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Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy

Author : Monad Rrenban
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739108451
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy written by Monad Rrenban and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin - up to and including the Trauerspiel book, Monad Rrenban brings forth a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in everything. Somewhat on the basis of existing philosophemes of Western metaphysics, Benjamin's well-known "esotericism" performs the transience of constraints of meaning. Both the form - free from duplicitous, authoritarian, and "rational" meaning - and the practice, of philosophy, enable production of the philosophical not only by so-called philosophers but also conceivably by everything - including art, poetry, and literature. In life and death, Walter Benjamin has and had the status of exile from departmental philosophy. Especially from Benjamin's early work, however, Monad Rrenban is able to elicit the force of the form, philosophy. Distinct in its analysis and depth of analysis, Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy in Early Works of Walter Benjamin elaborates the wild, unforgettable form - philosophy - in relation to language, the discipline and the practice of philosophy, criticism, and the politics of death.

Neil Gaiman and Philosophy

Author : Tracy Lyn Bealer
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812697650
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Neil Gaiman and Philosophy written by Tracy Lyn Bealer and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight philosophers discuss the works of the best-selling novelist and reveal their thoughts on the intersection of fantasy and reality and whether the unknown is as real as the known.

Philosophical Health

Author : Luis de Miranda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135035306X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Health written by Luis de Miranda and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading international and interdisciplinary scholars, this ground-breaking volume examines the theory and practice of philosophical health in contemporary contexts of care broadly understood, care for the self, care for the other, and care for the world. But what do we mean by philosophical health? Whilst this book does not seek to provide a normative definition, as it explores disparate perspectives and encourages pluralism in philosophical ways of life, one may envision philosophical health as a state of creative coherence between a person's or a group's way of thinking and their way of acting, such that the possibilities for a good life are increased, and the needs for flourishing satisfied. An idea central to philosophical health is the concept of 'possibility'. Without a sense of self-possibility and openness to the future, health loses meaning, and conversely, pathologies are defined by various kinds of impossibilities. As such, philosophical health reconsiders care as a process of cultivating or pruning the compossible in embodied, psychological, and social terms, of allowing things to re-generate, or in some cases to vanish. Drawing on the history of philosophy, phenomenology, new materialism, post-colonialism but also a wide range of contemporary approaches to philosophical practice, Philosophical Health sheds light on the understudied philosophical dimension of care and the healing dimension of philosophizing. Advocating philosophy as a lived practice, it uncovers the increasing relevance of philosophical health to contemporary debates on well-being, well-belonging, counselling, and development.

Philosophy and Kafka

Author : Brendan Moran
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180908
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Kafka written by Brendan Moran and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and Kafka is a collection of original essays interrogating the relationship of literature and philosophy. The essays either discuss specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka’s work, consider the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for examining Kafka’s writings, or examine Kafka’s writings in terms of a specific philosophical theme, such as communication and subjectivity, language and meaning, knowledge and truth, the human/animal divide, justice, and freedom.

Towards the Critique of Violence

Author : Brendan Moran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472529286
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Towards the Critique of Violence written by Brendan Moran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay 'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps even the occasional obscurity of Benjamin's text have undoubtedly contributed to the diversity, conflict, and richness of contemporary readings. Interest has heightened following the attention that philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben have devoted to it. Agamben's own interest started early in his career with his 1970 essay, 'On the Limits of Violence', and Benjamin's essay continues to be a fundamental reference in Agamben's work. Written by internationally recognized scholars, Towards the Critique of Violence is the first book to explore politico-philosophic implications of Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence' and correlative implications of Benjamin's resonance in Agamben's writings. Topics of this collection include mythic violence, the techniques of non-violent conflict resolution, ambiguity, destiny or fate, decision and nature, and the relation between justice and thinking. The volume explores Agamben's usage of certain Benjaminian themes, such as Judaism and law, bare life, sacrifice, and Kantian experience, culminating with the English translation of Agamben's 'On the Limits of Violence'.

