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Book SynopsisHighlights the continued flourishing of Scottish philosophy after the Enlightenment by exploring the work of underappreciated figures (such as Alexander Bain, J. F. Ferrier, Thomas Carlyle and John Macmurray) and debates (such as realism vs idealism; metaphysics vs psychology; evolution vs religion; and theism vs agnosticism).

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Book SynopsisThe works of Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume show that thought is not, as such, a matter of consciousness. Gil Morejon explores the significance of this insight for their conceptions of freedom and ethics.

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Book SynopsisIn the first volume to place Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy in the context of contemporary fascism, international contributors uncover and reflect upon the anti- and non-fascist ethics situated in their framework and that of the scholarship that followed after.

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Book SynopsisA study of the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Black Thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, which explodes the western canon of philosophy.Trade Review"Thinking about Blackness historically as a manifestation of the deliberate self-conscious efforts of Black people is not only a worthwhile project but a necessary philosophical and conceptual grounding of Black theory and thought. Phenomenology of the Black Spirit is a commendable effort towards establishing a groundwork for the study of Black Spirit as a revelation of time and civilization. ?" -Tommy J. Curry, University of Edinburgh

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human, and ecological thinking

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Book SynopsisThe first systematic application of Marx's value theory to animal labour within the context of capitalist food systems

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Book SynopsisArgues for a rethinking of sexuality as a constellation, rather than substantive identity

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Book SynopsisBrings together leading and emerging scholars of Spinoza across the world and across different interpretative and hermeneutic backgrounds for lively exchanges and pathbreaking analyses of an underappreciated keystone text in political thought.

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Book Synopsis''The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.'' Descartes''It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.''Descartes is often called the father of modern philosophy. He was certainly one of the most important figures in the emergence of modern philosophy and science and his work and ideas have resonated through the centuries. His best known statement - I think, therefore I am - has become part of modern-day culture and language.John Cottingham''s short guide is the ideal introduction to one of the greatest minds of any age.Trade ReviewThe virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing * EVENING STANDARD *The books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance * TES *A promising venture * THE TIMES *Rarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap * FINANCIAL TIMES *If you want to acquire some first-hand experience of philosophy and democracy you would do well to read this welcome series * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *

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Book Synopsis''The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts'' Bertrand Russell''Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don''t know''Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transporting experience: ''as dazzling as first love''. From that moment on, he would pursue his passion with undying devotion and fervour. Mathematics might succeed, he felt, where philosophy had failed, reducing thought to its purest form, and freeing knowledge from doubt and contradiction. And for a time, so it seemed. Russell''s mathematical investigations effortlessly resolved at a stroke some of philosophy''s most intractable problems. Yet if mathematics could be a liberating mistress, she was also an unreliable one... Opening up the work of one of our age''s undisputed giants, Ray Monk''s exhilaratingly clear, readable guide tells a compTrade ReviewThe virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing * EVENING STANDARD *The books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance * TES *A promising venture * THE TIMES *Rarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap * FINANCIAL TIMES *If you want to acquire some first-hand experience of philosophy and democracy you would do well to read this welcome series * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *

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Book SynopsisWhat Socrates''s greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? And can we get the leaders of our society to care that humanity prospers, not just economically, but also spiritually? These questions have been asked for over two millennia and attempting to answer them is crucial if we want to live a better life and build a more just society. How to Be Good uses the story of Socrates and Alcibiades and examples from Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Machiavelli, alongside modern interpretations to explore what philosophy can teach us about the quest for virtue today. Whether we are statesmen or ordinary individuals Pigliucci argues that with a little work day by day we all have the power to pursue the timely and timeless art of living well.Trade ReviewPresents a rigorous theoretical foundation for ethical self-improvement with concrete steps-even a step-by-step syllabus!-for how we can become better people, how we can help others to do the same, and how we might influence our leaders and politicians to act virtuously. If only those in power would grab hold of this literary lifeline and take heed of Pigliucci's wisdom, humanity might just have a chance to flourish economically, materially, and spiritually -- Skye Cleary, author of 'How to Be Authentic'Massimo Pigliucci, who has elsewhere taught us to take seriously the precepts of ancient Stoicism, here looks further afield, above all to Plato, for insight into how we become virtuous people - or, too often, fail to. His expert account of ancient ethics will help us save our souls, and thereby, just maybe, save the world -- James Romm, author of 'The Sacred Band'With a deft but magically light hand, Pigliucci turns to case studies from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca and more to pose the most pressing question of our time: how do we put competent and wise leaders in office? A wonderful raconteur, Pigliucci brings the historical and philosophical texts of Greco-Roman antiquity to life with lessons about good character and leadership, whether we aspire to political office or not -- Nancy Sherman, author of 'Stoic Wisdom'It's not often that a book ostensibly about Socrates also comments knowledgeably on (Roman) Coriolanus and (Florentine) Machiavelli, but such is the breadth of learning of geneticist, biologist and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci (of New York's City College). Truly, as Plato's Socrates boldly declared, the examined life is for us humans the only one -- Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, emeritus, University of Cambridge[An] enlightening study . . . This lucid and accessible tour through ancient philosophy offers valuable lessons for today -- Publishers WeeklyOne of the world's most renowned philosophers has found the secret to living a better life -- The Herald

