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Cross and Khora (Hardcover): Marko Zlomislic, Neal Deroo Cross and Khora (Hardcover)
Marko Zlomislic, Neal Deroo
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea, Begun in Divers Lectures, Upon the First Three Chapters, at Michaels, Cornhill,... An Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea, Begun in Divers Lectures, Upon the First Three Chapters, at Michaels, Cornhill, London; 3 (Hardcover)
Jeremiah 1599-1646 Burroughs; Created by Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and
R1,047 Discovery Miles 10 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest - Interpreting the Technicity of Action (Hardcover): Ernst Wolff Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest - Interpreting the Technicity of Action (Hardcover)
Ernst Wolff
R2,944 Discovery Miles 29 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which they act. Second, the deployment of capabilities and means is permeated by ethical aspirations and hesitancies. Third, all domains of action are affected by these ethical dilemmas. Fourth, the dimensions of the technicity of action are typical of human life in general, and not just a regional or culturally specific phenomenon. In this study, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted to encompass the broad anthropological scope of this study and combine this bigger picture with detailed attention to the socio-historical particularities of action as it plays out in different contexts. Hermeneutics (the philosophical inquiry into the human phenomena of meaning, understanding and interpretation) and social science (as the study of all human affairs) are the two main disciplinary orientations of this book. This study clarifies the technical dimension of the entire spectrum of human action ranging from daily routine to the extreme of violent protest.

Badiou and His Interlocutors - Lectures, Interviews and Responses (Hardcover, HPOD): Alain Badiou Badiou and His Interlocutors - Lectures, Interviews and Responses (Hardcover, HPOD)
Alain Badiou; Edited by A., J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens
R3,180 Discovery Miles 31 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou - one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of history, Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original essays by young and established scholars in Australia and New Zealand addressing the key concerns of Badiou's 2015 visit to the Antipodal region and the work he presented there. With new material by Badiou previously unpublished in English this volume is a valuable overview of his recent thinking. Critical responses by distinguished and gifted Badiou scholars writing outside of the European context make this text essential reading for anyone interested in the development and contemporary reception of Badiou's thought.

Theology After Deleuze (Paperback, New): Kristien Justaert Theology After Deleuze (Paperback, New)
Kristien Justaert
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title presents a clear and concise introduction to Gilles Deleuze's complex relationship with the various fields of theology. Deleuze's relationship with theology is a complex one. Indeed, there seem to be many possible objections to such an 'assemblage' taking place. In the first book of its kind to engage with this seemingly problematic dialogue, Kristien Justaert shows the ways in which Deleuze's thought can in fact advance issues in political and feminist theology in particular, while also exploring the important theological and spiritual aspirations contained in Deleuze's philosophy itself, as part of his lifelong quest for the 'Absolute'. Justaert examines the theological components in Deleuze's writings, examining the influence of such modern thinkers as Spinoza and Leibniz and showing that the concepts of univocity, expression and creativity give Deleuze's metaphysics a distinctly theological character. The book goes on to connect Deleuze with established theologies, identifying areas in which Deleuze can contribute to the dynamics of contemporary theology, and argues that aspects of Deleuze's philosophy can enable theology to become more meaningful in a globalised world. This is the ideal introduction to Deleuzian theologies, and Deleuze's own theology, for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. "The Deleuze Encounters" series provides students in philosophy and related subjects with concise and accessible introductions to the application of Deleuze's work in key areas of study. Each book demonstrates how Deleuze's ideas and concepts can enhance present work in a particular field.

