Western philosophy from c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisThe book situates the philosophical significance of Bataille's anthropological reflections within the fourfold made up by the names of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud.Trade 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

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Book SynopsisThis book combines a detailed and documented appraisal of the present state of pragmatism as a viable philosophy and a bold conception of how it may be most effectively strengthened and enlarged in a manner capable of reconciling the best forces of the whole of Western philosophy.Trade Review"Pragmatism Ascendent is an exclamation point on Margolis's recent work linking pragmatism and analytic philosophy." -- Douglas Anderson * Southern University of Illinois Carbondale *"Margolis's pragmatism is one that stands alongside Rorty, Bernstein, and Putnam for the next generation of pragmatic naturalists to study and follow. This book will long be an essential piece of that body of master work." -- John Shook * State University of New York at Buffalo *

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Book SynopsisThis book combines a detailed and documented appraisal of the present state of pragmatism as a viable philosophy and a bold conception of how it may be most effectively strengthened and enlarged in a manner capable of reconciling the best forces of the whole of Western philosophy.Trade Review"Pragmatism Ascendent is an exclamation point on Margolis's recent work linking pragmatism and analytic philosophy." -- Douglas Anderson * Southern University of Illinois Carbondale *"Margolis's pragmatism is one that stands alongside Rorty, Bernstein, and Putnam for the next generation of pragmatic naturalists to study and follow. This book will long be an essential piece of that body of master work." -- John Shook * State University of New York at Buffalo *

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Book SynopsisContains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, and Sartrean method, followed by the extraordinary "The Intertwining - The Chiasm", that reveals the central pattern of Merleau-Ponty's own thought.

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Book SynopsisA collection of six essays by British and American philosophers, this book represents recent appropriations of Derrida's thought at the Warwick Workshops on Continental Philosophy. It focuses on the celebrated term différance, a neologism devised by Derrida to denote the influence of differentiation in the structuring of all signification.

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Book SynopsisA major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, Limited Inc and Signature Event Context, constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays discussing contemporary writings and differing perspectives on the role of philosophy (and its relation to non-philosophy) since the death of Merleau-Ponty, including Sartre, Barthes, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida.

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Book SynopsisThis study of Claude Lefort offers an account of Lefort's accomplishment - its unique merits, its relation to political philosophy within the Continental tradition, and its great relevance today.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: Lefort as Reader of Machiavelli; Chapter 1 The Prince; Chapter 2 The Discourses; Chapter 3 Machiavelli: The Practice of Interpretation; Part Two: Lefort on Pre-Modernity; Chapter 4 Pre-Modernity; Chapter 5 European Pre-Modernity; Part Three: Lefort on Modernity; Chapter 6 Modernity and Revolution; Chapter 7 Modernity and Law; Chapter 8 Modernity and Rights; Chapter 9 Modernity and Ideology; Part Four: Lefort on Totalitarianism; Chapter 10 Totalitarianism as ""Measures Taken""; Chapter 11 Totalitarianism as Regime; Chapter 12 The Fate of the Concept of Totalitarianism After the Fall

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Book SynopsisRichard Kearney is widely recognized for his work in the areas of philosophical and religious hermeneutics, theory and practice of the imagination, and political thought. This study reflects the range and impact of Kearney's extensive contributions to contemporary philosophy.Table of ContentsRichard Kearney; Prelude: Traversing the Imaginary; THE DIALOGICAL IMAGINARY; 1. Paul Ricoeur; On Stories and Mourning; 2. Jacques Derrida; Terror and Religion; 3. Charles Taylor; On Social Imaginaries; 4. Martha Nussbaum; Ethics of Narration; 5. Noam Chomsky; Intellectuals and Ideology; THE POLITICAL IMAGINARY; 6. Dennis Dworkin; Intellectual Adventures in the Isles; 7. John Rundell; Imaginings, Narratives, and Otherness: On Diacritical Hermeneutics; 8. Anne O'Bryne; Traumatized Sovereignty; 9. James M. Smith; Re-Imagining Ireland, Britain, and Europe; 10. Jerry Burke; ""I Tell You No Lie"": Truth Commissions and Narrative; THE NARRATIVE IMAGINARY; 11. David Wood; Double Trouble: Narrative Imagination as Carnival Dragon; 12. Jeffrey A. Barash; Beyond Postmodernism; 13. Terry Eagleton; Heretic Adventures; 14. E. Rizo-Patron; Garcia Marquez and Richard Kearney on the Role of the Oneiric in Testimonial Narrative; 15. Mark Dooley; Truth, Ethics, and Narrative Imagination: The Postmodern Challenge; Richard Kearney; Postlude: Traversals and Epiphanies in Joyce and Proust.