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating guide places key issues and debates in the philosophy of religion in their historical contexts, highlighting the conditions that led to the development of the field.Trade Review"Linda Zagzebski has produced a very impressive, historically-informed introduction to the philosophy of religion. What is achieved in this book is actually something quite rare: a text which, though perfectly accessible to the beginning student, does not oversimplify the complex issues within philosophy of religion, and which, while genuinely introductory, at the same time succeeds in making distinctive contributions to the subject. Also noteworthy here is the exemplary manner in which Zagzebski, though firmly positioned within the analytic tradition, includes sympathetic, non-dismissive discussions of thinkers outside of the analytic mainstream (thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and Freud). This serves to provide the book with an expansive feel; it gives the beginning student a sense of the wide range of philosophical approaches to religion; and it widens the sometimes narrow focus of contemporary philosophy of religion." (Ars Disputandi, January 2011) “Zagzebski’s Philosophy of Religion is a lucid, elegantly written, outstanding introduction to the field that includes classical arguments as well as some of the latest, cutting-edge work being done today.” Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College “One of Zagzebski’s book’s most attractive features is her location of standard arguments and positions in the philosophy of religion in their historical context. I highly recommend this accessible and original introductory text.” William Wainwright, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee “Clearly written… worthwhile as a textbook and as an original contribution to [the] philosophy of religion. The excellent ‘further readings’…make this a valuable reference tool.” Choice “Zagzebski has done some fine work…[She] hopes to broaden some of the standard topics…These are refreshing and very commendable aims for an introductory text.” Metapsychology “A readable textbook that … covers all the conventional ground. I found the way in which the arguments for the existence of God were set out extremely helpful … there is much to commend this book.” The Scientific and Medical Network Review “An excellent contribution to the field for its historical approach … and its ability to contextualize current discussions in light of history and personal faith.” Religious Studies Review Table of ContentsPreface. 1. The Philosophical Approach to Religion. 2. The Classical Arguments for the Existence of God. 3. Pragmatic and Fideist Approaches to Religious Beliefs. 4. Who or What Is God?. 5. Fate, Freedom, and Foreknowledge. 6. Religion and Morality. 7. The Problem of Evil. 8. Death and the Afterlife. 9. The Problem of Religious Diversity. 10. Faith, Reason, and the Ethics of Belief. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisBy combining excerpts from key historical writings with commentary by experts, Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology provides a comprehensive history of the philosophy of science from ancient to modern times. Provides a comprehensive history of the philosophy of science, from antiquity up to the 20th century Includes extensive commentary by scholars putting the selected writings in historical context and pointing out their interconnections Covers areas rarely seen in philosophy of science texts, including the philosophical dimensions of biology, chemistry, and geology Designed to be accessible to both undergraduates and graduate students Trade Review"The introductions, which occupy one-sixth of the volume, are carefully, clearly, and at times even beautifully written. Perhaps most important, they are always intelligently sympathetic to the authors whose views they are presenting." (The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 1 April 2011) "Overall, this is an impressive and versatile volume that should find its way into many classrooms. The commentary is thorough and clear enough to make the readings accessible to students, but not so imposing that instructors cannot add their own interpretation. This book would be suitable for advanced undergraduates who have completed previous coursework in history or philosophy." (Science & Education, 4 March 2011)Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Editors Personal Acknowledgments Text Acknowledgments Part I Introduction Unit 1 The Ancient and Medieval Periods 1.1 Atoms and Empty Space: Diogenes Laertius 1.2 Letter to Herodotus: Epicurus 1.3 The Paradoxes of Motion: Zeno 1.4 Plato’s Cosmology: Plato 1.5 The Structure and Motion of the Heavenly Spheres: Aristotle 1.6 Change, Natures, and Causes: Aristotle 1.7 Scientific Inference and the Knowledge of Essential Natures: Aristotle 1.8 The Cosmos and the Shape and Size of the Earth: Aristotle 1.9 The Divisions of Nature and the Divisions of Knowledge: Aristotle 1.10 On Methods of Inference: Philodemus 1.11 The Explanatory Power of Atomism: Lucretius 1.12 The Earth: Its Size, Shape, and Immobility: Claudius Ptolemy 1.13 The Weaknesses of Hypotheses: Proclus 1.14 Projectile Motion: John Philoponus 1.15 Free Fall: John Philoponus 1.16 Against the Reality of Epicycles and Eccentrics: Moses Maimonides 1.17 Impetus and its Applications: Jean Buridan 1.18 The Possibility of a Rotating Earth: Nicole Oresme Unit 2 The Scientific Revolution 2.1 The Nature and Grounds of the Copernican System: Georg Joachim Rheticus 2.2 The Unsigned Letter: Andreas Osiander 2.3 The Motion of the Earth: Nicholas Copernicus 2.4 The New Star: Tycho Brahe 2.5 A Man Ahead of His Time: Johannes Kepler 2.6 On Arguments about a Moving Earth: Johannes Kepler 2.7 Eight Minutes of Arc: Johannes Kepler 2.8 Tradition and Experience: Galileo Galilei 2.9 A Moving Earth Is More Probable Than the Alternative: Galileo Galilei 2.10 The Ship and the Tower: Galileo Galilei 2.11 The Copernican View Vindicated: Galileo Galilei 2.12 The "Corpuscular" Philosophy: Robert Boyle 2.13 Successful Hypotheses and High Probability: Christiaan Huygens 2.14 Inductive Methodology: Isaac Newton 2.15 Space, Time, and the Elements of Physics: Isaac Newton 2.16 Four Rules of Reasoning: Isaac Newton 2.17 General Scholium: Isaac Newton 2.18 The System of the World: Isaac Newton Unit 3 The Modern Period 3.1 The Inductive Method: Francis Bacon 3.2 Rules for the Discovery of Scientific Truth: René Descartes 3.3 Rationalism and Scientific Method: René Descartes 3.4 Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits: John Locke 3.5 The Principle of Least Action: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 3.6 Space, Time, and Symmetry: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 3.7 The Problem of Induction: David Hume 3.8 The Nature of Cause and Effect: David Hume 3.9 The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science: Immanuel Kant Unit 4 Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 4.1 The Nature of Scientific Explanation: Antoine Lavoisier 4.2 Determinism, Ignorance, and Probability: Pierre-Simon Laplace 4.3 Hypotheses, Data, and Crucial Experiments: John Herschel 4.4 An Empiricist Account of Scientific Discovery: John Stuart Mill 4.5 Against Pure Empiricism: William Whewell 4.6 The Causes Behind the Phenomena: William Whewell 4.7 Catastrophist Geology: Georges Cuvier 4.8 Uniformitarian Geology: Charles Lyell 4.9 The Explanatory Scope of the Evolutionary Hypothesis: Charles Darwin 4.10 Induction as a Self-Correcting Process: Charles Sanders Peirce 4.11 The Nature of Abduction: Charles Sanders Peirce 4.12 The Role of Hypotheses in Physical Theory: Henri Poincaré 4.13 Against Crucial Experiments: Pierre Duhem 4.14 On the Method of Theoretical Physics: Albert Einstein Part II Introduction Unit 5 Positivism and the Received View 5.1 Theory and Observation: Rudolf Carnap 5.2 Scientific Explanation: Carl Hempel 5.3 Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology: Rudolf Carnap 5.4 The Pragmatic Vindication of Induction: Hans Reichenbach 5.5 Dissolving the Problem of Induction: Peter Strawson Unit 6 After the Received View: Confirmation and Observation 6.1 Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes: Carl Hempel 6.2 The Raven Paradox: Carl Hempel 6.3 Two Dogmas of Empiricism: W. V. O. Quine 6.4 The New Riddle of Induction: Nelson Goodman 6.5 What Theories Are Not: Hilary Putnam 6.6 On Observation: N. R. Hanson 6.7 The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities: Grover Maxwell Unit 7 After the Received View: Methodology 7.1 Science: Conjectures and Refutations: Karl Popper 7.2 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Thomas Kuhn 7.3 Science and Pseudoscience: Imre Lakatos Unit 8 After the Received View: Explanation 8.1 Counterexamples to the D-N and I-S Models of Explanation: Wesley Salmon 8.2 The Statistical Relevance Model of Explanation: Wesley Salmon 8.3 Why Ask, "Why"?: Wesley Salmon 8.4 Explanatory Unification: Philip Kitcher Unit 9 After the Received View: The Realism Debate 9.1 The Current Status of Scientific Realism: Richard N. Boyd 9.2 A Confutation of Convergent Realism: Larry Laudan 9.3 Constructive Empiricism: Bas van Fraassen 9.4 The Natural Ontological Attitude: Arthur Fine

