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Political communities are constituted through the representation of
their own origin. The Iroquois and the Athenians is a philosophical
exploration of the material traces left by that constitutional act
in the political practices of the classical Iroquois and Athenians.
Tempering Kant with Nietzsche this work offers an account of
political action that locates the roots of justice in its radical
impossibility, an aporia in place of a foundation. Instead of
mythical references to a state of nature or an act of the founding
fathers, the Iroquois and the Athenians recognized that political
legitimacy can never be established, in principle, but must be
continually enacted, repeated, a repetition that stimulates the
withdrawal of natural foundations and holds open the site of any
possible democracy. For philosophers and political theorists, this
is a unique, hybrid deployment of Kant (the transcendental move)
and Nietzsche (the use of history), offering a new view of the
origins of Democracy. Scholars in Native American Studies will find
much of value in its unprecedented use of traditional Iroquois
political discourse and practice as a resource for mainstream
political philosophy. Finally, scholars of ancient Greece and
Classics will appreciated its novel presentation of ancient Greek
political discourse and political practice.
This book continues the exploration of themes either neglected or
devalued by others working in the field of philosophy and culture.
The authors in this volume consider the domain of travel from the
broadest and most diverse of philosophical perspectives, covering
everyday topics ranging from commuting and vacation travel to
immigration and forced relocation. Our time in transit, our
being in transit, and our time at rest, whether by choice or edict,
has always been at issue, always been at play (and has always been
in motion, if you will), for our species. The essays collected here
explore the possibilities of the material impact of being able to
move or stay put, as well as being forced to go or prevented from
leaving.
This book continues the exploration of themes either neglected or
devalued by others working in the field of philosophy and culture.
The authors in this volume consider the domain of travel from the
broadest and most diverse of philosophical perspectives, covering
everyday topics ranging from commuting and vacation travel to
immigration and forced relocation. Our time in transit, our being
in transit, and our time at rest, whether by choice or edict, has
always been at issue, always been at play (and has always been in
motion, if you will), for our species. The essays collected here
explore the possibilities of the material impact of being able to
move or stay put, as well as being forced to go or prevented from
leaving.
This book extends philosophy's engagement with the double beyond
hierarchized binary oppositions. Brian Seitz explores the double as
a necessary ontological condition or figure that gets represented,
enacted, and performed repeatedly and in a myriad of
configurations. Seitz suggests that the double in all of its forms
is simultaneously philosophy's shadow, its nemesis, and the
condition of its possibility. This book expands definitions and
investigations of the double beyond the confines of philosophy,
suggesting that the concept is at work in many other fields
including politics, cultural narratives, literature, mythology, and
psychology. Seitz approaches the double by means of a series of
case studies and by engaging loosely in eidetic variation, a
methodological maneuver borrowed from phenomenology. The book
explores the ways in which wide-ranging instances of the double are
connected by the dynamics of intersubjectivity.
This book extends philosophy's engagement with the double beyond
hierarchized binary oppositions. Brian Seitz explores the double as
a necessary ontological condition or figure that gets represented,
enacted, and performed repeatedly and in a myriad of
configurations. Seitz suggests that the double in all of its forms
is simultaneously philosophy's shadow, its nemesis, and the
condition of its possibility. This book expands definitions and
investigations of the double beyond the confines of philosophy,
suggesting that the concept is at work in many other fields
including politics, cultural narratives, literature, mythology, and
psychology. Seitz approaches the double by means of a series of
case studies and by engaging loosely in eidetic variation, a
methodological maneuver borrowed from phenomenology. The book
explores the ways in which wide-ranging instances of the double are
connected by the dynamics of intersubjectivity.
Etiquette, the field of multifarious I prescriptions governing
comportment in life's interactions, has generally I been neglected
by philosophers, who may be inclined to dismiss it as trivial, most
specifically in contrast to ethics. Philosophy tends to grant
absolute privilege to ethics over etiquette, placing the former
alongside all of the traditional values favored by metaphysics
[order, truth, rationality, mind, masculinity, depth, reality),
while consigning the latter to metaphysics' familiar, divisive list
of hazards and rejects (arbitrariness, mere opinion, irrationality,
the body, femininity, surface, appearance). Addressing a broad
range of subjects, from sexuality, clothes, and cell phones to
hip-hop culture, bodybuilding, and imperialism, the contributors to
Etiquette challenge these traditional values--"not in order to
favor etiquette over ethics, but to explore the various ways in
which practice subtends theory, in which manners are morals, and in
which ethics, the practice of living a good life, has always
depended upon the graceful relations for which etiquette provides
the armature.
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