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Book SynopsisThis book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language. Each entry addresses a paradox, a longstanding puzzle, or a major theme that has emerged in the field from the last 150 years, tracing overlap with issues in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, ethics, political philosophy, and literature. Each of the 50 entries is written as a piece that can stand on its own, though useful connections to other entries are mentioned throughout the text. Readers can open the book and start with almost any of the entries, following themes of greatest interest to them. Each entry includes recommendations for further reading on the topic. Philosophy of Language: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is useful as a standalone textbook, or can be supplemented by additional readings that instructors choose. The accessible style makes it suitable for introductory level through intermediate undergraduate courses,Table of ContentsPart I: Big picture questions Part II: Early Analytic Philosophy and Pragmatism Part III: Wittgenstein on Rule-Following and Private Language Part IV: Semantic Paradoxes Part V: Context-Sensitivity Part VI: Speech Acts and Pragmatics Part VII: Lingering Issues About Meaning Part VIII: Naturalism and Externalism

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Book SynopsisI am convinced of the urgent need for a democratic people to think clearly without the distortions due to unconscious bias and unrecognized ignorance. Our failures in thinking are in part due to faults which we could to some extent overcome were we to see clearly how these faults arise. It is the aim of this book to make a small effort in this direction. - Susan Stebbing, from the Preface Despite huge advances in education, knowledge and communication, it can often seem we are neither well-trained nor well practised in the art of clear thinking. Our powers of reasoning and argument are less confident that they should be, we frequently ignore evidence and we are all too often swayed by rhetoric rather than reason. But what can you do to think and argue better?First published in 1939 but unavailable for many years, Susan Stebbing''s Thinking to Some Purpose is a classic first-aid manual of how to think clearly, and remains astonishinTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Edition, Introduction to the Routledge Edition, Preface to the 1939 Edition, 1. Prologue: Are the English Illogical?, 2. Thinking and Doing, 3. A Mind in Blinkers, 4. You and I: And You, 5. Bad Language and Twisted Thinking, 6. Potted Thinking, 7. Propaganda: An Obstacle, 8. Difficulties of an Audience, 9. Illustration and Analogy, 10. The Unpopularity of Being Moderate, 11. On Being Misled by Half, and Other Fractions, 12. Slipping Away from the Point, 13. Taking Advantage of Our Stupidity, 14. Testing our Beliefs, 15. Epilogue: Democracy and Freedom of Mind, Index

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Book SynopsisIs it impossible to assess dignity, which is the faculty or agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are met by global challenges like climate change, financial crisis, food crisis, natural disasters, inequality, violent conflicts and trade disputes? Drawing on European philosophical enlightenment to rethink dominant theories of contemporary Western Human Rights, Stephan P. Leher explores the philosophical foundation of the concept of dignity and Human Rights. Using specific examples from Africa and Latin America to explain these concepts as social realizations in the world, Leher demonstrates the link between justice and peace and contends that dignity, freedom and Human Rights law rule are social realizations and claims by all people. With the help of language philosophy, he argues that sentences and propositions about social choices and realizations of real life expressed in ordinary language constitute the basic elements of the foundation Trade Review'Stephan P. Leher explains the concept of Human Rights, key to contemporary Political Theory, in a complex and systematic way. The book includes the most recent approaches and is of the utmost interest for different academic disciplines – like Philosophy and Political Science, Legal Studies and Theology.' - Anton Pelinka, Central European University, BudapestTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The End of History or the Beginning of a Human Rights History?2. Two Surprising Facts: There Are a First Case and a First International Court to Hold Defendants Responsible for Their Crimes According to the Rule of Human Rights Law3. The Individual Woman, Man and Queer Is the Subject of International Human Rights Law4. There Is a Plurality of Understandings and Realizations of the Concept "Human Dignity"5. Dignity, Human Rights and Language Philosophy6. The West's Adherence to Privileges, Cultural Contexts and Arguments on State Sovereignty Challenge Universal Human Rights7. Democracy Is about Self-Determination of Women, Men and Queer within Their Communities8. Choice and Ability to Claim One’s Dignity as Policies of the Individual9. A Question to be Answered by Empirical Social Research: Are Women and Men Conscious of Their Dignity in Relation to the Quality of Their Social Choices and Social Realizations?10. Language Philosophy, Interview Sentences, Dignity and Human Rights11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism is an accessible introduction to Karen Barad's agential realist philosophy. The authors take on a unique approach to involve the readers in in/formal conversations between Karen, postgraduate and other researchers at a research event held in 2017 at Cape Town, South Africa.It features chapters that have been contributed by seminar delegates and organisers, which put forth the continuing impact that Karen Barad has had on their empirical work, research writing and drawing practices. The text further discusses the ethical and political significance of Karen's work, especially in the context of de/colonizing South African higher education. The chapters offer a series of worked posthumanist pedagogical examples and describe how a research seminar was organised differently and more in line with Baradian radical philosophy. At its heart, this book makes a methodological and pedagogical contribution to the surge iTrade Review"In conversation with a generous South African research community, an ethics of re-turning and staying-with is beautifully unfolded on agential realist philosophy and concepts and a diverse empirical material."Malou Juelskjær, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark"This innovative collection of essays brings Karen Barad’s agential realism to life in the context of South African higher education. Drawing the reader in through playful, performative exchanges, the contributions creatively reimagine multidisciplinary research and rebuild pedagogical practices."Astrid Schrader, University of Exeter, UK"What does it mean to make agential realism a thinking, writing, and collaborative practice? The book addresses this question with immense care guided by deep concern for de/colonializing education in the South African context."Magdalena Górska, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, NetherlandsTable of Contents1. Introduction: Glimpsing the Colours on the Palette: ° ’ ” Slowing Down Together/Apart. 2. Chapter Night Sky: Temporal Diffraction: A Constellation *** of ‘New’ Electrifying Insights in Conversation with Karen Barad. 3. Chapter Black Blood Matters: Moving Human and Non-human Bodies from ‘Question & Answer’ to a ‘Pedagogy of Questioning’. 4. Chapter Red: Re-membering as a Sacred Practice. 5. Chapter Red Ochre: Marking Time, Marking Bodies: Relations Matter. 6. Chapter Teal: Re-searching Research: Troubling Lines as a Worlding Practice. 7. Chapter Ultramarine: On Aftermaths, Afterlives and Afterimages. 8. Chapter Red Brown: Gestures for Engineering and Medical Education: Drawing on Our Barad Encounter 9. Chapter Orange: Diffracting Drawing. 10. Chapter Iridescent: Th/reading through Mull: Cutting a Fashion Theory Course Together-Apart. 11. (No)End: Rainbow Æffects: Diffracting Colours and Futures Pallets. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume devoted exclusively to the practical philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. It features original essays by leading Sellars scholars that examine his ethical theory, his theory of practical reasoning, and his theory of intentional agency.While most scholarship on Sellars's philosophy has focused on his epistemology, metaphysics, or philosophy of language and mind, Sellars himself regarded his practical philosophy as central to his overall project of situating rational beings within the natural order. The chapters in this volume address this neglected area of Sellars's philosophy. The chapters are divided into thematic sections covering Sellars's theory of we-intentions influential in contemporary debates on collective intentionality naturalism and the manifest image, and the moral point of view. Together, they demonstrate how Sellars's practical philosophy contributes to important debates in contemporary philosophy regarding, for example, expressivist approaTrade Review"This is an exciting new volume on Wilfrid Sellars’s practical philosophy. Koons and Loeffler have done an excellent job assembling a prominent group of scholars to shed light on this under-discussed area of Sellars’s philosophy. Anyone interested in Sellars, ethics, or practical reasoning will be well-served by exploring this volume."Peter Olen, Lake-Sumter State College, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Jeremy Randel Koons and Ronald Loeffler Part 1: Understanding Sellarsian We-intentions 1. Sellars on the Intersubjectivity of We-Intentions Stefanie Dach 2. We-Intentions and How One Reports Them Kyle Ferguson 3. Moral We-Intentions as Individualistic We-Attitudes Ronald Loeffler 4. Cracks in the Foundation: An Anscombean Critique of Sellars’s Practical Philosophy Heath White Part 2: Naturalism and the Manifest Image: Extensions and Critical Engagements 5. Persons and Their Categories Willem A. Devries 6. ‘Causal Reducibility’ and Naturalism in Sellars’s Conception of the Moral ‘Ought’ James R. O’shea 7. Norm, Nature, and Narrative: Stereoscopic Vision in Sellars and Danielle Macbeth Zachary Gabor 8. Practical Cognition, Motor Intentionality, and the Idea of the Good: Considerations of Denotational and Connotational Meaning Preston Stovall Part 3: The Moral Point of View and the Kingdom of Ends 9. The Community of Rational Beings Nicholas Tebben 10. Morality, Tribalism, and Value Danielle Macbeth 11. Sellars on External Reasons Jeremy Randel Koons. Index

