Western philosophy from c 1800 Books
Princeton University Press Against Deconstruction
Book Synopsis"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible."Trade Review"Ellis argues with force and clarity... [He] concludes that what Deconstruction provides is largely an emotional bonus--it gives its adherents 'a routine way to a feeling of being excitedly shocking.' They get the feeling that might attend a genuine piece of original thinking, but here it can be achieved without comparable effort."--London Review of Books
£33.25
Edinburgh University Press Bergson and Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis introductory study looks at Bergson's use of philosophical form itself and aims to dispel the view that Bergson ever stuck to one type of philosophy at all, be it vitalism or phenomenology.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Orientalism
Book SynopsisThis Reader provides the student with a selection of key readings from this debate, covering a range of areas including myth, imperialism, the cultural perspective, Marxist interpretation and feminist attitudes.Trade Reviewthis collection is indispensible for any reading list dealing even marginally with Orientalism. For students this new reader will be most helpful because it supplies a good selection of readings which will enable students to examine the elements of the modern theory of anti-Orientalism and some of the main criticisms of that theory. The division between Orientalists and anti-Orientalists is as complete as that which formerly obtained between Marxists and Anti-Marxists. It is a compliment to Dr Macfie that he has produced a reader of such balance that it could well be found tolerable by both groups. The arrival of a 'reader', a collection of 'texts' on the subject, seems to draw a line under the fierce debates of the sixties to eighties. The topic becomes a subject for textual study; Alexander Macfie's book provides a painless visit of the battlefields...orientalism is a good topic for a reader since the literature is diverse and dispersed, and Macfie has done a good job. There can be little doubt that a reader covering this debate [on Orientalism] would be of enormous value to a whole variety of courses in several disciplines in many Universities across the English-speaking world, as well as in Europe. -- Professor John Mackenzie, Lancaster University this collection is indispensible for any reading list dealing even marginally with Orientalism. For students this new reader will be most helpful because it supplies a good selection of readings which will enable students to examine the elements of the modern theory of anti-Orientalism and some of the main criticisms of that theory. The division between Orientalists and anti-Orientalists is as complete as that which formerly obtained between Marxists and Anti-Marxists. It is a compliment to Dr Macfie that he has produced a reader of such balance that it could well be found tolerable by both groups. The arrival of a 'reader', a collection of 'texts' on the subject, seems to draw a line under the fierce debates of the sixties to eighties. The topic becomes a subject for textual study; Alexander Macfie's book provides a painless visit of the battlefields...orientalism is a good topic for a reader since the literature is diverse and dispersed, and Macfie has done a good job. There can be little doubt that a reader covering this debate [on Orientalism] would be of enormous value to a whole variety of courses in several disciplines in many Universities across the English-speaking world, as well as in Europe.Table of ContentsPart 1: Foundations of a Myth 1. The Indian Form of Government, James Mill; 2. Gorgeous Edifices, G. W. F. Hegel; 3. The British Rule in India, Karl Marx; Part 2: The Rise of Oriental Studies 4. Les Commencements de l'Orientalisme, Pierre Martino; 5. The Asiatic Society of Calcutta, Raymond Schwab; Part 3: The Foundations of a Critique 6. Phenomenon and Thing-in-itself, F. Nietzsche; 7. On Hegemony and Direct Rule, A. Gramsci; 8. Truth and Power, M. Foucault; Part 4: Orientalism in Crisis 9. Orientalism in Crisis, Anouar Abdel-Malek; 10. English-speaking Orientalism, A. L. Tibawi; Part 5: An Apology for Orientalism 11. Apology for Orientalism, F. Gabrieli; Part 6: An Elaborate Account 12. Shattered Myths, E. Said; 13. Arabs, Islam and the Dogmas of the West, E. Said; 14. My Thesis, E. Said; 15. On Flaubert, E. Said; 16. Latent and Manifest Orientalism, E. Said; Part 7: A Marxist Interpretation 17. Marx and the End of Orientalism, B. S. Turner; Part 8: An American Response 18. Three Arab Critiques of Orientalism, D. P. Little; Part 9: Further Critiques 19. Second Critique of English-speaking Orientalists, A. L. Tibawi; 20. On the Orientalists Again, A. L. Tibawi; Part 10: Said's Orientalism: Reviews and Review Articles 21. Orientalism at the Service of Imperialism, S. Schaar; 22. Hermeneutics versus History, D. Kopf; 23. Enough Said, M. Richardson; 24. Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse, Sadik Jalal Al-Azm; 25. Orientalism: A Black Perspective, Ernest J. Wilson III; 26. The Question of Orientalism, Bernard Lewis; Part 11: Qualifications and Elaboration 27. "Gorgeous East" versus "Land of Regrets", E. J. Moore-Gilbert; 28. Orientalist Constructions of India, R. Inden; 29. Between Orientalism and Historicism, Aijaz Ahmad; 30. Humanising the Arabs, B. Melman; 31. Indology and the Case of Germany, S. Pollock; 32. Turkish Embassy Letter, L. Lowe; 33. History, Theory and the Arts, J. MacKenzie; Part 12: Orientalism and Feminism 34. Orientalism, Hinduism and Feminism, R. King; Part 13: Orientalism Reconsidered 35. Orientalism Reconsidered, E. Said; Part 14: Beyond Orientalism 36. Exit from Orientalism, F. Dallmayr; 37. From Orientalism to Global Sociology, B. S. Turner.
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Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Critical Theorists
Book Synopsis
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press The Lyotard Reader and Guide
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive anthology of Jean-Francois Lyotard's writings together with a critical guide.Trade ReviewThe organisation, approach and breadth of this edition are outstanding. -- Simon Malpas, Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University A superb selection. -- D. N. Rodowick, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University The organisation, approach and breadth of this edition are outstanding. A superb selection.
£108.00
Edinburgh University Press The Lyotard Reader and Guide
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive anthology of Jean-Francois Lyotard's writings together with a critical guide.Trade ReviewThe Lyotard Reader and Guide provides an excellent introduction to Lyotard's philosophy, and the book impresses the reader by its scope and richness ... a great example of a well-structured and well-written anthology. -- Gunnar Fabian Schuppert The organisation, approach and breadth of this edition are outstanding. -- Simon Malpas, Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University A superb selection. -- D. N. Rodowick, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University The Lyotard Reader and Guide provides an excellent introduction to Lyotard's philosophy, and the book impresses the reader by its scope and richness ... a great example of a well-structured and well-written anthology. The organisation, approach and breadth of this edition are outstanding. A superb selection.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and the Contemporary World
Book SynopsisThe twelve new essays in this volume join the pragmatic philosophy of Deleuze to current affairs, using a contemporary context to think through and with Deleuze.
