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Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade

Author : Brendan Moran
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319720112
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade written by Brendan Moran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin’s writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin’s related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin’s writings a conception of philosophy that is political in its dissociation from – its becoming renegade in relation to, its philosophic shame about – established laws, norms, and forms, the book compares Benjamin’s writings with relevant works by Agamben, Heidegger, Levinas, and others. In relating Benjamin’s writings on Kafka to Benjamin’s writings on politics, the study delineates a philosophic impetus in literature and argues that this impetus has potential political consequences. Finally, the book is critical of Benjamin’s messianism insofar as it is oriented by the anticipated elimination of exceptions and distractions. Exceptions and distractions are, the book argues, precisely what literature, like other arts, brings to the fore. Hence the philosophic, and the political, importance of literature.

Walter Benjamin and Political Theology

Author : Brendan Moran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350284351
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and Political Theology written by Brendan Moran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Walter Benjamin's convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin's thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing him in dialogue with traditions and thinkers from antiquity to the present. At stake is whether Benjamin presents the possibility of a distinctive political theology-a question which the collection addresses without collapsing the tensions internal to Benjamin's thought. Benjamin's thought has been a touchstone, explicitly or implicitly, in numerous efforts to conceive of a 'new' political theology that is not anchored in legitimizing and preserving power, but in justice and liberation. Benjamin interrogates the political-theological complex from what may be construed as a vantage point opposed to Schmitt. Whereas Schmitt excavates the theological elements in modernity in order to shore up liberalism's illiberal inheritance, Benjamin roots out these latent structures in order to dissolve them and liberate us from their oppressive legacy. This volume's multifaceted contributions explore why Benjamin has been such a fertile source for thinking about political theology beyond – and often against – Schmitt. Benjamin indicates how existing political theologies can be challenged or expanded. This book accordingly makes a wide range of relevant work available for study whilst also opening new perspectives on Benjamin's œuvre.

Philosophical Health

Author : Luis de Miranda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135035306X
Total Pages : 297 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 297 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.

Biopolitical Animal

Author : Carlo Salzani
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399526014
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Biopolitical Animal written by Carlo Salzani and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two issues around which this collection revolves are that it is impossible to address biopolitics without taking the animal question into account, and that the animal question inherently concerns the politics of life beyond species barriers. Although biopolitical theories are necessarily structured around animal metaphors, they predominantly refer to human corporeality. On the other hand, the animal question is typically treated as an ethical issue, that is, a question of how human beings, the dominant species, ought to learn how to live peaceably with and respect other forms of life. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the fields of biopolitics and animal studies problematises, reconceptualises, and redefines these categories in order to realise the full potential of the biopolitical framework of analysis in the context of animal studies and praxis.

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 and the Actuality of Critique

Author : Carlo Salzani
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527573168
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique written by Carlo Salzani and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work does not rest on a supposed “usefulness” of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high “legibility” to which his oeuvre has come in the present. Indeed, this legibility is a function of critique, which unearths the truth-content of a work in a constellation of reading with the present, and assures thereby that the work lives on. Following this methodological tenet, this book approaches Benjamin’s work with two foci: the actuality of his critique of violence, a central and unavoidable topic in the contemporary political-philosophical debate, and the actuality of his critique of experience, which perhaps is not as conspicuous as that of his critique of violence but constitutes, nonetheless, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.

Kafka and the Universal

Author : Arthur Cools
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110457431
Total Pages : 282 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 282 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.

Towards the Critique of Violence

Author : Brendan Moran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472529286
Total Pages : 266 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 266 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'.

Complicity and the Politics of Representation

Author : Cornelia Wächter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786611201
Total Pages : 283 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 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of complicity with regard to the politics of representation. Over the past decades,complicity critique has evolved and become integral to literary and cultural studies. Nonetheless, the concept of complicityremains fundamentally underresearched. Addressing topical and exigent concerns such as white supremacy, war and displacement, child abuse and mentalism, this timely volume explores how producers, texts, consumers and critics can either intentionally or unwittingly become complicit in the creation and perpetuation of social harm – and how the structures supporting such complicities can be resisted. The contributors aim to raise awareness and lay the groundwork for a utopian ‘radical unfolding’ that enables not just non-complicity, i.e. the refusal to be complicit, but anti-complicity – the active and collective resistance to social harm.

Gestures

Author : Giovanni Maddalena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110785846
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Gestures written by Giovanni Maddalena and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few years, scientists and philosophers have discussed the concept of gesture as promising to overcome hyper-intellectualist conceptions of human beings. Its ascendancy reaffirmed the importance of the pragmatic, relational dimension in human experience and cognitive processes. Many questions arise when we focus on the cognitive role of gestures, especially in the new cultural landscape shaped by the digital revolution. Does the idea of gestures highlight the preeminence of bodily experiences? Does it lead to the thinning of the distinction between humans and nonhuman animals? Do gestures help us rethink the allegedly higher human capacities in an antireductionist vein? Do gestures involve reasoning? Are they purely external actions? Do they serve to communicate, or is all communication a form of gesture? What kinds of social relations are involved in the concept of gesture? According to a multidisciplinary orientation, the book inquiries into the possibilities and issues opened up by attending to a philosophy of gestures in philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and communication studies. Given the current centrality of gestures, the general aim of the book is to reconsider the meaning of "gestures" and try to answer old and new questions.

