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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, a mix of published and new essays spanning a period of thirty years.Trade ReviewAuthor article in Irish Daily Mail'This is a book brimming with observations and arguments, some surprising, many provocative, all engaging.'- Chandran Kukathas, The American Conservative'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.Table 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 SynopsisBrings together internationally renowned experts on the work of the French psychoanalyst, philosopher and political activist Felix Guattari with philosophers, psychoanalysts, sociologists and artists who have been influenced by Guattari's thought. This book explores the full spectrum of Guattari's work.Trade ReviewAuthor article in Radical Philosophy, Issue 169The contributors—Éric Alliez, Andrew Goffey, Jean-Claude Polack, Peter Pál Pel-bart, Anne Querrien, Barbara Glowczewski, Gary Genosko, Isabelle Stengers, Antonio Negri, Anne Sauvagnargues, Franco ‘Bifo’ Beradi, Stephen Zepke, Raymond Bellour, Pascale Criton, Annie Ratti, as well as Guattari himself form a "collective assemblage of enuncia-tion" that re-animates the Guattarian corpus for a new generation...What can keep desire on a trajectory that will lead it beyond the plane of exploitation and commodification? What form(s) of desire should be de-sired? Looking to (looking at) Guattari is one way to begin to theoretically answer these questions. This perhaps simple point is literally and materially rendered in the pages of Ratti’s photo-art essay. The silence of these images speaks of what remains, and is yet to be said, in the name and in the spirit of Guattari. This is perhaps finally the most significant effect of Guattari’s thought today: it spurs the desire to look again at Guattari’s life, work, and legacy. The generosity of his texts invite us ‘to come back to it, not so as to conclude, but to start again.’ (Alliez, 260) -- Jonathan Fardy, Western University * Foucault Studies *A strange effect of The Guattari Effect is that it slows down the reader. This machine-text does not whiz along as does the maddening velocity of Anti-Oedipus or A Thousand Plateaus. The volume takes time for remembering, reflecting, but also for extending and enriching the work, multiplying the effects, for what was, and still could be, Guattari. This involves—as the volume demonstrates—far more than “close reading.” It tries to think how new subjectivities, new modes of living and resisting, come, and can come, into existence. It rides the wave of Guattari’s enunciation beyond the text to what gives (or gave) life to it. It directs us beyond the classroom, beyond the lecture hall, out, perhaps even into the streets. -- Jonathan Fardy, Western University, Canada * Foucault Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Eric Alliez and Christian Kerslake; Part I: Guattari; 1. The Schizo Chaosmosis Felix Guattari; 2. The Vertigo of Immanence Felix Guattari; Part II: Effects (I) - Analytical; 3. Analysis, Between Psycho and Schizo Jean-Claude Polack; 4. Refounding the Unconscious upon Deterritorialization Peter Pal Pelbart; 5. Maps and Refrains of the Rainbow Panther Anne Querrien; 6. Archaeologies of the Desiring Machine Christian Kerslake; 7. Passion According to Guattari: Attractors and Detractors in Anthropology Barbara Glowczewski; Part III: Effects (II) - Political; 8. Perception Attack Brain Massumi; 9. Banking on Felix: Refashioning Low Threshold Semiosis Through A-Signifying Particle-Signs Gary Genosko; 10. Relaying a War Machine? Isabelle Stengers; 11. Gilles-Felix Antonio Negri; 12. A Schizoanalytical Knight on the Political Chessboard Anne Sauvagnargues; 13. Expression, Repression, Depression Franco Berardi; Part IV: Effects (III) - Artistic; 14. From Aesthetic Autonomy to Autonomist Aesthetics: Art and Life in Guattari Stephen Zepke; 15. Feeling and Thinking the Cinema Better with Guattari and Daniel Stern Raymond Bellour; 16. Pansonority Pascale Criton; 17. Interview on Contemporary Art Felix Guattari; Conclusion: The Guattari-Deleuze Effect Eric Alliez; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAlbert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French mathematical philosopher. His work in the philosophy of mathematics has had a profound influence on modern European philosophy, in particular the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou.Simon Duffy is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze (Ashgate, 2006) and editor of Virtual Mathematics: The Logic of Difference (Clinamen Press, 2006).Trade ReviewReading Lautman can help us enrich our picture of the development of the field and take into consideration an option quite different from the received view. -- Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's Note; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Jacques Lautman; 2. Bibliography of secondary material on the work of Albert Lautman; 3. Albert Lautman and the Creative Dialectic of Modern Mathematics Fernando Zalamea; 4. Preface to the 1977 Edition Jean Dieudonne; 5. Considerations on Mathematical Logic; 6. Mathematics and Reality; 7. International Congress of the Philosophy of the Sciences; 8. On the Reality Inherent to Mathematical Theories; 9. The Axiomatic and the Method of Division; 10. Essay on the Unity of the Mathematical Sciences in their Current Development; 11. Essay on the Notions of Structure and Existence in Mathematics; 12. New Research on the Dialectical Structure of Mathematics; 13. Letter to Mathematician Maurice Frechet; 14. Symmetry and Dissymmetry in Mathematics and in Physics; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWinner - AERA 2011 Outstanding Book AwardJacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation demonstrates the importance of Rancière’s work for educational theory, and in turn, it shows just how central Rancière’s educational thought is to his work in political theory and aesthetics. Charles