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Fordham University Press For the Love of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThis book is about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight, in their coupling of Freud and Derrida (“Freuderrida”), the accidents both in and of psychoanalytic writing, and the philosophical question of what limits the openness of our horizon.Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works Cited | ix Introduction: Freuderrida | 1 Part I Freuderrida 1. Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience (Foreign Bodies I) | 9 2. Traumatic Temporalities: Freud’s Other Legacy | 24 3. Is There Such a Thing as a Psychical Accident? | 35 4. What Are the Chances? Psychoanalysis and Telepathy (Foreign Bodies II) | 47 5. The Speculative Turn: Plato’s Place in the Theory of the Drives | 68 Part II Freuderrida 6. For the Love of Psychoanalysis: Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis | 101 7. Cruelty and Its Vicissitudes | 120 8. The “Question” of the Death Penalty | 139 9. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution | 151 Appendixes Crib Notes A. What Is at Play in Play? Derrida’s Fort/Da with Freud’s Fort/Da | 179 B. Devouring Figures: Little Red Riding Hood and the Final Seminars of Jacques Derrida | 190 Acknowledgements | 199 Notes | 201 Index | 243
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Fordham University Press Postcolonial Bergson
Book SynopsisAt a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.Table of ContentsForeword: Locating the Postcolonial Idea | vii John E. Drabinski Introduction | 1 1 Bergsonism in the Thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor | 21 2 Senghor’s African Socialism | 37 3 Bergson, Iqbal, and the Concept of Ijtihad | 57 4 Time and Fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic Fatalism | 77 Conclusion | 95 Acknowledgments | 99 Notes | 101 Index | 117
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Fordham University Press Postcolonial Bergson
Book SynopsisAt a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.Table of ContentsForeword: Locating the Postcolonial Idea | vii John E. Drabinski Introduction | 1 1 Bergsonism in the Thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor | 21 2 Senghor’s African Socialism | 37 3 Bergson, Iqbal, and the Concept of Ijtihad | 57 4 Time and Fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic Fatalism | 77 Conclusion | 95 Acknowledgments | 99 Notes | 101 Index | 117
£70.20
Fordham University Press Technologies of Critique
Book SynopsisCritiquea program of thought as well as a disposition toward the worldis a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. Technologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes such capture. Building on Chile's history of dissident artists and the central entangling of politics and aesthetics, Thayer engages continental philosophical traditions, from Aristotle, Descartes and Heidegger through Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and in implicit conversation with the Judith Butler, Roberto Esposito, and Bruno Latour, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life.Table of ContentsTranslation Has Always Already Begun: Translator’s Introduction | vii 1 Critique and Life | 1 2 Critique and Work | 5 3 The Kríno Constellation | 8 4 Technologies of Critique | 10 5 The Word “Critique” | 14 6 Marx’s Critical Turn | 18 7 Crisis and Avant-Garde | 19 8 Critical Attitude | 24 9 Sovereign Critique I | 25 10 Hyperbole | 28 11 Sovereign Critique II | 31 12 The Epoch of Critique | 33 13 Critique within the Frame, Critique of the Frame | 35 14 Manet: The Kant of Painting | 38 15 Heidegger’s Demand | 40 16 Critique and Figure | 44 17 Thought and Figure | 46 18 The Leveling of the Pit | 49 19 The Clash of Film and Theater | 51 20 Critique’s Loss of Aura | 54 21 Critique and Mass | 55 22 Nihil and Philosophy | 60 23 Jenny | 62 24 The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch. | 66 25 The Exhausted Age | 70 26 The Coexistence of Technologies: Marx | 73 27 Referential Illusion | 75 28 Critique and Installation | 76 29 Critique as the Unworking of Theater | 82 30 Destruction | 86 31 Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception | 87 32 The Absolute Drought of Critique | 95 33 Sorel: Sovereign Critique | 97 34 Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique | 104 35 The Destruction of Theater | 107 36 Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique | 111 Notes | 115 Index | 171
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Fordham University Press Technologies of Critique
Book SynopsisTechnologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes critique’s capture by institutional and market logics. Building on Chile’s history of dissident art and its entangling of politics and aesthetics, Thayer engages continental philosophical traditions, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life.Table of ContentsTranslation Has Always Already Begun: Translator’s Introduction | vii 1 Critique and Life | 1 2 Critique and Work | 5 3 The Kríno Constellation | 8 4 Technologies of Critique | 10 5 The Word “Critique” | 14 6 Marx’s Critical Turn | 18 7 Crisis and Avant-Garde | 19 8 Critical Attitude | 24 9 Sovereign Critique I | 25 10 Hyperbole | 28 11 Sovereign Critique II | 31 12 The Epoch of Critique | 33 13 Critique within the Frame, Critique of the Frame | 35 14 Manet: The Kant of Painting | 38 15 Heidegger’s Demand | 40 16 Critique and Figure | 44 17 Thought and Figure | 46 18 The Leveling of the Pit | 49 19 The Clash of Film and Theater | 51 20 Critique’s Loss of Aura | 54 21 Critique and Mass | 55 22 Nihil and Philosophy | 60 23 Jenny | 62 24 The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch. | 66 25 The Exhausted Age | 70 26 The Coexistence of Technologies: Marx | 73 27 Referential Illusion | 75 28 Critique and Installation | 76 29 Critique as the Unworking of Theater | 82 30 Destruction | 86 31 Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception | 87 32 The Absolute Drought of Critique | 95 33 Sorel: Sovereign Critique | 97 34 Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique | 104 35 The Destruction of Theater | 107 36 Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique | 111 Notes | 115 Index | 171
£85.50
Fordham University Press Anarchaeologies
Book SynopsisHow do we read after the so-called death of literature? Graff Zivin elaborates anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability. Through interdiscursive exposure between continental philosophy and Argentine literature, art, and film, Graff Zivin shows how anarchaeological reading radicalizes the possibility of justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature | 1 Part I. Anarchaeologies Misunderstanding Literature | 21 Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism | 31 Part II. The Ethical Turn Ethics against Politics | 53 Levinas in Latin America | 60 Part III. Violent Ethics Abraham’s Double Bind | 77 Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors | 89 Part IV. Political Thinking after Literature The Metapolitics of Allegory | 107 The Aesthetics and Politics of Error | 121 Part V. Exposure and Indisciplinarity Toward a Passive University | 139 Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump | 153 Acknowledgments | 159 Notes | 163 Bibliography | 177 Index | 187
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Fordham University Press Anarchaeologies Reading as Misreading Lit Z
Book SynopsisHow do we read after the so-called death of literature? Graff Zivin elaborates anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability. Through interdiscursive exposure between continental philosophy and Argentine literature, art, and film, Graff Zivin shows how anarchaeological reading radicalizes the possibility of justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature | 1 Part I. Anarchaeologies Misunderstanding Literature | 21 Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism | 31 Part II. The Ethical Turn Ethics against Politics | 53 Levinas in Latin America | 60 Part III. Violent Ethics Abraham’s Double Bind | 77 Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors | 89 Part IV. Political Thinking after Literature The Metapolitics of Allegory | 107 The Aesthetics and Politics of Error | 121 Part V. Exposure and Indisciplinarity Toward a Passive University | 139 Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump | 153 Acknowledgments | 159 Notes | 163 Bibliography | 177 Index | 187