The Anti-Romantic - Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism (Hardcover): Jeffrey Reid The Anti-Romantic - Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Reid
R4,631 Discovery Miles 46 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hegel's critique of Early German Romanticism and its theory of irony resonates to the core of his own philosophy in the same way that Plato's polemics with the Sophists have repercussions that go to the centre of his thought. The Anti-Romantic examines Hegel's critique of Fr. Schlegel, Novalis and Schleiermacher. Hegel rarely mentions these thinkers by name and the texts dealing with them often exist on the periphery of his oeuvre. Nonetheless, individually, they represent embodiments of specific forms of irony: Schlegel, a form of critical individuality; Novalis, a form of sentimental nihilism; Schleiermacher, a monstrous hybrid of the other two. The strength of Hegel's polemical approach to these authors shows how irony itself represents for him a persistent threat to his own idea of systematic Science. This is so, we discover, because Romantic irony is more than a rival ideology; it is an actual form of discourse, one whose performative objectivity interferes with the objectivity of Hegel's own logos. Thus, Hegel's critique of irony allows us to reciprocally uncover a Hegelian theory of scientific discourse. Far from seeing irony as a form of consciousness overcome by Spirit, Hegel sees it as having become a pressing feature of his own contemporary world, as witnessed in the popularity of his Berlin rival, Schleiermacher. Finally, to the extent that ironic discourse seems, for Hegel, to imply a certain world beyond his own notion of modernity, we are left with the hypothesis that Hegel's critique of irony may be viewed as a critique of post-modernity.

Jacques Ranciere: Education, Truth, Emancipation (Hardcover, New): Charles Bingham, Gert Biesta Jacques Ranciere: Education, Truth, Emancipation (Hardcover, New)
Charles Bingham, Gert Biesta
R4,943 Discovery Miles 49 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner - AERA 2011 Outstanding Book Award Jacques Rancire: Education, Truth, Emancipation demonstrates the importance of Rancires work for educational theory, and in turn, it shows just how central Rancires educational thought is to his work in political theory and aesthetics. Charles Bingham and Gert Biesta illustrate brilliantly how philosophy can benefit from Rancires particular way of thinking about education, and go on to offer their own provocative account of the relationship between education, truth, and emancipation. Including a new essay by Rancire himself, this book is a must-read for scholars of social theory and all who profess to educate.

concepts - a travelogue (Hardcover): Bernd Herzogenrath concepts - a travelogue (Hardcover)
Bernd Herzogenrath
R3,343 Discovery Miles 33 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Concepts seem to work best when created in that interspace between theory and praxis, between philosophy, art, and science. Deleuze himself has generated many concepts in this encounter between philosophy and non-philosophy (art, literature, film, botany, etc): his ideas of affects and percepts, of becoming, the stutter, movement-image and time-image, the rhizome, to name but a few. In the case of this volume, the "other" is the "other" to English language/culture (and its philosophy): what happens, if instead of "other disciplines," we take other cultures, other languages, other philosophies? Does not the focus on English as a hegemonic language of academic discourse deny us a plethora of possibilities, of possible Denkfiguren, of possible concepts? This collection is a kind of travelogue. The journey does not follow a particular trajectory-some countries are not on the map; some are visited twice. So, there is no claim to completeness involved here-it is rather an invitation to answer to the call ... there is much to explore!

The Discovery of Everything, the Creation of Nothing - A Layman's Manifesto (Hardcover): Jim Robert Bader The Discovery of Everything, the Creation of Nothing - A Layman's Manifesto (Hardcover)
Jim Robert Bader
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The questions have been with us since the dim, dark dusk of early humanity. Who are we? How did we get here? Who is in charge? In "The Discovery of Everything, the Creation of Nothing, " author Jim Robert Bader communicates his personal philosophy on these age-old enigmas as they apply to modern society.Intended as a primer for the mind of the layman, "The Discovery of Everything, the Creation of Nothing" presents a manifesto of the soul that insists the truth is not only out there, but easily accessible to anyone. Based on years of research and observation, Bader distills the complexities and addresses relevant topics from an "everyman" perspective by pondering the nature of the universe. He reflects on the thoughts and discoveries of others to bring knowledge to the common man.In "The Discovery of Everything, the Creation of Nothing, " Bader offers a new way of understanding the world. He confronts old assumptions, and he challenges the traditional way of thinking to better cope with and comprehend the nature of the world around us.