Bingham and Gert Biesta illustrate brilliantly how philosophy can benefit from Rancière’s particular way of thinking about education, and go on to offer their own provocative account of the relationship between education, truth, and emancipation. Including a new essay by Rancière himself, this book is a must-read for scholars of social theory and all who profess to educate.Trade Review"By showing how the relationship between education and emancipation can be thought of as political, rather than psychological or sociological, Bingham and Biesta put into question many received educational ideas, for example about what 'school improvement' means and what is involved in 'inclusive pedagogy'. The book's argument and experimentations with concepts such as 'police', 'politics' and 'disagreement' vividly portray the relevance of Ranciere's thought for contemporary education practice, policy-making and philosophy." - Caroline Pellatier, Institute of Education, University of London, UK"Table of Contents1. On Ignorant Schoolmasters, by Jacques Ranciere; 2. A New Logic of Emancipation; 3. The Figure of the Child in Ranciere and Paulo Freire; 4. Inclusion in Question; 5. Recognition's Pedagogy; 6. Truth and Emancipation; 7. Learner, Student, Speaker; 8. Conclusion: The World is Not a School; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisMichel Henry (1922-2002) was a leading French philosopher and novelist. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montpellier, Franceand author of five novels and numerous philosophical works.ScottDavidson isAssociate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma CityUniversity. He is the translator of Michel Henry's works: MaterialPhenomenology (Fordham, 2008) and Seeing the Invisible(Continuum, 2009).Trade Review'Henry is one of the most exciting and radical thinkers of the last half-century. In this excellent translation of Barbarism, we get a sense of this radicalism is his critique of the "Galilean" principle - especially with regard to politics but also in his approach to art, ideology, technology, and education. It will be an invaluable addition to his other works already in English.' -- Professor John Mullarkey, Kingston University, UK.‘Scott Davidson delivers a much welcome translation of Michel Henry's provocative work on culture and critique. Barbarism is Henry's subtle radicalization of E. Husserl's analysis of the lifeworld and the crisis of the sciences. For Henry, the crisis is nothing short of barbarism: a reversal of culture which is revealed in the social, political, and epistemic practices that inhibit the self-movement of absolute Life. Yet the work itself, Barbarism, functions as a timely call to reverse this reversal, and to renew the dynamic intimacy of Self-knowledge.' -- Anthony Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USATable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition; Translator's Introduction: What Has Never Been Seen; 1. Culture and Barbarism; 2. Science Judged by the Criteria of Art; 3. Science Alone: Technology; 4. The Sickness of Life; 5. Ideologies of Barbarism; 6. Practices of Barbarism; 7. The Destruction of the University; Index.

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Book SynopsisKant's central task in the "First Critique" is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature itself. This title presents a commentary on Kant's aims and arguments in his celebrated "First Critique", within the context of the dominant schools of philosophy of his time.Trade ReviewIn this insightful, lucid, and open-minded account, Daniel Robinson puts Kant's project into its intellectual and scientific context, engagingly bringing out the ambitious aims Kant set for himself and how he sought to achieve them. This is a highly instructive and valuable introduction to the First Critique. -- Professor Roger Crisp, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UKAuthor Daniel Robinson received the 2011 Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Association. The award 'recognizes the most scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge' and carries an honorarium of $10,000. Previous recipients include Jerome Bruner and Daniel Kahneman.How is Nature Possible? Kant's Project in the First Critique is a well-researched, introductory-level commentary on one of the more difficult books in the history of philosophy. -- Stiles Alexander, Emory University, USA * Metapsychology *In his distinguished career, [Robinson] has contributed to the history of ideas, science and modern philosophy, has undertaken extensive research in experimental psychology and has been an avid supporter of Thomas Reid’s philosophy…This peculiar combination of interests informs this book’s aim to read the Critique as accounting for the possibility of scientific knowledge and safeguarding it against the destructive tendencies of scepticism and the over-confident proofs of the rationalists... He goes a long way toward justifying Kant’s metaphysics of science as a viable and coherent project against Kant’s predecessors, especially Descartes, Locke and Hume, and against some of his recent critics, be they Quine, Strawson or Stroud... The book will be most useful to new, but also experienced students of Kant -- Edward Kanterian, University of Kent * The Review of Metaphysics *Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Preliminaries; 2. The Larger Context; 3. The Possibility of Metaphysics; 4. The Pure Intuitions and the Analogies of Experience; 5. Idealisms and their Refutation; 6. Concepts; 7. Judgment; 8. Whose Experience? The Self and Outer Sense; 9. The Discipline of Reason: Paralogisms, Antinomies and Freedom; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisMichael Grenfell is Professor in the School of Education, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. He has researched and published extensively in Applied Linguistics and the Philosophy of Education. He had a longstanding association with Bourdieu and is author of four other books on his work, including Agent Provocateur (Continuum).Trade Review"If language is the medium of education, as Grenfell, and the authors of this book (and Bourdieu) would say, then this book is a must for all scholars of language in education, and those who would wish to understand and reflect on educational processes and practices. This book brings a passion, energy and commitment to that task that, as Bourdieu himself would do, challenges and contends with contemporary structures and debates in a lively and provocative manner. (Kate Pahl, Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK)"Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I; 2. Bourdieu: A Theory of Practice, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); 3. Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Part II; 4. Language Variation (Phonetics and Phonology), Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); 5. Language and Ideology, Robert Vann (Western Michigan University, USA); 6. Linguistic Ethnography, Adrian Blackledge (University of Birmingham, UK); 7. Language Policy, Stephen May (University of Waikato, New Zealand); 8. Language and Education, Cheryl Hardy (John Moores University, Liverpool, UK); Part III; 9. Towards a Bourdieusian Linguistics, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); 10. Conclusion Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisSalomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This translation of his principal work, "Essay on Transcendental Philosophy", expresses Maimon's response to the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction; Letter from Maimon to Kant; Letter in reply from Kant to Maimon; Letter from Maimon to Berlin Journal for Enlightenment; Essay on Transcendental Philosophy; Dedication; Introduction; 1. Matter, Form of Cognition, Form of Sensibility, Form of Understanding, Tim and Space; 2. Sensibility, Imagination, Understanding, Pure A Priori Concepts of the Understanding or Categories, Schemata, Answering the Question Quid Juris, Answering the Question Quid Facti, Doubts about the Latter; 3. Ideas of the Understanding, Ideas of Reason; 4. Subject and Predicate, The Determinable and the Determination; 5. Think, Possible, Necessary, Ground, Consequence; 6. Identity, Difference, Opposition, Reality, Logical and Transcendental Negation; 7. Magnitude; 8. Alteration, Change; 9. Truth, Subjective, Objective, Logical, Metaphysical; 10. On the I, Materialism, Idealism, Dualism; Short Overview of the Whole Work; My Ontology; On Symbolic Cognition and Philosophical Language; Notes and Clarifications; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisFélix Guattari (1930-1992) was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, social theorist and radical activist. He is best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze.Andrew Goffey is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communications at Middlesex University, UK.Trade ReviewIn a style full of conceptual surprise and confidence, like the rock climber who pushes upward knowing a handhold will somehow somewhere appear, Schizoanalytic Cartographies makes each term and concept a leap of faith, defying the abyssal melancholia of fascist life to confront the question that so concerns us today: what would a non-servile relation to media look like? This is a welcome translation, and untimely in the sense of affording, as if again for the first time, a consideration of how to conduct analysis across radically heterogeneous domains of existence in the digital era. -- Thomas Lamarre, Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University, CanadaSchizoanalytic Cartographies is the most complete and far-reaching formulation of Felix Guattari's philosophical thought. We see him at the height of his conceptual powers, scintillating with an intellectual intensity of dizzying inventiveness. This long-awaited English translation will put to rest any hasty assumptions about Guattari playing philosophical second fiddle to his long-time collaborator Gilles Deleuze. This is Guattari at his most creative -- and most enigmatic -- near the end of his career. The singular force of his thought vibrates on every page. -- Brian Massumi, Professor in the Communication Department, University of Montreal, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements \ List of Figures \ Translator's Introduction: The Artifice of Jargon. On Guattari's Style \ Preliminary \ 1. Analytic Cartographies \ 2. Semiotic Energetics \ 3. The Cycle of Assemblages \ 4. Reference and Consistency \ 5. The Domain of Fluxes \ 6. The Domain of Phyla \ 7. The Domain of Universes \ 8. Enunciative Recursion \ The Refrains of Being and Sense \ Refrains and Existential Affects \ Genet Regained \ Architectural Enunciation \ Ethico-Aesthetic Refrains in the Theatre of Witkiewicz \ Keiichi Tahara's Faciality Machine \ "Cracks in the Street"\ Notes \ Index

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Book SynopsisDonald A. Landes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal, Quèbec, Canada. He is translator of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (2012) and author of Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression (2013).Trade ReviewOne of our best Merleau-Ponty scholars, Don Landes has written an invaluable book. The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary provides concise definitions and insightful elaborations of virtually all of Merleau-Ponty’s thematic and operative terms. It also provides useful summaries of Merleau-Ponty’s most important books and articles. The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary is essential reading for anyone working on Merleau-Ponty today. -- Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State UniversityFrom the bright undergraduate first-time reader of Merleau-Ponty to the seasoned graduate student and senior scholar, all will find valuable discoveries in this clear, concise, and comprehensive dictionary. Landes has given us a lucid