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Fordham University Press Thinking Through Crisis
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments | ix Introduction: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion | 1 Notebook 1 Down by the Riverside: Richard Wright, the 1927 Flood, and the Citizen-Refugee | 35 Notebook 2 “Crusade for Justice”: Ida B. Wells and the Power of the Multitude | 74 Notebook 3 W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction: Theorizing Divine Violence | 123 Notebook 4 Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain: An Anthropology of Power | 193 Notebook 5 The New Day: Notes on Education and the Dark Proletariat | 244 Conclusion: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion—A Race for Theory | 291 Notes | 299 Index | 333
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Fordham University Press Thinking Through Crisis DepressionEra Black
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments | ix Introduction: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion | 1 Notebook 1 Down by the Riverside: Richard Wright, the 1927 Flood, and the Citizen-Refugee | 35 Notebook 2 “Crusade for Justice”: Ida B. Wells and the Power of the Multitude | 74 Notebook 3 W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction: Theorizing Divine Violence | 123 Notebook 4 Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain: An Anthropology of Power | 193 Notebook 5 The New Day: Notes on Education and the Dark Proletariat | 244 Conclusion: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion—A Race for Theory | 291 Notes | 299 Index | 333
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Fordham University Press A Desire Called America Biopolitics Utopia and
Book SynopsisPresents interpretations of American literature and politics, focusing on the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon. Analyzes how literary texts imagine America in utopian terms, contrasting American exceptionalism to non-capitalist visions of the American future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Impossibly American | 1 1. A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs’s Late Trilogy | 33 2. The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass | 74 3. Nobody’s Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson | 114 4. Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day | 157 Coda: Assembling the Future | 205 Acknowledgments | 209 Notes | 213 Index | 241
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Fordham University Press A Desire Called America
Book SynopsisPresents interpretations of American literature and politics, focusing on the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon. Analyzes how literary texts imagine America in utopian terms, contrasting American exceptionalism to non-capitalist visions of the American future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Impossibly American | 1 1. A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs’s Late Trilogy | 33 2. The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass | 74 3. Nobody’s Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson | 114 4. Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day | 157 Coda: Assembling the Future | 205 Acknowledgments | 209 Notes | 213 Index | 241
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Fordham University Press Shibboleth Judges Derrida Celan Lit Z
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1 Shibboleth: Inheritance | 1 שיבולת 2 : Judges | 13 3 S(h)ibboleth: Sovereign Violence and the Remainder | 19 4 Schibboleth: Derrida | 36 5 Schibboleth: Celan | 50 6 “S(ch)ibboleth”: Apostrophe | 69 7 S(c)hibboleth: Babel | 86 8 Shibboleth: Salcedo | 100 Acknowledgments | 107 Notes | 109 Index | 155
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Fordham University Press Shibboleth
Book SynopsisWorking from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities. In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign that winnows identities and establishes and confirms borders. It has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliche. The semantic field of shibboleth thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility-to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life. The various phenomena we sum up as neoliberalism and globalization are unimaginable in the absence of shibboleth-technologies. In the context of an unending refugee crisis and a general displacement,Table of Contents1 Shibboleth: Inheritance | 1 שיבולת 2 : Judges | 13 3 S(h)ibboleth: Sovereign Violence and the Remainder | 19 4 Schibboleth: Derrida | 36 5 Schibboleth: Celan | 50 6 “S(ch)ibboleth”: Apostrophe | 69 7 S(c)hibboleth: Babel | 86 8 Shibboleth: Salcedo | 100 Acknowledgments | 107 Notes | 109 Index | 155
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Fordham University Press Scatter 2 Politics in Deconstruction
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface | ix Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida | xiii Introduction: Politics in Deconstruction | 1 Part I: Politics, Metaphysics, Sovereignty 1. Bios Theōrētikos, Bios Politikos | 15 2. Polykoiranie I (Derrida, Homer, Aristotle, Xenophanes) | 48 3. Polykoiranie II (Philo Judaeus, Early Christian Apologists, Pseudo-Dionysius) | 70 4. Polykoiranie III (John of Salisbury, Aquinas, Dante, Marsilius of Padua) | 100 5. Polykoiranie IV (Bodin, La Boétie) | 125 Part II: (Proto)Democracy 6. To Poikilon (Plato, Alfarabi, Aristotle) | 147 7. Democracy (Arendt, Aristotle) | 182 8. Protodemocracy and the Fall of Sovereignty (Hobbes, Aristotle) | 203 9. Nature, Sovereignty, Government (Spinoza, Rousseau) | 250 10. Stasiology (Rothaug, Peterson, Schmitt, Gregory of Nazianzus) | 280 Postscript | 301 Index | 305
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Fordham University Press Rationalist Empiricism A Theory of Speculative
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Philosophical Conjuncture | 1 Part I: Rationalist Empiricism 1. Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions | 35 2. Althusser’s Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism | 50 Part II: Speculative Critique 3. Hegel’s Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics | 73 4. Hegel’s Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism | 90 Part III: Science, Art, Structure 5. Hegel’s Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units | 125 6. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier | 141 7. Where’s Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato’s Timaeus | 166 Coda: Structure and Form | 181 Part IV: Theory and Praxis 8. Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction | 185 9. The Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality: From Althusser to Théorie Communiste | 204 10. The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx | 228 Conclusion: The True, the Good, the Beautiful | 249 Acknowledgments | 263 Notes | 265 Works Cited | 291 Index | 301
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Fordham University Press Rationalist Empiricism A Theory of Speculative
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Philosophical Conjuncture | 1 Part I: Rationalist Empiricism 1. Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions | 35 2. Althusser’s Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism | 50 Part II: Speculative Critique 3. Hegel’s Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics | 73 4. Hegel’s Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism | 90 Part III: Science, Art, Structure 5. Hegel’s Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units | 125 6. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier | 141 7. Where’s Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato’s Timaeus | 166 Coda: Structure and Form | 181 Part IV: Theory and Praxis 8. Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction | 185 9. The Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality: From Althusser to Théorie Communiste | 204 10. The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx | 228 Conclusion: The True, the Good, the Beautiful | 249 Acknowledgments | 263 Notes | 265 Works Cited | 291 Index | 301