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Book SynopsisEmerging from the confusion and chaos of neoliberal economic systems around the world, this book brings together a collection of major philosophical ideas from previous centuries and applies them to the practice of education. The book argues that pragmatist philosophy is the most appropriate to guide the organisation of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. It outlines a number of philosophical dilemmas, exploring these in relation to particular philosophers and offers philosophical insights for educational practice. Further, the book proposes Critical Praxis Bricolage, an epistemological framework articulating a view that education practices are embedded in a social context. This reshapes formal education from being dominated by the market forces of neoliberalism, into a way of ethical life that respects the dignity and knowledgeability of each person and community regardless of background. Written in a narrative style, Pragmatist Philosophy for Critical Knowledge, Learni

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1931, L. T. Hobhouse is an amalgamation of the late social philosopher L. T. Hobhouse's personal life and academic work. The first part of this volume is a brief biography by Mr. J. A. Hobson, with added impressions by personal friends and colleagues. It is followed by an account of his philosophy and sociology written by Professor Morris Ginsberg, his pupil and successor at the London School of Economics. Third section consists of some collected essays illustrative of his various capacities and interests. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy and sociology.

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Book SynopsisD. M. Armstrong''s A Materialist Theory of the Mind is widely known as one of the most important defences of the view that mental states are nothing but physical states of the brain. A landmark of twentieth-century philosophy of mind, it launched the physicalist revolution in approaches to the mind and has been engaged with, debated and puzzled over ever since its first publication over fifty years ago. Ranging over a remarkable number of topics, from behaviourism, the will and knowledge to perception, bodily sensation and introspection, Armstrong argues that mental states play a causally intermediate role between stimuli, other mental states and behavioural responses. He uses several illuminating examples to illustrate this, such as the classic case of pain. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Peter Anstey, placing Armstrong''s book in helpful philosophical and historical context.Trade Review'A groundbreaking book when first published, A Materialist Theory of the Mind remains today one of the most important, influential, and penetrating discussions of the mind available. In addition to advancing a powerful defense of mind-body materialism, it contains rich and illuminating treatments of all the main aspects of mental functioning, from perceiving and mental imagery to thinking, willing, and introspection. At once sophisticated and highly accessible, this is a book anybody interested in the mind should have.' - David Rosenthal, City University New York, USATable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition Peter Anstey Acknowledgements Preface to the 1993 Edition Introduction Part 1: Theories of Mind 1. A Classification of Theories of Mind 2. Dualism 3. The Attribute Theory 4. A Difficulty for any Non-Materialist Theory of Mind 5. Behaviourism 6. The Central-State Theory Part 2: The Concept of Mind 7. The Will (1) 8. The Will (2) 9. Knowledge and Inference 10. Perception and Belief 11. Perception and Behaviour 12. The Secondary Qualities 13. Mental Images 14. Bodily Sensations 15. Introspection 16. Belief and Thought Part 3: The Nature of Mind 17. Identification of the Mental with the Physical Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the figure of the public intellectual through the work of Émile Zola in the Dreyfus affair. It analyzes Zola's famous letter J'Accuse supporting Alfred Dreyfus and its philosophical and political consequences for the intellectual world, including Indian public intellectuals. The volume is an examination of the critical role that can be played by public intellectuals today by referring to the J'Accuse model and a homage to the ideal of living decently and truthfully through the exercise of critical reason and moral excellence.Accessible and comprehensive, the book will be essential reading for students of philosophy and critical reasoning. It will be of interest to general readers as well.Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface Introduction: Reading “J’Accuse” Today 1 The Universal Meaning of “J’Accuse” 2 Dissent and Emancipation 3 Mapping Dissent: Reading Zola in India 4 Reinventing the Intellectual Conclusion: Mysterious Power of Ideas Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Vienna in the 1920s a group of brilliant philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists â led by figures such as Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Hahn â gathered to discuss the foundations of science and mathematics. Known as the Vienna Circle, they proposed to practice philosophy in continuity with science; their movement became known as Logical Empiricism.In this highly engaging book, Sahotra Sarkar tells the story of one hundred years of Logical Empiricism, from its beginnings in 1924 to its legacy today. He explains how its ideas, influenced by revolutionary theories of space, time, and causality of that time, led to a quest for a unified theory of science. He shows how their commitment to logic and objectivity provided a powerful political antidote to Nazi racism and obscurantism. He charts the decline of the movement after many members, who had fled to the United States during World War Two, were presumed to have communist sympathies and subjected

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Book SynopsisThis highly original book offers a new philosophy and vision of higher purpose for leaders facing the immense challenges of the 21st Century. By exploring Western quantum physics and traditional Chinese thought, leading management thinker Danah Zohar develops an emergent, new East/West vision that leads not just to global co-operation but to an exciting and revolutionary global-co-creativity.Taking complex ideas and presenting these in a highly engaging and readable way, the book offers the most recent thinking of Danah Zohar's quantum management theory. It demonstrates how the roots of this new philosophy and sense of higher purpose are both ancient and modern, drawn from traditional Chinese thought that had its beginnings thousands of years ago and from quantum physics, first discovered at the beginning of the 20th Century. The new generation of quantum management is characterized by being more holistic, dynamic, and humanistic. Written in a very accessible way, Danah vividly demonstrates the advanced nature and scalability of quantum management by using real-world examples.The book provides a foundation for a new leadership vision and style, based on moral renewal, greater cross-cultural understanding and global harmony, and is truly thought-provoking for business leaders and management researchers.

