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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Schwabe Verlag Im Namen Der Dinge: John Locke Und Der Begriff
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Schwabe Verlag Descartes En Dialogue
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe John Locke ALS Ethiker
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Universitatsverlag Winter Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch 2019
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Transcript Verlag Imagining Unequals, Imagining Equals: Concepts of
Book SynopsisWhy did "equality" become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does "equality" imply for societies, politics, or legal systems? The contributors to this volume draw on various historical case studies, from visionary practices in revolutionary France and the collection of data on the poor in 19th-century Germany, to claims raised under the minority regime of the League of Nations and the anti-discrimination politics of the UN and India. The dynamics of universalizing equality are contrasted with a concept asserting that equality must be limited to and by order. The contributions thus explore concepts of equality from the perspectives of history and law and show that practices of comparing were essential when it came to imagining others as equal, fighting discrimination, or scandalizing social inequalities.Table of ContentsConcepts of Equality: Why, Who, What for?; Hierarchy as Order: Equality as Chaos?; Envisioning Equality in the French Revolution; "A Deep, Horizontal Comradeship?"; Minority Protection under the League of Nations: Universal and Particular Equality; Equality through the Lens of Racial Discrimination; India, the UN and Caste as a Form of Racial Discrimination: Resolving the Dispute; Equality under the Indian Constitution; Authors and Editors.
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Urano Limites de la Razon, Los
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Turner Publicaciones, S.L. A Transcendent Decade: Towards a New Enlightment?
Book SynopsisWe are living through years of great importance, marked by the unstoppable evolution of technology, science and the information society. This book brings together twenty-two essays written by prestigious researchers from the world's leading universities on areas as diverse as crucial to our future: climate change, artificial intelligence, economics, cyber-security and geopolitics, democracy, anthropology, new media, astrophysics and cosmology, nanotechnology, biomedicine, globalisation, gender theory and the cities of the future. Text by Michelle Baddeley, Virginia Burkett, Manuel Castells, Nancy Chau, Barry Eichengreen, Amos N. Guiora, Ravi Kanbur, Ramón López de Mántaras, Maria Martinon-Torres, José M. Mato, Diana Owen, Alex Pentland, Carlo Ratti, Martin Rees, Victoria Robinson, Daniela Rus, José Manuel Sánchez-Ron, Vivien A. Schmidt, Samuel H. Sternberg, Sandip Tiwari, Ernesto Zedillo, Yang Xu.
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Peeters Publishers La «Science de la logique» au miroir de
Book SynopsisCe volume contient les actes d'un double colloque qui s'est tenu à Louvain-la-Neuve et à Poitiers en mai 2013 pour célébrer le bicentenaire de la Science de la logique de Hegel et qui a réuni quelques-uns des meilleurs spécialistes internationaux du philosophe allemand. La thématique autour de laquelle s'organise la réflexion est celle de l'identité: la logique spéculative de Hegel, pivot du système tout entier, est-elle en fin de compte foncièrement identitaire, une «fabrique d'identité», ne creusant la différence que pour mieux l'assimiler, ou bien faut-il entendre autrement, de façon plus créative et originale, la manière dont elle articule identité et différence? Telle est la question décisive que selon diverses perspectives - historique, systématique, critique - les contributions de ce volume s'attachent à creuser.
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Peeters Publishers Facing Abraham: Seven Readings of Søren
Book SynopsisSøren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling is a classic in both theology and philosophy alike. In what is probably his most well-known book, Denmark’s most famous philosopher muses, through his pseudonym Johannes de Silentio, about the Akedah story, the story within the book of Genesis which recounts Abraham’s binding of his son Isaac as a sacrifice to God. This collection brings together seven essays that read Fear and Trembling as a classic, that is: as a work that can speak meaningfully to people in different places and at different times, and that can be read fruitfully from within a diversity of theoretical frameworks and approaches. Fear and Trembling is linked here, not only with other important philosophers, such as Adorno, Heidegger and Westphal, but it is also related to the so-called “non-metaphysical” approach to Hegel and to the debate on the “ethics of belief”. Questions are raised about Fear and Trembling and religious diversity, historical criticism, and authorial intent, and the work is approached from within poetry (Erik Johan Stagnelius) and drama (Paul Claudel), but also from within one contributor’s personal experiences with theological education. In this way, the seven contributions brought together in the present book offer something of a panoramic view on Fear and Trembling, a view that may inspire to either turn or return to Kierkegaard’s most famous book, and let oneself, for the first time or once more, be challenged, disturbed, and maybe even repelled by this text that reflects on a father that is, or at least seems, willing to sacrifice his only son because God ordered him to do so.
