Materialism And Social Inquiry In The Continental Tradition In Philosophy

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Materialism and Social Inquiry in the Continental Tradition in Philosophy

Author : Andrew M. Koch
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149855170X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Materialism and Social Inquiry in the Continental Tradition in Philosophy written by Andrew M. Koch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continental tradition in philosophy has gotten more “materialistic” over the last two hundred years. This has resulted from a combination of some very specific moves with regard to the epistemological parameters of understanding and the assertion that ideas may have material force in history. Therefore, the materialism within the continental tradition is not a materiality of being, but a materiality of understanding and action. Such an inquiry opens up space between the activities of sensation and the mental faculty of cognition. ‘I think, therefore I am,’ is not an empirical statement, but a statement of cognition. It is assumed that this distinction is at the core of continental philosophy. Cognition is always interpretive. Experience is the start of cognition, but not its final product. Our cognitions cannot be separated from our experience of the physical, social, and cultural environment around us. The symbolic nature of language reinforces the interpretive nature of our thoughts and ideas. Our language is, therefore, always projecting an implicit image of the world. Language is, therefore, always political. The materiality of these cognitive world-views is manifested in two ways. First, in their formation. They are the products of sensual contact with the world. Second, in their effects. They move people. It is a picture of the world which serves to shape the content and character of human behavior. Whether we want to call these phantoms of the mind, world-view, ideas, thoughts, cognitions, or any other term, the dual character of their materiality is secure. This work examines the threads materialist ideas running through the efforts of some major authors in the continental tradition in philosophy. A model of materialism is constructed in Chapter One and used to assess the materialist elements in works from Kant, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, and contemporary poststructuralism. The work demonstrates the evolution of materialist thinking within the tradition and asserts an evolving and developing articulation of materialism in relation to the thoughts and activities of human beings.

Materialism

Author : Robin Gordon Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429535376
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Materialism written by Robin Gordon Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration and enlightened thinking, but it has also aroused strong, often violent, passions amongst both its opponents and proponents. This book explores the development of materialism in an engaging and thought-provoking way and defends the form it takes in the twenty-first century. Opening with an account of the ideas of some of the most important thinkers in the materialist tradition, including Epicurus, Lucretius, Hobbes, Hume, Darwin and Marx, the authors discuss materialism’s origins, as an early form of naturalistic explanation and as an intellectual outlook about life and the world in general. They explain how materialism’s beginnings as an imaginative vision of the true nature of things faced a major challenge from the physics it did so much to facilitate, which now portrays the microscopic world in a way incompatible with traditional materialism. Brown and Ladyman explain how out of this challenge materialism developed into the new doctrine of physicalism. Drawing on a wide range of colourful examples, the authors argue that although materialism does not have all the answers, its humanism and commitment to naturalistic explanation and the scientific method is our best philosophical hope in the ideological maelstrom of the modern world.

The New Politics of Materialism

Author : Sarah Ellenzweig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135197615X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The New Politics of Materialism written by Sarah Ellenzweig and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, which includes an international roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature, and science, is the first to ask what is "new" about the new materialism and place it in interdisciplinary perspective.

Immanent Transcendence

Author : Patrice Haynes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441121528
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Immanent Transcendence written by Patrice Haynes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overthe last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition haveincreasingly emphasized the category of immanence. Yet the turn toimmanence has not meant the wholesale rejection of the concept oftranscendence, but rather its reconfiguration in immanent or materialist terms:an immanent transcendence. Through an engagement with the work ofDeleuze, Irigaray and Adorno, Patrice Haynes examines how the notion ofimmanent transcendence can help articulate a non-reductive materialism by whichto rethink politics, ethics and theology in exciting new ways. However,she argues that contrary to what some might expect, immanent accounts of matterand transcendence are ultimately unable to do justice to materialfinitude. Indeed, Haynes concludes by suggesting that a theisticunderstanding of divine transcendence offers ways to affirm fully materialimmanence, thus pointing towards the idea of a theological materialism.

Discussing New Materialism

Author : Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658223006
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Discussing New Materialism written by Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New Materialism in Sociology and Philosophy. They raise the questions of what New Materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be considered a radical change in Social Theory. Are the ideas of a “material turn”, as the theory is formulated and in its assumptions, foreshadowed by the classical philosophies of Spinoza and Tarde? Do these new approaches bring substantially new perspectives to Social Theory? A further goal of these essays is to formulate the methodological and methodical consequences for its empirical implementation. What conditions must an ethnography of things fulfill if it is to be sufficient? Which participant objects and bodies do the approaches of the various social theories and methodologies include or exclude?

Materialism and Politics

Author : Bernardo Bianchi
Publisher : ICI Berlin Press
ISBN 13 : 3965580183
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Materialism and Politics written by Bernardo Bianchi and published by ICI Berlin Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What remains of materialism’s subversive potential — i.e., its ties with heresy or atheism and republicanism or communism — and to what extent does this concept still interpellate us politically and philosophically? As neoliberal policies expanded far beyond the state, their mechanisms of control seeped into the materiality of social reproduction, solidifying a conception of matter as something inert, to be appropriated, manipulated, and exploited. If in this context the subversive nature of a reference to materiality is called into question, it has also provoked new forms of resistance, as well as fundamental reconsiderations of the political implications of the notion of ‘matter’. Against this background, the aim of this book is to show the diversity within continued engagements with materialism as a central concept for progressive politics, be it in the direction opened up by New Materialism, in renewed forms of Marxist and Spinozist based approaches, or in feminist analyses, each in their own terms, without excluding the possibility of alliances between them. Finally, this volume insists that the study of materiality and materialist approaches does not amount to a renunciation of philosophy, but rather urges us to broaden the task of philosophical thought in order to reconsider the historical and, in every sense of the word, material situatedness of all philosophical problems. Against a reductive and ahistorical conception of materialism — the straightest way back to ideology —, this book offers an analysis of its diverse emancipatory potentialities.

Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction

Author : Charles T. Wolfe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319248200
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction by : Charles T. Wolfe

Download or read book Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction written by Charles T. Wolfe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective. It is, thus, a study in the history and philosophy of materialism, with a particular focus on the early modern and Enlightenment periods, leading into the 19th and 20th centuries. For it was in the 18th century that the word was first used by a philosopher (La Mettrie) to refer to himself. Prior to that, ‘materialism’ was a pejorative term, used for wicked thinkers, as a near-synonym to ‘atheist’, ‘Spinozist’ or the delightful ‘Hobbist’. The book provides the different forms of materialism, particularly distinguished into claims about the material nature of the world and about the material nature of the mind, and then focus on materialist approaches to body and embodiment, selfhood, ethics, laws of nature, reductionism and determinism, and overall, its relationship to science. For materialism is often understood as a kind of philosophical facilitator of the sciences, and the author want to suggest that is not always the case. Materialism takes on different forms and guises in different historical, ideological and scientific contexts as well, and the author wants to do justice to that diversity. Figures discussed include Lucretius, Hobbes, Gassendi, Spinoza, Toland, Collins, La Mettrie, Diderot, d’Holbach and Priestley; Büchner, Bergson, J.J.C. Smart and D.M. Armstrong.

The History of Materialism

Author : Friedrich Albert Lange
Publisher : New York : Arno Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Materialism written by Friedrich Albert Lange and published by New York : Arno Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Materialism

Author : F.A. Lange
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317829913
Total Pages : 1133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The History of Materialism written by F.A. Lange and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume I of five in a series on Epistemology and Metaphysics. Originally published in 1865, this book offers the history of materialism and a criticism of its present importance in that period of time, presented in three parts.

History of Materialism: History of materialism until Kant

Author : Friedrich Albert Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book History of Materialism: History of materialism until Kant written by Friedrich Albert Lange and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Waning of Materialism

Author : Robert C. Koons
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614017
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Waning of Materialism written by Robert C. Koons and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent versions and defences of materialism. The modal arguments of Kripke and Chalmers, Jackson’s knowledge argument, Kim’s exclusion problem, and Burge’s anti-individualism all play a part in the building of a powerful cumulative case against the materialist research program. Several papers address the implications of contemporary brain and cognitive research (the psychophysics of color perception, blindsight, and the effects of commissurotomies), adding a posteriori arguments to the classical a priori critique of reductionism. All of the current versions of materialism — reductive and non-reductive, functionalist, eliminativist, and new wave materialism — come under sustained and trenchant attack. In addition, a wide variety of alternatives to the materialist conception of the person receive new and illuminating attention, including anti-materialist versions of naturalism, property dualism, Aristotelian and Thomistic hylomorphism, and non-Cartesian accounts of substance dualism.

History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance: History of materialism until Kant

Author : Friedrich Albert Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance: History of materialism until Kant written by Friedrich Albert Lange and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology

Author : Gustavo E. Romero
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030894886
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology written by Gustavo E. Romero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge. Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined as the worldview according to which everything real is material. Nevertheless, there is no philosophical consensus about whether the meaning of matter can be enlarged beyond the physical. As a consequence, materialism is often defined in stark exclusive and reductionist terms: whatever exists is either physical or ontologically reducible to it. This conception, if consistent, mutilates reality, excluding the ontological significance of political, economic, sociocultural, anthropological and psychological realities. Starting from a new history of materialism, the present book focuses on the central ontological and epistemological debates aroused by today’s leading materialist approaches, including some little known to an anglophone readership. The key concepts of matter, system, emergence, space and time, life, mind, and software are checked over and updated. Controversial issues such as the nature of mathematics and the place of reductionism are also discussed from different materialist approaches. As a result, materialism emerges as a powerful, indispensable scientifically-supported worldview with a surprising wealth of nuances and possibilities.

History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance

Author : Friedrich Albert Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance written by Friedrich Albert Lange and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Democracy of Objects

Author : Levi R. Bryant
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Democracy of Objects written by Levi R. Bryant and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Drawing on the object-oriented ontology of Graham Harman, as well as the thought of Roy Bhaskar, Gilles Deleuze, Niklas Luhman, Aristotle, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour and the developmental systems theorists, Bryant develops a realist ontology that he calls "onticology". This ontology argues that being is composed entirely of objects, properties, and relations such that subjects themselves are a variant of objects. Drawing on the work of the systems theorists and cyberneticians, Bryant argues that objects are dynamic systems that relate to the world under conditions of operational closure. In this way, he is able to integrate the most vital discoveries of the anti-realists within a realist ontology that does justice to both the material and cultural. Onticology proposes a flat ontology where objects of all sorts and at different scales equally exist without being reducible to other objects and where there are no transcendent entities such as eternal essences outside of dynamic interactions among objects. Contents: Towards a Finally Subjectless Object Grounds For a Realist Ontology The Paradox of Substance Virtual Proper Being The Interior of Objects Regimes of Attraction, Parts, and Structure The Four Theses of Flat Ontology

Contemporary Materialism

Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134839340
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Materialism written by Paul K. Moser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together for the first time many key articles by leading philosophers, this volume charts the problems, positions and themes concerning the issue of materialism.

Real Materialism

Author : Galen Strawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199267421
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Real Materialism written by Galen Strawson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Materialism is a collection of highly original essays on a set of related topics in philosophy of mind and metaphysics: consciousness and the mind-body problem; our knowledge of the world; the nature of the self or subject; free will and moral responsibility; the nature of thought and intentionality; causation and David Hume.