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Fordham University Press Critique of Journalistic Reason Philosophy and
Book SynopsisThis book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | vii Morning News: Kant, Hegel | 1 1 Talking Machines: Kierkegaard | 19 2 Idolatry of Facts: Nietzsche | 72 3 Last Days: Benjamin | 121 Afterword: “Today” | 175 Acknowledgements | 183 Notes | 185 Bibliography 223 Index | 237
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Fordham University Press Critique of Journalistic Reason Philosophy and
Book SynopsisThis book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | vii Morning News: Kant, Hegel | 1 1 Talking Machines: Kierkegaard | 19 2 Idolatry of Facts: Nietzsche | 72 3 Last Days: Benjamin | 121 Afterword: “Today” | 175 Acknowledgements | 183 Notes | 185 Bibliography 223 Index | 237
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Fordham University Press Totality Inside Out Rethinking Crisis and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Totality Inside Out Kevin Floyd, with Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sarah Brouillette, Sarika Chandra, Chris Chen, and Jen Hedler Phillis | 1 1 Let the Dead Bury the Dead: Race, Gender, and Class Composition in the U.S. after 1965 Tim Kreiner | 29 2 (Un)making Value: Reading Social Reproduction through the Question of Totality Marina Vishmidt and Zoe Sutherland | 67 3 Tripartheid: How Global White Supremacy Triumphs through Neoliberalism Arthur Scarritt | 91 4 Remapping the Race/Class Problematic Sarika Chandra and Chris Chen | 135 5 On Artistic Autonomy as a Bourgeois Fetish Sarah Brouillette and Joshua Clover | 192 6 Ecology with Totality: The Case of Morton’s Hyperobjects and Klein’s This Changes Everything Brent Ryan Bellamy | 211 Acknowledgments | 237 List of Contributors | 239 Index | 243
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Fordham University Press Eros
Book SynopsisThis book elaborates the political and intimate possibilities of going beyond the tendency toward destruction that Freud identified in human nature. Martínez argues that Eros is the force that can help us resist this destructive drive, and that resistance must take the form of unceasing ethical vigilance and political action.Table of ContentsForeword by Judith Butler | vii Introduction | 1 1. The Economy of Alteration: Resistance and Violence | 21 2. The Economy of Sacrifi ce: Melancholic Elaborations | 45 3. Beyond the Limit of the Death Drive: Eros | 65 Postscript: Toward a Community of Duelists | 145 Notes | 155 Bibliography | 169
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Fordham University Press Class Acts Derrida on the Public Stage
Book SynopsisClass Acts looks at two often neglected aspects of Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public lectures and his teaching, along with the question of the “speech act” that links them, that is, the question of what one is doing when one speaks in public in these ways.Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works Cited | xi Introduction: The Program | 1 Part I: Derrida in Montreal (A Play in Three Speech Acts ) Argument and Dramatis Personae | 13 Act 1. The Context (1971) | 15 Intermission 1: Glyph 1 | 41 Act 2. The Signature (1979) | 45 Intermission 2: Glyph 2 | 55 Act 3. The Event (1997) | 59 Encore: Cocoon | 69 Part II: The Open Seminar The Counter-Program (Syllabus) | 75 Class 1. Agrégations: The Chance of Life Death (1975–76) | 93 Class 2. Education in Theory and Practice (1976–77) | 111 Class 3. Grace and the Machine: Perjury and Pardon (1997–98) | 127 Conclusion: Actes de naissance | 149 Acknowledgments | 157 Notes | 159 Index | 183
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Fordham University Press From Life to Survival Derrida Freud and the
Book SynopsisThe book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death and, in turn, survival.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | ix Introduction: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction | 1 1 From Grammatology to Life Death | 11 2 Interrogating the Death Drive | 35 3 Survival as Autoimmunity | 68 4 Mortality and Normativity | 97 5 Sovereignty, Cruelty, and the Death Penalty | 127 Acknowledgments | 155 Notes | 157 Bibliography | 185 Index | 195
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University of Missouri Press Anamnesis CW6
Book SynopsisOriginally published in German in 1966, this is the first English paperback version of this text. It is an overview of the author's philosophy of human consciousness and the effect that it has had on history.
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University of Missouri Press History of Political Ideas CW26
Book SynopsisThis volume confronts the disintegration of traditional sources of meaning and the correlative attempts to generate new sources from within the self. Voegelin allows the reader to contemplate the crisis in its starkest terms - as the apocalypse of man that seeks to replace the apocalypse of God.
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University of Missouri Press Anamnesis On the Theory of History and Politics
Book SynopsisThis translation of Voegelin's ""Anamnesis"" gives equal weight to the empirical and philosophical aspects of the work. This work is both a recollection of his own development and a demonstration of the anamnetic method as applied to historically remembered materials.
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University of Missouri Press The Drama of Humanity and Other Miscellaneous
Book SynopsisThis second volume of Eric Voegelin's miscellaneous papers contains unpublished writings from the time of his forced emigration from Austria in 1938 until his death in 1985. The volume's focus is on dialogue and discussion, presenting Voegelin in the role of lecturer, discussant, and respondent.
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University of Missouri Press Eric Voegelins Dialogue with the Postmoderns
Book SynopsisThese essays endeavor to generate a dialogue between Eric Voegelin and other 20th-century thinkers and explore issues in contemporary political theory. Each essay rests on the underlying question: is it possible or desirable to construct or discover political foundations without resorting to metaphysical or essentialist constructs?Trade ReviewThis volume of essays explores a wonderfully fruitful are a in the field of Voegelin studies. These essays endeavor to examine the relationship of Voegelin's thought to that of significant postmodernists and their philosophical inspirers. The range of thinkers treated is representative and some of the essays break new ground in well-argued and convincing ways.-Glenn Hughes; ""Eric Voegelin's Dialogue with the Postmoderns will appeal to Voegelin scholars who wish to see the fruitful application of his philosophy to a variety of thinkers who, like him, seek an alternative both to traditional essentialist metaphysics and to modernist naturalism, subjectivism, and foundationalism. The variety of essays is enriching, and each is intriguing in its own right. A very important contribution to the literature on Eric Voegelin.""-Thomas McPartlandTable of ContentsIntroduction by Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil L. Eubanks; Voegelin and Levinas on the ""Foundations"" of Ethics and Politics (Transceridence and Immanence Revisited) by William P. Simmons; Immanence/Transcendence: Deleuze and Voegelin on the Conditions for Political Order by Jeffrey A. Bell; Voegelin and Ricoeur: Recovering Science and Subjectivity through Representation by Peter A. Petrakis; Sight, Sound, and Participatory Symbolization: Eric Voegelin's Political Theory as an Attempt to Recapture the Speech-Dimension of Human Experience by Murray Jardine; Politics, Metaphysics, and Anti-Foundationalism in the Works of Eric Voegelin and Jan Patocka by Edward F. Findlay.
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University of Missouri Press Voegelin Recollected Volume 1
Book SynopsisAlthough his contributions to philosophy are revered and his writings have been collected, Eric Voegelin's persona can fade with the memories of those who knew him. This book preserves the human element of Voegelin by capturing those personal recollections. Through these recollections, it provides an understanding of the man himself.
