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  • Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject

    Hegel, Heidegger, and the Poststructuralists

    by Simon Lumsden ...
    Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy's problematic concepts—the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel's thought, and resolving this tension can not only heal the rift between poststructuralism and German idealism but also ... Read more

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    According to Wikipedia: "Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Enlightenment. Kant created a new widespread perspective in philosophy which is influencing enlightened philosophy until the 21st ... Read more

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  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell)

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein ...
    In the seminal work 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,' first published in 1922, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between language, reality, and thought. The text unfolds through a series of propositions, meticulously structured to elucidate the limits of language and its role in depicting the world. Wittgenstein's distinctive style combines precision ... Read more

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  • Futilitarians

    Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

    by Anne Gisleson ...
    A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief: "Moving and complete and very much worth reading" ( The New York Times Book Review ).Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, ... Read more

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  • Politics, Metaphysics, and Death

    Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace

    by Thomas Carl Wall, Peter Fitzpatrick, Erik Vogt, Andreas Kalyvas ...
    The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues that in both the modern world and the ancient, politics inevitably involves a sovereign decision ... Read more

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  • Nature, Contemplation, and the One

    A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus

    by John Deck ...
    Series series Heritage
    Plotinus has been so highly regarded as a mystic that his importance as a philosopher has sometimes been thrown into eclipse. Yet neoplatonic philosophy lives in and through his works; indeed, his original development of Platonic and Aristotelian themes stands as a kind of summation of Greek philosophy as it first came to be known in the Christian West. In Nature, Contemplation, and the One, ... Read more

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  • Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists

    Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis

    by Johann Michel ...
    Translated by Scott Davidson ...
    In this important and original book, Johann Michel paves the way for a greater understanding of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy by exploring it in relation to some major figures of contemporary French thought—Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Castoriadis.Although the fertile dialogue between Ricoeur and various structuralist thinkers is well documented, his position in relation to the post ... Read more

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  • The Lost Thread

    The Democracy of Modern Fiction

    by Mr Steven Corcoran, Jacques Rancière ...
    In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between modernism and capitalism via the commodification of everyday life, Rancière proposes a radical ... Read more

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  • The Absolute and Star Trek

    by George A. Gonzalez ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central to the show display the concept beautifully. For instance, the show posits that people must possess the ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Marx

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by Chris Turner, Gregory Elliott ...
    A rich and accessible introduction to Marx’s fundamental concepts from a key intellectual—now updatedWritten by one of political theory’s leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state. ... Read more

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  • Critical Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Eric Bronner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and ... Read more

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  • Cut of the Real

    Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy

    by Katerina Kolozova ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Following François Laruelle's nonstandard philosophy and the work of Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Luce Irigaray, and Rosi Braidotti, Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered "unthinkable" by postmodern feminist philosophies, such as "the real," "the one," "the limit," and "finality," thus critically repositioning poststructuralist feminist philosophy and ... Read more

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