biography, bibliography, and A-Z account of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical and psychological vocabulary and the vocabulary of phenomenology itself, as well as insightful analyses of Merleau-Ponty's key texts. This handbook will find its place in my Merleau-Ponty seminars. -- Galen Johnson, General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle and Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island, USAA richly enabling resource. The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary offers a chronology of Merleau-Ponty’s life and works, synopses of his texts, and entries on key concepts, technical terms and historical influences. Pithy, insightful and nuanced, the entries in the dictionary provide an intelligent orientation to Merleau-Ponty’s work, and diverse resources for thinking one’s way further into the issues at play. -- Kym Maclaren, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ryerson University, CanadaTable of ContentsAbbreviations of Primary Works by Merleau-Ponty Cited in this Dictionary Introduction: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Acknowledgments Chronology: Merleau-Ponty's Life and Works Merleau-Ponty, A-Z Suggested Books and Edited Volumes in English Endnotes Index

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Book SynopsisLynn Fendler is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, US, where she teaches courses in curriculum theory, philosophy of education, and humanities-oriented research. She is a founding member of the Foucault and Education Special Interest Groups of American Educational Research Association.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Foreword Acknowledgements Part I: Intellectual Biography 1. Foucault and His World Part II: Critical Exposition of Foucault's Work 2. Definitions of Major Concepts 3. Summaries of Major Works Part III: The Reception and Influence of Foucault's Work 4. The Prolific Writer and Thinker Part IV: The Relevance of Foucault's Work Today 5. A Philosophical Legacy Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIan Buchanan is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of the Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory (2010) and the editor of Deleuze Studies.Lorna Collins is an artist, critic and arts educator based in Cambridge, where she completed her PhD as a Foundation Scholar in French Philosophy, at Jesus College. She is the founder and co-organiser/curator of the trans-disciplinary Making Sense colloquia and co-editor of the series of Making Sense books. Her provocative practice as an artist (in paint, film, installation and performance) drives the motor that lies behind all her existential and epistemological (philosophical) enquiries.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction, Ian Buchanan and Lorna Collins Part I: Genealogy of Art and Schizoanalysis 1. The Clutter Assemblage, Ian Buchanan (Director for the Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong, Australia) 2. Schizo-Revolutionary Art; Deleuze, Guattari and Communisation Theory, Stephen Zepke (author of Sublime Art) Part II: Raw Data for Schizoanalysis: Outsider Art 3. Pragmatics of Raw Art (For the Post-Autonomy Paradigm), Alexander Wilson (media artist, musician, theatre director and theorist) 4. Passional Bodies: The Interstitial Force of Artaud’s Drawings, Anna Powell (Reader in Film and English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 5. Art, Therapy and the Schizophrenic, Lorna Collins (artist, poet and critical theorist) Part III: Art as an Abstract Machine 6. The Audience and the Art Machine: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s Opera for a Small Room, Susan Ballard (School of the Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong) 7. 1780 and 1945: An Avant-Garde Without Authority, Addressing the Anthropocene, jan jagodzinski (University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada) 8. Strategies of Camouflage: Depersonalisation, Schizoanalysis and Contemporary Photography, Ayelet Zohar (transdisciplinary artist, curator and Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Israel) Part IV: Mobilizing Schizoanalysis: Collaborative Art Practice 9. The Event of Painting, Andrea Eckersley (artist) 10. In Response to the ‘Indiscreet Questioner’, Jac Saorsa (Cardiff University, Wales) 11. The Sinthome/Z-point Relation or Art as Non-Schizoanalysis, David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan (Plastique Fantastique) (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK and Goldsmiths College, University of London) 12. Art as Schizoanalysis: Creative Place-Making in South Asia, Leon Tan (Independent scholar) Index

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Book SynopsisAbi Doukhan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Queens College, CUNY, USA.Trade ReviewArguing against the received position that exile carries a negative connotation, Abigail Doukhan offers a re-reading of exile as a positive trope, one that also argues founds Levinas's philosophical project. Doukhan reads Levinas's philosophy as a philosophy of exile, one that bridges the gap between exile and ethics and thus offers new interpretive tools for thinking about societies in crisis as a result of the exile inside and outside the community. -- Claire Katz, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Texas A&M University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgments \ Abbreviations \ Introduction: The Problem of Exile \ 1. A Life and Thought in Exile \ 2. An Ethics of Exile \ 3. Exile and the Political \ 4. The Exile of Love \ 5. Truth in Exile \ 6. A Metaphysics of Exile \ 7. An Aesthetics of Exile \ Conclusion: The Wisdom of Exile \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index