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Book SynopsisIn this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of ''analytic'' and ''Continental'' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, the difficulties of authorship, Kierkegaard and post-Enlightenment religion. Presented in a fresh twenty-first century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface, written by Stephen Mulhall, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers.Table of ContentsPreface to this edition Stephen Mulhall; Preface to updated edition of Must We Mean What We Say?; Foreword. An audience for philosophy; 1. Must we mean what we say?; 2. The availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy; 3. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy; 4. Austin at criticism; 5. Ending the waiting game: a reading of Beckett's Endgame; 6. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation; 7. Music discomposed; 8. A matter of meaning it; 9. Knowing and acknowledging; 10. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; Thematic index; Index of names.

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Book SynopsisIn this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, the difficulties of authorship, Kierkegaard and post-Enlightenment religion. Presented in a fresh twenty-first century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface, written by Stephen Mulhall, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers.Table of ContentsPreface to this edition Stephen Mulhall; Preface to updated edition of Must We Mean What We Say?; Foreword. An audience for philosophy; 1. Must we mean what we say?; 2. The availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy; 3. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy; 4. Austin at criticism; 5. Ending the waiting game: a reading of Beckett's Endgame; 6. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation; 7. Music discomposed; 8. A matter of meaning it; 9. Knowing and acknowledging; 10. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; Thematic index; Index of names.

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Book SynopsisThis exciting book explores the fate of ancient Greek gods, philosophy and tragedy amongst the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century. It focuses on Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on a diverse array of novelists, scholars, poets, philosophers and playwrights who used antiquity to rethink their post-industrial and postcolonial modernity.Trade Review'L.'s volume is a rare book because of the excellence of his ideas and the quality of research and writing. It masterfully shows how our life is shaped by modernity's appropriation of an ancient Greek heritage … The scholarship is stellar throughout … The book enters as a sharp-sighted contribution into the field of literature on modernity and its relationship to the ancient Greeks.' Marina Marren, The Classical Review'The scholarly rigour of Dionysus after Nietzsche, and the painstaking research evidenced throughout, mark it out as a vital addition to existing work on the interactions between ancient and modern literature. This book will be of keen interest to all students and researchers of classical reception, especially tragedy, as well as those of modern literature, philosophy, and social theory, in addition to the interested general reader.' Samuel Agbamu, Rhea Classical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction. Dionysus after Nietzsche; 1. Corybants, satyrs and bulls: Jane Harrison; 2. A great kick at misery: D. H. Lawrence; 3. In search of an absent god: Martin Heidegger; 4. What Oedipus knew: Richard Schechner; 5. Dionysus in Yorubaland: Wole Soyinka; Conclusion. Dionysus today.

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The Irish Revolution was a pivotal moment of transition for Ireland, the United Kingdom, and British Empire. A constitutional crisis that crystallised in 1912 electrified opinion in Ireland whilst dividing politics at Westminster. Instead of settling these differences, the advent of the First World War led to the emergence of new antagonisms. Republican insurrection was followed by a struggle for independence along with the partition of the island. This volume assembles some of the key contributions to the intellectual debates that took place in the midst of these changes and displays the vital ideas developed by the men and women who made the Irish Revolution, as well as those who opposed it. Through these fundamental texts, we see Irish experiences in comparative European and international contexts, and how the revolution challenged the durability of Britain as a global power.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping out of the contours for a speculative and pragmatic production of subjectivity.Trade Review'Simon O' Sullivan does not merely offer another theory of the subject. Rather, he elegantly diagrams contemporary theoretical treatments of subjectification in order to grapple with the implications of subjectivity's adjacency and residuality. He never loses sight of the stakes for self-creation while examining the parameters of the relations between finitude-infinitude, desire-ethics, and subject-object that organize his engaging interpretations of Badiou, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Lacan. His commitment to practices that support the emergence of both strange and dissident subjectivities of the future fruitfully bring into the discussion paganism, shamanism, and animism. On the Production of Subjectivity is a fundamental reference point for questions bearing upon mental ecology, and a sourcebook for thinking beyond the diluted subjectivities available under semiocapital.' - Gary Genosko, Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair, Lakehead University, Canada 'On the Production of Subjectivity has taken the diagram to a new level of thought, and with that, renewed our philosophy of the subject in unprecedented fashion. Through analyses of the most important thinkers within the immanentist tradition (from Spinoza to Deleuze), as well as the most radical approaches to subjectivity (Lacan, Foucault, Guattari), this book not only tells us a new story concerning the emergence of self, but also shows us this in the most speculative and productive manner possible, following Bergson's adage that 'to speculate is to see'. With this work, O'Sullivan makes us see a new subject, and with the diagram, he gives us a new vision or 'non-philosophy' of thought itself.' - John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Contemporary Conditions and Diagrammatic Trajectory From Joy to the Gap: The Accessing of the Infinite by the Finite (Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson) The Care of the Self versus the Ethics of Desire: Two Diagrams of the Production of Subjectivity (and of the Subject's Relation to Truth) (Foucault versus Lacan) The Aesthetic Paradigm: From the Folding of the Finite-Infinite Relation to Schizoanalytic Metamodelisation (to Biopolitics) (Guattari) The Strange Temporality of the Subject: Life In-between the Infinite and the Finite (Deleuze contra Badiou) Desiring-Machines, Chaoids, Probeheads: Towards a Speculative Production of Subjectivity (Deleuze and Guattari) Conclusion: Composite Diagram and Relations of Adjacency Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke.Trade Review“Lacey chiefly discusses four writers he believes exemplify pragmatic conservatism: Edmund Burke, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (M. Blitz, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017) Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Edmund Burke: Pragmatic ConservativeChapter 3: Walter Lippmann: Unlikely ConservativeChapter 4: Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophetic ConservativeChapter 5: Peter Viereck: Reverent ConservativeChapter 6: Conservatism Agonistes: Leaving the Stag HuntChapter 7: ConclusionBibliography  