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Book SynopsisWith his writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Marxism, ideology, and religion, Paul Ricoeur has single-handedly redefined and revitalized the hermeneutic tradition. In From Text to Action, Ricoeur continues and extends his project of constructing a general theory of interpretation, positioning his work in relation to its own philosophical background.

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Book SynopsisKierkegaard has undoubtedly been an influence on phenomenological thinking, but he has rarely if ever been read as a phenomenologist himself. Recent developments in phenomenology have expanded our conception of the discipline itself and the varieties of experience it can address. Is it possible that Kierkegaard, a canonical figure by any measure, can be reappraised in light of these developments? Or more radically, is it possible that the frontiers of phenomenological investigation were already broached by Kierkegaard even before phenomenology was formally defined by Husserl?In Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment, Jeffrey Hanson embarks on a project to locate Kierkegaard within the current phenomenological discussion. This work is an experiment inasmuch as the plausibility of the undertaking itself will be determined only by the outcome. Some of the contributors clearly regard it as possible to read Kierkegaard as a phenomenologist. Others plainly do not and will contest the

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Book SynopsisHegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right offers an innovative account of normativity, yet the theory rests on philosophical foundations that have remained largely obscure. Kevin Thompson proposes an interpretation of the foundations that underlie Hegel's theory: its method of justification, its concept of freedom, and its account of right.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical analysis of Hegel's Anthropology, a long-neglected treatise dedicated to the psyche, or soul, that bridges Hegel's philosophy of organic nature with his philosophy of subjective spirit. Allegra de Laurentiis recuperates this overlooked text, guiding readers through its essential arguments and ideas. She shows how Hegel conceives of the sublation of natural motion, first into animal sentience and then into the felt presentiment of selfhood, all the way to the threshold of self-reflexive thinking. She discusses the Anthropology in the context of Hegel's mature system of philosophy (the Encyclopaedia) while also exposing some of the scientific and philosophical sources of his conceptions of unconscious states, psychosomatism, mental pathologies, skill formation, memorization, bodily habituation, and the self-conditioning capacities of our species. This treatise on the becoming of anthropos, she argues, displays the power and limitations of Hegel's idealistiTable of Contents Abbreviations Preface Introduction: Spirit’s Humble Beginnings 1. On the character of Hegel’s text 2. Text and Context Chapter 1. Aristotelian Roots 1. On unraveling the sense of psuche 2. Hylomorphism 3. The real unity of the Cartesian man 4. Return to the roots: being-soul Chapter 2. Life, or die Weltseele 1. Nature exceeds itself 2. Goethe’s UrphÄnomen 3. Hegel’s Urteil 4. Natural spirit Chapter 3. False Enigmas and Real Beginnings 1. Mind-body conundrums and the meaning of Idealism 2. The soul begins as world-soul (kosmos zoon empsuchon) Chapter 4. Animal Life, or das tierische Subjekt 1. The strange case of the human soul 2. One genealogy, many races 3. From Enlightenment to Reaction: Johann Blumenbach to James Hunt Chapter 5. No Longer Just Animal Life 1. The soul of peoples 2. Kinship and the individual: disposition, temperament, character 3. Kinship and the individual: age, sexuality and the patterns of life Chapter 6. Premonitions of Selfhood, or die ahnende Seele 1. Organic sensibility and psyche’s sentience 2. From sentience to self-feeling: a matrix for the ego 3. The monadic soul: on dreaming, fetal life and hypnosis Chapter 7. Disorders 1. Healthy and diseased schisms of the soul 2. Leading a twofold life: on double genii and bipolar magnets 3. Out-of-joint times and inner derangement Conclusion. Inhabiting the World, or die Gewohnheit 1. Spirit builds itself a home 2. On divine sparks, unnatural freedom, and other human matters Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a new interpretation of Kant's theory of judgment that clarifies his suggestion that a genuine philosophy is guided by a world concept. Rudolf Makkreel shows that Kant increasingly expands the role of judgment from its logical and epistemic tasks to its reflective capacity to evaluate objects and contextualize them in worldly terms.