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This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The
Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between
novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an 'open
structure'. It is this blend of the literary with the
psychoanalytic that places Kristeva's work central to current
thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and
psychoanalysis. The essays in this volume offer insight into the
workings of Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual
difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to
the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their
representation in painting and literature. Kristeva's persistent
humanity, her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention
and creativity, mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of
desire. Each essay offers the reader a new insight into the many
aspects that make up Kristeva's entire oeuvre.
A new direction in art criticism is laid out in this striking
program for realigning the relationship between painting and
criticism. Putting forth the idea that painting evolves and
encounters new territory through a constant tension between art and
criticism, this treatise draws on the work of philosophers Immanuel
Kant and Walter Benjamin as well as critics Arthur Danto and
Rosalind Krauss. Each argument is accompanied by a detailed
analysis of a wide range of classical, modern, and postmodern art
pieces.
"Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde" explores the relationship
between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking
of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology.
It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the
differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis, and the
avant-garde come to be presented.
A fundamental part of this book is the original interpretations of
important contemporary painters and their themes: Lucian Freud's
self-portraits, Francis Bacon's use of mirrors, R. B. Kitaj and
Jewish identity, Anselm Kiefer and iconoclasm. Apart from painting,
Benjamin considers architecture, literature, and the philosophical
writings of Walter Benjamin and Descartes in elaborating the
various aspects of ontological difference. Benjamin develops the
theory of the avant-garde as a philosophical category rather than a
historical marker, thus bringing the worlds of contemporary art
criticism and contemporary philosophy closer together.
Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for
its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing
influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to
bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection, first
published in 1988, reveals the diversity of approaches that mark
the post-structuralist endeavour, and provides a challenge to the
conventional practice of classical studies and ancient philosophy.
This book will be of interest to students of ancient philosophy,
classical studies and literary theory.
Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for
its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing
influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to
bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection, first
published in 1988, reveals the diversity of approaches that mark
the post-structuralist endeavour, and provides a challenge to the
conventional practice of classical studies and ancient philosophy.
This book will be of interest to students of ancient philosophy,
classical studies and literary theory.
This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The
Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between
novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an 'open
structure'. It is this blend of the literary with the
psychoanalytic that places Kristeva's work central to current
thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and
psychoanalysis. The essays in this volume offer insight into the
workings of Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual
difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to
the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their
representation in painting and literature. Kristeva's persistent
humanity, her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention
and creativity, mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of
desire. Each essay offers the reader a new insight into the many
aspects that make up Kristeva's entire oeuvre.
This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic
mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the
conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter
Benjamin and Freud, Andrew Benjamin reveals the interplay between
the two disciplines not only in their relationship to language, but
also at a deeper, cognitive level. Benjamin engages throughout with
the central tenets of post-structuralism: the concept of a constant
yet illusive 'true' meaning has lost authority, but remains a
problem. The fact of translation seems to defy the notion that
'meaning' is reducible to its component words; yet, to say that the
'truth' is more than the sum of its parts, we are challenging the
very foundations of what it is to communicate, to understand, and
to know. In Translation and the Nature of Philosophy, the author
sets out his own theory of language in light of these issues.
This collection explores, in Adorno's description, 'philosophy
directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of
Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art
and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of
time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the
key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.
An understanding of what we mean by the present is one of the key issues in literature, philosophy, and culture today, but also one of the most neglected and misunderstood. Present Hope develops a fascinating philosophical understanding of the present, approaching this question via discussions of the nature of historical time, the philosophy of history, memory, and the role of tragedy. Andrew Benjamin shows how we misleadingly view the present as simply a product of chronological time, ignoring the role of history and memory. Accordingly, discussion of what is meant by the present disappears from philosophical concern. To draw attention to this absence, Andrew Benjamin introduces the notion of hope and asks what this concept can tell us about the present. At the heart of the outstanding work is an emphasis on the relation between hope and the Jewish tradition. Through discussions of philosophical responses to the Holocaust, the work of Walter Benjamin, Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Present Hope shows how we must look beyond the purely philosophical horizon to understand the present we live in.
This collection explores Walter Benjamin's "philosophy directed
against philosophy". The essays, from 11 contributors, aim to cover
all aspects of Benjamin's writings. Subjects range from his early
work in the philosphy of art and language, through his cultural
criticism, to his final reflections on the concept of history. The
experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are
identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of
history.
Benjamin provides new and important readings of key canonical texts
in the history of philosophy in this sustained philosophical
reworking of ontology. Amongst texts included are Hegel's
"Difference Essay" and the "Shorter Logic" and Heidegger's "Time
and Being" and "The Question of Being". The effective presence of
ontology, defined as "an original difference", should be familiar
to readers of his earlier writings. This book represents a thorough
and original contribution to contemporary philosophy to date.
Best known for his work "The Postmodern Condition", Jean-Francois
Lyotard is one of the leading figures in contemporary French
philosophy. This collection of articles offers an estimation and
critique of his work. While the various chapters deal with
different aspects of Lyotard's writings, they are all concerned
with the question of judgement. The importance to Lyotard of
judgement, and how it is to be judged, is a recurrent theme
throughout the entire range of his work. It is particularly evident
in his continuing engagement with the work of Kant. Lyotard's own
essay, "Sensus Communis", which opens this volume, investigates
through Kant the presuppositions of judgement. Other essays
variously consider how in his writings Lyotard has rendered
problematic existing forms of aesthetic, ethical, legal and
political judgement. This book should be of interest to
undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of philosophy, literary
theory, cultural studies and French studies.