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Book SynopsisIn The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between modernism and capitalism via the commodification of everyday life, Rancière proposes a radical rethinking of our received ideas regarding the politics of aesthetics in the modern era. Through a complex and original stitching together of form and content, modernists strove to depict by embodying new forms and regimes of material and everyday life. Rancière articulates this substantial change in the politics of representation by explaining the shattering of the sacrosanct hierarchies of the genres and life-forms of classical literature. In the midst of the 19th century, poets, novelists and playwrights challenged the narrative staples of noble means and moral ends, and Trade ReviewRancière’s continues his recent explorations of the aesthetics and politics of fiction, poetry, and theater in this beautifully written and elegantly translated volume. The dissensual strategies of thinking, speaking, and acting that Rancière finds in literary modernism are no less active in the spheres of politics and the social sciences, and this book will be of immense interest not only to scholars and students working in these fields, but to artists, writers, and activists experimenting with new modes of aesthetic and political invention today. * Kenneth Reinhard, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director, Program in Experimental Critical Theory, UCLA, USA *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction Foreword I. The Lost Thread of the Novel II. Marlow’s Lie III. The death of Prue Ramsay IV. Republic of the poets V. The infinite taste of the Republic VI. The Theatre of Thoughts Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAt times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without explanation. Maria Balaska examines two such cases: wonder and anxiety what it means to prepare for them, what life may look like after experiencing them, and what insights we can take from those experiences.For Kierkegaard anxiety is a door to freedom, for Heidegger wonder is a distress that opens us to the truth of Being, and for Wittgenstein wonder and anxiety are deeply connected to the ethical. Drawing on themes from these thinkers and bringing them into dialogue, Balaska argues that in our encounters with nothing we encounter the very potential of our existence. Most importantly, we confront what is most inconspicuous and fundamental about the human condition and what makes it possible to encounter anything at all: our distinct capacity for making sense of things.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukacs through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation.

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Book SynopsisProposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.Although there are distinctly American artists-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example-very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition, and a collection of essays exploring particular examples from a variety of angles. Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience. Other essays examine the place of American aesthetics in relation to such particular forms of art as painting, literature, music, and film. Three essays attend to the aesthetic aspects of a flourishing life. In each of the essays, American aesthetics is understood to arise out of deeply felt personal, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Consequently, not only are such relatively abstract notions as harmony, fit, elegance, proportion, and the like involved in aesthetic judgment, but also religious, political, and social factors become embroiled in aesthetic discernment. Thus the ongoing pattern of American aesthetics is shown to be distinguishable from such other varieties of aesthetic thought as analytic aesthetics, New Criticism, and postmodern approaches to aesthetics.

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Book SynopsisOriginal reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.

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Book SynopsisWhy has memory become such an important political tool in response to the challenges of modernity? How can performance be used to probe and recuperate aspects of the past, and what are the ethical and political questions that arise when it does so? And how should the discipline of theatre studies define and deploy the term ''memory'' theoretically and in practice? Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the intersections between contemporary theatre and performance, the field of memory studies and the politics of memory across the globe. Beginning by offering a fresh critical snapshot of the major theoretical foundations for the study of memory today, the author presents vivid theatrical examples drawn from a wide variety of cultural contexts and compellingly illustrates the centrality of memory for the theatre as well as the vital role of theatre in transmitting individual and collective memories. Featuring in-depth case studies of a range oTrade ReviewWith Theory for Theater Studies: Memory Gluhovic has succeeded in bringing together current questions and theories of memory research with theater studies considerations ... The interdisciplinary theoretical framework that Gluhovic elaborates, together with the case studies, illustrates the possibilities of theater to function as a corrective or a media dispositive. * rezens.tfm (Bloomsbury translation) *This is an excellent book that will be appreciated by theatre students, scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts alike. A clear and lucid writer, Milija Gluhovic offers close readings of theatre and performance works that bring the theory he deftly explicates to the vibrant and global contexts of embodied practice. * Rebecca Schneider, Professor, Performance Studies, Brown University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Preface INTRODUCTION SECTION ONE: Mapping Memory: Theorizing Recollection The Classical and Medieval Practice of Mnemotechnics: How Memory Works on Stage Memory and Theatre in a Global Age SECTION TWO: Searching for Common Ground: Performance, Testimony, and Small Acts of Repair Case study 1: Lola Arias’s Minefield Case study 2: Yael Ronen’s Common Ground Case study 3: Robert Lepage's The Seven Streams of the River Ota SECTION THREE: Memory and Migration Case study 1: Andrea Levy’s Small Island Case study 2: André Amálio’s Portugal is not a small country Theatre and Memory in the Age of the Anthropocene BIBLIOGRAPHY Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWritten in 1938/9, Mindfulness (translated from the German Besinnung) is Martin Heidegger''s second major being-historical treatise. Here, Heidegger develops some of his key concepts and themes including truth, nothingness, enownment, art and Be-ing and discusses the Greeks, Nietzsche and Hegel at length. In addition to the main text, the text also includes two further important essays, A Retrospective Look at the Pathway' (1937/8) and ''The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted)'' (1937/8), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished works and discusses his relationship to Catholic and Protestant Christianity and reflects on his life''s path. This is a major translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations Series.Trade ReviewThis is a central text for coming to terms with Heidegger's thinking ... The translation itself mirrors and maintains the haunting character of the German text. The Translators' Foreword is a masterpiece in setting the stage and opening up the possibilities for the English to stay true to the Heideggerian project of thinking the truth of be-ing. * Kenneth Maly, University of Wisconsin, USA *Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword I. Introduction II. Leaping Ahead unto the Uniqueness of Be-ing III. Philosophy IV. On Projecting-Open Be-ing V. Truth and Knowing Awareness VI. Be-ing VII. Be-ing and Man VIII. Be-ing and Man IX. Anthropomorphism X. History XI. Technicity XII. 'History' and Technicity XIII. Be-ing and Power XIV. Be-ing and Being XV. The Thinking of Be-ing XVI. The Forgottenness of Be-ing XVII. The History of Be-ing XVIII. Gods XIX. Errancy XX. On the History of Metaphysics XXI. The Metaphysical 'Why-Question' XXII. Be-ing and 'Becoming' XXIII. Being as Actuality XXIV. Be-ing and 'Negativity' XXV. Being and Thinking, Being and Time XXVI. A Gathering into Being Mindful XXVII. The Be-ing-Historical Thinking and the Question of Being XXVIII. The Be-ing-Historical Concept of Metaphysics Appendix I: A Retrospective Look at the Pathway Appendix II: The Wish and the Will Editor's Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThese 14 essays apply Deleuze and Guattari's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human.Table of ContentsPart 1: Undoing Anthropocentrism: Becoming-Animal and the Non-Human; 1. Ahuman Abolition by Patricia MacCormack; 2. Brutal Thoughts: Laruelle and Deleuze on Human Animal Stupidity by John Q Maoilearca; 3. The Oedipal Animal? Companion Species and Becoming by Joanna Bednarek; Part 2: Vectors of Becoming-Imperceptible: the Multiplicity of the Pack; 4. Louis Malle's Kleistian War Machine: Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Imperceptible in Black Moon (1975) by Colin Gardner; 5. Ant and Empire: Myrmetic Writing, Simulation, and the Problem of Reciprocal Becomings" by Zach Horton; 6. Music-becoming-animal in works by Grisey, Aperghis and Levinas by Edward Campbell; 7. Un/Becoming Claude Cahun: Zigzagging in a Pack by Renee C. Hoogland; Part 3: Animal Politics, Animal Death: Transversal Connectivities and the Creation of an Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm; 8. Bridging Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari through Metamodelization: What Brian Massumi Can Teach Us About Animal Politics by Colin Gardner; 9. Becoming-shewolf and ethics of solidarity in Once Upon a Time: Feminist and posthumanist re-assembling of Little Red Riding Hood by Nur Ozgenalp; 10. Hannibal aux aguets: On the Lookout for New Rencontres by Charles Stivale; 11. The Unmournable Animal Death by Laurence Rickels Part 4: Animal Re-territorializations in Art and Cinema; 12. Five Meditations on How to Make a Territory with the Work of Art? by Gregg Lambert; 13. Becoming-Animal Cinema Narrative by Dennis Rothermel; 14. Deleuze and Roxy: The Time of the Intolerable and Godard's Adieu au langage"by Ronald Bogue Part 5: Transverse Animalities: Ecosophical Becomings; 15. Interkingdoms of Alcohol: Interspecies Assemblages, Sobriety, and Intoxication by Gary Genosko; 16. Becoming-Wolf: From Wolfman to the Tree Huggers of Turkey" by Serazer Pekerman.

