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Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity

Author : Matthew H. Bowker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317975103
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity written by Matthew H. Bowker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to describe something or someone as absurd? Why did absurd philosophy and literature become so popular amidst the violent conflicts and terrors of the mid- to late-twentieth century? Is it possible to understand absurdity not as a feature of events, but as a psychological posture or stance? If so, what are the objectives, dynamics, and repercussions of the absurd stance? And in what ways has the absurd stance continued to shape postmodern thought and contemporary culture? In Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. In the last century, he argues, fears about subjects’ destructive desires have combined with fears about rationality in a way that has made the absurd stance seem attractive. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Weaving together analyses of the work of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas, and others with interview data and popular narratives of apocalypse and survival, Bowker shows that the absurd stance and the postmodern revolt invite a kind of bargain, in which meaning is sacrificed in exchange for the survival of innocence. Bowker asks us to consider that the very premise of this bargain is false: that ethical subjects and healthy communities cannot be created in absurdity. Instead, we must make meaningful even the most shocking losses, terrors, and destructive powers with which we live. Bowker's book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies.

Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd

Author : Matthew H. Bowker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739181362
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd written by Matthew H. Bowker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity, Matthew H. Bowker takes an interdisciplinary approach to Albert Camus' political philosophy by reading absurdity itself as a metaphor for the psychosocial dynamics of ambivalence, resistance, integration, and creativity. Decoupling absurdity from its ontological aspirations and focusing instead on its psychological and phenomenal contours, Bowker discovers an absurdist foundation for ethical and political practice.

Unity in the Book of Isaiah

Author : Benedetta Rossi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567705943
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Unity in the Book of Isaiah written by Benedetta Rossi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on previous holistic readings of the Book of Isaiah, this collection approaches Isaiah through the concept of unity. Contributors outline research that point to new directions in the unity movement and, in the process, bring it under a critical gaze, considering the perennial challenges to unity reading and thus problematizing the very concept of unity. Divided into four parts, the book provides methodological reflections on reading Isaiah as a unity, and examines historical and redactional readings, literary readings and contextual or reader-orientated readings. Topics include how the figure of Jacob functions as a unifying motif in the final form of the book, Isaiah 1 as an example of the relevance of local structure for global coherence and how woman as a root metaphor of Zion not only bears revelatory significance but also serves as a theological linchpin for a more holistic reading of the book. Overall, the book highlights the continued promise of holistic readings for diverse methods and varied approaches to the Book of Isaiah.

D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory

Author : Matthew H. Bowker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137575336
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory written by Matthew H. Bowker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott is set in conversation with some of today’s most talented psychodynamically-sensitive political thinkers. The editors and contributors demonstrate that Winnicott’s thought contains underappreciated political insights, discoverable in his reflections on the nature of the maturational process, and useful in working through difficult impasses confronting contemporary political theorists. Specifically, Winnicott’s psychoanalytic theory and practice offer a framework by which the political subject, destabilized and disrupted in much postmodern and contemporary thinking, may be recentered. Each chapter in this volume, in its own way, grapples with this central theme: the potential for authentic subjectivity and inter-subjectivity to arise within a nexus of autonomy and dependence, aggression and civility, destructiveness and care. This volume is unique in its contribution to the growing field of object-relations-oriented political and social theory. It will be of interest to political scientists, psychologists, and scholars of related subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

The Politics of Economic Life

Author : Martin Beckstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317426258
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Economic Life written by Martin Beckstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, economic life has become increasingly politicized: now, every company has a ‘philosophy’, promising its customers some ethical surplus in return for buying their products; consumers shop for change; workers engage in individualized forms of employee activism such as whistleblowing; and governments contribute to the re-configuration of the economic sphere as a site of political contestation by reminding corporate and private economic actors of their duty to ‘do their bit’. The Politics of Economic Life addresses this trend by exploring the ways in which practices of consumption, work, production, and entrepreneurship are imbued with political strategy and ideology, and assesses the potentials and perils of the politicization of economic activity for democracy in the 21st century.

Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory

Author : Eric Lee Goodfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317665236
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory written by Eric Lee Goodfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over one hundred and fifty years G.W.F. Hegel’s ghost has haunted theoretical understanding and practice. His opponents first, and later his defenders, have equally defined their programs against and with his. In this way Hegel’s political thought has both situated and displaced modern political theorizing. This book takes the reception of Hegel’s political thought as a lens through which contemporary methodological and ideological prerogatives are exposed. It traces the nineteenth century origins of the positivist revolt against Hegel’s legacy forward to political science’s turn away from philosophical tradition in the twentieth century. The book critically reviews the subsequent revisionist trend that has eliminated his metaphysics from contemporary considerations of his political thought. It then moves to re-evaluate their relation and defend their inseparability in his major work on politics: the Philosophy of Right. Against this background, the book concludes with an argument for the inherent metaphysical dimension of political theorizing itself. Goodfield takes Hegel’s reception, representation, as well as rejection in Anglo-American scholarship as a mirror in which its metaphysical presuppositions of the political are exceptionally well reflected. It is through such reflection, he argues, that we may begin to come to terms with them. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and readers of political theory and philosophy, Hegel, metaphysics and the philosophy of the social sciences.

The Temporality of Political Obligation

Author : Justin Chandler Mueller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131742641X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Temporality of Political Obligation written by Justin Chandler Mueller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Temporality of Political Obligation offers a critique and reconceptualization of the ways in which our political obligations – what we owe to political authorities and communities, and the reasons why we ought to obey their rules – have been traditionally conceptualized, justified, and contested. Drawing from theories of time and temporality, Justin Mueller demonstrates some of the unacknowledged assumptions and theoretical blind spots shared among these ostensibly opposed positions, and the problems and contradictions that this neglect of time poses. Enriching the literature on the philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, Mueller demonstrates how their theoretical frameworks on time can be used to analyze a political problem that is usually confined to the concerns of normative liberal democratic theory. Politically, this book provides readers with the means to better identify and analyze the diverse temporalities they encounter in everyday life, and better understand their experiences of them. A welcomed and timely read which will be of interest to scholars involved in recent efforts to engage with the social and political dimensions and consequences of time and temporality.

Political Philosophy, Empathy and Political Justice

Author : Matt Edge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317701860
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Political Philosophy, Empathy and Political Justice written by Matt Edge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Matt Edge offers an innovative approach to political philosophy. He invites the reader to consider the question of political justice from an empathic perspective - if you were asked to construct a theory of justice acceptable to members of a community you were not yourself a part of, how would you succeed in making your proposal acceptable? What tools would you rely on to construct such a theory, and why? Equally, what would make anyone qualified to write such a theory? Using empathy, this remarkable, natural, tool human beings possess for making moral and ethical decisions, and, thereby, placing yourself as someone on the receiving end of the very theory of justice you yourself are constructing, what would you come up with? What set of alterable human structures and systems would you deem acceptable, were you to find yourself in the position of a citizen living under such structures? Political Philosophy, Empathy and Political Justice offers a unique and compelling account of the type of free system required to pass an empathic examination at the heart of these, and related, questions, matters which define all human eras, in the constant search for political and social justice on our diverse planet.

Rethinking Political Judgement

Author : MaA!a Mrovlje
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474437168
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Political Judgement written by MaA!a Mrovlje and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left

Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference

Author : Brian C. Lovato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317363264
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference by : Brian C. Lovato

Download or read book Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference written by Brian C. Lovato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of our social relations. Despite critiques from post-structuralists, post-colonialists, and others, there has been a resurgence of dialectical thought among political theorists as of late. This resurgence has coincided with a rise in the mention of words like class warfare, socialism, and communism among the general public on the streets of Seattle in 1999, in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, in the actions of the Greek anarchists and the Spanish indignados, and in the rallying cry of "we are the 99%" of the Occupy Movement, and in academia. This book explores how it is that dialectical thought might respond to the critiques brought forth by those on the left who are critical of Marxism’s universalizing and authoritarian legacy. Brian C. Lovato singles out Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe as the key interlocutors in this ongoing conversation between Marxism and post-structuralism. Laclau and Mouffe argue that Marxist theory is inherently authoritarian, cannot escape a class-reductionist theory of revolutionary subjectivity, and is bound by a closed Hegelian ontology. Lovato argues the opposite by turning to two heterodox Marxist thinkers, Raya Dunayevskaya and C. L. R. James, in order to construct a radically democratic, dynamic, and open conceptualization of dialectical thought. In doing so, he advances a vision of Marxist theory that might serve as a resource to scholars and activists committed not only to combatting capitalism, but also to fighting against colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and heteronormativity. The writings of Dunayevskaya and James allow for Marxism to become relevant again in these tumultuous early years of the 21st century.

