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Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy

Author : Matthew R. McLennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472574176
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy written by Matthew R. McLennan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Badiou's work in philosophy, though daunting, has gained a receptive and steadily growing Anglophone readership. What is not well known is the extent to which Badiou's positions, vis-Á -vis ontology, ethics, politics and the very meaning of philosophy, were hammered out in dispute with the late Jean-François Lyotard. Matthew R. McLennan's Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy is the first work to pose the question of the relation between Lyotard and Badiou, and in so doing constitutes a significant intervention in the field of contemporary European philosophy by revisiting one of its most influential and controversial forefathers. Badiou himself has underscored the importance of Lyotard for his own project; might the recent resurgence of interest in Lyotard be tied in some way to Badiou's comments? Or deeper still: might not Badiou's philosophical Platonism beg an encounter with philosophy's other, the figure of the sophist that Lyotard played so often and so ably? Posing pertinent questions and opening new discursive channels in the literature on these two major figures this book is of interest to those studying philosophy, rhetoric, literary theory, cultural and media studies.

Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788734637
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn" in modern philosophy and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy" of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein's thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the universal truths that govern his work. Bruno Bosteels's introduction argues that a continuing dialogue with Wittgenstein is inescapable for contemporary philosophy.

Introduction to Antiphilosophy

Author : Boris Groys
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789601134
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Antiphilosophy written by Boris Groys and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits of their own culture. But, today, we have become sceptical about the ability of an individual philosopher to engage in 'universal thinking', so philosophy seems to capitulate in the face of cultural relativism. In Introduction to Antiphilosophy, Boris Groys argues that modern 'antiphilosophy' does not pursue the universality of thought as its goal but proposes in its place the universality of life, material forces, social practices, passions, and experiences - angst, vitality, ecstasy, the gift, revolution, laughter or 'profane illumination' - and he analyses this shift from thought to life and action in the work of thinkers from Kierkegaard to Derrida, from Nietzsche to Benjamin. Ranging across the history of modern thought, Introduction to Antiphilosophy endeavours to liberate philosophy from the stereotypes that hinder its development.

Sophistry and Political Philosophy

Author : Robert C. Bartlett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639431X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Sophistry and Political Philosophy written by Robert C. Bartlett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon “truths.” As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born with ancient sophistry. If we seek to understand the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary radical relativism, we must therefore look first to the sophists of antiquity—the most famous and challenging of whom is Protagoras. With Sophistry and Political Philosophy, Robert C. Bartlett provides the first close reading of Plato’s two-part presentation of Protagoras. In the “Protagoras,” Plato sets out the sophist’s moral and political teachings, while the “Theaetetus,” offers a distillation of his theoretical and epistemological arguments. Taken together, the two dialogues demonstrate that Protagoras is attracted to one aspect of conventional morality—the nobility of courage, which in turn is connected to piety. This insight leads Bartlett to a consideration of the similarities and differences in the relationship of political philosophy and sophistry to pious faith. Bartlett’s superb exegesis offers a significant tool for understanding the history of philosophy, but, in tracing Socrates’s response to Protagoras’ teachings, Bartlett also builds toward a richer understanding of both ancient sophistry and what Socrates meant by “political philosophy.”

Philosophy and Vulnerability

Author : Matthew R. McLennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350004138
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Vulnerability written by Matthew R. McLennan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary “nonphilosophers” to make its argument: French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a militant philosophical universalism in the future.

Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy

Author : Justin Clemens
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748678964
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy written by Justin Clemens and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Clemens examines psychoanalysis under the rubric of 'antiphilosophy': a practice that offers the strongest possible challenges to thought. Drawing on the work of Badiou, Freud, Lacan, Zizek and Agamben, he examines the relationships of humans to dr

Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy

Author : Jan Völker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350069957
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy written by Jan Völker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oeuvre of Alain Badiou has gained international success and recognition, but most of the secondary literature focuses on internal problems of Badiou's philosophy, rather than its position within a broader philosophical genealogy. This book unites philosophers from Germany, Slovenia, the UK, Australia and France, to trace the relation between elements of Badiou's philosophy and the German philosophical tradition, namely the three significant movements of German Idealism, Phenomenology, Marxism and the Frankfurt School. This is a discussion that has not yet been established, although the parallels and decisive differences between poststructuralist French philosophy and German philosophy are apparent. Through these paradigms – Badiou's reception of German Idealism, Marxism, Adorno and the Critical Theory, and Heideggerian phenomenology – the authors shed light onto Badiou's inheritance of and engagement with these specific traditions, but also highlight the links between these philosophies to open up new questions for contemporary continental thought. With an original chapter from Alain Badiou himself, looking back at his influences and antagonisms within the German tradition, this book is essential for readers interested in the exploration of Badiou's legacy. It illustrates the continuation of poststructuralist philosophy, Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, assessing the place of classic continental philosophy to tackle how we might benefit from these intellectual exchanges today.

Demarcation and Demystification

Author : J. Moufawad-Paul
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789042275
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Demarcation and Demystification written by J. Moufawad-Paul and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marx once declared that philosophers have only interpreted the world, but the point is to change it. Demarcation and Demystification examines the ways in which a radical practice of philosophy is possible under the aegis of Marx's 11th thesis, arguing that philosophy's radicality is discovered by understanding that it can only ever interpret the world; that social transformation lies beyond the sphere of its operations. 'Demarcation and Demystification is a major statement on the gulf between what philosophers actually do, and what they think they do.' Matthew R. McLennan, author of Philosophy and Vulnerability

Badiou Dictionary

Author : Steven Corcoran
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748669655
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Badiou Dictionary written by Steven Corcoran and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, the 110 entries in this dictionary provide detailed explanations and engagements with Badious's key concepts and major interlocutors.

Philosophy for Militants

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688699
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy for Militants written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent and provocative account of the modern ‘militant’, a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badiou’s contention that the politics of such militants should condition the tasks of philosophy, even as philosophy clarifies the truth of our political condition. To resolve the conflicts between politics, philosophy and democracy, Badiou argues for a resurgent communism – returning to the original call for universal emancipation and organizing for militant struggle.

Lyotard and Greek Thought

Author : K. Crome
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230006027
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Lyotard and Greek Thought written by K. Crome and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original study, Keith Crome argues for the importance of Lyotard's analyzes of sophistry. In the first section, the author examines the accounts of sophistry given in the works of Plato, Hegel and Heidegger. Sensitive to the important differences between them Keith Crome nevertheless establishes their fundamental identity. In the second section, the book shows the radicality of Lyotard's analyzes in contrast to such traditional views. It examines Lyotard's complex and original readings of sophistical arguments, and offers a new interpretation of The Differend .

Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy

Author : Nadir Lahiji
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474228534
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy written by Nadir Lahiji and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture. Focusing particularly on the philosophical notion of the Baroque in Gilles Deleuze, this study examines traditional interpretations of the concept in contemporary architecture theory, throwing up specific problems such as the aestheticization of building theory and practice. Identifying these and other issues, Nadir Lahiji constructs a concept of the baroque in contrast to the contemporary understanding in architecture discourse. Challenging the contemporary dominance of the Neo-Baroque as a phenomenon related to postmodernism and late capitalism, he establishes the Baroque as a name for the paradoxical unity of 'kitsch' and 'high' art and argues that the digital turn has enhanced the return of the Baroque in contemporary culture and architectural practice that he brands a pseudo-event in the term 'neobaroque'. Lahiji's original critique expands on the misadventure of architecture with French Philosophy and explains why the category of the Baroque, if it is still useful to keep in architecture criticism, must be tied to the notion of Post-Rationalism. Within this latter notion, he draws on the work of Alain Badiou to theorize a new concept of the Baroque as Event. Alongside close readings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault related to the criticism of the Baroque and Modernity and discussions of the work of Frank Gehry, in particular, this study draws on Jacque Lacan's concept of the baroque and presents the first comprehensive treatment of the psychoanalytical theory of the Baroque in the work of Lacan.

