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Baylor University Press Perfection
Book SynopsisIn a masterful survey of the history of the idea of human perfection, prize-winning author and noted rhetorician Michael Hyde leads a fascinating excursion through Western philosophy, religion, science, and art. This book is nothing short of a triumphant examination of why we humans are challenged to live a life of significant insignificance.Trade ReviewHyde (communication ethics, Wake Forest Univ.) argues that humans "embody a metaphysical desire for perfection," and he aims to show this by reviewing the pertinent thinking of a very large number of writers, from ancient history to the present, in philosophy, religion, science, and the arts--in a sense, the entire "Western canon." His review of the pertinent thinking of the included writers is interesting, engaging, and informative in a way that draws the reader in. To flesh out his inquiry, Hyde goes into detail in two "case studies" that illustrate the metaphysical desire for perfection: "The Rhetorical Situation of Terri Schiavo" and the recent motion picture As Good as It Gets. VERDICT This book should be of interest to a large readership from scholars to lay readers; highly recommended for philosophy and cultural studies collections in most libraries. -- Library Journal, 2010Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Coming to Terms with Perfection Chapter 2: God on a Good Day Chapter 3: Interpreting the Call Chapter 4: The Otherness All Around Us Chapter 5: Reason Chapter 6: Beauty Chapter 7: The Lived Body Chapter 8: The Good Life, the Good Death Chapter 9: The Biotechnology Debate Chapter 10: On Being an Oxymoron Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press A Second Collection
Book SynopsisFor the edition of A Second Collection prepared for the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, editors Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky have added archival materials directly related to almost every one of the papers, bringing the reader closer to the original compositions. The papers date from 1966 to 1973, and span the most creative period in Lonergan’s development. Two major themes run through these papers: the primacy of the fourth, existential level of human consciousness, and the significance of historical mindedness with all its implications for culture, hermeneutics, and phenomenological thinking. The theme of conversion makes a grand entrance in ‘Theology in Its New Context,’ a paper that charted the course for the unfolding of Method in Theology. This new edition makes extensive use of original manuscripts, variants in drafts of the essays, and hand-written corrections.Table of ContentsGeneral Editors' Preface 1 The Transition from a Classicist Worldview to Historical Mindedness 2 The Dehellenization of Dogma 3 Theories of Inquiry: Responses to a Symposium 4 The Future of Thomism 5 Theology in Its New Context 6 The Subject 7 Belief: Today's Issue 8 The Absence of God in Modern Culture 9 Natural Knowledge of God 10 Theology and Man's Future 11 The Future of Christianity 12 The Response of the Jesuit as Priest and Apostle in the Modern World 13 The Example of Gibson Winter 14 Philosophy and Theology 15 An Interview with Fr Bernard Lonergan S.J. 16 Revolution in Catholic Theology 17 The Origins of Christian Realism (1972) 18 Insight Revisited Lexicon of Latin Terms and Phrases Index
£53.55
University of Toronto Press Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God
Book SynopsisWhat did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul''s discourses of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what Erasmus and John Calvin refer to as the Christian philosophy. Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God reveals the importance of Pauline rhetoric in the development of humanist critiques of scholasticism while charting the formation of a specifically affective approach to religious epistemology and theological method. As the first book-length examination of Calvin''s indebtedness to Erasmus, which also considers the participation of Bullinger, Pellikan, and Melanchthon in an Erasmian exegetical milieu, it is a case study in the complicated cross-confessional exchange of ideas in the sixteenth century. Kirk Essary examines assumptions about the very nature of theology in the sixteenth century, how it was understoodTrade Review"Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God is a profound, elegant, and persuasive work. Kirk Essary has produced a work of formidable intellectual rigour that makes a significant contribution to the study of Renaissance and Reformation thought. The prose flows beautifully, the language is mercifully free of jargon, and the author makes extensive use of the primary sources to enable the reader to gain a clear sense of how Erasmus and Calvin (with others) interpreted Paul." -- Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale University "Kirk Essary's Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God is a significant contribution in Erasmus and Calvin studies. The scholarship is sound and scholars who work through it will find substantial reward for their efforts." -- R.Ward Holder, Professor, Saint Anselm CollegeTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One Calvin's Erasmus, Theologia Rhetorica, and Pauline Folly Chapter Two Foolishness as Religious Knowledge Chapter Three Hidden Wisdom and the Revelation of the Spirit Chapter Four Milk for Babes: A Pauline Eloquence Chapter Five Blaming Philosophy, Praising Folly Chapter Six The Affective Christian Philosophy Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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MY - University of Toronto Press The Redemption Volume 9
Book SynopsisThe theology of redemption or soteriology, as the relevant themes are treated in biblical literature, Christian history, and contemporary theology, including Lonergan's famous treatment of 'the law of the cross,' with a significant treatment of the problem of good and evil.Table of ContentsPart One: Theses 15-17 of De Verbo Incarnato Thesis 15 Thesis 16 Thesis 17 Part Two: The Redemption: A Supplement 1 Good and Evil 2 The Justice of God 3 The Death and Resurrection of Christ 4 The Cross of Christ 5 The Satisfaction Made by Christ 6 [The Effects of the Redemption] Appendix Abbreviations Bibliography Scriptural Passages Index
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University of Toronto Press Translating Heidegger
Book SynopsisDespite Martin Heidegger’s influence on twentieth-century philosophy, understanding his way of thinking is difficult if one relies solely on the English translations of his work. Since Gilbert Ryle misjudged his work in a 1929 review of Sein und Zeit, Heidegger’s philosophy has remained an enigma to many scholars who cannot read the original German texts. In Translating Heidegger, Groth points to mistranslations as the root cause of misunderstanding Heidegger. Translators have not achieved clarity regarding Heidegger’s fundamental words, an understanding of which is crucial to gaining access to his thought. Having been mistranslated from the ancient Greek into Latin and then into modern European languages, Heidegger’s philosophies have largely been obscured for two millennia. In this unique study, Groth examines the history of the first English translations of Heidegger’s works and reveals the elements of Heidegger’s phTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part One: Early Translations of Fundamental Words Introduction Chapter One - Mistranslations in the Early 29 Critical Literature (1929–1949) Chapter Two - The First Heidegger in English Part Two: Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Translation Chapter Three - Elements of a Theory of Translation Chapter Four - Paratactic Method: Translating Parmenides, Fragment VI Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Part I: Works by Heidegger Cited in the Text Part II: Other Sources A Research Bibliography of Heidegger in English Translation Index of Proper Names General Index
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University of Toronto Press Nietzsche Freud Benn and the Azure Spell of
Book SynopsisThe Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe’s major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors and artists. In this study, Martina Kolb traces Liguria’s specific impact on the works of three seminal German-writing modernists – Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn – whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and world.Kolb examines each of these authors’ acquired affinities with Ligurian and Provençal landscapes and seascapes, revisiting and reassessing the long tradition of northern longing for a Mediterranean south. She also shows how Freud and Benn followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche in his most prolific years, a topic which has received little critical attention to d
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University of Toronto Press Varieties of Affect
Book SynopsisIn this new and original book, Claire Armon-Jones examines the concept of affect and various philosophical positions which attempt to define and characterize it: the standard view, the neo-cognitivist view, and the objectual thesis. She contends that these views radically distort our understanding of affect by disregarding modes of affect which fail to conform to the accounts they each employ. Against the standard and neo-cognitivist views she argues that the notions they use to characterize affect are neither necessary nor sufficient; and against the objectual thesis she further argues that affective states exhibit degrees of independence from the concept of an object. She develops a new theory of the varieties of affect that explains their cognitive nature, their felt aspect, their special logic and the relationship between their objectless and object-directed forms. Armon-Jones concludes by suggesting that her arguments call into question certain assumptions about t
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University of Toronto Press Brains and Numbers
Book SynopsisA group of Oxford graduates, influenced by Arnold and later by Comte, formed the core of a generation of academic radicals who attempted to define the role of an educated élite in an emerging industrial mass democracy. This perceptive study of the English academic scene traces the emergence of Comtism in the university community and examines its expression in the ideas of Frederic Harrison and John Morley.The social and political dimensions of Comte's ideology in England are commonly considered to have been obscured by the tendency to regard it as a sort of eccentric religious sect. This study demonstrates the subtlety with which Harrison applied positivist ideas to mid-Victorian politics and the generally underestimated influence of Comte in Morley's political thought. Both men looked to the frank éliticism of Comte in Morley's political thought – in both thought and action – the political claims of 'brains and numbers.' It was, as the book shows, an attempt si
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Cornell University Press Forms of Life
Book SynopsisIn Forms of Life, Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life. He insists we need a more flexible notion of life: one attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms. Forms of Life develops such a notion through the meticulous study of works by Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil, and others. Gailus shows that the modern conception of life as a generative, organizing force internal to living beings emerged in the last decades of the eighteenth century in biological thought. At the core of this vitalist strand of thought, Gailus maintains, lies a persistent emphasis on the dynamics of formation and deformation, and thus on an intrinsically aesthetic dimension of life. Forms of Life brings this older discourse into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of biopolitics and vitalisTrade ReviewA critical study of this kind—reading modern German philosophy and literary masterpieces in the context of twentieth-century biopolitics and other scientific-reductive definitions of "life"—has been long overdue in German studies, yet Gailus's marvelous book was worth the wait! In lucid prose and pointed arguments, Gailus introduces his readers to the philosophical history of vital materialism, he provides superb readings of canonical literary texts that demonstrate the continued relevance of the German tradition in scientific debates. * Goethe Yearbook *"[...] Gailus' commanding study offers unique historical and systematic insights. It is in response to an evident lack in contemporary conceptualizations of life that the book finds its proper ground. And it is precisely here that it develops generous and original ways of reading canonical literature that will orient scholarship for some time to come * German Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Life as Formation 1. The Life of Cognition and the Cognition of Life (Kant) 2. Metamorphoses of Form (Goethe) Part II: The Conflict of Forms 3. Enter the Hybrid (Kleist) 4. Life as Will (Nietzsche) Part III: Deformation 5. Brains (Benn) 6. The Infinite Specificity of Life (Musil) Epilogue
£97.20
Cornell University Press Forms of Life