Foucault and Fiction - The Experience Book (Hardcover): Timothy O'Leary Foucault and Fiction - The Experience Book (Hardcover)
Timothy O'Leary
R4,627 Discovery Miles 46 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph offers a new interpretation of Melville's work (focusing on "Moby-Dick", "Pierre" and "Benito Cereno") in the light of scholarship on globalization from critics in 'new' American studies. In "Melville, Mapping and Globalization", Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of intense national consolidation and cultural centralization, Melville discovered the postnational forces of an emerging world system, a system that has become our own in the era of globalization. Drawing on the work of a range of literary and social critics (including Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson, and Moretti), Tally argues that Melville's distinct literary form enabled his critique of the dominant national narrative of his own time and proleptically undermined the national literary tradition of American Studies a century later. Melville's hypercanonical status in the United States makes his work all the more crucial for understanding the role of literature in a post-American epoch. Offering bold new interpretations and theoretical juxtapositions, Tally presents a postnational Melville, well suited to establishing new approaches to American and world literature in the twenty-first century.

Scientific Materialism and Ultimate Conceptions [microform] .. (Hardcover): Sidney B 1813 Billing Scientific Materialism and Ultimate Conceptions [microform] .. (Hardcover)
Sidney B 1813 Billing
R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
An Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea, Begun in Divers Lectures, Upon the First Three Chapters, at Michaels, Cornhill,... An Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea, Begun in Divers Lectures, Upon the First Three Chapters, at Michaels, Cornhill, London; 4 (Hardcover)
Jeremiah 1599-1646 Burroughs; Created by Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kant, Deleuze and Architectonics (Hardcover, New): Edward Willatt Kant, Deleuze and Architectonics (Hardcover, New)
Edward Willatt
R4,951 Discovery Miles 49 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a unique and much needed book exploring the debt Deleuze owes to Kantian arguments and principles. The way in which we read Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" has profound consequences for our understanding of his thought in relation to the work of other thinkers. "Kant, Deleuze and Architectonics" presents a unified reading of this text in order to respond to the concerns surrounding the method and arguments Kant employs. In showing us how the 'first critique' comes to make greater sense when read as a whole or in terms of its 'architectonic' unity, Edward Willatt breathes new life into a text often considered rigid and artificial in its organisation. On the basis of this reading, Kant's relation to Deleuze is revealed to be much more productive than is often realized. Deftly relating the unifying method of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" with Deleuze's account of experience, and using Kant's concern to secure the conditions that make experience possible to develop Deleuze's attempt to convincingly relate 'the actual' and 'the virtual', this book constitutes an important step in our understanding of Deleuze and his philosophical project. "Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy" presents cutting-edge scholarship in the field of modern European thought. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the discipline.

Philosophy, Art, and the Specters of Jacques Derrida (Hardcover, New): Gray Kochhar-Lindgren Philosophy, Art, and the Specters of Jacques Derrida (Hardcover, New)
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
R2,288 Discovery Miles 22 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Although there is a significant literature on the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, there are few analyses that address the deconstructive critique of phenomenology as it simultaneously plays across range of cultural productions including literature, painting, cinema, new media, and the structure of the university. Using the critical figures of "ghost" and "shadow"-and initiating a vocabulary of phantomenology-this book traces the implications of Derridean "spectrality" on the understanding of contemporary thought, culture, and experience.This study examines the interconnections of philosophy, art in its many forms, and the hauntology of Jacques Derrida. Exposure is explored primarily as exposure to the elemental weather (with culture serving as a lean-to); exposure in a photographic sense; being over-exposed to light; exposure to the certitude of death; and being exposed to all the possibilities of the world. Exposure, in sum, is a kind of necessary, dangerous, and affirmative openness.The book weaves together three threads in order to format an image of the contemporary exposure: 1) a critique of the philosophy of appearances, with phenomenology and its vexed relationship to idealism as the primary representative of this enterprise; 2) an analysis of cultural formations-literature, cinema, painting, the university, new media-that highlights the enigmatic necessity for learning to read a spectrality that, since the two cannot be separated, is both hauntological and historical; and 3) a questioning of the role of art-as semblance, reflection, and remains-that occurs within and alongside the space of philosophy and of the all the "posts-" in which people find themselves.Art is understood fundamentally as a spectral aesthetics, as a site that projects from an exposed place toward an exposed, and therefore open, future, from a workplace that testifies to the blast wind of obliteration, but also in that very testimony gives a place for ghosts to gather, to speak with each other and with humankind. Art, which installs itself in the very heart of the ancient dream of philosophy as its necessary companion, ensures that each phenomenon is always a phantasm and thus we can be assured that the apparitions will continue to speak in what Michel Serres's has called the "grotto of miracles." This book, then, enacts the slowness of a reading of spectrality that unfolds in the chiaroscuro of truth and illusion, philosophy and art, light and darkness.Scholars, students, and professional associations in philosophy (especially of the work of Derrida, Husserl, Heidegger, and Kant), literature, painting, cinema, new media, psychoanalysis, modernity, theories of the university, and interdisciplinary studies.

