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Edinburgh University Press The Lyotard Dictionary
Book SynopsisDrawing on a multidisciplinary team of experts, The Lyotard Dictionary provides a clear and accessible introduction to all of his main concepts, contextualising these within his work as a whole and relating him to his contemporaries.Trade ReviewThe Lyotard Dictionary provides an exceptionally clear presentation of his complex and challenging ideas. The entries are written with precision, detail and clarity, offering helpful introductions to unfamiliar concepts as well as fascinating insights for those who already know Lyotard's work. It will be an indispensable guide for students of Lyotard at all levels. -- Simon Malpas, The University of Edinburgh The Lyotard Dictionary provides an exceptionally clear presentation of his complex and challenging ideas. The entries are written with precision, detail and clarity, offering helpful introductions to unfamiliar concepts as well as fascinating insights for those who already know Lyotard's work. It will be an indispensable guide for students of Lyotard at all levels.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction, Stuart Sim; Entries A-Z; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc What Is Art
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Phanes Press,U.S. ROBERT FLUDD
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MB - Cornell University Press Meaning and Interpretation Wittgenstein Henry
Book Synopsis'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this questionwhich initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of languageis significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the meaning of works of art and literature as...
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Liberty Fund Inc In Defense of Tradition
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University of Minnesota Press French Theory How Foucault Derrida Deleuze Co.
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Edinburgh University Press Giorgio Agambens Homo Sacer Series
Book SynopsisRequiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson explains why Agamben's Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He unpacks key concepts including sovereignty, potentiality, form-of-life, the state of exception, inoperativity, glory and the messianic as they appear and reappear.
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Legare Street Press Mysticism and Logic
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University of Washington Press Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Professor Jonathan Israel is one of the most distinguished and prolific historians of early modern Europe." * Reviews in History *
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Wits University Press Race otherwise: Forging a new humanism for South
Book Synopsis‘People from different parts of the world ask ‘what mix’ I am. Which would you prefer? Salt and vinegar or cinnamon and sugar? Neither one of my parents was black Black. Neither one of them was white White. I am not half-and-half.’ (from Chapter 1, ‘This Blackness’)How is ‘race’ determined? Is it your DNA? The community that you were raised in? The way others see you or the way you see yourself?In Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can know race with one’s eyes, with racial categories and with genetic ancestry tests. She moves between the intimate probing of racial identities as we experience them individually, and analysis of the global historical forces that have created these identities and woven them into our thinking about what it means to be ‘human’.Starting from her own family’s journeys through regions of the world and ascribed racial identities, she develops her argument about how it is possible to recognise the pervasiveness of race thinking without submitting to its power.Drawing on the theoretical work of Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter and others, Erasmus argues for a new way of ‘coming to know otherwise’, of seeing the boundaries between racial identities as thresholds to be crossed, through politically charged acts of imagination and love.Trade Review‘Race Otherwise brings together the full amplitude of Zimitri Erasmus’s thinking about how race works. It tunes into registers both personal and social. It is not without indignation, and not … insensitive to emotion and … the anger inside South Africa. It is a book that is not afraid of questions of affect. Eros and love, Erasmus urges, are not separable from the hard work of thinking.’ — Crain Soudien, CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaTable of Contents Appreciations Foreword by Crain Soudien Prelude 1 This Blackness 2 A Conversation 3 The Look 4 The Category 5 The Gene 6 Beginnings 7 Open closure References Index
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Hachette Livre - BNF Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiae Pars I Et II, More Geometrico Demonstratae (Éd.1663)
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University of Pennsylvania Press Genesis and Validity
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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University of Minnesota Press Advances
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1995, Advances was first written by Jacques Derrida as a long foreword to a book by one of his most promising former students, the philosopher Serge Margel’s Le Tombeau du Dieu Artisan (The Tomb of the Craftsman). What Derrida uncovers for us is Margel’s own unique theory of the promise in relation to an an-archic, pre-chronological temporality, in conjunction with Margel’s radical rereading of Plato’s Timaeus. As Derrida states right away, Margel’s reading is a new one, a new reading of the Demiurge. A new promise. A new advance. In this magisterial late essay by Derrida, what the reader soon discovers is in part a conversation with his former student, as well as an opening for a new reflection on our current ecological and political crises that are all the more urgent today where the possibility of giving ourselves death as a human race and the end of the world is now, within an era of climate change, more real than ever.As part of Univocal’s Pharmakon series, this essay, itself published in advance, becomes a brief but powerful light pointing toward Univocal’s forthcoming publication of the translation of Serge Margel’s Le Tombeau du Dieu Artisan. “Once again the Timaeus, of course, but a different Timaeus, a new Demiurge, I promise.”