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Cognizing and Knowing the Natural World 1. Comprehending the World through Intuitive Assimilation, Conceptual Acquisition, and Rational Appropriation 2. Kant on Baumgarten: The Aesthetic, Analytical, and Synthetic Distinctness of What is Empirically Assimilated 3. Kant and Meier on Cognition, Comprehension and Knowledge 4. The Acquisition of Cognition and its Transcendental Sources 5. The Role of Judgment in Validating Cognition as Meaningful and Knowledge as True 6. The Modal Categories of Empirical Inquiry and the Limits of What Can Actually Be Known: Replacing Prejudices with Preliminary and Provisional Judgments Part II: Comprehending the Human World 7. Seeking Practical Resolutions for Irresolvable Theoretical Antinomies 8. Law as Legislative and Law as Legitimating: The Role of Feeling and Judgment in Morality 9. Aesthetic Communicability and the Recontextualization of Experience 10. The Modal Relevance of Reflective Judgment for Kant’s Worldview 11. What Kant Means by Life 12. Comprehending Teleological Purposiveness by Contextualizing It 13. Kant’s Anthropology and Its Strategies for Moving Beyond the Inner Sense of Psychology: Reexamining All the Senses 14. Vital Sense, Interior Sense, and Self-Assessment 15. The Relation between Philosophy According to a World-Concept and Cosmopolitanism 16. The Obstacles to Be Overcome in Fulfilling the Goals of a World-Oriented Philosophy Conclusion: Kant’s Multifaceted Worldview Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an account of Kant’s understanding of the human animal through examination of a range of published works and lecture transcripts from the 1770s to the 1790s, with particular attention paid to texts concerning anthropology, ethics, and human nature.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Animals, Human and Otherwise 2. Animality and Morality 3. Anthropologies of the Human Animal 4. Animality Unfolded 5. Animality and Race Epilogue: The Animal-Rational Axis Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIt is rare for a thinker of Charles Péguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship. The neglect may be in part because so much about Péguy is contestable and paradoxical. He strongly opposed the modern historicist drive to reduce writers to their times, yet he was very much a product of philosophical currents swirling through French intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a passionate Dreyfusard who converted to Catholicism but was a consistent anticlerical. He was a socialist and an anti-Marxist, and at once a poet, journalist, and philosopher. Péguy (1873-1914) rose from a modest childhood in provincial France to a position of remarkable prominence in European intellectual life. Before his death in battle in World War I, he founded his own journal in order to publish what he thought most honestly, and urgently, needed to be said about politics, history, philosophy, literature, art, and religion. His writing and life weTrade Review"[D]ensely argued, empathetic . . . Matthew Maguire deftly addresses such subjects as Péguy's socialism, which had nothing to do with Karl Marx, but derived from an earlier Gallic source, Charles Fourier, who prophesised a pleasure-based society where libido was a motivating element in work and societal interactions." * Catholic Herald *"[A]n excellent, thorough, engaging critical biography . . . In Carnal Spirit,, Matthew Maguire maps Péguy's complex intellectual world in fin-de-siècle Paris . . . We need, Maguire calls out from the text, a thinker like Péguy who 'upholds the legitimacy of embodied and particular lives, individual and communal, as well as the demands of universal justice and the dignity of all human beings.' And he is right." * French History *"Matthew W. Maguire's mastery of Charles Péguy's voluminous writings is impressive. His book will bring certain contemporary questions into sharp relief, not least the new forms of totalization and control whose early versions Péguy detected at the turn of the twentieth century." * Annette Aronowicz, author of Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Péguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Modernity, Antimodernity, and Beyond Chapter 2. His Youth Chapter 3. An Answer to the Question: What Is Modernity? Chapter 4. The Revolution of Critique Chapter 5. Revolutions of the Body and Work Chapter 6. Continuity and Revolution: War and Honor Chapter 7. Universal Particulars, Particular Universalities Chapter 8. Mysticism and Politics Chapter 9. The Style of Infinite Reality Chapter 10. The Christian Revolution Chapter 11. Despair and Exaltation Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating and suggestive book . . . The intellectual framework of The Moment of Rupture successfully demonstrates the importance of the instantanteist chronotrope and shows how it emerged from the history of philosophy to take center stage in the interwar Weimar Republic."" * Contemporary Political Theory *"Beck makes a potent case for the historical significance of instantaneity, and he shows convincingly that the way we understand time underpins our response to crises. Even as we ponder the wholesale changes demanded by today’s pandemic, it is useful and bracing to see how earlier thinkers sought visions of political transformation in moments of rupture. " * Journal of Modern History *"Compelling...