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Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural
exploration of the interface between architecture and the body.
Chris L. Smith skilfully introduces and explains numerous concepts
drawn from poststructural philosophy to explore the manner by which
the architecture/body relation may be rethought in the 21st
century. Multiple well-known figures in the discourses of
poststructuralism are invoked: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,
Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jorges Luis
Borges and Michel Serres. These figures bring into view the
philosophical frame in which the body is formulated. Alongside the
philosophy, the architecture that Smith comes to refer to as 'bare
architecture' is explored. Smith considers architecture as a
complex construction and the book draws upon literature, art and
music, to provide a critique of the limits, extents and
opportunities for architecture itself. The book considers key works
from the architects Douglas Darden, Georges Pingusson, Lacatan and
Vassal, Carlo Scarpa, Peter Zumthor, Marco Casagrande and Sami
Rintala and Raumlabor. Such works are engaged for their capacities
to foster a rethinking of the relation between architecture and the
body.
What is given to us in conscious experience? The Given is an
attempt to answer this question and in this way contribute to a
general theory of mental content. The content of conscious
experience is understood to be absolutely everything that is given
to one, experientially, in the having of an experience. Michelle
Montague focuses on the analysis of conscious perception, conscious
emotion, and conscious thought, and deploys three fundamental
notions in addition to the fundamental notion of content: the
notions of intentionality, phenomenology, and consciousness. She
argues that all experience essentially involves all four things,
and that the key to an adequate general theory of what is given in
experience-of 'the given'-lies in giving a correct specification of
the nature of these four things and the relations between them.
Montague argues that conscious perception, conscious thought, and
conscious emotion each have a distinctive, irreducible kind of
phenomenology-what she calls 'sensory phenomenology', 'cognitive
phenomenology', and 'evaluative phenomenology' respectively-and
that these kinds of phenomenology are essential in accounting for
the intentionality of these mental phenomena.
What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to
our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the
Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at
the tensions between Indigenous political philosophy and the
challenges faced by Indigenous nations in building political
institutions that address contemporary problems and enact "good
governance." Specifically, it looks at Navajo, or Dine, political
thought, focusing on traditional Dine institutions that offer "a
new (old) understanding of contemporary governance challenges"
facing the Navajo Nation. Arguing not only for the existence but
also the persistence of traditional Navajo political thought and
policy, Guided by the Mountains asserts that "traditional"
Indigenous philosophy provides a model for creating effective
governance institutions that address current issues faced by
Indigenous nations. Incorporating both visual interpretations and
narrative accounts of traditional and contemporary Dine
institutions of government from Dine philosophers, the book is the
first to represent Indigenous philosophy as the foundation behind
traditional and contemporary governance. It also explains how Dine
governance institutions operated during Pre-Contact and
Post-Contact times. This path-breaking book stands as the
first-time normative account of Dine philosophy.
This book deals with a central aspect of Marx's critique of society
that is usually not examined further since it is taken as a matter
of course: its scientific claim of being true. But what concept of
truth underlies his way of reasoning which attempts to comprehend
the social and political circumstances in terms of the possibility
of their practical upheaval? In three studies focusing specifically
on the development of Marx's scientific critique of capitalist
society, his journalistic commentaries on European politics, and
his reflections on the organisation of revolutionary subjectivity,
the authors carve out the immanent relation between the
scientifically substantiated claim to truth and the revolutionary
perspective in Marx's writings. They argue that Marx does not grasp
the world 'as it is' but conceives it as an inverted state which
cannot remain what it is but generates the means by which it can
eventually be overcome. This is not something to be taken lightly:
Such a concept has theoretical, political and even violent
consequences-consequences that nevertheless derive neither from a
subjective error nor a contamination of an otherwise 'pure'
science. By analyzing Marx's concept of truth the authors also
attempt to shed light on a pivotal problematique of any modern
critique of society that raises a reasoned claim of being true.
Philosophic attention shifted after Hegel from Kant s emphasis on
sensibility to criticism and analyses of the fine arts. The arts
themselves seemed as ample as nature; a disciplined science could
devote as much energy to one as the other. But then the arts began
to splinter because of new technologies: photography displaced
figurative painting; hearing recorded music reduced the interest in
learning to play it. The firm interiority that Hegel assumed was
undermined by the speed, mechanization, and distractions of modern
life. We inherit two problems: restore quality and conviction in
the arts; cultivate the interiority the sensibility that is a
condition for judgment in every domain. What is sensibility s role
in experiences of every sort, but especially those provoked when
art is made and enjoyed?"
