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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Postmodernism > Structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism

Derrida - Writing Events (Hardcover): Simon Wortham Derrida - Writing Events (Hardcover)
Simon Wortham
R6,211 Discovery Miles 62 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian migr , a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figure obsessed by the singularity of the literary or philosophical event, Derrida emerges as one whose thought always arrives on occasion. But how are we to understand the event in Derrida? Is there a risk that such stories of Derridas work tend to misunderstand the essential unpredictability at work in the conditions of his thought? And how are we to reconcile the importance in Derrida of the unknowable event, the pull of the singular, with deconstructions critical and philosophical rigour and its claims to rethink more systematically the ethico-political field. This book argues that this negotiation in fact allows deconstruction to reformulate the very questions that we associate with ethical and political responsibility and shows this to be the central interest in Derridas work.

The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory (Paperback): Thomas Osborne The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory (Paperback)
Thomas Osborne
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to current fashions. Focusing on the work of Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault the book argues that in spite of their differences these authors shared particularly 'modern' understandings of culture, creativity and human agency; understandings centred on the ideas of critical autonomy and creativity of thought. Even though all three were committed to scholarly empirical research, for them the function of cultural theory was not just to describe the world positivistically 'as it is' (or was) but to cultivate the conditions for ethical autonomy in their readerships by opening up ways for thinking differently and exposing the fetishisms and blockages that hinder that task. -- .

The Roar of Awakening - A Whiteheadian Dialogue Between Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews (Hardcover): George... The Roar of Awakening - A Whiteheadian Dialogue Between Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews (Hardcover)
George Derfer, Zhihe Wang, Michel Weber
R4,506 Discovery Miles 45 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in various cultural traditions. This Whiteheadian Dialogue explores afresh an important cross-elucidatory path: what have we, and what can be learned from a dialogue with Eastern worldviews? In order to generate meaningful contrasts between these different systems of thought, all the papers address common core issues. On one hand, how does the given system understand the interaction of the individual, society, and nature (or cosmos)? On the other hand, what is the paradigm of all pathology and what is its typical or curative pattern?

Applied Process Thought II - Following a Trail Ablaze (Hardcover): Mark Dibben, Rebecca Newton Applied Process Thought II - Following a Trail Ablaze (Hardcover)
Mark Dibben, Rebecca Newton
R8,585 Discovery Miles 85 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in the sciences can be opened as a result.

Freud's Memory - Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body (Hardcover, First): R. White Freud's Memory - Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body (Hardcover, First)
R. White
R2,869 Discovery Miles 28 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A wide-ranging reading of Freud's work, this book focuses on Freud's scientifically discredited ideas about inherited memory in relation both to poststructuralist debates about mourning, and to certain uncanny figurative traits in his writing. "Freud's Memory" argues for an enriched understanding of the strangenesses in Freud rather than any denunciation of psychoanalysis as a bogus explanatory method.

Meinongian Issues in Contemporary Italian Philosophy (Hardcover): Alfred Schramm Meinongian Issues in Contemporary Italian Philosophy (Hardcover)
Alfred Schramm
R5,247 Discovery Miles 52 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The series presents historical and systematic studies on the philosophy of Alexius Meinong and his school, as well as on works influenced by aspects of Meinong's philosophy. Furthermore, the series is open to contributions in the analytic-phenomenological tradition, mirroring the most recent developments in these disciplines.

The Last Man Takes LSD - Foucault and the End of Revolution (Hardcover): Daniel Zamora, Mitchell Dean The Last Man Takes LSD - Foucault and the End of Revolution (Hardcover)
Daniel Zamora, Mitchell Dean
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. His focus now would not be on power relations but on the experiments of subjectivity, and the care of the self. Through this lens he would reinterpret the social movements of May 68 and position himself politically in France in relation to the emergent ant-totalitarian and anti-welfare state currents. He would also come to appreciate the possibilities of autonomy offered by a new force on the French political scene that was neither of the Left nor the Right: neoliberalism.