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Leiden University Press Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin: Facts
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Haymarket Books Rescuing Autonomy from Kant: Politics of Hate on
Book SynopsisIn Rescuing Autonomy from Kant, James Furner argues that Marxism’s relation to Kant’s ethics is not one of irrelevance, complementarity or incompatibility, but critique. Although Kant’s formulas of the categorical imperative presuppose a belief in God that Kant cannot motivate, the value of autonomy can instead be grounded by appeal to an antinomy in capitalism’s basic structure, and this commits us to socialism.Table of ContentsPart I Three Views of Marxism’s Relation to Kant’s EthicsIntroduction to Part I1 Against the Irrelevance View 1 The Instrumental Reasons Argument 2 The False Claims Argument 3 The Ideology Argument 4 The Class Interests Argument 5 Summary2 Against the Complementarity View, Part 1: Socialist Strategy 1 The Complementarity View: Stammler, Staudinger, Vorländer 2 An Objection to the Complementarity View 3 The Deficient Self-Understanding Claim: A Critique3 Against the Complementarity View, Part 2: Can Kant’s Formula of the End in Itself Condemn Capitalism? 1 FEI-Based Arguments against Capitalism 2 Kant’s Never Merely as a Means Principle 3 Applying FEI: Some General Considerations 4 Applying FEI beyond Kant 5 Evaluation of the Arguments 6 FEI and General Injustice 7 Conclusion4 Against the Incompatibility View 1 Two Components of Human Freedom 2 Marx on Human Freedom 3 The True Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity 4 The Link to Autonomy 5 Marx on the Autonomy of a Human Community 6 Marx’s Commitment to a Critique of Kant’s Ethics 7 SummaryPart II A Critique of Kant’s EthicsIntroduction to Part II5 Kant’s Contradiction in Conception Test 1 The Basic Features of the Causal-Teleological Version of LCI 2 Further Features of a Causal-Teleological Version of LCI 3 The Suicide Maxim 4 The False Promising Maxim 5 Summary6 Kant’s Contradiction in the Will Test 1 Assessment Criteria 2 Assessing the Existing Interpretations 3 The Extravagant Imperfect Nature Interpretation 4 Formulating the Groundwork’s Two Maxims 5 The Maxim of Neglecting Natural Gifts 6 The Maxim of Refusing to Help 7 Summary7 The Principle of Suitability Interpretation of Kant’s Formula of the Law of Nature 1 The Contradiction in Conception Test 2 The Contradiction in the Will Test8 Kant’s Argument for the Formula of the End in Itself 1 The Structure of Kant’s Argument for FEI 2 Steps 1–3 3 Step 4: the Logical Pluralism Version of Kant’s Regressive Argument 4 Advantages of the Logical Pluralism Version of Kant’s Regressive Argument 5 Humanity, Personality and a Belief in the Existence of God9 Kant’s Arguments for a Belief in the Existence of God 1 Kant’s Concept of the Highest Good 2 The Argument from the Highest Good 3 Wood’s Version of the Argument from the Highest Good 4 The Objection from Moral Happiness 5 The Physicoteleological Argument 6 ConclusionPart III Founding a Post-Kantian EthicsIntroduction to Part III10 A Marxist Argument for Autonomy 1 Relativising Practical Reason 2 An Argumentative Strategy 3 The Need for a Duty to the Whole 4 The General Features of a Foundational Argument 5 A Lesson from Mill’s ‘Proof’ 6 The Distinctive Features of a Marxist Foundational Argument 7 A Simple Account of Capitalism’s Basic Structure 8 Explaining the Premises 9 The Rights-Antinomy 10 Resolving the Rights-Antinomy 11 The System Universalisability Principle of Justice 12 The Autonomy of a Human Community 13 Summary 14 The Justification of Socialist Strategy 15 ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Haymarket Books Structures of Language: Notes Towards a
Book SynopsisThis annotated commentary delineating Michel Pêcheux's materialist discourse theory anticipates the formation of a real social science to supersede the metaphysical meanings 'always-already-there' instituted by empirical ideology. Structures of Language presents Pêcheux's consequential work in respect to Ferdinand de Saussure's epistemological breakthrough that founded the science of linguistics: the theoretical separation of sound from meaning.Noam Chomsky's generative grammar, John Searle"s philosophy of language, B.F. Skinner's indwelling agents, J.L. Austin's speech situations, Jacques Lacan's symbolic order, and the influential theories of other linguistic researchers, are cited to explain imaginary semantic systems. The broader implications for structural metaphysics in language use are tacitly conveyed.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Michel Pêcheux (1938–1983)Semantic scientificity – linguistic phenomena – domain of linguistics – sentence formation – epistemological obstacles – everyday language – ideological phenomena – realization of the real – self-evident meaning – social science – non-subjective theory of subjectivity – semantic self-evidence – syntactic recognition – philosophical hermeneutics – scientific practice – co-reference2 Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913)Theoretical ideologies – Saussure’s rupture – speech sounds – linguistic co-ordination – social psychology – language and speech – ideological mis/recognition – institutional discourse – discourse analysis – contextual cues – base/superstructure – value and meaning – acceptability – imaginary associations – Althusserian principles – scientific history – analogy3 Noam Chomsky (1928–)Problem of meaning – linguistic idealism – generative