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Book SynopsisA fascinating and engaging discussion of the central issues in the contemporary study of global justice In Global Justice: An Introduction, distinguished legal and political philosopher Thom Brooks delivers an authoritative and accessible introduction to foundational concepts in the study of justice that are common to societies around the globe. The author covers fundamental and contemporary concepts, exploring and explaining critical issues, including sovereignty, severe poverty, environmental justice, and human rights. Each chapter explores a unique subject and includes illuminating examples from current affairs around the world, as well as a selection of further reading material that will add depth to reader understanding. Designed to be used as the companion text to The Global Justice Reader, Revised Edition, this book also stands alone as a resource offering expert introductory treatments of the key issues animating contemporary discussion in the fTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: Sovereignty Chapter 2: Rights to self-determination Chapter 3: Human rights Chapter 4: Nationalism and patriotism Chapter 5: Cosmopolitanism Chapter 6: Immigration and citizenship Chapter 7: Global poverty Chapter 8: Just war Chapter 9: Terrorism Chapter 10: Women and global justice Chapter 11: Climate change Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jaTrade Review'"Accidents come from relationships, not broken parts." Sidney Dekker's meticulously researched and engagingly written Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Parts to Understanding Complex Systems explains complex system failures and offers practical recommendations for their investigation and prevention from the combined perspectives of unruly technology, complexity theory, and post-Newtonian analysis. A valuable source book for anyone responsible for, or interested in, organizational safety.' Steven P. Bezman, Aviation safety researcher 'Dekker’s book challenges the current prevalent notions about accident causation and system safety. He argues that even now, what profess to be systemic approaches to explaining accidents are still caught within a limited framework of ’cause and effect’ thinking, with its origins in the work of Descartes and Newton. Instead, Dekker draws his inspiration from the science of complexity and theorises how seemingly reasonable actions at a local level may promulgate and proliferate in unseen (and unknowable) ways until finally some apparent system "failure" occurs. The book is liberally illustrated with detailed case studies to articulate these ideas. As with all Dekker’s books, the text walks a fine line between making a persuasive argument and provoking an argument. Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it.' Don Harris, HFI Solutions Ltd 'Dekker's book contributes to the growing debate around the nature of retrospective investigations of safety-critical situations in complex systems. Both provocative and insightful, the author shines a powerful light on the severe limits of traditional linear approaches. His call for a diversity of voices and narratives, to deepen our understanding of accidents, will be welcomed in healthcare. Dekker’s proposal that we shift from going "down and in" to "up and out" suggests a paradigm shift in accident investigation.' Rob Robson, Healthcare System Safety and Accountability, CanadTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Failure is always an option; Features of drift; The legacy of Newton and Descartes; The search for the broken component; Theorizing drift; What is complexity and systems thinking?; Managing the complexity of drift; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisOffers an immanent critique of Levinas''s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.Levinas''s big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or "eurocentric," view of other cultural traditions. In Saying Peace, Jack Marsh explores this problem, testing the coherence and adequacy of Levinas''s central philosophical claims. Using a twofold method of reconstruction and critique, Marsh conducts a holistic immanent evaluation of Levinas''s major works, showing how the problem of eurocentrism, and abiding ambiguities in Levinas''s political and religious thought, can be traced back to specific problems in his general philosophical methodology. Marsh offers an original analysis of Levinas''s method that verifies and extends existing critical work by Jacques Derrida, Robert Bernasconi, Judith Butler, and others. This is the first book to foreground the normative question of chauvinism in Levinas''s work, and the first to perform a holistic critical diagnosis of his general philosophical method.