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Book SynopsisWilliam Large is a Reader in Philosophy at University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is the author of Ethics and the Ambiguity of Writing: Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot (2005), Maurice Blanchot [co-authored] (2001) and Heidegger's Being and Time (2007)Trade ReviewAdmirable ... [and] accessible ... [Large's book] considers many of the obvious questions a new reader is likely to have. * Times Literary Supplement *When he first encountered the difficult work of Emmanuel Levinas, this reviewer threw one of Levinas's books against the wall in exasperation. Had Large’s book been available, the experience would have been different. Levinas's style, his methodology, his vocabulary, and his argument can seem strange. In introducing readers to Levinas’s most influential text, first published in French in 1961, Large (Univ. of Gloucestershire, UK) begins by working through the basics of phenomenological methodology and Levinas’s relation to Jewish philosophy as the assumed contexts in which Totality and Infinity occurs. After this framing, the author moves carefully through the work, offering specific analysis and interpretation of each section in turn. He concludes with a look at several problems that seem to plague Totality and Infinity—presentation, politics, the feminine, and religion. Large’s account is fair and his style is accessible. His book will be an invaluable resource for students who are tempted to throw Totality and Infinity against the wall. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students. -- J. A. Simmons, Furman University, USA * CHOICE *Large's contribution is valuable in making accessible this fundamental text for the understanding of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas ... He eloquently guides the reader through the intricacies of Totality and Infinity ... A necessity in the library of all those studying Levinas. * Revista Estudios *Students faced with the daunting task of reading Totality and Infinity have long awaited a lively and accessible commentary—and this is it. Large straightens out the warp and weft of Levinas’s text with admirable brevity, clarity, and faithfulness. Large’s guide deserves to be read by students and anyone with a serious interest in reading Levinas’s most important philosophical work for the first time. * Peter Atterton, San Diego State University, USA *I can think of no better guide through the “thicket of difficulties” that is Levinas’ Totality and Infinity than Will Large’s book. This is a book that is engagingly written and straightforward, whilst also remaining alive to the nuance and complexity of Levinas’ notoriously difficult text. Those embarking upon Levinas for the first time will find this book an invaluable introduction to the intrigue and fascination of Levinas’ work. Meanwhile, those who are more familiar with Levinas’ work may find that this refreshing and stimulating book opens up new questions for them, and helps them forge new pathways for the exploration of Levinas’ ethics of responsibility. * Will Buckingham, Reader in Writing and Creativity, De Montfort University, UK *This reader’s guide is a lucid, accessible way into an extremely difficult book, which offers the reader not only solid footing within Levinas's thinking but also occasional bridges into further philosophical discussions. Readers will appreciate patient explanation of his terminology, clear summaries of notoriously dense passages, and frequent reminders that many of Levinas's questions have also been the questions of other major thinkers, such Plato, Kant, Rosenzweig, and Heidegger. * Jeffrey Bloechl, Department of Philosophy, Boston College, USA *Table of ContentsTable ofContents 1.Themes and Content 2.Reading the Text 3.Reception and Influence 4.Further Reading Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSimon B. Duffy is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, and Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity, and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze (2006).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements \ List of Abbreviations \ Introduction \ 1. Leibniz and the Concept of the Infinitesimal \ 2. Maimon’s Critique of Kant’s Approach to Mathematics \ 3. Bergson and Riemann on Qualitative Multiplicity \ 4. Lautman’s Concept of the Mathematical Real \ 5. Badiou and Contemporary Mathematics \ Conclusion \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index

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Book SynopsisDonald A. Landes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Azucena Cruz-Pierre is an independent scholar in France.Trade ReviewIt is no exaggeration to say that Edward Casey is an extraordinary philosopher. And this book, consisting of an excellent introduction surveying the entirety of Casey’s work, a deeply probing interview, and thoughtful essays on Casey’s philosophical contributions by colleagues and former students, is much more than testimony to Casey’s influence. Exploring the remarkable range of his thought as the most creative, most exciting, most provocative inheritor of Husserlian phenomenology, the contributions to this volume take the reader on an unforgettable journey. To describe the significance and reward of his thought, I will borrow a concept that he has investigated with impressive rigor and simply say that he is one of the very few whose writing is on the cutting edge. -- David Kleinberg-Levin, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, USA, author of 'Gestures of Ethical Life' and 'Before the Voice of Reason'Edward S. Casey is widely known for his honest, attentive openness to phenomena, for his finely nuanced accounts of experience, and for his compelling descriptions of our shared world. The essays and interviews that comprise this work confirm that Casey numbers among the most incisive and creative philosophers today, making original contributions to fields broadly conceived as epistemology, aesthetics, the history of philosophy, and human geography. -- Anthony Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USATable of ContentsAbout the Authors Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations of Books by Edward S. Casey List of Figures and Images 1. Introduction Donald A. Landes and Azucena Cruz-Pierre Part I: Imagining, Memory, and Place 2. The Weight of Imagining, Memory, and Place: The Multiple Origins of Edward S. Casey’s Thought. Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Donald A. Landes 3. Place, Memory, and History David Carr 4. Casey’s Subliminal Phenomenology: On Edging Things Back into Place David Morris 5. The Remembrance of Place Jeff Malpas 6. A Philosophy of Place? Thierry Paquot, translated by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes 7. The Derivation Of Space Eugene Gendlin 8. Place(s) of Ornament Kent Bloomer 9. Plato, Levinas, and the Erotic Image Tanja Staehler Part II: Painting and Scapes 10. Framing the Landscape Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Azucena Cruz-Pierre 11. Glimpsing the Sublime: Casey, De Kooning, and Abstract Expressionism Galen Johnson 12. Slipping Glancer: Painting Place with Ed Casey Megan Craig 13. Drawing with/in and drawing out. A redefinition of architectural drawing through Edward S. Casey’s meditations on mapping Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Angeliki Sioli 14. Where In the World Is Art's Edge? An Artist's Quest Eve Ingalls Part III: Edges, Glances, and Worlds 15. The Reinscription of Place Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Azucena Cruz-Pierre 16. Casey Comes to the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, Diagrams, Arts and Islands Gary Shapiro 17. The Body as the Place of Care Eva Feder Kittay 18. Voices and the “Spirit of Place” Fred Evans Works Cited Appendix: Chronological Bibliography of the Work of Edward S. Casey (selected), compiled by Kathleen Hulley. Index

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Trade ReviewThe anthology features contributions from tutors, guest speakers and students, all of whom delve into what “the curatorial” is and what it might mean in the future ... The multiplicity of perspectives included in this book ... [are] a useful addition. * Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinaires *Arguing that curating like mapping is an outmoded concept, the specially commissioned essays in The Curatorial propose curatorial as a disruptive activity that provokes us to rethink received knowledge about art, art history, philosophy and cultural heritage. With its rich collection of texts by leading writers and theorists, The Curatorial is essential reading for anyone active in the arts as a curator, practitioner or writer. * Dr. Sue Malvern, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Art, University of Reading, UK *Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Illustrations Preface Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths College, UK) and Jean-Paul Martinon(Goldsmiths College, UK) Introduction Jean-Paul Martinon (Goldsmiths College, UK) Part I: Send-Offs 1. On the Curatorial, From the Trapeze Raqs Media Collective 2. Theses in the Philosophy of Curating Jean-Paul Martinon (Goldsmiths College, UK) 3. Whence the Future? Alfredo Cramerotti (University of Wales, UK) 4. The Expanded Field Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths College, UK) 5. Dear Art,Yours Sincerely Natasa Ilic (WHW, Croatia and Germany) Part II: Praxeologies 6. The Curator Crosses the River: A Fabulation Stefan Nowotny (Goldsmiths College, UK) 7. Becoming-Curator Suzana Milevska (Institute of Gender Studies, Macedonia) 8. An Exhausted Curating Leire Vergara (Goldsmiths College, UK and University of the Basque Country, Spain) 9. Eros, Plague, Olfaction: Three Allegories of the Curatorial Jenny Doussan (Goldsmiths College, UK) Part III: Moves 10. The Task at Hand: Transcending the Clamp of Sovereignty Ariella Azoulay (Brown University, USA) 11. The Simple Operator Sarah Pierce (Sandberg Institute, The Netherlands) 12. Three Short Takes on the Curatorial Doreen Mende (Dutch Art Institute, The Netherlands) 13. Aku menjadi saksi kepada / What I am Thinking Roopesh Sitharan (University of Santa Cruz, USA) 14. Betrayal and the Curatorial Joshua Simon (Museum of Bat Yam, Israel and New School, NY, USA) Part IV: Heresies 15. A Conspiracy Without a Plot Stefano Harney (Singapore Management University, Singapore) and Valentina Desideri 16. What does a Question Do? Micropolitics and Art Education Susan Kelly (Goldsmiths College, UK) 17. Being Able to Do Something Nora Sternfeld (Aalto University, Finland) 18. The Politics of Residual Fun Valeria Graziano (Queen Mary University, UK) Part V: Refigurations 19. Modern Art: Its Very Idea Helmut Draxler (Merz Academy, Germany) 20 Two Invoking Media: Radio and Exhibition Jean-Louis Déotte (University of Paris, France) 21. In Unfamiliar Terrain Anshuman Dasgupta (Visva-Bharati University, India) 22. Curating Ghostly Objects Cihat Arinç 23. Non-Museums Adnan Madani (Goldsmiths College, UK) Part VI: Stages 24. Curating, Dramatization, and the Diagram Bridget Crone(Goldsmiths College, UK) 25. Curating Context Aneta Szylak(Copenhagen University, Denmark and Goldsmiths, UK) 26. Backstage and Processuality Ines Moreira(Goldsmiths College, UK) 27. This is Not About Us Je Yun Moon(Goldsmiths College, UK) Coda The Curatorial Charles Esche (University of the Arts, London, UK) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMary Midgley was a moral philosopher and the author of more than fifteen books including The Myths We Live By (2003) and Beast and Man (1978). Table of ContentsPreface to the Bloomsbury Revelations edition Introduction to the first edition 1 Can we base freedom on ignorance? 2 Starting from where we are 3 Why there is trouble over knowledge 4 Scepticisim and liberty 5 Why must we not interfere? 6 The fear of society 7 The public side of morality 8 Individuals in the modern melting-pot 9 Individualism, solitude and privacy 10 Morality and harm 11 Rethinking relativism 12 How large is a culture 13 Varieties of subjectivism 14 The problem of private validity 15 Social darwinist egoism 16 Moving forward through the modern world 17 Doubts, reasonable and otherwise 18 What about values 19 Back to the main question 20 How much have things changed Envoi Index of proper names