Toward the beginning of 2013, I received reports of passages in the
Black Notebooks that offered observations on Jewry, or as the case
may be, world Jewry. It immediately became clear to me that the
publication of the Black Notebooks would call forth a wide-spread
international debate. Already in the Spring of 2013, I had asked
Professor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, last private assistant -
and in the words of my grandfather, the "chief co-worker of the
complete edition", - if he might review the Notebooks as a whole,
based on his profound insight into the thought of Martin Heidegger,
and in particular, review those Jewish-related passages that were
the focus of the public eye. Publications about the Black Notebooks
quickly came to propagate catchy expressions such as
"being-historical anti-Semitism" and "metaphysical anti-Semitism".
The first question that obviously arises is: Does the thought of
Martin Heidegger exhibit any kind of anti-Semitism at all? In this
book Professor von Herrmann now advances his hermeneutic
explication. With Professor Francesco Alfieri of the Pontificia
Universita Lateranense he has found a colleague who has drawn up a
comprehensive philological analysis of volumes GA 94 through GA 97
of the Complete Edition. The fact that Heidegger designated the
hitherto published "black notebooks" as Ponderings (UEberlegungen)
and as Observations (Anmerkungen) has been given little
consideration. He intentionally placed them at the conclusion of
the Complete Edition because without acquaintance with the
lectures, and above all, with the being-historical treatises that
would come to be published in the framework of the Complete
Edition, they would not be comprehensible. (Arnulf Heidegger)
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Anti-Machiavel
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Innocent Gentillet; Edited by Ryan Murtha; Translated by Simon Patericke
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Gandhi and Philosophy presents a breakthrough in philosophy by
foregrounding modern and scientific elements in Gandhi's thought,
animating the dazzling materialist concepts in his writings and
opening philosophy to the new frontier of nihilism. This
scintillating work breaks with the history of Gandhi scholarship,
removing him from the postcolonial and Hindu-nationalist axis and
disclosing him to be the enemy that the philosopher dreads and
needs. Naming the congealing systematicity of Gandhi's thoughts
with the Kantian term hypophysics, Mohan and Dwivedi develop his
ideas through a process of reason that awakens the possibilities of
concepts beyond the territorial determination of philosophical
traditions. The creation of the new method of criticalisation - the
augmentation of critique - brings Gandhi's system to its exterior
and release. It shows the points of intersection and infiltration
between Gandhian concepts and such issues as will, truth, violence,
law, anarchy, value, politics and metaphysics and compels us to
imagine Gandhi's thought anew.
Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives
shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a
complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and
constructed places- location, topography, landscape, and buildings.
It also refers to the psychological, social, and cultural
influences at work at a given location. These elements act in
concert to constitute a place. Carlisle incorporates perspectives
from writers like Edward S. Casey, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Yi-Fu
Tuan, and Witold Rybczynski, but he applies theory with a light
touch. Placing this literature in dialog with personal experience,
he concentrates on two places that profoundly influenced him and
enabled him to overcome a lifelong sense of always leaving his
pasts behind. The first is Clover Hollow in Appalachian Virginia,
where the author lived for ten years among fifth-, sixth-, and
seventh-generation residents. The people and places there enabled
him to value his own past and primary places in a new way. The
story then turns to Carlisle's life growing up in Delaware, Ohio.
He describes in rich detail the ways the town shaped him in both
enabling and disabling ways. In the end, after years of moving from
place to place, Carlisle's experience in Appalachia helped him
rediscover his hometown-both the Old Delaware, where he grew up,
and the New Delaware, a larger, thriving small city-as his true
home. The themes of the book transcend specific localities and
speak to the relationship of self and place everywhere.
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The Art of Life
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Marie Alphonse Ren Maulde La Claviere, George Herbert 1866-1958 Ely, Carrie Chapman 1859-1947 Catt
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This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a
pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other argumentative.
The first, enveloped in the second, holds that the significance of
allegory Gilles Deleuze recognized in Walter Benjamin's 1928
monograph on seventeenth century drama is itself attested in key
aspects of Kantian, Leibnizian, and Platonic philosophy (to wit, in
the respective forms by which thought is phrased, predicated, and
proposed).The second, enveloping the first, is a literalist claim
about predication itself - namely, that the aesthetics of agitation
and hallucination so emblematic of the Baroque sensibility (as
attested in its emblem-books) adduces an avowedly metaphysical
'naturalism' in which thought is replete with predicates. Oriented
by Barbara Cassin's development of the concerted sense in which
homonyms are critically distinct from synonyms, the philosophical
claim here is that 'the Baroque' names the intervallic [ ] relation
that thought establishes between things. On this account, any
subject finds its unity in a concerted state of disquiet - a
state-rempli in which, phenomenologically speaking, experience
comprises as much seeing as reading (as St Jerome encountering
Origen's Hexapla).
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