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Book SynopsisOriginal and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.The human being stands at the center of the humanities and social sciences. In an age that some have dubbed the Anthropocene, this book addresses Heidegger''s conception of the human being and its role in the world. Contributors discuss how Heidegger envisages and interprets the human being and what we can learn from his thought. Pluralistic in outlook, this volume covers a broad range of divergent views on Heidegger and his complex conception of the human. A short introductory chapter orients the reader to the significance of the question of the human in Heidegger''s works, its topicality, and its relevance for interpreting Heidegger''s oeuvre. Chapters are divided into three thematic groups: anthropology and philosophy; human being, otherness, and world; and life, identity, and finitude. This organization facilitates discussions of the systematic interconnection between Heidegger''s philosophy and his critical thoughts on anthropology and humanism, as well as his relation to contemporary philosophers and their views on the subject. Various problems in Heidegger''s concept of the human are addressed, and moral dimensions and practical imperatives implicit in Heidegger explored in discussions about intersectionality and oppression, the frailty of the human, and the embeddedness of the human being in nature, society, and history.

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Book SynopsisExplores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.Returning to Judgment provides the first extensive treatment of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler and the first account of his significance for contemporary continental political thought. Ben Turner argues that Stiegler breaks with his predecessors in continental philosophy by advocating for, rather than retreating from, the task of proposing totalizing judgments on political problems that extend beyond the local and the particular. He shows that the reconciliation of judgment with continental political thought''s commitment to anti-totalization structures the entirety of Stiegler''s philosophy and demonstrates that this theory of the political decision highlights the difficulties that contemporary political ontology faces when addressing global and large-scale political problems. The book provides an overview of Stiegler''s philosophy useful for those unfamiliar with his thought, shows how he draws on key influences including Deleuze, Derrida, Freud, and Simondon to develop his conception of judgment, and considers the challenges and consequences of his embrace of totalizing political decisions.

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Book SynopsisWritten by Sharon Kaye, who is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University, Philosophy: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features like summaries of key books, and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The book uses a structure that mirrors many university courses on philosophy - using the work of key philosophers to springboard into a discussion of all the main areas of philosophy.Teach Yourself titles employ the ''Breakthrough method'', which is designed specifically to overcome problems that students face.- Problem: I find it difficult to remember what I''ve read.; Solution: this book includes end-of-chapter questions and summaries, and flashcards of key points available on-line and as apps- Problem: Most books

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Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media oral, aural, visual, and literary.Trade Review"The editors conceive of “ancient aesthetics” broadly, as encompassing “the multifarious ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world” (p. 1). The thirty-three chapters that make up the volume are similarly wide-ranging in focus and disciplinary approach, while the insights afforded by their interconnections show the value of treating ancient aesthetics as a unified field of inquiry. Most of the essays would serve as excellent starting points for research on their topics, and several make important new contributions to scholarship. This book is now the most comprehensive resource available for helping us understand how the Greeks and Romans thought about art." Christopher C. Raymond, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017Table of ContentsIllustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray Part I Art in Context 15 1 Greece 17Richard P. Martin 2 Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric 31Deborah Steiner 3 The Hellenistic World 47Graham Zanker 4 Rome 68Thomas Habinek 5 Music and Dance in Greece and Rome 81Eleonora Rocconi 6 Greek Sculpture 94Rosemary Barrow 7 Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome 109Agnès Rouveret 8 Architecture and Society 128Catherine Saliou Part II Reflecting on Art 141 9 Literary Criticism and the Poet’s Autonomy 143Andrew Ford 10 Poetic Inspiration 158Penelope Murray 11 The Canons of Style 175Jeffrey Walker 12 Sense and Sensation in Music 188Armand D’Angour 13 Dance and Aesthetic Perception 204Anastasia]Erasmia Peponi 14 Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimes̄ is 218Hariclia Brecoulaki 15 Ways of Looking at Greek Vases 237François Lissarrague 16 Displaying Sculpture in Rome 248Thea Ravasi 17 Perceiving Colors 262M. Michela Sassi 18 The Beauties of Architecture 274Edmund Thomas 19 Stylistic Landscapes 291Nancy Worman 20 Conceptualizing the (Visual) “Arts” 307Michael Squire Part III Aesthetic Issues 327 21 Mimesis 329Paul Woodruff 22 Fiction 341Stephen Halliwell 23 Imagination 354Anne Sheppard 24 Beauty 366David Konstan 25 Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion 381Malcolm Heath 26 The Sublime 393James I. Porter 27 Poikilia 406Adeline Grand]Clément 28 Wonder 422Christine Hunzinger 29 Tragic Emotions 438Christof Rapp 30 Laughter 455Ralph M. Rosen 31 Pleasure 472Pierre Destrée 32 Art and Morality 486Elizabeth Asmis 33 Art and Value 505Michael Silk Index of Subjects 518 Index of Ancient Texts Discussed 527