[The Moment of Rupture] is a compact, lucid, and enjoyably biographical study of an intellectual and world-historical interregnum that has only become more significant for how we understand our histories a century later." * The Marginalia Review of Books *"Connecting a trajectory of aesthetic thought that began in the eighteenth century with a vision of a radically different future, The Moment of Rupture shows how the complex and multifaceted conception of the 'instant' in Weimar culture was central to the political philosophy that sought to transcend Germany's first republic. Humberto Beck persuasively argues that Ernst Jünger, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin are, from very different angles, reflecting on a particular and peculiar sense of time and crisis in their works." * Carl Caldwell, Rice University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Instant from Goethe to Nietzsche: The Modern Beginnings of a Concept Chapter 2. The Instant of the Avant-Garde Chapter 3. Ernst Jünger and the Instant of Crisis Chapter 4. Ernst Bloch and the Temporality of the Not-Yet Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin and the Now-Time of History Conclusion. Instantaneism as a Regime of Historicity Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisWithin the Western tradition, it was the philosophers Henri Bergson and Max Scheler who laid out and explored the nonrational power of intuition at work in human beings that plays a key role in orienting their thinking and action within the world. As author Adriana Alfaro Altamirano notes, Bergon's and Scheler's philosophical explorations, which paralleled similar developments by other modernist writers, artists, and political actors of the early twentieth century, can yield fruitful insights into the ideas and passions that animate politics in our own time. The Belief in Intuition shows that intuition (as Bergson and Scheler understood it) leads, first and foremost, to a conception of freedom that is especially suited for dealing with hierarchy, uncertainty, and alterity. Such a conception of freedom is grounded in a sense of individuality that remains true to its inner multiplicity, thus providing a distinct contrast to and critique of the liberal notion of the self. Focusing on Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Individuality and Diversity in Bergson and Scheler Chapter 2. Attempts at Free Choice: Bergson and Scheler on Agency and Freedom Chapter 3. Bergson and the Morality of Uncertainty Chapter 4. Varieties of Sympathy: Max Scheler's Critique of Sentimentalism Chapter 5. Personal Authority and Political Theology in Bergson and Scheler Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment of the Past Chapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization Chapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner Chapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century Chapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and Arendt Chapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History Chapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and the Russian Revolution Chapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial Anxiety Chapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and Photography Chapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel Chapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians Chapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field? Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free Speech Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn this volume Christopher Dawson outlines his main thesis for the history of culture, which was his life's work. He contends that religion is the soul of a culture and that a society or culture which has lost its spiritual roots is a dying culture. The work challenges the doctrine of progress.Trade ReviewProgress and Religion is undoubtedly a brilliant book. Its argument is closely reasoned, admirably presented, lucidly expressed. Its standpoint is original and suggestive, profound and illuminating. Without exaggeration, it may be regarded as one of the books of our generation. - The Manchester Guardian, 1929 ""A book of vast learning...a theme which invites the consideration of a stately procession of the greatest names in the history of the world's thought."" - The Scotsman, 1929