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Derrida
Book SynopsisExplores the implications of Derrida's death for the future of critical thought itself; includes chapters which engage with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies.Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging encounter with Jacques Derrida's legacy is consistently innovative, discerning, and challenging. Taken as a whole, the collection is both a fitting tribute and an original contribution to critical political philosophy. -- Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i Far from the hackneyed responses that greeted Derrida's passing, this volume negotiates the profound legacy of his path-breaking thought for ethics, politics and global issues. Through a series of essays -- some of them provocative, all of them original -- this volume rightly understands that fidelity to Derrida's memory is best expressed in terms of a critical engagement that both confronts and draws inspiration from the many challenges his work continues to pose. -- David Campbell, Durham University This wide-ranging encounter with Jacques Derrida's legacy is consistently innovative, discerning, and challenging. Taken as a whole, the collection is both a fitting tribute and an original contribution to critical political philosophy. Far from the hackneyed responses that greeted Derrida's passing, this volume negotiates the profound legacy of his path-breaking thought for ethics, politics and global issues. Through a series of essays -- some of them provocative, all of them original -- this volume rightly understands that fidelity to Derrida's memory is best expressed in terms of a critical engagement that both confronts and draws inspiration from the many challenges his work continues to pose.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Inheriting Deconstruction, Surviving Derrida; Ludovic Glorieux and Indira Hasimbegovic; I Future of Deconstruction; 1. Analytic Philosophy in Another Key: Derrida on Language, Truth and Logic; Christopher Norris; 2. The Future of Critical Philosophy and World Politics; Richard Beardsworth; 3. Derrida's Rogues: Islam and the Futures of Deconstruction; Alex Thomson; 4. Force [of] Transformation; Michael Dillon; II Interrupting the Same; 5. Derrida's Memory, War and the Politics of Ethics; Maja Zehfuss; 6. The (International) Politics of Friendship: Exemplar, Exemplarity, Exclusion; Josef Ansorge; 7. Ethical Assassination? Negotiating the (Ir)responsible Decision; Dan Bulley; 8. Exploiting the Ambivalence of a Crisis: A practitioner reads 'Diversity Training' through Homi Bhabha; April Biccum; III Following/ Breaking; 9. Sartre and Derrida: the promises of the subject; Christina Howells; 10. What It Is To Be Many: Subjecthood, Responsibility and Sacrifice in Derrida and Nancy; Jenny Edkins; 11. 'Derrida's Theatre of Survival: Fragmentation, Death and Legacy'; Daniel Watt; 12. Derrida vs. Habermas Revisited; Lasse Thomassen; Conclusions: The Im/Possibility of Closure; Madeleine Fagan and Marie Suetsugu.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Derrida
Book SynopsisExplores the implications of Derrida's death for the future of critical thought itself; includes chapters which engage with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies.Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging encounter with Jacques Derrida's legacy is consistently innovative, discerning, and challenging. Taken as a whole, the collection is both a fitting tribute and an original contribution to critical political philosophy. -- Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i Far from the hackneyed responses that greeted Derrida's passing, this volume negotiates the profound legacy of his path-breaking thought for ethics, politics and global issues. Through a series of essays -- some of them provocative, all of them original -- this volume rightly understands that fidelity to Derrida's memory is best expressed in terms of a critical engagement that both confronts and draws inspiration from the many challenges his work continues to pose. -- David Campbell, Durham University The negotiations which comprise this collection successfully guide the reader through the complexity that makes Derridean thought so rich. Fighting to keep these tensions from being marginalised, the best contributions within this collection display how this complexity is productive, by using it to engage with contemporary political problematics. In doing so the question of Derrida's legacy is left open, deferring decision on Derrida's legacy to a future to come (a-venir) -- Christopher Zebrowski, Keele University In-Spire This wide-ranging encounter with Jacques Derrida's legacy is consistently innovative, discerning, and challenging. Taken as a whole, the collection is both a fitting tribute and an original contribution to critical political philosophy. Far from the hackneyed responses that greeted Derrida's passing, this volume negotiates the profound legacy of his path-breaking thought for ethics, politics and global issues. Through a series of essays -- some of them provocative, all of them original -- this volume rightly understands that fidelity to Derrida's memory is best expressed in terms of a critical engagement that both confronts and draws inspiration from the many challenges his work continues to pose. The negotiations which comprise this collection successfully guide the reader through the complexity that makes Derridean thought so rich. Fighting to keep these tensions from being marginalised, the best contributions within this collection display how this complexity is productive, by using it to engage with contemporary political problematics. In doing so the question of Derrida's legacy is left open, deferring decision on Derrida's legacy to a future to come (a-venir)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Inheriting Deconstruction, Surviving Derrida; Ludovic Glorieux and Indira Hasimbegovic; I Future of Deconstruction; 1. Analytic Philosophy in Another Key: Derrida on Language, Truth and Logic; Christopher Norris; 2. The Future of Critical Philosophy and World Politics; Richard Beardsworth; 3. Derrida's Rogues: Islam and the Futures of Deconstruction; Alex Thomson; 4. Force [of] Transformation; Michael Dillon; II Interrupting the Same; 5. Derrida's Memory, War and the Politics of Ethics; Maja Zehfuss; 6. The (International) Politics of Friendship: Exemplar, Exemplarity, Exclusion; Josef Ansorge; 7. Ethical Assassination? Negotiating the (Ir)responsible Decision; Dan Bulley; 8. Exploiting the Ambivalence of a Crisis: A practitioner reads 'Diversity Training' through Homi Bhabha; April Biccum; III Following/ Breaking; 9. Sartre and Derrida: the promises of the subject; Christina Howells; 10. What It Is To Be Many: Subjecthood, Responsibility and Sacrifice in Derrida and Nancy; Jenny Edkins; 11. 'Derrida's Theatre of Survival: Fragmentation, Death and Legacy'; Daniel Watt; 12. Derrida vs. Habermas Revisited; Lasse Thomassen; Conclusions: The Im/Possibility of Closure; Madeleine Fagan and Marie Suetsugu.