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University of Missouri Press The Eric Voegelin Reader
Book SynopsisDrawing from the University of Missouri Press’s thirty-four-volume edition of his collected works, Charles Embry and Glenn Hughes have assembled a selection of Eric Voegelin’s representative writings, satisfying the need for a single volume that can serve as a general introduction to his philosophy.Trade Review“The achievement of this volume is superb. Through a selection of his writings perfectly chosen, it makes manifest to everyone the preeminent place of Eric Voegelin in the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century."—Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen, author of How World Politics Is Made“Embry and Hughes have succeeded in presenting a thoroughly accessible and well-crafted introduction to the thought of Eric Voegelin. Providing philosophical readings of substance with erudite commentary, this volume ranges perspicaciously across the eras and interests of Voegelin’s writings and will open to a new audience the grandeur of one of the most penetrating and relevant minds of the twentieth century. The Eric Voegelin Reader is set to become the essential companion to the study of Voegelin’s work."—James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, author of The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn toward Existence“Organized with meticulous care and framed with introductions of exceptional clarity, this reader provides the perfect entrÉe into Voegelin’s thought and the rich treasures of his thirty-four-volume Collected Works. The readings capture, in concentrated form, the full scope of Voegelin’s political and philosophical vision, including the surprising turns in his intellectual development that were born of ever-deepening insights into the nature of reality and human history. There is no contemporary point of view that cannot be enriched and challenged by Voegelin’s uniquely profound and original ideas. The Eric Voegelin Reader will greatly enhance the ease and quality of such encounters."—Paul Kidder, Department of Philosophy, Seattle University“Drawing on a broad variety of Voegelin's work—memoirs, interview, lectures, essays, books—the editors present a very intelligent selection of materials that unfolds his main themes in a clear, logical sequence, and this is also greatly aided by their introduction and explanatory comments with reference to each selection. This brilliant collection of Voegelin's most luminous texts offers an excellent one-volume introduction to the full range and scope of a major thinker who might otherwise seem rather overwhelming to someone new to his work."—Eugene Webb, University of Washington, author of In Search of the Triune God: The Christian Paths of East and WestTable of Contents The Eric Voegelin Reader ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PROLOGUE PART ONE Intellectual Biography I. CW 34 Autobiographical Reflections (1973): Selections Chapter 10: American Influence Chapter 11: Concerning the Year in France Chapter 12: Return to Vienna Chapter 13: Anschluss and Emigration II. CW 5 The Political Religions (Second edition, 1939): Selection Preface III. CW 34 Autobiographical Reflections (1973): Selection Chapter 22: Why Philosophize? To Recapture Reality! PART TWO The Philosophical Science of Politics I. CW 5 The New Science of Politics (1952): Selections Introduction, §§1–2 Editors’ Summary of Chapter One Chapter 2: Representation and Truth, §§1–6, 9 Chapter 3: The Struggle for Representation in the Roman Empire, §1 II. CW 11 Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy (1956) III. CW 11 The Good Society—from Industrial Society in Search of Reason (1963) IV. CW 11 World-Empire and the Unity of Mankind (1962) PART THREE Philosophizing in Modernity I. CW 11 In Search of the Ground (1965) II. CW 12 On Debate and Existence (1967) III. CW 12 Immortality: Experience and Symbol (1967) PART FOUR Philosophy and the Open Soul: Consciousness, Reason, and Divine Reality I. CW 12 Remembrance of Things Past (1978): Excerpt II. CW 12 Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History (1970) III. CW 12 Reason: The Classic Experience (1974) IV. CW 12 The Gospel and Culture (1971) PART FIVE Philosophy of History I. CW 14 Israel and Revelation (1956): Selections Preface Introduction: The Symbolization of Order II. CW 15 The World of the Polis (1957): Selection Introduction: Mankind and History (excerpts) III. CW 17 The Ecumenic Age (1974): Selection Introduction (excerpts) IV. CW 18 In Search of Order (1987): Selection Chapter One: The Beginning of the Beginning EPILOGUE FURTHER READINGS IN ERIC VOEGELIN SUGGESTED READINGS ON ERIC VOEGELIN INDEX
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Race and Affect in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deftly organized into three major sections (Racial Formations of Affective Communities; Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender; Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness), Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature will be of particular value to readers with an interest in literary criticism, race and ethnicity in literature, and the philosophy of race as reflected and influenced by literature and drama. A seminal work of collective scholarship, Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature is highly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Literary Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForewordMargo HendricksIntroduction Carol Mejia LaPerleSection 1: Racial Formations of Affective CommunitiesImagining Islamicate Worlds: Race and Affect in the Contact ZoneAmbereen DadabhoyDesire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneMira Assaf KafantarisNew World Encounters and the Racial Limits of Friendship in Early Quaker Life WritingMeghan E. HallEarly Modern Affect Theory, Racialized Aversion, and the Strange Case of Foetor JudaicusDrew DanielSection 2: Racialized Affects of Sex and GenderConversion Interrupted: Shame and the Demarcation of Jewish Women’s Difference in The Merchant of VeniceSara CoodinNavigating a Kiss in the Racialized Geopolitical Landscape of Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the WestKirsten N. MendozaBranded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King LearMario DiGangiSection 3: Feelings and Forms of Anti-BlacknessBlack Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black RacismAveryl Dietering“Away, you Ethiope”: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Denial of Black Affect—A Song to Underscore the Burning of Police Stations Matthieu ChapmanOthello’s Unfortunate HappinessCora FoxThe Racialized Affects of Ill-will in the Dark Lady SonnetsCarol Mejia LaPerle
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Race and Affect in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deftly organized into three major sections (Racial Formations of Affective Communities; Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender; Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness), Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature will be of particular value to readers with an interest in literary criticism, race and ethnicity in literature, and the philosophy of race as reflected and influenced by literature and drama. A seminal work of collective scholarship, Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature is highly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Literary Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForewordMargo HendricksIntroduction Carol Mejia LaPerleSection 1: Racial Formations of Affective CommunitiesImagining Islamicate Worlds: Race and Affect in the Contact ZoneAmbereen DadabhoyDesire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneMira Assaf KafantarisNew World Encounters and the Racial Limits of Friendship in Early Quaker Life WritingMeghan E. HallEarly Modern Affect Theory, Racialized Aversion, and the Strange Case of Foetor JudaicusDrew DanielSection 2: Racialized Affects of Sex and GenderConversion Interrupted: Shame and the Demarcation of Jewish Women’s Difference in The Merchant of VeniceSara CoodinNavigating a Kiss in the Racialized Geopolitical Landscape of Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the WestKirsten N. MendozaBranded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King LearMario DiGangiSection 3: Feelings and Forms of Anti-BlacknessBlack Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black RacismAveryl Dietering“Away, you Ethiope”: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Denial of Black Affect—A Song to Underscore the Burning of Police Stations Matthieu ChapmanOthello’s Unfortunate HappinessCora FoxThe Racialized Affects of Ill-will in the Dark Lady SonnetsCarol Mejia LaPerle
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Cornell University Press Thucydides Hobbes and the Interpretation of
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Franciscan Academic Press Defining Platonism Essays on Plato Middle and
Book SynopsisSurveys a wide range of methods of Platonic interpretation, ranging from the dialogues themselves, to Middle and Neoplatonic interpretations of Plato's writings, to modern uses of Platonism. As a philosophical movement, Platonism is broadly conceived, covering schools and philosophers beginning with Plato and his immediate followers and extending through contemporary philosophers.