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Book SynopsisIf someone were to say ''it''s not tennis'', or ''not football'' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or she would not be understood. If they said ''it''s not cricket'', they probably would be (though less reliably than a century ago). Is there some special spirit of cricket? The laws of cricket, like the laws of the land, aim at a sort of justice or balancing between different factions. The purpose behind cricket''s laws, and behind changes in them, is often to calibrate the balance in the game between batsmen and bowlers, between attack and defence, between safety and risk. Cricketing lawmakers are interested in the overall appeal of the game to players and spectators alike.In Spirit of Cricket, Mike Brearley alternates between issues and examples within the game - from ''Mankading'' and the ''Sandpaper'' affair to sledging, mental disintegration and racism - as well as broader issues such as the spirit and letter of the law. BreaTrade Review[Brearley is] a thoughtful, engaging and eclectic thinker . . . There is something intrinsically fair-minded about Mike Brearley, open to exploring ideas wherever they come from, seeking out common ground, but at the same time anxious to avoid giving offence by reaching too-easy conclusions. That is the process that is at play in the pages of Spirit of Cricket.This is no ordinary sporting hero's memoir, though it does include plenty of stories from his glory days -- Peter Stanford * The Tablet *Mike Brearley is a thoughtful and meticulous author. He regularly displayed similar traits when captaining England (he did so on 31 occasions, losing only four Tests) and he applies them again in Spirit of Cricket, a book he was born towrite. Brearley is an intelligent guide, well-qualified to lead readers through cricket's occasionally byzantine moral maze * Birmingham Post *One of my favourites of 2020 . . . a generous book -- Jon Hotten * Wisden Cricket Monthly *Time after time, Brearley takes familiar cricketing dilemmas - balltampering, Mankading, sledging, etc. - and with elegant prose and courteous intelligence sheds fresh light on them, including areas on which he has changed his mind over time.This delightful book would make a great gift for any cricket-lover who also has a brain, or even a soul. * Church Times *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination—more than any previous work—Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth. * Peter Dews, New Statesman *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction Outwork, prefacing Plato’s Pharmacy I 1 Pharmacia 2 The Father of Logos 3 The Filial Inscription: Theuth, Hermes, Thoth, Nabu, Nebo 4 The Pharmakon 5 The Pharmakeus II 6 The Pharmakos 7 The Ingredients: Phantasms, Festivals, and Paints 8 The Heritage of the Pharmakon: Family Scene 9 Play: From the Pharmakon to the Letter and from Blindness to the Supplement The Double Session I II Dissemination I 1 The Trigger 2 The Apparatus or Frame 3 The Scission 4 The Double Bottom of the Plupresent 5 wriTing, encAsIng, screeNing 6 The Attending Discourse II 7 The Time before First 8 The Column 9 The Crossroads of the “Est” 10 Grafts, a return to Overcasting XI The Supernumerary

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Book SynopsisOliver Marchart presents the main features of Ernesto Laclau's ontology and tracks the development of antagonism from German Idealism via Marx to today's post-Marxism. In doing so, he demonstrates Laclau's significant contribution to the current 'ontological turn' in political thought.

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Book SynopsisOffers a constructive, philosophical approach to religion informed by environmental philosophy, one that is neither dismissive of religion nor apologetic.

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Book SynopsisA philosophically sophisticated introduction to Nietzsche's most widely read book, for readers coming On the Genealogy of Morality and Nietzsche's thought in general for the first time.

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Book SynopsisOffers a forceful encounter between Deleuze's work and contemporary queer thought to provide both critical and practical means to re-evaluate and rework key concepts and methods, especially sexuality.

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Book SynopsisHanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Felix Guattari's work. He covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work and the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze, primarily a rigorous explication and analysis of 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'.

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Book SynopsisIn these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Also included in this volume is the text of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, allowing for a clearer understanding of Whitehead's plans and goals for his first philosophy lectures.

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Book SynopsisDismembering and remembering the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in this wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of Iustitia.

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Book Synopsis''We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity'' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx''s thinking. Marx''s utopia was a place in which labour is increasingly automated, emancipating the wealth of sensuous individual development so that ''savouring a peach [is an aspect] of our self-actualisation as much as building dams or churning out coat-hangers''. Combining extracts from Marx''s revolutionary philosophy, along with insightful analysis, this is the perfect guide to one of the world''s greatest thinkers.Trade ReviewThe virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing * EVENING STANDARD *Eagleton is a compelling writer and raconteur * POPMATTERS *A promising venture * THE TIMES *Rarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap * FINANCIAL TIMES *The books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance * TES *

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Book Synopsis''God is dead'', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self. While the nineteenth century''s coherent, consistent systems of certainty came crashing down ingloriously at the very first touch of the twentieth, Nietzsche''s discourses survived. He was more modern, it seemed, than the moderns. In this stimulating and provocative guide, Hayman reveals how Nietzsche''s work is more contemporary and relevant than ever in a new postmodern age.Trade ReviewThe books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance * TES *Rarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap * FINANCIAL TIMES *A promising venture * THE TIMES *The virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing * EVENING STANDARD *If you want to acquire some first-hand experience of philosophy and democracy you would do well to read this welcome series * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *

