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Book SynopsisDescribes serial television and “binge watching”. Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that the history of seriality itself is a continual battleground between a more unified version of truth-telling and a more fractured form of diversion and addiction.

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Book SynopsisWhoever distrusts the barking of watchdogs, however, does not immediately have to begin howling with the wolves.Bernhard WaldenfelsIn this seminal work, acclaimed philosopher Bernhard Waldenfels deals with the problem of the nature of order after the shattering of the world, and the loss of the idea of a universal or fundamental order.

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Book SynopsisDespite the upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings are generally under-represented. However, literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Bringing together original essays from a an international group of contributors, this book offers a wide ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking.Trade Review"This elegant and finely argued collection of essays...sends the reader back to the Notes to Literature, in particular, with a sharpened appetite...' 'In a series of scrupulous readings of Adorno's reflections on literature, which have been noticeably neglected in the recent reconsideration of his thought among anglophone scholars, they communicate the sophistication of his criticism and its own critical and utopian potential for literary studies.' Radical Philosophy"Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK) and Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland); Part I: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literature; 1. Literature, and the Modern System of the Arts: Sources of Criticism in Adorno, Stewart Martin (Middlesex University, UK); 2. Adorno's critical Presence: Cultural Theory and Literary Value, Martin Ryle (University of Sussex, UK) and Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University, UK); 3. Interpretation and Truth: Adorno on Literature and Music, Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, UK); 4. Adorno and the Poetics of Genre, Eva Geulen (University of Bonn, Germany); Part II: Poetry and Poetics; 5. Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz, Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths, UK); 6. The Truth in Verse? Adorno, Wordsworth, Prosody, Simon Jarvis (University of Cambridge, UK); 7. Lyric's Expression: Musicality, Conceptuality, Critical Agency, Robert Kaufman (Stanford University, USA); 8. Returning to the 'House of Oblivion': Celan Between Adorno and Heidegger, Iain Macdonald (University of Montreal, Canada); Part III: Modernity, Drama and the Novel; 9. Forgetting - Faust: Adorno and Kommerell, Paul Fleming (New York University, USA); 10. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Lukacs's Theory of the Novel, Timothy Hall (University of East London, UK); 11. No Nature, No Nothing: Adorno, Beckett, Disenchantment, Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland); 12. Late Style in Naipaul: Adorno's Aesthetic and the Postcolonial Novel, Timothy Bewes (Brown University, USA); 13. After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK); Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton''s writings, spanning a period of thirty years. It gathers selections from some of his earliest works such as The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979) to his most recent Culture Counts (2007). The book also includes a good number of unpublished essays. It is made up of five sections - the last section of all contains some of Scruton''s most pugilistic pieces on Dawkins and on The Iraq War. Scruton holds Burkean political views and his book The Meaning of Conservatism was a response to the growth of liberalism in the Conservative party. At all times he is concerned to shift the right way from economics towards moral issues such as sex education and censorship laws. But he has in fact written on almost every aspect of philosophy - always in prose which is accessible and written with pellucid clarity.Trade Review'An excellent introduction to [Scruton's] range of interests' - Kenneth Minogue, Times Literary Supplement"Dooley compiles 16 selected essays by English philosopher Roger Scruton on topics ranging from conservative politics to sex, culture, the environment, wine, and hunting, which were written between 1986 and 2008 (most after 2000). He aims to present a companion to his volume Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach and a text for those wishing to teach Scruton's philosophy or become acquainted with his work. The first group of essays relate to Scruton's political conservatism, followed by sections on his theory of the nation and his ideas about sex and marriage, religion, knowledge, and the role of architecture in human life." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.Author article in Irish Daily Mail'This is a book brimming with observations and arguments, some surprising, many provocative, all engaging.'- Chandran Kukathas, The American ConservativeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Autobiographical; 2. Art and Culture; 3. Philosophy and Some Philosophers; 4. Politics; 5. The Philosopher in Society.

