Theatres of Immanence

Theatres of Immanence

Author: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-10

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1137291915

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Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance is the first monograph to provide an in-depth study of the implications of Deleuze's philosophy for theatre and performance. Drawing from Goat Island, Butoh, Artaud and Kaprow, as well from Deleuze, Bergson and Laruelle, the book conceives performance as a way of thinking immanence.


Diagrammatic Immanence

Diagrammatic Immanence

Author: Rocco Gangle

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1474404200

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A renewal of immanent metaphysics through diagrammatic methods and the tools of category theorySpinoza, Peirce and Deleuze are, in different ways, philosophers of immanence. Rocco Gangle addresses the methodological questions raised by a commitment to immanence in terms of how diagrams may be used both as tools and as objects of philosophical investigation. He integrates insights from Spinozist metaphysics, Peircean semiotics and Deleuzes philosophy of difference in conjunction with the formal operations of category theory. Category theory reveals deep structural connections among logic, topology and a variety of different areas of mathematics, and it provides constructive and rigorous concepts for investigating how diagrams work. Gangle introduces the methods of category theory from a philosophical and diagrammatic perspective, allowing philosophers with little or no mathematical training to come to grips with this important field. This coordination of immanent metaphysics, diagrammatic method and category theoretical mathematics opens a new horizon for contemporary thought.


Speculations VI

Speculations VI

Author: Fabio Gironi

Publisher: punctum books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0692593977

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In this sixth issue of Speculations, a journal founded to explore post-continental philosophy and speculative realism, a wide range of contemporary philosophical issues pertaining to the contemporary philosophical scene is touched upon, from the continental realism of Tristan Garcia, Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux to the 'new realism' of Maurizio Ferraris, from Lacanian and Laurellian speculations to the synthetic philosophy of Fernando Zalamea's mathematics.ARTICLES /"Garcia's Paradox," Mark Ohm and Jon Cogburn --- "Lacking Causes: Privative Causality from Locke and Kant to Lacan and Deacon," Adrian Johnston --- "Non-philosophy, the 'No' Button, and a Brief Philo-fiction," Randall Johnson --- "Speculating on the Absolute," Bart Zantwoort --- "Why not nothing? Meillassoux's second figure of factiality and metaphysical nihilism," James T. Hill --- "New Realism: A Short Introduction," Maurizio FerrarisDIALOGUE /A Dialogue between Graham Harman and Tristan GarciaREVIEW ESSAY /Review Essay on Fernando Zalamea's "Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics,"Giuseppe Longo --- "Answer to Giuseppe Longo,"Fernando ZalameaREVIEWS /Review of Christopher Norris, "Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative," Paul Livingston --- Review of Simon O'Sullivan, "On the Production of Subjectivity," Jeff Bell --- Review of Graham Harman, "Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy,"Sebastian Normandin --- Review of Patricia MacCormack, "Posthuman Ethics: Embodiment and Cultural Theory," James Stanescu


The Bonds of Freedom

The Bonds of Freedom

Author: Rebekah Miles

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0195144163

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"Miles contends that an increasingly radical feminist emphasis on divine immanence and human boundedness has undercut key assumptions upon which feminism rests. Niebuhr's realism, she believes, can be the source of a necessary correction.


Vision's Immanence

Vision's Immanence

Author: Peter Lurie

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0801879299

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"Lurie takes particular interest in the influence of cinema on Faulkner's fiction and the visual strategies he both deployed and critiqued. These include the suggestion of cinematic viewing on the part of readers and of characters in each of the novels; the collective and individual acts of voyeurism in Sanctuary and Light in August; the exposing in Absalom! Absalom! and Light in August of stereotypical and cinematic patterns of thought about history and race; and the evocation of popular forms like melodrama and the movie screen in If I forget thee, Jerusalem. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism."--BOOK JACKET.