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American Maritain Association The Things That Matter Essasys Inspired by the
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Big Typescript
Book SynopsisLong awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein s so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog no. TS 213) is presented here for the first time in an en-face German English scholars edition, complete with clear indications to help the reader identify the various levels of Wittgenstein s editing.Table of ContentsVerstehen 1 1 Das Verstehen, die Meinung, fällt aus unsrer Betrachtung heraus 2 2 „Meinen“ amorph gebraucht. „Meinen“ mehrdeutig 5 3 Das Verstehen als Korrelat einer Erklärung 8 4 Das Verstehen des Befehls, die Bedingung dafür, daß wir ihn befolgen können. Das Verstehen des Satzes, die Bedingung dafür, daß wir uns nach ihm richten 12 5 Deuten. Deuten wir jedes Zeichen? 16 6 Man sagt: ein Wort verstehen heißt, wissen, wie es gebraucht wird. Was heißt es, das zu wissen? Dieses Wissen haben wir sozusagen im Vorrat 18 6a Einen Satz im Ernst oder Spaß meinen, etc. 21 Bedeutung 22 7 Der Begriff der Bedeutung stammt aus einer primitiven philosophischen Auffassung der Sprache her 23 8 Bedeutung, der Ort des Wortes im grammatischen Raum 26 9 Die Bedeutung eines Wortes ist das, was die Erklärung der Bedeutung erklärt 29 10 „Die Bedeutung eines Zeichens ist durch seine Wirkung (die Assoziationen, die es auslöst, etc.) gegeben.“ 33 11 Bedeutung als Gefühl, hinter dem Wort stehend; durch eine Geste ausgedrückt 37 12 Man tritt mit der hinweisenden Erklärung der Zeichen nicht aus der Sprachlehre heraus 38 13 „Primäre und sekundäre Zeichen“. Wort und Muster. Hinweisende Definition 40 14 Das, was die Philosophie am Zeichen interessiert, die Bedeutung, die für sie maßgebend ist, ist das, was in der Grammatik des Zeichens niedergelegt ist 48 Satz. Sinn des Satzes 49 15 „Satz“ und „Sprache“ verschwimmende Begriffe 50 16 Die Logik redet von Sätzen und Wörtern im gewöhnlichen Sinn, nicht von Sätzen und Wörtern in irgend einem abstrakten Sinn 57 17 Satz und Satzklang 59
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wittgenstein
Book SynopsisWITTGENSTEIN MEANING AND MIND Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Part II Exegesis 243-427 explores and clarifies the patterns, developments, and conclusions of Wittgenstein's arguments in 243-427 of Philosophical Investigations. Each numbered remark in Wittgenstein's text is systematically analysed. Hacker's thoughtful, rigorous commentary clarifies problematic expressions, phrases, and sentences, and elaborates source remarks in Wittgenstein's Nachlass that shed light on the text, illustrating their bearing on deep philosophical problems. This volume of exegesis of 243-427 has been extensively revised, incorporating numerous references to original and secondary texts of Wittgenstein that were not known to exist in 1990.The second edition features new comprehensive tables of correlation between the remarks of the Investigations and the source of the remarks in the Nachlass, and addresses a variety of controversies from the last quarter of Table of ContentsNote to the second edition: Part II: Exegesis §§243 – 427 ix Acknowledgements for the first edition xi Introduction to Part II: Exegesis §§243 – 427 xv Abbreviations xix Chapter 1 The private language arguments (§§243 – 315) 1 Chapter 2 Thought (§§316 – 62) 137 Chapter 3 Imagination (§§363 – 97) 197 Chapter 4 The self and self-reference (§§398 – 411) 245 Chapter 5 Consciousness (§§412 – 27) 267 Index 285
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Moral and Epistemic Virtues
Book Synopsis* A collection of cutting edge articles by leading figures in the field of virtue theory including Guy Axtell, Julia Driver, Antony Duff and Miranda Fricker. * The first book to combine papers on both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. * Deals with key topics in recent epistemological and ethical debate. .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Moral and Epistemic Virtues: Michael S. Brady (University of Stirling) and Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling). Part I: Theory:. 1. The Search for the Source of Epistemic Good: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma). 2. The Pursuit of Epistemic Good: Philip Percival (University of Glasgow). 3. Epistemic Presuppositions and Their Consequences: Juli Eflin (Ball State University). 4. Traditional Epistemology Reconsidered: A Reply to Eflin: Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds). 5. Affective States and Epistemic Immediacy: Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield). 6. Reply to Hookway: Marie McGinn (University of York). 7. The Conflation of Moral and Epistemic Virtue: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College). 8. Sentimentalist Virtue and Moral Judgement: Outline of a Project: Michael Slote (University of Miami). 9. Some Worries about Normative and Metaethical Sentimentalism: Michael S. Brady (University of Stirling). Part II: Application:. 1. Epistemic Injustice and a Role for Virtue in the Politics of Knowing: Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck College, University of London). 2. Epistemic Injustice: The Third Way?: S. E. Marshall (University of Stirling). 3. Virtue Jurisprudence: A Virtue-Centred Theory of Judging: Lawrence B. Solum (Loyola Law School). 4. The Limits of Virtue Jurisprudence: R. A. Duff (University of Stirling). Part III: Symposia on Epistemic Luck:. 1. Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Luck: Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling). 2. Felix Culpa: Luck in Ethics and Epistemology: Guy Axtell (University of Nevada, USA). 3. Virtue and Luck, Epistemic and Otherwise: John Greco (Fordham University, USA)
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wittgenstein
Book SynopsisWittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive and systematic treatment of the Austrian-born philosopher's thought. Renowned scholar Hans Sluga first recounts events in Wittgenstein s life in order to illuminate the historical, political and personal conditions from which his philosophical work emerged.Trade Review“Sluga’s Wittgenstein would be an ideal textbook in a course on Wittgenstein and political philosophy and an excellent introduction for those interested in exploring that relation.” (Philosophy in Review, 1 December 2012) “Sluga’s encyclopedic knowledge of Wittgenstein, and of other philosophers such as Frege and Heidegger, attests that he is eminently well qualified to write this book. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.” (Choice, 1 August 2012)Table of ContentsPreface vi Abbreviations x 1 The situated thinker 1 2 The world and its structure 20 3 The limits of language 39 4 The prodigious diversity of language games 57 5 Families and resemblances 76 6 Our unsurveyable grammar 95 7 Visible rails invisibly laid to infinity 112 8 What is the use of studying philosophy? 131 Index 151