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Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
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Indiana University Press Heidegger and Kabbalah
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWolfson's new book Heidegger and Kabbalah is arguably the magnum opus of his long and productive career. It stands as a landmark study in Judaism and philosophy. -- Shaul Magid * Los Angeles Review of Books *By embracing a helix of competing paradoxes, Wolfson expertly shines the luminous speculum of kabbalah upon the darkening speculum of Heideggerean thinking to venture beyond all boundaries, opening a clearing for all future philosophical expositions of Jewish mysticism that would have otherwise been forgotten. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Belonging Together of the Foreign1. Hermeneutic Circularity: Tradition as Genuine Repetition of Futural Past2. Inceptual Thinking and Nonsystematic Atonality 3. Heidegger's Seyn/Nichts and Kabbalistic Ein Sof4. imum, Lichtung, and Bestowing Refusal 5. Autogenesis, Nihilating Leap, and Otherness of the Not-Other6. Temporalizing and Granting Timespace7. Disclosive Language: Poiēsis and Apophatic Occlusion of Occlusion8. Ethnolinguistic Enrootedness and Invocation of Historical Destiny Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry
Book SynopsisThis advanced introductory text offers a synoptic view of philosophical inquiry, discussing such topics as consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori, and knowledge. The emphasis is on the fundamental intractability of these questions, and a theory is proposed as to why the human mind has so much difficulty in resolving them. This theory turns upon a naturalistic picture of the scope and limits of human intelligence.Trade Review"In my view, this is an admirable book. It is concise, well organized, and clearly and vigorously written. It presents a real solution to a real and extremely important problem. It is perhaps the only solution to this problem that is currently available." Peter Van Inwagen, The Philosophical Review "Colin McGinn's thoughts about the nature and state of philosophical inquiry are lucid and suggestive, and, in my personal opinion, on the right track. They merit careful reading, and should place many of the fundamental questions of our intellectual tradition in a new and more wholesome light." Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of Contents1. Philosophical Perplexity. 2. Consciousness. 3. Self. 4. Meaning. 5. Free Will. 6. The A Priori. 7. Knowledge. 8. Reason, Truth and Philosophy. 9. The Future of Philosophy.
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Hilaritas Press, LLC. Ishtar Rising: Why the Goddess Went to Hell and What to Expect Now That She's Returning
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Columbia University Press Images of the Present Time
Book SynopsisImages of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of “the present.”Trade ReviewThinking the present in, through, and against the image, Alain Badiou proposes and enacts a comedic philosophy attuned to now's urgent absurdities. It's a pleasure to move with the sharp curve and fissure of his thinking. Badiou’s Seminars are a major event in and for contemporary philosophy. -- Fred Moten, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition'There are only bodies seized by languages, except there are also truths.' Philosophy is famously incapable of dealing with the present—except there is also Alain Badiou. Images of the Present Time is a pure joy to read, even as it confronts some of the saddest marvels of our commodified nonworld. A truly innovative affirmation of the materialist dialectic. -- Sianne Ngai, author of Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist FormUnlike sparkling wine, vivid thought never ceases to tickle our established notions and sensibilities, bringing forth new concepts while transforming the very concept of the 'new.' By conceiving of the present as a matter of creation rather than mere presence, Badiou engages us in a series of unexpected and truly fascinating, powerful reflections. -- Alenka Zupančič, author of The Odd One In: On ComedyAlain Badiou is the most important contemporary French philosopher and indeed one of the three or four most important philosophers in the world today. This book, ranging widely across philosophy and literature, with a fluency that only a writer and thinker as simultaneously nimble and erudite as Badiou can summon, represents Badiou the public intellectual at his passionate, engaging, lucid, witty, and provocative best: it is a bracing diagnosis of the obsessions that keep us attached to the way we live now, as well as a fascinating reflection on what it would mean to live truly, in a world not ruled by the insidiously captivating 'images of the present time.' -- Joseph Litvak, author of The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon CultureAlain Badiou is undoubtedly among the greatest of living philosophers. * APN News *Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain BadiouThe Seminars of Alain Badiou (1983–2016): General PrefaceIntroduction to the Seminar Images of Present Time by Kenneth ReinhardAbout the 2001–2004 SeminarYear 1: Contemporary Nihilism1. Session 12. Session 23. Session 34. Session 45. Session 56. Session 67. Session 7Year 2: Logic of Exceptions8. Session 19. Session 210. Session 311. Session 412. Session 513. Session 614. Session 715. Session 8Year 3: What Does it Mean to Live?16. Session 117. Session 218. Session 319. Session 420. Session 5NotesIndex
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The World and Man
Book SynopsisIn late 1633, as Descartes was preparing The World and Man for publication, he learned that Galileo had been condemned by the Catholic Church for defending the motion of the earth. His reaction to the news was swift and powerful: as his own treatises also espoused the proposition deemed heretical, he canceled their publication. More than thirty years after Descartes had begun his project, these works were finally published, posthumously, both to acclaim and to controversy. Together, they profoundly influenced the course of modern philosophy. This volume presents Roger Ariew’s clear and engaging translations of Descartes’s treatises, along with a general Introduction, describing the long road to publication, the reception of the works, and their significance. Appendices provide selections from Descartes’s correspondence on Galileo, Part V of the Discourse on Method, and a summary of Descartes’s Description of the Human Body.