Book SynopsisIn Forms of Life, Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life. He insists we need a more flexible notion of life: one attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms. Forms of Life develops such a notion through the meticulous study of works by Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil, and others. Gailus shows that the modern conception of life as a generative, organizing force internal to living beings emerged in the last decades of the eighteenth century in biological thought. At the core of this vitalist strand of thought, Gailus maintains, lies a persistent emphasis on the dynamics of formation and deformation, and thus on an intrinsically aesthetic dimension of life. Forms of Life brings this older discourse into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of biopolitics and vitalisTrade ReviewA critical study of this kind—reading modern German philosophy and literary masterpieces in the context of twentieth-century biopolitics and other scientific-reductive definitions of "life"—has been long overdue in German studies, yet Gailus's marvelous book was worth the wait! In lucid prose and pointed arguments, Gailus introduces his readers to the philosophical history of vital materialism, he provides superb readings of canonical literary texts that demonstrate the continued relevance of the German tradition in scientific debates. * Goethe Yearbook *"[...] Gailus' commanding study offers unique historical and systematic insights. It is in response to an evident lack in contemporary conceptualizations of life that the book finds its proper ground. And it is precisely here that it develops generous and original ways of reading canonical literature that will orient scholarship for some time to come * German Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Life as Formation 1. The Life of Cognition and the Cognition of Life (Kant) 2. Metamorphoses of Form (Goethe) Part II: The Conflict of Forms 3. Enter the Hybrid (Kleist) 4. Life as Will (Nietzsche) Part III: Deformation 5. Brains (Benn) 6. The Infinite Specificity of Life (Musil) Epilogue
£24.69
Cornell University Press The Beautiful Soul Aesthetic Morality in the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNorton's book is to be commended for casting fresh and invigorating light on the living relevance of eighteenth-century intellectual problems to one of the central preoccupations of such modern thinkers as Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Richard Rorty. * Modern Language Review *The Beautiful Soul is an important and fascinating book which traces the rise and fall of what Robert E. Norton takes to be one of the European Enlightenment's most characteristic ideas —that there might be an intrinsic link between ethics and aesthetics, the good and the beautiful, which manifested itself in the concept of the 'beautiful soul.' * International Journal of the Classical Tradition *Norton's book is a fine contribution to scholarship, one that is well worth pondering. * The Journal of English and Germanic Philology *
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Stanford University Press Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political
Book SynopsisIn the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what totalitarian ghosts haunt the present? Philosopher Simona Forti seeks to answer these questions by reconstructing not only the genealogy of the concept, but also by clarifying its motives, misunderstandings, and the controversies that have animated its current resurgence. Taking into account political theories and historical discussions, Totalitarianism especially focuses on philosophical reflections, from the question of totalitarian biopolitics to the alleged totalitarian drifts of neoliberalism. The work invites the relentless formulation of a radical question about the democratic age: the possibilities it has opened up, the voids it leaves behind, the mechanisms it activates, and the "voluntary servitude" it produces. Forti argues that totalitarianism cannot be considered an external threat to democracy, but rather as one of the possible answers to those questions posed by modernity which democracies have not been able to solve. Her investigation of the uses and abuses of totalitarianism as one of the fundamental categories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries promises to provoke much-needed discussion and debate among those in philosophy, politics, ethics, and beyond.Trade Review"Forti's compact, philosophical discussion of the history of the concept of 'totalitarianism' is the best available in any language. With the ongoing rise of right-wing populists eager to leave 'behind' their totalitarian lineage, this book is more pertinent than ever."—Miguel Vatter, author of Divine Democracy"It takes a scholar of both exceptional learning and critical acuity to explain with precision the metamorphoses of an idea as multifaceted and elusive as totalitarianism. This gripping book has particularly urgent and disquieting implications for readers today."—Alessia Ricciardi, author of Finding Ferrante"Forti asks us a sharp question, the child of our ambiguous and confused times: why do we need the category of totalitarianism? This book is both beautiful and disturbing. It must be read in one go."—Nadia Urbinati, author of Me the PeopleTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. How the Concept "Totalitarianism" Came to Be 2. From the Construction of Models to the Practice of Dissent 3. Philosophy in the Face of Extremes 4. Specters of Totality Conclusion
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Stanford University Press Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of questions about critics and the power they do or don't wield. Re-examining theorists from Matthew Arnold to Walter Benjamin, to Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall, and Hortense Spillers, Criticism and Politics explores the animating contradictions that have long propelled literary studies: between pronouncing judgment and engaging in philosophical critique, between democracy and expertise, between political commitment and aesthetic autonomy. Both a leftist critic and a critic of the left, Robbins unflinchingly defends criticism from those who might wish to de-politicize it, arguing that working for change is not optional for critics, but rather a core part of their job description. Trade Review"Urgent, bracing, and powerfully argued, Criticism and Politics will be controversial in the best sense—inviting us all to debate the purposes and presumptions of criticism on newly articulated grounds."—Caroline Levine, Cornell University, author of Forms"This is a vivid, engaging, and engaged piece of literary criticism, as well as a vigorous defense of criticism as a method, by one of its foremost practitioners."—Martin Puchner, Harvard University, author of Literature for a Changing Planet"For those who have been looking for a book to address, head on, the complex connections between literary criticism and politics, this is that book."—Mark Greif, Stanford University, author of Against Everything"This challenging, bold book helps answer the question of what critics are for. Highly recommended"—S. J. Shaw, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Criticism in the Wake of the 1960s 2. Criticizing 3. Lost Centrality 4. Aesthetics and the Governing of Others 5. Grievances 6. The Historical and the Transhistorical 7. Cosmopolitical Criticism in Deep Time Conclusion
£57.60
Stanford University Press Badiou by Badiou
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concepts and major preoccupations of Badiou's philosophy: fundamental ontology, mathematics, politics, poetry, and love. Well-chosen examples illuminate his thinking in regards to being and universality, worlds and singularity, and the infinite and the absolute, among other topics. A veritable tour de force of pedagogical clarity, this new student-friendly work is perhaps the single best general introduction to the work of this prolific and committed thinker. If, for Badiou, the task of philosophy consists in thinking through the truths of our time, the texts collected in this small volume could not be timelier.Trade Review"Badiou by Badiou synthesizes Badiou's key ideas with a personal touch, inviting readers into his presentation of what philosophy is and his highly original way of philosophizing. Badiou is brilliant at making anyone want to engage with philosophical questions."—Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics"This book captures the latest developments in Alain Badiou's thought, while providing an excellent introduction for new readers. Badiou by Badiou, his most legible work, is a riveting tour of the domains of art, love, politics, and science."—Héctor Hoyos, author of Things with a History"Badiou proves himself again to be, like Socrates, a corrupter of the youth. With this clear entry point into his metaphysical project, Badiou demonstrates the dangerously transformative character of philosophy."—Jodi Dean, author of Comrade"As the 21st century shapes up to be all about ends, Badiou challenges us to think ab novo. This latest installment of his firebrand philosophy will ignite youth even among those who think its time has passed."—Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There's No WomanTable of ContentsPart One: Event, Truths, Subject Part Two: Philosophy Between Mathematics and Poetry Part Three: Ontology and Mathematics
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Stanford University Press The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity
Book SynopsisWhy does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions – power, truth, and identity – in three different contexts – society, literature, and critique – the book explores and explains the increasing influence of paranoid thinking in American society during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first, a period that has seen the rise of control systems and neoliberal ascendency. Inquiring about the predominance of white, male, American subjects in paranoid culture, Frida Beckman recognizes the antagonistic maintenance and fortification of a conception of the autonomous individual that perceives itself to be under threat. Identifying such paranoia as emerging from an increasingly disjunctive relation between this conception of the subject and the changing nature of the public sphere, she develops the concept of the paranoid chronotope as a tool for the theoretical analysis of social, literary, and critical practices today. Investigating twenty-first century paranoid fictions, New Sincerity novels, conspiracist online culture, and postcritique, Beckman shows how the paranoid chronotope constitutes a recurring feature of modern consciousness.Trade Review"An impressively incisive and comprehensive account of the way suspicion continues to haunt modern democratic societies. Beckman ranges over an extraordinary body of material in this consistently illuminating book."—Timothy Melley, Miami University"Beckman does a terrific job of seeing how, as the conspiracy theorist believes, everything is connected. An ambitious and exceptionally wide-ranging discussion of paranoia as a way of making sense of power, truth, and identity in recent decades."—Peter Knight, University of Manchester"Beckman's technique demonstrates the significance the paranoid chronotrope offers to a complete understanding of truth, identity, and power in American society, politics, and culture.... To be sure, this rich and clever framework provides the conditions of possibility for the emergence of the paranoid chronotope—a concept that is destined to become a key one in twenty-first century literary and cultural theory."—Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Modern Fiction StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Paranoid Chronotope 1. The Public Sphere and Paranoia / The Paranoid Public Sphere 2. Power and Paranoia / Paranoid Powers 3. Truth and Paranoia / Paranoid Truths 4. Identity and Paranoia / Paranoid Identities
£86.40
Stanford University Press The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal
Book SynopsisIn this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics—of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of the story of Moses, from Michelangelo to Spinoza to Freud to Schoenberg to Derrida, have seized on the story's ambivalences, its critical and self-critical power. These literal returns form the first level of the afterlife of Moses. They spin a persistent critical and self-critical thread of European and transatlantic art and argument. And they enable the second strand of Steinberg's argument, namely the depersonalization of the Moses and Exodus story, its evolving abstraction and modulation into a varied modern history of political beginnings. Beginnings, as distinct from origins, are human and historical, writes Steinberg. Political constitutions, as a form of beginning, imply the eventuality of their own renewals and their own reconstitutions. Motivated in part by recent reactionary insurgencies in the US, Europe, and Israel, this astute work of intellectual history posits the critique of myths of origin as a key principle of democratic government, affect, and citizenship, of their endurance as well as their fragility. Trade Review"Personal in this book in all the right ways, Michael Steinberg reaches the human and universal by turning over the German-Jewish past and connecting it to contemporary politics."—Samuel Moyn, Yale University"Steinberg's application of Said's distinction between 'origins' and 'beginnings' to the Moses myth of political founding is a tour de force powerful enough to force a rethinking much beyond Freud or Assmann."—Omri Boehm, The New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction 1. Moses and Modernism 2. Under Lincoln's Eyes 3. Hannah Arendt Crosses the Atlantic 4. Yaron Ezrahi: Democracy and the Post-Epic Nation
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Stanford University Press The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity