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written about the great personalist philosophers of the 20th century, but few books cover the personalist movement as a whole. An Introduction to Personalism fills that gap, and presents an engaging anthropological vision capable of taking the lead in the debate about the meaning of human existence and of winning hearts and minds for the cause of the dignity of every person.

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Book SynopsisProvides a clear guide to Karol Wojtyla's principal philosophical work, Person and Act, analysing the meaning that the author intended in his exposition. The authors rely on the original Polish text, Osoba i czyn, as well as the best translations into Italian and Spanish, rather than on a sometimes misleading English edition of the work.

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Book SynopsisExamining the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, this book looks at the fable as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. It calls for a reconsideration of 'theory as thinking' for the future of philosophy, religious studies, and literature.Trade ReviewThis is a brilliant and original book. I am impressed with the depth and seriousness of Taylor's work and the clarity by which he accomplishes it. Taylor has moved into the first rank of 'theological' readers of the literary text and the creative process. - Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, author of Multiculturalism and the Jews ""Taylor's Para-Inquiry was groundbreaking in its own right, but this new work is far more encompassing, sensitive to cutting-edge themes and developments in Continental philosophy and cultural studies, and prepared to take these trajectories to a new level. The marriage of postmodernist theory and religious theory has not been seriously proposed, and Taylor is the first to do so in a significant as well as serious way."" - Carl Raschke, University of Denver, author of The Next Reformation

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Book SynopsisA new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other Jacques Derrida’s famously challenging book Glas puts the practice of philosophy and the very acts of writing and reading to the test. Formatted with parallel texts, its left column discusses G. W. F. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet, with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. The resulting work, published for the first time in French in 1974, is a collage that practices theoretical thinking as a form of grafting. Presented here in an entirely new translation as Clang—its title resonating like the sound of an alarm or death knell—this book brilliantly juxtaposes Hegel’s totalizing, hierarchical system of thought with Genet’s autobiographical, carceral erotics. It innovatively forces two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each oTrade Review"Geoffrey Bennington and David Wills’s new translation deserves the highest praise. They have rendered this most Joycean of Derrida’s works with an endless tact and feel for English—an immense feat. Clang renews Glas’s lease on life under this new name, where new readers can now encounter it. How fortunate they are!"—Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisAll Thoughts Are Equal is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher Francois Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. John Ó Maoilearca examines how philosophy might appear when viewed with non-philosophical and nonhuman eyes.Trade Review"All Thoughts Are Equal is an original act and development of non-philosophical thinking. John Ó Maoilearca gives us a virtuoso tour of Laruellian thought and offers a highly original and significant mutation of non-philosophy in his own right."—Ian James, University of Cambridge"All Thoughts Are Equal is an important and splendid elaboration of the non-philosophy of Francois Laruelle, and one that will no doubt be indispensable."—Film-PhilosophyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Laruelle and the Nonhuman in Five RemakesThe Authority and Victimization of Philosophy‘It is Necessary to Abandon the Philosophical Usage of Thought’: From Position to RepresentationPerformative InconsistencyMaterial Thinking The Structure of Decision and Postural MutationHypotheses of Real Science Anthropomorphism and Extended ThinkingA Film of Philosophy: The Five ObstructionsThe Horror of the NonhumanOutline of a Structure, with Tangents1. Philosophy, the Path of Most ResistanceThe Black Box of PhilosophyPhilosophy’s Dystopias: The Victims of Thought A Non-Philosophical Tangent: The Most Miserable Place in the WorldTu Quoque or, You Too Are One of Us Deleuze and Badiou: Two Perfect PhilosophersThe New RealismLaruelle is No Kant: From Determination-in-the-Last-Instance to the Mutational TranscendentalResidual Objects and Invisible Victims: The Philosophical Essence of Cinnabar2. Paraconsistent Fictions and Discontinuous LogicLogic, Optics, CutsPerformative Realism: On DerridaA Photographic Tangent: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The 12 Frames Obstruction)Logical Contradiction and Real Identity: Inside Meinong’s JungleFrom Contradiction to Paraconsistency: Trivial ExplosionsThe Cinema of Discontinuous Thought: A Non-Hegelian MovieMise-en-fictionPhilosophical Boxes and Impossible Boxes3. How to Act Like a Non-PhilosopherRemaking the OneFive Takes on DecisionA Behavioral Tangent: Being True to the Idea (A Film du Look)Posture, Photography, and the Game of PositionsRadical Behavior Three Distances: Withdrawal, Hallucination, OrientationMiming Philosophy: A Game of Postures Crux Scenica: Philosophy’s First Position (Versus the Human Posture)4. The Perfect Nonhuman: Philosomorphism and the Animal Rendering of ThoughtEvery Anti-Communist is a Dog: Indefining the HumanIndividuals, Strangers, PosthumansAn Idiotic Tangent: Animal Obstruction (The Stupidity of Animation)Protecting the Human Pet Theories: On PhilosomorphismRadical EqualityPoliticized Animals: From the Man-in-Person to the Animal-in-PersonCinematic Animals: The Horror for NonhumansTranscendental Idiocy, Or, the Insufficient AnimalDemocracy of VisionFrom Cosmological Perspectivism to Radical AnthropomorphismTowards an Animal Philosophy: From Sloterdijk to Flusser5. Performing the Imperfect HumanA Performance PhilosophyA Performative Tangent: This is How the Perfect Human Falls (The Radically Passive Obstruction)The Spectra of Performance: From Nonart to Not-ActingThe Specter of PerformanceHopeful Monsters: Evaluating PerformanceThinking Personally:Non-Philosophia ad HominosReflection as Mutation: Unconditional Reflexes (A Final Tangent)Conclusion. Making a Monster of Laruelle: On Actualism and AnthropomorphismCoda. Paradise Now, Or, The Brightest Thing in the World: On Nonhuman UtopiaAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisProvides a critical reassessment of Alfred Russel Wallace's path to natural theology and counters the dismissive narrative that Wallace's theistic and sociopolitical positions are not to be taken seriously in the history and philosophy of science.Trade ReviewNature's Prophet is an astute study of Wallace's path to natural theology and provides a cogent account of a crucial—and often underappreciated or dismissed—element of Wallace's profound evolutionary worldview."" - Martin Fichman, author of An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace and Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture

