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Logics of Disintegration

Author : Peter Dews
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602815
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Logics of Disintegration written by Peter Dews and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, contemporary French philosophy has exercised a powerful influence on intellectual life, across both Europe and America. Post-structuralist strategies and concepts have played an important role in many forms of social, cultural and aesthetic analysis, particularly on the Left. Despite the widespread reception, however, there has still been comparatively little analysis of the basic philosophical assumptions of post-structuralism, or of the compatibility of many of its central tenets with the progressive political orientations with which it is frequently associated. In this book, Peter Dews seeks to remedy this situation by setting post-structuralist thought in relation to another, more explicitly critical, tradition in the philosophical analysis of modernity - that of the Frankfurt School, from Adorno to Habermas. Logics of Disintegration will be of interest to readers across a wide range of disciplines, from literary criticism to social theory, which have felt the impact of post-structuralism - and to anyone who wishes to reach a balanced assessment of one of the most influential intellectual currents of our time.

Logics of Disintegration

Author : Peter Dews
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 9780860918134
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Logics of Disintegration written by Peter Dews and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, contemporary French philosophy has exercised a powerful influence on intellectual life, across both Europe and America. Post-structuralist strategies and concepts have played an important role in many forms of social, cultural and aesthetic analysis, particularly on the Left. Despite the widespread reception, however, there has still been comparatively little analysis of the basic philosophical assumptions of post-structuralism, or of the compatibility of many of its central tenets with the progressive political orientations with which it is frequently associated. In this book, Peter Dews seeks to remedy this situation by setting post-structuralist thought in relation to another, more explicitly critical, tradition in the philosophical analysis of modernity – that of the Frankfurt School, from Adorno to Habermas. Logics of Disintegration will be of interest to readers across a wide range of disciplines, from literary criticism to social theory, which have felt the impact of post-structuralism – and to anyone who wishes to reach a balanced assessment of one of the most influential intellectual currents of our time.

Michel Foucault

Author : Barry Smart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415088893
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Barry Smart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Other Logics

Author : Admir Skodo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004270183
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Other Logics written by Admir Skodo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Logics: Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy challenges the widespread idea of formal logic as inherently monolithic, universal, and ahistorical. Written by both leading and up-and-coming scholars, and edited by Admir Skodo, Other Logics offers a wide variety of historical and philosophical alternatives to this idea, all arguing that logic is a historical, concrete, and multi-dimensional phenomenon. To name a few examples, Frank Ankersmit lays down a representationalist logic, Alessandra Tanesini forcefully argues for the possibility of logical aliens, Christopher Watkin analyzes how leading contemporary French philosophers view the idea of logic, and Aaron Wendland unearths Heidegger's critique of formal logic. In Other Logics readers will find provocative interventions in a highly contested field in contemporary philosophy. Contributors include: Frank Ankersmit, Christopher Watkin, Giuseppina D'Oro, Alessandra Tanesini, Admir Skodo, Aaron Wendland, Ervik Cejvan, Anders Kraal, Christopher Fear, Karim Dharamsi, Johan Modée, and Thord Svensson.

The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism

Author : Vassilis K. Fouskas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319968181
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism written by Vassilis K. Fouskas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out a concrete analytical and empirical framework to understand the Euro-zone crisis and the deep disintegrative tendencies of Euro-Atlantic neo-imperialism. It explores how the authoritarianism and austerity led from above in the transatlantic world cultivate right-wing populism and racist hysteria from below, especially in relation to the global power-shift to China and other emerging economies. The authors argue that ordoliberal/neo-liberal austerity cannot reverse the decline of western economies; if anything, it precipitates their downfall and the re-launching of globalization under Asian primacy. The book will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers across the fields of International Political Economy, European Politics and Critical Social and Political Theory.