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Book Synopsis"Mapping the Present" assesses the relationship between Foucault and Heidegger, particularly on the issue of space and history. It suggests that space and history need to be rethought, and combined as a spatial history, rather than as a history of space.Trade Review"Offers a powerful reinterpretation of Foucault and reveals the frequently neglected significance of the work of Heidegger to Foucault's intellectual project. Mapping the Present provides analytically rigorous yet accessible reinterpretations of relevant works of both Foucault and Heidegger and demonstrates the crucial importance of spatial relations in the exercise of modern forms of power."--Barry Smart"A marvellous book--critical and generous, clear and sophisticated, wise and witty. For those interested in the project of a spatial history, Elden has opened up wholly new ways of thinking about (and working with) Heidegger and Foucault that are alert to the philosophical and theoretical complexities of their writings and to the political and ethical responsibilities of a history of the present."--Derek Gregory"...excellent study...It is a rich and complex book, which is at once an interpretation of Heidegger and Foucault, an argument for the importance of Heidegger for understanding Foucault and a forceful case for the claim that Foucault's Nietzsche is a Nietzsche mediated by Heidegger...it is an amazing book in the sense that it can handle such a variety of topics, and thinkers and issues and so many layers of argument in a concise, readable and yet immaculate manner. Stuart Elden is a master of brevity. The main body of the book is supplemented by nearly fifty pages of notes and an excellent bibliography that will be of great help to those who want to pursue the issues of their interest further, leaving the book accessible to the 'general' reader." -- The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2005 -- The Journal of Natural and Social PhilosophyTable of ContentsSpace and history in being and time; in the shadow of Nazism - reading Holderlin and Nietzsche; art, technology, place and the political; towards a spatial history; the spaces of power.

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive introduction to Benjamin's "Arcades Project" - one of the significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era. This work explores a diverse range of issues such as the physiognomy of ruins, the dialectical image, and modernity and architecture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Physiognomy of a Fl& No. 226;neur: Walter Benjamin's Peregrinations in Search of the Dialetical Image, Beatrice Hanssen (University of Georgia); Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonier, Irving Wohlfarth (University of Reims); The Fl& No. 226;neur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering, Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University); Passage Work, Barbara Johnson (Harvard University); Ruin and Rubble in the Arcades, Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London); Geheimmittel Advertising and Dialectical Images in Benjamin's Arcades Project, Max Pensky (Binghampton, SUNY). A Matter of Distance: Benjamin's One-Way Street through the Arcades, Gerhard Richter (UC Davis); 'The Colportage Phenomenon of Space' and the Place of Montage in the Arcades Project, Brigid Doherty (Princeton University); Walter Benjamin's Dream of 'Happiness', Elissa Marder (Emory University); The Dream of Reality in the Ruin, Stathis Gourgouris (UCLA); The Enticing and Threatening Face of Prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the Utopia of Glass, Detlef Mertins (University of Pennsylvania); Glass before its time, premature iron: Architecture, Temporality and dream in Benjamin's Arcades Project, Tyrus Miller (UC Santa Cruz); Remains to be Seen, Stanley Cavell (Harvard University).

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Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV - Robert Gibbs; 2. Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin's Losses - Rebecca Comay; 3. Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard - Benjamin - Brecht - Rainer Nagele; 4. Down the K Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Landsurveying of History - Stephanie Polsky; 5. Benjamin and the History of Religion - Howard Caygill; 6. The Shortness of History: On the Thesis - David Ferris; 7. What is the Matter of Architecture History? - Gevoork Hartoonian; 8. Tradition as an Event: Benjamin and the Critics of Historicism - Philippe Simay; 9. Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity - Andrew Benjamin; 10. 'Now': Walter Benjamin and Historical Time - Wener Hamacher; 11. The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then and Modernity - Georges Didi-Huberman; 12. Benjamin's History of the Interior - Charles Rice.

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Trade Review'...In a relatively short book, Elden has achieved a great deal. He combines considerable breadth of understanding, with a rigourous attention to the details of Lefebvre's work...Anyone with more than a passing interest in Lefebvre, especially if they have been unable to interrogate his original works in French, will benefit from a detailed engagement with Elden's sensitive and provocative analysis of one of France's most important theories.' -- Tim Unwin'...Lefebvre was extraordinarily prolific and his oeuvre contains numerous works that are often neglected or have yet to be brought into focus by commentators. This is something that Elden's truly compendious Understanding Henri Lefebvre helps to correct...Elden has performed a fine service to Lefebvre scholarship here. His book will help to orient an English-speaking audience to the sophisticated philosophical background of one of the most original calls to revolutionary thought and action of the twentieth century.' -- Andrew Aitken'...the most thorough, complete and rich account of the full range and scope of Henri Lefebvre's intellectual concersn from the 1920s to his death in 1991.' -- Neil Maycroft * Capital and Class *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Henri Lefebvre 1901-1991; 1. Rethinking Marxism; 2. Engaging with Philosophy; 3. The Critique of Everyday Life; 4. From the Rural to the Urban; 5. Space, Time and History; 6. Politics and the State

