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Cornell University Press Virtue Ethics Old and New
Book Synopsis"There are grounds for saying that contemporary work in virtue ethics is, if not quite in its theoretical infancy, at least not far out of diapers. And this suggests that we should be gentle and nurturing, allowing it time to flourish before coming to...Trade Review"This is a very useful volume and will be of interest to more than just virtue ethicists. The chapters by Annas and Irwin are especially noteworthy." -- Michael Slote, University of Miami"Virtue Ethics, Old and New makes significant original contributions and offers useful continuations of current topics. It is a solid addition to the literature on virtues and virtue ethics." -- Michael Stocker, Syracuse University
£26.59
Cornell University Press On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians
Book SynopsisA treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.Trade ReviewThis work gives significant insight into the early thoughts of one of the first truly modern thinkers in Western intellectual tradition. Palmer's excellent introduction illustrates its historical significance by placing it in a wider context. * Library Journal *Until now, the Latin treatise in which Vico first set forth his theory of knowledge and of metaphysics, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, has never had a complete rendering into English. Lucia Palmer in this volume has provided a welcome translation not only of the treatise, but also of a series of exchanges concerning it (1711–12) between Vico and the Giornale de' letterati d'Italia. It contains the fullest statement of Vico's principle that the true and the made are interchangeable. * Seventeenth-Century News *
£999.99
Cornell University Press Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition
Book SynopsisIn a landmark interpretation of the whole of Benjamin's career, John McCole demonstrates a way of understanding Benjamin that both contextualizes and addresses the complexities and ambiguities of his texts.Trade ReviewThis sophisticated yet reader-friendly study represents a significant advance in American criticism on Walter Benjamin.... I endorse Irving Wohlfarth's statement that this is 'the best book-length study of Benjamin yet to have appeared in English' and enthusiastically recommend it to novice and devotee alike. * Philosophy and Literature *
£33.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Higher Superstition The Academic Left and Its
Book SynopsisThis paperback edition of Higher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors.Trade ReviewWe should be thankful that Gross and Levitt have provided a wake-up call. Their significant overview of the thinking of those who teach our lawyers, journalists and teachers should be read by all who are concerned by the decline of the status of science in our times. Physics Today At last, somebody has performed the invaluable service of exploding the pretentions of those who think every equation derived this century undermines the fabric of western thought. New Statesman The authors' shredding of such luminaries of postmodernism and feminism as Stanley Aronowitz, Sandra Harding, and Evelyn fox Keller, among others, is not always charitable, [but] it is invariably compelling and frequently devastating. -- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Washington TimesTable of ContentsPreface to the 1998 Edition AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Academic Left and ScienceChapter 2. Some History and Politics: Natural Science and its Natural EnemiesChapter 3. The Cultural Construction of Cultural Constructivism Chapter 4. The Realm of Idle Phrases: Postmodernism, Literary Theory, and Cultural CriticismChapter 5. Auspicating GenderChapter 6. The Gates of EdenChapter 7. The Schools of IndictmentChapter 8. Why Do the People Imagine a Vain Thing?Chapter 9. Does it Matter?NotesSupplementary Notes to the 1998 EditionReferencesIndex
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Stanford University Press Confrontations DerridaHeideggerNietzsche
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
£21.59
Stanford University Press Ethics of an Artificial Person
Book SynopsisArtificial persons, as conceived by Hobbes, speak and act in the name of others. In modern institutions examples include: politicians, brokers, bureaucrats, and military personnel. This text focuses on the moral issue of how we can locate responsibility for the actions of artificial persons.Table of ContentsContents ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE
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Stanford University Press Ethics of an Artificial Person
Book SynopsisArtificial persons, as conceived by Hobbes, speak and act in the name of others. In modern institutions examples include: politicians, brokers, bureaucrats, and military personnel. This text focuses on the moral issue of how we can locate responsibility for the actions of artificial persons.Table of ContentsContents ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE
£20.89
Stanford University Press Points Interviews 19761994 Meridian
Book SynopsisThis volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings.Trade Review"A significant new scholarly resource, the interviews add up to a collective diagetical gloss on Derrida's major texts. The volume will be indispensable to any student and scholar of literature for whom deconstruction is important, whether as an inspiration and model or as a bête noire." -- Henry Sussman, SUNY * Buffalo *"Here Derrida himself provides a guide and commentary to his work. . . . This collection is particularly welcome because Derrida's work in the past 20 years has taken off in a variety of new directions that have often left critics puzzled." -- ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Upside-down writing Elizabeth Weber 1. Between Brackets. 2. Ja, or the faux-bond. 3. 'The Almost Nothing of the Unpresentable' 4. Choreographies 5. Of a certain college international de philosophie still to come 6. Unsealing ('the new old language') 7. 'Dialanguages' 8. Voice Part II. 9. Language (Le Monde on the telephone) 10. Heidegger, the philosopher's hell 11. Comment donner raison? 'How to concede, with reasons?' 12. 'There is no one narcissism' (Autobiographies) 13. Is there a philosophical language? 14. The rhetoric of drugs 15. 'Eating well', or the calculation of the subject 16. Che cos'è la poesia? 17. Istrice 2: Ick bunn all hier. 18. Once again from the top: of the right to philosophy 19. 'A 'madness' must watch over thinking' 20. Counter-signatures 21. Passages from traumatism to promise 22. Two 'Affairs' 23. Honoris Causa: 'This is also extremely funny' 24. The work of intellectuals and the press (The bad example: how the New York Review of Books and company do business).
£26.99
Stanford University Press World in Fragments Writings on Politics Society
Book SynopsisThis collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the most recent work in philosophy, politics, and psychoanalysis by a world-renowned figure in contemporary thought.Trade Review"For those unfamiliar with the thought of Castoriadis, reading his work for the first time is to encounter one of the most original and creative figures of the last half of the twentieth century."—TopiaTable of ContentsContents PART I PART II PART III PART IV Appendix
£28.80
Stanford University Press Technics and Time The Fault of Epimetheus No 1
Book SynopsisAristotle contrasted beings formed by nature with man-made objects, which did not have the source of production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own.Table of ContentsTranslators' note General introduction Part I. The Invention of the Human: Introduction: 1. Theories of technical evolution 2. Technology and anthropology 3. Who? What? The invention of the human Part II. The Fault of Epimetheus: Introduction: 1. Prometheus's liver 2. Already there 3. The disengagement of the what Notes Bibliography.
£98.60
Stanford University Press Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas''s funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas''s death. For both thinkers, the word adieu names a fundamental characteristic of human being: the salutation or benediction prior to all constative language (in certain circumstances, one can say adieu at the moment of meeting) and that given at the moment of separation, sometimes forever, as at the moment of death, it is also the a-dieu, for God or to God before and in any relation to the other. In this book, Derrida extends his work on Levinas in previously unexplored directions via a radical rereading of Totality and Infinity and other texts, including the lesser-known talmudic readings. He argues that Levinas, especially in Totality and Infinity, bequeaths to us an immense treatise of hospitality, a meditation on the welcome offered to the other. TheTable of Contents1. Adieu 2. A word of welcome Notes.
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Stanford University Press Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas Meridian Crossing
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas's funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas's death.Table of Contents1. Adieu 2. A word of welcome Notes.