The Acoustical Unconscious

Author : Robert Ryder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110733005
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Acoustical Unconscious written by Robert Ryder and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an acoustical equivalent to Walter Benjamin’s idea of the optical unconscious? In the 1930s, Benjamin was interested in how visual media expand our optical perception: the invention of the camera allowed us to see images and details that we could not consciously perceive before. This study argues that Benjamin was also concerned with how acoustical media allow us to “hear otherwise,” that is, to listen to sound structures previously lost to the naked ear. Crucially, they help sensitize us to the discursive sonority of words, which Benjamin was already alluding to in his autobiographical work. In five chapters that range in scope from Tieck’s Blonde Eckbert, which Benjamin once called his locus classicus of his theory of forgetting, to Alexander Kluge’s films and short texts, where he develops what he calls “sound perspectives,” this monograph discusses how the acoustical unconscious enriches our understanding of different media, from the written word to radio and film. As the first book-length study of Benjamin’s linguistic, cultural-historical, and media-theoretical reflections on sound, this book will be particularly relevant to students and scholars of both German studies and sound studies.

Textual Layering

Author : Maria Margaroni
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498501346
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Textual Layering written by Maria Margaroni and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing the concept of “layering,” this book seeks to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia.

Kafka and the Universal

Author : Arthur Cools
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110457431
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Kafka and the Universal written by Arthur Cools and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka’s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under any generalization. This paradox engenders questions not only concerning the meaning of the universal as it manifests itself in (and is transformed by) Kafka’s writings but also about the expression of the singular in literary fiction as it challenges the opposition between the universal and the singular. The contributions in this volume approach these questions from a variety of perspectives. They are structured according to the following issues: ambiguity as a tool of deconstructing the pre-established philosophical meanings of the universal; the concept of the law as a major symbol for the universal meaning of Kafka’s writings; the presence of animals in Kafka’s texts; the modernist mode of writing as challenge of philosophical concepts of the universal; and the meaning and relevance of the universal in contemporary Kafka reception. This volume examines central aspects of the interplay between philosophy and literature.

Ethics

Author : Louis E. Wolcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000332780
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Ethics written by Louis E. Wolcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines ethics at the intersection of law and justice. If law and justice are concerned with collectively establishing the general terms on which the plurality called "we" share the earth as social beings, then ethics concerns the individual Self’s particular moral relationship with the Other. Law, the acknowledged offspring of politics, represents the kind of might that most people accept as legitimate, at least most of the time. Justice, on the other hand, is supposed to vigilantly stand guard over law: to protect us against its biases and excesses, or, at the very least, to rise up and reproach the law whenever it permits or encourages injustice. But what if the belief that a particular legally-authorized state of affairs is "just" – a common enough feeling, especially amongst the privileged – or even "unjust" and in need of correction, were itself in need of a vigilant guardian? This book argues that ethics can and should stand guard over whatever image of justice and/or just law one happens to believe in. The book thus attempts to steer a perilous course between two looming moral hazards: ethics interpreted as the rational production of ethically correct behavior (as in Kant) and ethics interpreted as the spontaneous eruption of pre-rational compassion for the suffering of the Other, come what may (as in Levinas). In the end, the book characterizes ethical life in the law as the more-or-less constant experience of the paradoxical nature of this choice – a feeling of inescapable personal responsibility for the fate of the Other. Based on the author’s well-established expertise in the area, this book will appeal to students, scholars and others with interests in legal theory and moral and political philosophy.

Constellation

Author : James McFarland
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823245381
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Constellation written by James McFarland and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extended exploration of the relationship between the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic and the radical philosopher. In five chapters, Constellation presents the changing figure of Friedrich Nietzsche as Walter Benjamin encountered him: an inspiration to his student activism, an authority for his skeptical philology, a manifestation of his philosophical nihilism, a companion in his political exile, and ultimately a subversive collaborator in his efforts to think beyond the hopeless temporality—new and always the same—of the present moment in history.