Book SynopsisWhy does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions – power, truth, and identity – in three different contexts – society, literature, and critique – the book explores and explains the increasing influence of paranoid thinking in American society during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first, a period that has seen the rise of control systems and neoliberal ascendency. Inquiring about the predominance of white, male, American subjects in paranoid culture, Frida Beckman recognizes the antagonistic maintenance and fortification of a conception of the autonomous individual that perceives itself to be under threat. Identifying such paranoia as emerging from an increasingly disjunctive relation between this conception of the subject and the changing nature of the public sphere, she develops the concept of the paranoid chronotope as a tool for the theoretical analysis of social, literary, and critical practices today. Investigating twenty-first century paranoid fictions, New Sincerity novels, conspiracist online culture, and postcritique, Beckman shows how the paranoid chronotope constitutes a recurring feature of modern consciousness.Trade Review"An impressively incisive and comprehensive account of the way suspicion continues to haunt modern democratic societies. Beckman ranges over an extraordinary body of material in this consistently illuminating book."—Timothy Melley, Miami University"Beckman does a terrific job of seeing how, as the conspiracy theorist believes, everything is connected. An ambitious and exceptionally wide-ranging discussion of paranoia as a way of making sense of power, truth, and identity in recent decades."—Peter Knight, University of Manchester"Beckman's technique demonstrates the significance the paranoid chronotrope offers to a complete understanding of truth, identity, and power in American society, politics, and culture.... To be sure, this rich and clever framework provides the conditions of possibility for the emergence of the paranoid chronotope—a concept that is destined to become a key one in twenty-first century literary and cultural theory."—Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Modern Fiction StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Paranoid Chronotope 1. The Public Sphere and Paranoia / The Paranoid Public Sphere 2. Power and Paranoia / Paranoid Powers 3. Truth and Paranoia / Paranoid Truths 4. Identity and Paranoia / Paranoid Identities
£23.39
Stanford University Press Critique of Critique
Book SynopsisWhat is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of what 'critique' is in the first place. Roy Ben-Shai inspects critique as an orientation of critical thinking, probing its structures and assumptions, its limits and its risks, its history and its possibilities. The book is a journey through a landscape of ideas, images, and texts from diverse sources—theological, psychological, etymological, and artistic, but mainly across the history of philosophy, from Plato and Saint Augustine, through Kant and Hegel, Marx and Heidegger, up to contemporary critical theory. Along the way, Ben-Shai invites the reader to examine their own orientation of thought, even at the moment of reading the book; to question popular discourse; and to revisit the philosophical canon, revealing affinities among often antagonistic traditions, such as Catholicism and Marxism. Most importantly, Critique of Critique sets the ground for an examination of alternative orientations of critical thinking, other ways of inhabiting and grasping the world.Trade Review"Ben-Shai exposes the rhizomatic orientations of critique, its multiple topologies, chronologies, positionalities, perversions and betrayals. A masterful analysis of where we are and what we are doing when we engage in critique."—Peg Birmingham, DePaul University"This is one hell of a book—a decisive intervention in the inheritance of the critical theory tradition. Political philosophers and political theorists will want to read this, as will everyone concerned with criticism in film and the arts today."—Anne O'Byrne, Stony Brook University"What does it mean to orient ourselves critically rather than in some other way? In answering this question Ben-Shai brilliantly shows how to critically circumscribe the limits of critique."—Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University Chicago"Ben-Shai orients, in a remarkable way, the critical theory that emerged in particular from Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno'sDialectic of Enlightenment(1944).... Valuable for those interested in social philosophy and critical theory. Highly recommended."—J. C. Swindal, CHOICE"If critique is the act of pointing, Ben-Shai points both at the hand of the finger that is pointing and its environment. The book aims to bring the structural premises and essential features of critique into view to limit its scope, which Ben-Shai fears has become relentlessly repetitious and blind to its own repetitions."—O. L. Silverman, Theory & EventTable of ContentsIntroduction: Critique as Orientation Overture 1. Chapter 1: Critique of the Spectacle or the Spectacle of Critique 2. Chapter 2: Critique of Power or the Power of Critique 3. Chapter 3: Critique of Injustice or the Injustice of Critique 4. Chapter 4: Critique of External Authority or the External Authority of Critique 5. Chapter 5: Moral Ontologies of Critique 6. Chapter 6: Political Ontologies of Critique 7. Chapter 7: Topologies of Critique 8. Chapter 8: Chronologies of Critique Conclusion: Critique and Its Betrayals.
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Stanford University Press Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of questions about critics and the power they do or don't wield. Re-examining theorists from Matthew Arnold to Walter Benjamin, to Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall, and Hortense Spillers, Criticism and Politics explores the animating contradictions that have long propelled literary studies: between pronouncing judgment and engaging in philosophical critique, between democracy and expertise, between political commitment and aesthetic autonomy. Both a leftist critic and a critic of the left, Robbins unflinchingly defends criticism from those who might wish to de-politicize it, arguing that working for change is not optional for critics, but rather a core part of their job description. Trade Review"Urgent, bracing, and powerfully argued, Criticism and Politics will be controversial in the best sense—inviting us all to debate the purposes and presumptions of criticism on newly articulated grounds."—Caroline Levine, Cornell University, author of Forms"This is a vivid, engaging, and engaged piece of literary criticism, as well as a vigorous defense of criticism as a method, by one of its foremost practitioners."—Martin Puchner, Harvard University, author of Literature for a Changing Planet"For those who have been looking for a book to address, head on, the complex connections between literary criticism and politics, this is that book."—Mark Greif, Stanford University, author of Against Everything"This challenging, bold book helps answer the question of what critics are for. Highly recommended"—S. J. Shaw, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Criticism in the Wake of the 1960s 2. Criticizing 3. Lost Centrality 4. Aesthetics and the Governing of Others 5. Grievances 6. The Historical and the Transhistorical 7. Cosmopolitical Criticism in Deep Time Conclusion
£18.89
Stanford University Press How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art,
Book SynopsisAssessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world? The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or epic droughts, but by the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster. The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collective again. For those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of sheer individualism and worldlessness once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of time and events after the so-called "end of history" and an entirely new approach to solidarity. How to Live at the End of the World is a hopeful exploration of how we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," renarrate it, and revise our way of life or thought in view of it. In his book on time, art, and politics in an era of escalating climate change, Holloway takes up difficult, unanswered questions in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers, sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy—a zoocracy, or, a rule of all of the living.Trade Review"We may talk casually about the end of the world, but Travis Holloway convincingly argues that the Anthropocene has emerged as a new epic for our time, offering us a narrative of human history, art, and politics capable of shaping the beginning of a new and more collective world."—Anthony Morgan, editor of The Philosopher"A magnificent achievement. Beautifully written and of our time. Going far beyond Arendt's project of thinking a politics of the human condition, Travis Holloway offers a radical concept of the political as a 'democracy of all of the living.'"—Peg Birmingham, DePaul University, editor of Philosophy Today"A powerful and generative text that will help the reader negotiate these disorienting times. Holloway carefully engages with decolonial thought and with the contested category of the Anthropocene to produce a richer sense of the present."—Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age"It requires great concern and care for all forms of life, a poetic imagination, critical thinking and a wide range of interests, from art, politics to geology, to write a book like Travis Holloway's How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art and Politics for the Anthropocene."—Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Socialist Perspective"Poet and philosopher Travis Holloway will have none of the current shilly-shallying in his compact book How to Live at the End of the World. The jig is up, and various establishments (including the arts) will have no choice but to confront the inevitably unifying conditions dictated by the Anthropocene. Like it or not, we are on the brink of catastrophe, faced with the collective loss of a reliable and habitable future. Short and provocative, this is my kind of 'how to' book."—Bill Marx, Arts FuseTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Philosophy for the End of the World 1. Time: A Counterhistory for Human Beings 2. Art: The Transition from Postmodern Art to the Anthropocene 3. Politics: Democracy at the End of the World
£13.94
Stanford University Press Malicious Deceivers: Thinking Machines and
Book SynopsisIn Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B. Jucan traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metaphysics. Through case studies that cross times and geographies, the book unpacks the notion of fakeness through the related logics of dissimulation (deception) and simulation (performativity) as seen with software/AI, television, plastics, and the internet. Specifically, Jucan shows how these (dis)simulation machines and performative objects construct impoverished pictures of the world, ensuring a repeatable sameness through processes of hollowing out embodied histories and lived experience. Through both its methodology and its subjects-objects of study, the book further seeks ways to counter the abstracting mode of thinking and the processes of voiding performed by the twinning of Cartesian metaphysics and global capitalism. Enacting a model of creative scholarship rooted in the tradition of writing as performance, Jucan, a multimedia performance-maker and theater director, uses the embodied "I" as a framing and situating device for the book and its sites of investigation. In this way, she aims to counter the Cartesian voiding of the thinking "I" and to enact a different kind of relationship between self and world from the one posited by Descartes and replayed in much Western philosophical and — more broadly — academic writing: a relationship of separation that situates the "I" on a pedestal of abstraction that voids it of its embodied histories and fails to account for its positionality within a socio-historical context and the operations of power that define it.Trade Review"Beautifully argued and judiciously organized, Malicious Deceivers moves seamlessly from philosophical exegesis to haunting personal reflection to elegant close readings. This book makes an exciting and critical intervention in philosophy, media studies, performance studies, and critical internet studies."—Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY"Expertly synthesizing debates shared by philosophy, performance studies, and media theory, Malicious Deceivers advances a provocative reframing of the age-old problem of simulation. Jucan offers new insight into a contemporary era profoundly shaped by the anxieties and challenges of separating true from false, real from fake, human from machine—from the ethics of AI to the 'post-truth' media environment."—Anna Watkins Fisher, University of MichiganTable of ContentsPrologue: Beginning Philosophy 1. Enter the Malicious Deceiver 2. (Dis)simulating Thinking Machines Interlude: Auto-History 3. Synthetica: (Un)picturing Plastic Worlds 4. On Circulation: Virality and Internet Performances Epilogue: Notes Toward a Living Practice
£68.00
Stanford University Press Malicious Deceivers: Thinking Machines and