£18.99
Stanford University Press Potentialities Collected Essays in Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume consider figures in the history of philosophy such as Plato, Plotinus, Spinoza, and Hegel; and 20th-century thought, most notably Walter Benjamin, but also Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, the historian Aby Warburg, and the linguist J.-C. Milner.Trade Review"Agamben has been attracting attention recently in the English-speaking world, thanks to the increasing availability of his work in translation. This volume is indicative of Agamben's broad range of interests. . . . Despite this range of interests, however, a sustained commitment to certain theoretical issues—particularly language and history—lends the volume a coherence. . . . Daniel Heller-Roazen's introduction does a nice job of outlining the philosophical program that motivates these essays, and his translation in general is to be commended for its elegance. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers."—ChoiceTable of ContentsEditor's note Editor's introduction Part I. Language: 1. The thing itself 2. The idea of language 3. Language and history: linguistic and historical categories in Benjamin's thought 4. Philosophy and linguistics 5. Kommerell, or on gesture Part II. History: 6. Aby Warburg and the nameless science 7. Tradition of the immemorial 8. *Se: Hegel's absolute and Heidegger's Ereignis 9. Walter Benjamin and the demonic: happiness and historical redemption 10. The messiah and the sovereign: the problem of law in Walter Benjamin Part III. Potentiality: 11. On potentiality 12. The passion of facticity 13. Pardes: the writing of potentiality 14. Absolute immanence Part IV. Contingency: 15. Bartleby, or on contingency Notes Index of names.
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Stanford University Press Selected Writings
Book SynopsisSarah Kofman (1934-1994), Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and the author of over twenty books, was one of the most significant postwar thinkers in France. Kofman''s scholarship was wide-ranging and included work on Freud and psychoanalysis, Nietzsche, feminism and the role of women in Western philosophy, visual art, and literature. The child of Polish Jewish immigrants who lost her father in the Holocaust, she also was interested in Judaism and anti-Semitism, especially as reflected in works of literature and philosophy. This book is an anthology of some of Kofman''s most significant writings on these and other topics. Its purpose is to provide a general introduction to Kofman''s thought, which has been highly influential in both Europe and America. Although some of the selections have been published previously, the majority of the books contents appear in English translation for the first time.Trade Review"Kofman had something to say, and her writings still command attention for their insight, their adventurousness,and their attentiveness to the philosophical traditions with which she so productively wrestled. She was one of the great readers of Freud in the twentieth century, and she brought the same caring intelligence to her interpretations of Nietzsche."—BookForumTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Editor's Preface Thomas Albrecht Introduction Jacques Derrida PART 1: Reading (with) Freud 1. The Double Reading 2. The Impossible Profession 3. 'a cloche PART 2: Nietzsche and the Scene of Philosophy 4. The Evil Eye 5. Scorning Jews: Nietzsche, the Jews, Anti-Semitism PART 3: With Respect to Woman 6. From The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings 7. The Economy of Respect: Kant and Respect for Women PART 4: The Truth in Painting 8. The Melancholy of Art 9. The Resemblance of Portraits: Imitation According to Diderot 10. Conjuring Death: Remarks on The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolas Tulp (1632) PART 5: Judaism and Anti-Semitism / Autobiography 11. Shoah (or Dis-grace) 12. Autobiographical Writings Damned Food Tomb for a Proper Name Post-scriptum-1992 "My Life" and Psychoanalysis Nightmare: At the Margins of Medieval Studies Notes Contributors
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Stanford University Press Selected Writings
Book SynopsisSarah Kofman (1934-1994), Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and the author of over twenty books, was one of the most significant postwar thinkers in France. Kofman''s scholarship was wide-ranging and included work on Freud and psychoanalysis, Nietzsche, feminism and the role of women in Western philosophy, visual art, and literature. The child of Polish Jewish immigrants who lost her father in the Holocaust, she also was interested in Judaism and anti-Semitism, especially as reflected in works of literature and philosophy. This book is an anthology of some of Kofman''s most significant writings on these and other topics. Its purpose is to provide a general introduction to Kofman''s thought, which has been highly influential in both Europe and America. Although some of the selections have been published previously, the majority of the books contents appear in English translation for the first time.Trade Review"Kofman had something to say, and her writings still command attention for their insight, their adventurousness,and their attentiveness to the philosophical traditions with which she so productively wrestled. She was one of the great readers of Freud in the twentieth century, and she brought the same caring intelligence to her interpretations of Nietzsche."—BookForumTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Editor's Preface Thomas Albrecht Introduction Jacques Derrida PART 1: Reading (with) Freud 1. The Double Reading 2. The Impossible Profession 3. 'a cloche PART 2: Nietzsche and the Scene of Philosophy 4. The Evil Eye 5. Scorning Jews: Nietzsche, the Jews, Anti-Semitism PART 3: With Respect to Woman 6. From The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings 7. The Economy of Respect: Kant and Respect for Women PART 4: The Truth in Painting 8. The Melancholy of Art 9. The Resemblance of Portraits: Imitation According to Diderot 10. Conjuring Death: Remarks on The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolas Tulp (1632) PART 5: Judaism and Anti-Semitism / Autobiography 11. Shoah (or Dis-grace) 12. Autobiographical Writings Damned Food Tomb for a Proper Name Post-scriptum-1992 "My Life" and Psychoanalysis Nightmare: At the Margins of Medieval Studies Notes Contributors
£22.49
Stanford University Press Of Hospitality
Book SynopsisThese two lectures by Jacques Derrida, Foreigner Question and Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality, derive from a series of seminars on hospitality conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become something of an institution over the years, the place where he presents the ongoing evolution of his thought in a remarkable combination of thoroughly mapped-out positions, sketches of new material, and exchanges with students and interlocutors.As has become a pattern in Derrida''s recent work, the form of this presentation is a self-conscious enactment of its content. The book consists of two texts on facing pages. Invitation by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates in a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida''s response on the right. The interaction between them not only enacts the hospitality under discussion, but preserves something of the rhythms of teaching.The volume also chaTrade Review"Of Hospitality provides us with a glimpse of Jacques Derrida as not only the brilliant thinker and writer readers have long admired but as the masterful lecturer and pedagogue his students have long known. . . . Of Hospitality should find a welcome audience not only among faithful readers of Derrida but among all those who are open enough to hear the knock at their borders or their doors."—L'Esprit Créateur"Both lectures [in the book] deserve credit not only for representing a significant step in Derrida's reflection on ethics and politics but also for prompting us to begin our own deconstructive work and rethink our identity."—Symploke"The book clearly shows the political and ethical seriousness of Derrida's philosophical thought, and it is an important work for anyone who is working with those notions in light of thought about 'the other.'"—Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's note; 1. Invitation Anne Dufourmantelle; 2. Foreigner question Jacques Derrida; 3. Step of hospitality/no hospitality Jacques Derrida; Notes.