Phenomenology as Grammar (Hardcover): Jesus Padilla Galvez Phenomenology as Grammar (Hardcover)
Jesus Padilla Galvez
R3,662 Discovery Miles 36 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume gathers papers, which were read at the congress held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of phenomenology. The book is devoted to Wittgenstein's thoughts on phenomenology. One of its aims is to consider and examine the lasting importance of phenomenology for philosophic discussion. For E. Husserl phenomenology was a discipline that endeavoured to describe how the world is constituted and experienced through a series of conscious acts. His fundamental concept was that of intentional consciousness. What did drag Wittgenstein into working on phenomenology? In his 'middle period' work, Wittgenstein used the headline 'Phenomenology is Grammar'. These cornerstones can be signalled by notions like language, grammar, rule, visual space versus Euclidean space, minima visibilia and colours. L. Wittgenstein's main interest takes the form of a research on language.

Deconstruction and Democracy (Paperback): Alex Thomson Deconstruction and Democracy (Paperback)
Alex Thomson
R2,350 Discovery Miles 23 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No democracy without deconstruction. Deconstruction and Democracy evaluates and substantiates Derrida's provocative claim, assessing the importance of this influential and controversial contemporary philosopher's work for political thought. Derrida addressed political questions more and more explicitly in his writing, yet there is still confusion over the politics of deconstruction. Alex Thomson argues for a fresh understanding of Derrida's work, which acknowledges both the political dimension of deconstruction and its potential contribution to our thinking about politics. The book provides cogent analysis and exegesis of Derrida's political writings; explores the implications for political theory and practice of Derrida's work; and brings Derrida's work into dialogue with other major strands of contemporary political thought. Deconstruction and Democracy is the clearest and most detailed engagement available with the politics of deconstruction, and is a major contribution to scholarship on the later works of Jacques Derrida, most notably his Politics of Friendship.

The Politics of Deconstruction - Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy (Paperback): Martin McQuillan The Politics of Deconstruction - Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy (Paperback)
Martin McQuillan
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The work of Jacques Derrida has been of singular importance in the development of contemporary political theory and political philosophy, being a major influence and inspiration to Slavoj Zizek, Richard Rorty, Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler and many more contemporary thinkers. This text brings together a truly first class line up of Derrida scholars who are developing a deconstructive approach to politics. Deconstruction is an immanent critique, looking at the internal logic of any given text or discourse, revealing how particular concepts are established as authoritative principles through a variety of textual and rhetorical devices. A deconstructive reading would then expose how an apparently authoritative concept, when looked at closely, is contradictory and contingent on a host of external relations - with the effect of undermining the force of the text or discourse from which the concept originates. Such a critical method has proved revolutionary in much political analysis, particularly ideology critique.

Autobiography (Hardcover): Nicholas Rescher Autobiography (Hardcover)
Nicholas Rescher
R4,531 Discovery Miles 45 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War II. After training in philosophy at Princeton University he embarked on a long and active career as professor, lecturer, and writer. His many books on a wide variety of philosophical topics have established him as one of the most productive and versatile contributors to 20th century philosophical thought, combining historical and analytical investigators to articulate an amalgam of German idealism with American pragmatism. The book accordingly has two dimensions, both as a contribution to German-American cultural interaction and as a contribution to the history of philosophical ideas

Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue - Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg,... Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue - Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria (Hardcover)
Christian Kanzian, Edmund Runggaldier Sj
R3,716 Discovery Miles 37 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? - This question was the general theme of the 29th international symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society in Kirchberg. Worldwide leading philosophers accepted the invitation to come to the conference, whose results are published in this volume, edited by Christian Kanzian Edmund Runggaldier. The sections are dedicated to the philosophy of Wittgenstein, Logics and Philosophy of Language, Decision- and Action Theory, Ethical Aspects of the Intercultural Dialogue, Intercultural Dialogue, and last not least to Social Ontology. Our edition include (among others) contributions authored by Peter Hacker, Jennifer Hornsby, John Hyman, Michael Kober, Richard Rorty, Hans Rott, Gerhard Schurz, Barry Smith, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Franz Wimmer, and Kwasi Wiredu.