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Book Synopsis''If you put me to death,'' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, ''you will not easily find anyone to take my place.''So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of its founding father. Yet Socrates'' influence was not so easily to be done away with. His words were lovingly recorded by his devoted disciple Plato, and his teachings have survived for twenty-seven centuries. His sense of education as self-discovery and his view of philosophy as preparation for life have been the stuff of western thought at its best. So completely did Socrates embody these values, he was prepared to die in their defence.Trade ReviewRarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap * FINANCIAL TIMES *The books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance * TES *A promising venture * THE TIMES *The virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing * EVENING STANDARD *If you want to acquire some first-hand experience of philosophy and democracy you would do well to read this welcome series * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *

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Book SynopsisIn Listening in the Afterlife of Data, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of the practical workings of specific technologies, situations, and artworks. In a time he calls the afterlife of data—the cultural context in which data’s hegemony persists even in the absence of any belief in its validity—Cecchetto shows how data is repositioned as the latest in a long line of concepts that are at once constitutive of communication and suggestive of its limits. Cecchetto points to the failures and excesses of communication by focusing on the power of listening—whether through wearable technology, internet-based artwork, or the ways in which computers process sound—to pragmatically comprehend the representational excesses that data produces. Writing at a cultural moment in which data has never been more ubiquitous or less convincing, Cecchetto elucidates the paradoxes that are constitutive of computationTrade Review“David Cecchetto makes an insightful, exciting, and original intervention in the possibility (or impossibility) of relating to humans and machines and, in pure pragmatist spirit, thinking and doing. Addressing urgent questions about the role, use, and scope of computational data within contemporary society and culture, Cecchetto challenges established orthodoxies that interpret relationships between the universal and the particular within communication. Listening in the Afterlife of Data will have a great impact in media and sound studies. It is a precious resource.” -- M. Beatrice Fazi, author of * Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics *“Rich in paradoxical thought, David Cecchetto’s book explores the incommunication at the heart of communication. Doubling the paradox doubling, he finds that incommunication nevertheless always communicates something. Challenging and intensely rewarding, this book is highly recommended for any interested in data, communication, and listening as an aesthetic response as well as an acoustic sense.” -- N. Katherine Hayles, author of * Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Incommunication 1 1. Networking Sound and Medium Specificity 21 2. Listening and Technicity 44 3. Incomputable and Integral Incommunications 62 4. Algorithms, Art, and Sonicity 84 5. Listening and Technicity (Once and for All, Again and Again) 105 Postscript. Epidemiological Afterlives 124 Appendix. Aural Incommunications Seminar Prompt 131 Notes 135 Bibliography 155 Index 163

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Book SynopsisMainstream addiction science sees addiction either as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control or as a voluntary practice engaged in freely. In On Addiction, Darin Weinberg shows how this dynamic is deeply influenced by a series of binaries (free will/determinism, mind/body, objectivity/subjectivity) that hinder our understanding of addiction. Here, he offers a new theorization of addiction in which he breaks down these contradictions and incompatibilities, calling into question the taken-for-granted distinction between the “biological” and the “social.” To the extent that it is understood as a loss of self-control over one’s behavior, addiction, Weinberg contends, requires a supple theoretical framework that provides for movements into and out of self-control, for the social and natural processes that influence these movements, for the historical contexts within which they occur, and for the ethical ramifications of taking th