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Trade Review'Alex Thompson's book not only illuminates Adorno's most important ideas, it makes an original contribution to contemporary social theory... The book will be of great clarificatory use for undergraduates, and will provide much stimulus to postgraduates and academics as well.' Darrow Schecter, University of Sussex * Blurb from reviewer *Table of ContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Against Authenticity Weimar Years In America Adorno's Cultural Criticism Return Aftermath2. Art and Culture Adorno and Popular Music The Aesthetics of Music Modernism or avant-garde? History and Truth-Content The Culture Industry Aesthetic theory and ideology-critique3. Freedom and Society Wrong Life: Adorno's Minima Moralia Adorno and Kant Freedom and Society Dialectic of Enlightenment The morality of thinking Living with Guilt4. Philosophy and History Writing the Disaster Crisis of Reason Against Historicism The task of philosophy Adorno & Marxism ConclusionNotesFurther ReadingBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWillard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. This work offers an analysis of his writings and ideas in those areas of philosophy to which he contributed. It sets his work in its intellectual context, illuminating his connections to Russell, Carnap and logical positivism.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Background: Russell, Carnap and Logical Positivism; Chapter 2: The Critique of Convention and Analyticity; Chapter 3: What is Language? Word and Object and The Roots of Reference. Chapter 4: What is Knowledge? 'Epistemology Naturalized'; Chapter 5: Quinean Metaphysics I: What is Real?; Chapter 6: Quinean Metaphysics II: What does it mean to call something 'real'?; Chapter 7: Quine contra Philosophical Analysis: The Case of Belief; Chapter 8: Summary: What is Philosophy?

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Book SynopsisIn 1950s and 60s Gilles Deleuze turned to Henri Bergson's theories of memory and instinct and to Carl Jung's theory of archetypes. In "Difference and Repetition (1968)" he conceived of a 'differential unconscious' based on Leibnizian principles. This book shows how these tendencies combine in Deleuze's work to engender an approach to unconscious.Trade Review-Mention. The Chronicle of Higher Education/ July 13, 2007"This book, beyond being a superior work of scholarship, reveals an entire network of decisive investments and influences, scarcely grasped before, which underpin the entire course of Deleuze's philosophy. Kerslake's book is a landmark in English-language Deleuze scholarship, whose merits are many, and which thoroughly deserves to be widely read and discussed...The greatest promise of Kerslake's exceptional book is that Deleuze's philosophy will be turned to in all its richness and paradox. Without a doubt, there have been some very fine contributions to English-speaking Deleuze scholarship, but Kerslake has set a new high watermark." -Jonathan Roffe, Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Memory and the Unconscious; Chapter 2: Deleuze's Early Jungianism; Chapter 3: Deleuze and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis; Chapter 4: The Pathologies of Repetition; Chapter 5: Language and the Unconscious in Deleuze and Lacan; Chapter 6: Anti-Oedipus and Beyond; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisAddresses directly the major points of difficulty faced by students of Husserl and leads them through the maze of complex ideas and language. In identifying and working through common sources of confusion arising from Husserl's philosophy, this book builds up a comprehensive overview of his thought and, more broadly, of phenomenology itself.Trade Review'Husserl: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear, concise and accessible introduction of Husserl's philosophy for academics and any philosophy student who wants to further his/her ideas about Husserl' philosophy...Matheson Russell provides a thorough analysis of main topics of Husserl's philosophy while focusing each discussion on one of his major works.' Kamuran Godelek PhD, Metapsychology Online ReviewsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Approaching Husserl; Part I: The phenomenological attitude; Chapter 2: The idea of phenomenology; Chapter 3: Unravelling the reductions; Chapter 4: Transcendental reduction; Chapter 5: Eidetic reduction. Part II: Consciousness; Chapter 6: The structure of intentionality; Chapter 7: Noema and object; Chapter 8: Intuition, evidence and truth; Chapter 9: Constitution of objectivities; Chapter 10: Time-consciousness; Part III: Philosophical topics; Chapter 11: The critique of psychologism; Chapter 12: Intersubjectivity; Chapter 13: The lifeworld; Chapter 14: The crisis of the sciences; Chapter 15: Conclusion: Mastering Husserl.