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Book SynopsisChallenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle.Trade Review"This new Zizek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ground. Not only to Kant and Hegel illuminate Lacan (and vice versa), mass culture and politics illuminate all of them, along with a bonus in an astonishing excursus on opera."—Fredric Jameson“Slavoj Žižek, the Giant of Ljubljana, . . . provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus.” -- Scott Malcolmson * Voice Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 I. Cogito: The Void Called Subject 1. "I or He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks" 9 2. Cogito and the Sexual Difference 45 II. Ergo: The Dialectical Nonsequitur 3. On Radical Evil and Related Matters 83 4. Hegel's "Logic of Essence" as a Theory of Ideology 125 III. Sum: The Loop of Enjoyment 5. "The Wound is Healed Only by the Spear That Smote You" 165 6. Enjoy Your National As Yourself? 200 Notes 239 Index 287

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Book SynopsisA philosophical argument that rationality is based on, or produced from, difference, and is not only worth retaining but necessary in a culturally diverse world.Trade Review“[Eze’s] commitment to preserving a wide range of forms of reason, and rendering them productive of rationality, accomplishes his lifelong task of showing the ethnocentrism inherent in myopic forms of reason in Europe and Africa, and at the same time accomplishes the equally important task of showing the way to productive dialogue across the borders of forms of reason.” - Bruce B. Janz, South African Journal of Philosophy“[On Reason] is a brilliant book, which will be read widely because Eze eloquently argues for the use of reason in philosophical discourse in world of conflict and racism. It is a welcome follow-up to Eze’s work on race and pluralism.” - Elias K. Bongmba, Africa Today“This is not a work of sociology, but it is a work of philosophy that many will find resonates with a sociological imagination, especially one open to the impact of postcolonial thinking across the humanities and social sciences. It merits reading (and re-reading) and matching its philosophical reflections with sociological reflection on its themes. It is a thoroughly rewarding and valuable book and one which makes a significant contribution to the field.” - Gurminder K. Bhambra, The Sociological Review“[V]aluable for all philosophy collections, and for related fields dealing with race and politics. Highly recommended.” - R.M. Stewart, Choice“Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze has done significant work thinking critically about race, politics, history, and the discipline of philosophy. In On Reason, he makes evident the breadth and depth of African philosophy and its deep and often problematic connections to the political. The political must, as it were, be thought, and that is difficult, demanding, necessarily creative and troubling work. It is work that Eze does not shirk from, especially as a thinker deeply rooted in the cultural traditions and philosophies of Africa.”—Grant Farred, author of What’s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals“Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze takes on one of the most difficult challenges of the day: the possibility that reason, and therefore philosophy, transcends culture and history and does not simply reflect the hegemony of one culture. I like his attempts to ‘ground’ reason in experience while still maintaining reason’s authority. This is a difficult trick given our habits of thought, but he makes a plausible and important case especially to be prized by cultural theorists who want to think ‘diversity’ without having to fend off endless arguments about ‘relativism.’”—William Rasch, author of Sovereignty and Its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political“[On Reason] is a brilliant book, which will be read widely because Eze eloquently argues for the use of reason in philosophical discourse in world of conflict and racism. It is a welcome follow-up to Eze’s work on race and pluralism.” -- Elias K. Bongmba * Africa Today *“[Eze’s] commitment to preserving a wide range of forms of reason, and rendering them productive of rationality, accomplishes his lifelong task of showing the ethnocentrism inherent in myopic forms of reason in Europe and Africa, and at the same time accomplishes the equally important task of showing the way to productive dialogue across the borders of forms of reason.” -- Bruce B. Janz * South African Journal of Philosophy *“This is not a work of sociology, but it is a work of philosophy that many will find resonates with a sociological imagination, especially one open to the impact of postcolonial thinking across the humanities and social sciences. It merits reading (and re-reading) and matching its philosophical reflections with sociological reflection on its themes. It is a thoroughly rewarding and valuable book and one which makes a significant contribution to the field.” -- Gurminder K. Bhambra * Sociological Review *Table of ContentsPreface: What Is Rationality? xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Diversity and the Social Questions of Reason 1 1. Varieties of Rational Experience 24 2. Ordinary Historical Reason 90 3. Science, Culture, and Principles of Rationality 130 4. Languages of Time in Postcolonial Memory 181 5. Reason and Unreason in Politics 227 Notes 269 Bibliography 297 Index 319