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Book SynopsisLooking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this one-stop reference to Agamben s influences covers 30 thinkers: his primary interlocutors, his secondary references, and the figures who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly mentioned.

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Book SynopsisAlain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour: this comparative, critical analysis shows the promises and perils of new French philosophy's reformulation of the idea of the human.

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Book SynopsisScholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the Deleuze-Lucretius encounter that begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism.

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects and translates 10 essays by renowned Roman and legal history specialist Yan Thomas (1943 2008), the most renowned French jurist of the 20th century.

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage to show why he mattered so much to Nietzsche. Looking at both The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner, they identify and define the trajectory of a number of overarching themes - modernity, decadence and Wagner as the sign of decline.

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on his personal day to day experiences of the shelter-in-place period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life and the nature of thought under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation.Table of ContentsPreface ix March 20, 2020 3 Remark 1: The Path of the Goddess March 27, 2020 7 March 29, 2020 7 April 1, 2020 A.M. 8 Remark 2: The Pandemic and the Event April 1, 2020 P.M. 15 April 3, 2020 17 April 4, 2020 18 April 9, 2020 21 April 12, 2020 23 Remark 3: Self-precursion April 15, 2020 26 April 16, 2020 30 April 18, 2020 32 April 24, 2020 35 April 25, 2020 38 April 28, 2020 39 May 2, 2020 39 May 5, 2020 41 May 6, 2020 43 May 7, 2020 47 May 9, 2020 48 May 10, 2020 50 Remark 4: Fools and Free Spirits May 11, 2020 57 May 12, 2020 A.M. 59 May 12, 2020 P.M. 61 May 13, 2020 A.M. 62 May 13, 2020 P.M. 64 May 14, 2020 68 May 15, 2020 72 May 16, 2020 A.M. 73 May 16, 2020 P.M. 78 May 17, 2020 84 May 18, 2020 88 May 19, 2020 88 Remark 5: The Fourth Position May 20, 2020 A.M. 98 Remark 6: An Invitation to Social Death May 20, 2020 P.M. 106 Remark 7: Infracendence: Unpublished Fragments from Fernando Pessoa’s (Posthumous?) Milieu Notebook of Alberto Moreira, Heteronym Appendix 1. More Questions for Jorge Alemán: A Presentation for 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Ciudad de México, May 25, 2020 123 Appendix 2. From a Conversation with Jaime 127 Appendix 3. From a Conversation with Gerardo 131 Appendix 4. Alain Badiou's Age of the Poets 139 Notes 165 Bibliography 183 Index 189

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Book SynopsisMichel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift in Foucault's approach? Foucault's time in Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to a France much changed by the turmoil of 1968. He taught at the experimental University of Vincennes and then moved to a prestigious position at the Collège de France. He quickly became involved in activist work concerning prisons and health issues such as abortion rights, and in his seminars he built research teams to conduct collaborative work, often around issues related to his lectures and activism. Foucault: The Birth of Power makes use of a range of archival material, including newly available documents at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, to provide a detailed intellectual history of Foucault as writer, researcher, lecturer and activist. Through a careful reconstruction of Foucault's work and preoccupations, Elden shows that, while Discipline and Punish may be the major published output of this period, it rests on a much wider range of concerns and projects.Trade Review"Foucault: The Birth of Power opens an illuminating window into the process of political awakening and philosophical transformation as intellectual history. Drawing on lectures, talks and unpublished as well as published material, Stuart Elden has marshalled the contents of a massive archive to substantiate this pivotal period in the development of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century." Caren Kaplan, University of California, Davis "This is a brilliant prequel to Elden’s masterful book, Foucault’s Last Decade. Here, Elden offers a meticulous, erudite reading of the thinker’s early years at the Collège de France – a critical time in the arc of his research, which included seminars and conferences on disciplinary power, with deep political engagement and activism on behalf of prisoners. With his unmatched knowledge of Foucault, Elden unearths key intellectual moments and carefully traces Foucault’s intellectual journey to the mid-1970s, the publication of Discipline and Punish and the lectures on psychiatric power. Foucault: The Birth of Power is the perfect reading companion to Foucault’s “power-knowledge” period." Bernard Harcourt, Columbia University"fascinating"The NationTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Out of the 1960s 1. Measure: Greece, Nietzsche, Oedipus 2. Inquiry: Revolt, Ordeal, Proof 3. Examination: Punishment, War, Economy 4. Madness: Power, Psychiatry and the Asylum 5. Discipline: Surveillance, Punishment and the Prison 6. Illness: Medicine, Disease and Health Conclusion: Towards Foucault�s Last Decade Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA “wildly entertaining” and “masterly” memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people.’” This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade’s partner Michael Stoneman, Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”); and, of course, the fabled synesthetic acid trip on the multihued slopes of the Artist’s Palette at Death Valley, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.Trade Review“A wildly entertaining memoir written by someone who helped curate, witness and then document a mind-altering experience in the life of one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. The act of witnessing, in fact, is what makes Wade’s account so masterly.”—Eric Bulson, Times Literary Supplement“Excellent and surprising.”—Scott Bradfield, Los Angeles Times“At times a gay, psychedelic Divine Comedy and at others a Plato's Symposium for the 1970s.”—Andrew Marzoni, The Baffler“Wade's poetic rendering of Foucault's LSD trip...manages to capture the philosopher's hesitations and fears but also conveys the spectacle of a towering intellect leveled by the visceral power of the drug experience.”—James Penner, Los Angeles Review of Books“Engagingly offbeat.”—Helmut Mayer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“Foucault once declared that he had written nothing but fictions, and here we have a stylised account of a short moment in his life, written with the verve of a novel.”—Stuart Elden, author of Foucault's Last Decade“Very funny and endearing.”—Reviews by Amos Lassen