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Book SynopsisProvides an account of the philosophical and historical context of Wittgenstein's work - "Tractatus". This book provides a detailed outline of the themes and structure of the text, guiding the reader towards an understanding of this remarkable text. It explores the reception and influence of the work and offers a detailed guide to further reading.Trade Review"It is relatively easy to cobble together an interpretation of the Tractatus from scattered bits of Wittgenstein's book, much harder to stick to the words on the page and figure out the point of it all. All too often commentators dodge around, close their eyes to difficulties, and quote passages without explanation. But not Roger White. He looks closely at the text, refrains from putting words into Wittgenstein's mouth and does his level best to clarify what is going on There is no trimming to fit a preconceived idea or the latest fad, just a sustained effort to deal with Wittgenstein's masterpiece on its own terms and to bring it alive. White has thought long and hard about the Tractatus, and one never feels in anything less than excellent hands. Better still I fancy he captures the spirit of Wittgenstein as well as the letter of his text. Much is left to the reader and some of the discussion requires close attention, but anyone who perseveres, novice or expert, will find the effort more than worthwhile." -Andrew Lugg, Philosophy in ReviewTable of Contents1. Context; 2. Overview of themes; 3. Reading the Text; 4. Reception and influence; 5. Notes for Further Reading; Selective bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisEdward Kanterian is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent, and the author of Analytic Philosophy (2004) and Wittgenstein (2007).He has a forthcoming book on Kant's God.Trade Review‘This is a splendid book. In a lucid and leisurely style it explains the ideas of the greatest logician since Leibniz and a seminal figure in the growth both of analytical philosophy and of its continental rivals. The author shirks no difficulties. He provides the first book-length elucidation of Frege's original logical notation. He thoroughly explores such ideas as the function-argument and the sense-reference distinction, judiciously discriminating between what we should retain and what we should discard. He sheds a bright light into the darkest recesses of Frege's intricate thought.' -- Michael Inwood, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction / 2. Begriffsschrift: probing the terrain / 2.1 Scope of a concept-script\ 2.2 The epistemological dimension of logic / 2.3 The struggle against intuition and language / 2.4 Concept-script: a brief overview / 3. Begriffsschrift: digging deeper / 3.1 The judgment-stroke and the content-stroke / 3.2 Subject and predicate / 3.3 Modes of judgment, negation / 3.4 Conditionality / 3.5 The functional character of concept-script\ 3.6 Identity / 3.7 Definition / 3.8 Logical analysis and elucidations / 3.9 Functions and functional analysis / 3.10 Functions, concepts, properties / 3.11 Generality / 3.12 Inference / 4. Later developments / 4.1 Sense and Meaning / 4.2 The function-theoretic account of Sense / 4.3 The challenge of contingent thoughts / 4.4 Are concepts functions? / 4.5 Concept and object / 4.6 Fictional discourse / 5. Epilogue / Notes / Bibliography / Index

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Table of ContentsRoger M. White: "'Ought" implies "Can": Kant and Luther, a Contrast'.; Catherine Wilson: 'Confused Perceptions, Darkened Concepts: Some Features of Kant's Leibniz-critique'.; Guy Stock: 'Thought and Sensibility in Leibniz, Kant and Bradley'.; Peter Lewis: "'Original Nonsense": Art and Genius in Kant's Aesthetic'.; Eckart Forster: 'Fichte, Beck and Schelling in Kant's Opus postumum'.; John Liewelyn: 'Imagination as a Connecting Middle in Schelling's Reconstruction of Kant'.; Giuseppe Micheli: 'The Early Reception of Kant's Thought in England 1785-1805'.; Manfred Kuehn: 'Hamilton's Reading of Kant: A Chapter in the Early Scottish Reception of Kant's Thought'.; Donald MacKinnon: 'Aspects of Kant's Influence on British Theology'.

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Book SynopsisDavid Hume is arguably one of the most important philosophers ever to have written in English. This book is an account of Hume's philosophy, his major works and ideas, providing a guide to the important and complex thought of this key philosopher. It covers the whole range of Hume's work, offering examination of the key areas of his thought.Table of Contents1. Introduction to Hume's Life, Works and Thought; 2. The Origin and Association of Ideas; 3. Space and Time; 4. The Relation of Cause and Effect. 5. Necessary Connexions and the Freedom the Will; 6. Personal Identity; 7. Scepticism.

