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Contingency and the Limits of History

Author : Liane Carlson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548974
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Contingency and the Limits of History written by Liane Carlson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Following Nietzsche and Foucault, genealogists have deployed contingency to show that all institutions and ideas could have been otherwise as a critique of the status quo. Yet scholars have spent very little time considering the genealogy of contingency itself—or what its history means for its role in politics. In Contingency and the Limits of History, Liane Carlson historicizes contingency by tying it to its theological and etymological roots in “touch,” contending that much of its critical, disruptive power is specific to our current historical moment. She returns to an older definition of contingency found in Christian theology that understands it as the lot of mortal creatures, who suffer, feel, bleed, and change, in contrast to a necessary, unchanging, impassible God. Far from dying out, Carlson reveals, this theological past persists in continental philosophy, where thinkers such as Novalis, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, and Serres have imagined contingency as a type of radical destabilization brought about by the body’s collision with a changing world. Through studies of sickness, loneliness, violation, and love, she shows that different experiences of contingency can lead to dramatically dissimilar ethical and political projects. A strikingly original reconsideration of one of continental philosophy and critical theory’s most cherished concepts, this book reveals the limits of historicist accounts.

The Limits of History

Author : Constantin Fasolt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226239101
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of History written by Constantin Fasolt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time. So argues Constantin Fasolt in The Limits of History, an ambitious and pathbreaking study that conquers history's power by carrying the fight into the center of its domain. Fasolt considers the work of Hermann Conring (1606-81) and Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1313/14-57), two antipodes in early modern battles over the principles of European thought and action that ended with the triumph of historical consciousness. Proceeding according to the rules of normal historical analysis—gathering evidence, putting it in context, and analyzing its meaning—Fasolt uncovers limits that no kind of history can cross. He concludes that history is a ritual designed to maintain the modern faith in the autonomy of states and individuals. God wants it, the old crusaders would have said. The truth, Fasolt insists, only begins where that illusion ends. With its probing look at the ideological underpinnings of historical practice, The Limits of History demonstrates that history presupposes highly political assumptions about free will, responsibility, and the relationship between the past and the present. A work of both intellectual history and historiography, it will prove invaluable to students of historical method, philosophy, political theory, and early modern European culture.

Religion within the Limits of History Alone

Author : Demian Wheeler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438479352
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Religion within the Limits of History Alone written by Demian Wheeler and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad understandings of reality are utterly historical, conditioned by contingent circumstances and tied to particular contexts. In this book, Demian Wheeler confronts the historicist challenge by delineating and defending a particular trajectory of historicist thought known as pragmatic historicism. Rooted in the German Enlightenment and fully developed within the early Chicago school of theology, pragmatic historicism is a predominantly American tradition that was philosophically nurtured by classical pragmatism and its intellectual siblings, naturalism and radical empiricism. Religion within the Limits of History Alone not only undertakes a detailed genealogy of this pragmatic historicist lineage but also sets forth a constructive program for contemporary theology by charting a path for its future development. Wheeler shows that pragmatic historicism is an underdeveloped resource for contemporary theology since it offers a model for normative religious thought that is theologically compelling yet wholly nonsupernaturalistic, deeply pluralistic, unflinchingly liberal, and radically historicist.

Contingency in International Law

Author : Ingo Venzke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192652907
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Contingency in International Law written by Ingo Venzke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly a serious account left that would consider the path of international law to be necessary, and that would refute the possibility of a different law altogether. But behind every possibility of the past stands a reason why the law developed as it did. Only with a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did is it possible to argue about how the law could plausibly have turned out differently. The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, as it is in this volume, by a refusal to resign to the present state of affairs. By recovering past possibilities, this volume aims to inform projects of transformative legal change for the future. The book situates that search for contingency theoretically and carries it into practice across many fields, with chapters discussing human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, foreign investments and trade. In doing so, it shows how politically charged questions about contingency have always been.