Book SynopsisIn Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B. Jucan traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metaphysics. Through case studies that cross times and geographies, the book unpacks the notion of fakeness through the related logics of dissimulation (deception) and simulation (performativity) as seen with software/AI, television, plastics, and the internet. Specifically, Jucan shows how these (dis)simulation machines and performative objects construct impoverished pictures of the world, ensuring a repeatable sameness through processes of hollowing out embodied histories and lived experience. Through both its methodology and its subjects-objects of study, the book further seeks ways to counter the abstracting mode of thinking and the processes of voiding performed by the twinning of Cartesian metaphysics and global capitalism. Enacting a model of creative scholarship rooted in the tradition of writing as performance, Jucan, a multimedia performance-maker and theater director, uses the embodied "I" as a framing and situating device for the book and its sites of investigation. In this way, she aims to counter the Cartesian voiding of the thinking "I" and to enact a different kind of relationship between self and world from the one posited by Descartes and replayed in much Western philosophical and — more broadly — academic writing: a relationship of separation that situates the "I" on a pedestal of abstraction that voids it of its embodied histories and fails to account for its positionality within a socio-historical context and the operations of power that define it.Trade Review"Beautifully argued and judiciously organized, Malicious Deceivers moves seamlessly from philosophical exegesis to haunting personal reflection to elegant close readings. This book makes an exciting and critical intervention in philosophy, media studies, performance studies, and critical internet studies."—Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY"Expertly synthesizing debates shared by philosophy, performance studies, and media theory, Malicious Deceivers advances a provocative reframing of the age-old problem of simulation. Jucan offers new insight into a contemporary era profoundly shaped by the anxieties and challenges of separating true from false, real from fake, human from machine—from the ethics of AI to the 'post-truth' media environment."—Anna Watkins Fisher, University of MichiganTable of ContentsPrologue: Beginning Philosophy 1. Enter the Malicious Deceiver 2. (Dis)simulating Thinking Machines Interlude: Auto-History 3. Synthetica: (Un)picturing Plastic Worlds 4. On Circulation: Virality and Internet Performances Epilogue: Notes Toward a Living Practice
£23.79
Stanford University Press Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political
Book SynopsisIn the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what totalitarian ghosts haunt the present? Philosopher Simona Forti seeks to answer these questions by reconstructing not only the genealogy of the concept, but also by clarifying its motives, misunderstandings, and the controversies that have animated its current resurgence. Taking into account political theories and historical discussions, Totalitarianism especially focuses on philosophical reflections, from the question of totalitarian biopolitics to the alleged totalitarian drifts of neoliberalism. The work invites the relentless formulation of a radical question about the democratic age: the possibilities it has opened up, the voids it leaves behind, the mechanisms it activates, and the "voluntary servitude" it produces. Forti argues that totalitarianism cannot be considered an external threat to democracy, but rather as one of the possible answers to those questions posed by modernity which democracies have not been able to solve. Her investigation of the uses and abuses of totalitarianism as one of the fundamental categories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries promises to provoke much-needed discussion and debate among those in philosophy, politics, ethics, and beyond.Trade Review"Forti's compact, philosophical discussion of the history of the concept of 'totalitarianism' is the best available in any language. With the ongoing rise of right-wing populists eager to leave 'behind' their totalitarian lineage, this book is more pertinent than ever."—Miguel Vatter, author of Divine Democracy"It takes a scholar of both exceptional learning and critical acuity to explain with precision the metamorphoses of an idea as multifaceted and elusive as totalitarianism. This gripping book has particularly urgent and disquieting implications for readers today."—Alessia Ricciardi, author of Finding Ferrante"Forti asks us a sharp question, the child of our ambiguous and confused times: why do we need the category of totalitarianism? This book is both beautiful and disturbing. It must be read in one go."—Nadia Urbinati, author of Me the PeopleTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. How the Concept "Totalitarianism" Came to Be 2. From the Construction of Models to the Practice of Dissent 3. Philosophy in the Face of Extremes 4. Specters of Totality Conclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Marx and Foucault: Essays, Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today. In this first volume Negri shows how the thinking of Marx and Foucault were brought together to create an original theoretical synthesis - particularly in the context of Italy from May ’68 onwards. At around that time, the structures of industry and production began to change radically, with the emergence of new producer-subjects and new fields of capitalist value creation. New concepts and theories were developed by Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari and others to help make sense of these and related developments - concepts such as biopower and biopolitics, subjectivation and subsumption, public and common, power and potentiality. These concepts and theories are examined by Negri within the broader context of the development of European philosophical discourse in the twentieth century. Marx and Foucault provides a unique account of the development of radical thought in the late 20th and early 21st centuries and will be a key text for anyone interested in radical politics today.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Why Marx? 2. Reflections on the use of dialectics 3. Thoughts regarding �critical foresight� in the unpublished Chapter VI of Marx�s Capital Vol. 1 4. Acting in common, and the limits of capital 5. Is it possible to be communists without Marx? Chapter 3 1. An Italian breakpoint: production versus development 2. On �Italian Theory� 3. The constitution of the common and the logics of the left 4. On the future of the European social democracies 5. Let�s start reading Gramsci again 6. Biopower / biopolitics Ð subjectivities in struggle Chapter 4 1. On the method of political critique 2. How and when I read Foucault 3. Gilles Felix Ð the how and when of Deleuze-Guattari 4. Observations on the �production of subjectivity�: on an intervention by Pierre Macherey 5. Marx after Foucault: the subject refound Origin of the Texts
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Marx and Foucault: Essays, Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today. In this first volume Negri shows how the thinking of Marx and Foucault were brought together to create an original theoretical synthesis - particularly in the context of Italy from May ’68 onwards. At around that time, the structures of industry and production began to change radically, with the emergence of new producer-subjects and new fields of capitalist value creation. New concepts and theories were developed by Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari and others to help make sense of these and related developments - concepts such as biopower and biopolitics, subjectivation and subsumption, public and common, power and potentiality. These concepts and theories are examined by Negri within the broader context of the development of European philosophical discourse in the twentieth century. Marx and Foucault provides a unique account of the development of radical thought in the late 20th and early 21st centuries and will be a key text for anyone interested in radical politics today.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Why Marx? 2. Reflections on the use of dialectics 3. Thoughts regarding �critical foresight� in the unpublished Chapter VI of Marx�s Capital Vol. 1 4. Acting in common, and the limits of capital 5. Is it possible to be communists without Marx? Chapter 3 1. An Italian breakpoint: production versus development 2. On �Italian Theory� 3. The constitution of the common and the logics of the left 4. On the future of the European social democracies 5. Let�s start reading Gramsci again 6. Biopower / biopolitics Ð subjectivities in struggle Chapter 4 1. On the method of political critique 2. How and when I read Foucault 3. Gilles Felix Ð the how and when of Deleuze-Guattari 4. Observations on the �production of subjectivity�: on an intervention by Pierre Macherey 5. Marx after Foucault: the subject refound Origin of the Texts
£16.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rousseau
Book SynopsisJean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory. In this book, Céline Spector, one of the world’s foremost experts on Rousseau’s thought, provides an accessible introduction to his moral, social and political theory. She explores the themes and central concepts of his thought, ranging from the state of nature, the social contract and the general will to natural and political freedom, religion and education. She combines a skilful exposition of Rousseau as a ‘man of paradoxes’ with a discussion of his often-overlooked ideas on knowledge, political economy and international relations. The book traces both the overall unity and the significant changes in Rousseau’s philosophy, accounting for its complexity and for the importance of its legacy. It will be essential reading for scholars, students and general readers interested in the Enlightenment and more broadly in the history of modern political thought and philosophy.Trade Review‘Céline Spector provides a comprehensive treatment of Rousseau’s political thought, dealing with both major and less-known writings. She has mastered both anglophone and francophone scholarship and is particularly helpful in showing Rousseau’s place in debates within contemporary political theory.’Christopher Kelly, Boston College ‘Céline Spector is one of the very brightest stars in the firmament of Rousseau scholarship in France today, and it is excellent now to have her new book on his “modern critique of modernity” for English-speaking readers.’Chris Brooke, University of CambridgeTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 A modern critique of modernity Chapter 2 Popular sovereignty and the general will Chapter 3 Political legitimacy and applied politics Chapter 4 Morality and education Chapter 5 Metaphysics and religion Chapter 6 Economic philosophy Chapter 7 War and peace Chapter 8 After Rousseau Conclusion Notes Bibliography Further Reading Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rousseau
Book SynopsisJean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory. In this book, Céline Spector, one of the world’s foremost experts on Rousseau’s thought, provides an accessible introduction to his moral, social and political theory. She explores the themes and central concepts of his thought, ranging from the state of nature, the social contract and the general will to natural and political freedom, religion and education. She combines a skilful exposition of Rousseau as a ‘man of paradoxes’ with a discussion of his often-overlooked ideas on knowledge, political economy and international relations. The book traces both the overall unity and the significant changes in Rousseau’s philosophy, accounting for its complexity and for the importance of its legacy. It will be essential reading for scholars, students and general readers interested in the Enlightenment and more broadly in the history of modern political thought and philosophy.Trade Review‘Céline Spector provides a comprehensive treatment of Rousseau’s political thought, dealing with both major and less-known writings. She has mastered both anglophone and francophone scholarship and is particularly helpful in showing Rousseau’s place in debates within contemporary political theory.’Christopher Kelly, Boston College ‘Céline Spector is one of the very brightest stars in the firmament of Rousseau scholarship in France today, and it is excellent now to have her new book on his “modern critique of modernity” for English-speaking readers.’Chris Brooke, University of CambridgeTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 A modern critique of modernity Chapter 2 Popular sovereignty and the general will Chapter 3 Political legitimacy and applied politics Chapter 4 Morality and education Chapter 5 Metaphysics and religion Chapter 6 Economic philosophy Chapter 7 War and peace Chapter 8 After Rousseau Conclusion Notes Bibliography Further Reading Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Infinite Mobilization
Book SynopsisThe core of what we refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a ‘kinetic utopia’: the movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our plans for it. But as soon as the kinetic utopia of modernity is exposed, its seemingly stable foundation cracks open and new problems appear: things don’t happen according to plan because as we actualize our plans, we set in motion other things that we didn’t want as unintended side-effects. We watch with mounting unease as the self-perpetuating side-effects of modern progress overshadow our plans, as a foreign movement breaks off from the very core of the modern project supposedly guided by reason and slips away from us, spinning out of control. What looked like a steady march towards freedom turns out to be a slide into an uncontrollable and catastrophic syndrome of perpetual mobilization. And precisely because so much comes about through our actions, these developments turn out to have explosive consequences for our self-understanding, as we begin to realize that, so far from bringing the world under our control, we are instead the agents of our own destruction.In this brilliant and insightful book Sloterdijk lays out the elements of a new critical theory of modernity understood as a critique of political kinetics, shifting the focus of critical theory from production to mobilization and shedding new light on a world facing the growing risk of humanly induced catastrophe.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Premises I. The Modern Age as Mobilization 1. The Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification 2. Sketches towards a General Outline of a Critique of Political Kinetics 3. The Prospect of an Asian Renaissance: Towards a Theory of the Ancient II. The Other Change On the Philosophical Situation of Alternative Movements 1. Panicked Culture—Or: How much catastrophe does a person need? 2. The First Alternative: Metaphysics 3. The Second Alternative: Poeisis III. Eurotaoism? 1. Nothingness and Historical Consciousness – A Note on the World History of Life Fatigue 2. The Miscarried Animal and the Self-Birth of the Subject 3. Eurotaoism IV. The Fundamental and the Urgent – or: The Tao of Politics Also a contribution to the answer as to why a credible policy currently does not exist 1. Dimensions of the Gap in Credibility 2. The Voting Voice and the Body— or: How politics takes part in the crisis of a metaphysics of embodiment 3. From an Ethics of Principle to an Ethos of the Urgent V. Paris Aphorisms on Rationality 1. All that is right 2. Diplomats as Thinkers in Meager Times 3. Low Theory 4. La chose la mieux partagée du monde 5. Geometry as Finesse 6. Unconcealment und Tolerability 7. Of the foolishness to not be an animal 8. Invent yourselves VI. After Modernity 1. The Age of the Epilogue 2. The Interim – or: The Birth of History from the Spirit of Postponement 3. Truth und Symbiosis: On the Geological Abolition of World History 4. For an Ontology of Still-Being