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Fordham University Press Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory
Book SynopsisManhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University’s Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return. A young European intellectual’s first contact with America and the city of New York are the background of this story. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same. Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, Manhattan deploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous’s fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the “omnipotence-other” seductions of literature; a family’s flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with a counterfeit genius.Table of ContentsPrologue | vii Certes a Sacrifice | 1 The Eye-Patch | 23 A yellow Folder | 35 I Will Not Write This Book | 41 The Evidence | 53 I Loved Above All Literature | 59 The Necropolis | 71 More and More Notebooks | 83 I Am Naked | 95 The Charm of the Malady | 103 Folly usa | 115 Donne Is Done | 125 Room 91 | 133 The Vroom Vroom Period | 147 Elpenor’s Dream | 161 After the End | 177 Translator’s Notes | 185
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LEGARE STREET PR God. Guil. Leibnitii Opera Philosophica Quae Exstant Latina Gallica Germanica Omnia
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Understanding Kant's Groundwork
Book SynopsisImmanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is widely regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of moral philosophy. Indeed, any student of ethics will soon encounter a translation of the book, although trying to read it is likely to cause bewilderment. What, one may ask, is Kant trying to say? This book provides the answers. Here, seven highly regarded teachers and scholars of Kant's ethics offer remarkably clear explanations of the most important concepts in the Groundwork: the good will, happiness, duty, hypothetical and categorical imperatives, the Formula of Universal Law, the Formula of Humanity, and freedom.Contents: Preface The Good Will, Nataliya Palatnik Happiness, Anne Margaret Baxley Duty, Laura Papish Imperatives, Tamar Schapiro The Formula of Universal Law, Kyla Ebels-Duggan The Formula of Humanity, Japa Pallikkathayil Freedom, Lucy Allais About the Contributors Index Trade Review“This is the rare guide to Kant’s Groundwork suitable even for students new to philosophy. The clear, concise chapters focus on only the most essential concepts from all three sections of the Groundwork. The authors expertly illuminate Kant’s ethical thought and facilitate engagement with the text.” —Lara Denis, Agnes Scott College“A collection of beautifully clear and concise essays on Kant’s most famous ethical work, each written by an outstanding scholar. The crucial ideas of the Groundwork are expertly explained in ways that are both philosophically rich and reader friendly. This volume is an invaluable companion for any student or teacher of Kantian ethics.” —Karen Stohr, Georgetown University“A wonderfully clear and concise philosophical introduction to Kant’s seminal ethical treatise.” —Jens Timmermann, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsPreface; The Good Will, Nataliya Palatnik; Happiness, Anne Margaret Baxley ;Duty, Laura Papish; Imperatives, Tamar Schapiro; The Formula of Universal Law, Kyla Ebels-Duggan; The Formula of Humanity, Japa Pallikkathayil; Freedom, Lucy Allais; About the Contributors; Index.
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Legare Street Press SchopenhauerLexikon
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LEGARE STREET PR Lectures and Essays by William Kingdon Clifford Volume 2
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Legare Street Press The Philosophy of Plotinus ... 1
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Edinburgh University Press Ensemblance
Book SynopsisThrough several historical case studies from the last 300 years, Luis de Miranda shows how the phrase 'esprit de corps' acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is.
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Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Unhoused – Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling
Book SynopsisUnhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered “impossible” by nativism, by the decimations of war, and, in the postwar period, by housing’s increasingly thorough assimilation into private property. Adorno’s position on the meaning and prospects for adequate dwelling—a concept he never wrote about systematically but nevertheless returned to frequently—was not that some invulnerable state of home or dwelling should be revived. Rather, Adorno believed that the only responsible approach to housing was to cultivate an ethic of displacement, to learn “how not to be at home in one’s home.”Unhoused tracks four figurations of troubled dwelling in Adorno’s texts—homelessness, no man’s lands, the nature theater, and the ironic property relation—and reads them as timely interventions and challenges for today’s architecture, housing, and senses of belonging. Entangled as we are in juridical and financial frameworks that adhere to a very different logic, these figurations ask what it means to organize, design, build, and cohabit in ways that enliven non-exclusive relations to ourselves, others, objects, and place.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Homelessness2. Exteriors3. No Man’s Lands4. Property RelationsConclusion
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ME - Fordham University Press From Life to Survival
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 Toronto Press Heideggers Way of Being
Book SynopsisIn Heidegger’s Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger’s lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things. Drawing upon a wide variety of texts, many of which have been previously untranslated, Capobianco illuminates the overarching importance of Being as radiant manifestation – “the truth of Being” – and how Heidegger also named and elucidated this fundamental phenomenon as physis (Nature), Aletheia, the primordial Logos, and as Ereignis, Lichtung, and Es gibt.Heidegger’s Way of Being brings back into full view the originality and distinctiveness of Heidegger’s thought and offers an emphatic rejoinder to certain more recent readings, and particularly those that propose a reduction of Being to “Trade Review'This book will prove indispensable to anybody working within Heidegger studies, especially those interested in his work on poetry, language, and Heraclitus.' -- S. Montgomery Ewegen Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews January 2015
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Columbia University Press A Face Drawn in Sand Humanistic Inquiry and