States of Disconnect

Author : Adhira Mangalagiri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023155611X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book States of Disconnect written by Adhira Mangalagiri and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of relating with others? Comparative literature has long been under the spell of circulation, contact, connectivity, and mobility—what if it instead sought out their antitheses? States of Disconnect examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to pairing ideas of China and India. Focusing on practices of comparison, Adhira Mangalagiri considers how these texts articulate the undesirability or impossibility of relating with national others, tracing portrayals of violence, silence, and distance. She proposes the concept of “disconnect”: a crisis of transnationalism perceptible in moments when a connection is severed, interrupted, or disavowed. Despite their apparent insularity, texts of disconnect offer possibilities for relating ethically across national borders while resisting both narrow nationalisms and globalized habits of thought. Reading a variety of largely untranslated twentieth-century Chinese and Hindi short stories, novels, and poems, Mangalagiri develops three new strategies for comparison—friction, ellipses, and contingency—that together comprise a critical vocabulary of disconnect. Foregrounding transnationalism’s discontents, States of Disconnect offers a different path by which literary texts can cultivate a critical sensibility for making sense of a world rife with division.

The Hero In History

Author : Sidney Hook
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473385164
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Hero In History written by Sidney Hook and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great look at the role of the hero in society, often as a driving force through history. A must read for any keen amateur historian wishing to see the big picture.

European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s

Author : Gerd-Rainer Horn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019987994X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s written by Gerd-Rainer Horn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on documents collected in six European countries, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s is a transnational study of largely parallel developments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain in the years 1933-1936. Triggered into action by the shock effect of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, socialists throughout Western Europe entered an unusually active period of practical reorientation and debate over political strategy which helped determine the contours of European politics up to the outbreak of World War II and beyond. Stressing the transnational dimension of this process while simultaneously integrating local, regional, and national factors, this work finds that it was social democracy, rather than communism, that acted as the primary vehicle for radical change among European marxists during the 1930s. Following major figures within the European left and the significant events that made up the inter-war period, Gerd-Rainer Horn demonstrates the interconnectedness of Europe's interwar socialists. Finally, Horn manages to relate these findings to the ongoing interdisciplinary debate on structure, agency, and contingency in the historical process.

A History of Modern Political Thought

Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192508369
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Political Thought written by Gary Browning and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories of interpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a book which sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretation matters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.

Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

Author : Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319673785
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements – epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual. With contributions ranging from fields as diverse as the histories of physics, astronomy, astrology, medicine, mechanics, physiology, and natural philosophy, it explores the transformation of the notion of contingency across the late-medieval, Renaissance, and the early modern period. Underpinned by a necessitated vision of nature, seventeenth century mechanism widely identified apparent natural irregularities with the epistemological limits of a certain explanatory framework. However, this picture was preceded by, and in fact emerged from, a widespread characterization of contingency as an ontological trait of nature, typical of late-Scholastic and Renaissance science. On these bases, this volume shows how epistemological categories, which are preconditions of knowledge as “historically-situated a priori” and, seemingly, self-evident, are ultimately rooted in time. Contingency is intrinsic to scientific practice. Whether observing the behaviour of a photon, diagnosing a patient, or calculating the orbit of a distant planet, scientists face the unavoidable challenge of dealing with data that differ from their models and expectations. However, epistemological categories are not fixed in time. Indeed, there is something fundamentally different in the way an Aristotelian natural philosopher defined a wonder or a “monstrous” birth as “contingent”, a modern scientist defines the unexpected result of an experiment, and a quantum physicist the behavior of a photon. Although to each inquirer these instances appeared self-evidently contingent, each also employs the concept differently.

Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School

Author : Peter Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540634584
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School written by Peter Koslowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume gives an exposition of the achievement and present relevance of the Newer Historical School of Economics and of the theory of the human sciences that accompanied its development. It describes the methodology of economics and the social sciences, the economic ethics, and the theory of the social and human sciences in the Historical School. It shows how its emphasis moved from an ethical economics or ethical economy to the methodology of the social and economic sciences.