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd TwentiethCentury French Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers. Offers discussion and cross-referencing of ideas and figures Provides Appendix on the distinctive nature of French academic culture Trade Review"This is a multifaceted work ... a stimulating introduction to a rich philosophical era, and it is all the more rewarding due to Schrift's specific focus on the structure of philosophical institutions in France." (Philosophy In Review) "Schrift has written a book that is a gift to both scholars and students. This volume should be a required textbook in every course in Continental philosophy. Highly recommended." (Choice) "This is an astonishing book, a must-read for anyone interested not only in twentieth-century French philosophy, but also in the academic situation in France that produced, among others, Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault."—Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis "A most welcome addition to the literature on twentieth-century French philosophy, and will prove to be an invaluable guide to students and scholars alike. Written in a lucid and instructive manner, it features material and information little known to English-speaking readers but vital for full appreciation of French thought. The book is essential reading for anyone involved in the subject."—Keith Ansell Pearson, University of Warwick "A clear and thorough account … also introduce[s] the reader to some lesser-known influences .... A historical reference work, but is also much more." (Continental Philosophy Review)Table of ContentsPreface. Chronology. Part I. 1. The Early Decades. 2. Phenomenology on the Way to Existentialism. 3. Existentialism and its Other. 4. Structuralism and the Challenge to Philosophy. 5. After Structuralism. 6. Conclusion. Part II. Key Biographies in Brief. Appendix 1: Understanding French Academic Culture. Appendix 2: Bibliography of French Philosophy in English Translation. Works Cited and Consulted. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd TwentiethCentury French Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers. Offers discussion and cross-referencing of ideas and figures Provides Appendix on the distinctive nature of French academic culture Trade Review"This is a multifaceted work ... a stimulating introduction to a rich philosophical era, and it is all the more rewarding due to Schrift's specific focus on the structure of philosophical institutions in France." (Philosophy In Review) "Schrift has written a book that is a gift to both scholars and students. This volume should be a required textbook in every course in Continental philosophy. Highly recommended." (Choice) "This is an astonishing book, a must-read for anyone interested not only in twentieth-century French philosophy, but also in the academic situation in France that produced, among others, Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault."—Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis "A most welcome addition to the literature on twentieth-century French philosophy, and will prove to be an invaluable guide to students and scholars alike. Written in a lucid and instructive manner, it features material and information little known to English-speaking readers but vital for full appreciation of French thought. The book is essential reading for anyone involved in the subject."—Keith Ansell Pearson, University of Warwick "A clear and thorough account ... also introduce[s] the reader to some lesser-known influences .... A historical reference work, but is also much more." (Continental Philosophy Review)Table of ContentsPreface. Chronology. Part I. 1. The Early Decades. 2. Phenomenology on the Way to Existentialism. 3. Existentialism and its Other. 4. Structuralism and the Challenge to Philosophy. 5. After Structuralism. 6. Conclusion. Part II. Key Biographies in Brief. Appendix 1: Understanding French Academic Culture. Appendix 2: Bibliography of French Philosophy in English Translation. Works Cited and Consulted. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rawlss Law of Peoples
Book SynopsisJohn Rawlsis considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls's theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, The Law of Peoples. It contains new and stimulating essays, some sympathetic, others critical, written by pre-eminent theorists in the field. These essays situate Rawls's The Law of Peoples historically and methodologically, and examine all its key ingredients: its thin cosmopolitanism, its doctrine of human rights, its principles of global economic justice, and its normative theory of liberal foreign policy. The book will set the terms of the debate on The Law of Peoples for years to come, thereby shaping the broader debates about global justice.Trade Review"This is a useful and illuminating volume that will greatly deepen its readers' understanding of Rawls's The Law of Peoples and related problems of justice and human rights on a global scale." (Human Right Review, December 2008) A Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book for 2006Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Preface. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Background and Structure:. 1. Introduction: Rex Martin (University of Kansas) and David Reidy (University of Tennessee). 2. Uniting What Interest Prescribes with What Right Permits: Rawls’s Law of Peoples in Context: David Boucher (Cardiff). 3. Rawls’s Peoples: Philip Pettit (Princeton). Part II: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Universalism: Questions of Priority and Coherence:. 4. Cultural Imperialism and “Democratic Peace.”: Catherine Audard (LSE, UK). 5. The Problem of Decent Peoples: Kok-Chor Tan (Univ. of Pennsylvania). 6. Why Rawls is Not a Cosmopolitan Egalitarian: Leif Wenar (Sheffield, UK). Part III: On Human Rights. 7. Human Rights as Moral Claim-Rights: Wilfried Hinsch and Markus Stepanians (Univ. of Saarland, Germany). 8. Rawls’s Narrow Doctrine of Human Rights: Alistair Macleod (Queen’s Univ., Canada). 9. Taking the Human Out of Human Rights: Allen Buchanan (Duke Univ., USA). 10. Political Authority and Human Rights: David Reidy(University of Tennessee). Part IV: On Global Economic Justice. 11. Collective Responsibility and International Inequality in The Law of Peoples: David Miller (Oxford). 12. Do Rawls’s Two Theories of Justice Fit Together?: Thomas Pogge (Columbia, USA). 13. Rawls on International Distributive Economic Justice: Taking a Closer Look: Rex Martin (University of Kansas, Lawrence). 14. Distributive Justice and The Law of Peoples: Samuel Freeman (Univ. of Pennsylvania). Part V: On Liberal Democratic Foreign Policy. 15. Rawls’s Theory of Human Rights in Light of Contemporary Human Rights Law and Practice: Jim Nickel (Arizona State University College of Law). 16. A Human Right to Democracy? Rawls’s Law of Peoples on Governmental Legitimacy and Humanitarian Intervention: Alyssa Bernstein (Ohio Univ). 17. Justice, Stability and Toleration in a Federation of Well-Ordered Peoples: Andreas Follesdal (Univ. of Oslo, Norway). Index. . .