Book SynopsisRey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a focus on Foucault's concept outside. She foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry.Trade ReviewIn this lucid, concise, and passionate book, Rey Chow theorizes the dire effects of entrepreneurial capitalism in our digital age while showing how a humanistic intellectual should confront the essential problems created and obscured by that capitalism. This recovery of Foucault is brilliant, timely, and liberating. -- Paul A. Bové, author of Love's ShadowIn A Face Drawn in Sand, Rey Chow not only offers a provocative and original reading of Foucault but also mobilizes this reading to analyze some of the most important oppositions in literary studies today: close reading versus distant reading, surface reading with its re-aestheticization of the text versus STEM-inspired social science approaches, identity versus racialization, among others. Rather than attempt simply to adjudicate these conflicts in the interests of compromise, Chow reconstructs their theoretical and historical conditions of possibility to determine how these oppositions came to be posed in their current form. In doing so, she allows us to rethink them and perhaps better articulate the problems they seek to address. This is a much-needed book. -- Warren Montag, coauthor of The Other Adam SmithIf, as Foucault said, we have yet to cut off the head of the king, Chow offers the sharpest blade yet: critique forged in immanence. With the equanimity of a saint and the tenacity of a battle-scarred scholar, she puts a point on Foucault’s productive hypothesis: to denounce power is not to say no to it. The result is a compelling series of interventions into the fields of study that matter most for humanistic inquiry today: critical race studies, sound studies, media studies, transnational and global studies. Chow’s gift is a vision of what these fields might be, beheaded. -- Thomas Lamarre, author of The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game MediaA Face Drawn in Sand cuts into the present with breathtaking clarity. Redeploying Foucault’s work in startling new ways, Chow engages everything from humanistic study in the neoliberal university to racism, sound theory, the digitized smart self, and sand painting. As brilliant as it is courageous, this book not only changes how we read Foucault. It teaches us how to think: how to press against the limits of our contemporary order. A tour de force! -- Lynne Huffer, author of Foucault's Strange ErosChow’s text accomplishes something rare these days: an original reading of Foucault that crackles with insight. * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsPart I. Humanistic Inquiry in the Era of the Moralist-EntrepreneurIntroduction: Rearticulating “Outside”Part II. Exercises in the Unthought1. Literary Study’s Biopolitics2. “There Is a ‘There Is’ of Light”; or, Foucault’s (In)visibilities3. Thinking “Race” with Foucault4. “Fragments at Once Random and Necessary”: The Énoncé Revisited, Alongside Acousmatic Listening5. From the Confessing Animal to the SmartselfCoda: Intimations from a Series of Faces Drawn in SandAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Fordham University Press Thinking with Adorno The Uncoercive Gaze
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the work of Theodor W. Adorno is best understood through the lens of his highly suggestive—yet often overlooked—concept of the “uncoercive gaze,” an innovative way of relating to the object of one’s analysis that interweaves critical intimacy and analytic vigilance.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Art of Reading | 1 1. Adorno and the Uncoercive Gaze | 17 2. Buried Possibility: Adorno and Arendt on Tradition | 39 3. The Inheritance of the Constellation: Adorno and Hegel | 70 4. Judging by Refraining from Judgment: Adorno’s Artwork and Its Einordnung | 95 5. The Literary Artwork between Word and Concept: Adorno and Agamben Reading Kafka | 115 6. The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno | 131 7. False Life, Living On: Adorno with Derrida | 144 Conclusion: A Kind of Leave-Taking | 161 Acknowledgments | 167 Notes | 169 Index | 203
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hominescence
Book SynopsisAccording to Michel Serres, a process of ''hominescence'' has taken place throughout human history. Hominescence can be described as a type of adolescence; humanity in a state of growing, a state of constant change, on the threshold of something unpredictable. We are destined never to be the same again but what does the future hold? In this innovative and passionately original work of philosophy, Serres describes the future of man as an adolescence, transitioning from childhood to adulthood, or luminescence, when a dark body becomes light. After considering the radical changes that humanity has experienced over the last fifty years, Serres analyzes the new relationship that man has with diverse concepts, like the dead, his own body, agriculture, and new communication networks. He alerts us to the consequences of these changes, particularly on the danger of growing inequalities between rich and poor countries. Should we rejoice in the future, ignore it, or even dread it? Unlike otherTrade ReviewThis fascinating text will interest readers across the entire spectrum of scholarship and human endeavor. Summing Up: Essential. All readers. * CHOICE *Produced in certain collectivities, in the course of their history, by their sciences and their technologies, in their economy and their politics, these ruptures affect, beneath these cultural components, the ‘nature’ of humans and of the world. That is why I call such ruptures hominescent. This study provides a powerful, innovative analysis of a new form of being human, ‘hominescence’. In the three domains, corporeal, worldly and in relation to other kinds of otherness, Michel Serres pursues enquiries begun over forty year ago, in his innovative reading of the system of Gottfried Leibniz. These enquiries gain from their expansion into the current context of digital tele-communications, and the internet of things, transgenic modifications and the resulting new ontologies of large numbers and quasi objects. -- Joanna Hodge, Professor of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKHominescence is Michel Serres’s best book – a profound mediation on the prodigious transformations the human species has faced in the past fifty years, which have altered our relation to death, to our bodies, our technologies, our planet, and even to thought itself. -- Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USAIn Hominescence, Michel Serres draws together themes which span decades of his work to illuminate the critical moment of human history where we cease to be natured and become forces of naturing. He offers a bold vision of the renewed relationship between the sciences and humanities to think beyond the crisis. -- Steven D. Brown, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, The Open University, UK * 20/02/2019 *Table of ContentsDeaths The Body How Our Body Changed The First Loop of Hominescence Three Global Houses The Greatest Contemporary Discovery Ego: Who Signs These Pages? The World The Greatest Contemporary Event Ancient and New Common Houses The Evolutionary House The Second Loop of Hominescence Who, ego? The Others The Event of Communication Contemporary Humanity The End of Networks: the Universal House The Third Loop of Hominescence The Others and the Death of the Ego Peace
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Verso Books The Adventure of French Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser's canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of "potato fascism" in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought.Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.Trade ReviewFrench philosophy still has a kick in it, and it can still turn heads. You have been warned. -- Jonathan Rée * Prospect *One of the most important philosophers writing today. -- Joan CopjecA figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! -- Slavoj ZizekAn heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. * New Statesman *Focused and illuminating, technical and deft. -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *A series of snapshots of how Badiou participates in and understands what ... we might call the post-1960s moment in French philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Carl Schmitt
