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Radical Passivity

Author : Benda Hofmeyr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402093470
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Radical Passivity written by Benda Hofmeyr and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocities that occurred during the Second World War. The Holocaust , like the Cambodian genocide, or those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, exemplifies what have come to be known as the ‘never again’ situations. After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. And yet, atrocity crimes are still rampant. After Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995), came Kosovo (1999) and Darfur (2003). In our present-day world , hate crimes motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, and mass hate such as genocide and terror, are on the rise (think, for example, of Burma, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and North Korea). A critical revaluation of the conditions of possibility of ethical agency is therefore more necessary than ever. This volume is committed to the possibility of ‘never again’. It is dedicated to all the victims – living and dead – of what Levinas calls the ‘sober, Cain-like coldness’ at the root of all crime against humanity , as much as every singular crime against another human being .

Radical Passivity

Author : Thomas Carl Wall
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791440476
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Radical Passivity written by Thomas Carl Wall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben.

Radical Passivity

Author : Thomas Carl Wall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143842308X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Radical Passivity written by Thomas Carl Wall and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics, or Agamben's community must begin with an understanding of a "logic" of passivity that in fact originates (in the modern era at least) in Kant's analysis of the transcendental schema.

Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence

Author : Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144264284X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence by : Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani

Download or read book Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence written by Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani provides the first examination of the applicability of Emmanuel Levinas' work to social and political movements.

Museum Making

Author : Suzanne Macleod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136445749
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Museum Making written by Suzanne Macleod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums. Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on the deepest levels with human perception and imagination. Through this uniting theme, the chapters explore the power of narratives as structured experiences unfolding in space and time as well as the use of theatre, film and other technologies of storytelling by contemporary museum makers to generate meaningful and, it is argued here, highly effective and affective museum spaces. Contributions by an internationally diverse group of museum and heritage professionals, exhibition designers, architects and artists with academics from a range of disciplines including museum studies, theatre studies, architecture, design and history cut across traditional boundaries including the historical and the contemporary and together explore the various roles and functions of narrative as a mechanism for the creation of engaging and meaningful interpretive environments.

The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology

Author : Victor Biceaga
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048139155
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology written by Victor Biceaga and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon Husserl’s challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness. The book outlines the contribution of passivity to the constitution of phenomena as diverse as temporal syntheses, perceptual associations, memory fulfillment and cross-cultural communication. The detailed study of the phenomena of affection, forgetting, habitus and translation sets out a distinction between three meanings of passivity: receptivity, sedimentation or inactuality and alienation. Husserl’s texts are interpreted as defending the idea that cultural crises are not brought to a close by replacing passivity with activity but by having more of both.

Confronting Religious Violence

Author : Catherine M. Wallace
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 149822881X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Confronting Religious Violence written by Catherine M. Wallace and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination tells the tale of Christian theocracy in the West. Who converted whom was never entirely clear: the empire did stop feeding people to the lions for public entertainment; but Christianity was theologically corrupted by its official role in legitimating empire-as-usual. That theological corruption led to crusades, inquisitions, torture, and so forth. And it leaves us with a major question: is God violent? More dangerously yet: is violence our only option in response to wrongdoing? Are we morally obligated to injure those who have injured others, to kill those who have killed others? If theocracy is a terrible idea, what is the proper relationship between church and state? We can't say that the state is never morally accountable at all. Furthermore: despite constitutional separation of church and state, hard-right Christian fundamentalism continues to play a culturally significant role in advocating military action abroad and supporting state violence at home. There is a lot at stake in reclaiming the systematic nonviolence and moral imagination of Jesus of Nazareth. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

Concrete Human Psychology

Author : Wolff-Michael Roth
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 131739593X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Concrete Human Psychology written by Wolff-Michael Roth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a goal that he expresses in a small, unfinished text of the same name. This book articulates the foundation of and develops such a concrete human psychology according to which all higher psychological functions are relations between persons before being functions, and according to which personality is the ensemble of societal relations with others that a person has lived and experienced. Correlated with concern for the concreteness of human life and the psychology that theorizes it is the idea that to live means to change. However, none of the categories we currently have in psychology are categories of change as such. In this work of concrete human psychology, categories are developed on the basis of Vygotsky’s work that are suitable to theorize an ever-changing life, including the language humans use to take control over their conditions and to talk about the conditions in which they live.