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Edinburgh University Press Gilles Deleuzes Logic of Sense
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first critical study of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense, his most important work on language and ethics.Table of ContentsContentsChapter 1. Introduction to the logic of sense* Event and structure* Life and morals* Reading Logic of Sense* Preliminary critical questionsChapter 2. Language and event* Events as effects* Unfolding the circle of the proposition: denotation, manifestation, signification and sense* Sense and the circle* Series and paradox* Structure and esoteric words* Paradox and nonsenseChapter 3. Philosophy as event* Philosophy and diagrams* Height, depth and surface* Individuals* Singularities and sense* Transcendental deductions* Singularities and series* Problems* The connection of events* The ideal game* Static genesis* Deleuze and HusserlChapter 4. Morals and events* Placing the human* Principles for moral problems* How moral problems are replayed* How to act morally (principles)* How to act morally (examples)* The crack-up* Individuals, solipsism and the communication of events* Time and univocityChapter 5. Thought and the unconscious* The thinker deposed* Thought and problems* Seriation and the phantasm* Thought and sexuality* Dynamic genesisChapter 6. Conclusion: on method and metaphysicsBibliography
£103.50
Edinburgh University Press Derridas Of Grammatology
Book SynopsisEverything you need to know about Derrida's Of Grammatology in one volume.Table of ContentsContents Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Note on texts Introduction 1. Historical context 2. A Guide to the Text The beginning of writing Saussure, writing and the trace Levi-Strauss and the violence of the letter Rousseau: the logic of the supplement Rousseau and the origin(s) of language Conclusion 3. Study Aids Glossary Further reading Answering essay and examination questions Bibliography Index
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Derridas Of Grammatology
Book SynopsisEverything you need to know about Derrida's Of Grammatology in one volume.Trade ReviewAn excellent and stimulating guide that offers a remarkably clear and thorough explanation of the argument and vocabulary of Of Grammatology. Bradley succeeds admirably in the difficult task of rendering Derrida's text accessible whilst communicating effectively something of its uncanny nature and radical challenge to ingrained notions of the nature and task of reading and interpretation. A remarkable achievement that will be of huge benefit to students coming to Derrida's daunting text for the first time. -- Dr Jim Urpeth, University of GreenwichTable of ContentsContents Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Note on texts Introduction 1. Historical context 2. A Guide to the Text The beginning of writing Saussure, writing and the trace Levi-Strauss and the violence of the letter Rousseau: the logic of the supplement Rousseau and the origin(s) of language Conclusion 3. Study Aids Glossary Further reading Answering essay and examination questions Bibliography Index
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Heideggers Being and Time
Book SynopsisThis single volume guides provides everything you need to know about Heidegger's Being and Time.Trade ReviewAs the first commentary on Being and Time in English to give as much respect to French readings of the book as to analytic readings, William Large's accessible introduction deserves to be widely read. -- Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis As the first commentary on Being and Time in English to give as much respect to French readings of the book as to analytic readings, William Large's accessible introduction deserves to be widely read.Table of Contents1. Historical Context; 2. A Guide to the Text; The Question of Being; Being in the World; Others, Language and Truth; Anxiety, Death and Guilt; Time and History; 3. Study Aids; Glossary; Further Reading; Writing an Essay on Heidegger's Being and Time.
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Edinburgh University Press The Jean Baudrillard Reader
Book SynopsisA chronological introduction to the work of Jean Baudrillard, with a selection of classic readings.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: On Non-Postmodernity by Steve Redhead Chapter 2: Mass Media Culture Chapter 3: The Linguistic Imaginary Chapter 4: The Ecliptic of Sex Chapter 5: The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence Chapter 6: Please Follow Me Chapter 7: The Evil Demon of Images Chapter 8: The Gulf War: Is It Really Taking Place? Chapter 9: Pataphysics of the Year 2000 Chapter 10: Impossible Exchange Chapter 11: The Millennium, or the Suspense of the Year 2000 Chapter 12: Truth or Radicality? The Future of Architecture Chapter 13: The Art Conspiracy Chapter 14: Requiem for the Twin Towers Chapter 15: Pornography of War Chapter 16: Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself Chapter 17: The Pyres of Autumn Chapter 18: We Have Never Been Postmodern: Reading Jean Baudrillard by Steve Redhead
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Queer Theory
Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of new work proposes a major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On the Very Possibility of Queer Theory, Claire Colebrook; 2. Thirty-six Thousand Forms of Love: The Queening of Deleuze & Guattari, Verena Andermatt Conley; 3. The Sexed Subject in-between Deleuze and Butler, Anna Hickey-Moody and Mary Louise Rasmussen; 4. Every 'One' - a Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle, Dorothea Olkowski; 5. The adventures of a sex, Luciana Parisi; 6. Queer Hybridity, Mikko Tuhkanen; 7. Prosthetic Performativity: Deleuzian Connections and Queer Corporealities, Margrit Shildrick; 8. Unnatural Alliances, Patricia MacCormack; 9. Schreber and the Penetrated Male, Jonathan Kemp; 10. Butterfly kiss: the contagious kiss of becoming-lesbian, Chrysanthi Nigianni; Notes on Contributors; Index.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Performance
Book SynopsisWas performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze''s philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in which many continue to privilege the notion of performance as representation, as anchored by its imitation of an identity: ''the world'', ''the play'', ''the self''?Deleuze and Performance is a collection of new essays dedicated to Deleuze''s writing on theatre and to the productivity of his philosophy for (re)thinking performance. This book provides rigorous analyses of Deleuze''s writings on theatre practitioners such as Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene, as well as offering innovative readings of historical and contemporary performance including performance art, dance, new media performance, theatre and opera, which use Deleuze''s concepts in exciting new ways. Can philosophy follow Deleuze in overcoming the antitheatrical tradition embedded in its history, perhaps even reconsidering what it means to think in the light of the embodied insights of performance''s practitioners? Experts from the fields of Performance Studies and Deleuze Studies come together in this volume and strive to examine these and other issues in a manner that will be challenging, yet accessible to students and established scholars alike.Trade Review'The vitality of Gilles Deleuze's enduring influence is nowhere more apparent than within the folds of performance. Laura Cull's own precision of thought on these matters is given exquisite, seamless form in this indispensable collection by a first rate cast.' -- Alan Read, Professor