Postmodern Sophistry

Author : Gary A. Olson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484475
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Sophistry written by Gary A. Olson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen prominent scholars from a range of academic disciplines—legal studies, critical legal studies, political science, Jewish studies, rhetoric, and literary studies—explore various aspects of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish's work. They examine Fish's understanding of how interpretation functions, the various philosophical issues that Fish has addressed or failed to address in his work, and the political consequences of Fish's thought. Stanley Fish responds to the ideas put forth in this book in a detailed Afterword.

SOPHIST

Author : Plato
Publisher : YouHui Culture Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SOPHIST written by Plato and published by YouHui Culture Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sophist is one of the late Dialogues of Plato. This dialogue takes place a day after Plato's Theaetetus, and aims at defining the Sophist. The participants are Socrates, who plays a minor role, the highly promising young student Theaetetus, and a Visitor from Elea, who plays the major role in the conversation.

The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers

Author : J. O. Urmson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415078830
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers written by J. O. Urmson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised third edition of this Concise Encyclopedia brings it completely up-to-date. Featuring lively and engaging entries by some of the leading philosophers of our age, it is a readable reference work and engaging introduction.

Socratic Philosophy and Its Others

Author : Denise Schaeffer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739181416
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Socratic Philosophy and Its Others written by Denise Schaeffer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overall aim of the volume is to explore the relation of Socratic philosophizing, as Plato represents it, to those activities to which it is typically opposed. The essays address a range of figures who appear in the dialogues as distinct “others” against whom Socrates is contrasted—most obviously, the figure of the sophist, but also the tragic hero, the rhetorician, the tyrant, and the poet. Each of the individual essays shows, in a different way, that the harder one tries to disentangle Socrates’ own activity from that of its apparent opposite, the more entangled they become. Yet, it is only by taking this entanglement seriously, and exploring it fully, that the distinctive character of Socratic philosophy emerges. As a whole, the collection sheds new light on the artful ways in which Plato not only represents philosophy in relation to what it is not, but also makes it “strange” to itself. It shows how concerns that seem to be raised about the activity of philosophical questioning (from the point of view of the political community, for example) can be seen, upon closer examination, to emerge from within that very enterprise. Each of the essays then goes on to consider how Socratic philosophizing can be defined, and its virtues defended, against an attack that comes as much from within as from without. The volume includes chapters by distinguished contributors such as Catherine Zuckert, Ronna Burger, Michael Davis, Jacob Howland, and others, the majority of which were written especially for this volume. Together, they address an important theme in Plato’s dialogues that is touched upon in the literature but has never been the subject of a book-length study that traces its development across a wide range of dialogues. One virtue of the collection is that it brings together a number of prominent scholars from both political science and philosophy whose work intersects in important and revealing ways. A related virtue is that it treats more familiar dialogues (Republic, Sophist, Apology, Phaedrus) alongside some works that are less well known (Theages, Major Hippias, Minor Hippias, Charmides, and Lovers). While the volume is specialized in its topic and approach, the overarching question—about the potentially troubling implications of Socratic philosophy, and the Platonic response—should be of interest to a broad range of scholars in philosophy, political science, and classics.

Philosophy of Antifascism

Author : Devin Zane Shaw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786615592
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Antifascism written by Devin Zane Shaw and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 20th, 2017, during an interview on the streets of Washington D.C., white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched by an anonymous antifascist. The moment was caught on video and quickly went viral, and soon “punching Nazis” was a topic of heated public debate. How might this kind of militant action be conceived of, or justified, philosophically? Can we find a deep commitment to antifascism in the history of philosophy? Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, this book identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists. In addition, using the work of Jacques Rancière, it argues that the alt-right and the far right aren’t a kind of politics at all, but rather forms of parapolitical and paramilitary mobilization aimed at re-entrenching the power of the state and capital. Devin Shaw argues that in order to resist fascist mobilization, contemporary movements find a diversity of tactics more useful than principled nonviolence. Antifascism must focus on the systemic causes of the re-emergence of fascism, and thus must fight capital accumulation and the underlying white supremacism. Providing new, incisive interpretations of Beauvoir, existentialism, and Rancière, he makes the case for organizing a broader militant movement against fascism.