The Paradox of Power and Weakness

Author : George Kunz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791438893
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Power and Weakness written by George Kunz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an alternative paradigm for psychology, one that reflects Levinas's criticism of a self-centered notion of identity. Reveals the secret of an "authentic" altruism through a phenomenology of both power and weakness, and of the paradoxes of the weakness of power and the power of weakness.

Michel Henry

Author : Jeffrey Hanson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441145230
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Michel Henry written by Jeffrey Hanson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Michel Henry's important contributions to phenomenology, theology, politics and aesthetics, featuring contributions from an international list of scholars.

Passive Constitutions or 7 1/2 Times Bartleby

Author : Branka Arsi?
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753937
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Passive Constitutions or 7 1/2 Times Bartleby written by Branka Arsi? and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analysis of Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener," this book analyzes major questions in Melville's literature as well as philosophical, theological, political, juridical, psychiatric, and literary discourses of his age and the America in which he lived.

Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative

Author : W. David Hall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079147982X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative written by W. David Hall and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Ricoeur’s writings on love and justice, prominent toward the end of his life, and how these serve as an interpretive key to his thought as a whole.

The Birth of Sense

Author : Don Beith
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446266
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Sense written by Don Beith and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Birth of Sense, Don Beith proposes a new concept of generative passivity, the idea that our organic, psychological, and social activities take time to develop into sense. More than being a limit, passivity marks out the way in which organisms, persons, and interbodily systems take time in order to manifest a coherent sense. Beith situates his argument within contemporary debates about evolution, developmental biology, scientific causal explanations, psychology, postmodernism, social constructivism, and critical race theory. Drawing on empirical studies and phenomenological reflections, Beith argues that in nature, novel meaning emerges prior to any type of constituting activity or deterministic plan. The Birth of Sense is an original phenomenological investigation in the style of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and it demonstrates that the French philosopher’s works cohere around the notion that life is radically expressive. While Merleau-Ponty’s early works are widely interpreted as arguing for the primacy of human consciousness, Beith argues that a pivotal redefinition of passivity is already under way here, and extends throughout Merleau-Ponty’s corpus. This work introduces new concepts in contemporary philosophy to interrogate how organic development involves spontaneous expression, how personhood emerges from this bodily growth, and how our interpersonal human life remains rooted in, and often thwarted by, domains of bodily expressivity.

Ethics at a Standstill

Author : Asher Horowitz
Publisher : Duquesne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics at a Standstill written by Asher Horowitz and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2008 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totality, ethics, and history -- On the concept of natural history -- The dialectic of natural history -- Negative dialectics and ethics -- The preponderance of the ethical -- The sense of hope.

Figures of Simplicity

Author : Birgit M. Kaiser
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438432313
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Figures of Simplicity written by Birgit M. Kaiser and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature—Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, G. W. Leibniz, and Alexander Baumgarten—in an attempt to recover alternative conceptions of aesthetics and dimensions of thinking lost in the disciplinary narration of aesthetics after Kant. This is done primarily by tracing a variety of "simpletons" that populate the writings of Kleist and Melville. These figures are not entirely ignorant, or stupid, but simple. Their simplicity is a way of thinking; one that author Birgit Mara Kaiser here suggests is affective thinking. Kaiser avers that Kleist and Melville are experimenting in their texts with an affective mode of thinking, and thereby continue, she argues, a key line within eighteenth-century aesthetics: the relation of rationality and sensibility. Through her analyses, she offers an outline of what thinking can look like if we take affectivity into account.

Agamben and Theology

Author : Colby Dickinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567578151
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Agamben and Theology written by Colby Dickinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a view of the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben in relation to his own most basic theological premises and the discipline of theology.

British Fiction of the 1990s

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113429249X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book British Fiction of the 1990s written by Nick Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s proved to be a particularly rich and fascinating period for British fiction. This book presents a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared over the decade, bringing together leading academics in the field. British Fiction of the 1990s: traces the concerns that emerged as central to 1990s fiction, in sections on millennial anxieties, identity politics, the relationship between the contemporary and the historical, and representations of contemporary space offers distinctive new readings of the most important novelists of the period, including Martin Amis, Beryl Bainbridge, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Iain Sinclair, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson shows how British fiction engages with major cultural debates of the time, such as the concern with representing various identities and cultural groups, or theories of ‘the end of history’ discusses 1990s fiction in relation to broader literary and critical theories, including postmodernism, post-feminism and postcolonialism. Together the essays highlight the ways in which the writing of the 1990s represents a development of the themes and styles of the post-war novel generally, yet displays a range of characteristics distinct to the decade.