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The Impossibility of Self

Author : Nicholas Tapp
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643102585
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Impossibility of Self written by Nicholas Tapp and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work of ethnographic reflection on Hmong society, history and culture, dealing with questions of the self and the notion that a romantic self inspired the ethos of hedonism associated with the consumer economy. A Hmong identity is shown to have been historically constructed through the works of colonial missionaries, linguists, and anthropologists. Yet Hmong voices have also been powerful in this process. Based on recent fieldwork in Asia and overseas, the Hmong diaspora is examined. The modern Hmong self is presented as a prospective one, constructed in diaspora and through the use of the internet and other modes of modern communication in a movement towards a virtual future which, despite the dissonance of voices appealing to an ideal unity, is one still rich with potentiality.

Aphesis

Author : Treydon Lunot
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Aphesis written by Treydon Lunot and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first major work of philosophy, Treydon Lunot tackles the problem of subjectivity, closely examining the various paradoxical features, necessities, and contradictions that lie at the heart of self-consciousness. In opposition to modern and postmodern attempts to do away with the subject through the embrace of impersonal chaos and multiplicity, Lunot follows in the steps of German Idealism and its modern successors (such as Slavoj Zizek and Dieter Henrich) by asserting its centrality as the 'self-relating negative' that is radically closed off from the world. Touching on topics such as time-consciousness, the death of God, Nietzscheanism, and Christianity, Lunot journeys through various thinkers and ideas with the expressed goal of shedding light on the nature of subjectivity. After discovering that the subject is internally inconsistent, closed off from itself and the world, and that 'no one gets to heaven, ' Lunot finally poses the question: is it possible to attain salvation?

Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy

Author : Anais Spitzer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441100202
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy written by Anais Spitzer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy, Aesthetics And Cultural Theory Is An Interdisciplinary Series In Continental Philosophy, Cultural Theory, And The Arts, Edited By Hugh J. Silverman, Stony Brook University, New York, USA `[This] is a compelling study of the intimate, complex, and often unexpected aspects of the relationship between philosophy and myth ... This is an eloquent, forceful, and altogether timely contribution in a world in which new myths purport to be unquestionable, while philosophy bides its time in self-absorbed conceptual retreat. Its publication marks a new step in deconstructive thinking, after which deconstruction will never again be the same.' `This book is a gift precisely in the Derridean sense described within it. Its gift is that it is a tour de force. The book leads its reader on a profound and clear, even if complex, exploratory voyage into and out of the maze of Jacques Derrida's web of deconstructive thought. While making this trip, the book weaves a radical argument against the notion that philosophical logic transcends mythic qualities of understanding. It shows compellingly that philosophy's knowledge of truth is inescapably embedded in myth.' Bombarded by narratives that terrorize and repress, we may often consider myth to be constrictive dogma or, at best, something to be readily disregarded as unphilosophical and irrelevant. However, such dismissals miss a crucial aspect of myth. Harnessing the insights of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction and Mark C. Taylor's philosophical reading of complexity theory, Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy provocatively reframes the pivotal relation of myth to thinking and to philosophy, demonstrating that myth's inherent ambiguity engenders vital and inescapable deconstructive propensities. Exploring myth's disruptive presence, Spitzer shows that philosophy cannot separate itself from myth. Instead, myth is an inevitable condition of the possibility of philosophy.

Self

Author : Richard Sorabji
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226768309
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Self written by Richard Sorabji and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on classical antiquity and Western and Eastern philosophy, Richard Sorabji tackles in Self the question of whether there is such a thing as the individual self or only a stream of consciousness. According to Sorabji, the self is not an undetectable soul or ego, but an embodied individual whose existence is plain to see. Unlike a mere stream of consciousness, it is something that owns not only a consciousness but also a body. Sorabji traces historically the retreat from a positive idea of self and draws out the implications of these ideas of self on the concepts of life and death, asking: Should we fear death? How should our individuality affect the way we live? Through an astute reading of a huge array of traditions, he helps us come to terms with our uneasiness about the subject of self in an account that will be at the forefront of philosophical debates for years to come. “There has never been a book remotely like this one in its profusion of ancient references on ideas about human identity and selfhood . . . . Readers unfamiliar with the subject also need to know that Sorabji breaks new ground in giving special attention to philosophers such as Epictetus and other Stoics, Plotinus and later Neoplatonists, and the ancient commentators on Aristotle (on the last of whom he is the world's leading authority).”—Anthony A. Long, Times Literary Supplement

Impossibility

Author : John D. Barrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195130820
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Impossibility written by John D. Barrow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomer John Barrow takes an intriguing look at the limits of science, who argues that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable.

The Impossibility of Motherhood

Author : Patrice DiQuinzio
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415910231
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Impossibility of Motherhood written by Patrice DiQuinzio and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adequate analysis of experiences and situations specific to women, especially mothering, requires consideration of women's difference. A focus on women's difference, however, jeopardizes feminism's claims of women's equal individualist subjectivity, and risks recuperating the inequality and oppression of women, especially the view that all women should be mothers, want to be mothers, and are most happy being mothers. This book considers how thinkers including de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Chodorow and Rich struggle to negotiate this dilemma of difference in analyzing mothering, encompassing the paradoxes concerning embodiment, gender and representation they encounter. Patrice DiQuinzio shows that mothering has been and will continue to be an intractable problem for feminist theory, and argues for a reconceptualization of feminist theory itself, and suggests the political usefulness of an explicitly paradoxical politics of mothering.