£73.95
Stanford University Press The Unthought Debt
Book SynopsisDrawing on Heidegger''s corpus, the work of historians and biblical specialists, and contemporary philosophers like Levinas and Derrida, Zarader brings to light the evolution of an impenséor unthought thoughtthat bespeaks a complex debt at the core of Heidegger''s hermeneutic ontology.Zarader argues forcefully that in his interpretation of Western thought and culture, Heidegger manages to recognize only two main lines of inheritance: the Greek line of philosophical thinking, and the Christian tradition of faith. From this perspective, Heidegger systematically avoids any explicit or meaningful recognition of the contribution made by the Hebraic biblical and exegetical traditions to Western thought and culture. Zarader argues that this avoidance is significant, not simply because it involves an inexcusable historical oversight, but more importantly because Heidegger''s own philosophical project draws on and develops themes that appear first, and fundamentally, within theTrade Review"The Unthought Debt is an insightful and provocative work whose nuanced and far-reaching argument is sure to generate among English readers significant new discussion surrounding an already much explored topic—that of the relation between Martin Heidegger's philosophy and the traditions of Western religious thought. Zarader's study sheds important light on the significance of religious thought in Heidegger, and it does so in a way that challenges, complements, and advances scholarship already existing in English on the issue."—Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc2:Introduction 00 @toc1:Part I. Readings 1 Heidegger's Reading of History: The Split 000 2 The Question of Language 000 3 The Question of Thought 000 4 The Question of Interpretation 000 @toc1:Part II. Problems @toc2:1 And How Is It with Being? 000 2 The Problem of Transmission 000 3 The Hebraic Heritage and Western Thought 000 Conclusion: Deconstruction or Reconstruction? 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000
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Stanford University Press Enthusiasm
Book SynopsisEnthusiasm studies what Kant calls a strong sense of the sublime, not as an aesthetic feeling but as a form of political judgment rendered not by the active participants in historical events but those who witness them from afar. Lyotard''s analysis, preparatory to his work in The Differend and subsequent publications, is a radical rereading of the Kantian faculties, traditionally understood as functions of the mind, in terms of a philosophy of phrases derived from Lyotard''s prior encounters with Wittgenstein''s theory of language games. The result is a kind of fourth critique based in Kant''s later political and historical writings, with an emphasis on understanding the place of those sudden and unscripted events that have the power to reshape the political/historical landscape (such as the French Revolution, May 1968, and others).Trade Review"Exploring the notions of 'passages', the sublime, freedom, the nature of the political and the sign of history, Enthusiasm may be fascinating to undergraduates newly-introduced to Lyotard's work and intriguing to those seeking to contextualize what they have already grasped."—Benjamin Hutchens, James Madison University, Philosophy in Review
£16.14
Stanford University Press Matchbook
Book SynopsisMatchbook consists of nine essays written around, or in response to, work published by Jacques Derrida since 1980. The focal point of the essays is the Envois, which forms part of Derrida''s Post Card. Particular attention is paid to how that text articulates with the ethical and political emphases of Derrida''s more recent work, but also to its autobiographical conceit.The incendiary reference of the book''s title underscores deconstruction''s engagement with questions of reading: relations between (slow) reading and the speed of technology, and the political effects of an internationalized deconstruction in a globalized culture. It is in terms of what deconstruction can have us think about the speed of technology and technologies of reading that Derrida''s work has made one of its most important contributions to philosophy and literary and cultural studies. The book concentrates on that as proof of the continued relevance of such work.Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations iii Preface iii @toc2:Chapter 1 Jaded in America 1 Chapter 2 Lemming 00 Chapter 3 Matchbook 00 Chapter 4 To Give, letterally 00 Chapter 5 JD-ROM 000 Chapter 6 Untitled: The Gift of Death 000 Chapter 7 Forked Tongue 000 Chapter 8 Supreme Court 000 Chapter 9 Bookend: Fiber Allergics 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Speech Acts in Literature Meridian Crossing
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary work.Trade Review"Miller's recent productions form a unique body of work in their own right. They are distinctive and utterly memorable in their radical differences from each other and their willingness to take extreme risks and assume ethical responsibility for their singular experiments. His seemingly insatiable creative rage remains one of the irreplaceable performances in the worlds of letters and culture." -- Henry Sussman, SUNY * Buffalo *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. J. L. Austin 2. Jacques Derrida 3. Paul de Man 4. Passion performative: Derrida, Wittgenstein, Austin 5. Marcel Proust Coda: allegory as speech act Notes Index.
£77.35
Stanford University Press Speech Acts in Literature Meridian Crossing
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary work.Trade Review"Miller's recent productions form a unique body of work in their own right. They are distinctive and utterly memorable in their radical differences from each other and their willingness to take extreme risks and assume ethical responsibility for their singular experiments. His seemingly insatiable creative rage remains one of the irreplaceable performances in the worlds of letters and culture." -- Henry Sussman, SUNY * Buffalo *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. J. L. Austin 2. Jacques Derrida 3. Paul de Man 4. Passion performative: Derrida, Wittgenstein, Austin 5. Marcel Proust Coda: allegory as speech act Notes Index.
£19.79
Stanford University Press Whos Afraid of Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume reflects Jacques Derrida''s engagement in the late 1970s with French political debates on the teaching of philosophy and the reform of the French university system. He was a founding member of the Research Group on the Teaching of Philosophy (Greph), an activist group that mobilized opposition to the Giscard government''s proposals to rationalize the French educational system in 1975, and a convener of the Estates General of Philosophy, a vast gathering in 1979 of educators from across France.While addressing specific contemporary political issues on occasion, thus providing insight into the pragmatic deployment of deconstructive analysis, the essays deal mainly with much broader concerns. With his typical rigor and spark, Derrida investigates the genealogy of several central concepts which any debate about teaching and the university must confront.Thus there are essays on the teaching body, both the faculty corps and the strange interplay in the FreTrade Review“This book is of extraordinary importance. It collects one of the most important and underappreciated aspects of Derrida’s work - his investigations into the institutions of philosophical research and teaching - in a definitive and comprehensive volume. These essays are crucial to an understanding of Derrida, and their publication in English is a milestone.”—Thoman Keenan, Bard College
£81.90
Stanford University Press Eyes of the University
Book SynopsisCompleting the translation of Derrida''s monumental work Right to Philosophy (the first part of which has already appeared under the title of Who''s Afraid of Philosophy?), Eyes of the University brings together many of the philosopher''s most important texts on the university and, more broadly, on the languages and institutions of philosophy.In addition to considerations of the implications for literature and philosophy of French becoming a state language, of Descartes'' writing of the Discourse on Method in French, and of Kant''s and Schelling''s philosophies of the university, the volume reflects on the current state of research and teaching in philosophy and on the question of what Derrida calls a university responsibility.Examining the political and institutional conditions of philosophy, the essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is thereTrade Review"From each of these punctual documents, supplemented by numerous helpful translator's notes, emerges the clear profile of Derrida's principled and relentless commitment to the teaching of philosophy as a right in any democracy worthy of the name."—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Some books recommend themselves by what is written therein; others are to be recommended for what they may inspire their readers to think, say, and do. Few books fall into both categories; the collection of pieces that is Eyes of the University does. But here, near the end, I have chosen my words carefully: "what they may inspire." The rest is up to us."—Philosophy and Rhetoric
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Stanford University Press Eyes of the University
Book SynopsisCompleting the translation of Derrida''s monumental work Right to Philosophy (the first part of which has already appeared under the title of Who''s Afraid of Philosophy?), Eyes of the University brings together many of the philosopher''s most important texts on the university and, more broadly, on the languages and institutions of philosophy.In addition to considerations of the implications for literature and philosophy of French becoming a state language, of Descartes'' writing of the Discourse on Method in French, and of Kant''s and Schelling''s philosophies of the university, the volume reflects on the current state of research and teaching in philosophy and on the question of what Derrida calls a university responsibility.Examining the political and institutional conditions of philosophy, the essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is thereTrade Review"From each of these punctual documents, supplemented by numerous helpful translator's notes, emerges the clear profile of Derrida's principled and relentless commitment to the teaching of philosophy as a right in any democracy worthy of the name."—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Some books recommend themselves by what is written therein; others are to be recommended for what they may inspire their readers to think, say, and do. Few books fall into both categories; the collection of pieces that is Eyes of the University does. But here, near the end, I have chosen my words carefully: "what they may inspire." The rest is up to us."—Philosophy and Rhetoric
£21.59
Stanford University Press Is It Righteous to Be
Book SynopsisIn the twenty interviews collected in this volume, seventeen of which appear in English for the first time, Levinas sets forth the central features of his ethical philosophy and discusses biographical matters not available elsewhere.Trade Review"Includes the most significant biographical documentation of [Levinas] yet to appear in English, with much new information on his Jewish upbringing and influences. More substantially, [the collection of interviews] record, better than any of his other writings, how Levinas conceived of the relation between ethics and politics." -- The Jerusalem Report
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Stanford University Press Time Death and the Feminine Levinas with
Book SynopsisExamining Levinas's critique of the Heideggerian conception of temporality, this book shows how the notion of the feminine both enables and prohibits the most fertile territory of Levinas's thought.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Ontological difference, sexual difference, and time 2. Heidegger and feminism: bodies, others, temporality 3. Heidegger's critique of metaphysical presence 4. The temporality of saying: politics beyond the ontological difference 5. Giving time and death: Levinas, Heidegger, adn the trauma of the gift 6. Impossible possibility: thinking ethics after Levinas with Rosenzweig and Heidegger in the wake of the Shoah 7. A mourning of philosophy: Levinas's legacy as traumatic response 8. The betrayal of philosophy Conclusion Notes.
