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Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Political - Essays on Dante (Hardcover): Massimo Cacciari Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Political - Essays on Dante (Hardcover)
Massimo Cacciari; Edited by Alessandro Carrera; Introduction by Alessandro Carrera; Translated by Giorgio Mobili
R2,164 R1,867 Discovery Miles 18 670 Save R297 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Bare Architecture - A Schizoanalysis (Hardcover): Chris L. Smith Bare Architecture - A Schizoanalysis (Hardcover)
Chris L. Smith
R4,039 Discovery Miles 40 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Philosophy of Literature (Hardcover): Donald Phillip Verene The Philosophy of Literature (Hardcover)
Donald Phillip Verene
R1,022 R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Save R192 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Given - Experience and its Content (Hardcover): Michelle Montague The Given - Experience and its Content (Hardcover)
Michelle Montague
R1,534 Discovery Miles 15 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Guided by the Mountains - Navajo Political Philosophy and Governance (Hardcover): Michael Lerma Guided by the Mountains - Navajo Political Philosophy and Governance (Hardcover)
Michael Lerma; Foreword by Avery Denny; Afterword by Robert Yazzie
R2,128 Discovery Miles 21 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Truth and Revolution in Marx's Critique of Society - Studies on a Fundamental Problematique (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023):... Truth and Revolution in Marx's Critique of Society - Studies on a Fundamental Problematique (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Matthias Bohlender, Anna-Sophie Schoenfelder, Matthias Spekker
R3,570 Discovery Miles 35 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Sensibility and the Sublime (Hardcover): David Weissman Sensibility and the Sublime (Hardcover)
David Weissman
R2,889 Discovery Miles 28 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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?"

Martin Heidegger and the Truth About the Black Notebooks (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Friedrich-Wilhelm Von Herrmann, Francesco... Martin Heidegger and the Truth About the Black Notebooks (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Friedrich-Wilhelm Von Herrmann, Francesco Alfieri
R2,577 Discovery Miles 25 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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)

The Charmed Triangle - Religion, Science and Spirituality - Breaking Out of Belief (Hardcover): Bill K. Koul, Vijay Narain... The Charmed Triangle - Religion, Science and Spirituality - Breaking Out of Belief (Hardcover)
Bill K. Koul, Vijay Narain Shankar
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Tragedy of Philosophy (Philosophy and Dogma) (Hardcover): Sergij Bulgakov The Tragedy of Philosophy (Philosophy and Dogma) (Hardcover)
Sergij Bulgakov; Foreword by John Milbank; Translated by Stephen Churchyard
R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dialectic, Rhetoric and Contrast: The Infinite Middle of Meaning (Hardcover): Richard Boulton Dialectic, Rhetoric and Contrast: The Infinite Middle of Meaning (Hardcover)
Richard Boulton
R1,293 Discovery Miles 12 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Seagull Lunch and Other Nature Poems - (Save Our Planet!) (Hardcover): S.T. Kimbrough A Seagull Lunch and Other Nature Poems - (Save Our Planet!) (Hardcover)
S.T. Kimbrough
R844 R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anti-Machiavel (Hardcover): Innocent Gentillet Anti-Machiavel (Hardcover)
Innocent Gentillet; Edited by Ryan Murtha; Translated by Simon Patericke
R2,153 R1,684 Discovery Miles 16 840 Save R469 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gandhi and Philosophy - On Theological Anti-Politics (Hardcover): Shaj Mohan, Divya Dwivedi Gandhi and Philosophy - On Theological Anti-Politics (Hardcover)
Shaj Mohan, Divya Dwivedi; Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy
R3,715 Discovery Miles 37 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Individual Autonomy and Responsibility in Late Imperial China (Hardcover): Paolo Santangelo Individual Autonomy and Responsibility in Late Imperial China (Hardcover)
Paolo Santangelo
R2,837 Discovery Miles 28 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leviathan (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover): Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Thomas Hobbes
R1,531 R1,117 Discovery Miles 11 170 Save R414 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Notes on Democracy (Hardcover): H.L. Mencken Notes on Democracy (Hardcover)
H.L. Mencken
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place (Hardcover): E Fred Carlisle Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place (Hardcover)
E Fred Carlisle
R1,863 R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Save R333 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings (Hardcover): Helen E Cullen A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings (Hardcover)
Helen E Cullen; Illustrated by Joan T Cullen; Edited by Mary Sue Ferrari
R1,583 Discovery Miles 15 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover):... Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
John Bunyan
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Law of Attraction for Motivation - How to Get and Stay Motivated to Attract the Life You Have Always Wanted and Be Unstoppable... Law of Attraction for Motivation - How to Get and Stay Motivated to Attract the Life You Have Always Wanted and Be Unstoppable (Hardcover)
Elena G Rivers
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What's Wrong with the World (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Gilbert K.... What's Wrong with the World (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Gilbert K. Chesterton
R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Art of Life (Hardcover): Marie Alphonse Ren Maulde La Claviere, George Herbert 1866-1958 Ely, Carrie Chapman 1859-1947 Catt The Art of Life (Hardcover)
Marie Alphonse Ren Maulde La Claviere, George Herbert 1866-1958 Ely, Carrie Chapman 1859-1947 Catt
R915 Discovery Miles 9 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
UnMasked - The Science that Suggests Your Muzzle Spreads COVID (Hardcover): Anthony Horvath UnMasked - The Science that Suggests Your Muzzle Spreads COVID (Hardcover)
Anthony Horvath
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze - The Art of Least Distances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Tim Flanagan Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze - The Art of Least Distances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Tim Flanagan
R3,059 Discovery Miles 30 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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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