Religion in the Secular Age

Author : Herta Nagl-Docekal
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111247872
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Secular Age written by Herta Nagl-Docekal and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be religious believers for people whose living conditions are defined by an increasingly secularized environment? Is the common distinction between faith and knowledge valid? The 21 essays cover approaches from various fields of the humanities. Some explore post-Kantian thoughts, discussing, i.a., American Pragmatism, M. Buber, M. Horkheimer, H. Putnam, J. Habermas, Ch. Taylor and variants of deconstruction, while other essays focus on ways in which the conflict between agnostics and seekers is addressed in US literary works, as in Fl. O’Connor, W. Percy, N. Hawthorne, J. Updike and in novels dealing with pandemics, for instance by L. Wright, E. M. Wiseman and R. Cook. Historical studies examine the intermingling of the sacred and the secular in the American South and neo-scholastic objections to modernity. Theological issues are being re-framed in essays discussing the relevance of pluralism, the relation of religious conviction and public opinion, the situation of scientists who believe and the thoughts of N. Frye and M. McLuhan. Finally, essays pay attention to religious aspects in works of art, e.g. in Ukrainian poetry, G. Mahler’s symphonies and in a TV show presenting new “American Gods” of globalization.

Walter Benjamin

Author : Howard Eiland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067472724X
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin written by Howard Eiland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.

Critiques of Theology

Author : Yotam Hotam
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438494378
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Critiques of Theology written by Yotam Hotam and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems hard to imagine a concept more significant to modern thought than critique. Critique involved distancing oneself from religious explanations and theological argumentation and came to represent the essence of secular consciousness's potential to deliver modernity's promise of human progress through rational inquiry and scientific development. Critiques of Theology debunks this common understanding. Based on a novel reading of previously less-discussed writings by Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Hannah Arendt, the book shows how the practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can, in many ways, be traced back to them. This study points to a persistent misreading of critique and demonstrates that it does not come from outside of religion to build a new world of ideas; on the contrary, it redeploys those already present within its theological constellations.

Aberrant Nuptials

Author : Paulo de Assis
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702020
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Aberrant Nuptials written by Paulo de Assis and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique focus on the relation between artistic research and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze Aberrant Nuptials explores the diversity and richness of the interactions between artistic research and Deleuze studies. “Aberrant nuptials” is the expression Gilles Deleuze uses to refer to productive encounters between systems characterised by fundamental difference. More than imitation, representation, or reproduction, these encounters foster creative flows of energy, generating new material configurations and intensive experiences. Within different understandings of artistic research, the contributors to this book—architects, composers, film-makers, painters, performers, philosophers, sculptors, and writers—map current practices at the intersection between music, art, and philosophy, contributing to an expansion of horizons and methodologies. Written by established Deleuze scholars who have been working on interferences between art and philosophy, and by musicians and artists who have been reflecting Deleuzian and Post-Deleuzian discourses in their artworks, this volume reflects the current relevance of artistic research and Deleuze studies for the arts.

Forces of Education

Author : Dennis Johannßen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350274186
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Forces of Education written by Dennis Johannßen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploration of his philosophy of education and pedagogy. In recent years, problems concerning the practice of education have become central to the critical discourse in the humanities: from debates regarding “deplatforming” and the redefinition of free speech on campus to the digitization of learning and the ethics of mentorship. But where do we go from here? This volume argues that Walter Benjamin's writing offers critical tools to rethink the purposes of education and the institutional forms it should assume. Reaching from his earliest writings during his involvement with the antebellum German Youth Movement to his late essays on history, theatre, and new media, the authors here explore how Benjamin argued against education as an institutional task subject to a scientific discipline. They show instead how he took his cue from language as a medium of subtle understanding to critically analyze the forms of violence inherent in the concept and history of education. For Benjamin, education was the lever to political reform. For him, the experience of youth should always be at the centre of considerations. Written by leading international scholars, Walter Benjamin and Education both contextualizes Benjamin's pedagogy in the trajectory of his own thought and also offers an astute analysis of the value and relevance of his student-focused ideas to the institutional and political challenges of today.

Complicity and the Politics of Representation

Author : Cornelia Wächter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786611201
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Complicity and the Politics of Representation written by Cornelia Wächter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction to an important and timely topic, namely the study of complicity and the politics of representation. It elaborates on recent work on complicity and applies recent research on complicity to critical whiteness studies, critical memory studies, critical psychology and psychiatry.

Creating Fictional Worlds

Author : Hanna Liss
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194576
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Creating Fictional Worlds written by Hanna Liss and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the literary and narrative patterns in Rashbam’s Torah Commentary this book offers a comprehensive rereading of one of the first Northern French peshaṭ-commentaries and shows Rashbam’s fascinating struggle to compete with the nascent vernacular literature.