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Book SynopsisRepeating Žižek's contributors read the influential and controversial Slavoj Žižek as a philosopher. They place his work in the Western philosophical tradition and analyze it using his own theses, concepts, and methods, all while attempting to formalize his thought into a philosophical school.Trade Review"[A] key contribution to contemporary critical thinking. . . . [T]his is required reading for those interested in understanding the value of Žižek's work as a philosopher." -- David S. Moon * Political Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek / Agon Hamza 1 Part I. Philosophy 1. "Freedom or System? Yes, Please!": How to Read Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing—Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism / Adrian Johnston 7 2. How to Repeat Plato?: For a Platonism of the Non-All / Frank Ruda 43 3. Materialism between Critique and Speculation / Samo Tomšic 58 4. Žižek's Reading Machine / Benjamin Noys 72 5. The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek's Philosophical Writing / Katja Kolšek 84 6. The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals / Oxana Timofeeva 100 Part II. Psychoanalysis 7. "Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?": Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse / Catherine Malabou 113 8. Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek / Bruno Bosteels 127 9. The Discourse of the Wild Analyst / Henrik Jøker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen 146 10. "Vers un Significant Nouveau": Our Task after Lacan / Gabriel Tupinambá 159 11. Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments / Fabio Vighi 180 Part III. Politics 12. Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy / Gavin Walker 195 13. Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek / Geoff Pfeifer 213 14. A Plea for Žižekian Politics / Agon Hamza 226 Part IV. Religion 15. The Problem of Christianity and Žižek's "Middle Period" / Adam Kotsko 243 16. Islam: How Could It Have Emerged After Christianity? / Sead Zimeri 256 Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution / Slavoj Žižek 269 Contributors 287 Index 291