Book SynopsisCarl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today with great interest by everyone from conservative Catholic theologians to radical political thinkers on the left. In his private life, however, Schmitt was haunted by the demons of his wild anti-Semitism, his self-destructive and compulsive sexuality and his deep-seated resentment against the complacency of bourgeois life. As a young man from a modest background, full of social envy, he succeeded in making his way to the top of the academic world in Germany, and yet he never felt at home in the academic establishment and among those of high social standing. When the Nazis seized power, Schmitt was susceptible to their ideology. He broke with his Jewish friends, joined the Nazi Party in May 1933 and lent a helping hand to Hitler, Trade Review"Mehring’s study...lay bare the links between Schmitt’s litigious life and his complicated ideas."Library Journal "Reinhard Mehring offers the English speaking world the first comprehensive intellectual biography of the highly controversial legal and political theorist, Carl Schmitt. Based on extensive archival research and a vast amount of unpublished material, Mehring identifies the psychological and emotional motivations that drove the intellectual endeavors of the notorious philosopher of "the political" and "the state of exception." Mehring demonstrates conclusively how Schmitt's struggles with, among other issues, his sexual desire and his obsession with the Jews, generated some of the most important, influential and dangerous political writings of the twentieth century."John P. McCormick, University of Chicago "In this fascinating biography, Mehring has used Schmitt’s only recently available diaries and calendar entries to lay bare the obsessions of this brilliant thinker -- often referred to as the Hobbes of the 20th century. Especially revealing are his struggles to shatter “the Jew in him,” which led him to aspire to become Hitler’s “pope” with all that that implied. Politically naïve about Nazism, he was severely attacked by the SS in 1936 and marginalized for, among other reasons, his pre-1933 close association with Jews and his anti-Nazism."George Schwab, President, National Committee on American Foreign Policy ‘Mehring’s book is a remarkable achievement: an intellectual biography that illuminates a whole era while taking very seriously the intimate connections between the theory and the restless and obsessive personality of its main character. It is bound to remain a fundamental reference in the vast literature on one of the most decisive chapters in European constitutional history: the Weimar Republic.’Political Studies Review ‘By presenting a complete account of Schmitt’s life, heretofore absent, Mehring has done a great service. This biography will no doubt be the point of departure for studies of Carl Schmitt and his intellectual legacy for a long time.’ConstellationsTable of ContentsAbbreviations Translator’s Preface A White Raven: The Strange Life of the German State Theorist Carl Schmitt Part One That ‘false and arrogant idea “I am”’ Schmitt’s Rise in the Wilhelminian Era 1. An ‘Obscure Young Man from a Modest Background’ 2. The Law of Practice 3. Apotheosis of the Poet, Rant against Literary Figures: the ‘Untimely Poet’ and the ‘Received Wisdom of the Educated’ 4. On the Eve of the Great War: State, Church and Individual as Points of Reference 5. Düsseldorf: Living in a State of Exception 6. World War and Defeatism: Carl Schmitt in Munich 7. Strasbourg, the State of Siege and a Decision in Favour of Catholicism 8. Political Romanticists 1815/1919 Part 2 Beyond Bourgeois Existence Schmitt’s Life and Work during the Weimar Republic 1. A Permanent Position? The Handelshochschule in Munich 2. A ‘Faithful Gypsy’ in Greifswald 3. Arrival in Bonn? Schmitt’s Turn towards the Catholic Church 4. Schmitt as a Teacher in Bonn 5. From Status Quo to Democratic ‘Myth’ 6. The Yield of the Bonn Years: 7. From ‘Ice Floe to Ice Floe’: Signals in the Berlin Maelstrom 8. Reconstructing the ‘Strong’ State 9. Within the Journalistic Circles of Weimar’s Last Days 10. Carl Schmitt as an Actor During the Rule by Presidential Decree Part Three In The Belly of the Leviathan: Schmitt’s Involvement in National Socialism 1. After 30 January 1933 2. Schmitt’s Resistible Rise to the Position of ‘Crown Jurist’ 3. The ‘Year of Construction’? Beginning and End of the Juridico-Institutional Provision of Meaning 4. Anti-Semitic Provision of Meaning 5. A New Turn with Hobbes? Meaning and Failure of Schmitt’s Commitment to National Socialism 6. The Right to Power? Großraum Order and Empire Formation 7. The Captain held Hostage? Carl Schmitt’s Farewell to the ‘Reich’ 8. Last Writings under National Socialism Part Four ‘One man remains’ Schmitt’s Slow Retreat after 1945 1. Detention and ‘Asylum’ 2. From Benito Cereno to Hamlet: The ‘Comeback’ of the Intellectual? 3. Private Seminars in Plettenberg: Schmitt’s Renewed Influence on Pupils in the Federal Republic 4. The Partisan in Conversation 5. Past Eighty: A Look Back to Old Questions Appendix Afterword Chronology Bibliography Endnotes Acknowledgments
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Hidden Connections
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Oxford University Press Inc The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
Book SynopsisIn this book George Marsden responds to critics of his The Soul of the American University (OUP 1994), and attempts to explain how, without heavy-handed dogmatism or moralizing, Christian faith can be of great relevance to contemporary scholarship of the highest standards.Trade Review"A frank assertion that religious faith does indeed have a place in academia."--Kirkus Reviews "A lucid, thoughtful book even his toughest critics will find compelling."--Publishers Weekly "An exciting and thought-provoking work."--Commonweal "Marsden's arguments need to be read both off and on the campus."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Marsden's earlier book...established him as an astute student of today's academic culture. In The Outrageous Idea, Marsden expands his former inquiry into basic ideas about scholarship that create a climate that is pervasively hostile to religion....The book is not an instance of special pleading for Christians. The gravamen of Marsden's case is that the academy's hostility to religion undermines the very idea of the university as an institution dedicated to honest intellectual engagement. Academics both junior and senior should want to check out Marden's diagnosis and explore what they together might do about it, even at the risk of appearing outrageous."--First Things "Marsden presents his 'outrageous idea' with such calm, persuasive power and fundamental decency that it is hard to imagine any person of good will taking exception. He here reaffirms his status as one of our leading interpreters of religion and contemporary American culture."--Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Augustine and the Limits of Politics." "A masterly explanation and defense of Christian learning in the contemporary world, displaying the learning it advocates."--Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale University "A frank assertion that religious faith does indeed have a place in academia."--Kirkus Reviews "In a lucid, thoughtful book even his toughest critics will find compelling, Marsden outlines specific ways that a scholarship informed by faith can, within the accepted rules of academic discourse, contribute new insights to the most sharply debated issues of the day, such as how to assert moral claims and affirm pluralism without lapsing into relativism."--Publishers Weekly "An exciting and thought-provoking work for anyone who cares about the future of the university and education today."--Commonweal "Marsden's arguments need to be read both off and on the campus."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram "For all those who take seriously the command to 'love the Lord your God...with all your mind,' Marsden's book is essential reading."--Christianity Today "Much is at stake in Mr. Marsden's program--not only the truth about the past, but a way of getting at issues often excluded in the present."--Robert Royal, The Washington Times "The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship is a heavenward glance. The scholarly community, secular and Christian alike, cannot but be the better for it."--Glenn Tinder, The Christian Century "This study combines the virtues of competence in historical analysis with personal commitment and experience....This is a book that should be pondered by all thoughtful Christians, and should be read by ministers and seminary professors, as well as Christians working in colleges and universities."--Theology Today "Marsden paints the canvas of Academia with the foundational tools of faith, purpose, and meaning. To be a scholar (a true scholar) one must be Christian."--Eric Pratt, Anderson College "Excellent text. Marsden surveys the academic landscape and summarizes it well. His characterization is apt."--Mark Discher, Ottawa University, Kansas "Marsden's work provides an excellent and accurate overview of the status of the modern academy with its operating, theoretical frameworks. He offers carefully poised responses and critiques from a Christian perspective."--The Master's Seminary Journal