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Infinite Mobilization
Book SynopsisThe core of what we refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a ‘kinetic utopia’: the movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our plans for it. But as soon as the kinetic utopia of modernity is exposed, its seemingly stable foundation cracks open and new problems appear: things don’t happen according to plan because as we actualize our plans, we set in motion other things that we didn’t want as unintended side-effects. We watch with mounting unease as the self-perpetuating side-effects of modern progress overshadow our plans, as a foreign movement breaks off from the very core of the modern project supposedly guided by reason and slips away from us, spinning out of control. What looked like a steady march towards freedom turns out to be a slide into an uncontrollable and catastrophic syndrome of perpetual mobilization. And precisely because so much comes about through our actions, these developments turn out to have explosive consequences for our self-understanding, as we begin to realize that, so far from bringing the world under our control, we are instead the agents of our own destruction.In this brilliant and insightful book Sloterdijk lays out the elements of a new critical theory of modernity understood as a critique of political kinetics, shifting the focus of critical theory from production to mobilization and shedding new light on a world facing the growing risk of humanly induced catastrophe.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsPremises I. The Modern Age as Mobilization 1. The Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification 2. Sketches towards a General Outline of a Critique of Political Kinetics 3. The Prospect of an Asian Renaissance: Towards a Theory of the Ancient II. The Other ChangeOn the Philosophical Situation of Alternative Movements 1. Panicked Culture—Or: How much catastrophe does a person need? 2. The First Alternative: Metaphysics 3. The Second Alternative: Poeisis III. Eurotaoism? 1. Nothingness and Historical Consciousness – A Note on the World History of Life Fatigue 2. The Miscarried Animal and the Self-Birth of the Subject 3. Eurotaoism IV. The Fundamental and the Urgent – or: The Tao of PoliticsAlso a contribution to the answer as to why a credible policy currently does not exist1. Dimensions of the Gap in Credibility 2. The Voting Voice and the Body— or: How politics takes part in the crisis of a metaphysics of embodiment 3. From an Ethics of Principle to an Ethos of the Urgent V. Paris Aphorisms on Rationality 1. All that is right 2. Diplomats as Thinkers in Meager Times 3. Low Theory 4. La chose la mieux partagée du monde 5. Geometry as Finesse 6. Unconcealment und Tolerability 7. Of the foolishness to not be an animal 8. Invent yourselves VI. After Modernity 1. The Age of the Epilogue 2. The Interim – or: The Birth of History from the Spirit of Postponement3. Truth und Symbiosis: On the Geological Abolition of World History 4. For an Ontology of Still-Being
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Phenomenology: An Introduction
Book SynopsisA classic in its field, this comprehensive book introduces the core history of phenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. It provides a jargon-free explanation of central themes in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. From artificial intelligence to embodiment and enactivism, Käufer and Chemero go on to trace how phenomenology has produced a valuable framework for analyzing cognition and perception, whose impact on contemporary psychological and scientific research, and philosophical debates, continues to grow. New to this second edition are a treatment of nineteenth-century precursors of experimental psychology; a detailed exploration of Husserl's analysis of the body; and a discussion of the work of Aron Gurwitsch and other philosophers and psychologists who explored the intersection of phenomenology and Gestalt psychology. The new material also includes an expanded consideration of enactivism, and an up-to-date examination of current work in phenomenologically informed cognitive science. This is an ideal introduction to phenomenology and cognitive science for the uninitiated, and will shed new light on the topic for experienced readers, showing clearly the contemporary relevance and influence of phenomenological ideas.Trade Review“Käufer and Chemero have written a superb introduction to phenomenology, not merely as a chapter in intellectual history or as a gallery of great thinkers, but as a living tradition in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science.”Taylor Carman, Professor of Philosophy, Barnard College, Columbia University “A sparklingly clear and widely insightful introduction to phenomenology for beginners – which, if we are phenomenologists, includes all of us. Highly recommended.”Gayle Salamon, Professor of English, Princeton University Praise for the first edition:“A remarkably thorough and comprehensible account of the history of phenomenology that offers illuminating commentary on the work of Kant, Wundt, Husserl, Heidegger, Gestalt psychologists, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Gibson.”Hubert Dreyfus, Former Professor of Philosophy, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Kant: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Background 1.1 Kant’s critical philosophy 1.2 Intuitions and concepts 1.3 The transcendental deduction 1.4 Kantian themes in phenomenology 2 The Rise of Experimental Psychology 2.1 Wilhelm Wundt and the rise of scientific psychology 2.2 William James and functionalism 2.3 The structuralism-functionalism debate 3 Edmund Husserl and Transcendental Phenomenology 3.1 Transcendental phenomenology 3.2 Brentano 3.3 Between logic and psychology 3.4 Ideas 3.5 The body 3.6 Phenomenology of time consciousness 4 Martin Heidegger and Existential Phenomenology 4.1 The intelligibility of the everyday world 4.2 Descartes and occurrentness 4.3 Being-in-the-world 4.4 Being-with others and the anyone 4.5 The existential conception of the self 4.6 Death, guilt, and authenticity 5 Gestalt Psychology 5.1 Gestalt criticisms of atomistic psychology 5.2 Perception and the environment 5.3 Influence of Gestalt psychology 6 Aron Gurwitsch: Merging Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology 6.1 Phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego 6.2 Others and the Social World 7 Jean-Paul Sartre: Phenomenological Existentialism 7.1 Transcendence of the Ego 7.2 The Imagination and The Imaginary 7.3 Being and Nothingness 8 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Body and Perception 8.1 Phenomenology of Perception 8.2 Phenomenology, psychology, and the phenomenal field 8.3 The lived body 8.4 Perceptual constancy and natural objects 9 Critical Phenomenology 9.1 The path not taken 9.2 Phenomenology and Gender 9.3 Phenomenology and Race 10 James J. Gibson and Ecological Psychology 10.1 Gibson’s early work: Two examples 10.2 The ecological approach 10.3 Ecological ontology 10.4 Affordances and invitations 11 Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenological Critique of Cognitivism 11.1 The cognitive revolution and cognitive science 11.2 “Alchemy and artificial intelligence” 11.3 What Computers Can’t Do 11.4 Heideggerian artificial intelligence 12 Enactivism and the Embodied Mind 12.1 Embodied, Embedded, Extended, Enactive 12.2 The Original Enactivism 12.3 Other Enactivisms: The sensorimotor approach and radical enactivism 12.4 Enactivism as a Philosophy of Nature 13 Phenomenological Cognitive Science 13.1 The frame problem 13.2 Radical embodied cognitive science 13.3 Dynamical systems theory 13.4 Heideggerian cognitive science 13.5 The future of scientific phenomenology References Index
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Doing Justice: Three Essays on Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisPablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin’s work in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify the tasks and responsibilities of the kind of critical theory that would interrupt social violence. In this book Oyarzun examines some of the key concepts in Benjamin’s work – including his concepts of translation, experience, history and storytelling – and relates them to his own systematic reflection on the nature and implications of ‘doing justice’. What is meant by the words ‘justice was done’? The passive voice is important here. On the one hand, justice does nothing: it is not an agent, it can only prevail or fail, and if it fails, it does so without limit. On the other hand, the passive voice alludes to the agents of an action while covering them up; the allusion is the masking of the identity and traces of the person who accomplishes the action. And this cover-up can be dangerous: it can cover-up the executioners, who are subjects that everyone can confirm anonymously, without their being recognized and without their wanting to be recognized. Justice, argues Oyarzun, can only be done in the active effort to do justice – or, as Benjamin would say, in the striving to turn the world into the highest good. This book by one of Chile’s most distinguished philosophers will be of value to anyone interested in Benjamin’s work and in the development of critical theory in Latin America.Trade Review'Benjamin once wrote that �The gate to justice is study.� To this could now be added: �The gate to the idea of justice is studying Pablo Oyarzun�s Doing Justice.�' Professor Peter Fenves, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsPreface by Jacques Lezra Prefatory Note on Texts Prologue: Doing Justice? 1. On Benjamin’s Concept of Translation 2. Four Suggestions about Experience, History and Facticity in the Thought of Walter Benjamin 3. Narration and Justice Bibliography Notes Index
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Doing Justice: Three Essays on Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisPablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin’s work in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify the tasks and responsibilities of the kind of critical theory that would interrupt social violence. In this book Oyarzun examines some of the key concepts in Benjamin’s work – including his concepts of translation, experience, history and storytelling – and relates them to his own systematic reflection on the nature and implications of ‘doing justice’. What is meant by the words ‘justice was done’? The passive voice is important here. On the one hand, justice does nothing: it is not an agent, it can only prevail or fail, and if it fails, it does so without limit. On the other hand, the passive voice alludes to the agents of an action while covering them up; the allusion is the masking of the identity and traces of the person who accomplishes the action. And this cover-up can be dangerous: it can cover-up the executioners, who are subjects that everyone can confirm anonymously, without their being recognized and without their wanting to be recognized. Justice, argues Oyarzun, can only be done in the active effort to do justice – or, as Benjamin would say, in the striving to turn the world into the highest good. This book by one of Chile’s most distinguished philosophers will be of value to anyone interested in Benjamin’s work and in the development of critical theory in Latin America.Trade Review'Benjamin once wrote that �The gate to justice is study.� To this could now be added: �The gate to the idea of justice is studying Pablo Oyarzun�s Doing Justice.�' Professor Peter Fenves, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsPreface by Jacques Lezra Prefatory Note on Texts Prologue: Doing Justice? 1. On Benjamin’s Concept of Translation 2. Four Suggestions about Experience, History and Facticity in the Thought of Walter Benjamin 3. Narration and Justice Bibliography Notes Index
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far
Book SynopsisWestern thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not being but ‘the way’ (dao), which lacks the solidity and fixedness of essence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwelling and wandering. ‘A Zen monk should be without fixed abode, like the clouds, and without fixed support, like water’, said the Japanese Zen master Dōgen. Drawing on this fundamental distinction between essence and absence, Byung-Chul Han explores the differences between Western and Far Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, architecture and art, shedding fresh light on a culture of absence that may at first sight appear strange and unfamiliar to those in the West whose ways of thinking have been shaped for centuries by the preoccupation with essence.Trade Review‘After reading Heidegger’s and Derrida’s critiques of the “metaphysics of presence” that pervades the Western tradition, do you find yourself asking: But what’s the alternative? If so, this breathtakingly bold and inspiringly insightful book is for you. You will find it more far-reaching as it deftly escorts you into the philosophical and aesthetic heart of the Far East.’Bret W. Davis, author of Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen BuddhismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Essencing and Absencing – Living Nowhere Closed and Open – Spaces of Absencing Light and Shadow – The Aesthetics of Absencing Knowledge and Daftness – On the Way to Paradise Land and Sea – Strategies of Thinking Doing and Happening: Beyond Active and Passive Greeting and Bowing – Friendliness Notes