Best known for his work "The Postmodern Condition", Jean-Francois
Lyotard is one of the leading figures in contemporary French
philosophy. This collection of articles offers an estimation and
critique of his work. While the various chapters deal with
different aspects of Lyotard's writings, they are all concerned
with the question of judgement. The importance to Lyotard of
judgement, and how it is to be judged, is a recurrent theme
throughout the entire range of his work. It is particularly evident
in his continuing engagement with the work of Kant. Lyotard's own
essay, "Sensus Communis", which opens this volume, investigates
through Kant the presuppositions of judgement. Other essays
variously consider how in his writings Lyotard has rendered
problematic existing forms of aesthetic, ethical, legal and
political judgement. This book should be of interest to
undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of philosophy, literary
theory, cultural studies and French studies.
Benjamin argues for a reappraisal of philosophy with reference to the centrality of ontology, offering original reinterpretations of contemporary painters including Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon and R.B. Kitaj.
This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic
mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the
conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter
Benjamin and Freud, Andrew Benjamin reveals the interplay between
the two disciplines not only in their relationship to language, but
also at a deeper, cognitive level. Benjamin engages throughout with
the central tenets of post-structuralism: the concept of a constant
yet illusive 'true' meaning has lost authority, but remains a
problem. The fact of translation seems to defy the notion that
'meaning' is reducible to its component words; yet, to say that the
'truth' is more than the sum of its parts, we are challenging the
very foundations of what it is to communicate, to understand, and
to know. In Translation and the Nature of Philosophy, the author
sets out his own theory of language in light of these issues.
Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether
eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their
beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of
knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders
for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the
traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an
unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a
persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa
retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to
propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our
everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images
and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art
theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual
studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the
earliest Western media theory-Aristotle's concept of the diaphanous
milieu of vision-and the significance of its subsequent erasure in
the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically
informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why
images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the
world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of
appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear
that could not be visible except in and through these very material
devices.
Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether
eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their
beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of
knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders
for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the
traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an
unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a
persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa
retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to
propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our
everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images
and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art
theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual
studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the
earliest Western media theory-Aristotle's concept of the diaphanous
milieu of vision-and the significance of its subsequent erasure in
the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically
informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why
images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the
world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of
appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear
that could not be visible except in and through these very material
devices.
As its title suggests, this collections of essays by one of the
foremost theorists working today takes as its theme the edge or
limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are
essays that are all on the brink, about the edge, the very extreme
at which one can no longer say where one is located, neither on the
cliff, say, nor over the edge. To be on the brink, then, is to take
up that extreme limit, the point of contamination or
indetermination where language, time, history, and politics all
converge upon one another. The book begins with a consideration of
Kant's treatment of time as representation, before moving toward
more explicitly political themes as it engages political theology
and messianism in Hegel and Hoelderlin. The second section explores
the questionof language in a variety of manifestations-from
translation to complaint and greeting-and through a number of
literary and cultural forms, from the work of Mallarme to email.
The volume concludes with an interview in which Hamacher offers a
revealing overview of his work, beginning with an account of his
early writings and moving up to his most recent essays.
Beyond the Minimal presents four of the most interesting practices
in Austria today: Artec, Adolf Krischanitz, PauHof and
Riegler-Riewe. Certain qualities of formal reduction are evident in
the work of all four architects, but none of them equates
minimalism with negation or absence, in the sense that the term has
been used in writings on architecture. They have been brought
together because of the affinities in their approach -- their
common interest in materials, structure and the contribution of the
building to the larger environment.
Each practice is represented by a survey of around a dozen
projects, including houses, schools, offices and exhibition
pavilions. The survey is complemented by texts that link the work
to broader developments in European (particularly Swiss)
architecture.
As its title suggests, this collections of essays by one of the
foremost theorists working today takes as its theme the edge or
limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are
essays that are all on the brink, about the edge, the very extreme
at which one can no longer say where one is located, neither on the
cliff, say, nor over the edge. To be on the brink, then, is to take
up that extreme limit, the point of contamination or
indetermination where language, time, history, and politics all
converge upon one another. The book begins with a consideration of
Kant's treatment of time as representation, before moving toward
more explicitly political themes as it engages political theology
and messianism in Hegel and Hoelderlin. The second section explores
the questionof language in a variety of manifestations-from
translation to complaint and greeting-and through a number of
literary and cultural forms, from the work of Mallarme to email.
The volume concludes with an interview in which Hamacher offers a
revealing overview of his work, beginning with an account of his
early writings and moving up to his most recent essays.
Stoicism has had a diverse reception in German philosophy. This is
the first interpretive study of shared themes and dialogues between
late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century experts on classical
antiquity and philosophers. Assessing how modern philosophers have
incorporated ancient resources with the context of German
philosophy, chapters in this volume are devoted to philosophical
giants such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, Walter
Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Hans
Blumenberg, and Peter Sloterdijk. Among the ancient Stoics, the
focus is on Seneca, Epictetus, and doxography, but reference will
also be made to texts that have so far been neglected by
non-specialists. Often references to Stoic texts are playful,
making it hard for non-specialists to reconstruct their
understanding of the sources; by illuminating and enhancing the
philosophical significance of these receptions, this book argues
that they can change our understanding of Greek and Roman Stoic
doctrines and authors, twentieth-century continental philosophy,
and the themes which coordinate their ongoing dialogues. Some of
these themes are surprising for Stoicism, such as the poetics of
tragic drama and the anthropological foundations of hermeneutics.
Others are already central to Stoic reception, such as the
constitution of the subject in relation to various ethical,
ecological, and metaphysical powers and processes; among these are
contemplation and knowledge; identity and plurality; temporality,
facticity, and fate; and personal, social, and planetary forms of
self-cultivation and self-appropriation. Addressing the need for a
synoptic vision of related continental readings of Stoicism, this
book brings ancient texts into new dialogues with up-to-date
scholarship, facilitating increased understanding, critical
evaluation, and creative innovation within the continental response
to Stoicism.
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