The Case of Peter Pan, Or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction

Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812214352
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Case of Peter Pan, Or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction written by Jacqueline Rose and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.

The Impossibility of Transubstantiation: Containing an Answer to the Rev. Richard Hayes's Sermon on “The Possibility of Transubstantiation from Reason”

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Author : Nicholas John HALPIN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Impossibility of Transubstantiation: Containing an Answer to the Rev. Richard Hayes's Sermon on “The Possibility of Transubstantiation from Reason” written by Nicholas John HALPIN and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Impossibility of Perfection

Author : Michael Slote
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199790825
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Impossibility of Perfection written by Michael Slote and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book utilizes feminist thought and other philosophical considerations to argue in a unique way for an ethical picture of human life that stands in marked contrast with traditional understandings. Slote here revives Isaiah Berlin's bold views on the impossibility of perfection in ways that no one has previously attempted. The Appendix describes a new kind of philosophical/ethical methodology that combines and balances (traditionally) "feminine" and "masculine" elements.

The Impossibility of Silence

Author : Ian Lynam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789493148390
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book The Impossibility of Silence written by Ian Lynam and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Impossibility of Silence' is a book for artists, designers and photographers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer, artist and teacher, Ian Lynam offers up a plethora of inspirational and concrete approaches to writing about creative fields.

Impossibility Fiction

Author : Littlewood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004656499
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Impossibility Fiction written by Littlewood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossibility fiction is an 'intergenre' that has recently been the resort of many writers searching for new ways of understanding and expressing the real world of the imagination, making use of fantasy, alternative history and science fiction. Coping with ideas that are both impossible and realistically constructed is the ultimate contemporary challenge of our technology. The chapters of this book move towards establishing appropriate readings that allow contemporary readers to negotiate unreality, a skill that the end of the millennium is making inevitably necessary. Such strategies have long been the preserve of literary and cultural study, and here a number of well-regarded scholars and some new to the field make their contribution to an area that has become increasingly important in recent years. From Mary Shelley to Philip K. Dick, Iain M. Banks to J.G. Ballard, taking in African-American science fiction, Jurassic Park, and Kurt Vonnegut, and exploring issues of alternative history and ideology, feminism, the holocaust, characterisation, and impossible geography, this collection is an important source-book for all those interested in the literature, culture and philosophy of realistic impossible worlds.

Mind

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Mind written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarterly review of philosophy.

Melodrama

Author : Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374048
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Melodrama written by Jonathan Goldberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the "impossible situation" in melodrama, such as impasses in sexual relations that are not simply reflections of social taboo and prohibitions, Goldberg pursues films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes that respond to Sirk's prompt. His analysis hones in on melodrama's original definition--a form combining music and drama--as he explores the use of melodrama in Beethoven's opera Fidelio, films by Alfred Hitchcock, and fiction by Willa Cather and Patricia Highsmith, including her Ripley novels. Goldberg illuminates how music and sound provide queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories meant to regulate social life. The interaction of musical, dramatic, and visual elements gives melodrama its indeterminacy, making it resistant to normative forms of value and a powerful tool for creating new potentials.

Weaponized Architecture

Author : Léopold Lambert
Publisher : dpr-barcelona
ISBN 13 : 8461537025
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Weaponized Architecture written by Léopold Lambert and published by dpr-barcelona. This book was released on 2012 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research informs the development of a project which, rather than defusing these characteristics, attempts to integrate them within the scene of a political struggle. The proposed project dramatizes, through its architecture, a Palestinian disobedience to the colonial legislation imposed on its legal territory. In fact, the State of Israel masters the elaboration of territorial and architectural colonial apparatuses that act directly on Palestinian daily lives. In this regard, it is crucial to observe that 63% of the West Bank is under total control of the Israeli Defense Forces in regards to security, movement, planning and construction. Weaponized Architecture is thus manifested as a Palestinian shelter, with an associated agricultural platform, which expresses its illegality through its architectural vocabulary.

Ethics of Deconstruction

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748689346
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Ethics of Deconstruction written by Simon Critchley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work, this new edition contains three new appendixes and a new preface where Critchley reflects upon the origins, motivation and reception of 'The Ethics of Deconstruction'.

The Designed Self

Author : Carlo Strenger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134912730
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Designed Self written by Carlo Strenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation. The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self. Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly reinforced by the media, came to encompass everything from career choice, to hair color, to body shape, to gender identity. In compelling clinical stories, Strenger introduces us to patients for whom the project of shaping the self had become a cultural imperative no less than an expression of individuality. At once insightful and cautionary, The Designed Self investigates how psychoanalysis must change if it is to claim cultural relevance and therapeutic effectiveness in The Age of the Designed Self.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism

Author : Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350227455
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism written by Jack Reynolds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science, and poststructuralism. Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and technology, whilst the 5th new chapter new chapter outlines analytic philosophy's complicated relationship to existentialism. Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition, this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon, alongside Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, as well as new engagement with the work of scholars on race and existentialism, including Lewis R. Gordon, George Yancy, and Richard Wright. The resources section at the end of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary, and timeline of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, as well as a list of relevant organisations, and an annotated guide to further reading, making this 2nd edition an invaluable text for scholars and students alike.