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Columbia University Press Critique and Praxis
Book SynopsisBernard E. Harcourt calls for moving beyond the complacency of decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for action. Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice.Trade ReviewCritique and Praxis is the work of a visionary revolutionary intellectual. -- Biodun Jeyifo * British Journal of Sociology *With his typical combination of erudition, eloquent argument, and theoretical clarity, Bernard Harcourt now gives us a complete account of his reading of contemporary critical philosophy, articulating it with immediate issues in the field of human rights and democratic politics. A tour de force which will give readers much to learn and much to think about. I will have it permanently on my desk, or not far. -- Étienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political PhilosophyHas critical philosophy completed its mission or has it renounced the task, which it posed in the 1920s, to link theory and praxis in order to change the world? Harcourt’s response is unequivocal: the critical theory that emerged from the Frankfurt School has lost its original orientation and separated theory from the passion for praxis. Many other philosophical tendencies have since occupied this terrain, reimagining the theoretical horizon and trying to construct practices adequate to contemporary society. Harcourt studies and critiques them attentively, be they liberal currents or socialist variants, European philosophies of the common or insurrectionalist approaches. For Harcourt, however, critique must return to its radical roots and be done ‘en situation.’ This book inaugurates a turn from Foucault-style genealogies to a critical thought that is rooted in praxis and critiques it politically. With this passage, Harcourt exclaims, with Haraway, that ‘the only scientific thing to do is to revolt!’ And he confesses that in his previous books he only scratched at the surface of this conversion. Today the paradigm has shifted and praxis must be posed as subjectivation. If before the problem consisted in responding to ‘What is to be done?,’ today the question is ‘What more am I to do?’ Harcourt thus transforms critical philosophy into a manifesto of ethical engagement. -- Antonio Negri, coauthor of EmpireA relentlessly honest and learned exploration of how critical theory can turn again to the task of changing the world. Learning from above but assiduously from below, activist legal scholar Bernard Harcourt utilizes illusion and value, makes theory and practice collide, and asks: 'What more am I to do?' Required reading. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of Other AsiasBernard Harcourt's pragmatic and comprehensive dissection of philosophy and the quest for social justice is timely, provocative, and critically needed in this moment of global uncertainty, endless conflict, and pervasive inequality. -- Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionHarcourt has produced a challenging book, which addresses many of our current predicaments, and he has the moral authority to command our attention. * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *His mountainous text is a repetitive tool-box of notes and thoughts from his seminar series and own readings. Like lightning, brilliant ideas flash across the pages. * Counterpunch *By any measure, Critique & Praxis is an impressive contribution, passionate, lucid, deeply committed and nearly always generous in its disagreements. As a conversation between Foucauldian philosophy and radical-political engagement, it is a tour de force. * New Left Review *It’s lucidly written and relatively short on jargon. Which makes it an important book to pay attention to, even for those with no interest in abstruse political-social theories, because we urgently need new ways to critique the system we live in and develop new strategies to oppose and replace it. * History News Network *Critique & Praxis is one of the most provoking contributions to critical theory of the twenty-first century. * Foucault Studies *Bernard Harcourt's latest book is bold, brave, and too short. -- Frieder Vogelmann * British Journal of Sociology *A wide-ranging effort to take up the conundrum of critical theory, which has been with us since Marx wrote the eleventh thesis—that is, that we think and act in and on a damaged society. * Political Theory *Table of ContentsPreface: The Primacy of Critique and PraxisIntroduction: Toward a Critical Praxis TheoryPart I. Reconstructing Critical Theory1. The Original Foundations2. Challenging the Frankfurt Foundations3. Michel Foucault and the History of Truth-Making4. The Return to Foundations5. The Crux of the Problem6. Reconstructing Critical Theory7. A Radical Critical Philosophy of IllusionsPart II. Reimagining the Critical Horizon8. The Transformation of Critical Utopias9. The Problem of Liberalism10. A Radical Critical Theory of Values11. A Critical Horizon of Endless Struggle12. The Problem of Violence13. A Way ForwardPart III. Renewing Critical Praxis14. The Transformation of Praxis15. The Landscape of Contemporary Critical Praxis16. The New Space of Critical PraxisPart IV. Reformulating Critique17. Reframing the Praxis Imperative18. What More Am I To Do?19. Crisis, Critique, PraxisConclusionPostscriptNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsName IndexConcept Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Heidegger
Book SynopsisMartin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most influential, but also most cryptic and controversial philosophers. His early fusion of phenomenology with existentialism inspired Sartre and many others, and his later critique of modern rationality inspired Derrida and still others. This introduction covers the whole of Heidegger's thought and is ideal for anyone coming to his work for the first time.John Richardson centres his account on Heidegger's persistent effort to change the very kind of understanding or truth we seek. Beginning with an overview of Heidegger's life and work, he sketches the development of Heidegger's thought up to the publication of Being and Time. He shows how that book takes up Husserl's method of phenomenology and adapts it. He then introduces and assesses the key arguments of Being and Time under three headingspragmatism, existentialism, and temporalityits three levels of analysis of human experience.Subsequent chapteTrade Review"This brilliant book should convince mainstream philosophers that Heidegger is a thinker they cannot ignore or dismiss. Stunningly clear, it serves up existential insights on a silver platter." - Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico, USA "Equally remarkable for its erudition and clarity, this book will prove invaluable for students and scholars looking for guidance through Heidegger’s early and later thought. Richardson’s discussion of Being and Time is particularly ingenious, showing how it progresses through the increasingly profound layers of pragmatism, existentialism, and temporality. I highly recommend it." - Lee Braver, Hiram College, USA"Here’s a book on Heidegger that instructs the uninitiated, meets Heidegger’s opponents with rigor and fairness, and does all this with commendable clarity and thoroughness." - Albert Borgmann, University of Montana, USATable of Contents1. Life and works 2. Early development 3. Being and Time: Phenomenology 4. Being and Time: Pragmatism 5. Being and Time: Existentialism 6. Being and Time: Time and being 7. Heidegger’s turning 8. Language and art 9. Technology and god 10. Heidegger’s influences Glossary Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