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Stanford University Press Husserls Phenomenology
Book SynopsisDrawing upon both Husserl's published works and posthumous material, Husserl's Phenomenology incorporates the results of the most recent Husserl research. It can consequently serve as a concise and updated introduction to his thinking.Trade Review"Zahavi expresses the wish that this book will turn the reader towards Husserl's own writings, and one could not imagine a more authoritative and helpful introduction to them than this." -- Robert Pepperell * Wales College *"This book is a splendid introduction to Husserl's writings. Indeed, more than an introduction, it is a remarkably comprehensive overview not only of Husserl's major published works but also of his unpublished research manuscripts....The book was a pleasure to read the first time, and it repays successive readings with new and ever deeper insights into Husserl's philosophical achievement." * Husserl Studies *
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Stanford University Press For What Tomorrow . . .
Book SynopsisThis dialogue, proposed to Jacques Derrida by historian Elisabeth Roudinesco, brings together two friends who share a common history and intellectual heritage. While their perspectives are different, they have many common references: psychoanalysis, above all, but also the authors and works that have come to be known as "post-structuralist."Trade Review"Jacques Derrida, notorious for producing intensely difficult works on aspects of the history of philosophy, here shows himself in another light dealing concretely and practically with some of the pressing social and political issues of our day." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus philosophiques
£18.89
Stanford University Press Giorgio Agamben
Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first in-depth collection of essays aimed at critically examining the work of political philosopher Giorgio Agamben.Trade Review"One cannot overstate the importance of Agamben's work or the wide respect it enjoys among scholars in a variety of disciplines in the United States and elsewhere. This volume contains valuable essays from a variety of prominent scholars, and is the only such collection available in any language."—Michael Hardt, Duke UniversityTable of Contents@fmh1:Contents @toc4:Preface xxx List of Abbreviations xxx Contributors xxx @toc1:On Agamben @toc2:The Work of Man 000 @tocca:Giorgio Agamben toc3:Sovereignty @toc2:Bare Life or Social Indeterminacy? 000 @tocca:Ernesto Laclau @toc2:The Complexities of Sovereignty 000 @tocca:William E. Connolly @toc2:Boundary Stones: Giorgio Agamben and the Field of Sovereignty 000 @tocca:Steven DeCaroli @toc2:Whatever Politics 000 @tocca:Jenny Edkins @toc2:From Sovereign Ban to Banning Sovereignty 000 @tocca:William Rasch @toc3:Life @toc2:Giorgio Agamben: The Discreet Taste of the Dialectic 000 @tocca:Antonio Negri @toc2:Approaching Limit Events: Siting Agamben 000 @tocca:Dominick LaCapra @toc2:Jamming the Anthropological Machine 000 @tocca:Matthew Calarco @toc2:Biopolitics, Liberal Eugenics, and Nihilism 000 @tocca:Catherine Mills @toc2:Agamben and Foucault on Biopower and Biopolitics 000 @tocca:Paul Patton @toc2:The Ontology and Politics of Exception: Reflections on the Work of Giorgio Agamben 000 @tocca:Bruno Gulli @toc4:Selected Bibliography of Giorgio Agamben 000 Notes 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Minima Memoria
Book SynopsisMinima Memoria attests to the impact of the works of Jean-Francois Lyotard, one of the most influential French philosophers of the twentieth century, and the continuing effects of these works across a wide array of fields: philosophy, literature, political theory, gender theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis.Trade Review"...a very high calibre contribution which succeeds in uncovering the power, sensitivity, and depth of Lyotard's thought, and in demonstrating its relevance for contemporary problems. As such, it succeeds in being the kind of 'wake' the authors intended." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus PhilosophiquesTable of ContentsTable of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction: Minima Memoria Kent Still 1. Lyotard and Us Jacques Derrida 2. Saving the Honor of Thinking: On Jean-Fran'ois Lyotard Rodolphe Gasch' 3. Lending an Ear to the Silence Phrase: Lyotard's Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory Dorota Glowacka 4. Toward a Feminist Ethics of Dissensus: Polemos, Embodiment, Obligation Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 5. The Writings of the Differend G'rald Sfez 6. The Inarticulate Affect: Lyotard and Psychoanalytic Testimony Claire Nouvet 7. Jean-Fran'ois' Infancy Christopher Fynsk 8. On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested Avital Ronell 9. Passages of the Maya Philippe Bonnefis 10. Lyotard Archipelago Michael Nass 11. Childish Things Geoffrey Bennington List of Contributors Index
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Stanford University Press The Claim to Community
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays investigates the relevance of Stanley Cavell's work to political philosophy.Trade Review"This new book edited by Norris brings together a collection of papers examining the relationship between Stanley Cavell and political philosophy...an exciting new page in Cavellian studies." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques"The very learned essays in this collection do much to illuminate what Cavell gains from his response to Wittgenstein and Austin, and even to such American authors as Emerson and Thoreau, not to mention films and plays." -- CHOICE"How do we cultivate the arts of political judgment, conversation, and civility? Stanley Cavell, for over four decades, has awakened us to this question and helped to compose some answers. In this artful and lively collection, Andrew Norris gathers together a diverse group of writers who continue the fascinating experiments Cavell has launched." -- Jane Bennett * The Johns Hopkins University *"This marvelous collection of essays is the best available examination of the most profound and interdisciplinary American philosopher writing today: Stanley Cavell. It not only probes the complex relation of Cavells work to political philosophy; it also shows that there can be no serious grasp of Cavells thought without acknowledging his deep commitment to the problematic of democratic practice and the Emersonian paideia of we ordinary citizens." -- Cornel West * Princeton University *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1 Introduction: Stanley Cavell and the Claim to Community 000 @tocca:Andrew Norris @toc2:2 Wittgenstein and Cavell: Anthropology, Skepticism, and Politics 000 @tocca:Sandra Laugier @toc2:3 Bringing Truth Home: Mill, Wittgenstein, Cavell and Moral Perfectionism 000 @tocca:Piergiorgio Donatelli @toc2:4 Telling the Dancer from the Dance: On the Relevance of the Ordinary for Political Thought 000 @tocca:Joseph Lima and Tracy B. Strong @toc2:5 Political Revisions: Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy 000 @tocca:Andrew Norris @toc2:6 Perfectionism Without Perfection: Cavell, Montaigne and the Conditions of Morals and Politics 000 @tocca:Richard Flathman @toc2:7 Perfectionism, Parrhesia and the Care of the Self: Foucault and Cavell on Ethics and Politics 000 @tocca:David Owen @toc2:8 Stanley Cavell and the Limits of Appreciation 000 @tocca:Ted Cohen @toc2:9 Cavell and Political Romanticism 000 @tocca:Espen Hammer @toc2:10 Stanley Cavell and the Pursuits of Happiness 000 @tocca:Hans Sluga @toc2:11 Cordelia's Calculus: Love and Loneliness in Cavell's Reading of Lear 000 @tocca:Thomas L. Dumm @toc2:12 Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, and Astaire 000 @tocca:Robert Gooding Williams @toc2:13 The Incessance and the Absence of the Political 000 @tocca:Stanley Cavell @toc4:Contributors ooo Index 000
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Stanford University Press Transcendental Heidegger
Book SynopsisThe thirteen original essays in this volume represent the most sustained investigation, in any language, of the connections between Heidegger's thought-both early and late-and the tradition of transcendental philosophy.Trade Review"[Transcendental Heidegger is] the beginning of a conversation among the growing number of Anglophone scholars interested in Heidegger's methodology and metaphysics and in transcendental philosophy more generally. The multiple points of view and quality scholarship on offer, however, are enough to encourage anyone interested in these issues to join in the conversation and help to continue the project of properly disclosing the transcendental Heidegger."—Nate Zuckerman, Continental Philosophy Review"Transcendental Heidegger rolls out some of the biggest guns of analytic Heideggerianiam. There are excellent essays by Robert Pippin, Herman Philipse, Mark Okrent, Cristina Lafont, John Jaugeland, Daniel Dahlstron, Steven Crowell and William Blattner . . . This volume will provide readers of Heidegger with a treasure chest of shining gems worthy of careful reading and rereading."—The European LegacyTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Contributors iii @toc2:1. Introduction: Transcendental Heidegger @tocca:Steven Crowell and Jeff Malpas 1 @toc2:2. Ontology, the A Priori, and the Primacy of Practice: An Aporia in Heidegger's Early Philosophy @tocca:William Blattner 000 @toc2:3. Heidegger on Kant on Transcendence @tocca:David Carr 000 @toc2:4. Conscience and Reason: Heidegger and the Grounds of Intentionality @tocca:Steven Crowell 000 @toc2:5. Transcendental Truth and the Truth That Prevails @tocca:Daniel O. Dahlstrom 000 @toc2:6. The Descent of the Logos: Limits of Transcendental Reflection @tocca:Karsten Harries 000 @toc2:7. Letting Be @tocca:John Haugeland 000 @toc2:8. Heidegger and the Synthetic A Priori @tocca:Cristina Lafont 000 @toc2:9. Heidegger's Topology of Being @tocca:Jeff Malpas 000 @toc2:10. Heidegger's Transcendental Phenomenology in the Light of Husserl's Project of First Philosophy @tocca:Dermot Moran 000 @toc2:11. The "I Think" and the For-the-Sake-of-Which @tocca:Mark Okrent 000 @toc2:12. Heidegger's "Scandal of Philosophy": The Problem of the Ding an sich in Being and Time @tocca:Herman Philipse 000 @toc2:13. Necessary Conditions for the Possibility of What Isn't: Heidegger on Failed Meaning @tocca:Robert B. Pippin 000 @toc2:14. Projection and Purposiveness: Heidegger's Kant and the Temporalization of Judgment @tocca:Rachel Zuckert 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Exemplarity and Chosenness