Gestures

Author : Giovanni Maddalena, Fabio Ferrucci, Michela Bella, Matteo Santarelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110785900
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Gestures written by Giovanni Maddalena, Fabio Ferrucci, Michela Bella, Matteo Santarelli and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : re.press
ISBN 13 : 0980544092
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity written by Andrew Benjamin and published by re.press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, how does this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us? In what ways are Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements that individuals can make within the new spaces of modern cities? How can Benjamin's theses help us to understand the secret architectures of the present? This volume takes up the architectural challenge in a number of innovative ways, collecting essays by both well-known and emerging scholars on time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs, the orders of road-signs, childhood experience in modern cities, and much more. Engaged, interdisciplinary, bristling with insights, the essays in this collection will constitute an indispensable supplement to the work of Walter Benjamin, as well as providing a guide to some of the obscurities of our own present.

The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas

Author : Darrow Schecter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441152571
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas written by Darrow Schecter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What different kinds of reason are possible, and which ones are the most appropriate for a legitimate, as opposed to a merely legitimated state?The book opens with an analysis of Weber as a figure who marks a key moment of sociological transition. Weber articulates a distinctly different view to Enlightenment thinkers who believe in the capacity of reason to improve society and emancipate humanity from ignorance and domination. Weber signals that the institutionalization of the instrumental reason particular to industrial society might actually be an effective tool in the struggle for social supremacy. He notes that in comparison with charismatic and traditional legitimation, modern forms of legal-rational legitimation are de-personalised, anonymously bureaucratic, and much more difficult to combat.The book then looks at various responses to Weber's diagnosis, from Lukács and Benjamin to Horkheimer, Adorno, Heidegger, Arendt, Simmel, Foucault and Habermas. The study culminates with a sociological reading of critical theory that draws together Adorno's concept of non-identity with Habermas on communicative reason and Luhmann on social complexity and differentiation.

Philosophy and Kafka

Author : Brendan Moran
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180908
Total Pages : 300 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 300 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.

Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical

Author : Oshrat C. Silberbusch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319956272
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical written by Oshrat C. Silberbusch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor. W. Adorno’s philosophy: the nonidentical. The nonidentical is what our conceptual framework cannot grasp and must therefore silence, the unexpressed other of our rational engagement with the world. This study presents the nonidentical as the multidimensional centerpiece of Adorno’s reflections on subjectivity, truth, suffering, history, art, morality and politics, revealing the intimate relationship between how and what we think. Adorno’s work, written in the shadow of Auschwitz, is a quest for a different way of thinking, one that would give the nonidentical a voice – as the somatic in reasoning, the ephemeral in truth, the aesthetic in cognition, the other in society. Adorno’s philosophy of the nonidentical reveals itself not only as a powerful hermeneutics of the past, but also as an important tool for the understanding of modern phenomena such as xenophobia, populism, political polarization, identity politics, and systemic racism.

On Creaturely Life

Author : Eric L. Santer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226735052
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book On Creaturely Life written by Eric L. Santer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being—the open—concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his own reading of Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence but suggests that human life remains haunted by vestiges of an animal-like relation to its surroundings. Walter Benjamin, in turn, was to show that such vestiges—what Eric Santner calls the creaturely—have a biopolitical aspect: they are linked to the processes that inscribe life in the realm of power and authority. Santner traces this theme of creaturely life from its poetic and philosophical beginnings in the first half of the twentieth century to the writings of the enigmatic German novelist W. G. Sebald. Sebald’s entire oeuvre, Santner argues, can be seen as an archive of creaturely life. For Sebald, the work on such an archive was inseparable from his understanding of what it means to engage ethically with another person’s history and pain, an engagement that transforms us from indifferent individuals into neighbors. An indispensable book for students of Sebald, On Creaturely Life is also a significant contribution to critical theory.

The Benjamin Files

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784783994
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Benjamin Files written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a writer. What resulted was a coexistence or variety of language fields and thematic codes which overlapped and often seemed to contradict each other: a view which will allow us to clarify the much-debated tension in his works between the mystical or theological side of Benjamin and his political or historical inclination. The three-way tug of war over his heritage between adherents of his friends Scholem, Adorno and Brecht, can also be better grasped from this position, which gives the Brechtian standpoint more due than most influential academic studies. Benjamin's corpus is an anticipation of contemporary theory in the priority it gives language and representation over philosophical or conceptual unity; and its political motivations are clarified by attention to the omnipresence of History throughout his writing, from the shortest articles to the most ambitious projects. His explicit program - "to transfer the crisis into the heart of language" or, in other words, to detect class struggle at work in the most minute literary phenomena - requires the reader to translate the linguistic or representational literary issues that concerned him back into the omnipresent but often only implicitly political ones. But the latter are those of another era, to which we must gain access, to use one of Benjamin's favorite expressions.