Metamorfosis - Hacia Una Teoria Materialista del Devenir (English, Spanish, Paperback): Rosi Braidotti Metamorfosis - Hacia Una Teoria Materialista del Devenir (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Rosi Braidotti
R1,117 Discovery Miles 11 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Desde sus inicios, los estudios feministas se han caracterizado por el cruce fecundo de disciplinas intelectuales diversas, un analisis critico de la codificacion patriarcal de los saberes recibidos y la apuesta por el desarrollo de un proyecto politico. Un envite que Rosi Braidotti retoma con nuevo vigor en este ambicioso libro. La autora arranca de su concepcion filosofica de la diferencia sexual elaborada a traves de la discusion con la obra de Gilles Deleuze y Luce Irigaray. A partir de este paradigma, enjuicia severamente tanto las lecturas mas complacientes y mutiladoras que se hacen de estos autores como toda una serie de conceptos fraguados en la celebracion posmoderna de la disolucion del sujeto, la ausencia de certezas absolutas, la idealizacion de las transformaciones provocadas por el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologias y la fuga aparente de los dualismos. Su objetivo es encontrar representaciones y figuraciones que realmente sirvan para transformar la realidad social en vez de contentarse con las fragiles apariencias y celebraciones gratuitas de la critica cultural posmoderna. En "Metamorfosis," la etica, la sexualidad, la tecnologia, la carne, la sostenibilidad, el deseo y la especificidad historica son los vectores del devenir del sujeto politico en los albores del milenio.

Reinventing the Soul - Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (Paperback): Mari Ruti Reinventing the Soul - Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (Paperback)
Mari Ruti
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies.
How does the self care for itself in the posthumanist era? What psychic processes might allow the postmodern subject to find meaning and value in its life? Is it possible to delineate a theory of psychic potentiality that is compatible with poststructuralist models of fluid, decentered, and polyvalent subjectivity?
"Reinventing the Soul" offers a new perspective on what it means to be a human being and to strive in the world despite the wounding effects of the socialization process. Drawing on the rich legacies of French poststructuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Ruti builds an affirmative alternative to the post-Foucaultian tendency to envision subjectivity as a function of hegemonic systems of power. She proposes that the subject's encounter with the world also necessarily activates the psyche's innovative potential. By focusing on matters of creative agency, imaginative empowerment, inner metamorphosis, and self-actualization, Ruti outlines some of the mechanisms by which the psyche manages not only to survive its lack, alienation, or suffering, but also to transform its abjection into an existentially livable reality. Central to Ruti's argument is the idea that human beings relate to the world in active rather than merely passive ways--as dynamic creators of meaning rather than as powerless dupes of disciplinary power.

Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory - The Novel from Structuralism to Postmodernism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006): M.... Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory - The Novel from Structuralism to Postmodernism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006)
M. Greaney
R1,478 Discovery Miles 14 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This topical study examines the 'novelizations' of radical literary theory in the work of A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Richard Powers and many other leading novelists. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the 'post-theoretical novel', and traces an alternative history of the 'theory revolution' in recent literary fiction.

Deconstruction and Democracy (Hardcover, New): Alex Thomson Deconstruction and Democracy (Hardcover, New)
Alex Thomson
R6,238 Discovery Miles 62 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Derrida's claim that 'without deconstruction there can be no responsible political thought' is one of his most provocative, and one that even his most vocal admirers have been reluctant to endorse fully. Deconstruction and Democracy evaluates and substantiates Derrida's assertion, assessing the importance of this eminent contemporary philosopher's work for political thought. From the early 1980s onwards, Derrida has addressed political subjects more and more explicitly; here Alex Thomson argues that the time has come for a fresh understanding of deconstruction -- one that acknowledges its relevance for, and potential contribution to, political thinking. The book provides cogent analysis and exegesis of Derrida's often rather abstruse and impenetrable political writings; explores the implications for political theory and practice of Derrida's work; and brings Derrida's work into dialogue with other major strands of contemporary political thought. Deconstruction and Democracy is the clearest and most detailed engagement available with the politics of deconstruction, and is a major contribution to scholarship on the later work of Jacques Derrida, most notably his Politics of Friendship.

La science et le monde moderne d'Alfred North Whitehead? - Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World... La science et le monde moderne d'Alfred North Whitehead? - Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (Hardcover)
Francois Beets, Michel Dupuis, Michel Weber
R6,499 Discovery Miles 64 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The second international Chromatiques whiteheadiennes conference was devoted exclusively to the exegesis and contextualization of Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (1925). In order to elucidate the meaning and significance of this epoch-making work, the Proceedings are designed to form "companion" volume. With one paper devoted to each of its thirteen chapters, the Proceedings aim, on the one hand, to identify the specific contribution of each chapter to Whitehead's own research program - that is to say, to put its categories into perspective by means of an internal analysis- and, on the other hand, to identify its global impact in the history of ideas.

Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory - A New Cosmopolitanism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): P. Leonard Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory - A New Cosmopolitanism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
P. Leonard
R1,482 Discovery Miles 14 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism examines and interrogates recent work on nationality in literal, critical and cultural theory. Focusing on the work of Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva, Spivak, and Bhabha, it explores how, for these theorists, the concepts of community, the new International, nomadism, deterritorialization, cosmopolitanism, hospitality, the native informant, hybridity and postcolonial agency can provoke a different understanding of national identity.

The Ghosts of Justice - Heidegger, Derrida and the Fate of Deconstruction (Paperback): Ashok Kara The Ghosts of Justice - Heidegger, Derrida and the Fate of Deconstruction (Paperback)
Ashok Kara
R1,022 R837 Discovery Miles 8 370 Save R185 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ideology After Poststructuralism (Hardcover): Sinisa Malesevic, Iain Mackenzie Ideology After Poststructuralism (Hardcover)
Sinisa Malesevic, Iain Mackenzie
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ideology is one of the most hotly disputed terms in the lexicon of social and political theory. It continues to generate intellectual dispute more than 200 years after its birth in the fervour of the French Revolution. The most recent battle-lines around the idea of ideology have formed in the aftermath of the strident critique of ideology launched by post-structuralists such as Foucault and Deleuze. Their claim that "there is no such thing as ideology" has created a theoretical environment which polarizes critical opinion either for or against ideology.;This work aims to break with this culture of antagonism by bringing together leading scholars in the field to establish a dialogue between post-structuralism and ideology critique. For the post-structuralists there is a need to generate a sensitive account of ideology so as to bolster their claim that they have a significant contribution to make to social and political criticism. For the ideology theorists there is a need to engage with the post-structuralist critique of ideology without taking the assumptions that post-structuralists have so thoroughly criticized. The essays in this book aim to show how the intellectual posturing

Selfhood and Authenticity (Paperback): Corey Anton Selfhood and Authenticity (Paperback)
Corey Anton
R1,005 Discovery Miles 10 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Poststructuralism and International Relations - Bringing the Political Back in (Hardcover): Jenny Edkins Poststructuralism and International Relations - Bringing the Political Back in (Hardcover)
Jenny Edkins
R1,786 R1,372 Discovery Miles 13 720 Save R414 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offering an introduction to the major poststructuralist thinkers, this text shows how Foucault, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek expose the depoliticization found in conventional international relations theory. poststructuralists are concerned with the big questions of international politics: it is precisely their work that analyzes the political and explains the processes of depoliticization and technologization. Paying particular attention to notions of the subject and subjectivity in relation to the political, and to the relationship between ideology and social reality, the author explores why Foucault and others matter for international relations.

Derrida and Other Animals - The Boundaries of the Human (Paperback): Judith Still Derrida and Other Animals - The Boundaries of the Human (Paperback)
Judith Still
R941 R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Save R108 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What is man? Judith Still examines Derrida's contribution to this long-standing philosophical and political debate, which has typically evoked a significant division between human beings and other animals. Derrida pays close attention to how animals are used to explore humanity in a range of writings, including fables and fiction. This leads to ethical questions about how humans treat animals: sacrificing animals (say, in factory farms) while extending love to pets. And it leads to political questions about how we dehumanise 'outsiders', from historical matters such as colonialism and slavery to contemporary issues such as State Terror in response to 'rogue states'.

Biopolitics for Beginners - Knowledge of Life and Government of People (Paperback): Ottavio Marzocca Biopolitics for Beginners - Knowledge of Life and Government of People (Paperback)
Ottavio Marzocca
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Animal Lessons - How They Teach Us to Be Human (Paperback): Kelly Oliver Animal Lessons - How They Teach Us to Be Human (Paperback)
Kelly Oliver
R846 R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Save R79 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose, animals show us how not to be them.

This kinship plays out in a number of ways. We sacrifice animals to establish human kinship, but without the animal, the bonds of "brotherhood" fall apart. Either kinship with animals is possible or kinship with humans is impossible. Philosophy holds that humans and animals are distinct, but in defending this position, the discipline depends on a discourse that relies on the animal for its very definition of the human. Through these and other examples, Oliver does more than just establish an animal ethics. She transforms ethics by showing how its very origin is dependent upon the animal. Examining for the first time the treatment of the animal in the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva, among others, "Animal Lessons" argues that the animal bites back, thereby reopening the question of the animal for philosophy.

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