Modernism - Dada - Postmodernism

Author : Richard Sheppard
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810114920
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Modernism - Dada - Postmodernism written by Richard Sheppard and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection updates, integrates, and contextualizes Richard Sheppard's essays on the historical avant-garde. Sheppard examines responses of modernist writers, artists, and philosophers to a changed sense of reality and human nature. With its combination of previously published and new essays and its perspective on the theoretical avant-garde-modernism debate in the U.S., the volume provides the specialist and the general reader insight into European scholarly discourse on this hotly debated subject.

Deconstructive Subjectivities

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427231
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructive Subjectivities written by Simon Critchley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the meanings of subjectivity in continental philosophy in the wake of post-structuralism and critical theory.

The Concept of Truth in International Relations Theory

Author : Matthew Fluck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137550333
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Truth in International Relations Theory written by Matthew Fluck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the role played by conceptions of truth in the development of a critical tradition of International Relations theory. Providing a detailed account of the conceptions which have shaped the work of Critical Theorists and Poststructuralists, the book reaffirms the importance of epistemic reflection for the discipline. It argues that the partially abstract character of the main strands of critical IR arises not from their concern with epistemic matters, but from their insistence that truth is purely intersubjective. Drawing on the philosophy of Theodor Adorno, the book argues that IR’s critical tradition can be rejuvenated by combining its original politicisation of truth with a critical account of its ‘objectivity’. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars and graduate students interested in the future of critical International Relations theory.

Poststructuralism and After

Author : D. Howarth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137266988
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Poststructuralism and After written by D. Howarth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the key theoretical assumptions of poststructuralism, but also probes its limits, evaluates rival approaches and elaborates new concepts. Building on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Lacan, Laclau, Lévi–Strauss, Marx, Saussure and Žižek, the book also provides a distinctive version of the poststructuralist project.

The Boys in the Band

Author : Matt Bell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814341543
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Boys in the Band written by Matt Bell and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boys in the Band’s debut was revolutionary for its fictional but frank presentation of a male homosexual subculture in Manhattan. Based on Mart Crowley’s hit Off-Broadway play from 1968, the film’s two-hour running time approximates real time, unfolding at a birthday party attended by nine men whose language, clothing, and behavior evoke a range of urban gay “types.” Although various popular critics, historians, and film scholars over the years have offered cursory acknowledgment of the film’s importance, more substantive research and analysis have been woefully lacking. The film’s neglect among academics belies a rich and rewarding object of study. The Boys in the Band merits not only the close reading that should accompany such a well-made text but also recognition as a landmark almost ideally situated to orient us amid the highly complex, shifting cultural terrain it occupied upon its release—and has occupied since. The scholars assembled here bring an invigorating variety of methods to their considerations of this singular film. Coming from a wide range of academic disciplines, they pose and answer questions about the film in remarkably different ways. Cultural analysis, archival research, interviews, study of film traditions, and theoretical framing intensify their revelatory readings of the film. Many of the essays take inventive approaches to longstanding debates about identity politics, and together they engage with current academic work across a variety of fields that include queer theory, film theory, gender studies, race and ethnic studies, and Marxist theory. Addressing The Boys in the Band from multiple perspectives, these essays identify and draw out the film’s latent flashpoints—aspects of the film that express the historical, cinematic, and queer-political crises not only of its own time, but also of today. The Boys in the Band is an accessible touchstone text in both queer studies and film studies. Scholars and students working in the disciplines of film studies, queer studies, history, theater, and sociology will surely find the book invaluable and a shaping influence on these fields in the coming years.

The Expansion of England

Author : Bill Schwarz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134928319
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Expansion of England written by Bill Schwarz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organized study of history began in Britain when the Empire was at its height. Belief in the destiny of imperial England profoundly shaped the imagination of the first generation of professional historians. But with the Empire ended, do these mental habits still haunt historical explanation? Drawing on postcolonial theory in a lively mix of historical and theoretical chapters, The Expansion of England explores the history of the British Empire and the practice of historical enquiry itself. There are essays on Asia, Australasia, the West Indies, South Africa and Britain. Examining the sexual, racial and ethnic identities shaping the experiences of English men and women in the nineteenth century, the authors argue that habits of thought forged in the Empire still give meaning to English identities today.

