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Monolingualism of the Other
Or, the Prosthesis of Origin
Häftad, 1998
291 kr
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"I have but one language—yet that language is not mine." This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate, then analyze this conundrum in terms of the author's own relationship to the French language.The book operates on three levels. At the first …
In the Self's Place
The Approach of Saint Augustine
Häftad, 2012
334 kr
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In the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions. Using the Augustinian experience of confessio, Jean-Luc Marion develops a model of selfhood that examines this experience in light of the whole of the …
Transparency in Postwar France
A Critical History of the Present
Häftad, 2017
369 kr
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This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for …
Love As Passion
The Codification of Intimacy
Häftad, 1998
302 kr
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"I believe that Luhmann is the only true genius in the social sciences alive today. By this, I mean that not only is he smart, extremely productive, and amazingly erudite, though all this is true enough, but also that he has, in the course of an improbable career, elaborated a theory of the social …
Sediments of Time
On Possible Histories
Av Reinhart Koselleck, Sean Franzel m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
378 kr
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Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his …
Being with the Dead
Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
Av Hans Ruin
Häftad, 2019
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303 kr
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Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed …
Sublime Historical Experience
Häftad, 2005
355 kr
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Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? In this book, the author argues that the past originates from an experience of rupture separating past and present. Think of the radical rupture with Europe's past that was effected by the …
Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History
Häftad, 2024
345 kr
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In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature.Across seemingly heterogeneous writings, Friedlander argues, Benjamin consistently …
Of Hospitality
Av Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle
Häftad, 2000
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
286 kr
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These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality," derive from a series of seminars on "hospitality" conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become something of an institution over the years, the …
Out of the World
Häftad, 2024
303 kr
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In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world.Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and …
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Av Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
325 kr
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Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, …
Communitas
The Origin and Destiny of Community
Häftad, 2009
259 kr
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No theme has been more central to international philosophical debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in none of these cases has the concept been …
Living Thought
The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy
Häftad, 2012
289 kr
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The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book explores the reasons for its growing popularity, its distinguishing traits, and why people are turning to these authors for answers to …
Descartes' Meditative Turn
Cartesian Thought As Spiritual Practice
Häftad, 2024
345 kr
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Why would René Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose "meditations"—a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice—for the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations for his reform of all knowledge, including mathematics and sciences? …
World and Life As One
Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein's Early Thought
Häftad, 2002
345 kr
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This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge of Wittgenstein's thought, it is the first …
Nocturnal Seeing
Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod
Häftad, 2024
369 kr
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In this erudite new work, Elliot R. Wolfson explores philosophical gnosis in the writings of Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod. The juxtaposition of these three extraordinary, albeit relatively neglected, philosophers provides a prism through which Wolfson scrutinizes the interplay …
Naming the Witch
Av James Siegel
Häftad, 2005
302 kr
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Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell. After many years of ethnographic work focusing on the origins and nature of violence in Indonesia, Siegel came to the conclusion …
Enthusiasm
The Kantian Critique of History
Av Jean-François Lyotard, Georges Van Den Abbeele
Häftad, 2009
245 kr
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Enthusiasm studies what Kant calls a "strong" sense of the sublime, not as an aesthetic feeling but as a form of political judgment rendered not by the active participants in historical events but those who witness them from afar. Lyotard's analysis, preparatory to his work in The Differend and …
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes
Av Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge
Häftad, 2003
380 kr
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This book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time …
Flaubert Postsecular
Modernity Crossed Out
Häftad, 2015
514 kr
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By his national affiliation and choice of genre, French novelist Gustave Flaubert can be considered emblematic of modernity. This book showcases his specific and highly refined imaginary as at once unique and symptomatic of an era. In particular, it contributes to the controversial discussion of …
Niklas Luhmann's Modernity
The Paradoxes of Differentiation
Häftad, 2000
378 kr
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This book is an introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century, Niklas Luhmann. For Luhmann, modernity is neither an Enlightenment project nor a ludic rejection of that project, but rather the pre-condition of all our …
Whither Fanon?
Studies in the Blackness of Being
Häftad, 2018
445 kr
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Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating disturbed and traumatized North African patients during the wars of decolonization. Investigating and …
Occidental Eschatology
Av Jacob Taubes
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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Occidental Eschatology, originally Jacob Taubes's doctoral thesis and the one book he published in his lifetime, seeks to renegotiate the historical synthesis and spiritual legacy of the West through the study of apocalypticism. Covering the origins of apocalypticism from Hebrew prophecy through …
New Demons
Rethinking Power and Evil Today
Av Simona Forti
Häftad, 2014
387 kr
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As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? …
About Europe
Philosophical Hypotheses
Häftad, 2013
415 kr
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The concept of the universal was born in the lands we now call Europe, yet it is precisely the universal that is Europe's undoing. All European politics is caught in a tension: to assert a European identity is to be open to multiplicity, but this very openness could dissolve Europe as such. This …
Desire and Distance
Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception
Häftad, 2005
287 kr
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Desire and Distance constitutes an important new departure in contemporary phenomenological thought, a rethinking and critique of basic philosophical positions concerning the concept of perception presented by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, though it departs in significant and original ways from their …
Far Reaches
Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe
Häftad, 2014
387 kr
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When future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and …
Theory of Society, Volume 1
Häftad, 2012
348 kr
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This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning …
Thought-Images
Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life
Häftad, 2007
380 kr
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In this book, Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst …
Practice of Conceptual History
Timing History, Spacing Concepts
Häftad, 2002
398 kr
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Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. His work has implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond discussions of the practical problems of historical method. He is the foremost exponent and …