The Two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Divine and Hvmane .. (Hardcover): Francis... The Two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Divine and Hvmane .. (Hardcover)
Francis 1561-1626 Bacon; Created by Edward Smith Stanley Earl of Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith S Derby
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Foucault's Legacy (Hardcover): C. G. Prado Foucault's Legacy (Hardcover)
C. G. Prado
R4,951 Discovery Miles 49 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is an important collection of essays examining and promoting Foucault's influence on present-day philosophy, in both the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions."Foucault's Legacy" brings together the work of eight Foucault specialists in an important collection of essays marking the 25th anniversary of Foucault's death. Focusing on the importance of Foucault's most central ideas for present-day philosophy, the book shows how his influence goes beyond his own canonical tradition and linguistic milieu. The essays in this book explore key areas of Foucault's thought by comparing aspects of his work with the thought of a number of major philosophers, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Rorty, Hegel, Searle, Vattimo and Williams. Crucially the book also considers the applicability of his central ideas to broader issues such as totalitarianism, religion, and self-sacrifice. Presenting a fresh and exciting vision of Foucault as a philosopher of enduring influence, the book shows how important Foucault remains to philosophy today.

The Indianapolis Blue Book - Containing the Names and Addresses of Prominent Residents Arranged Alphabetically and Numerically... The Indianapolis Blue Book - Containing the Names and Addresses of Prominent Residents Arranged Alphabetically and Numerically by Streets, Also Ladies' Maiden Names, Receiving Days, and Other Valuable Social Information; 7th Ed. (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Stolen Legacy (Hardcover): George G. M James Stolen Legacy (Hardcover)
George G. M James
R738 R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Save R86 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
20th Century Aesthetics - Towards A Theory of Feeling (Hardcover): Mario Perniola 20th Century Aesthetics - Towards A Theory of Feeling (Hardcover)
Mario Perniola; Translated by Massimo Verdicchio
R5,269 Discovery Miles 52 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In our contemporary age aesthetics seems to crumble and no longer be reducible to a coherent image. And yet given the vast amount of works in aesthetics produced in the last hundred years, this age could be defined "the century of aesthetics." "20th Century Aesthetics" is a new account of international aesthetic thought by Mario Perniola, one of Italy's leading contemporary thinkers. Starting from four conceptual fields - life, form, knowledge, action - Perniola identifies the lines of aesthetic reflection that derive from them and elucidates them with reference to major authors: from Dilthey to Foucault (aesthetics of life), from Wolfflin to McLuhan and Lyotard (aesthetics of form), from Croce to Goodman (aesthetics and knowledge), from Dewey to Bloom (aesthetics and action). There is also a fifth one that touches on the sphere of affectivity and emotionality, and which comes to aesthetics from thinkers like Freud, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Lacan, Derrida and Deleuze. The volume concludes with an extensive sixth chapter on Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Brazilian, South Korean and South East Asian aesthetic thought and on the present decline of Western aesthetic sensibility.