Minimal Theologies

Author : Hent de Vries
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142143749X
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Minimal Theologies written by Hent de Vries and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in in 2004. What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a "theology in pianissimo" constituted by the trace of a transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such intellectual heirs as Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defending their work against later accusations of "performative contradiction" (by Habermas) or "empiricism" (by Derrida) and in the process casting important new light on those later writers as well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and Levinas's texts, his investigations of the concepts of history, subjectivity, and language in their writings provide a radical interpretation of their paradoxical modes of thought and reveal remarkable and hitherto unsuspected parallels between their philosophical methods, parallels that amount to a plausible way of overcoming certain impasses in contemporary philosophical thinking. In Adorno, this takes the form of a dialectical critique of dialectics; in Levinas, that of a phenomenological critique of phenomenology, each of which sheds new light on ancient and modern questions of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. For the English-language publication, the author has extensively revised and updated the prize-winning German version.

Interpreting Environments

Author : Robert Mugerauer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292754981
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Environments written by Robert Mugerauer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography. Mugerauer demonstrates each methodology through a case study. The first study uses the traditional approach to recover the meaning of Jung's and Wittgenstein's houses by analyzing their historical, intentional contexts. The second case study utilizes deconstruction to explore Egyptian, French neoclassical, and postmodern attempts to use pyramids to constitute a sense of lasting presence. And the third case study employs hermeneutics to reveal how the American understanding of the natural landscape has evolved from religious to secular to ecological since the nineteenth century.

Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429754833
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition written by Anthony Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed. Considering afresh the relations between self and society, Elliot argues for the importance of imagination and the unconscious in understanding issues about the self and self-identity, ideology and power, sexual difference and gender.

Patriotic Elaborations

Author : Charles Blattberg
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576630
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Patriotic Elaborations written by Charles Blattberg and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg suggests a "new patriotism," one that reconciles conflict through a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversation over negotiation and the common good over victory. This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as well as right. Blattberg's is a genuinely original philosophical voice. The essays collected here discuss how to re-conceive the political spectrum, where "deliberative deomocrats" go wrong, why human rights language is tragically counterproductive, how nationalism is not really secular, how many nations should share a single state, a new approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and why Canada might have something to teach about the "war on terror." We also learn about the right way to deny a role to principles in ethics, how to distinguish between the good and the beautiful, the way humor works, the rabbinic nature of modernism, the difference between good, bad, great, and evil, why Plato's dialogues are not really dialogues, and why most philosophers are actually artists.

The Limits of Disenchantment

Author : Peter Dews
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840221
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Disenchantment written by Peter Dews and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores some of the most urgent problems confronting contemporary European thought: the status of the subject after postmodernism, the ethical dimensions of critical theory, the encounter between psychoanalysis and philosophy, and the possibilities of non-foundational metaphysical thought.

Ideals and Illusions

Author : Thomas McCarthy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262631457
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Ideals and Illusions written by Thomas McCarthy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, J�rgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed.McCarthy examines the critique of impure reason from the complementary viewpoints of the attackers and defenders of Enlightenment rationality. He first analyzes the work of Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida to determine what these radical critics have contributed to our understanding of reason and where they have gone wrong. He explores Habermas's theory of communicative rationality, focusing on the attempt to go beyond hermeneutics, the incorporation of systems theory, the implications of discourse ethics for our understanding of political debate and collective decision making, and the relation of political theology to critical social theory.Thomas McCarthy is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and the editor of The MIT Press series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought. The analysis and assessment of Habermas's recent work in Ideals and Illusions serves as a sequel to his earlier study The Critical Theory of J�rgen Habermas.