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Symposium
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Plato; Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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The question of humanness requires a philosophical anthropology and
we need a revision of what philosophical anthropology means in
light of contemporary efforts in speculative realism and
object-oriented ontology. This is the main claim of the book which
expands into the smaller supporting claims that 1) contemporary
work in speculative realism indicates that Heidegger's analytic of
Dasein needs to be rethought in consideration of certain Kantian
values 2) recent philosophical anthropology offers an incomplete
look at the central concern of philosophical anthropology, namely,
the question of humanness 3) current ontological models do not
account adequately for humanness, because they do not begin with
humanness. From these considerations, a new ontological model
better suited to account for humanness is proposed, spectral
ontology. Under spectral ontology, Being is treated as a spectrum
consisting of beings, nonbeings, and hyperbeings. Nonbeings, or
nonrelational entities, and hyper-beings, are spectral insofar as
they are like a specter which haunts the being that manifests in
the world. Thus, spectral in this sense refers to both the
nonrelational status of nonbeings and to an ontology which reflects
such a spectrum of Being.
The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's
distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato,
Complete Works . A number of new or expanded footnotes are also
included along with an updated bibliography.
An iconic figure in the movement for Greek independence, Adamantios
Korais (1748-1833) also played a major role in the development and
transmission of Enlightenment ideals. From his early education in
Amsterdam and medical studies in Montpellier, he moved to Paris
where he developed distinctive ideas of political liberalism and
cultural change against the backdrop of the French Revolution. In
Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment a team of
specialists explore the multiple facets of Korais' life and
thought. Following a detailed examination of his formative years
and pan-European education, contributors analyse his: translations
and editions of the classics, through which his own early political
ideas took shape views on linguistic reform and its importance for
a sense of national identity liberal critique of the French
Revolution and his evolving conception of political liberty In
Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment contributors
present a timely reevaluation of a major figure in the foundation
of modern Greece, and provide a fresh perspective on the
interaction of cultures in the European Enlightenment.
Author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude,
Jonathan Lethem is one of the most celebrated and significant
American writers working today. This new scholarly study draws on a
deep knowledge of all Lethem's work to explore the range of his
writing, from his award-winning fiction to his work in comics and
criticism. Reading Lethem in relation to five themes crucial to his
work, Joseph Brooker considers influence and intertextuality; the
role of genres such as crime, science fiction and the Western; the
imaginative production of worlds; superheroes and comic book
traditions; and the representation of New York City. Close readings
of Lethem's fiction are contextualized by reference to broader
conceptual and comparative frames, as well as to Lethem's own
voluminous non-fictional writing and his adaptation of precursors
from Franz Kafka to Raymond Chandler. Rich in critical insight,
Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing demonstrates how an
understanding of this author illuminates contemporary literature
and culture at large.
This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the
environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the
perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A.
Sepulveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the
central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by
contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The
enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon
emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that
evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and
linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint,
Sepulveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the
theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and
cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development;
the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an
active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and
sense-making occurs in a domain consisting of multiple normative
dimensions that the author names enactive place.
The exchange of ideas between nations during the Enlightenment was
greatly facilitated by cultural ventures, commercial enterprise and
scientific collaboration. But how were they exchanged? What were
the effects of these exchanges on the idea or artefact being
transferred? Focussing on contact between England, France and
Ireland, a team of specialists explores the translation,
appropriation and circulation of cultural products and scientific
ideas during the Enlightenment. Through analysis of literary and
artistic works, periodicals and official writings contributors
uncover: the key role played by literary translators and how they
adapted, naturalized and sometimes distorted plays and novels to
conform to new cultural norms; the effects of eighteenth-century
anglomania, and how this was manifested in French art; how the
vagaries of international politics and conflict affected both the
cultural products themselves and the modes of dissemination; how
religious censorship engendered new Irish Catholic and French
Huguenot diasporas, with their particular intellectual pursuits and
networks of exchange; the significance of newspapers and
periodicals in disseminating new knowledge and often radical
philosophical ideas. By exploring both broad areas of cultural
activity and precise examples of cultural transfer, contributors to
Intellectual journeys reveal the range and complexity of
intellectual exchange and its role in the formation of a truly
transnational Enlightenment.
Nihilism seems to be per definition linked to violence. Indeed, if
the nihilist is a person who acknowledges no moral or religious
authority, then what does stop him from committing any kind of
crime? Dostoevsky precisely called attention to this danger: if
there is no God and no immortality of the soul, then everything is
permitted, even anthropophagy. Nietzsche, too, emphasised, although
in different terms, the consequences deriving from the death of God
and the collapse of Judeo-Christian morality. This context shaped
the way in which philosophers, writers and artists thought about
violence, in its different manifestations, during the 20th century.
The goal of this interdisciplinary volume is to explore the various
modern and contemporary configurations of the link between violence
and nihilism as understood by philosophers and artists (in both
literature and film).
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