Book SynopsisExemplarity and Chosenness is a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and particular? The book traces Derrida''s interest in this topic, particularly emphasizing his work on philosophical nationality and his insight that philosophy is challenged in a special way by its particular national instantiations and that, conversely, discourses invoking a nationality comprise a philosophical ambition, a claim to being exemplary. Taking as its cue Derrida''s readings of German-Jewish authors and his ongoing interest in questions of Jewishness, this book pairs his philosophy with that of Franz Rosenzweig, who developed a theory of Judaism for which election is essential and who understood chosenness in an exemplarist sense as constitutive of human individuality as weTrade Review""To read Dana Hollander's Exemplarity and Choseness: Rosenzweig and Derrida on the Nation of Philosophy as merely a well-written, through, and clear commentary on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Franz Rosenzweig would be a mistake....Hallander's book...is far more ambitious....Finely polished and compelling." -- Sarah Hammerschlag * The Journal of Religion. *"Dana Hollander's Exemplarity and Chosenness represents a major contribution to the study of Derrida and Rosenzweig and the rapidly expanding field of new religio-philosophical studies. The scholarship represented here is extraordinary in both range and depth. Hollander's ability to draw subtle and profound connections between texts is remarkable. Her fine analytic and literary readings produce strong new insights and original formulations of the problematics of nationalism, universalism, and exemplarity. This is a book that must be read by anyone interested in Jewish Studies, religion and philosophy, or critical theory today." -- Kenneth Reinhard * University of California at Los Angeles *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. American Dreams for a New Generation 2. Studying Children from Mexican Immigrant Families 3. Looking at Three Domains of Child Development 4. Exploring Three Contexts of Child Development 5. The High Stakes of Early Learning in Math 6. What Have We Learned? 7. Where Do We Go From Here? Epilogue Appendix Notes References Index
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Stanford University Press The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
Book SynopsisToo often, Levinas''s thought is distanced from traditional ethical enterprises, especially from normative ethics. It is put into the service of directly normative ends such as a call for respect for women or disadvantaged social groups, or for new normative understandings of the relation of doctors to patients or teachers to students and the like. There is nothing wrong with using Levinas for normative purposes, but this demands that we be clear on what account of normativity can be found in his work. Perpich re-reads central ethical concepts in Levinas''s thought (alterity, the face, and responsibility) in order to offer the first full account of his contribution to our understanding of normativity or the ways in which others'' claims are binding on us. She then extends this interpretation into two vexed areas of Levinas scholarship: the possibility of developing an environmental ethics based on his work and the possibility of applying his ethics to the emancipatory projects of neTrade Review"Well-written, urbane, conversant with the relevant secondary literature, even more conversant with Levinas's thought, Perpich's book treats the central topics and issues raised by Levinas's ethics with grace, intelligence, balance, penetration, and argumentative skill and is ever aware of his ethics' originality and importance." -- Richard A. Cohen, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies * University of North Carolina at Charlotte *Table of ContentsIntroduction: But Is It Ethics? I I Alterity: The Problem of Transcendence 17 2 Singularity: The Unrepresentable Face 50o 3 Responsibility: The Infinity of the Demand 78 4 Ethics: Normativity and Norms 124 5 Scarce Resources? Levinas, Animals, and the Environment 150 6 Failures of Recognition and the Recognition of Failure: Levinas and Identity Politics 177
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Stanford University Press Europe or the Infinite Task
Book SynopsisWhat exactly does Europe mean for philosophy today? Putting aside both Eurocentrism and anti-Eurocentrism, Gasché returns to the old name Europe to examine it as a concept or idea in the work of four philosophers from the phenomenological tradition: Husserl, Heidegger, Patocka, and Derrida. Beginning with Husserl, the idea of Europe became central to such issues as rationality, universality, openness to the other, and responsibility. Europe, or The Infinite Task tracks the changes these issues have undergone in phenomenology in order to investigate Europe''s continuing potential for critical and enlightened resistance in a world that is progressively becoming dominated by the mono-perspectivism of global market economics. Rather than giving up on the idea of Europe as an anachronism, Gasché aims to show that it still has philosophical legs.Trade Review"Europe, or the Infinite Task represents a much needed contribution to contemporary debates in political theory. Avoiding easy ways out or simplistic stances towards complex conceptual problems, Gasché faces the challenge of thinking about universality today with all its subtleties and perplexities. His book is not only an inspiring example of patient textual analysis and scholarly rigor, but also an invitation for the reader to face philosophical thinking in all its complexity—perhaps a practical exercise of the 'infinite task' Gasché wishes that we consider."—Javier Burdman, Theory & Event"Gasché is among the top continental philosophers working in the United States, and this sophisticated and stimulating book is perhaps his crowning achievement so far."—Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis"In our ironic, post-philosophical epoch, it seems anachronistic and even foolish to write such an exhaustive philosophical treatise—in effect, four books in 412 pages. Despite this, Gasché offers an admirably unified argument thanks to his constant focus on 'question Europe'."—Philosophy in ReviewTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Abbreviations iii Introduction iii @toc1:Part I: Edmund Husserl @toc2:1 Infinite Tasks 000 2 Universality and Spatial Form 000 3 Universality in the Making 000 @toc1:Part II: Martin Heidegger @toc2:4 Singular Essence 000 5 The Strangeness of Beginnings 000 6 The Originary World of Tragedy 000 @toc1:Part III: Jan Patoka @toc2:7 Care of the Soul 000 8 The Genealogy of Europe-Responsibility 000 @toc1:Part IV: Jacques Derrida @toc2:9 European Memories 000 10 This Little Thing that is Europe 000 11 De-Closing the Horizon 000 Epilogue 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Copy Archive Signature
Book SynopsisThe book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little known interview that Jacques Derrida granted on the question of photography and its relation to such key deconstructive concepts as copy, archive, and signature.Trade Review"Behind Derrida's remarks on photography stands a vast philosophical knowledge, as well as a keen interest in contemporary media and technology. Richter's introduction admirably situates the discussion both with respect to Derrida's overall work and with reference to certain contemporary interpretations of photography. I can hardly imagine another discussion of photography that would display the same theoretical and philosophical breath and incisiveness that Derrida and his partners bring to bear on the subject."—Samuel Weber, European Graduate School"The interview that composes this exquisite little book demonstrates again why Derrida remains one of our most cherished resources. Suggesting that we did not have to wait for the invention of photography to learn what it can teach us about memory, inscription, death, mourning, and even love—this is why he can associate the medium with thought in general—Derrida's meditations not only comprehend and anticipate recent developments in reproductive technologies, but they also tell us why we must remain today as concerned with photography's past and present as with its future."—Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University