Love and Vulnerability

Love and Vulnerability

Author: Pelagia Goulimari

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1000330818

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Love and Vulnerability: Thinking with Pamela Sue Anderson developed out of the desire for dialogue with the late feminist philosopher Pamela Sue Anderson’s extraordinary, previously unpublished, last work on love and vulnerability. The collection publishes this work for the first time, with a diverse, multidisciplinary, international range of contributors responding to it, to Anderson’s oeuvre as a whole and to her life and death. Anderson’s path-breaking work includes A Feminist Philosophy of Religion (1998) and Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion: Reason, Love and Epistemic Locatedness (2012). Her last work critiques, then attempts to rebuild, concepts of love and vulnerability. Reason, critical self-reflexivity, emotion, intuition and imagination, myth and narrative all have a role to play. Social justice, friendship, conversation, dialogue, collective work are central to her thinking. Contributors trace the emergence of Anderson’s late thinking, extend her conversations with the history of philosophy and contemporary voices such as hooks and Butler, and bring her work into contact with debates in theology; Continental and analytic philosophy; feminist, queer and transgender theory; postcolonial theory; African-American studies. Discussions engage with the Me Too movement and sexual violence, climate change, sweatshops, neoliberalism, death and dying, and the nature of the human. Originally published as a special issue of the journal, Angelaki, this large, wide-ranging collection, featuring a number of distinguished contributors, makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on interpersonal relations, sympathy and empathy, affect and emotion.


Immanent Transcendence

Immanent Transcendence

Author: Victor M. Salas

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2022-10-21

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9462703558

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Long considered one of late scholasticism’s most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to early modern philosophy. As such, his thought has often been obscured and framed in terms of an alien paradigm. This book seeks to correct such approaches and examines Suárez's metaphysical thinking as it stands on its own. Suárez is shown to be much more in line with his medieval predecessors who developed their accounts of being to express the theological commitments they had made. Central to Suárez’s account is a fundamental existential orientation, one that many interpreters have overlooked in favour of an understanding of being as reduced to essence or to the thinkable.


Immanent Materialisms

Immanent Materialisms

Author: Charlie Blake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1351400975

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Must a philosophy of life be materialist, and if so, must it also be a philosophy of immanence? In the last twenty years or so there has been a growing trend in continental thought and philosophy and critical theory that has seen a return to the category of immanence. Through consideration of the work of thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Catherine Malabou, Francois Laruelle, Gilles Deleuze and others, this collection aims to examine the interplay between the concepts of immanence, materialism and life, particularly as this interplay can highlight new directions for political inquiry. Furthermore, critical reflection on this constellation of concepts could also be instructive for continental philosophy of religion, in which ideas about the divine, embodiment, sexual difference, desire, creation and incarnation are refigured in provocative new ways. The way of immanence, however, is not without its dangers. Indeed, it may be that with its affirmation something of importance is lost to material life. Could it be that the integrity of material things requires a transcendent origin? Precisely what are the metaphysical, political and theological consequences of pursuing a philosophy of immanence in relation to a philosophy of life? This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.


Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent

Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent

Author: Daniele Fulvi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1000962024

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This book offers a cutting-edge interpretation of the philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling by critically reconsidering the interpretations of some of his “successors.” It argues that Schelling’s philosophy should be read as an ontology of immanence, highlighting its relevance for ongoing debates on ethics and freedom. The book builds on a key notion from Schelling’s Philosophy of Revelation where he outlines the process through which transcendence must return to immanence in order to be grasped and understood. The author identifies Jaspers, Heidegger, and Deleuze as the main interpreters of Schelling’s philosophical activity, highlighting their relevance for subsequent Schelling scholarship. Heidegger and Jaspers refer to Schelling’s philosophy in negative terms, namely as an incomplete and unviable philosophical system, whereas Deleuze holds the immanent core of Schelling’s ontological discourse in high regard. The author’s analysis demonstrates that reading Schelling’s philosophy as an ontology of immanence not only avoids Heidegger’s and Jaspers’s criticisms but is also more fitting to Schelling’s original meaning. Accordingly, his reading allows us to fully grasp Schelling’s thought in all its strength and consistency: as a philosophy that avoids metaphysical abstractions and maintains the concreteness of concepts like God, nature, freedom by binding them to a solid and material account of Being. Finally, the author uses Schelling to propose an innovative reading of freedom as a matter of resistance, and of philosophy as an activity whose main purpose is that of seeking the actual extent and place of (human) life and freedom within nature. The author originally emphasises the relevance of these conclusions on contemporary debates in Postcolonial Critical Theory and Environmental Ethics. Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent. From Philosophy of Nature to Environmental Ethics will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in 19th-century Continental philosophy, German idealism, and Postcolonial Critical Theory and Environmental Ethics.


Technologies of Critique

Technologies of Critique

Author: Willy Thayer

Publisher: Fordham University Press

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0823286762

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Critique—a program of thought as well as a disposition toward the world—is a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. Technologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes such capture. Building on Chile’s history of dissident artists and the central entangling of politics and aesthetics, Thayer engages continental philosophical traditions, from Aristotle, Descartes and Heidegger through Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and in implicit conversation with the Judith Butler, Roberto Esposito, and Bruno Latour, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life.