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Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophy, Society, and Aesthetics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Stefano Petrucciani Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophy, Society, and Aesthetics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Stefano Petrucciani
R3,611 Discovery Miles 36 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a complete presentation of the most important themes of Theodor W. Adorno's critical theory, and of its relevance for the understanding of the modern society. After an Introduction, which traces Adorno's biographical and intellectual profile, the book is structured in three parts. The first is devoted to theoretical philosophy, and in particular to the concepts of philosophy, negative dialectics and metaphysics, and his aim is to clarify the Adornian understanding of such difficult concepts. The second is devoted to the main themes of Adorno's social theory: the concept of domination, the relationship with Marxism, the theory of the decay of the individual, the critique of mass manipulation. The third part is devoted to aesthetics and culture criticism, and entails a conclusion in which the author outlines a confrontation between the Adornian and the Habermasian critique of modernity.

Between Discipline and a Hard Place - The Value of Contemporary Art (Hardcover): Alana Jelinek Between Discipline and a Hard Place - The Value of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
Alana Jelinek
R2,858 Discovery Miles 28 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who may define what art really is. Jelinek contends that while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its liberal democratic potential. Between Discipline and a Hard Place describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called 'creative' arts. A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art world.

Applying Jewish Ethics - Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition (Hardcover): Jennifer A. Thompson, Allison B Wolf Applying Jewish Ethics - Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition (Hardcover)
Jennifer A. Thompson, Allison B Wolf; Contributions by Leah Kalmanson, Andrea Lehner, Naomi Scheman, …
R2,171 Discovery Miles 21 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition is a groundbreaking collection that introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely under-represented, Jewish ethical perspectives. For thousands of years, a rich and complex system of Jewish ethics has provided guidance about which values we should uphold and utilize to confront concrete problems, create a healthy social fabric, and inspire meaningful lives. Despite its longevity and richness, many Judaic and secular scholars have misconstrued this ethical tradition as a strictly religious and biblically based system that primarily applies to observant Jews, rather than viewing it as an ethical system that can provide unique and helpful insights to anyone, religious or not. This pioneering collection offers a deep, broad, and inclusive understanding of Jewish ethical ideas that challenges these misconceptions. The chapters explain and apply these ethical ideas to contemporary issues connected to racial justice, immigration, gender justice, queer identity, and economic and environmental justice in ways that illustrate their relevance for Jews and non-Jews alike.

A Logical Approach to Spirituality - Shattering the Religious Paradigm and Finding Your Inner Truth (Hardcover): Randy Kleinman A Logical Approach to Spirituality - Shattering the Religious Paradigm and Finding Your Inner Truth (Hardcover)
Randy Kleinman
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century, Volume 6 (Hardcover): Dov M. Gabbay, Akihiro Kanamori, John Woods Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century, Volume 6 (Hardcover)
Dov M. Gabbay, Akihiro Kanamori, John Woods
R7,452 R5,126 Discovery Miles 51 260 Save R2,326 (31%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Set theory is an autonomous and sophisticated field of mathematics that is extremely successful at analyzing mathematical propositions and gauging their consistency strength. It is as a field of mathematics that both proceeds with its own internal questions and is capable of contextualizing over a broad range, which makes set theory an intriguing and highly distinctive subject. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific turning points in set theory, providing fresh insights and points of view. Written by leading researchers in the field, both this volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools for senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in mathematics, the history of philosophy, and any discipline such as computer science, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his or her work is a salient consideration
Serves as a singular contribution to the intellectual history of the 20th centuryContains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights

The Penumbra of Personhood - 'Anti-Humanism' reconsidered (Hardcover): G.V. Loewen The Penumbra of Personhood - 'Anti-Humanism' reconsidered (Hardcover)
G.V. Loewen
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Logic and Implication - An Introduction to the General Algebraic Study of Non-classical Logics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Petr... Logic and Implication - An Introduction to the General Algebraic Study of Non-classical Logics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Petr Cintula, Carles Noguera
R3,451 Discovery Miles 34 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph presents a general theory of weakly implicative logics, a family covering a vast number of non-classical logics studied in the literature, concentrating mainly on the abstract study of the relationship between logics and their algebraic semantics. It can also serve as an introduction to (abstract) algebraic logic, both propositional and first-order, with special attention paid to the role of implication, lattice and residuated connectives, and generalized disjunctions. Based on their recent work, the authors develop a powerful uniform framework for the study of non-classical logics. In a self-contained and didactic style, starting from very elementary notions, they build a general theory with a substantial number of abstract results. The theory is then applied to obtain numerous results for prominent families of logics and their algebraic counterparts, in particular for superintuitionistic, modal, substructural, fuzzy, and relevant logics. The book may be of interest to a wide audience, especially students and scholars in the fields of mathematics, philosophy, computer science, or related areas, looking for an introduction to a general theory of non-classical logics and their algebraic semantics.