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University of Minnesota Press Philosophy after Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual
Book SynopsisThe friend, the enemy, the stranger, the refugee or deportee, and the survivor. In singular and provocative fashion, Gregg Lambert’s Philosophy after Friendship introduces us to the key social personae that have populated modern political philosophy. Drawing on the philosophies of Deleuze and Derrida, as well as the work of Indo-European linguist Émile Benveniste, Lambert constructs a genealogy to demonstrate how political thought has been structured by the emergence of such “conceptual personae.” At the center of Philosophy after Friendship is the persona of the friend, together with the idea of friendship, on which the democratic ideals of consensus, fraternity, and equality are based. Lambert argues that the vitality of this conceptual persona, originated by the Greeks, has been exhausted by centuries of war. In fact, we might today be witnessing the overturning of an earlier philosophical idealism that saw friendship as the destination of the political and, in its place, the emergence of a nonphilosophical understanding that has set perpetual war as the ultimate ground from which future thinking of the political must depart. In his Conclusion, Lambert proposes a truly “postwar philosophy” that takes as its first principle the idea of perpetual peace, which would require nothing less than a complete reevaluation of the goals of any future political philosophy, if not the meaning of philosophy itself.Trade Review"This is a timely, relevant book. By drawing from Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, especially their concept of friendship, Gregg Lambert offers an important reconceptualization of Kant's essay on perpetual peace, and in doing so he sets the stage for a post-war philosophy that remains true to Kant's ideal."—Jeffrey Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University"Readers expecting a book ‘about’ Deleuze in a limited sense will encounter instead a far wider-ranging and more distinctive work."—French Studies"Gregg Lambert’s excellent new book is the product of a long-held interest in the Kantian idea of perpetual peace as a paradigm for thinking the future of global politics."—SymplokēTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Philosophy after Friendship: Prolegomena for a “Post-War” Philosophy1. Friend (Fr. L’ami)2. Enemy (Ger. der Feind)3. Foreigner(Lat. perigrinus)4. Stranger (Gr. xénos)5. Deportee (Fr. deportée)6. A Revolutionary People (Fr. machine de guerre)Conclusion. Toward a Peaceful Confederacy? (Lat. foidus pacificum)AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970–71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an exclusive new interview with GIP member Hélène Cixous and writings by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. These archival documents—public announcements, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, interventions, press conference statements, interviews, and round table discussions—trace the GIP’s establishment in post-1968 political turmoil, the new models of social activism it pioneered, the prison revolts it supported across France, and the retrospective assessments that followed its denouement. At the same time, Intolerable offers a rich, concrete exploration of Foucault’s concept of resistance, providing a new understanding of the arc of his intellectual development and the genesis of his most influential book, Discipline and Punish.Presenting the account of France’s most vibrant prison resistance movement in its own words and on its own terms, this significant and relevant collection also connects the approach and activities of the GIP to radical prison resistance movements today.Trade Review"The Prisons Information Group was a crucial part of Foucault’s political trajectory, but it was an intensely collaborative project between intellectuals, prisoners, and their families. Expertly translated and introduced, this is the definitive collection of the group’s writings. Although the focus is France, the texts also illuminate other European countries, while the Algerian war opens up questions of colonialism, and the group’s links to the Black Panthers make it important for an understanding of the politics of race. A significant book that is both long overdue and a timely intervention in contemporary debates about police and prison abolition and reform."—Stuart Elden, author of The Early Foucault"Intolerable contributes to incarceration studies by highlighting the contributions (and pointing to the contradictions) of the Prisons Information Group (GIP). By emphasizing the activism of the GIP, it demonstrates how the author and theorist as an academic activist was influenced by the militancy of political actors and revolutionaries who took great risks, especially as incarcerated intellectuals and rebels, to challenge repression structured by racial/colonial capitalism and captivity."—Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader"Though ‘resistance’ in the Trump Era became more of a brand than a battle plan, it is not hard to see the relevance of the Prisons Information Group to the current movement for prison reform and abolition: lessons of past resistance are always important to the future."—Literary Hub
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University of Minnesota Press The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood
Book SynopsisExcavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization The politics of dispossession are everywhere. Troubling developments in intellectual property, genomics, and biotechnology are undermining established concepts of property, while land appropriation and ecological crises reconfigure basic institutions of ownership. In The Dispossessed, Daniel Bensaïd examines Karl Marx’s early writings to establish a new framework for addressing the rights of the poor, the idea of the commons, and private property as a social institution.In his series of articles from 1842–43 about Rhineland parliamentary debates over the privatization of public lands and criminalization of poverty under the rubric of the “theft of wood,” Marx identified broader anxieties about customary law, property rights, and capitalist efforts to privatize the commons. Bensaïd studies these writings to interrogate how dispossession continues to function today as a key modality of power. Brilliantly tacking between past and present, The Dispossessed discloses continuity and rupture in our relationships to property and, through that, to one another.In addition to Bensaïd’s prescient work of political philosophy, The Dispossessed includes new translations of Marx’s original “theft of wood” articles and an introductory essay by Robert Nichols that lucidly contextualizes the essays.Trade Review"In 1842, the young Karl Marx analyzed the consequences of capitalist rural enclosures in Rhineland. Today, patent rights, biotechnologies, and different forms of intellectual property, Daniel Bensaïd convincingly argues, are means of dispossession of human beings exactly as the land enclosures of almost two centuries ago had been a crucial moment in the process of the accumulation of capital. Far from being ‘neutral’ or ‘natural,’ market society was—and still remains—built as a planned dispossession. This is a timely and highly original essay by a towering figure of French critical thought."—Enzo Traverso, author of Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory"Within a single volume, this book makes available to English-language readers for the first time not only fresh translations of Marx’s ‘wood theft articles’ but also Daniel Bensaïd’s lucid and incisive commentary on these pieces. Bensaïd’s short book brings the Marx articles alive for contemporary audiences and demonstrates their enduring relevance for longstanding debates about law, property, and rights."—Samuel A. Chambers, Johns Hopkins University"Bensaïd’s essay, as contextualized in this volume by Nichols, successfully pushes, especially those of a Marxist orientation, to make the idea of dispossession more central to their theoretical and practical work."—Marx & Philosophy Table of ContentsContentsCrisis and Kleptocracy: Bensaïd for Our TimesRobert NicholsNotes on TranslationThe Dispossessed: Karl Marx, the Wood Thieves, and the Right of the PoorI. The Law on the Theft of Wood and the Rights of the Poor“Rural Pauperism” and “Forest Malfeasance”—Hybrid and Uncertain Property—Market versus Popular EconomyII. A Social War of PropertiesThe Right of Necessity versus the Right of Property—“Property Is Theft!”—Possession and Property—Theft or ExploitationIII. The Customary Rights of the Poor to the Communal Goods of Humanity The Privatization of Knowledge—The Privatization of Life—The Common Good and the Freely Given—Inappropriable Goods—Individual and Private Property—The Age of Access?—Enforcing Rights (against Existence)—Who Will Win?Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly, Third Article: Debates on the Law Concerning the Theft of Wood Karl MarxSelected Works by Daniel BensaïdNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Technique of Thought: Nancy, Laruelle,
Book SynopsisInterrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to realityThe Technique of Thought explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the work of four contemporary French thinkers—Jean-Luc Nancy, François Laruelle, Catherine Malabou, and Bernard Stiegler. Situating their writings within both contemporary scientific debates and the philosophy of science, Ian James elaborates a philosophical naturalism that is notably distinct from the Anglo-American tradition. The naturalism James proposes also diverges decisively from the ways in which continental philosophy has previously engaged with the sciences. He explores the technical procedures and discursive methods used by each of the four thinkers as distinct “techniques of thought” that approach scientific understanding and knowledge experimentally. Moving beyond debates about the constructed nature of scientific knowledge, The Technique of Thought argues for a strong, variably configured, and entirely novel scientific realism. By bringing together post-phenomenological perspectives concerning individual or collective consciousness and first-person qualitative experience with science’s focus on objective and third-person quantitative knowledge, James tracks the emergence of a new image of the sciences and of scientific practice. Stripped of aspirations toward total mastery of the universe or a “grand theory of everything,” this renewed scientific worldview, along with the simultaneous reconfiguration of philosophy’s relationship to science, opens up new ways of interrogating immanent reality.Trade Review"This book is a tour de force: it remains faithful to the thought of the theorists studied while putting forward its own distinct philosophy. It also brings together philosophy and science in ways that have been lacking in contemporary continental thought."—Aurélien Barrau, Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology, Université Grenoble Alpes"Rethinking the relation between philosophy and science, and written in dialogue with a wide range of scientific discourses, Ian James situates an incisive series of postphenomenological and postdeconstructive readings in light of Anglophone traditions of naturalism and science writing. The Technique of Thought is a remarkably lucid and accessible volume that will both initiate and transform scholarly debates across numerous disciplinary fields and traditions."—Philip Armstrong, The Ohio State University"This book tentatively envisions philosophy as a technique of thought in order to "imagine a future" when there is no longer a fracture between analytic and Continental traditions in philosophy."—Philosophical Reviews"While the title of this brilliant book is written in the singular, it should, to my mind, be read through the lens of what one of the thinkers addressed in the book, Jean-Luc Nancy, has referred to as the singular plural. For as Ian James establishes from one chapter to the next, in meticulous readings of contemporary scientific and philosophical texts, the real is irreducibly multiple."—Critical Inquiry"The rigor and deft with which James approaches scientific-realist perspectives produce a rich picture of post-metaphysical thinking."—Rhizomes"James’s staged encounter of some of the most interesting current scientific and philosophical work is not only extremely rewarding to read, but also highly suggestive of myriad paths for research to come."—French Studies Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction. Post–Continental Naturalism: A Question1. The Image of Philosophy 2. The Relational Universe3. Generic Science 4. Thinking BodiesConclusion. The Eclipse of TotalityNotesBibliography
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University of Minnesota Press Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making