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Book SynopsisIt is often asserted that postmodernism emerged from 'leftist' Nietzsche-interpretations, but this claim and its implications are rarely explored. Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism investigates how Deleuze and Foucault read Nietzsche and apply a hermeneutics of innocence to his philosophy that erases the elitist, anti-democratic, and anti-socialist dimensions. In a clear and incisive analysis, Rehmann shows that this misreading also affects their own theory and impairs the ability to develop a radical critique from it. Thus the late Foucault's turn to self-care techniques merges a neo-Nietzschean approach with the ideologies of neoliberalism. Rehmann's critique is not directed against the endeavor to take suggestions from some of Nietzsche's astute intuitions, but rather against the near universal tendency to use him as a symbolic capital without admitting his hierarchical obsession and other political flaws. This book is an updated and extended version of Postmoderner Links-Nietzscheanismus: Deleuze and Foucault. Eine Dekonstruktion, originally published in German by Argument Verlag GmbH.Trade Review“Jan Rehmann is one of the last grand Critical Theorists rooted in the best of the sophisticated and flexible Marxist tradition. This powerful and persuasive critique of Postmodernist Nietzscheanism opens the door to more potent forms of counterhegemony in our time!” —Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary, New York “Jan Rehmann's book does something urgent and very difficult: it explores the readings of Nietzsche that subtend Deleuze's and Foucault's influential theorisations and asks critically about the consequences of their systematic erasure of the darker, less 'innocent' sides of Nietzsche's writings. Rehmann does so by traversing an immense canon of literature from the French, German and Anglophone context with admirable wit, clarity and nuance - and thereby shows us how philosophy as critical theory can be done in our current theoretical conjuncture.” —Svenja Bromberg, Goldsmiths University, London “In his eye-opening book, Jan Rehmann offers us a fascinating account of how one of the most elitist and anti-democratic opponents of modernity was elevated as a nomadic rebel and promoted as an alternative to Marxism and socialism. Rehmann’s careful study is therefore more than just a story about French intellectuals. It provides us with a critical history of the most significant intellectual shift of the post war period: postmodernism.” —Daniel Zamora Vargas, Université Libre de BruxellesTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Deleuze and the Construction of a Plural-Differential Image of Nietzsche 1. Plural Differences Instead of Dialectical Contradictions 2. Deleuze's Combination of Hume's Empiricism and Bergson's Vitalism 3. Nietzsche as Anti-Dialectician? 4. The Birth of the Postmodern 'Difference' out of the 'Pathos of Distance' 5. The Debate About the 'Will to Power': Metaphysical or Plural? 6. Nietzsche's Combination of Decentring and Hierarchisation 7. Flattening out the Late Nietzsche's Departure from Spinoza 8. The Confusion of Spinoza's Power to Act with Nietzsche’s Power of Domination 9. Will to Power as Desire Production 10. Primitive Inscriptions and State-Imperial Overcodings 11. Faire de la pensée une machine de guerre Part II. The Death of Man and the Eternal Recurrence 1. Survey of the Terrain: Uncritical Replication, Normative Critique, Leftist Helplessness 2. The 'Age of History' and the 'Anthropological Sleep' 3. Borrowings from Heidegger's Critique of Humanism 4. The Reductionist Construction of an 'Anthropological' Age 5. The Overcoming of Marxian Utopia by the Overman 6. Excursus: Nietzsche's Reworking of Cultural Protestant Anti-Judaism - the Example of Wellhausen 6.1 Wellhausen's Anti-Judaic Construction 6.2 Nietzsche's Adoption and Modification of Anti-Judaism 6.3 Anti-Semitism, Anti-Anti-Semitism - Revisiting a Stalled Debate 7. Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence as Religion 8. Postmodern Reading of Nietzsche as Pious Retelling Part III. The Introduction of a Neo-Nietzschean Concept of Power and Its Consequences 1. New Coordinates 2. Survey of the Terrain: The Overcoming of Ideology Critique through the 'Diversity' and the 'Productivity' of Power 3. The Dissolution of Ideology into 'Knowledge' 4. The Neo-Nietzschean Alternative: 'Everything is Fake' 5. Power as Dissimulation Machine 6. Nietzsche's 'Genealogy', or: the Violent Construction of an 'Alternative Nietzsche' 6.1 'Ursprung' versus 'Herkunft' with Nietzsche? 6.2. Points of Support for the Foucauldian Interpretation in the 'Middle' Nietzsche 6.3. The late Nietzsche's Verticalisation and its Suppression by Foucault 7. The Affiliation with Left-Wing Radicalism in Paris 8. The Enigmatic Issue of Power and its Anchorage in War 9. Outlook: The Suppression of the Structurally Anchored Power Relations Part IV. From Prison to the Modern Soul - 'Discipline and Punish' Revisited 1. An (All Too) Cursory Meeting with 'Critical Theory' 2. The Socio-Historical Approach of Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer 3. Advancement or Abandonment of a Social History of the Penitentiary System? 3.1. From Function to Aspects of Functioning 3.2. A Neo-Nietzschean Framework 3.3. The Abstraction from Forced Labour 3.4. A Narrowed-Down Genealogy of the Prison 3.5. Foucault’s Elimination of Contradictions 3.6. The Fixation of Critique on the Social-Pedagogisation of the Penal System 3.7. Foucault's 'Dispositif' and the 'Political Economy' of the Body 4. The Panoptical Nucleus of the Disciplinary Society 4.1. The Panopticon as Diagram of Modern Hegemony? 4.2. The Levelling of Repressive and Consensual Socialisation 4.3. The Real-Imaginary of the Panopticon 4.4. 'Economy ought to be the prevalent consideration' (Bentham) 4.5. Bentham as Visionary of 'Disciplinary Neoliberalism' 5. Foucault's Disciplinary Power in a Double-Bind Between 'Microphysics' and Omnipresent 'Phagocytic Essence' (Poulantzas) 5.1. The Hidden Contradiction 5.2. The Diversity of Power and the Problem of its Accumulation 5.3. 'The Limits of Social Disciplining' (Peukert) 5.4. The Removal of the 'Topography' from the Theory of Society (Althusser) 6. Foucault's Metaphorisation of the Prison and the Reality of Neoliberal Hyperincarceration Part V. Forays into the Late Foucault 1. Biopolitics — A New Power Enters the Stage 2. Foucault's Distinction Between Techniques of Domination and Techniques of the Self 3. The Mysterious Concept of 'Governmentality' 4. A Sharp Turn Against Socialism 5. Marx as Stalinism’s 'Truth' 6. Foucault’s Affiliation with Neoliberalism 6.1. Survey of the Terrain: Ambiguities and Opposite Interpretations 6.2. Foucault’s Contribution to a Critical Analysis of Neoliberalism 6.3. Fascinated by Neoliberalism's 'Post-Disciplinary' Governmentality 6.4. The Assault on the Fordist Welfare State 6.5. Foucault's Self-Techniques as Part of a Neoliberal Transvaluation Appendix: Governmentality Studies, or the Reproduction of Neoliberal Ideology Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of this society and its disposition towards images. This challenge does not advocate repudiatingimages altogether, but rather entreats us to see them in a different light. This new way of thinking of images affords a glimpse into what images do and produce, rather than viewing them as copies or mere representations. Images are dynamic agents that are active in our world rather than simply empty reflections of it. Rethinking the concept of the image in this fashion opens up new ways of interpreting and engaging with works of art. This reconsideration of the role of images in society is the starting point for a new politics that considers the multiple and complex efficacies by which images act, circulate and are created.Trade ReviewVauday (philosophy, Université Paris 8, France) has two objectives for the present work: first, to highlight postwar French thought in aesthetics and, second, to examine its connection with contemporary theories of art related to the aesthetic status of images. Images are the primary focus—not images as mere representations or expressions but images as a shaping pragmatic, generating force. Vauday begins by tracing philosophy’s quarrels with the image and the bewitching charm of appearances, from Plato and Descartes to contemporary writers. He offers, by way of contrast, Aristotle, who considered the image as the rationalization of the sensible. This finds its modern extension in phenomenology, in which painting, cinema, and the other visible arts invest in the phenomenal world, enabling one to pass from an ontology of images (what is an image?) to the question of what images do—a pragmatic of images. The author explores concepts ranging from photographic prose, the impurity of cinema, and the image in the mirror of ontology to the politics of pictorial space, contemporary iconoclasm, and the counterimage…. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *A masterful attempt to carve out a space for a consideration of images not bounded by emphases on a singular essence, invariable traits, or an ontological preference toward a pragmatics of images that opens up the possibility of political transformation in terms of heterogeneity, dynamic reconfiguration, and critical intervention. Refusing the either/or logic prevalent in contemporary art theory, the author persuasively shows that, too often, these dominant narratives obscure the heterogeneity of forces and relations amongst artists and artistic practices when confronting new forms, materialities, or media. This is an inspired account of the potentialities of art. -- Janae Sholtz, Association Professor of Philosophy, Alvernia UniversityThe Invention of the Visible is destined to become a masterwork in the study of the contemporary image. The book is rich in examples from the fields of painting, photography and cinema and expertly shows how these artistic practices overlap and intersect. Vauday argues for a post-essentialist view of images, untethered from the classical model of representation, and freed in their creative power to produce practical effects that play with the material forces of their composition. -- Walter Brogan, Villanova UniversityNot only does Patrick Vauday offer a lively and most remarkable introduction to the aesthetics of the image in French contemporary philosophy; he also demonstrates the important role played by the ‘Image Turn’ within this tradition. The Invention of the Visible invites us ‘to unmake and remake images’, enabling us to conceive of configurations of the world other than those of a phenomenology of art with which French philosophy has long been associated. -- Eric Alliez, Professor, Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy, Kingston University and Professor of Aesthetics, ParisTable of ContentsTranslators Preface / 1. Introduction / 2. The Image in the Mirror of Ontology / 3. Aesthetics: What Images Do / 4. Poetics: Making Images / 5. Politics: Unmaking and Remaking Images / 6. Conclusion: Towards a Civilization of Images / Bibliography / Index