grammar – competence and performance – sentential transformations – universal grammar – Port-Royal logic – propaganda model of meaning – linguistic value – pre-Saussurian ideology – state discourse – Saussurian double structure – transcoding – formatives – state apparatus – dogma of meaning4 John Searle (1932–)Philosophy of language – spontaneous ideology – reading codes – contextual rules – ideology of context – illocutionary acts – context-utterance relation – expressibility – brute/institutional facts – intentionality – social reality – performative utterances – the Background – speaker position – structural elements – social commitment – tied information.5 B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) S-O-R model – illusion of spontaneous subjectivity – indwelling agents – Munchausen effect – introspection – verbal behavior – operant conditioning – discursive contingencies – colloquial communication – verbal faculty – social control – forms of reinforcement – inner man – technology of behavior – autonomous subjection – subject of speech6 J.L. Austin (1911–1960) Subjective self-evidence – predictable speech – speech situations – conventional mis/recognition – verbal contexts – performative assumptions – meaningless speech – ideologies of agency – responsible subject – plea for excuses – imaginary associations – ideology of ordinary language – institutionalized speech acts – rituals of performativity – performative success – ideological speech activity7 Jacques Lacan (1901–1981)Mental automatism – repetition automatism – letter of meaning – automatic ideation – discursive automatism – subject of enunciation – site of speech – ideological automaticity – symbolic order – derealization – transference – structures of identification – psychogenic interpretations – the echo – ideo-verbal subjection – symbolic agencies8 Roland Barthes (1915–1980)Pre-Saussurian regression – mythical systems – discursive discrepancies – mythemes – meaning and myth – muthos – novel mythology – accepted stories – politics and myth – noble lie – rhetoric – mythological beliefs – personal agency – mythological freedom – rhetoric of freedom – myths of subjectivity – rhetorical practice – meaningful narratives9 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)Philosophy as ideology – meaningless nonsense – propositional logic – Saussurian principles – useless signs – ideological practice – everyday language – non-subjective theory of language – mechanical protocols – misunderstood meaning – unconscious subjection – meaning as use – socially accepted signs – ideological problems – language games – linguistic behavior10 Zellig Harris (1909–1992) Non-subjective theory of language – meaning as frequency – institutional ideologies – ideology of meaning – distribution – recurring sequences – normative social conditions – architecture of meaning – social sub-systems – distributed meaning effects – forms of language – ideological basis of ordinary language – language and situation11 Roman Jakobson (1909–1992) Meaningful ideology – sound and meaning – phonemes – semantic effects – code recognition – double structure – Saussure’s break – shifters – subject positions – imaginary representation – discourse structure – subject as shifter – preconstructed social relations – self-subjection – ordinary language – literal subjection – literary discourses12 Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) Semantic deconstruction – Saussurian break – illusory forms of control – metaphysics of meaning – ideology and belief – ideological superstructure – phonocentric discourse – subjective interiority – textual transparency – meaning and soliloquy – symbolic linearity – psychographism – repression – ideological structure of subjectivity – logic of the supplement13 Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) Author function – individualistic subjectivism – normative inculcation – transverse discourse – semantic and metonymic dominance – identificatory obviousness – official/unofficial ideology – illusion of subjectivity – social psychology – hierarchies of discourse – addressivity and answerability – relative autonomy of meaning – social science as ideology14 Jürgen Habermas (1929–) Universal pragmatics – observation and understanding – critical theory of subjection – background consensus – normative structures – subject positions – spirit of capitalism – socially situated speech – legitimate rule – ideological subjection – non-coercive coercion – liberal state – state apparatus – legitimation problem – psychoanalysis and self-reflection – unconscious ideology – consensus and meaning15 Émile Benveniste (1902–1976) Self-generating subjectivity – materialist theory of discourse – symbolic interaction – linguistic immediacy – ideological conditions of enunciation – individual agency – psychological subjectivity – structures of verbal interaction – non-subjective theory of language – epistemological rupture – social domination – state authority – symbolic control – institutional materiality – subjectivity and speech16 Michel Foucault (1926–1984) Discourse analysis – non-subjective theory of subjectivity – discursive formations – language and ideology – linguistic base – disciplines – archaeology of knowledge – modern soul – objective conditions of discursive practice – institutional materiality – accepted forms of subjection – ideology of freedom – writing systems – epistemic panopticon – disciplinary norms – Munchausen effectConclusionReferencesIndex
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