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The Lucid Vigil

Author : Stella Gaon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429879032
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Lucid Vigil written by Stella Gaon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella Gaon provides the first fully philosophical account of the critical nature of deconstruction, and she does so by turning in an original way to psychoanalysis. Drawing on close readings of Freud and Laplanche, Gaon argues that Derridean deconstruction is driven by a normative investment in reason’s psychological force. Indeed, deconstruction is more faithful to the principle of reason than the various forms of critical theory prevalent today. For if one pursues the classical demand for rational grounds vigilantly, one finds that claims to ethical or political legitimacy cannot be rationally justified, because they are undone by logical undecidability. Gaon’s argument is borne out in the cases of Kantian deontology, Deweyan pragmatism, progressive pedagogy, Habermasian moral theory, Levinasian ethics and others. What emerges is the groundbreaking demonstration that deconstruction is impelled by a quasi-ethical critical drive, and that to read deconstructively is to radicalize the emancipatory practice of reason as self-critique. This important volume will be of great value to critical theorists as well as to Derrida scholars and researchers in social and political thought.

The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology

Author : Graham Ward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998342
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology written by Graham Ward and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose work will be significant for the theologies written in the new millennium. The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field. Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer's previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context. Discusses the following desciplines: Aesthetics, Ethics, Gender, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Heideggerians, and Derrideans. Edited by Graham Ward, one of the most outstanding and original theologians working in the field today.

Jacques Derrida

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134583907
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Jacques Derrida written by Nicholas Royle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few figures more important in literary and critical theory than Jacques Derrida. Whether lauded or condemned, his writing has had far-reaching ramifications, and his work on deconstruction cannot be ignored. This volume introduces students of literature and cultural studies to Derrida's enormously influential texts, covering such topics as: deconstruction, text and difference; literature and freedom; law, justice and the 'democracy to come'; drugs, secrets and gifts. Nicholas Royle's unique book, written in an innovative and original style, is an outstanding introduction to the methods and significance of Jacques Derrida.

Derrida and Theology

Author : Steven Shakespeare
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056703240X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Derrida and Theology written by Steven Shakespeare and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derrida and Theology is an invaluable guide for those ready to ride the leading wave of contemporary theology. It gives theologians the confidence to explore the major elements of Derrida's work, and its influence on theology, without 'dumbing it down' or ignoring its controversial aspects.

International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics

Author : Edward Swift Dunster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics written by Edward Swift Dunster and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dublin University Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Dublin University Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dublin University Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dublin University Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Property

Author : Elliott Schwebach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040153992
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Property written by Elliott Schwebach and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eye-opening study at the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and political organization and thought, Elliott Schwebach explores why property can be understood to be oppressive and how political theory overlooks its unique significance as a pillar of social violence. Synthesizing insights from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Sigmund Freud, Ives Hendrick, and Frantz Fanon, Schwebach investigates human activity as shaped by the effects of property regimes and traces broader implications for understanding the legacies of colonial domination. He then shifts focus to contemporary eco-theory, challenging the Lockeanism that continues to characterize premodern Indigenous environmental engagements and presenting novel frameworks for understanding healthy ecopolitical activity based upon the trajectories of psychological drives. This unique perspective validates creative expressions of decolonial resistance and offers fruitful alternatives to customary positions in psychoanalytic and environmental political philosophy. The book will be an indispensable resource for scholars of property, Freudian psychology, political ecology, and the visionary thought of Frantz Fanon.

Philosophy and the Turn to Religion

Author : Hent de Vries
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421437406
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Turn to Religion written by Hent de Vries and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1999. If religion once seemed to have played out its role in the intellectual and political history of Western secular modernity, it has now returned with a vengeance. In Philosophy and the Turn to Religion, Hent de Vries argues that a turn to religion discernible in recent philosophy anticipates and accompanies this development in the contemporary world. Though the book reaches back to Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, and earlier, it takes its inspiration from the tradition of French phenomenology, notably Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, and, especially, Jacques Derrida. Tracing how Derrida probes the discourse on religion, its metaphysical presuppositions, and its transformations, de Vries shows how this author consistently foregrounds the unexpected alliances between a radical interrogation of the history of Western philosophy and the religious inheritance from which that philosophy has increasingly sought to set itself apart. De Vries goes beyond formal analogies between the textual practices of deconstruction and so-called negative theology to address the necessity for a philosophical thinking that situates itself at once close to and at the farthest remove from traditional manifestations of the religious and the theological. This paradox is captured in the phrase adieu (à dieu), borrowed from Levinas, which signals at once a turn toward and a leave-taking from God—and which also gestures toward and departs from the other of this divine other, the possibility of radical evil. Only by confronting such uncanny and difficult figures, de Vries claims, can one begin to think and act upon the ethical and political imperatives of our day.

Reclaiming Truth

Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822318729
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Truth written by Christopher Norris and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth, Christopher Norris reminds us, is very much out of fashion at the moment whether at the hands of politicians, media pundits, or purveyors of postmodern wisdom in cultural and literary studies. Across a range of disciplines the idea has taken hold that truth-talk is either redundant or the product of epistemic might. Questions of truth and falsehood are always internal to some specific language-game; history is just another kind of fiction; philosophy is only a kind of writing; law is a wholly rhetorical practice. In Reclaiming Truth, Norris critiques these fashionable trends of thought and mounts a specific challenge to cultural relativist doctrines in epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and political theory. Norris presents his case in a series of closely argued chapters that take issue with the relativist position. He attempts to rehabilitate the value of truth in philosophy of science by restoring a lost distinction between concept and metaphor and argues that theoretical discourse, so far from being an inconsequential activity, has very real consequences, particularly in ethics and politics. This debate has become skewed, he suggests, through the widespread and typically postmodern idea that truth-claims must always go along with a presumptive or authoritarian bid to silence opposing views. On the contrary, there is nothing as dogmatic--or as silencing--as a relativism that acknowledges no shared truth conditions for valid or responsible discourse. Norris also offers a timely reassessment of several thinkers--Althusser and Derrida among them--whose reception history has been distorted by the vagaries of short-term intellectual fashion. Reclaiming Truth will be welcomed by readers concerned with the uses and abuses of theory at a time when such questions are in urgent need of sustained and serious debate.