Book SynopsisSeeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by artists like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays exploring the meaning of grace and gesture in film and on stage, in language and in life. Critical to the renaissance in American thought Cavell hopes to provoke is the recognition of the centrality of the “ordinary” to American life.Trade ReviewStanley Cavell has been a major figure not only as an academic philosopher at Harvard, but also as an educator to those of us who would read modern philosophy if only it were readable. He has a seductively conversational tone, and I am an addict of his essays. A new volume, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow, does not disappoint. Who but Cavell could begin an essay with Nietsche’s Birth of Tragedy and end it with an analysis of Fred Astaire? There are good thoughts on Shakespeare, Henry James, Wittgenstein and, of course, Heidegger. Cavell is one of Heidegger’s most intelligible interpreters. -- A. N. Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *What has Wittgenstein or Heidegger got to do with Fred Astaire? More than a little, Cavell argues in one of the essays in this new collection, which as a whole demonstrates his nuanced philosophical and intellectual engagement with culture in general, and popular culture in particular. * London Review of Books *Stanley Cavell is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and independent contemporary American philosophers writing today… Cavell’s newest book Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow comprises his most recent thinking on topics pertaining to philosophy, literature and film. A collection of ten essays, the book’s topics span over the whole range of questions that have at some time or other preoccupied this philosopher’s interest… Cavell never disappoints to surprise the reader with his insights. An astute reader and interpreter of works of art, he is showing an acute sensibility that is capable of unearthing new twists and turns in the canonic interpretations of classical and modern works of art (or the supposedly mundane works of the movie world). Only a philosopher such as Cavell could be brave enough to dig out hidden philosophical propositions out of a short sequence of a dancing routine by Fred Astaire. -- Harry Witzthum * Metapsychology *One of our most imaginative philosophers, Cavell can always be counted upon to provoke his readers to join him as he soars to dizzying new philosophical heights. With his characteristic aplomb, he ranges over the thoughts of his favorite philosophers, from Nietzsche and Wittgenstein to Heidegger and J. L. Austin, weaving them seamlessly into colorful new patterns with the performative gestures of figures as diverse as Fred Astaire, Shakespeare, Henry James, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and his other favorites, Emerson and Thoreau. Cavell examines themes ranging from the role of the ordinary in philosophy and the intellectual isolation of contemporary American philosophy to the nature and place of skepticism in literature and philosophy… Very few philosopher’s demonstrate Cavell’s knack for connecting literary and cinematic texts with philosophical writings. -- Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. * Library Journal *Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow advances not only on his previous collections of formal papers, but also on the autobiographical A Pitch of Philosophy (1994), by conveying an approach to thought that gives thought itself its due, as an ongoing process of momentary involvement, as distinct from any more mechanized, ‘automated,’ positivistic or sparsely logical methods of analysis—and equally we must recall that after all Stanley Cavell’s background was precisely given by a various approach to analytic philosophy. The reader is here constantly encouraged in rethinking Wittgenstein’s willingness to consult the mysteries of ordinary language itself. In turn, with Stanley Cavell himself, we see the ways this particular philosophy is always unfurling and refolding the flag of its ideas. These essays, sharing some properties of musical variation, deal with the question of individual and social freedom. This crux arises from our being users of language, in our achieving ordinary identity, which is where, in our human condition, the most important philosophical issues may be seen to locate their limits. -- Angus Fletcher, author of A New Theory for American PoetryOver the course of his long and prodigious career, Stanley Cavell has been concerned with a number of recurrent issues, both philosophical (Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin and ordinary language philosophy; Thoreau, Emerson, and Emersonianism; skepticism) and cultural (America; film; Shakespeare). He has also been, and continues to be, the foremost advocate in this country for a rapprochement between philosophy and literature with a merging of what are known as the Anglo-American and the Continental strains of philosophy. Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow comprises his most recent set of meditations on these issues, and as such it offers at once a welcome revisitation of his work to date and a nuanced, considered extension of his thinking. As is fitting for an intellectual of Cavell’s standing, it also provides an opportunity to witness a philosopher at the height of his maturity working through questions to which he has devoted his extraordinary career. -- Robert Harrison, author of The Body of Beatrice and The Dominion of the DeadTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Something Out of the Ordinary 2. The Interminable Shakespearean Text 3. Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise 4. Henry James Returns to America and to Shakespeare 5. Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow 6. What is the Scandal of Skepticism? 7. Performative and Passionate Utterance 8. The Wittgensteinian Event 9. Thoreau Thinks of Ponds, Heidegger of Rivers 10. The World as Things Works Cited Acknowledgments Index
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Imprint Academic Metaphysics Method and Politics The Political
Book SynopsisThis book argues that R.G. Collingwood developed a complete and coherent political philosophy of civilization. In making this case it also demonstrates that Collingwood''s philosophical work comprises a unity in which, although there was development, there is no fundamental discontinuity between his earlier and later writings. A philosophy of civilization must situate its subject matter within the full context of human experience and therefore Collingwood''s political philosophy of civilization must be situated within the context of his whole philosophy. The book presents the case that Collingwood developed a coherent philosophy of politics and civilization, that this had its roots in both the early and the later work; and that his overall philosophical approach comprises a generally consistent and integrated whole.