£15.19
Stanford University Press The Sparks of Randomness Volume 2
Book SynopsisIn this second volume of The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan pursues his investigation of human life, which he grounds in a distinctive intermingling of the biological and cognitive sciences and traditions of Jewish thought. The Atheism of Scripture offers up a paradox: its audacious thesis is that the Word or revealed scripture can be better understood without God. It must be decrypted or analyzed atheistically, that is, not as divine revelation, but in and of itself. The first part of the book addresses contemporary science. It puts the evolution of ideas about life and knowledge as conceived by today''s biological and cognitive sciences into perspective and shows how the genealogy of ethics must be approached in a new way. The second part takes up this challenge by putting classical philosophy in dialogue with the Talmud and the Kabbalah to advance a non-dualistic anthropology of the body and the mind.Trade Review"Henri Atlan has undoubtedly become a great scholar and important international figure in the academic community. His approach to texts is original and stimulating, his ideas both lucid and insightful. He has written many volumes on a variety of subjects, but this one has special meaning due to the convulsions society has been undergoing in recent years. The book is steeped in psychology and religion, biology and sociology, mysticism and ethos. Drawing from Talmudic sources but also from secular ones, it is sure to find appeal in many circles."—Elie Wiesel
£98.60
Stanford University Press The Sparks of Randomness Volume 2
Book SynopsisIn this second volume of The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan pursues his investigation of human life, which he grounds in a distinctive intermingling of the biological and cognitive sciences and traditions of Jewish thought. The Atheism of Scripture offers up a paradox: its audacious thesis is that the Word or revealed scripture can be better understood without God. It must be decrypted or analyzed atheistically, that is, not as divine revelation, but in and of itself. The first part of the book addresses contemporary science. It puts the evolution of ideas about life and knowledge as conceived by today''s biological and cognitive sciences into perspective and shows how the genealogy of ethics must be approached in a new way. The second part takes up this challenge by putting classical philosophy in dialogue with the Talmud and the Kabbalah to advance a non-dualistic anthropology of the body and the mind.Trade Review"Henri Atlan has undoubtedly become a great scholar and important international figure in the academic community. His approach to texts is original and stimulating, his ideas both lucid and insightful. He has written many volumes on a variety of subjects, but this one has special meaning due to the convulsions society has been undergoing in recent years. The book is steeped in psychology and religion, biology and sociology, mysticism and ethos. Drawing from Talmudic sources but also from secular ones, it is sure to find appeal in many circles."—Elie Wiesel
£25.19
Stanford University Press Giorgio Agamben
Book SynopsisA critical introduction to the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.Trade Review"Leland de la Durantaye has not only offered an illuminating and provocative account of Agamben's most important work, he has also made this philosophical corpus appealing and accessible to a very broad audience—to all those interested in aesthetics, literature, ethics, and political theory. Carefully attuned to the multiple voices of Agamben's rich polyphony, in both a theoretical and historical sense, this book generously invites the reader to consider and reflect upon some of the most pressing issues in contemporary thought." -- John Hamilton"[D]e la Durantaye's critical introduction for Stanford's increasingly impressive work in continental philosophy . . . assist[s] in clarifying why Agamben's philosophy deserves our attention . . . [de la Durantaye] shows a delicate touch in noting important conceptual connections many might overlook in the primary sources." -- Benjamin Hutchens * Philosophy in Review *"Readers of Giorgio Agamben have long yearned for a guide to his work. This book is just such a guide: comprehensive, erudite, reliable, up-to-date, accessible, and properly critical. Leland de la Durantaye traces meticulously the development of concepts and terms in Agamben's oeuvre and provides future scholarship with a sound footing." -- Wlad Godzic, University of CaliforniaTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Abbreviations iii Preface: The Law of the Good Neighbor iii @toc2:Introduction: The Idea of Potentiality 0 @toc3:Scholium I: The Inoperative 00 Scholium II: On Creation and Decreation 00 Scholium III: Heidegger's Potential, or Creative Terminology 000 @toc2:Chapter One: Art for Art's Sake. The Destruction of Aesthetics and The Man Without Content (1970) 000 @toc3:Scholium I: Benjamin and Heidegger or Poison and Antidote 000 Scholium II: The Potentiality of Art 000 @toc2:Chapter Two: A General Science of the Human. Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture (1977) 000 @toc3:Scholium: On Erudition 000 @toc2:Chapter Three: A Critique of the Dialectic. Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience (1978) 000 @toc3:Scholium I: Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, or The Floodgates of Enthusiastic Misunderstanding 000 Scholium II: The Now of Knowability 000 Scholium III: Kairos 000 Scholium IV: Dialectics at a Standstill, or Means and Ends 000 @toc2:Chapter Four: The Pure Potentiality of Representation. Idea of Prose (1985) 000 @toc3:Scholium I: The Art of Citation Without Quotation Marks 000 Scholium II: The Idea of Benjamin 000 Scholium III: Reading What Was Never Written 000 Scholium IV: The Storyteller 000 @toc2:Chapter Five: From Spectacle to Shekinah: The Coming Community (1990) 000 @toc3:Scholium I: Jacques Derrida, Rabbi Akiba, Aher and the Cutting of the Branches 000 Scholium II: The Idea of Pornography 000 Scholium III: Guy Debord, Strategy, and Political Ontology 000 Scholium IV: On Hope, Redemption and the Irreparable 000 @toc2:Chapter Six: The Potential of Paradigms. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995) 000 @toc3:Scholium I: Progress and Catastrophe, or Clear and Present Dangers 000 Scholium II: Paradigm and Dialectical Image, or the Shadow of the Present 000 @toc2:Chapter Seven: The Unique and the Unsayable. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Homo Sacer III (1998) 000 @toc3:Scholium I: What is a Remnant? 000 Scholium II: On Genius, or Heidegger's Poison and Benjamin's Antidote 000 Scholium III: Eternal Recurrence of the Same, or Nietzsche and the Potentiality of the Past 000 @toc2:Chapter Eight: The Suspended Substantive. On Animals and Men in The Open: Man and Animal (2002) 000 Chapter Nine: The Exceptional Life of the State. State of Exception (2003) 000 @toc3:Scholium I: Adorno, Profanity and the Secular Order 000 Scholium II: Carl Schmitt, or Politics and Strategy 000 @toc2:Chapter Ten: The Messiah, or on the Sacred and the Profane 000 Conclusion: The Idea of the Work 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliogrpahy 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press On Historicizing Epistemology
Book SynopsisEpistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time. Trade Review"Throughout the book, Rheinberger traces the themes of historical contingency, the role of technology, and the plurality of the sciences. These themes are well familiar from Rheinberger's own version of historical epistemology as presented in Towards a History of Epistemic Things. On Historicizing Epistemology thus gives us a helpful overview over those thinkers and positions that are central for Rheinberger's own systematic thinking."—Katherina Kinzel, Metascience"Rheinberger's ability to move between the historical and the contemporary, drawing upon a vast literature from philosophy, history and anthropology to deal with problems of knowledge—past and present—is deeply impressive . . . One of the book's strengths is the way Rheinberger is able to cultivate an argument that is clear, tightly focused, approachable and analytically unwavering."—Todd Meyers, British Journal of the History of Science"On Historicizing Epistemology is an elegantly written, lucid introduction to the problems that are at stake in the history of science. Rheinberger has an admirable talent in presenting the most complex epistemological questions without undue simplifications to any educated reader. This book will have an immense impact on the all-too-solidified ideologies of many scientists."—Rainer Nägele, Yale University"In this small book, Rheinberger proposes the highly interesting thesis that the history of the discipline of the history of science has been animated, above all, by an inquiry into the historical dimension of knowledge and of scientific inquiry. On Historicizing Epistemology is a wonderful introduction to the history of the sciences, but also to the conception of a 'historical epistemology,' which is Rheinberger's most valuable contribution to the development and rethinking of the discipline."—Rodolphe Gasche,State University of New York at Buffalo
£62.90
