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Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad
Max Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the
Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of
human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral responsibility,
society and technology, and ultimately, human redemption. In Mad
Max and Philosophy, a diverse team of political scientists,
historians, and philosophers investigates the underlying themes of
the blockbuster movie franchise, following Max as he attempts to
rebuild himself and the world around him. Requiring no background
in philosophy, this engaging and highly readable book guides you
through the barren wastelands of a post-apocalyptic future as you
explore ethics and politics in The Wasteland, the importance of
costumes and music, humankind's relationship with nature, commerce,
gender, religion, madness, and much more. Covers all of George
Miller's Mad Max films, including Mad Max: Fury Road Discusses
connections between Mad Max and Nietzsche, Malthus, Mill, Foucault,
Sartre, and other major philosophers Follows Max's journey from
policeman and family man to lost soul in search of redemption
Examines the future of technology and possible impacts on society,
the environment, and access to natural resources Delves into
feminist themes of Mad Max, such as the reversal of heroic gender
roles in Fury Road and relationships between power and procreation
Part of the bestselling Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture
series, Mad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Wasteland is a
must-read for anyone wanting to philosophically engage with Max,
Furiosa, and their dystopian world.
Recent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that
Nietzsche's thought makes important contributions to a wide range
of contemporary philosophical debates. In so doing, however,
scholarship has lost sight of another important feature of
Nietzsche's project, namely his desire to challenge the very
conception of philosophy that has been used to assess his merits as
a philosopher. In other words, contemporary scholarship has
overlooked Nietzsche's contributions to metaphilosophy, i.e.
debates around the nature, methods, and aims of philosophy. This
important new collection of essays brings together an international
group of distinguished scholars to explore and discuss these
contributions and debates. It will appeal to anyone interested in
metaphilosophy, Nietzsche studies, German studies, or intellectual
history.
Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free
spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims;
The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often
approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected aphorisms,
these works are here re-interpreted as a coherent narrative of the
steps Nietzsche takes in educating himself toward freedom that
executes a dialectic between scientific truth-seeking and artistic
life-affirmation. Matthew Meyer's new reading of these works not
only provides a more convincing explanation of their content but
also makes better sense of the relationship between them and
Nietzsche's larger oeuvre. His argument shows how these texts can
and should be read as a unified project even while they present
multiple, in some cases conflicting, images of the free spirit. The
book will appeal to anyone who is interested in Nietzsche's
philosophy and especially to those puzzled about how to understand
the peculiarities of the free spirit works.
Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free
spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims;
The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often
approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected aphorisms,
these works are here re-interpreted as a coherent narrative of the
steps Nietzsche takes in educating himself toward freedom that
executes a dialectic between scientific truth-seeking and artistic
life-affirmation. Matthew Meyer's new reading of these works not
only provides a more convincing explanation of their content but
also makes better sense of the relationship between them and
Nietzsche's larger oeuvre. His argument shows how these texts can
and should be read as a unified project even while they present
multiple, in some cases conflicting, images of the free spirit. The
book will appeal to anyone who is interested in Nietzsche's
philosophy and especially to those puzzled about how to understand
the peculiarities of the free spirit works.
Recent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that
Nietzsche's thought makes important contributions to a wide range
of contemporary philosophical debates. In so doing, however,
scholarship has lost sight of another important feature of
Nietzsche's project, namely his desire to challenge the very
conception of philosophy that has been used to assess his merits as
a philosopher. In other words, contemporary scholarship has
overlooked Nietzsche's contributions to metaphilosophy, i.e.
debates around the nature, methods, and aims of philosophy. This
important new collection of essays brings together an international
group of distinguished scholars to explore and discuss these
contributions and debates. It will appeal to anyone interested in
metaphilosophy, Nietzsche studies, German studies, or intellectual
history.
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Handbook - Cycle 2 (Paperback)
Kenneth J Rolling; Contributions by T Matthew Meyer; Alecia J Rolling
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Handbook - Cycle 1 (Paperback)
Kenneth J Rolling; Contributions by T Matthew Meyer; Alecia J Rolling
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Handbook - Cycle 3 (Paperback)
Kenneth J Rolling; Contributions by T Matthew Meyer; Alecia J Rolling
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Greek Primer (Paperback)
T Matthew Meyer M a; Edited by Alecia J Rolling M a
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Sr-Cycle 3-Unit Handbooks (Paperback)
Alecia J Rolling; Contributions by Kenneth J Rolling, T Matthew Meyer
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Nietzsche's work was shaped by his engagement with ancient Greek
philosophy. Matthew Meyer analyzes Nietzsche's concepts of becoming
and perspectivism and his alleged rejection of the principle of
non-contradiction, and he traces these views back to the
Heraclitean-Protagorean position that Plato and Aristotle
critically analyze in the Theaetetus and Metaphysica IV,
respectively. At the center of this Heraclitean-Protagorean
position is a relational ontology in which everything exists and is
what it is only in relation to something else. Meyer argues that
this relational ontology is not only theoretically foundational for
Nietzsche's philosophical project, in that it is the common element
in Nietzsche's views on becoming, perspectivism, and the principle
of non-contradiction, but also textually foundational, in that
Nietzsche implicitly commits himself to such an ontology in raising
the question of opposites at the beginning of both Human, All Too
Human and Beyond Good and Evil.
This book offers a new account of the context in which Heraclitus
develops his views on meaning and knowledge. The frame of mythic
thinking affords insight into important dimensions of Heraclitus's
thought, particularly the simultaneous holism and fragmentation
that characterized his ideas on the world and on wisdom.
Heraclitus's idea of shared thinking captures the
holistic-fragmented nature of the social bond perfectly. A close
reading of his thought suggests we should not take the continuity
of thought as passive or stable. Thus, we discover that the
signature Heraclitean concept of the agon (conflict) is present in
the fragments that describe shared thinking. The fragments cannot
be exhausted of meaning because they capture the very essence of
meaning, fragmentation, within. In sum, Heraclitus seems to suggest
that philosophy should not wish away conflict and competition in
its definitions of the world, but see conflict as the basis of any
world it might hope to define.
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