanatha mentioned in Bhavabhuti's plays the identification of the date of Dhananjaya the author of the Dvisandhana Kavya and the Namamala and the fixation of his date the historical background of Rajasekhara's Viddhasalabhanjika.
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University of Missouri Press The Theory of Governance and Other Miscellaneous
Book SynopsisOne of two volumes which bring together Voegelin's miscellaneous papers, this text gathers crucial writings from the early formative period of this scholar's thought. It begins with Voegelin's dissertation on sociological method, which he completed in 1922.
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Glance of the Medusa
Book SynopsisCollection of essays that examine the rich history of European culture through the lens of mythology and philosophy.Trade Review"In The Glance of the Medusa, Földényi develops an anatomy of European mythology in his quest towards understanding human completeness. . . . The book advocates a re-enchantment of the world, a theme already introduced in Földényi’s previous non-fiction work, Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears (2020), and is a logical development of his authoritative Melancholy (2016) which gave voice to deep ontological anguish. [Földényi] argues that a fragmentation of the soul is a function of our spiritual disorientation as we, moderns, have forgotten our place in — and connection with — a wider cosmos." * Review 31 *
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Old English Tradition Essays in Honor of J R
Book SynopsisOld English Traditioncontains eighteen new essays by leading scholars in the field of Old English literary studies. The collection iscenteredaround five key areas of researchOld English poetics, Anglo-Saxon Christianity,Beowulf, codicology, and early Anglo-Saxon studieson which the work of scholar J.R. Hall, the volume's honorand, has been influential over the course of his career.The volume's contents range from fresh insights on individual Old English poems such asThe Wife's LamentandBeowulf; new studies in Old English metrics and linguistics; codicological examinations of individual manuscripts; fresh editions of understudied texts; and innovative examinations of the role of early antiquarians in shaping the field of Old English literary studies as we know it today.Table of ContentsIntroduction - by †Fred C. Robinson, Yale UniversityJ. R. Hall: A Bibliography - by Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleI. Old English PoeticsTo Commemorate Friendship: The Life and Times of Old English Wine - by Roberta Frank, Yale UniversityDeath the Grim Hunter - by Jane Roberts, King’s College LondonThe Wife’s Lament and the Poetics of Affect - by Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of California–BerkeleyProgress in Old English Metrics - by Thomas M. Cable, University of Texas at AustinII. Anglo-Saxon ChristianityFigures of Enoch in Bodleian Library MS Junius 11 - by A. N. Doane, University of Wisconsin–MadisonChrist III and “Apparebit repentina dies magna Domini” - by Frederick M. Biggs, University of ConnecticutThe Long Shadow of Alcuin: Cambridge, Pembroke College 25 - by Paul E. Szarmach, EmeritusThe Eucharistic Dance of the Angels: I Cnut, iv, 1–2 - by Thomas D. Hill, Cornell UniversityAn Edition of Two Old English Homilies: “The Capital Sins” (HomM 2) and “Good Friday” (HomM 10) - by R. D. Fulk, Indiana UniversityIII. BeowulfVerbal Confusion Chiefly in Beowulf - by † E. G. Stanley, University of OxfordIronic Use of Laf and Three Swords of Doomed Inheritance in Beowulf - by Lindy Brady, University of MississippiBeowulf 3074–75: Problems of Interpretation - by Howell Chickering, Amherst CollegeIV. CodicologyMS CUL Kk 3.18 and the Tremulous Hand of Worcester - by David F. Johnson, Florida State UniversityA New Light on the Vercelli Book: Textual Science and Manuscript Recovery - by Gregory Heyworth, University of RochesterV. Early Anglo-Saxon StudiesThe Enlightened Innocence of Franciscus Junius Encounters The Meters of Boethius - by Daniel Donoghue, Harvard UniversityLaurence Nowell and the Old English Bede - by Carl T. Berkhout, University of ArizonaBenjamin Thorpe’s Influence on Joseph Bosworth’s Editions of the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Orosius, and the Gospels - by Dabney A. Bankert, James Madison UniversityWho Wrote the Non-Racist Essay “The Anglo-Saxon Race”? Longfellow and Nineteenth-Century American Anglo-Saxonism - by John D. Niles, University of Wisconsin-MadisonBibliography
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Isaiah Berlins CounterEnlightenment
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Cornell University Press The Search for Historical Meaning Hegel and the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewExtremely interesting. The best and most provocative treatment of postwar American conservatism yet written. * National Review *
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Cornell University Press Politics Philosophy and the Production of
Book SynopsisLiterary works of the Romantic period have often been viewed primarily as expressions of escapism, disillusionment or apostasy on the writer's part. In contrast, this book argues that political repression had an important effect on the production of romantic texts.
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Cornell University Press The Science of Modern Virtue
Book SynopsisThe Science of Modern Virtue examines the influence that the philosopher Rene Descartes, the political theorist John Locke, and the biologist Charles Darwin have had on our modern understanding of human beings and human virtue. Written by leading thinkers from a variety of fields, the volume is a study of the complex relation between modern science and modern virtue, between a kind of modern thought and a kind of modern action. Offering more than a series of substantive introductions to Descartes'', Locke''s, and Darwin''s accounts of who we are and the kind of virtue to which we can aspire, the book invites readers to think about the ways in which the writings of these seminal thinkers shaped the democratic and technological world in which modern human beings live.Thirteen scholars in this volume learnedly explore questions drawn from the diverse disciplines of political science, philosophy, theology, biology, and metaphysics. Let the reader be warned: The authors of
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Zone Books The Accursed Share
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Zone Books The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
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