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Book SynopsisUsing theories of national, transnational and world cinema, and genre theories and psychoanalysis as the basis of its argument, Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze argues that these understandings of Japanese horror films can be extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze. In particular, the complexities and nuances of how films like Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001) (and beyond) form dynamic, transformative global networks between industries, directors and audiences can be considered. Furthermore, understandings of how key horror tropes and motifs apply to these films (and others more broadly), such as the idea of the monstrous-feminine, can be transformed, allowing these models to become more flexible.Trade ReviewJapanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze challenges conventional film analysis by exploring the genre’s affective elements. Clear and engaging, this work is an important contribution to the discipline of cinema studies and is a must for students of film and philosophy. * Jay McRoy, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, USA *This book provides an important intervention into the scholarship on Japanese horror by avoiding a well-worn hermeneutic approach to cinematic analysis, examining, instead, the many interconnections that develop between the bodies of audience members, films, and nations as cinematic works are created and viewed worldwide. In so doing, this study brings a fresh perspective to some of the iconic works of the genre. * Marc Yamada, Associate Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters, Brigham Young University, USA *Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part One: Theory 1. Theoretical Intersections: The Japanese Horror Genre and National, Transnational and Global Flows 2. Theoretical Transformations: The Perspectives of Gilles Deleuze Part Two: Case-Studies 3. The “Any-Space-Whatever", “Becoming-Woman" and Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) 4. Auteurship, Adaptation and the Molecularity of Audition (1999) 5. Kairo (2001): Cosmicism and “Becoming-Machine" Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in Whither Fanon? Marriott here considers the relationships between language, judgement and effacement, and shows how effacement has become the dominant force in anti-blackness. Both skeptically and emphatically, Marriott presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with Fanon's "is not" (n'est pas) and its "black" political truth. How does one speak—let alone represent—that which is without existence? Is blackness n'est pas because it has yet to be thought as blackness? And if so, when Fanon writes of blackness, that it is n'est pas (is not), where should one look to make sense of this n'est pas? Marriott anchors these questions by addressing the most fundamental perennial questions concerning the nature of freedom, resistance, mastery, life, and liberation, via a series of analyses of such key figures as Huey Newton, Nietzsche, Malcolm X, Edward Said, Georges Bataille, Stuart Hall, and Lacan. He thus develops the basis for a reading of blackness by recasting its effacement as an identity, while insisting on it as a fundamental question for philosophy. Trade Review"Dazzlingly original, forcefully subtle in its argumentation, Of Effacement is undeniably path-breaking. Marriott's reading allows us to see Fanon's 'black being' as a 'disquieting in-plenitude' visible only in the way it curves the spaces of the personal, cultural, and political."—Joan Copjec, Brown University"Brilliant, relentless, and unblinking in its acknowledgment that 'there is no ontology of black pain,' David Marriott's Of Effacement is a tour de force of critical analysis. Lingering with Fanon's crystallization of wretchedness into 'a new law of expression' that would precipitate a 'politics beyond that of racial community,' Marriott refuses to avert his gaze from the abyss of Fanon's 'n'est pas.' For in the 'nothing that governs the world gone black,' he locates the possibility of invention without 'arche,telos, or predestined end.' The result is this rigorous, transformative, and supremely necessary book that dares, like Fanon, to 'make the incomprehensible the vocation of [its] politics' and so to open—in ways at once unbearable and exhilarating to contemplate—new pathways for our own."—Lee Edelman, Tufts University"With an unflinching lucidity in reading and critique, Marriott develops a demanding and often startling thinking across the fields of ontology, politics, and aesthetics. Of Effacement deserves the closest attention of all those working in philosophy and theory today."—Geoffrey Bennington, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsPreface PART I ONTOLOGY AND LANGUAGE One N'est Pas Two Nigra Philologica Three Nègre, Figura Four Ontology and Lalangue PART II WRITING AND POLITICS Five Autobiography as Effacement Six Crystallization Seven On Revolutionary Suicide Eight The Real and the Apparent PART III ART AND PHILOSOPHY Nine Corpus Exanime Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAre we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions have been discussed by philosophers over millennia. But recent empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience suggest we should reconsider them. This textbook provides an engrossing overview of contemporary debates in the philosophy of psychology, exploring the ways in which the interaction and collaboration between psychologists and philosophers contribute to a better understanding of the human mind, cognition and behaviour. Miyazono and Bortolotti discuss pivotal studies in cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, clinical psychology and neuroscience, and their implications for philosophy. Combining the latest philosophical and psychological research with an accessible style, Philosophy of Psychology is a crucial resource for students from either discipline. It is the most up-to-date text for modules on philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mental health and philosophy of cognitive science.Trade Review‘This textbook is up to date, well organized, full of useful resources and, most of all, really engaging. The sections on mental disorders and neurodivergence, written by two of the world’s leading philosophical experts on those topics, are especially fascinating. I’m excited to use this book to teach my own class on philosophical psychology!’Aaron Meskin, University of Georgia ‘Philosophy of Psychology combines lucid, scrupulous and insightful synthesis of relevant empirical studies with a philosophical discussion that strikes the perfect balance between exposition and argument. An essential resource for students and researchers alike.’Philip Gerrans, University of Adelaide ‘How are delusions formed? Is altruism possible? Are we free agents? These are just some of the questions Miyazono and Bortolotti explore in this fascinating volume, which brims with intriguing empirical findings and careful, incisive analyses of the philosophical issues.’Ryan McKay, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Book SynopsisUntil quite recently, almost no philosophers trained in the continental tradition saw anything of value in realism. The situation in analytic philosophy was always different, but in continental philosophy realism was usually treated as a pseudo-problem. That is no longer the case. In this provocative new book, two leading philosophers examine the remarkable rise of realism in the continental tradition. While exploring the similarities and differences in their own positions, they also consider the work of others and assess rival trends in contemporary philosophy. They begin by discussing the relation between realism and materialism, which DeLanda links closely but which Harman tries to separate. Part Two covers the many different meanings of realism, with the two authors working together to develop an expanded definition of the term. Part Three features a spirited exchange on the respective virtues and drawbacks of DeLanda's realism of attractors and singularities and Harman's object-oriented theory. Part Four shifts to the question of the knowability of the real, as the authors discuss whether scientific knowledge does full justice to reality. In Part Five, they shift the focus to space, time, and science more generally, and here Harman offers a defence of actor-network theory despite its obvious anti-realist elements. Lively, accessible and engaging, this book is the best attempt so far to clarify the different paths for realism in continental philosophy. It will be of great value to students and scholars of continental philosophy and to anyone interested in the cutting-edge debates in philosophy and critical theory today.Trade Review"Great philosophy makes everything, from the ordinary to the sublime, a topic of thought and reflection and this is what The Rise of Realism offers. It is an outstanding introduction to both new materialism and object–oriented ontology that will be of great interest to novices and experts alike."—Levi Bryant, Collin CollegeTable of ContentsPart One: Realism and Materialism Part Two: Realism and Anti-Realism Part Three: Realist Ontology Part Four: Cognition and Experience Part Five: Time, Space, and Science Works Cited

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Book SynopsisHalf a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the developments they had discerned would be greatly accentuated, giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living. Individuals are now overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of digital information and the speed of digital flows, resulting in a kind of technological Wild West in which they find themselves increasingly powerless, driven by their lack of agency to the point of madness. How can we find a way out of this situation? In this major new book, Bernard Stiegler argues that we must first acknowledge our era as one of fundamental disruption and detachment. We are living in an absence of epokhē in the philosophical sense, by which Stiegler means that we have lost our path of thinking and being. Weaving in powerful accounts from his own life story, including struggles with depression and time spent in prison, Stiegler calls for a new epokhē based on public power. We must forge new circuits of meaning outside of the established algorithmic routes. For only then will forms of thinking and life be able to arise that restore meaning and aspiration to the individual. Concluding with a dialogue between Stiegler and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars in social and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, philosophy and the humanities generally.Trade Review‘A summation of his thinking to date – from originary technicity to the Anthropocene – this is also Stiegler's most personal philosophical work so far. Discussing his intellectual apprenticeship while in prison, and his practice of thinking and writing as a form of self-medication against depression and madness, he issues a passionate call to tend the wounds of contemporary existence, whether psychological, economic or ecological, through the collective transformation of the wilful destruction indulged in by our digital superpowers into a future worth wanting to live for.’Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge"[I]ntricate and brilliant . . . enunciated by a humane and compassionate voice."Los Angeles Review of Books