of Theatre, King's College London 'This is a welcome addition to the fields of both performance studies and Deleuze studies, one that is sure to stimulate productive research and practice across many domains for years to come.' -- Ronald Bogue, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction by Laura Cull; 1. Performing in the Chaosmos: Farts, Follicles, Mathematics, and Delirium in Deleuze by Herbert Blau; 2. I Artaud BwO: The Uses of Artaud's To have Done with the Judgment of God by Edward Scheer; 3. Expression and Affect in Kleist, Beckett, and Deleuze by Anthony Uhlmann; 4. A Theatre of Subtractive Extinction: Bene without Deleuze by Lorenzo Chiesa; 5. Performing, Strolling, Thinking: From Minor Literature to Theatre of the Future by Daniel Watt and Off the beaten path or, notes towards a Heideggerian deterritorialization: a response to Daniel Watt by Julian Wolfreys; 6. Becoming a Citizen of the World: Deleuze between Allan Kaprow and Adrian Piper by Stephen Zepke; 7. sub specie durationis by Matthew Goulish and Laura Cull; 8. Thinking through Theatre by Maaike Bleeker; 9. Becoming-Dinosaur: Collective Process and Movement Aesthetics by Anna Hickey-Moody; 10. !of butterflies, bodies and biograms! Affective spaces in performativities in the performance of Madama Butterfly by Barbara Kennedy; 11. Like a Prosthesis: Critical Performance a Digital Deleuze by Timothy Murray; 12. Performance as the Distribution of Life: From Aeschylus to Chekhov to VJing via Deleuze and Guattari by Andrew Murphie; 13. The 'minor' arithmetic of rhythm: imagining digital technologies for dance by Stamatia Portanova; Epilogue; Notes on Contributors; Works Cited; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Political Thought of Jacques Ranciere
Book SynopsisFocuses on Ranciere's central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality.Trade ReviewEquality is not something that we must expect from state institutions. It is something that we must both presuppose and create through collective action. Todd May investigates in depth the philosophical grounds ethical implications and practical consequences of the view of active equality. Much more than a commentary, his book is a powerful analysis of what politics means and how we can recover the project of political action. -- Jacques Ranciere Equality is not something that we must expect from state institutions. It is something that we must both presuppose and create through collective action. Todd May investigates in depth the philosophical grounds ethical implications and practical consequences of the view of active equality. Much more than a commentary, his book is a powerful analysis of what politics means and how we can recover the project of political action.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Passive Equality; 2. Active Equality: Democratic Politics; 3. The Historical Roots of Democratic Politics: Anarchism; 4. The Normative Framework of Democratic Politics; 5. Active Equality in Contemporary Politics; Bibliography; Index.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Cinema and National Identity
Book SynopsisA monograph exploring the ways in which Deleuze's philosophy of time can enhance our understanding of contemporary mainstream cinema.Trade ReviewThis book fruitfully and originally combines three areas of investigation: recent cinema, Deleuzean film theory, and national identity... This is a timely and well-informed addition to current discussions in Anglophone film studies. Forum for Modern Language Studies Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity tackles the burning questions of globalisation. While critiquing the dated, European, even French nature of Deleuzian philosophy, David Martin-Jones brings out its contemporary relevance in a global context. !The strength of the analyses, and the work as a whole lies in its avoidance of triumphalism, whether national or transnational. Applied to such highly political questions, the notions of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation emerge in all their complexity and power. (original quote in French) Question de Communication An impressive feat, and a model for future scholarship in this vein. Martin-Jones makes Deleuze 'matter' in that his historical perspective stresses that the Deleuzian distinction between time- and movement-images is not merely formal, but deeply political. Screen David Martin-Jones' Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity is one of the standout books of the year. Martin-Jones provides a profound and original reassessment of Gilles Deleuze's own concepts of style and history in modern cinema. At the same time, the book goes beyond Deleuze, indeed displaces his thought on to new territories. With his engaging and deeply thoughtful analyses of mixtures of movement and time in contemporary world cinema, Martin-Jones takes us beyond movement and time-images towards something like a new genre-hybrid global cinemas where questions of national identity are deterritorialised within and across borders and cultures. This is a remarkable book. -- Professor David Rodowick, Harvard University Martin-Jones combines theoretical insights with a profound knowledge of various national cinemas and sharp analytical observations. His reading of a challengingly wide selection of contemporary films as Deleuzian time-images 'caught in the act' of becoming movement-images in relation to national identity offers a convincing and important contribution to film studies and to Deleuzian scholarship. -- Laura Marks, Simon Fraser University Martin-Jones is able to argue for the manifestation of the relationship between history and memory via a particular film's focus on narrative time, and thus re-engage his textual analysis with the particular national cinema's political or historical context. Given that such a project gestures to the potential of film analysis for constructive political critique and cultural analysis, this volume posits an intervention in film studies' discursive formation. -- Sharon Lin Tay Screening the Past Rather than producing another philosophical explication of Deleuze's Eurocentrically inflected cinema books, Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity mobilises their concepts by engaging them in critical and creative action in a crucial new field! By moving from the letter to the spirit of Deleuzian critique, Martin-Jones's lucid, impressively argued book makes a provocative intervention in both Deleuze studies and film studies. This distinctive and politically engaged assemblage demands our closest attention. -- Anna Powell, University of Manchester Deleuze Studies Underpinning Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity is a debate as to where and how Deleuze can fit into the broader remit of the academic discipline of Film Studies. For this, as well as Martin-Jones's talent for opening up a discussion of (often) convoluted theoretical concepts in a manner that is as lucid as it is accessible, the book will, one imagines, find a broad readership in both Film Studies and Deleuze Studies. -- Will Higbee, University of Exeter Film-Philosophy Martin-Jones' book contains suggestive lines of inquiry for the analysis of the question of national identity in cinema. He manages to construct a theoretical model able to think through multiple perspectives when discussing national identity, narrative and nationality as interconnected dimensions. Secuencias: Revista de Historia del Cine A useful and even essential book for considerations of transnationalism as an emerging concept in the critical discourse of world cinema. SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film Studies This book fruitfully and originally combines three areas of investigation: recent cinema, Deleuzean film theory, and national identity... This is a timely and well-informed addition to current discussions in Anglophone film studies. Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity tackles the burning questions of globalisation. While critiquing the dated, European, even French nature of Deleuzian philosophy, David Martin-Jones brings out its contemporary relevance in a global context. !The strength of the analyses, and the work as a whole lies in its avoidance of triumphalism, whether national or transnational. Applied to such highly political questions, the notions of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation emerge in all their complexity and power. (original quote in French) An impressive feat, and a model for future scholarship in this vein. Martin-Jones makes Deleuze 'matter' in that his historical perspective stresses that the Deleuzian distinction between time- and movement-images is not merely formal, but deeply political. David Martin-Jones' Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity is one of the standout books of the year. Martin-Jones provides a profound and original reassessment of Gilles Deleuze's own concepts of style and history in modern cinema. At the same time, the book goes beyond Deleuze, indeed displaces his thought on to new territories. With his engaging and deeply thoughtful analyses of mixtures of movement and time in contemporary world cinema, Martin-Jones takes us beyond movement and time-images towards something like a new genre-hybrid global cinemas where questions of national identity are deterritorialised within and across borders and cultures. This is a remarkable book. Martin-Jones combines theoretical insights with a profound knowledge of various national cinemas and sharp analytical observations. His reading of a challengingly wide selection of contemporary films as Deleuzian time-images 'caught in the act' of becoming movement-images in relation to national identity offers a convincing and important contribution to film studies and to Deleuzian scholarship. Martin-Jones is able to argue for the manifestation of the relationship between history and memory via a particular film's focus on narrative time, and thus re-engage his textual analysis with the particular national cinema's political or historical context. Given that such a project gestures to the potential of film analysis for constructive political critique and cultural analysis, this volume posits an intervention in film studies' discursive formation. Rather than producing another philosophical explication of Deleuze's Eurocentrically inflected cinema books, Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity mobilises their concepts by engaging them in critical and creative action in a crucial new field! By moving from the letter to the spirit of Deleuzian critique, Martin-Jones's lucid, impressively argued book makes a provocative intervention in both Deleuze studies and film studies. This distinctive and politically engaged assemblage demands our closest attention. Underpinning Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity is a debate as to where and how Deleuze can fit into the broader remit of the academic discipline of Film Studies. For this, as well as Martin-Jones's talent for opening up a discussion of (often) convoluted theoretical concepts in a manner that is as lucid as it is accessible, the book will, one imagines, find a broad readership in both Film Studies and Deleuze Studies. Martin-Jones' book contains suggestive lines of inquiry for the analysis of the question of national identity in cinema. He manages to construct a theoretical model able to think through multiple perspectives when discussing national identity, narrative and nationality as interconnected dimensions. A useful and even essential book for considerations of transnationalism as an emerging concept in the critical discourse of world cinema.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: DELEUZE AND NARRATIVE TIME 1. History 2. Memory PART II: MOVEMENT/TIME-IMAGE FILMS 3. National Identity in the Global City 4. American Triumphalism and the First Gulf War 5. Renegotiating the National Past after 9/11 6. The Pacific Rim Conclusion
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisWhat is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida''s work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a close engagement with Derrida''s writing over two decades and reflects an interest in that work going back a further two decades, shows how that work can illuminate a variety of topics.Chapters include an overview of deconstruction as a critical practice today, discussions of the secret, postcolonialism, ethics, literary criticism, jargon, fiction, and photography, and responses to the theoretical writing of Emmanuel Levinas, Roland Barthes, and J. Hillis Miller. Also included is a discussion of the recent reading of Derrida''s philosophy as ''radical atheism'', and the book ends with a conversation on deconstruction and place with the theorist and critic Jean-Michel Rabaté.Running throughout is a concern with the question of responsibility, as exemplified in Derrida''s own readings of literary and philosophical texts: responsibility to the work being read, responsibility to the protocols of rational argument, and responsibility to the reader.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art: An Introduction, Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke; I - Politics; 1. The Politics of the Scream in a Threnody, Gustavo Chirolla Ospina; 2. A Shift Towards the Unnameable, Suely Rolnik; 3. The Heterogenesis of Fleeing, Gerald Raunig; 4. Anita Fricek: Contemporary Painting as Institutional Critique, Stephen Zepke; II - The Aesthetic Paradigm; 5. Capitalism and Schizophrenia and Consensus. Of Relational Aesthetics, Eric Alliez; 6. The Practice and Anti-dialectical Thought of an 'Anartist', Maurizio Lazzarato; 7. Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do?, Jussi Parikka, 8. Fractal Philosophy (and the small matter of learning how to listen): Attunement as the Task of Art, Johnny Golding; III - Scenes and Encounters; 9. An Art Scene as Big as the Ritz: the Logic of Scenes, David Burrows; 10. Abstract Humour, Humorous Abstraction, Robert Garnett; 11. From Aesthetics to the Abstract Machine: Deleuze, Guattari, and Contemporary Art Practice, Simon O'Sullivan; 12. Traps Against Capture, Edgar Schmitz; IV - Technologies; 13. Sign and Information: on Anestis Logothetis' Graphical Notations, Claudia Mongini; 14. Anti-Electra: Totemism and Schizogamy, Elisabeth von Samsonow; 15. Unimaginable Happenings: Material Movements in the Plane of Composition, Barbara Bolt; 16. BLOODCRYSTALPOLLENSTAR, Neil Chapman and Ola Stahl; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Baudrillard Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis is the first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007). It explains and contextualises more than a hundred key concepts, terms, influences and topics within his thought. An essential reference for students and scholars of Baudrillard, it also serves as an authoritative overview of how his ideas have shaped a broad range of disciplines, from art, architecture, film and photography to sociology, philosophy, human geography, media studies and cultural studies. The entries are written by 35 leading Baudrillard specialists from around the world, including Rex Butler, Mike Gane, Gary Genosko, Victoria Grace, Diane Rubenstein and Andrew Wernick.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Richard G. Smith; Entries A-Z; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors.