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Book SynopsisDavid Deamer is Associate Lecturer in film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published in Martin-Jones and Brown's Deleuze and Film; Bell and Colebrook's Deleuze and History; Deleuze Studies; and the online A/V Journal, of which he was co-founder. He blogs on Deleuze and cinema at www.daviddeamer.com.Trade ReviewThis ambitious book brings together three different constellations: the national cinema of Japan; the atom bombs thrown on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and Deleuze. Surprising though this may sound, the book patiently and expertly weaves these three strands together to the point of making us feel that the Deleuzian cineosis was conceived to address precisely this kind of historico-cinematic encounter. Moving away from reductive ideas of genre, Deamer tackles the complexity of a wide and extremely varied body of films united by the catastrophe of the atom bomb, allowing for a re-evaluation of forgotten gems as well as celebrated masterpieces. Unveiling not one but many Japans, this book testifies to the enduring power and infinite uses of Deleuze’s vision of cinema. -- Lúcia Nagib, Professor of Film, University of Reading, UKDeamer’s study is exemplary in its interweaving of film and philosophy. From a philosophical perspective, the book provides a clear, rigorous, and concrete reading of Deleuze’s semiotics of cinema and its philosophical grounds. From a cinematic perspective, the book provides a fascinating, detailed study of Japanese cinema, demonstrating the continuing importance of the event of Hiroshima. It provides a thoroughly convincing case for the importance to Japanese cinema of the atom bomb, and the importance to the analysis of cinema more generally of Deleuze’s philosophy of film. Highly recommended. -- Henry Somers-Hall, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKDeleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility is a well written, clear, insightful and always to-the-point examination of the ways in which Japanese cinema has (and has not) dealt with the atomic bombs ... I congratulate Deamer for both the depth and the breadth with which he approaches this challenging topic ... Deamer writes fluidly, organises his thoughts clearly and displays a profound familiarity with the films that he has chosen as his examples. As a result, the book is a thoroughly pleasant, if demanding, reading experience. * Akira Kurosawa info *Table of ContentsList of tables List of images Acknowledgements Introduction: event, cinema, cineosis 1. Special images, contingent centres Movement-images: Bergson, sensory-motor process The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Ito Sueo, 1946) Children of the Atom Bomb (Shindo Kaneto, 1952) Godzilla (Honda Ishiro, 1954) 2. Horizons of history Action-images: Nietzsche, history Terror of Mechagodzilla (Honda Ishiro, 1975) Lucky Dragon No. 5 (Shindo Kaneto, 1959) Barefoot Gen (Masaki Mori, 1983) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988) 3. Traces: symptoms and figures Impulse-images; reflection-images: Peirce, semiosis The Naked Island (Shindo Kaneto, 1960) Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike, 1999) Ring (Nakata Hideo, 1998) Kwaidan (Kobayashi Masaki, 1964) The Face of Another (Teshigahara Hiroshi, 1966) Navel and A-bomb (Eikoh Hosoe, 1960) Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989) Face of Jizo (Kuroki Kazuo, 2004) 4. Consummation (and crisis) Mental-images: Bergson, memory I Live in Fear (Kurosawa Akira, 1955) Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira, 1950) Dreams (Kurosawa Akira, 1990) Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa Akira, 1991) 5. Impure anarchic multiplicities Time-images: Deleuze, syntheses of time Casshern (Kiriya Kazuaki, 2004) The Pacific War (Nagisa Oshima, 1968) A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (Imamura Shohei, 1970) Black Rain (Imamura Shohei, 1989) Hiroshima (Sekigawa Hideo, 1953) Conclusion: spectres of impossibility Notes Index Select bibliography Select filmography

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Book SynopsisClint Burnham is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the author of Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (Bloomsbury, 2016).Trade ReviewClint Burnham does not merely apply psychoanalysis to the internet; he demonstrates how the unconscious itself is 'structured like the internet,' how our entanglement in the impenetrable digital web allows us to understand properly the way the unconscious overdetermines our thinking and activities. This is why Burnham’s path-breaking book reaches much deeper than the usual analyses of the social and psychological implications of the internet: it does not just socialize and historicise the internet, it throws a new light on the unconscious itself. * Slavoj Žižek, Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and author of Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism *Clint Burnham has produced the definitive psychoanalytic account of digital culture. This is the book that those seeking to understand how the unconscious manifests itself in the digital universe have been waiting for. For too long, psychoanalytic theorists have confined themselves to analyses of film and literature, but now Burnham provides the breakthrough. Far from being an application of psychoanalysis to a foreign realm, the digital provides the privileged ground for encountering the unconscious. As Burnham’s delightful and witty prose indicates, the internet functions as an event with concrete ramifications for the psyches that emerge in its wake. * Todd McGowan, Professor of English, University of Vermont, USA, and author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy *Were there