Shusterman's Pragmatism - Between Literature and Somaesthetics (Paperback): Dorota Koczanowicz, Wojciech Malecki Shusterman's Pragmatism - Between Literature and Somaesthetics (Paperback)
Dorota Koczanowicz, Wojciech Malecki
R2,270 Discovery Miles 22 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book is the first essay collection on Richard Shusterman, the foremost representative of contemporary pragmatist aesthetics, a philosopher whose books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. The 12 essays, which cover the wide-ranging scope of Shusterman's pragmatist thought, divide into three sections: Literary Theory and Philosophy of Art; Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics; and Somaesthetics. Written by an international group of authors from different philosophical perspectives, the book's essays not only provide a good introduction to Shusterman's innovative pragmatist theories, but show their useful applications to important and controversial topics in philosophy, politics, religious and gender studies, the arts, and somaesthetics. The book also includes two new texts by Shusterman: an introductory essay in which he explains the trajectory of his intellectual development and a detailed response to the other contributors, which closes the book.

The Philosophy of Plotinos [microform]. His Life, Times, and Philosophy (Hardcover): Kenneth Sylvan 1871-1940 Guthrie The Philosophy of Plotinos [microform]. His Life, Times, and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Kenneth Sylvan 1871-1940 Guthrie
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Toward Awakening (Hardcover): Jean Vaysse Toward Awakening (Hardcover)
Jean Vaysse
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Inaugural Address - Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867 (Paperback): John Stuart Mill Inaugural Address - Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867 (Paperback)
John Stuart Mill
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Wisdom and Philosophy: Contemporary and Comparative Approaches (Hardcover): Hans-Georg Moeller, Andrew K. Whitehead Wisdom and Philosophy: Contemporary and Comparative Approaches (Hardcover)
Hans-Georg Moeller, Andrew K. Whitehead
R4,633 Discovery Miles 46 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Wisdom and Philosophy: Contemporary and Comparative Approaches questions the nature of the relationship between wisdom and philosophy from an intercultural perspective. Bringing together an international mix of respected philosophers, this volume discusses similarities and differences of Western and Asian pursuits of wisdom and reflects on attempts to combine them. Contributors cover topics such as Confucian ethics, the acquisition of wisdom in pre-Qin literature and anecdotes of stupidity in the classical Chinese tradition, while also addressing contemporary topics such as global Buddhism and analytic metaphysics. Providing original examples of comparative philosophy, contributors look at ideas and arguments of thinkers such as Confucius, Zhuangzi and Zhu Xi alongside the work of Aristotle, Plato and Heidegger. Presenting Asian perspectives on philosophy as practical wisdom, Wisdom and Philosophy is a rare intercultural inquiry into the relation between wisdom and philosophy. It provides new ways of understanding how wisdom connects to philosophy and underlines the need to reintroduce it into philosophy today.

The Irony of Heidegger (Hardcover): Andrew Haas The Irony of Heidegger (Hardcover)
Andrew Haas
R4,950 Discovery Miles 49 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important new book offers the first full-length interpretation of the thought of Martin Heidegger with respect to irony. In a radical reading of Heidegger's major works (from "Being and Time" through the "Rector's Address" and the "Letter on Humanism" to "The Origin of the Work of Art" and the Spiegel interview), Andrew Haas does not claim that Heidegger is simply being ironic. Rather he argues that Heidegger's writings make such an interpretation possible - perhaps even necessary.Heidegger begins "Being and Time" with a quote from Plato, a thinker famous for his insistence upon Socratic irony. "The Irony of Heidegger" takes seriously the apparently curious decision to introduce the threat of irony even as philosophy begins in earnest to raise the question of the meaning of being. Through a detailed and thorough reading of Heidegger's major texts and the fundamental questions they raise, Haas reveals that one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century can be read with as much irony as earnestness. "The Irony of Heidegger" attempts to show that the essence of this irony lies in uncertainty, and that the entire project of onto-heno-chronophenomenology, therefore needs to be called into question.

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