Foucault on Freedom

Author : Johanna Oksala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521847797
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Foucault on Freedom written by Johanna Oksala and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in Foucault's philosophy and examines its three major divisions.

The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

Author : Jack Martin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118748220
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology written by Jack Martin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and PhilosophicalPsychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the widerange of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporaryfield of theoretical and philosophical psychology. The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and PhilosophicalPsychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the widerange of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporaryfield of theoretical and philosophical psychology. Gathers together for the first time all the approaches andmethods that define scholarly practice in theoretical andphilosophical psychology Chapters explore various philosophical and conceptualapproaches, historical approaches, narrative approaches to thenature of human conduct, mixed-method studies of psychology andpsychological inquiry, and various theoretical bases ofcontemporary psychotherapeutic practices Features contributions from ten Past Presidents of the Societyof Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, along with severalPast Presidents of other relevant societies

History and International Relations

Author : Howard LeRoy Malchow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135011166X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book History and International Relations written by Howard LeRoy Malchow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated and enhanced second edition of History and International Relations charts the foundations, development and use of International Relations from a historian's perspective. Exploring its engagement with the history of war, peace and foreign relations this volume provides an account of international relations from both western and non-western perspectives, its historical evolution and its contemporary practice. Examining the origin of dominant IR theories, exploring key moments in the history of war and peace that shaped the discipline, and analysing the Eurocentric nature of current theory and practice, Malchow provides a full account of the relationship between history and IR from the ancient world to modern times. To bring it up to the present day and provide new ways for students to grasp the history of IR, this new edition includes: -An updated final chapter reflecting on the practice of IR in a post 9/11 world -New scholarship and sources in IR practice and theory published since 2015 -A time line charting the evolution of International Relations as a discipline -A new glossary of terms -Expanded section on IR theory and practice in the ancient world and early Christian era -Greater incorporation of IR practice and theory in non-western ancient, medieval and modern worlds History and International Relations is essential reading for anyone looking to understand international relations, diplomacy and times of war and peace in a historical context.

Principles Of Organization In Organisms

Author : Jay E. Mittenthal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429961103
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Principles Of Organization In Organisms written by Jay E. Mittenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a workshop held at the Santa Fe Institute in June, 1990, this book explores structure in organisms—both physical and dynamical—and presents the current status of the search for natural pathways, principles of organization, and the theory of design for organisms. Topics discussed include dynamical systems analysis; the pathways of evolution; development, physiology, and functional morphology; and the principles of dynamical change in connectivity within the networks of processes.

Contingency in the Education, Art and Sport

Author : Anna Hogenová
Publisher : Vydavatelství PedF UK
ISBN 13 : 8072909223
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Contingency in the Education, Art and Sport written by Anna Hogenová and published by Vydavatelství PedF UK . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christ, Providence and History

Author : Mike Higton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567080523
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Christ, Providence and History written by Mike Higton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full study of the whole of Hans Frei's work. Higton draws on a wide range of unpublished material in the Frei archives to present a comprehensive, fresh, and original interpretation of Frei's theology. He places Frei's well-known work on biblical hemeneutics firmly in the context of his theological wrestling with Barth and of the dominant traditions of Western Protestant theology.

The Psychology of Personhood

Author : Jack Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113961973X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Personhood written by Jack Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a person? Surprisingly little attention is given to this question in psychology. For much of the past century, psychology has tended to focus on the systematic study of processes rather than on the persons who enact and embody them. In contrast to the reductionist picture of much mainstream theorising, which construes persons as their mental lives, behaviours or neurophysiological particulars, The Psychology of Personhood presents persons as irreducibly embodied and socially situated beings. Placing the study of persons at the centre of psychology, this book presents novel insights on the typical, everyday actions and experiences of persons in relation to each other and to the broader society and culture. Leading scholars from diverse academic disciplines paint an integrative portrait of the psychological person within evolutionary, historical, cultural, developmental and everyday contexts.