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Levels of Organic Life and the Human
An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology
Häftad, 2019
444 kr
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The most important work by a key figure in German thought, Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, originally published in 1928, appears here for the first time in English, accompanied by a substantial Introduction by J. M. Bernstein, after having served for decades as an influence …
New Wounded
From Neurosis to Brain Damage
Häftad, 2012
445 kr
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This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology, focused on the issue of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic …
Knowledge of Life
Häftad, 2008
431 kr
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As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his …
Human Remains
Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Inbunden, 2012
1321 kr
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The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from urban space, and corpses started to be viewed as terrifyingly noxious substances.The dead had fallen …
Human Remains
Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Häftad, 2012
487 kr
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The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from urban space, and corpses started to be viewed as terrifyingly noxious substances.The dead had fallen …
Writings on Medicine
Inbunden, 2012
1040 kr
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At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of normality, the ideologization of scientific thought, and the conceptual history of biology had marked the thought of philosophers such as Michel …
Writings on Medicine
Häftad, 2012
356 kr
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At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of normality, the ideologization of scientific thought, and the conceptual history of biology had marked the thought of philosophers such as Michel …
On Time, Being, and Hunger
Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life
Inbunden, 2012
968 kr
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The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of one's own hunger, is challenged by today's unprecedented proliferation of discourses and techniques concerning the living being. This challenge entails …
On Time, Being, and Hunger
Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life
Häftad, 2012
360 kr
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The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of one's own hunger, is challenged by today's unprecedented proliferation of discourses and techniques concerning the living being. This challenge entails …
New Wounded
From Neurosis to Brain Damage
Inbunden, 2012
1321 kr
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This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology, focused on the issue of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic …
Chagas Disease
History of a Continent's Scourge
Inbunden, 2012
1229 kr
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François Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and 1911, Carlos Chagas described an infection (pathogenic trypanosome), its intermediate host, and the illness that he believed it caused, parasitic …
Chagas Disease
History of a Continent's Scourge
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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François Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and 1911, Carlos Chagas described an infection (pathogenic trypanosome), its intermediate host, and the illness that he believed it caused, parasitic …
War in Worcester
Youth and the Apartheid State
Inbunden, 2012
1010 kr
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The South African government gave no quarter to young people who joined the struggle against the apartheid state; indeed, it targeted them. Security forces meted out cruel treatment to youth who rebelled, incarcerated even the very young under dreadful conditions, and used torture frequently, …
War in Worcester
Youth and the Apartheid State
Häftad, 2012
388 kr
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The South African government gave no quarter to young people who joined the struggle against the apartheid state; indeed, it targeted them. Security forces meted out cruel treatment to youth who rebelled, incarcerated even the very young under dreadful conditions, and used torture frequently, …
Figures of Medicine
Blood, Face Transplants, Parasites
Inbunden, 2013
1157 kr
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What does the infamous face transplant in France in 2005 share with the examination of "swollen faces" in Latin America in the 1930s? What does blood transfusion in Europe during the 17th century have in common with the discovery of mosquitoes as parasitic vectors in China at the close of the 19th …
Figures of Medicine
Blood, Face Transplants, Parasites
Häftad, 2013
382 kr
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What does the infamous face transplant in France in 2005 share with the examination of "swollen faces" in Latin America in the 1930s? What does blood transfusion in Europe during the 17th century have in common with the discovery of mosquitoes as parasitic vectors in China at the close of the 19th …
Government of Life
Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism
Av Vanessa Lemm, Miguel Vatter
Inbunden, 2014
1067 kr
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Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and …
Government of Life
Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism
Av Vanessa Lemm, Miguel Vatter
Häftad, 2014
346 kr
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Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and …
Affliction
Health, Disease, Poverty
Av Veena Das
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the …
Affliction
Health, Disease, Poverty
Av Veena Das
Häftad, 2015
353 kr
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Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the …
Wording the World
Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance
Häftad, 2014
525 kr
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The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das's work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call for acknowledgment, several essays explore how social sciences render pain, suffering, and the claims of the other as part of an ethics of …
Helmholtz Curves
Tracing Lost Time
Inbunden, 2014
1067 kr
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This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "lost time" by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust.Its starting point is the archival discovery of curve images …
Helmholtz Curves
Tracing Lost Time
Häftad, 2014
343 kr
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This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "lost time" by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust.Its starting point is the archival discovery of curve images …
Ploy of Instinct
Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance
Inbunden, 2014
1097 kr
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It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox …
What's These Worlds Coming to?
Av Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau
Häftad, 2014
318 kr
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Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer …
Bruno Latour in Pieces
An Intellectual Biography
Inbunden, 2014
1038 kr
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Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had "never been modern." In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent—and also popular—exponents of science studies but …
Bruno Latour in Pieces
An Intellectual Biography
Häftad, 2014
289 kr
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Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had "never been modern." In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent—and also popular—exponents of science studies but …
Science, Reason, Modernity
Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
Av Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1194 kr
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Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary provides an introduction to a legacy of philosophical and social scientific thinking about sciences and their integral role in shaping modernities, a legacy that has contributed to a specifically anthropological form of …
Science, Reason, Modernity
Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
Av Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
441 kr
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Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary provides an introduction to a legacy of philosophical and social scientific thinking about sciences and their integral role in shaping modernities, a legacy that has contributed to a specifically anthropological form of …
Realizing the Witch
Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible
Av Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers
Inbunden, 2015
1229 kr
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Benjamin Christensen's Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of satanic initiation, confession under torture, possession, and persecution, Häxan creatively blends …