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Book SynopsisRepeating Žižek's contributors read the influential and controversial Slavoj Žižek as a philosopher. They place his work in the Western philosophical tradition and analyze it using his own theses, concepts, and methods, all while attempting to formalize his thought into a philosophical school.Trade Review"[A] key contribution to contemporary critical thinking. . . . [T]his is required reading for those interested in understanding the value of Žižek's work as a philosopher." -- David S. Moon * Political Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Trouble with Žižek / Agon Hamza 1 Part I. Philosophy 1. "Freedom or System? Yes, Please!": How to Read Slavoj Žižek's Less Than Nothing—Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism / Adrian Johnston 7 2. How to Repeat Plato?: For a Platonism of the Non-All / Frank Ruda 43 3. Materialism between Critique and Speculation / Samo Tomšic 58 4. Žižek's Reading Machine / Benjamin Noys 72 5. The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek's Philosophical Writing / Katja Kolšek 84 6. The Two Cats: Žižek, Derrida, and Other Animals / Oxana Timofeeva 100 Part II. Psychoanalysis 7. "Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?": Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the Apocalypse / Catherine Malabou 113 8. Enjoy Your Truth: Lacan as Vanishing Mediator between Badiou and Žižek / Bruno Bosteels 127 9. The Discourse of the Wild Analyst / Henrik Jøker Bjerre and Brian Benjamin Hansen 146 10. "Vers un Significant Nouveau": Our Task after Lacan / Gabriel Tupinambá 159 11. Mourning or Melancholia? Collapse of Capitalism and Delusional Attachments / Fabio Vighi 180 Part III. Politics 12. Žižek with Marx: Outside in the Critique of Political Economy / Gavin Walker 195 13. Žižek as a Reader of Marx, Marx as a Reader of Žižek / Geoff Pfeifer 213 14. A Plea for Žižekian Politics / Agon Hamza 226 Part IV. Religion 15. The Problem of Christianity and Žižek's "Middle Period" / Adam Kotsko 243 16. Islam: How Could It Have Emerged After Christianity? / Sead Zimeri 256 Afterword. The Minimal Event: From Hystericization to Subjective Destitution / Slavoj Žižek 269 Contributors 287 Index 291

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Book SynopsisIt focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and metaphysical commitments of various philosophical attitudes surrounding monism and pluralism, and offers novel perspectives and pluralist theses on scientific methods and objects, reductionism, plurality of representations, natural kinds, and scientific classifications.Trade Review“Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered is a pleasing culmination of Stéphanie Ruphy’s pioneering and underappreciated philosophical work. She gives careful and sympathetic critiques of various monist and pluralist positions and advances her own synthesis of ‘foliated pluralism’ supported by perceptive and measured arguments. This book deserves to be read by all practice-oriented philosophers of science.” —Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge“Ruphy offers the first comprehensive introduction to debates about pluralism in philosophy of science. She succeeds not only in providing a clear overview of the field but also in advancing current debates about the methodological and ontological dimensions of scientific pluralism. This outstanding book will become an indispensable resource for students and researchers alike.” —David Ludwig, VU University Amsterdam

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Book SynopsisThis expanded edition adds new chapters that explore Leibniz's revolutionary deciphering machine.

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Book SynopsisThis new series seeks a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker.

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Book SynopsisA clear summary of Husserl's often obscure and always complex writings... very instructive.-EthicsTrade Review"A clear summary of Husserl's often obscure and always complex writings... very instructive." -Ethics

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe most authoritative version of Hegel's "Introduction" to his lectures on the history of philosophy. The translation is a model of its kind. * —International Philosophical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a splendid, substantial volume." -Clio

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Book SynopsisAlthough this book derives its inspiration from Descartes' "Meditations" and Husserl's "Cartesian Meditations", it attempts to overcome Cartesianism conceived as individualistic, reflective, apodictic, pre-suppositionless self-recovery.Trade Review...a considerable contribution to the field and one that is likely to establish his reputatation...---—John D. Caputo, Villanova University

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Book Synopsis"[A] uniquely constructive dialogue which brings into focus the principal epistemological, ethical, and political issues..."-International Philosophical QuarterlyTrade Review“[A] uniquely constructive dialogue which brings into focus the principal epistemological, ethical, and political issues. . . .” * —International Philosophical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisSuitable for scholars and students new to Hegelian philosophy, this book presents an interpretation and exposition of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit".Trade Review"By far the best interpretation and exposition of Hegel's book that has ever come my way. It is a major contribution." -Philosophical Books

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Book SynopsisA wonderfully helpful and stimulating book... Highly recommended.-ChoiceOne of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended.-Library JournalTrade ReviewA wonderfully helpful and stimulating book. . . . Highly recommended. * —Choice *“One of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended. . . .” * —Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisA wonderfully helpful and stimulating book... Highly recommended.-ChoiceOne of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended.-Library JournalTrade ReviewA wonderfully helpful and stimulating book. . . . Highly recommended. * —Choice *“One of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended. . . .” * —Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisThis volume is designed to offer Christians and theologians an access to Karl Rahner to unpack his thinking and to make a theological inspection of his work possible. It seeks to locate a central point of departure for the theology of Rahner in the concerns and questions of human beings.

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