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Book SynopsisHenri Lefebvre saw Marx as an 'unavoidable, necessary, but insufficient starting point', and always insisted on the importance of Hegel to understanding Marx. Metaphilosophy also suggested the significance he ascribed to Nietzsche, in the 'realm of shadows' through which philosophy seeks to think the world. Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche: or the Realm of the Shadows proposes that the modern world is, at the same time, Hegelian in terms of the state, Marxist in terms of the social and society and Nietzschean in terms of civilisation and its values. As early as 1939, Lefebvre had pioneered a French reading of Nietzsche that rejected the philosopher's appropriation by fascists, bringing out the tragic implications of Nietzsche's proclamation that 'God is dead' long before this approach was followed by such later writers as Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze. Forty years later, in the last of his philosophical writings, Lefebvre juxtaposed the contributions of the three great thinkers, in a text that's themes remain surprisingly relevant today.Trade ReviewOne of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century. -- David HarveyThe last great classical philosopher. -- Fredric JamesonIt is not excessive to claim that he is the ecophilosopher of the twenty-first century. -- Stanley AronowitzThe most prolific of French Marxist intellectuals * Radical Philosophy *Highly commendable and should be read alongside Lefebvre's theoretical works to afford the reader a richer understanding of the origin and theoretical background of his philosophy. -- Kaiyue He * Marx & Philosophy *