The End of the World

Author : Ulrich H. J. Körtner
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664256319
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book The End of the World written by Ulrich H. J. Körtner and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ulrich Kortner addresses the issue of apocalyptic anxiety by offering a theological and philosophical evaluation of the apocalyptic. In particular, Kortner looks at how theology, responding in pastoral sensitivity, should deal with apocalyptic fears and anxieties. Kortner concludes that real meaning and hope for the world is possible only after the world's inhabitants deal constructively with the stark reality of the world's end.

Contesting Earth's Future

Author : Michael E. Zimmerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091922X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Earth's Future written by Michael E. Zimmerman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. Yet for more than twenty years, the activities of organizations such as the Greens and Earth First! have been influenced by a diverse, less-publicized group of radical ecological philosophers. It is their work—the philosophical underpinnings of the radical ecological movement—that is the subject of Contesting Earth's Future. The book offers a much-needed, balanced appraisal of radical ecology's principles, goals, and limitations. Michael Zimmerman critically examines the movement's three major branches—deep ecology, social ecology, and ecofeminism. He also situates radical ecology within the complex cultural and political terrain of the late twentieth century, showing its relation to Martin Heidegger's anti-technological thought, 1960s counterculturalism, and contemporary theories of poststructuralism and postmodernity. An early and influential ecological thinker, Zimmerman is uniquely qualified to provide a broad overview of radical environmentalism and delineate its various schools of thought. He clearly describes their defining arguments and internecine disputes, among them the charge that deep ecology is an anti-modern, proto-fascist ideology. Reflecting both the movement's promise and its dangers, this book is essential reading for all those concerned with the worldwide ecological crisis.

Mesmerism, Its History, Phenomena, and Practice

Author : William Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Mesmerism, Its History, Phenomena, and Practice written by William Lang and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Secular

Author : Andrea Cassatella
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438493894
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Secular written by Andrea Cassatella and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an in-depth, critical analysis of Jacques Derrida's later writings, Beyond the Secular examines the contemporary nexus between religion and politics. Reconnecting these writings to his early works, Andrea Cassatella explores distinctive topics that are thematically linked by the theological-political problematic and theoretically informed by Derrida's relational approach to language, time, religion and politics. The result is a critical investigation into under-examined assumptions of modern secular discourse that questions its binary logics and illuminates such discourse's exclusionary character by tracing its roots in racialized understandings about language, epistemology, politics and religion that travel worldwide through global processes of assimilatory translation. By exposing the discriminatory hierarchies that the Western-Christian, sexualized, and racialized presuppositions of secular discourse keep producing and maintaining, Cassatella ultimately sheds light on the deep entanglements of secularism with the legacy of race and colonialism.

Deconstruction After All

Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782842772
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction After All written by Christopher Norris and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris's vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. Alongside Norris's uncompromising critiques there emerge passages of close and careful reading of Jacques Derrida's texts, as he cites and reiterates Derrida's philosophical contexts in the works of Immanuel Kant, Gaston Bachelard, and Georges Canguilhem, and in the current discursive fields of epistemology and philosophy of science. The book also offers a coda of essays on Frank Kermode, Terry Eagleton, and Terence Hawkes. This collection, prefaced with the author's own academic memoir, provides an accessible and provocative introduction to Norris's critical thought, and highlights the wide range of his interests and philosophical engagements.

From Life to Survival

Author : Robert Trumbull
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823298744
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book From Life to Survival written by Robert Trumbull and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary continental thought is marked by a move away from the “linguistic turn” in twentieth-century European philosophy, as new materialisms and ontologies seek to leave behind the thinking of language central to poststructuralism as it has been traditionally understood. At the same time, biopolitical philosophy has brought critical attention to the question of life, examining new formations of life and death. Within this broader turn, Derridean deconstruction, with its apparent focus on language, writing, and textuality, is generally set aside. This book, by contrast, shows the continued relevance of deconstruction for contemporary thought’s engagement with resolutely material issues and with matters of life and the living. Trumbull elaborates Derrida’s thinking of life across his work, specifically his recasting of life as “life death,” and in turn, survival or living on. Derrida’s activation of Freud, Trumbull shows, is central to this problematic and its consequences, especially deconstruction’s ethical and political possibilities. The book traces how Derrida’s early treatment of Freud and his mobilization of Freud’s death drive allow us to grasp the deconstructive thought of life as constitutively exposed to death, the logic subsequently rearticulated in the notion of survival. Derrida’s recasting of life as survival, Trumbull demonstrates, allows deconstruction to destabilize inherited understandings of life, death, and the political, including the dominant configurations of sovereignty and the death penalty.

Experiential Consciousness and the Nature of Human Identity

Author : Vitor Jose F. Rodrigues
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527591700
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Experiential Consciousness and the Nature of Human Identity written by Vitor Jose F. Rodrigues and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness is hard to bring to the laboratory as it confronts us with a classic dilemma: can a mind observe itself? However, who, then, is observing the observer? Without experiential awareness, culture, the arts, science, and philosophy would not make sense. Would it make sense if refrigerators were to produce a “refrigerator culture” without the experience of freezing food? Virtually all human culture is destined to provide conscious experiences. This volume provides a rich array of views on human nature and the way it shows up in the strange land of human identity.