Equality Renewed

Author : Christine Sypnowich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315458322
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Equality Renewed written by Christine Sypnowich and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of equality centred on human flourishing or wellbeing. She argues that egalitarianism should be understood as seeking to make people more equal in the constituents of a good life. Inequality is a social ill because of the damage it does to human flourishing: unequal distribution of wealth can have the effect that some people are poorly housed, badly nourished, ill-educated, unhappy or uncultured, among other things. When we seek to make people more equal our concern is not just resources or property, but how people fare under one distribution or another. Ultimately, the best answer to the question, ‘equality of what?,’ is some conception of flourishing, since whatever policies or principles we adopt, it is flourishing that we hope will be more equal as a result of our endeavours. Sypnowich calls for both retrieval and innovation. What is to be retrieved is the ideal of equality itself, which is often assumed as a background condition of theories of justice, yet at the same time, dismissed as too homogenising, abstract and rigid a criterion for political argument. We must retrieve the ideal of equality as a central political principle. In doing so, she casts doubt on the value of focussing on cultural difference, and rejects the idea of neutrality that dominates contemporary political philosophy in favour of a view of the state as enabling the betterment of its citizens.

Epistemic Liberalism

Author : Adam James Tebble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317310330
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Liberalism written by Adam James Tebble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of what has come to be called the ‘cultural turn’, it is often asked how the state should respond to the different and sometimes conflicting justice claims made by its citizens and what, ultimately, is the purpose of justice in culturally diverse societies. Building upon the work of a diversity of theorists, this book demonstrates that there is a distinct ‘epistemic’ tradition of liberalism that can be used to critique contemporary responses to cultural diversity and their underlying principles of justice. It critically examines multicultural, nationalist and liberal egalitarian approaches and argues that an epistemic account of liberalism, that emphasises social complexity rather than cultural diversity or homogeneity, is the most appropriate response to the question of justice in modern culturally diverse societies. Epistemic Liberalism will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary political theory and philosophy, liberal political theory and the politics of culture and identity.

Bridging People and Sound

Author : Mitsuko Aramaki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319677381
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Bridging People and Sound written by Mitsuko Aramaki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference of the 12th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2016, held in São Paulo, Brazil, in July 2016. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. This year’s conference theme “Bridging People and Sound” aimed at encouraging contributions from artists and listeners on the one side and audio and music technology researchers on the other.

The Angels Won't Help You

Author : M. H. Bowker
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1685710506
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Angels Won't Help You written by M. H. Bowker and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating Albert Camus

Author : Brent C. Sleasman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161147888X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Creating Albert Camus written by Brent C. Sleasman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this collection come from disparate fields such as theology, literature studies, political science, and communication studies and are guided by a commitment to consider what we can learn from Camus as opposed to where he was wrong or misguided in his life and writing. If there is a place to consider the shortcomings of a human being, especially one as unique as Albert Camus, it will not be found within this volume. The essays in this text are built around the theme that Albert Camus functions as an implicit philosopher of communication with deep ethical commitments. The title, Creating Albert Camus, is intended to have a double meaning. First are those voices who inspired Camus and helped create his ideas; second are those scholars working with Camus’s thoughts during and after his life who help create his enduring legacy. Bringing together scholars who embrace an appreciation of the philosophy of communication provide an opportunity to further situate the work of Camus within the communication discipline. This new project explores the communicative implications of Camus’s work.

Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Carmen Dominte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559882
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carmen Dominte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.

Brill's Companion to Camus

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004419241
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to Camus written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first English-language collection of essays by leading Camus scholars around the world to focus on Albert Camus’ place and status as a philosopher amongst philosophers, engaging with leading Western thinkers, and considering themes of enduring interest.