Badiou and Indifferent Being - A Critical Introduction to Being and Event (Hardcover, HPOD): William Watkin Badiou and Indifferent Being - A Critical Introduction to Being and Event (Hardcover, HPOD)
William Watkin
R3,215 Discovery Miles 32 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results. Looking back on its publication Badiou declared: "I had inscribed my name in the history of philosophy". Later he was brave enough to admit that this inscription needed correction. The central elements of Badiou's philosophy only make sense when Being and Event is read through the corrective prism of its sequel, Logics of Worlds, published nearly twenty years later. At the same time as presenting the only complete overview of Badiou's philosophical project, this book is also the first to draw out the central component of Badiou's ontology: indifference. Concentrating on its use across the core elements Being and Event-the void, the multiple, the set and the event-Watkin demonstrates that no account of Badiou's ontology is complete unless it accepts that Badiou's philosophy is primarily a presentation of indifferent being. Badiou and Indifferent Being provides a detailed and lively section by section reading of Badiou's foundational work. It is a seminal source text for all Badiou readers.

Brain in Mind - Ontology Becomes Pragmatic Design in the Unstructured (Hardcover): Herbert Fj Muller Brain in Mind - Ontology Becomes Pragmatic Design in the Unstructured (Hardcover)
Herbert Fj Muller
R569 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Our work in psychiatry always involves both sides of the mind-body divide. But despite much effort to clarify the nature of the relation between mind and body, this question is still a riddle. That is a puzzling situation, to put it mildly.

One central unresolved question in understanding the mind-brain relationship is not of an experimental type but stems from difficulties in the use of concepts. St. Augustine ( 400 CE) wrote that it is impossible for humans to understand how the mind is attached to the body. Despite the inherent paradox that humans as minds plus bodies are entirely puzzling and incomprehensible, this would appear to be an accurate statement until now, despite an extensive literature that tries to solve the difficulty, particularly as a result of the recent increase in the knowledge of brain function.

This essay, "Brain in Mind," shows that the difficulty is due to the Occidental tradition of metaphysics-ontology, which claims that reality is mindindependent; that belief eliminates the mind from reality, because the mind cannot become mind-independent. Principles from phenomenology (Jaspers) and constructivism (von Glasersfeld and others), and the awareness that all reality-structures involve the subject's pragmatic designing activity in an unstructured background, show a contradiction-free way of dealing with the question, which is also of help for other areas of knowledge.

18 and Life - From Psychopath to Proselyte (Hardcover): Dan Stevens 18 and Life - From Psychopath to Proselyte (Hardcover)
Dan Stevens
R800 R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Save R64 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On the Nature of Things (Hardcover): Lucretius On the Nature of Things (Hardcover)
Lucretius
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Theory of Human Things (Hardcover): Chia-Hsi Josh Wu The Theory of Human Things (Hardcover)
Chia-Hsi Josh Wu; Edited by C. G. Bateman
R1,965 Discovery Miles 19 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness - Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth (Hardcover):... Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness - Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth (Hardcover)
Lorraine D Nilon; Illustrated by Katherine J Close
R769 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Proposed Roads to Freedom - A Philosophy of Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism as Man's Perfect Government and... The Proposed Roads to Freedom - A Philosophy of Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism as Man's Perfect Government and Society (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Bertrand Russell
R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Proposed Roads to Freedom is a treatise by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, which contemplates a society in which anarcho-communism is coupled with worker syndicalism. Russell discusses various aspects of socialist-communist and syndicalist thought, and applies them to the various portions of civil society. Beginning with an examination of the history of the political theories and their potential for success, Russell proposes a sort of 'guild socialism' whereby workers are organized into different groupings and specialisms, as opposed to the centralized, bureaucratic system advocated by state socialism. Although Russell believes that the socialist system would be the closest to perfection, he does not believe that it would be entirely lacking of flaws. Furthermore, Russell attributes many problems of the theory as solvable over time; a fine-tuning of the technical implementation of socialist economics would, so the author proposes, iron out the problems and inefficiencies in the system.