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Edinburgh University Press Matter and Motion
Book SynopsisThomas Nail traces an alternative history of ancient and modern thinkers from the Bronze Age to quantum physics who share a radically different understanding of the nature of matter and motion compared to the rest of the Euro-Western tradition.
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MIT Press Ltd Giving a Damn Essays in Dialogue with John
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that use John Haugeland's work on intentionality, embodiment, objectivity, and caring to explore contemporary issues in philosophy of mind.In his work, the philosopher John Haugeland (1945-2010) proposed a radical expansion of philosophy's conceptual toolkit, calling for a wider range of resources for understanding the mind, the world, and how they relate. Haugeland argued that “giving a damn” is essential for having a mind—suggesting that traditional approaches to cognitive science mistakenly overlook the relevance of caring to the understanding of mindedness. Haugeland's determination to expand philosophy's array of concepts led him to write on a wide variety of subjects that may seem unrelated—from topics in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to examinations of such figures as Martin Heidegger and Thomas Kuhn. Haugeland's two books with the MIT Press, Artificial Intelligence and Mind Design, show the range
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Queering Fat Embodiment
Book SynopsisCultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and commodification of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an alleged 'obesity epidemic', this volume brings together the latest scholarship from various critical disciplines to challenge existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment. Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses. A critical queer examination on fatness, Queering Fat Embodiment will be of interest tTrade Review’Queering Fat Embodiment is the first book to focus on the intersection of queer studies and fat studies, and promises to be a classic in its field. What could be more exciting than discussions of fat and queer fashion, desire, performance, cyberspace, and politics, as well as the fluidity of gender identity, bodies, and sexuality? It’s a great read.’ Esther D. Rothblum, San Diego State University, USA ’Queering Fat Embodiment is an important contribution to the emerging literature of Fat Studies because it restates the necessity for radical critique and makes space for anti-assimilationist activism. The book offers an exciting balance of better-known contributors and fresh new voices and I highly recommend it to anybody interested in developing a critical understanding of fat and obesity.’ Dr Charlotte Cooper, charlottecooper.net, obesitytimebomb.blogspot.co.uk, twitter.com/thebeeferTable of ContentsQueering Fat Embodiment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Wittgenstein and Scepticism
Book SynopsisWittgenstein is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last hundred years and scepticism is one of the central problems that modern philosophy faces. This collection is the first to be devoted to an examination of how that great philosopher''s work bears on this fundamental philosophical problem. Wittgenstein''s reaction to scepticism is complex, articulating both a sense that sceptical problems are ultimately unreal and a sense that scepticism teaches us something about the fundamental character of the human predicament. The essays, specially written for this collection by distinguished philosophers and commentators on Wittgenstein, explore that reaction, addressing, in particular, scepticism about the existence of the external world and of other minds. In doing so, it explores issues not only in theory of knowledge but also in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, language, perception and literature, as well as raising questions about the nature of philosophy itself.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION, Denis McManus; Chapter 1 WITTGENSTEINIAN CERTAINTIES, Crispin Wright; Chapter 2 SCEPTICISM AND PRAGMATISM, Akeel Bilgrami; Chapter 3 WITTGENSTEIN'S REFUTATION OF IDEALISM, Michael Williams; Chapter 4 VARIETIES OF SCEPTICISM, James Conant; Chapter 5 SOLIPSISM AND SCEPTICISM IN THE TRACTATUS, Denis McManus; Chapter 6 WITTGENSTEIN AND THE QUESTION OF LINGUISTIC IDEALISM, Ilham Dilman; Chapter 7 WHAT ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS FOR?, Jane Heal; Chapter 8 UNDERSTANDING SCEPTICISM, Andrea Kern; Chapter 9 LIVING WITH THE PROBLEM OF THE OTHER, Edward Minar; Chapter 10 THE EVERYDAY ALTERNATIVE TO SCEPTICISM, Marie McGinn; Chapter 11 SCEPTICISM AND TRAGEDY, Anthony Palmer; Chapter 12 REPLY TO FOUR Chapter S, Stanley Cavell;
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Cambridge University Press Seeing Wittgenstein Anew
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