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Book SynopsisWhat distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ignorance into knowledge. In the modern age, argues Rancière, this fictional rationality was developed in new ways. The social sciences extended the model of causal linkage to all spheres of human action, seeking to show us how causes produce their effects by inverting appearances and expectations. Literature took the opposite path. Instead of democratizing fictional rationality to include all human activity in the world of rational knowledge, it destroyed its principles by abolishing the limits that circumscribed a reality peculiar to fiction. It aligned itself with the rhythms of everyday life and plumbed the power of the “random moment” into which an entire life is condensed. In the avowed fictions of literature as well as in the unavowed fictions of politics, social science or journalism, the central question is the same: how to construct the perceptible forms of a shared world. From Stendhal to João Guimarães Rosa and from Marx to Sebald, via Balzac, Poe, Maupassant, Proust, Rilke, Conrad, Auerbach, Faulkner and some others, this book explores these constructions and sheds new light on the constitutive movement of modern fiction, the movement that shifted its centre of gravity from its traditional core toward those edges in which fiction gets confronted with its possible revocation.Trade Review‘A probing and scintillating new book on the meaning, rationality and politics of literary fiction. Rancière illuminates the surprising connection between the logic of tragedy, in which ignorance leads to misfortune, and explanation in the modern social sciences. He interrogates how that paradigm slowly unwinds into the democratizing tumult of modernism. An invaluable addition to our understanding of a topic Rancière has made his own: the aesthetic conditions of political reason.’J.M. Bernstein, The New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Doors and Windows Behind the Windows The Eyes of the Poor What Voyeurs See Window with a Street View The Threshold of Science The Commodity’s Secret Causality’s Adventures The Shores of the Real The Unimaginable Paper Landscapes The Edge of the All and the Nothing The Random Occurrence Two Stories of Poor People The Mute’s Speech The Measureless Moment

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Book SynopsisThe question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and of their genetic and algorithmic codes coupled with the global expansion of a knowledge-intensive capitalism. In Posthuman Knowledge, Rosi Braidotti takes a closer look at the impact of these developments on three major areas: the constitution of our subjectivity, the general production of knowledge and the practice of the academic humanities. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial and anti-racist theory, she argues that the human was never a neutral category but one always linked to power and privilege. Hence we must move beyond the old dualities in which Man defined himself, beyond the sexualized and racialized others that were excluded from humanity. Posthuman knowledge, as Braidotti understands it, is not so much an alternative form of knowledge as a critical call: a call to build a multi-layered and multi-directional project that displaces anthropocentrism while pursuing the analysis of the discriminatory and violent aspects of human activity and interaction wherever they occur.Situated between the exhilaration of scientific and technological advances on the one hand and the threat of climate change devastation on the other, the posthuman convergence encourages us to think hard and creatively about what we are in the process of becoming.Trade Review"Impressive"Information, Communication & SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Posthuman, all-too-human Chapter 1 The Posthuman Condition Chapter 2 Posthuman Subjects Chapter 3 Posthuman Knowledge Production Chapter 4 The Critical Posthumanities Chapter 5 How To Do Posthuman Thinking Chapter 6 On Affirmative Ethics Chapter 7 The Inexhaustible Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger’s thinking on language and art from the late 1930s to the early 1950s – a tumultuous period both for Heidegger personally and for Germany as a whole. Following Germany’s defeat in World War II, Heidegger was banned from teaching at Freiburg University, where he had been a professor since 1928, and his thinking underwent significant changes as he began to cultivate different modes of silence and non-saying in his philosophy of language. This volume illuminates these shifts and charts the evolution of key terms in Heidegger’s philosophy of language during this key period in the development of his thought. The central theme of Heidegger’s reflections on language in this volume is his repeated engagement with the character of the word, silence and the unsaid, and his rejection of the instrumental conception of language, where he instead prioritized conversation as the “homeland of language.” Alongside references to Hölderlin and von Hofmannsthal and shrewd scrutiny of aural phenomena such as silent thought and speechlessness, speech is demonstrated to be intimately connected to the human essence. In a later section, Heidegger examines the place of art, in particular the plastic arts, and the role of the artist in conjunction with the new industrial landscape and architecture of his time, and in juxtaposition with ancient Greek attitudes to space and the polis. This key work by Heidegger, now available in English for the first time, will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and to anyone interested in Heidegger’s thought.Trade Review"This volume invites us to follow Heidegger as he thinks on paper and to join in his explorations of being, language, and art. Adam Knowles' thoughtful translation conveys the dogged inventiveness of these texts."—Richard Polt, Xavier University "These starkly polysemic notes on language, poetry, and art dramatically elaborate Heidegger's later phenomenological understanding of how poetry gives rise to both art and language, how that emergence gets disastrously eclipsed and forgotten by Western metaphysics, and what it means to rediscover being's poetic emergence today. Here Heidegger finally thinks clearly through the distinction between 'the being of entities' (or 'beingness,' the domain of metaphysics) and 'beyng' (or 'being as such,' the heart of the matter for poetic thinking), that crucial distinction which both destroys the early 'metaphysical' project of Being and Time and launches his later work of thinking beyond metaphysics (and the nihilistic history metaphysics underwrites)."—Professor Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico

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