My Political Philosophy (Hardcover): Ara Hadjian My Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
Ara Hadjian
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Let Stacy Lee George Do It! - A Political & Spiritual Awakening! (Hardcover): Stacy Lee George Let Stacy Lee George Do It! - A Political & Spiritual Awakening! (Hardcover)
Stacy Lee George
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Toward Awakening (Hardcover): Jean Vaysse Toward Awakening (Hardcover)
Jean Vaysse
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita (Hardcover): Tiruvalum Subba Row Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita (Hardcover)
Tiruvalum Subba Row
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vocations of the Political - Mario Tronti and Max Weber (Paperback): Howard Caygill Vocations of the Political - Mario Tronti and Max Weber (Paperback)
Howard Caygill
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Asserting that 'Lenin was closer to Max's Weber's "Politics as Vocation'" than to the German working-class struggle', Italian philosopher and radical theorist of 1960s 'operaismo', Mario Tronti has engaged in a lifelong project of thinking 'the autonomy of the political'. These essays mark the conjunction of the English-language edition of Tronti's 1966 "Workers and Capital" with the centenary of Weber's famous 1919 lecture.

Autarchies - The Invention of Selfishness (Hardcover): David Ashford Autarchies - The Invention of Selfishness (Hardcover)
David Ashford
R3,199 Discovery Miles 31 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The philosophy of Ayn Rand has had a role equal or greater than that of Milton Friedman or F.A. Hayek in shaping the contemporary neo-liberal consensus. Its impact was powerful on architects of Reaganomics such as Alan Greenspan, former Director of the World Bank, and the new breed of American industrialists who developed revolutionary information technologies in Silicon Valley. But what do we really know of Rand's philosophy? Is her gospel of selfishness really nothing more than a reiteration of a quintessentially American "rugged individualism"? This book argues that Rand's philosophy can in fact be traced back to a moment, before World War I, when the work of a now-forgotten German philosopher called Max Stirner possessed an extraordinary appeal for writers and artists across Europe. The influence of Stirnerian Egoism upon that phase of intense creative innovation we now call Modernism was seminal. The implications for our understanding of Modernism are profound - so too for our grasp of the "cultural logic of late capitalism". This book presents the reader with a fresh perspective on the Modernist classics, as well as introducing less familiar art and writing that is only now beginning to attract interest in the West. It arrives at a fresh and compelling re-evaluation of Modernism: revealing its selfish streak.

Drama, Politics, and Evolution - Cliodynamics in Play (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Bruce McConachie Drama, Politics, and Evolution - Cliodynamics in Play (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Bruce McConachie
R3,387 Discovery Miles 33 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history. Our genetic and cultural evolution during the Pleistocene Epoch bestowed a wide range of predispositions on our species that continue to shape the politics we support and the performances we enjoy. The book's case studies range from an initiation ritual in the Mbendjela tribe in the Congo to a 1947 drama by Bertolt Brecht and include a popular puppet play in Tokugawa Japan. A final section examines the gradual disintegration of social cohesion underlying the rise of polarized politics in the USA after 1965, as such films as The Godfather, Independence Day, The Dark Knight Rises, and Joker accelerated the nation's slide toward authoritarian Trumpism.

The Anti-Romantic - Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism (Hardcover): Jeffrey Reid The Anti-Romantic - Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Reid
R4,578 Discovery Miles 45 780 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Hegel and Resistance - History, Politics and Dialectics (Hardcover): Bart Zantvoort, Rebecca Comay Hegel and Resistance - History, Politics and Dialectics (Hardcover)
Bart Zantvoort, Rebecca Comay
R4,235 Discovery Miles 42 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The concept of resistance has always been central to the reception of Hegel's philosophy. The prevalent image of Hegel's system, which continues to influence the scholarship to this day, is that of an absolutist, monist metaphysics which overcomes all resistance, sublating or assimilating all differences into a single organic 'Whole'. For that reason, the reception of Hegel has always been marked by the question of how to resist Hegel: how to think that which remains outside of or other to the totalizing system of dialectics. In recent years the work of scholars such as Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Zizek, Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda has brought considerable nuance to this debate. A new reading of Hegel has emerged which challenges the idea that there is no place for difference, otherness or resistance in Hegel, both by refusing to reduce Hegel's complex philosophy to a straightforward systematic narrative and by highlighting particular moments within Hegel's philosophy which seem to counteract the traditional understanding of dialectics. This book brings together established and new voices in this field in order to show that the notion of resistance is central to this revaluation of Hegel.

Ethics and the Autonomy of Philosophy (Hardcover): Bernard James Walker Ethics and the Autonomy of Philosophy (Hardcover)
Bernard James Walker
R1,627 R1,330 Discovery Miles 13 300 Save R297 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Innocence & Intellect, 2001-2005 (Hardcover): Vox Day Innocence & Intellect, 2001-2005 (Hardcover)
Vox Day
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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