ever two formations with less in common than 'the Internet,' a machinic transmission of discrete data, and 'psychoanalysis,' a wild science of messy social relationality? Clint Burnham’s genius is to show how psychoanalysis is indispensable to any robust theory of digital culture, but as well to reveal the cybernetics already at work in psychoanalytic theory from Freud to Žižek. In readings of multiple media, he vividly demonstrates the ongoing necessity of concepts like negation, enjoyment, and disavowal for making sense of aesthetic productions like cinema, social experiences like Facebook, and the cyber mode of production that binds online pleasures to offline battery factories. This is an expansive, fascinating book, offering its readers a dazzling plenty of speculation and critique. * Anna Kornbluh, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and author of Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (2013) *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? 2. Slavoj Žižek as Internet Philosopher 3. Was Facebook an Event? 4. Is the Internet a Thing? 5. The Subject Supposed to LOL 6. Her: Or, There Is No Digital Relation (with Matthew Flisfeder) 7. The Selfie and the Cloud Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMaurice Friedman's masterly anthology still stands apart decades after its original publication. It has become established as a classic - the most comprehensive collection of existentialist writing ever assembled. This edition includes a special preface by Professor Friedman surveying the developments in the field since this monumental work was first published and commenting on its relevance for present intellectual trends. The short selections from important existentialist writers and their forerunners elucidate the critical issues that exist among existentialists. The topics include phenomenology and ontology, the existential subject, intersubjectivity, religion, and psychotherapy.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophy and Truth offers the first English translation of six unpublished theoretical studies (sometimes referred to as Nietzsche's "Philosopher's Book") written just after the publication of The Birth of Tragedy and simultaneously with Untimely Meditations. In addition to the texts themselves, which probe epistemological problems on philosophy's relation to art and culture, this book contains a lengthy introduction that provides the biographical and philological information necessary for understanding these often fragmentary texts. The introduction also includes a helpful discussion of Nietzsche's early views concerning culture, knowledge, philosophy, and the Greeks.Trade Review"... the most significant contribution to English-language studies of Nietzsche since the publication of Walter Kaufmann's translation of The Gay Science." -- Philosophical Books

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Book SynopsisIt is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. When it first appeared in 1940, Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel's social and political theory. Today, the appreciation of Marcuse's work has remained high, more relevant now than ever before. In the rapidly changing context of post-Cold War political realities, there is no better guide than Marcuse to where we have been and to what we might expect. As he well understood, turbulent and spectacular political events always ran within channels earlier set by political theory; and he equally understood that it was Hegel's often unappreciated and misunderstood theory which actually set a fundamental path of modern political life. It is a fortunate combination to have a scholar of Marcuse's brilliance and lucid honesty addressing the sources and consequences of Hegel's social theory.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the concept of natural purpose in Kant's philosophy of biology. Understanding Purpose is an exploration of the central concept of natural purpose [Naturzweck] in Kant's philosophy of biology. Kant's work in this area is marked by a strong teleological concern: living organisms, in his view, are qualitatively different from mechanistic devices, and as a result they cannot be understood by means of the same principles. At the same time, Kant's own use of the concept of purpose does not presuppose any theological commitments, and is merely "regulative"; that is, it is employed as a heuristic device. The contributors to this volume also investigate the following key historical questions relating to Kant's philosophy of biology: How does it relate to European work in the life sciences that was done before Kant arrived on the scene? How did Kant's unique approach to the philosophy of biology in turn influence later work in this area? The issues explored in this volume are as pertinent to the history of philosophy as they are to the history of science -- it is precisely the blurred boundaries between these two disciplines that allows for new perspectives on Kantianism and early nineteenth-century German biology to emerge. Contributors: Jean-Claude Dupont, Mark Fisher, Philippe Huneman, Robert J. Richards, Phillip R. Sloan, Stéphane Schmitt, and John Zammito. Philippe Huneman is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unit of the Université Paris.Table of ContentsPre-Kantian Revival of Epigenesis: Caspar Friedrich Wolff's De formatione intestinorum (1768-69) - Jean-Claude Dupont Kant's Persistent Ambivalence toward Epigenesis, 1764-90 - John H. Zammito Reflexive Judgment and Wolffian Embryology: Kant's Shift between the First and the Third Critiques - Philippe Huneman Kant's Explanatory Natural History: Generation and Classification of Organisms in Kant's Natural Philosophy - Mark Fisher Succession of Functions and Classifications in Post-Kantian Naturphilosophie around 1800 - Stéphane Schmitt Goethe's Use of Kant in the Erotics of Nature - Robert J. Richards Kant and British Bioscience - Phillip R. Sloan

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