Book SynopsisA trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. “biocultures”—where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday cultural practices—also engage in a deadly endeavor? Challenging us to question their implications, Deadly Biocultures shows that efforts to “make live” are accompanied by the twin operation of “let die”: they validate and enhance lives seen as economically viable, self-sustaining, productive, and oriented toward the future and optimism while reinforcing inequitable distributions of life based on race, class, gender, and dis/ability. Affirming life can obscure death, create deadly conditions, and even kill.Deadly Biocultures examines the affirmation to hope, target, thrive, secure, and green in the respective biocultures of cancer, race-based health, fatness, aging, and the afterlife. Its chapters focus on specific practices, technologies, or techniques that ostensibly affirm life and suggest life’s inextricable links to capital but that also engender a politics of death and erasure. The authors ultimately ask: what alternative social forms and individual practices might be mapped onto or intersect with biomedicine for more equitable biofutures?Trade Review"Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar have written a brilliant book about the Janus-faced nature of neoliberal biopolitics. Focusing on a diverse range of topics, from race-based medicine to the ‘war on cancer,’ they superbly show how practices and technologies aimed at fostering life in liberal democratic regimes perversely produce vulnerability, death-in-life, and even death itself."—Jonathan Xavier Inda, author of Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life"Deadly Biocultures is a highly original and innovative text which aims to shed light on the dual nature of neoliberal biopolitics."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "Deadly Biocultures offers a timely and provocative contribution to the rich literature on biopolitics from which it draws. Ehlers and Krupar provide unique examples and deep engagement with a wide array of American biocultures."—Disability Studies Quarterly
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University of Minnesota Press How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children,
Book SynopsisFrom pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human.Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the “bare life” of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots. By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability. Trade Review"In How Not to Make a Human, Karl Steel thinks with worm-eaten corpses, oysters, pets, feral children and other creatures in a wide range of literary and visual materials and through them traces a medieval sense of the shared embodiment of humans and animals that has too often been ignored. This fascinating book challenges assumptions about the human and the period and should be read by medievalists, posthumanists, and everyone in between."—Erica Fudge, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow"How Not to Make a Human welcomes fleas, nits, and worms among other bedfellows to eat away at human superiority. The book swarms and crawls with new life, composting so much dead matter. Karl Steel finds prospects for the future in a medieval corpus consumed by the low, noxious, and parasitic. He prepares earthy grounds for an estranging posthuman ethics emerging from our shared destitution, with implications that go far beyond any single historical period."—J. Allan Mitchell, author of Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child"The book as a whole is fascinating and Steel's choice of material very exciting."—CHOICE"How Not to Make a Human gives medievalists a stronger voice in conversations about ecocriticism, posthumanism, and critical animal studies. At the same time, it can inspire non-medievalists with its revised—and ultimately much more fruitful—set of medieval inheritances for ecocritical thought."—ISLE"A real strength in the book is Steel’s ability to trace narrative threads through temporal, linguistic, and manuscript sources and analogues."—Speculum "A compelling meditation on how humans are unmade, combining premodern notions of spontaneous generation with ecofeminist theories of compost."—Environmental History
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University of Minnesota Press How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children,
Book SynopsisFrom pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human.Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the “bare life” of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots. By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability. Trade Review"In How Not to Make a Human, Karl Steel thinks with worm-eaten corpses, oysters, pets, feral children and other creatures in a wide range of literary and visual materials and through them traces a medieval sense of the shared embodiment of humans and animals that has too often been ignored. This fascinating book challenges assumptions about the human and the period and should be read by medievalists, posthumanists, and everyone in between."—Erica Fudge, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow"How Not to Make a Human welcomes fleas, nits, and worms among other bedfellows to eat away at human superiority. The book swarms and crawls with new life, composting so much dead matter. Karl Steel finds prospects for the future in a medieval corpus consumed by the low, noxious, and parasitic. He prepares earthy grounds for an estranging posthuman ethics emerging from our shared destitution, with implications that go far beyond any single historical period."—J. Allan Mitchell, author of Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child"The book as a whole is fascinating and Steel's choice of material very exciting."—CHOICE"How Not to Make a Human gives medievalists a stronger voice in conversations about ecocriticism, posthumanism, and critical animal studies. At the same time, it can inspire non-medievalists with its revised—and ultimately much more fruitful—set of medieval inheritances for ecocritical thought."—ISLE"A real strength in the book is Steel’s ability to trace narrative threads through temporal, linguistic, and manuscript sources and analogues."—Speculum "A compelling meditation on how humans are unmade, combining premodern notions of spontaneous generation with ecofeminist theories of compost."—Environmental History
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University of Minnesota Press From Montaigne to Montaigne
Book SynopsisTwo previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne In January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a talk to the Confédération générale du travail in Paris. Only recently discovered in the archives of the Bibliothèque national de France, this lecture, “Ethnography: The Revolutionary Science,” discussed the French essayist Michel de Montaigne, to whom Lévi-Strauss would return in remarks delivered more than a half-century later, in the spring of 1992. Bracketing the career of one of the most celebrated anthropologists of the twentieth century, these two talks reveal how Lévi-Strauss’s ethnography begins and ends with Montaigne—and how his reading of his intellectual forebear and his understanding of anthropology evolve along the way.Published here for the first time, these lectures offer new insight into the development of ethnography and the thinking of one of its most important practitioners. Essays by Emmanuel Désveaux, who edited the original French volume De Montaigne à Montaigne, and Peter Skafish expand the context of Lévi-Strauss’s talks with contemporary perspectives and commentary. Trade Review"To learn from such a guileless mind, perhaps we have to reverse background and figure in the already inverted approach to reading applied to philosophers by looking for the answers rather than the questions—for statements so transparent that they become enigmas upon scrutiny—and then find or imagine their missing interrogative mates."—Peter Skafish, from the Introduction
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University of Minnesota Press From Montaigne to Montaigne
Book SynopsisTwo previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne In January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a talk to the Confédération générale du travail in Paris. Only recently discovered in the archives of the Bibliothèque national de France, this lecture, “Ethnography: The Revolutionary Science,” discussed the French essayist Michel de Montaigne, to whom Lévi-Strauss would return in remarks delivered more than a half-century later, in the spring of 1992. Bracketing the career of one of the most celebrated anthropologists of the twentieth century, these two talks reveal how Lévi-Strauss’s ethnography begins and ends with Montaigne—and how his reading of his intellectual forebear and his understanding of anthropology evolve along the way.Published here for the first time, these lectures offer new insight into the development of ethnography and the thinking of one of its most important practitioners. Essays by Emmanuel Désveaux, who edited the original French volume De Montaigne à Montaigne, and Peter Skafish expand the context of Lévi-Strauss’s talks with contemporary perspectives and commentary. Trade Review"To learn from such a guileless mind, perhaps we have to reverse background and figure in the already inverted approach to reading applied to philosophers by looking for the answers rather than the questions—for statements so transparent that they become enigmas upon scrutiny—and then find or imagine their missing interrogative mates."—Peter Skafish, from the Introduction
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University of Minnesota Press The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time
Book SynopsisBringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future Is sustainability a hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good appeal to the consumer? In The Three Sustainabilities, Allan Stoekl seeks to (re)valorize the word, for a simple reason: it is useful. Sustainability designates objects in time, their birth or genesis, their consistency, their survival, their demise. And it raises the question, as no other word does, of the role of humans in the survival of a world that is quickly disappearing—and perhaps in the genesis of another world. Stoekl considers a range of possibilities for the word, touching upon questions of object ontology, psychoanalysis, urban critique, technocracy, and religion. He argues that there are three varieties of sustainability, seen from philosophical, cultural, and economic perspectives. One involves the self-sustaining world “without us”; another, the world under our control, which can run the political spectrum from corporatism to Marxism to the Green New Deal; and a third that carries a social and communitarian charge, an energy of the “universe” affirmed through, among other things, meditation and gifting. Each of these carves out a different space in the relations between objects, humans, and their survival and degradation. Each is necessary, unavoidable, and intimately bound with, and infinitely distant from, the others.Along the way, Stoekl cites a wide range of authors, from philosophers to social thinkers, literary theorists to criminologists, anthropologists to novelists. This beautifully written, compelling, and nuanced book is a must for anyone interested in questions of ecology, energy, the environmental humanities, contemporary theories of the object, postmodern and posthuman aesthetics, or religion and the sacred in relation to community.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionFirst Order. Base Sustainability1. Objects, Energy, the Chora2. Animals, Scale, Death3. Statues, Language, MachinesSecond Order. Restricted Sustainability4. Technocracy, Energy Economics, Utopia5. Solar Architecture, Sadism, Heterogeneity6. Anamorphoses of the FutureThird Order. General Sustainability7. Sustainability’s Return8. Marxism, Meditation, Consumption9. The Dead, the Future: Scrounging and Gifting the RuinsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time
Book SynopsisBringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future Is sustainability a hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good appeal to the consumer? In The Three Sustainabilities, Allan Stoekl seeks to (re)valorize the word, for a simple reason: it is useful. Sustainability designates objects in time, their birth or genesis, their consistency, their survival, their demise. And it raises the question, as no other word does, of the role of humans in the survival of a world that is quickly disappearing—and perhaps in the genesis of another world. Stoekl considers a range of possibilities for the word, touching upon questions of object ontology, psychoanalysis, urban critique, technocracy, and religion. He argues that there are three varieties of sustainability, seen from philosophical, cultural, and economic perspectives. One involves the self-sustaining world “without us”; another, the world under our control, which can run the political spectrum from corporatism to Marxism to the Green New Deal; and a third that carries a social and communitarian charge, an energy of the “universe” affirmed through, among other things, meditation and gifting. Each of these carves out a different space in the relations between objects, humans, and their survival and degradation. Each is necessary, unavoidable, and intimately bound with, and infinitely distant from, the others.Along the way, Stoekl cites a wide range of authors, from philosophers to social thinkers, literary theorists to criminologists, anthropologists to novelists. This beautifully written, compelling, and nuanced book is a must for anyone interested in questions of ecology, energy, the environmental humanities, contemporary theories of the object, postmodern and posthuman aesthetics, or religion and the sacred in relation to community.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionFirst Order. Base Sustainability1. Objects, Energy, the Chora2. Animals, Scale, Death3. Statues, Language, MachinesSecond Order. Restricted Sustainability4. Technocracy, Energy Economics, Utopia5. Solar Architecture, Sadism, Heterogeneity6. Anamorphoses of the FutureThird Order. General Sustainability7. Sustainability’s Return8. Marxism, Meditation, Consumption9. The Dead, the Future: Scrounging and Gifting the RuinsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Architecture and Objects