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Film
Book SynopsisEngages Deleuze's philosophy with a range of popular films and explores the degree to which a film's popularity impacts upon its ability to 'think' (in the manner that Deleuze described in relation to examples of the art of film in his Cinema books), and the global diversity of this cinematic 'thinking' in popular international film.Trade ReviewDeleuze and Film presents a rich collection of essays that takes Deleuze's work on cinema out of its dominant Eurocentric corpus. Taking us on an inspiring world tour of film analysis and creative conceptual thinking, this book testifies to the continuing productive generosity of Deleuze's film-philosophy, and includes a dynamic range and depth of film scholarship. -- Patricia Pisters, Professor of Media and Film Studies, University of Amsterdam This book testifies to the continuing vitality of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema volumes: they still offer resources to film scholars and theorists today even when they are working on the sorts of films that Deleuze himself never commented on. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University Deleuze and Film presents a rich collection of essays that takes Deleuze's work on cinema out of its dominant Eurocentric corpus. Taking us on an inspiring world tour of film analysis and creative conceptual thinking, this book testifies to the continuing productive generosity of Deleuze's film-philosophy, and includes a dynamic range and depth of film scholarship. This book testifies to the continuing vitality of Gilles Deleuze's Cinema volumes: they still offer resources to film scholars and theorists today even when they are working on the sorts of films that Deleuze himself never commented on.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Deleuze's World Tour of Cinema, David Martin-Jones and William Brown; 1. An Imprint of Godzilla: Deleuze, the Action-Image and Universal History, David Deamer; 2. Philosophy, Politics and Homage in Tears of the Black Tiger, Damian Sutton; 3. Time-Images in Traces of Love: Repackaging South Korea's Traumatic National History for Tourism, David Martin-Jones; 4. The Rebirth of the World: Cinema According to Baz Luhrmann, Richard Rushton; 5. 'There as many paths to the time-image as there are films in the world': Deleuze and The Lizard, William Brown; 6. In Search of Lost Reality: Waltzing with Bashir, Markos Hadjioannou; 7. The Schizoanalysis of European Surveillance Films, Serazer Pekerman; 8. Fictions of the Imagination: Habit, Genre and the Powers of the False, Amy Herzog; 9. Feminine Energies, or the Outside of Noir, Elena del Rio; 10. The Daemons of Unplumbed Space: Mixing the Planes in Hellboy, Anna Powell; 11. Digitalising Deleuze: The Curious Case of the Digital Human Assemblage, or What Can a Digital Body Do?, David H. Fleming; 12. The Surface of the Object: Quasi-Interfaces and Immanent Virtuality, Seung-hoon Jeong; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Kropotkin
Book SynopsisThis book provides a re-assessment of Kropotkin''s political thought and suggests that the ''classical'' tradition which has provided a lens for the discussion of his work has had a distorting effect on the interpretation of his ideas. By setting the analysis of his thought in a number of key historical contexts, Ruth Kinna reveals the enduring significance of his political thought and questions the usefulness of those approaches to the history of ideas that map historical changes to philosophical and theoretical shifts. One of the key arguments of the book is that Kropotkin contributed to the elaboration of an anarchist ideology, which has been badly misunderstood and which today is too often dismissed as outdated. This sympathetic but critical analysis corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin''s thought, highlights the important and unique contribution he made to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new light on the nature of anarchist ideology.
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Edinburgh University Press Essays on Deleuze
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars working on Deleuze, this title includes 17 essays by one of the world's leading commentators on the work of Gilles Deleuze. It focuses on the philosophical themes of Deleuze's work. It analyses three important concepts used by Deleuze: the new, univocity, and the clinical.Table of ContentsI. Deleuze and the History of Philosophy; Plato; Deleuze and the Overturning of Platonism: The Concept of the Simulacrum; Univocity; The Doctrine of Univocity: Deleuze's Ontology of Immanence; Leibniz; Deleuze on Leibniz: Difference, Continuity, and the Calculus; Hegel; Deleuze, Hegel, and the Post-Kantian Tradition; Pre- and Post-Kantianism; Logic and Existence: Deleuze on the Conditions of the Real; II. Five Deleuzian Concepts; Desire; Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics; The New; The Conditions of the New; Life; A Life of Pure Immanence": Deleuze's "Critique et clinique" Project; Sensation; Deleuze on Bacon: Three Conceptual Trajectories in "The Logic of Sensation"; The Open; The Idea of the Open; III. Deleuze's Philosophical System; Aesthetics; Deleuze's Theory of Sensation: Overcoming the Kantian Duality; Dialectics; Deleuze, Kant, and the Theory of Immanent Ideas; Analytics; Concepts, Time, and Truth; Ethics; The Place of Ethics in Deleuze's Philosophy: Three Questions of Immanence; Politics; Flow, Code, and Stock: A Note on Deleuze's Political Philosophy; IV. Deleuze and Contemporary Philosophy; Jacques Derrida; Deleuze and Derrida, Immanence and Transcendence: Two Directions in Recent French Thought; Alain Badiou; Mathematics and the Theory of Multiplicities: Deleuze and Badiou Revisited; Jacques Lacan; The Inverse Side of the Structure: Zizek on Deleuze on Lacan; Pierre Klossowski; Klossowski's Reading of Nietzsche: Impulses, Phantasms, Simulacra, Stereotypes; Paul Patton; Deleuze and the Liberal Tradition: Normativity, Freedom, and Judgment.
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Edinburgh University Press Badiou and Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe first reassessment of Alain Badiou''s work since the English translation of his Logics of Worlds in 2009. From Cantor to category/topos theory, from Lacan to Lautman and from Sartre to the subject, these 13 essays engage directly with the work of Alain Badiou. They focus on the philosophical content of Badiou''s work and show how he connects both with his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. This is an important collection for anyone interested in the work of Badiou and contemporary Continental philosophy.Table of ContentsI. Philosophy's Mathematical Condition; 2. Badiou's Platonism: The Mathematical Forms of Post-Cantorian Set-Theory; 3. What is Post-Cantorian Thought? Transfinitude and the Conditions of Philosophy; 4. The Set-Theoretical Nature of Badiou's Ontology and Lautman's Dialectic of Problematic Ideas.; 5. Sets, Categories and Topoi: Approaches to Ontology in Badiou's Later Work; II. Philosophical Concepts; 6. The Black Sheep of Philosophical Materialism...; 7. The Event; 8. Badiou and Neo-Pragmatism: Friend and Foe; III. Philosophical Figures; 9. Towards a New Political Subject: Badiou between Marx and Althusser; 10. 'The Greatest of Our Dead': Badiou's Lacan; 11. Badiou and Sartre: The Transformation of Freedom from Imagination to Chance; 12. Badiou's Reception of Heidegger; 13. One Falls into Two: Badiou's Critique of Deleuze.