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Late Modern Philosophy
Book SynopsisPart of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of late modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of western thought. Gathers together the key texts from the most significant and influential philosophers of the late modern era to provide a thorough introduction to the period. Features the writings of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Kant, Rousseau, Bentham and other leading thinkers. Examines such topics as empiricism, rationalism, and the existence of God. Readings are accompanied by expert commentary from the editors, who are leading scholars in the field. Trade Review“This is an excellent anthology with selections that are shrewdly chosen and insightfully introduced, including several in ethics that are unusual but quite important, such as Adam Smith, Richard Price, and Mary Wollstonecraft.” Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan “A rich and wisely chosen collection of key eighteenth-century texts, distinctive in covering not only epistemology and metaphysics, but moral and political philosophy.” Kenneth P. Winkler, Wellesley College Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. General Introduction. Part I: Empiricism. Introduction. 1. Essay concerning Human Understanding: John Locke. 2. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists: George Berkeley. 3. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding: David Hume. 4. A Treatise of Human Nature: David Hume. Part II: Critics of Empiricism. Introduction. 5. New Essays concerning Human Understanding: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. 6. The Leibniz–Clarke Correspondence: Gottfried Leibniz and Samuel Clarke. 7. An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense: Thomas Reid. Part III: Kant’s Critique of Rationalism and Empiricism. Introduction. 8. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: Immanuel Kant. Part IV: Arguments for the Existence of God. Introduction. 9. A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: Samuel Clarke. 10. Natural Theology: William Paley. 11. Dialogues concerning Natural Religion: David Hume. 12. Critique of Pure Reason: Immanuel Kant. Part V: Political Philosophy. Introduction. 13. Second Treatise on Government: John Locke. 14. Of the Original Contract: David Hume. 15. On the Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Part VI: Moral Philosophy. Introduction. 16. Discourse concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion: Samuel Clarke. 17. A Treatise of Human Nature: David Hume. 18. A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals: Richard Price. 19. The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Adam Smith. 20. Lectures on Ethics: Immanuel Kant. 21. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Immanuel Kant. 22. Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind: Thomas Reid. 23. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: Jeremy Bentham. 24. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Late Modern Philosophy
Book SynopsisPart of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of late modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of western thought. Gathers together the key texts from the most significant and influential philosophers of the late modern era to provide a thorough introduction to the period. Features the writings of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Kant, Rousseau, Bentham and other leading thinkers. Examines such topics as empiricism, rationalism, and the existence of God. Readings are accompanied by expert commentary from the editors, who are leading scholars in the field. Trade Review“This is an excellent anthology with selections that are shrewdly chosen and insightfully introduced, including several in ethics that are unusual but quite important, such as Adam Smith, Richard Price, and Mary Wollstonecraft.” Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan “A rich and wisely chosen collection of key eighteenth-century texts, distinctive in covering not only epistemology and metaphysics, but moral and political philosophy.” Kenneth P. Winkler, Wellesley College Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii General Introduction 1 Part I Empiricism 17 Introduction 1 John Locke 21 Essay concerning Human Understanding 2 George Berkeley 52 Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists 3 David Hume 75 An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding 4 David Hume 100 A Treatise of Human Nature Part II Critics of Empiricism 113 Introduction 5 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 117 New Essays concerning Human Understanding 6 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke 123 The Leibniz–Clarke Correspondence 7 Thomas Reid 133 An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense Part III Kant’s Critique of Rationalism and Empiricism 141 Introduction 8 Immanuel Kant 145 Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Part IV Arguments for the Existence of God 185 Introduction 9 Samuel Clarke 189 A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God 10 William Paley 193 Natural Theology 11 David Hume 199 Dialogues concerning Natural Religion 12 Immanuel Kant 208 Critique of Pure Reason Part V Political Philosophy 217 Introduction 13 John Locke 221 Second Treatise on Government 14 David Hume 234 “Of the Original Contract” 15 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 240 On the Social Contract Part VI Moral Philosophy 257 Introduction 16 Samuel Clarke 261 Discourse concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion 17 David Hume 266 A Treatise of Human Nature 18 Richard Price 294 A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals 19 Adam Smith 303 The Theory of Moral Sentiments 20 Immanuel Kant 315 Lectures on Ethics 21 Immanuel Kant 324 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals 22 Thomas Reid 329 Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind 23 Jeremy Bentham 339 An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation 24 Mary Wollstonecraft 350 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Suggestions for Further Reading 359 Index 363
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd 12 Modern Philosophers
Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from leading philosophical scholars, 12 Modern Philosophers explores the works, origins, and influences of twelve of the most important late 20th Century philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Draws on essays from well-known scholars, including Thomas Baldwin, Catherine Wilson, Adrian Moore and Lori Gruen Locates the authors and their oeuvre within the context of the discipline as a whole Considers how contemporary philosophy both draws from, and contributes to, the broader intellectual and cultural milieu Trade Review"The 12 essays by 12 different authors are clear and concise; they offer both summaries and critiques that give valuable guidance to those who are new to the writings of these thinkers." (CHOICE, 2009) “It is recommended not only to readers not yet familiar with philosophical discourse and concerns, but also to 'insiders' who wish to get a clearer view of the various debates and discussions that are taking place in philosophy today.” (Metapsychology, August 2009)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Notes on Contributors vii Introduction Christopher Belshaw and Gary Kemp 1 1 Quine A. W. Moore 16 2 Rawls Thomas Baldwin 34 3 Davidson Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig 54 4 Williams Catherine Wilson 76 5 Rorty Alan Malachowski 94 6 Fodor José Luis Bermúdez 115 7 Nagel Sonia Sedivy 134 8 Kripke Alexander Bird 153 9 Nozick A. R. Lacey 173 10 Parfit Jacob Ross 192 11 McDowell Marie McGinn 216 12 Singer Lori Gruen 232 Index 251
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Camus
Book SynopsisHistory (much like his contemporaries) has tended to judge Camus harshly--as mediocre philosopher, conflicted man of the left and, worst of all, apologist for French imperialism. Yet, as David Sherman argues in this rewarding new study, a sensitive reading of the entirety of Camus's writings reveals both a power and unity of philosophical purpose.Trade Review"Despite Camus's own reluctance to be regarded as 'a philosopher' and 'an existentialist', David Sherman's authoritative study establishes the importance of Camus's contribution - in his fiction as well as his essays - to existential philosophy. Sherman's Camus is an engaging man of 'decency and courage', and a great writer who eloquently articulated the modern human predicament." Professor David Cooper, Durham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Situating Camus 1 1 Camus’s Life 10 2 The Absurd 21 3 Life 56 4 Scorn 86 5 Solidarity 106 6 Rebellion 136 7 Realpolitik 173 8 Exile And Rebirth 194 9 Epilogue 207 Index 211
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd John McDowell