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Book SynopsisFriedrich Nietzsche is one of the best known philosophers, whose work and ideas have proved influential to leading figures in all areas of cultural life. This book gives an account of Nietzsche's philosophy, his major works and ideas, providing a guide to the important and complex thought of this key philosopher.Trade Review"Hill's discussion of later thinkers and working through of philosophical-logical problems in Nietzsche has obvious merits, but it does necessitate a certain degree of extra explanation. For example, the eight-page discussion of Deleuze includes a two plus page introduction to G. W. F. Hegel. While illuminating, such detours stray away from the focus of ‘introducing' Nietzsche and may pose a challenge to the typical reader of books in these kinds of series. Hill does not help matters by using, but not defining, philosophical terminology such as ‘axiological' and ‘qualia.' He also assumes knowledge of figures such as George Berkley and William Quine. A small amount of explanation on these matters would have been helpful. On balance, however there is no shortage of introductory texts on Nietzsche, so it is fair enough that Hill has made some idiosyncratic choice about the issues he feels are most pressing and which he is best equipped to discuss. In short, this book will be most useful for those who can read it along with Nietzsche's own work, have a grounding in basic philosophical issues, and are interested in how later philosophers have used Nietzsche in conjunction with their own unique and influential theories." - Jennifer Benner, H-Net Reviews, June 2008 -- Jennifer Benner * H' Net Review *Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; A pervasive presence; Biographical sketch. Nietzsche's minor published writings; Editions and translations; 2. Nietzsche's Writings; The early works; The middle works; Zarathustra and the latter works; 3. Nihilism, Will to Power, and Value; Nihilism; The will to power; 'And nothing else besides!'; Eternal recurrence; 4. Perspectivism; Logic; Perception; Knowledge in a world of will to power; 5. Critique of Morality; Nobility; Genealogy; The story; 6. Heidegger's Nietzsche; Preliminaries; The will to power as art; The eternal recurrence of the same; The will to power as knowledge; Nihilism again; 7. A Different Nietzsche; Derrida; Foucault; Deleuze; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisContains more than 60 original translations of papers written by the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). By focusing on Leibniz's shorter philosophical writings rather than his lengthy and/or impenetrable pieces, this volume aims to be more 'student friendly' than rival anthologies of Leibniz's work.Trade Review"'Strickland's excellent collection not only provides a highly accessible entry point to students approaching Leibniz for the first time, but also constitutes a significant contribution to Leibniz scholarship; the selections are fresh and interesting, and succeed in revealing the breadth and depth of Leibniz's philosophy.' Vernon Pratt, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Lancaster University 'Since no one or two of Leibniz's works capture the breadth of his thought, Strickland's anthology is a happy solution and fills a neglected niche in hitherto published anthologies.' Daniel J. Cook, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, CUNY"Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Bibliography; Introduction; A note on the translations; Part I. Metaphysics; A. Creation; B. Truth and Substance; Part II: Mind, Body and Soul; A. Souls and their nature; B. The relationship between soul and body; C. The fate of souls; Part III. Free Will and Necessity; A. The nature of free will; B. Contingency and necessity; Part IV: Science; A. Matter and body; B. The laws of nature; C. Biology; Part V. Law and Ethics; A. Law; B. Virtue; C. Pleasure and happiness; VI. Theology; A. The existence of God; B. Optimism and meliorism; C. Sin and evil.

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Book SynopsisRene Descartes is arguably the most important seventeenth-century thinker and the father of modern philosophy. His seminal works are widely studied by students of philosophy. This book provides an account of his philosophy, his major works and ideas.Table of Contents1. Method; 2. Mind and Idea; 3. The Existence of God; 4. Knowledge; 5. Body; 6. The Mind-Body Relation; 7. Sensations, Passions, and Morals.