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Edinburgh University Press The Priority of Events
Book SynopsisThis is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism.Trade ReviewThis is a wide-ranging and penetrating study of one of Deleuze's most important works. A superb book. -- Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University This book will readily take its place as one of the most important volumes in all of Deleuze Studies. -- Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University This is a wide-ranging and penetrating study of one of Deleuze's most important works. A superb book. This book will readily take its place as one of the most important volumes in all of Deleuze Studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Ontological Priority of Events in The Logic of Sense; 1. The Stoics - Events and Sense; 2. Leibniz - The Static Ontological and Logical Geneses; 3. Lautman and Simondon - Problematic Ideas and Singularities; 4. Structuralism - Structure and the Sense-Event; 5. Psychoanalysis - Dynamic Genesis; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Agamben and Colonialism
Book Synopsis12 new essays evaluating Agamben''s work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.Agamben''s theories of the ''state of exception'' and ''bare life'' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism, Simone Bignall and Marcelo Svirsky; I. Colonial States of Exception; Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World, Yehouda Shenhav; 1. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Post-communist Russia, Sergei Prozorov; 2. The Cultural Politics of Exception, Marcelo Svirsky; II. Colonial Sovereignty; 4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the 'Peculiar' Status of Native Peoples, Mark Rifkin; 5. Reading Kenya's Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa, Stewart Motha; III. Bare Life and Bio-Politics; 7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben, David Atkinson; 8. Abandoning Gaza, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir; 9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Silvia Grinberg; IV. Method, History and Potentiality; 10. Metropolis and Colonisation, Leland de la Durantaye; 11. 'The Work of Men is Not Durable': History, Haiti and the Rights of Man, Jessica Whyte; 12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community, Simone Bignall; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Agamben and Colonialism
Book Synopsis12 new essays evaluating Agamben''s work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.Agamben''s theories of the ''state of exception'' and ''bare life'' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism, Simone Bignall and Marcelo Svirsky; I. Colonial States of Exception; Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World, Yehouda Shenhav; 1. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Post-communist Russia, Sergei Prozorov; 2. The Cultural Politics of Exception, Marcelo Svirsky; II. Colonial Sovereignty; 4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the 'Peculiar' Status of Native Peoples, Mark Rifkin; 5. Reading Kenya's Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa, Stewart Motha; III. Bare Life and Bio-Politics; 7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben, David Atkinson; 8. Abandoning Gaza, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir; 9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Silvia Grinberg; IV. Method, History and Potentiality; 10. Metropolis and Colonisation, Leland de la Durantaye; 11. 'The Work of Men is Not Durable': History, Haiti and the Rights of Man, Jessica Whyte; 12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community, Simone Bignall; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Law
Book SynopsisA collective experiment in the conjunction of law and philosophy. This collection of 11 essays offers insights into Gilles Deleuze''s philosophy of law, investigating new forms of politics, economics and society. It explores the features of Deleuze''s universal jurisprudence, the mutual becoming of law and philosophy and reveals law as the most progressive and experimental force of the Modern Age.
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Edinburgh University Press Laruelle and NonPhilosophy
Book SynopsisAs French philosopher Francois Laruelle's texts have become available in English there has been a rising tide of interest in his work, particularly on the concept of 'Non-philosophy'. This book provides an overview of Laruelle's thought and an understanding of his contemporary relevance.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Laruelle and Philosophy; Resistance to/of Philosophy; 2. Thinking from the One: Non-Philosophy and the Ancient Philosophical Figure of the One; 3. Laruelle facing Deleuze: Immanence, Resistance and Desire; 4. The Insufficiency of Philosophy; 5. Neither Greek nor Jew: Laruelle and the Critique of Metaphysics; Science, Immanence and the Ordinary; 6. Laruelle and Ordinary Life; 7. The Esoteric Ordinary: Laruelle and the Immanence of Mysticism; 8. Disjunction of Science and Philosophy: Axioms towards a Democracy in Thought; 9. Transcendental Conditions, Axiomatic Compulsion and the Problem of Philosophical Materialism; Practice and Politics; 10. Non-Philosophical Practice: The Case of Film-Philosophy; 11. Not Only as Structure, But Equally as Subject: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance from Marx to Laruelle; 12. Thinking Revolution in Terms of Non-Marxism and Non-Christianity; Mutations; 13. Generic Science: Or, the Second Non-Philosophy; 14. Interview with Francois Laruelle; Annotated Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press Schizoanalysis and Visual Cultures
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Edinburgh University Press The Nancy Dictionary
Book SynopsisJean Luc Nancy (1940), Professor of Political Philosophy and Media Aesthetics at the European Graduate School, is an influential French philosopher, most famous for his work The Inoperative Community. This dictionary equips students and scholars alike with insights into the philosophical and theoretical background to his work.
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Edinburgh University Press Gilbert Simondons Psychic and Collective
Book SynopsisOne of the most brilliant philosophers of his generation, but largely neglected until he was brought to public attention by Gilles Deleuze, Gilbert Simondon presents a challenge to nearly every category and method of traditional philosophy. This is a critical commentary on Simondon's seminal work, Psychic and Collective Individuation.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Ontogenesis and the Concepts of Individuation; 2. Ontogenesis and the Concepts of Individuation; 3. Individuation and Affectivity; 4. Problematic of Ontogenesis and Psychic Individuation; 5. The Individual and the Social, The Individuation of the Group; 6. Collective as Condition of Signification; 7. An Ethics of Ontogenesis and a Non-Human Humanism; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press Francois Laruelles Philosophies of Difference
Book SynopsisRocco Gangle - who translated Laruelle's philosophy into English - takes you through Laruelle's trailblazing book Philosophies of Difference, helping you to understand both Laruelle's critique of Difference and his project of non-philosophy which has become one of the most intriguing avenues in contemporary thought.
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Race
Book SynopsisA series of Deleuze-inspired books that has already placed Deleuze's thought in connection with feminist theory, music, space, geography, queer theory, performance, postcolonial studies and contemporary art.Trade Review"'It is not the elements or the sets which define the multiplicity. What defines it is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, AND - stammering.' (Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues)"
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Edinburgh University Press Sublime Art
Book SynopsisStephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative Realism movement.
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Edinburgh University Press Adventures in Transcendental Materialism
Book SynopsisArmed with resources provided by German idealism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, the life sciences and contemporary philosophy, the author formulates an account of subjectivity that is both materialist and naturalist, and does full justice to human beings as irreducible to natural matter alone.
