Affirming Divergence
Author: Alex Tissandier
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1474417752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces Victorian self-harm through an engagement with literary fiction.
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Hegel on Possibility
Author: Nahum Brown
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 135008171X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a clear interpretation of Hegel's characterizations of possibility and actuality in the Science of Logic, this book departs from the standard understandings of these concepts to break new ground in Hegelian scholarship. The book draws out some of the implications of Hegel's view of immanent possibility, especially as it relates to Leibniz's thesis of modal optimism: his view that this world is the best of all possible worlds. Reading Hegel as a philosopher of possibility, against a tradition that has conceived of him primarily as a philosopher of necessity, rationality, and finitude, Nahum Brown demonstrates the historical background and philosophical traditions from which Hegel's concept of possibility emerges. Systematically outlining Hegel's conceptions of positive and negative freedom, Brown reveals the Hegelian underpinnings of our conception of reality and what it is to be in the world itself. Original and convincing, this book is crucial for philosophers approaching modality from any tradition.
Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Author: Herman Siemens
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1350066966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Nietzsche's works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche's work. The volume has three key lines of inquiry: Nietzsche's ontology of conflict; Nietzsche's conception of the agon; and Nietzsche's warrior-philosophy. Under these three umbrellas is a collection of insightful and provocative essays considering, among other topics, Nietzsche's understanding of resistance; his engagement with classical thinkers alongside his contemporaries, including Jacob Burckhardt; his views on language, metaphor and aphorism; and war, revolt and terror. In bringing together such topics, Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy seeks to correct the one-sided tendencies within the existing literature to read simply 'hard' and 'soft' analyses of conflict. Written by scholars across the Anglophone and the European traditions, within and beyond philosophy, this collection emphasises the entire problematic of conflict in Nietzsche's thought and its relation to his philosophical and literary practice.
Between Hegel and Spinoza
Author: Hasana Sharp
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1441166904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent work in political philosophy and the history of ideas presents Spinoza and Hegel as the most powerful living alternatives to mainstream Enlightenment thought. Yet, for many philosophers and political theorists today, one must choose between Hegel or Spinoza. As Deleuze's influential interpretation maintains, Hegel exemplifies and promotes the modern "cults of death," while Spinoza embodies an irrepressible "appetite for living." Hegel is the figure of negation, while Spinoza is the thinker of "pure affirmation". Yet, between Hegel and Spinoza there is not only opposition. This collection of essays seeks to find the suppressed kinship between Hegel and Spinoza. Both philosophers offer vigorous and profound alternatives to the methodological individualism of classical liberalism. Likewise, they sketch portraits of reason that are context-responsive and emotionally contoured, offering an especially rich appreciation of our embodied and historical existence. The authors of this collection carefully lay the groundwork for a complex and delicate alliance between these two great iconoclasts, both within and against the Enlightenment tradition.
Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction
Author: Alan N. Shapiro
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2024-06-30
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 3839472423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do digital media technologies affect society and our lives? Through the cultural theory hypotheses of hyper-modernism, hyperreality, and posthumanism, Alan N. Shapiro investigates the social impact of Virtual/Augmented Reality, AI, social media platforms, robots, and the Brain-Computer Interface. His examination of concepts of Jean Baudrillard and Katherine Hayles, as well as films such as Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell, Ex Machina, and the TV series Black Mirror, suggests that the boundary between science fiction narratives and the »real world« has become indistinct. Science-fictional thinking should be advanced as a principal mode of knowledge for grasping the world and digitalization.
Academia and the Luster of Capital
Author: Sande Cohen
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
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Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781452900544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndiscretions
Author: Patricia Mellencamp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1990-09-22
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780253115997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of feminist film theory. She creates a dialogue among theory and popular culture and politics through inventive readings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter, and videotapes by Ant Farm, TVTV, Michael Smith, William Wegman, and Cecelia Condit.
Deleuze and the Body
Author: Laura Guillaume
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2011-03-22
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0748688048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will be important reading for those with an interest in Deleuze, but also in performance arts, film, and contemporary culture.
Gilles Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1474414907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeleuze's readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However, Deleuze's arguments against those critiques - by Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger - consolidate the philosophy of immanence that can be called 'transcendental empiricism'. Marc Rolli offers us a detailed examination of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism. He demonstrates that Deleuze takes up and radicalises the empiricist school of thought developing a systematic alternative to the mainstreams of modern continental philosophy.
Unbecoming Human
Author: Felice Cimatti
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-03-02
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1474443419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a wide range of texts - from philosophical ethology to classical texts, and from continental philosophy to literature - Cimatti creates a dialogue with Flaubert, Derrida, Temple Grandin, Heidegger as well as Malaparte and Landolfi explores what human animality looks like, with a particular focus on the work of Gilles Deleuze.