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Book SynopsisGilles Deleuze (1925-1995) is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The author proposes a radical way of understanding philosophy and art. He develops the concept further to present a way of practising philosophy based upon the fold as the relationship of difference with itself.Trade Review"'A significant and needed contribution... proposes a radically new conception of the notion of Baroque and, at the same time, is a new interpretation of Leibniz's work.' -- Reda Bensmaia 'A powerful and illuminating interpretation.' -- British Journal of Aesthetics"Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword: A Plea for Leibniz; PART I: The Fold; 1. The Pleats of Matter; 2. The Folds in the Soul; 3. What is Baroque?; PART II: Inclusions; 4. Sufficient Reason; 5. Incompossibility, Individuality, Liberty; 6. What Is an Event?; PART III: Having a Body; 7. Perception in the Folds; 8. The Two Floors; 9. The New Harmony; Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisBrings together a collection of interviews with some of the world's most important and influential philosophers and intellectuals, including: Bernard Williams, Onora O'Neill, Philippa Foot, Philip Pullman, Bhikhu Parekh, Slavoj Zizek, AC Grayling, Igor Alexander, Alexander McCall Smith, Daniel Dennett, and Oliver Letwin.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; Oliver Letwin - On politics and philosophy; Roundtable - On September 11; Roundtable - On security and 'the war on terror'; Ted Honderich - On terrorism and punishment; Bhikhu Parekh - On multiculturalism; Slavoj Zizek - On multiculturalism, pluralism and tolerance; Onora O'Neill - On trust and autonomy; Anthony Grayling - On philosophy and public understanding; Mary Warnock - On making babies; Philippa Foot - On goodness; The Soho Symposium - On love; Bernard Williams - On truth and truthfulness; Robert M Pirsig - On the Metaphysics of Quality; Alexander McCall Smith - On philosophy and the novel; Philip Pullman - On writing for children; Igor Aleksander - On artificial intelligence.

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Book SynopsisEdith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars. This is a study of Stein's development as a theologian and philosopher, which reveals many of the fundamental issues in both disciplines and in their cross-fertilisation.Trade Review"In this excellent new introduction, Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, one of our foremost philosophers, presents us with Edith the philosopher from her earliest years, through her work with Husserl, finishing with her conversion to Catholicism in 1922. I found that the book seemed to work on three levels at once...This will be required reading." -Peter Tyler, Mount Carmel, July-Sept. 2010"MacIntyre suceeds in making [Edith Stein's] work accessible and enormously interesting for the questions she raised." Gavin D'Costa, Journal of Jewish Studies -- Gavin D'Costa, Journal of Jewish StudiesTitle mention in The Catholic Weekly, August 2007"This is an important and gripping book" Brett Gray, Theology, January 2008'[MacIntyre] makes the philosophical disputes of the period accessible and relevant to our present concerns.' Mount CarmelI warmly recommend this fine book to those educated common readers who want to delve deeper. * Catholic Herald *'This book gives a convincing account of what was "necessarily incomplete and one-sided" in Husserl's phenomenology, and of how Stein parted company with Husserl...attentive reading.' Lucy Beckett, Church Times, 03/11/2006 -- Lucy Beckett * Church Times *'...a comprehensive introduction to Edith Stein's works...Borden's work is clear and limpid in style, and provides a both easily accessible and thoughtful introduction to the major periods and topics on Stein's work. It is a perfect work of reference, both by its structure and by its select biography and well-constructed index...the book is informative, concise, sober and helpful throughout.' Volume 70, Issue 2 -- Mette Lebech * Irish Theological Quarterly *"Among many other virtues of this study of Stein as thinker is MacIntyre's magnificent demonstration of how any philosopher must be situated in the context of where she studied, who her mentors were and the historical moment both inside and outside the academy. A bravo performance." -- Kenneth L. Woodward * Newsweek *'In this excellent new introduction, Professor Alasdair Macintyre, one of our foremost philosphers presents us with Edith the philosopher...This fine account, drawing on previously established biographies...is as good a summary of the events of this part of her life as you will find in English. ...Having just taught an undergraduate course on this subject I feel moved to include Edith in next year's course along with Wittenstein and Strawson...ultiamtely very enriching for the reader. ...[F]or anyone with a serious interest in Edith as philospher - or those with philosophical interests...this will be required reading.' -- Peter Tyler * pastoral review, the *' Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the great names of contemporary philosophy.' ' this study provides much food for thought. It is not often that such an extraordinary life is illuminated by the thoughts of such an outstanding philosopher.' -- John Cottingham * Tablet, The *'Edith Stein is an example of a Christian thinker deeply engaged in the debates of her own day, and her work offers models and insights for addressing the questions of today.' * The Universe *"a dense book, requiring slow and careful reading...it opens the eyes to the interest of Stein's early work and its context within the still too obscure world of Continental philosophy." -- Raymind Edwards, Times Literary Supplement * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisHannah Arendt is considered to be one of the influential political thinkers of the twentieth century. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Arendt's key ideas and texts. It examines some of the important themes of Hannah Arendt's work, as well as the controversies surrounding it.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Totalitarianism and the Banality of Evil; 3. Philosophical Thought and the Human Condition; 4. Freedom and Practical Politics; 5. Life of the Mind and Political Judgment; 6. Arendt's Critics; Bibliography; Index.

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