Book SynopsisJohn McDowell: Experience, Norm, and Nature combines original essays by leading contemporary philosophers with point by point responses by McDowell himself to explore the central themes of one of the most innovative philosophers of our day. Provides original and critical essays examining McDowell's reading and appropriation of Sellars, Kant, and Hegel in his own philosophy Explores McDowell's notions of perceptual experience and his proposed rethinking of our conception of nature in light of the challenges that reason and normativity introduce Includes an original essay by McDowell that includes significant developments of his conception of perceptual experience Offers thorough and penetrating responses by McDowell to his critics Trade Review"Concentrates on the connection of reason and nature in McDowell's philosophy... A useful book for philosophers interested in McDowell and his own essay is a fascinating statement." (Metapsychology, August 2008)Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Avoiding the Myth of the Given (John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh). 2. Perception and Content (Bill Brewer, University of Warwick). 3. McDowell, Sellars, and Sense Impressions (Willem A. deVries, University of New Hampshire). 4. Three Sorts of Naturalism (Hans Fink, University of Aarhus). 5. Varieties of Nature in Hegel and McDowell (Christoph Halbig, University of Jena). 6. Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowell (Stephen Houlgate, University of Warwick). 7. Practical Reason and its Animal Precursors (Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College, Oxford University). 8. Contemporary Epistemology: Kant, Hegel, McDowell (Kenneth R. Westphal, University of East Anglia). 9. Science and Sensibility: McDowell and Sellars on Perceptual Experience (Michael Williams, John Hopkins University). 10. Reason’s Reach (Charles Travis, King's College London). 11. Responses (John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theres Something About Godel
Book SynopsisBerto''s highly readable and lucid guide introduces students and the interested reader to Gödel''s celebrated Incompleteness Theorem, and discusses some of the most famous - and infamous - claims arising from Gödel''s arguments. Offers a clear understanding of this difficult subject by presenting each of the key steps of the Theorem in separate chapters Discusses interpretations of the Theorem made by celebrated contemporary thinkers Sheds light on the wider extra-mathematical and philosophical implications of Gödel''s theories Written in an accessible, non-technical style Trade Review"This is a beautifully clear and accurate presentation of the material, with no technical demands beyond what is required for accuracy, and filled with interesting philosophical suggestions." (John Woods, University of British Columbia) "There's Something about G¨odel is a bargain: two books in one. The first half is a gentle but rigorous introduction to the incompleteness theorems for the mathematically uninitiated. The second is a survey of the philosophical, psychological, and sociological consequences people have attempted to derive from the theorems, some of them quite fantastical." (Philosophia Mathematica, 2011) "There is a story that in 1930 the great mathematician John von Neumann emerged from a seminar delivered by Kurt Gödel saying: ‘It's all over.’ Gödel had just proved the two theorems about the logical foundations of mathematics that are the subject of this valuable new book by Francesco Berto. Berto's clear exposition and his strategy of dividing the proof into short, easily digestible chunks make it pleasant reading ... .Berto is lucid and witty in exposing mistaken applications of Gödel's results ... [and] has provided a thoroughly recommendable guide to Gödel's theorems and their current status within, and outside, mathematical logic.” (Times Higher Education Supplement, February 2010)Table of ContentsPrologue. Acknowledgments. Part I: The Gödelian Symphony. 1 Foundations and Paradoxes. 1 "This sentence is false". 2 The Liar and Gödel. 3 Language and metalanguage. 4 The axiomatic method, or how to get the non-obvious out of the obvious. 5 Peano's axioms … . 6 … and the unsatisfied logicists, Frege and Russell. 7 Bits of set theory. 8 The Abstraction Principle. 9 Bytes of set theory. 10 Properties, relations, functions, that is, sets again. 11 Calculating, computing, enumerating, that is, the notion of algorithm. 12 Taking numbers as sets of sets. 13 It's raining paradoxes. 14 Cantor's diagonal argument. 15 Self-reference and paradoxes. 2 Hilbert. 1 Strings of symbols. 2 "… in mathematics there is no ignorabimus". 3 Gödel on stage. 4 Our first encounter with the Incompleteness Theorem … . 5 … and some provisos. 3 Gödelization, or Say It with Numbers! 1 TNT. 2 The arithmetical axioms of TNT and the "standard model" N. 3 The Fundamental Property of formal systems. 4 The Gödel numbering … . 5 … and the arithmetization of syntax. 4 Bits of Recursive Arithmetic … . 1 Making algorithms precise. 2 Bits of recursion theory. 3 Church's Thesis. 4 The recursiveness of predicates, sets, properties, and relations. 5 … And How It Is Represented in Typographical Number Theory. 1 Introspection and representation. 2 The representability of properties, relations, and functions … . 3 … and the Gödelian loop. 6 "I Am Not Provable". 1 Proof pairs. 2 The property of being a theorem of TNT (is not recursive!) 3 Arithmetizing substitution. 4 How can a TNT sentence refer to itself? 5 γ 6 Fixed point. 7 Consistency and omega-consistency. 8 Proving G1. 9 Rosser's proof. 7 The Unprovability of Consistency and the "Immediate Consequences" of G1 and G2. 1 G2. 2 Technical interlude. 3 "Immediate consequences" of G1 and G2. 4 Undecidable1 and undecidable2. 5 Essential incompleteness, or the syndicate of mathematicians. 6 Robinson Arithmetic. 7 How general are Gödel's results? 8 Bits of Turing machine. 9 G1 and G2 in general. 10 Unexpected fish in the formal net. 11 Supernatural numbers. 12 The culpability of the induction scheme. 13 Bits of truth (not too much of it, though). Part II: The World after Gödel. 8 Bourgeois Mathematicians! The Postmodern Interpretations. 1 What is postmodernism? 2 From Gödel to Lenin. 3 Is "Biblical proof" decidable? 4 Speaking of the totality. 5 Bourgeois teachers! 6 (Un)interesting bifurcations. 9 A Footnote to Plato. 1 Explorers in the realm of numbers. 2 The essence of a life. 3 "The philosophical prejudices of our times". 4 From Gödel to Tarski. 5 Human, too human. 10 Mathematical Faith. 1 "I'm not crazy!" 2 Qualified doubts. 3 From Gentzen to the Dialectica interpretation. 4 Mathematicians are people of faith. 11 Mind versus Computer: Gödel and Artificial Intelligence. 1 Is mind (just) a program? 2 "Seeing the truth" and "going outside the system". 3 The basic mistake. 4 In the haze of the transfinite. 5 "Know thyself": Socrates and the inexhaustibility of mathematics. 12 Gödel versus Wittgenstein and the Paraconsistent Interpretation. 1 When geniuses meet … . 2 The implausible Wittgenstein. 3 "There is no metamathematics". 4 Proof and prose. 5 The single argument. 6 But how can arithmetic be inconsistent? 7 The costs and benefits of making Wittgenstein plausible. Epilogue. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Rorty Reader
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive collection of the work of Richard Rorty (1931-2007), The Rorty Reader brings together the influential American philosopher's essential essays from over four decades of writings. Offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard Rorty''s life and body of work Brings key essays published across many volumes and journals into one collection, including selections from his final volume of philosophical papers, Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007)) Contains the previously unpublished (in English) essay, Redemption from Egotism Includes in-depth interviews, and several revealing autobiographical pieces Represents the fullest portrait available today on Rorty's relationship with American pragmatism and the trajectory of his thought Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Source Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. General Introduction. Part I: Toward Philosophy without Mirrors: 1. Introduction,The Linguistic Turn. 2. Dewey?s Metaphysics. 3. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Introduction and Chapter VIII. 4. Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism. 5. Nineteenth-Century Idealism and Twentieth-Century Textualism. Part II: Conversations with Analytic Philosophy: 6. From Logic to Language to Play. 7. Pragmatism, Davidson, and Truth. 8. Twenty-Five Years After. 9. Putnam and the Relativist Menace. 10. Analytic and Conversational Philosophy. Part III: From Antirepresentationalism to Political Liberalism: 11. Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics. 12. Solidarity or Objectivity? 13. The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy. 14. Freud and Moral Reflection. 15. Private Irony and Liberal Hope. Part IV: Pragmatism, Literature, and Democracy: 16. The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses. 17. Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens. 18. De Man and the American Cultural Left. 19. Feminism and Pragmatism. 20. Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality. 21. Looking Backwards from the Year 2096. 22. American National Pride: Whitman and Dewey. 23. Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises. Part V: Philosophy as Cultural Politics: 24. Truth without Correspondence to Reality. 25. Ethics without Principles. 26. Justice as a Larger Loyalty. 27. Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism. 28. Religion in the Public Square: A Reconsideration. 29. Is ?Cultural Recognition? a Useful Concept for Leftist Politics? 30. Philosophy as a Transitional Genre. Part VI: Autobiographical: 31. From Philosophy to Post-Philosophy. 32. Trotsky and the Wild Orchids. 33. Biography and Philosophy. 34. The Fire of Life. Guide to Further Reading. Index.
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