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Book SynopsisIn The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France. This foundational text, translated here into English for the first time, is the missing piece in any discussion of sovereignty and political authority, worthy of a place alongside the work of Weber, Arendt, Schmitt, Agamben or Dumézil. The Notion of Authority is a short and sophisticated introduction to Kojève's philosophy of right. It captures its author's intellectual interests at a time when he was retiring from the career of a professional philosopher and was about to become one of the pioneers of the Common Market and the idea of the European Union.Trade Review"Kojève was a magician of thought ... undoubtedly, he was the inventor of the last grand narrative of philosophy and history, of which the neo-conservative ideologue Fukuyama was but a mediocre imitator." -- Pierre Macherey"Kojève's lectures made a deep impression on his listeners - to more various and influential effect than probably any others in France this century" -- Perry Anderson"Kojève spoke of Hegel's religious philosophy, the phenomenology of Spirit, master and slave, the struggle for prestige, the in-itself, the for-itself, nothingness, projects, the human essence as revealed in the struggle onto death and in the transformation of error into truth. Strange theses for a world beleaguered by fascism!" -- Louis Althusser"Alexandre Kojève's originality and courage, it must be said, is to have perceived the impossibility of going any further, the necessity, consequently, of renouncing the creation of an original philosophy and, thereby, the interminable starting-over which is the avowal of the vanity of thought." -- Georges Bataille"A brilliant Russian émigré who taught a highly influential series of seminars in Paris. Kojève had a major impact on the intellectual life of the continent. Among his students ranged such future luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron." -- Francis Fukuyama"Alexandre Kojève ... is one of the most notable Russian thinkers of the twentieth century ... the lectures represent an exceedingly important (and tendentious) interpretation of Hegel, if not an independent philosophical view in the guise of a seemingly objective scholarly commentary." -- Jeff Love * Slavic and East European Journal *Bourgeois domination represented the arrival of the bourgeois end of history, in the form of a permanent present. Authority is disconnected from all its temporal support, having nothing left to offer. Kojève thus foresees the inauguration of simulacrum as the justification of authority. Kojève left an open letter that allows for ample discussion. And for as long as a determination of the coming times still has a role to play, a reprise of Kojève's text will remain timely. -- Jorge Varela * Radical Philosophy *In recent decades, Kojève's voluminous manuscripts and papers, held at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, have become available to researchers. Hager Weslati is among a new generation of scholars busily exploiting this material. A gramophone cannot possess authority, nor can a subject under hypnosis be said to respond to it-both examples are Kojève's. Despite its apparent conservatism, there is an underlying revolutionary message. Discussions of Jacques Rousseau's notion of the general will, the division of powers, the problem of tradition, and the impossibility of the political trial will all be stimulating for any political theorist. -- Eric Brandom * German Studies Review *This English translation of Alexander Kojève's The Notion of Authority is an important addition to philosophical studies of authority and an essential text for understanding Kojève's political thought. While Arendt and Marcuse favored a negative definition of authority, Kojève sought a positive definition - one that would be ultimately usable in his political present during WWII. The era of bourgeois domination commences in a fascination with only the present (this is why concerns of food and sex are paramount to the bourgeoisie). However, ultimately this present fails because it does not have a past or a future. -- Daniel Tutt * Philosophy Now *Capably translated from French by Hager Weslati, this relatively short manuscript was written in 1942 in Marseille where Kojève had fled to escape the Nazi occupation. It attempts to answer a singular question that, in Kojève's view, has been strangely neglected: What is authority? Kojève insists time and again that force does not constitute authority. To the contrary, having recourse to force shows a failure of authority. -- Jeff Love * Slavic and East European Journal *Through its pursuit of increasing depoliticization, neoliberalism undermines its own sources of political legitimacy and ultimately reduces human relations to the application of force in the service of individual ends. Kojève's understanding of the nature of authority helps explain the distinctively political aspects of these developments. -- Adam Adatto Sandel and Julius Krein * "Uncivil Society: Hegel, Kojève, and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy" *Bourgeois domination represented the arrival of the bourgeois end of history, in the form of a permanent present. Authority is disconnected from all its temporal support, having nothing left to offer. Kojève thus foresees the inauguration of simulacrum as the justification of authority. Kojève left an open letter that allows for ample discussion. And for as long as a determination of the coming times still has a role to play, a reprise of Kojève's text will remain timely. -- Jorge Varela * Radical Philosophy *In recent decades, Kojève's voluminous manuscripts and papers, held at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, have become available to researchers. Hager Weslati is among a new generation of scholars busily exploiting this material. A gramophone cannot possess authority, nor can a subject under hypnosis be said to respond to it-both examples are Kojève's. Despite its apparent conservatism, there is an underlying revolutionary message. Discussions of Jacques Rousseau's notion of the general will, the division of powers, the problem of tradition, and the impossibility of the political trial will all be stimulating for any political theorist. -- Eric Brandom * German Studies Review *This English translation of Alexander Kojève's The Notion of Authority is an important addition to philosophical studies of authority and an essential text for understanding Kojève's political thought. While Arendt and Marcuse favored a negative definition of authority, Kojève sought a positive definition - one that would be ultimately usable in his political present during WWII. The era of bourgeois domination commences in a fascination with only the present (this is why concerns of food and sex are paramount to the bourgeoisie). However, ultimately this present fails because it does not have a past or a future. -- Daniel Tutt * Philosophy Now *Through its pursuit of increasing depoliticization, neoliberalism undermines its own sources of political legitimacy and ultimately reduces human relations to the application of force in the service of individual ends. Kojève's understanding of the nature of authority helps explain the distinctively political aspects of these developments. -- Adam Adatto Sandel and Julius Krein * Trump and Political Philosophy: Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Civic Virtue, eds Marc Nejamin Sable and Angel Jaramillio Torres *Capably translated from French by Hager Weslati, this relatively short manuscript was written in 1942 in Marseille where Kojève had fled to escape the Nazi occupation. It attempts to answer a singular question that, in Kojève's view, has been strangely neglected: What is authority? Kojève insists time and again that force does not constitute authority. To the contrary, having recourse to force shows a failure of authority. -- Jeff Love * Slavic and East European Journal *

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Book SynopsisGiven the importance of cross-cultural competence, it is important that scholars from different parts of the world describe the conceptual frameworks underlying their cultures to provide people with knowledge helpful for understanding and navigating cultural barriers and promoting harmony and productivity in places of work. The literature is replete with reference points for understanding Eurocentric worldviews. Little has been written about non-Eurocentric worldviews with respect to the subject of socio-cultural harmony and interpersonal relations such as Ubuntu, Africa's indigenous philosophy and its relevancy. This philosophy teaches the importance of maintaining good human relations and sensitivity to the wellbeing of other people both as individuals and collectively. In the teachings of this African conceptual framework, the wellbeing of others is more important than that of self. Another important distinguishing feature of Ubuntu is that it places great value on communalism as opposed to individualism. The tenets of Ubuntu include human-centeredness, teamwork, collaboration, cooperation, respect for diversity of opinion, and joint consideration of problems. These tenets can be applied for intercultural competence and communications. Understanding Ubuntu for Enhancing Intercultural Communications sheds some light on Ubuntu, Africa's unique philosophy, and explores how the knowledge of Ubuntu can help minimize cross-cultural communication barriers. Within this context, the chapters work to make readers aware of the existence of an African worldview, specifically Ubuntu, and its possible contribution to interpersonal communication. This book also shares the lived experiences of being born and raised in sub-Saharan Africa where Ubuntu is a way of life. This book is essential for businesses seeking to expand internationally and managers overseeing diverse workforces as well as business executives, government officials, public relations officers, academicians, researchers, and students including those studying African studies, world religions, international business, international relations, management, communication, and more.

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Book SynopsisSubjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations reconceptualises Friedrich Nietzsche’s position in the intellectual history of modernism and substantively refigures our received ideas regarding his relationship to these Irish modernists. Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist writer and a modernist philosopher by drawing new parallels between his engagement with established philosophical theories and the aesthetic practices that Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot identified as quintessentially modernist. With specific reference to key Nietzschean philosophemes – eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, transnationalism, cultural paralysis, and ethical perspectivism – it challenges the longstanding assumption that Yeats, who repeatedly acknowledged his admiration for Nietzsche, is the most 'Nietzschean' of these Irish modernists. While showing how both Joyce and Beckett are in many important ways more 'Nietzschean' than Yeats, this interdisciplinary study makes a number of significant and timely contributions to the fields of Irish studies and modernist studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Nietzschean Modernism1. Foundational Systems and the Eternal Recurrence of the Same2. Aesthetic Potentiality and the Übermensch Ideal3. Cultural Paralysis and the Transnational State of Being4. Consciousness and the Ethics of AlterityConclusion: Nietzschean Constellations

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