MK - Stanford University Press On Historicizing Epistemology
Book SynopsisThis book shows how, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the philosophy of science was increasingly confronted with historical questions and how it became historicized accordingly.Trade Review"Throughout the book, Rheinberger traces the themes of historical contingency, the role of technology, and the plurality of the sciences. These themes are well familiar from Rheinberger's own version of historical epistemology as presented in Towards a History of Epistemic Things. On Historicizing Epistemology thus gives us a helpful overview over those thinkers and positions that are central for Rheinberger's own systematic thinking."—Katherina Kinzel, Metascience"Rheinberger's ability to move between the historical and the contemporary, drawing upon a vast literature from philosophy, history and anthropology to deal with problems of knowledge—past and present—is deeply impressive . . . One of the book's strengths is the way Rheinberger is able to cultivate an argument that is clear, tightly focused, approachable and analytically unwavering."—Todd Meyers, British Journal of the History of Science"On Historicizing Epistemology is an elegantly written, lucid introduction to the problems that are at stake in the history of science. Rheinberger has an admirable talent in presenting the most complex epistemological questions without undue simplifications to any educated reader. This book will have an immense impact on the all-too-solidified ideologies of many scientists."—Rainer Nägele, Yale University"In this small book, Rheinberger proposes the highly interesting thesis that the history of the discipline of the history of science has been animated, above all, by an inquiry into the historical dimension of knowledge and of scientific inquiry. On Historicizing Epistemology is a wonderful introduction to the history of the sciences, but also to the conception of a 'historical epistemology,' which is Rheinberger's most valuable contribution to the development and rethinking of the discipline."—Rodolphe Gasche,State University of New York at Buffalo
£999.99
Stanford University Press An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French
Book SynopsisFrench philosophy changed dramatically in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In the wake of World War I and, later, the Nazi and Soviet disasters, major philosophers such as Kojève, Levinas, Heidegger, Koyré, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Hyppolite argued that man could no longer fill the void left by the death of God without also calling up the worst in human history and denigrating the dignity of the human subject. In response, they contributed to a new belief that man should no longer be viewed as the basis for existence, thought, and ethics; rather, human nature became dependent on other concepts and structures, including Being, language, thought, and culture. This argument, which was to be paramount for existentialism and structuralism, came to dominate postwar thought. This intellectual history of these developments argues that at their heart lay a new atheism that rejected humanism as insufficient and ultimately violent.Trade Review"An Atheism That is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought examines a complex series of debates in mid-twentieth century French philosophy that culminates in the rise of antihumanism during the 1960s. The book is a rich and sophisticated intellectual history, offering food for thought for the specialist and non-specialist alike. . . Geroulanos argues convincingly that French antihumanism is rooted in the historical onset of this crisis during the pre-war period, in what separates the twentieth century from the nineteenth, and that an archaeology of antihumanism is utterly necessary if we wish to understand the present age."—Ryan Coyne, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion"Focusing on a narrow period, roughly 1930 to 1954, and proceeding as an investigation into the emergence of antihumanism as a cultural figure in the overlapping spheres of philosophy, literature, theology, and politics, the book augurs a sea change in our historical approach to French intellectual currents . . . Geroulanos has irrevocably upended the conventional genealogy of the field."—Knox Peden, History and Theory"[T]he approach Geroulanos takes—putting atheism at the center of things—leads to insights . . . Geroulanos pays subtle respect to a range of intellectual positions and demonstrates the extreme complexity of the conversations, and the fierce disappointment that animated them."—American Historical Review"This book introduces a terrifically learned new intellectual historian who has provided a strikingly novel and philosophically interesting genealogy of the antihumanism that most observers associate with too recent an era of thought. Of interest to anyone concerned with the the rich traditions of Continental philosophy, Stefanos Geroulanos's investigation gives the French scene in the 1930s its due, with neglected figures, new departures, and influential breakthroughs that still challenge the temptation to make the humanity of man the basis of reflection."—Samuel Moyn, Columbia University"All too frequently anti-humanism serves as a mere slogan or a term of abuse. This broad-ranging and original new study of the anti-humanist movement in twentieth-century French thought helps us to comprehend the deeper complexities of this theme across numerous domains--philosophical, literary, religious, and political. Resisting facile judgment and alive to paradox, Geroulanos's book unsettles, reframes, and provokes at every turn. A work of true consequence by a compelling new voice in European intellectual history."—Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University"The tradition of humanism, so long an affront to religious faith, has more recently been challenged from non-religious perspectives, perhaps nowhere as fiercely as in 20th-century France. With incisive readings of many of the masters of French thought, Stefanos Geroulanos unearths the tangled roots of post-structuralist anti-humanism, and in so doing, raises fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the 21st century."—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley"Beyond recasting the work of the best known thinkers of the mid-century, Geroulanos also highlights the significance of lesser-known figures, from the philosophy of science to theology. In incorporating these voices, he is able to show that atheist antihumanism, far from being opposed to currents of either scientific or religious thinking, was, in fact, deeply indebted to them . . . [This book] asks questions about the writing of history anew. In the process, it posits new horizons for thinking about the interrelationship between secularity and religion at a moment when these are highly charged questions in French history and politics—as well as beyond them."—Judith Surkis, The Immanent Frame"Rarely do I learn more from a scholarly book than I have from Stefanos Geroulanos's An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought. Geroulanos's central thesis is compelling but simple . . . [W]e have here a 'last man,' heir to those 'negations' of the world named freedom, history, and individuality, whose historical realization reveals that humanness is ultimately based upon a relation to death. To the degree that this antihumanism continues to order thinkers like de Man, Derrida, and Foucault, it has also shaped many Anglophone intellectuals of my generation. Geroulanos tells a story that thus illuminates us too."—Simon During, The Immanent Frame"One of the things that intellectual historians show us, although often only implicitly, is the fluidity of the terms of debates that we take to be self-evident. In An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought, Stefanos Geroulanos shows us this fluidity by focusing on the French history of objections to (and reformulations of) humanist discourse from 1929 to 1952, a history that suggests that the rigidity of the categories of 'religion' and 'humanism' in Anglophone discourse is exceptional and unnecessary."—Martin Kavka, The Immanent Frame"Geroulanos's lucid, carefully written text fills in a void in the secondary literature on this incredibly fruitful and influential time in French thought . . . [T]he intellectual history Geroulanos traces demonstrates that the antihumanism developed in 1930s Paris should be seen as proto-poststructuralist thought. The negative anthropology, questioning of positive knowledge, and antifoundationalist epistemology of this period were later appropriated and transformed by figures such as Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze . . . Geroulanos's text provides a pathway for understanding how and why theologians and atheist Continental philosophers have proved to be such strange and intimate bedfellows."—Reviews in Religion and Theology"An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought achieves a much-needed dialogue between intellectual history and the history of philosophy. Rather than reduce intellectual history to a history of intellectuals—their publications, academic standing, and milieux—Geroulanos preserves the substantive content and stakes of atheist anti-humanism across four decades of debate."—MLN: Modern Language Notes"Stefanos Geroulanos's valuable, sophisticated, and dense book recounts a crucial chapter in the twentieth-century undermining of the Western humanist tradition. Rewardingly focused on French intellectual life from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s, this meticulously excavated study argues that, in the face of interwar distress, scientific and philosophical innovations, and a miscellany of competing versions of humanism, some prominent thinkers were drawn to variously phrased forms of antihumanist atheism. In addition to its stand-alone merits, this study offers an invaluable prehistory to a later, better-known, and more influential antihumanist wave among French intellectuals during the 1950s–1970s . . . [I]t is a worthwhile read and sure to be a compulsory reference in the field."—Julian Bourg, Journal of Modern History"[Geroulanos's] work offers an impressive narrative of the complex history of anti-humanism in twentieth-century French thought . . . . [T]he book is rich in historical detail, suggestive in its historical analysis, and provocative philosophically."—Terence J. Martin, The Journal of Religion