Book SynopsisThinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural theorists and practitioners in recent years. Architecture and Objects, the first book on architecture by the founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO), deepens the exchange between architecture and philosophy, providing a new roadmap to OOO’s influence on the language and practice of contemporary architecture and offering new conceptions of the relationship between form and function. Graham Harman opens with a critique of Heidegger, Derrida, and Deleuze, the three philosophers whose ideas have left the deepest imprint on the field, highlighting the limits of their thinking for architecture. Instead, Harman contends, architecture can employ OOO to reconsider traditional notions of form and function that emphasize their relational characteristics—form with a building’s visual style, function with its stated purpose—and constrain architecture’s possibilities through literalism. Harman challenges these understandings by proposing de-relationalized versions of both (zero-form and zero-function) that together provide a convincing rejoinder to Immanuel Kant’s dismissal of architecture as “impure.”Through critical engagement with the writings of Peter Eisenman and fresh assessments of buildings by Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid, Architecture and Objects forwards a bold vision of architecture. Overcoming the difficult task of “zeroing” function, Harman concludes, would place architecture at the forefront of a necessary revitalization of exhausted aesthetic paradigms.Trade Review"Graham Harman’s Architecture and Objects could very well be a new philosophical blueprint for how to build our emerging twenty-first century world. By reconsidering the relationship between humanity, reality, and the built environment, he shows us, like a UV light at a crime scene, ways of understanding architecture that we’d never even considered but that are now, all of a sudden, glowing with brilliant potential."—Mark Foster Gage, Yale University, and principal of Mark Foster Gage ArchitectsTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Architects and Their Philosophers2. I Know Not What3. Object-Orientation4. The Aesthetic Centrality of Architecture5. The Architectural CellConcluding MaximsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Rhythm of Images: Cinema beyond Measure
Book SynopsisA rigorous and imaginative inquiry into rhythm’s vital importance for film and the moving imageFocusing attention on a concept much neglected in the study of film, The Rhythm of Images opens new possibilities for thinking about expanded perception and idiosyncratic modes of being. Author Domietta Torlasco engages with both philosophy and cinema to elaborate a notion of rhythm in its pre-Socratic sense as a “manner of flowing”—a fugitive mode that privileges contingency and calls up the forgotten fluidity of forms. In asking what it would mean to take this rhythm as an ontological force in its own right, she creatively draws on thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, and Luce Irigaray. Rhythm emerges here as a form that eludes measure, a key to redefining the relation between the aesthetic and the political, and thus a pivotal means of resistance to power.Working with constellations of films and videos by international artists—from Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and David Lynch to Harun Farocki and Victor Burgin, among others—Torlasco brings to bear on them her distinctive concept of rhythm with respect to four interrelated domains: life, labor, memory, and medium. With innovative readings of artworks and critical texts alike, The Rhythm of Images fashions a vibrant, provocative theory of rhythm as the excess or potential of perception. Ultimately, the book reconceives the relation between rhythm and the world-making power of images. The result is a vision of cinema as a hybrid medium endowed with the capacity not only to reinvent corporeal boundaries but also to find new ways of living together.Trade Review"Domietta Torlasco is a unique scholar-artist whose work resides at the intersection of critique and practice, reflection and poeisis. Her erudition and critical virtuosity are on full display in The Rhythm of Images, a work that looks at the way image cultures produce rhythms that resonate across philosophy, speculative thought, and cinema. Among the remarkable achievements of The Rhythm of Images is its stereographic score, a multivocity that emerges from the force of Torlasco’s ensemble."—Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift"Domietta Torlasco’s The Rhythm of Images is a major breakthrough in aesthetic ontology. At the heart of this extraordinary intervention—as beautifully written as it is rigorously conceived—is an unexpected conception of rhythm as rhuthmos. Taken as rhuthmos, rhythm is understood against the all-too-familiar, and altogether problematic, assumption that rhythm is the engine of order, synchronization, and relations of identity—and against the idea that rhythm is primarily a question of sound. For Torlasco, rhythm is a force of difference, of what holds us together in and with difference. And what emerges first as a difficult problem of form moves fearlessly outward to surprisingly new, and much needed, ways of thinking about the relation between being and technicity, subject/object relations, time and capital, freedom and labor, difference and sameness."—Brian Price, University of TorontoTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Life2. Labor3. Memory4. MediumNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Singularity: Politics and Poetics
Book SynopsisAn influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the individual in politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature. Although singularity has long been a keyword in literary studies and philosophy, never has it been explored as in this book, which distinguishes singularity as an “aporetic” notion from individuality, with which it remains historically closely tied.To speak or write of the singular is problematic, Weber argues, since once it is spoken of it is no longer strictly singular. Walter Benjamin observed that singularity and repetition imply each other. This approach informs the essays in Singularity. Weber notes that what distinguishes the singular from the individual is that it cannot be perceived directly, but rather experienced through feelings that depend on but also exceed cognition. This interdependence of cognition and affect plays itself out in politics, economics, and theology as well as in poetics. Political practice as well as its theory have been dominated by the attempt to domesticate singularity by subordinating it to the notion of individuality. Weber suggests that this political tendency draws support from what he calls “the monotheological identity paradigm” deriving from the idea of a unique and exclusive Creator-God. Despite the “secular” tendencies usually associated with Western modernity, this paradigm continues today to inform and influence political and economic practices, often displaying self-destructive tendencies. By contrast, Weber reads the literary writings of Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Kafka as exemplary practices that put singularity into play, not as fiction but as friction, exposing the self-evidence of established conventions to be responses to challenges and problems that they often prefer to obscure or ignore.Trade Review"One of the important thinkers of our time, Samuel Weber has published a magnum opus that is a must-read for anyone interested in poetics and theory today. Drawing on Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, and J-L Nancy, he analyzes singularization from ontology to politics, foregrounding questions central to the comparative humanities. Chapter by exhilarating chapter, this book models the abilities of critical theory to address myriad issues in singular ways."—Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic"There is a great pleasure in reading this book as it progresses because, even as it lays out the overarching theory of singularity, it also exemplifies, in its very form, the subject matter at hand. The various chapters in this book engage with singularity in innumerable ways and from any number of angles. Here, as is entirely appropriate, each entry remains wholly singular even as it is linked and connected to other moments and phenomena described. In this way we are given a philosophical, literary, and material demonstration of singularity, an issue that, as Samuel Weber makes clear, is both fundamental and critical for our, as well as any other, time."—James Martel, San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrefatory Note: Resisting—the SingularAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Singularity: An Aporetical Concept1. Singularity, Individuality: From Anxiety to Anger2. On the Militarization of Feeling3. Bare Life and Life in General: The Question of “Concentration”4. Psychoanalysis and the Mediacy of the Media5. Protection, Projection, Persecution6. The Single Trait7. Money Is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis8. Global Inequality: The Question of Birthright9. Mind the Cap: A Singular Approach to Europe10. West of Eden: After the Good Life11. After Its Kind: The Biblical Origins of Economic Theology12. Like—Come Again?! On Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence13. The Future of Saussure: A Signifying Moment14. Anxiety, Psychoanalysis, and the Uncanny15. The Singularity of Literary Cognition16. Mis-taking the Measure of Poetry: Hölderlin Asks, Heidegger Answers17. Towers and Walls: Building the Wall of China18. Kafka’s Josefine, or How a Phrase Can Turn Out19. Silencing the SirensNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Singularity: Politics and Poetics
Book SynopsisAn influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the individual in politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature. Although singularity has long been a keyword in literary studies and philosophy, never has it been explored as in this book, which distinguishes singularity as an “aporetic” notion from individuality, with which it remains historically closely tied.To speak or write of the singular is problematic, Weber argues, since once it is spoken of it is no longer strictly singular. Walter Benjamin observed that singularity and repetition imply each other. This approach informs the essays in Singularity. Weber notes that what distinguishes the singular from the individual is that it cannot be perceived directly, but rather experienced through feelings that depend on but also exceed cognition. This interdependence of cognition and affect plays itself out in politics, economics, and theology as well as in poetics. Political practice as well as its theory have been dominated by the attempt to domesticate singularity by subordinating it to the notion of individuality. Weber suggests that this political tendency draws support from what he calls “the monotheological identity paradigm” deriving from the idea of a unique and exclusive Creator-God. Despite the “secular” tendencies usually associated with Western modernity, this paradigm continues today to inform and influence political and economic practices, often displaying self-destructive tendencies. By contrast, Weber reads the literary writings of Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Kafka as exemplary practices that put singularity into play, not as fiction but as friction, exposing the self-evidence of established conventions to be responses to challenges and problems that they often prefer to obscure or ignore.Trade Review"One of the important thinkers of our time, Samuel Weber has published a magnum opus that is a must-read for anyone interested in poetics and theory today. Drawing on Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, and J-L Nancy, he analyzes singularization from ontology to politics, foregrounding questions central to the comparative humanities. Chapter by exhilarating chapter, this book models the abilities of critical theory to address myriad issues in singular ways."—Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic"There is a great pleasure in reading this book as it progresses because, even as it lays out the overarching theory of singularity, it also exemplifies, in its very form, the subject matter at hand. The various chapters in this book engage with singularity in innumerable ways and from any number of angles. Here, as is entirely appropriate, each entry remains wholly singular even as it is linked and connected to other moments and phenomena described. In this way we are given a philosophical, literary, and material demonstration of singularity, an issue that, as Samuel Weber makes clear, is both fundamental and critical for our, as well as any other, time."—James Martel, San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrefatory Note: Resisting—the SingularAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Singularity: An Aporetical Concept1. Singularity, Individuality: From Anxiety to Anger2. On the Militarization of Feeling3. Bare Life and Life in General: The Question of “Concentration”4. Psychoanalysis and the Mediacy of the Media5. Protection, Projection, Persecution6. The Single Trait7. Money Is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis8. Global Inequality: The Question of Birthright9. Mind the Cap: A Singular Approach to Europe10. West of Eden: After the Good Life11. After Its Kind: The Biblical Origins of Economic Theology12. Like—Come Again?! On Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence13. The Future of Saussure: A Signifying Moment14. Anxiety, Psychoanalysis, and the Uncanny15. The Singularity of Literary Cognition16. Mis-taking the Measure of Poetry: Hölderlin Asks, Heidegger Answers17. Towers and Walls: Building the Wall of China18. Kafka’s Josefine, or How a Phrase Can Turn Out19. Silencing the SirensNotesIndex
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