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Edinburgh University Press Agamben and Politics
Book SynopsisTracing how the logic of inoperativity works in the domains of language, law, history and humanity, Agamben and Politics systematically introduces the fundamental concepts of Agamben''s political thought and a critically interprets his insights in the wider context of contemporary philosophy.Agamben''s commentators and critics tend to focus on his powerful critique of the Western political tradition in the Homo Sacer series. But this narrow focus serves to obscure the overall structure of Agamben''s political thought, which is neither negative nor critical but affirmative. Sergei Prozorov brings out the affirmative mood of Agamben''s political thought, focusing on the concept of inoperativity, which has been central to Agamben''s work from his earliest writings.Trade Review'Prozorov has provided us with a wide-ranging study of Agamben's work that is both useful and engaging, a study that will surely meet its goal of enticing and emboldening its readers to return to Agamben's own texts with renewed interest and understanding.' Adam Kotsko, Shimer College - Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. All's Well That Ends Well: Agamben's Comic Politics; 2. The Sabbatical Animal: The Politics of Inoperativity; 3. Speaking the Unspeakable: Inoperative Language; 4. How to Play with the Law: Inoperative Statehood; 5. The Time of the End: Inoperative History; 6. Outside of Being: Inoperative Humanity; Conclusion: An Optimist Against All Odds; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Foucault and Politics
Book SynopsisA clear and critical account of Foucault''s political thought: what he said, how it''s been used and its influence today This book surveys Michel Foucault''s thought in the context of his life and times, drawing on the latest primary and secondary materials to explain the political implications of each phase of his work and the relationships between each phase. It also illustrates how his thought has been used in the political sphere and examines the importance of his work for politics today.One of the most prominent theorists in the contemporary humanities and social sciences, Foucault is known as a radical thinker who disturbs our understanding of society. He also presented a moving target, continually changing his concerns and his apparent position. So, until now, comparatively little attention has been given to his politics.Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. In the Wake of Marx; 2. Madness and Psychology; 3. Words and Things; 4. Genealogy and Discipline; 5. Power and Resistance; 6. Sex and Life; 7. Government and Governmentality; 8. Self and Ethics; References; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Stiegler and Technics
Book SynopsisOffers a series of edited collections forging connections between contemporary critical theorists and a wide range of research areas, such as critical and cultural theory, gender studies, film, literature, music, philosophy and politics.
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Edinburgh University Press Cixous Derrida Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis is of immense importance in different ways to Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Bringing together original essays by leading contemporary thinkers in literary theory and continental philosophy, including a contribution by Cixous herself, this volume explores the place of psychoanalysis in their work.
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Edinburgh University Press Badiou and the Political Condition
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume, including a new piece by Badiou himself, reflect the formative traditions that shape the background of his political thought. They intervene critically and evaluate the present state of Badiou''s work, while also breaking new ground and creating new thresholds of political thought. It includes a range of established scholars and rising theorists of the Badiou-effect, each engaging with the critical question of ''how to transmit the exception^'' politically, at the intersection of contemporary anti-imperial polemics and debates that strike at the heart of the post-modern condition (Lyotard), deconstruction (Derrida), psychoanalysis (Lacan--D%Zi%zek ), biopolitics (Hardt and Negri) and pedagogy (Rancière).
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Edinburgh University Press Nancy and the Political
Book SynopsisExamines authors fresh contributions to the study of the political. This collection features, essays that connects and develops the fundamental themes and concepts that animate his political thought. It is suitable for readers working in social and political thought, European philosophy, aesthetics and cultural studies.
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Edinburgh University Press Francois Laruelles Principles of NonPhilosophy
Book SynopsisFrancois Laruelle has been engaged in one of the most daring projects in contemporary philosophy, aiming to overturn the standard form of philosophy and renew its practice again. This book provides you with the essential the historical background to non philosophy, which Laruelle leaves out of his writing.
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Edinburgh University Press Modern Thought in Pain
Book SynopsisThrough a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. This book investigates the idea that modern European philosophy after Kant offers less the conceptual equipment to tackle pain in explanatory terms, than an experience of thought that participates in the forms of pain and suffering about which it speaks. Perhaps surprisingly, the question of pain establishes a ground from which to examine key debates in twentieth-century European philosophy, most recently between forms of post-structuralist and ethical thinking imagined to be in crisis and the resurgence of discourses of political emancipation arising from traditions of thought associated with Marxism. Key features: Offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition''s relationship to the question of pain and suffering Suggests new readings of ''ethics'' and ''evil'' Evaluates the politics of contemporary critical theory Sets new agendas for reading post-Kantian philosophy
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Edinburgh University Press At the Edges of Thought
Book SynopsisIllustrates and addresses the breadth of Deleuze's post Kantian influences and engagements. This volume explores under developed encounters in Deleuzian thought and advances novel readings of established problematics. It focuses on philosophical encounters in Deleuze's texts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction - Deleuze and Post Kantian Thought: Method, Ideas and Aesthetics; Daniela Voss and Craig Lundy; Part I. Deleuze, Kant and Maimon; 1. Deleuze, Kant and the Transcendental Field Daniel W. Smith; 2. The Problematic Idea, Neo Kantianism and Maimon's Role in Deleuze's Thought Anne Sauvagnargues; 3. Maimon, Kant, Deleuze: The Concepts of Difference and Intensive Magnitude Daniela Voss; 4. Deleuze and Kant's Critique of Judgment Beth Lord; Part II. Deleuze, Romanticism and Idealism; 5. What is a Literature of War?: Kleist, Kant, and Nomadology Brent Adkins; 6. The Calculable Law of Tragic Representation and the Unthinkable: Rhythm, Caesura, and Time, from Holderlin to Deleuze Arkady Plotnitsky; 7. Ground, Transcendence, and Method in Deleuze's Fichte Joe Hughes; 8. 'The magic formula we all seek': Spinoza + Fichte = x Frederick Amrine; 9. State Philosophy and the War Machine Nathan Widder; 10. Tragedy and Agency in Hegel and Deleuze Sean Bowden; Part III. Deleuzian Lines of Post Kantian Thought; 11. Schopenhauer and Deleuze Alistair Welchman; 12. Feuerbach and the Image of Thought Henry Somers Hall; 13. Deleuze's 'Power of Decision', Kant's = X, and Husserl's Noema Jay Lampert; 14. Kant's Bastards: Deleuze and Lyotard Gregg Lambert; 15. Chronos is Sick: Deleuze, Antonioni, and the Kantian Lineage of Modern Cinema; Gregory Flaxman; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition
Book SynopsisAshley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard''s incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard''s ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as ''posthumanism''. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard''s specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and the Concepts of Cinema
Book SynopsisAn exploration of some of Deleuze's key concepts and an introduction to Deleuze's Cinema books. It takes up Deleuze's idea that the true objects of the theory of cinema are the concepts that cinema generates when understood as a practice of images.
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Some Problems of Philosophy
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