£22.49
Stanford University Press Rawls and Habermas
Book SynopsisA critical evaluation of Rawlsian and Habermasian paradigms of political philosophy that offers an interpretation and defense of Habermas's theory of law and democracy as a superior alternative to Rawls's political liberalism.Trade Review"This book is a highly informed, scholarly and very readable discussion of the differences between the two leading political theorists of the last half-century—Rawls and Habermas. Hedrick offers a careful analysis of Habermas's political philosophy and does a superb job of developing immanently some of the tensions and difficulties in Rawls's evolving account of constructivism. The result is a lively engagement with the ideas of these two important theorists and one that is sure to invite a response, especially from those who are more sympathetic to Rawls's political constructivism than Habermas's reconstructive project." -- Kenneth Baynes"This book offers a carefully argued and meticulously constructed comparison of Rawls and Habermas. But more than that, it celebrates the power of political philosophy. Hedrick defends political philosophy as a thoroughly normative enterprise in search of big answers to big questions. This refreshing embrace of the meta-narrative is tempered by a sensitive understanding of some of the dangers facing grand theory building in an age of pluralism. While he does not agree with everything that Rawls and Habermas say, he enthusiastically endorses what they set out to do with the traditional tools of political philosophy." -- Simone Chambers"This book explores the political philosophies of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas . . . Hedrick provides a very helpful description of Habermas's political philosophy, the criticisms it has received, and the ways those criticisms might be met." -- Christopher McMahon * Social Theory and Practice *
£22.79
Stanford University Press On Ceasing to Be Human
Book SynopsisOn Ceasing to be Human explores and develops a question posed by Stanley Cavell, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" particularly in terms of the link between freedom and nonidentity.Trade Review"On Ceasing to be Human is a must read in terms of recent discussions relating to the man/animal distinction. It does a brilliant job of bringing together strands of intellectual history—Deleuze, Nancy, Derrida, Agamben, Bataille, Blanchot, and Levinas—whose interconnections enable us to read French theory in an entirely new way even as they inform questions about the end of the human." -- Herman Rapaport"On Ceasing to be Human lays out with exemplary clarity the stakes of recent debates over the human. Bruns provides a commentary on the major positions presently in play, placing them in dialogue with one another and sketching out alternatives, fault lines, and disagreements. In his account, the human, as a concept or category, is inseparable from a conservative program to shore up currently dominant practices and institutions. He asks whether, in conceiving non-human others principally on the basis of their lack of human capacities, we remain fully human ourselves." -- R.M. Berry"Bruns has written yet another interesting book on his lifelong passions: the relation of literature and philosophy to their language; and the theme of poetry and ethics belonging to the domain of openness, responsibility, the singular, and the irreducible—versus traditional respect for rules . . . Overall, this short book is a wonderful aid in understanding current French thought on the title's topic . . . Recommended." -- S. Correa * CHOICE *
£18.04
Stanford University Press The Power of Life
Book SynopsisA study of Giorgio Agamben's philosophy of life within the field of political theory and beyond.Trade Review"Through the combination of biographical research and textual analysis of Giorgio Agamben's work a picture emerges of a life infused and transformed by philosophy . . . Kishik's work is an insightful and engaging companion to Agamben's lifework." -- J. Paetkau * Useful Illusions *"An outstanding piece of work." -- Simon Critchley * New School for Social Research *"Combining novel biographical research with lucid textual analysis, Kishik's illuminating The Power of Life shows the reader how Agamben's work can help us to imagine new forms of life and radically transform philosophical thought and practice. His reading of Agamben is precise and informative, and I can think of no better or more reliable guide for working through Agamben's complex writings." -- Matthew Calarco, California State University * Fullerton *
£18.04
Stanford University Press Testing the Limit
Book SynopsisThrough three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self.Trade Review"Sebbah's noteworthy book is perhaps the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between three thinkers in the French phenomenological tradition, two of whom are well known in the Anglophone world (Levinas, Derrida) and one of whom (Henry) is gradually better understood by English-speaking audiences. That all three are arrayed together in this study makes it a pioneering enterprise and one that allows the English reader to apprise the worthiness of Henry's association with his better-known compatriots."—Jeffrey Hanson, Continental Philosophy Review"Convincing and well executed. A wide range of texts and thinkers is treated with evident familiarity and thought. . . This book makes an important contribution to the larger debate about the contemporary status and trajectory of phenomenology."—Christina Gschwandtner, International Philosophical Quarterly"François Sebbah, who practices phenomenology above all through a testing of readings—readings that jostle each other—uses phenomenology to experience limits that he neither denounces nor overcomes. Rather, he plunges in headfirst, engulfing himself so as to better draw on that experience, an a-theological baptism of sorts."—Bernard Stiegler
£112.20
Stanford University Press Testing the Limit
Book SynopsisThrough three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self.Trade Review"Sebbah's noteworthy book is perhaps the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between three thinkers in the French phenomenological tradition, two of whom are well known in the Anglophone world (Levinas, Derrida) and one of whom (Henry) is gradually better understood by English-speaking audiences. That all three are arrayed together in this study makes it a pioneering enterprise and one that allows the English reader to apprise the worthiness of Henry's association with his better-known compatriots."—Jeffrey Hanson, Continental Philosophy Review"Convincing and well executed. A wide range of texts and thinkers is treated with evident familiarity and thought. . . This book makes an important contribution to the larger debate about the contemporary status and trajectory of phenomenology."—Christina Gschwandtner, International Philosophical Quarterly"François Sebbah, who practices phenomenology above all through a testing of readings—readings that jostle each other—uses phenomenology to experience limits that he neither denounces nor overcomes. Rather, he plunges in headfirst, engulfing himself so as to better draw on that experience, an a-theological baptism of sorts."—Bernard Stiegler
£28.80
Stanford University Press Georges Bataille
Book SynopsisThis book investigates what Bataille, in The Pineal Eye, calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille''s thought with respect to the quatrumvirate of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. He begins by showing what Bataille''s understanding of the mythological owes to Schelling. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, he then explores the notion of image that constitutes the sort of representation that Bataille''s innovative approach entails. Gasché concludes that Bataille''s mythological anthropology takes on Hegel''s phenomenology in a systematic fashion. By reading it backwards, he not only dismantles its architecture, he also ties each level to the preceding one, replacing the idealities of philosophy with the phantasmatic representations of what he dubs low materialism. Phenomenology, Gasché argues, tTrade Review"A splendid introduction to a revolutionary thinker, still not as known in this country as he ought to be, written by a renowned commentator on twentieth-century French thought. An important book!"—Arkady Plotnitksy, Purdue University
£84.15
