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Generative Worlds - New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and Time (Hardcover): Luz Ascarate, Quentin Gailhac Generative Worlds - New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and Time (Hardcover)
Luz Ascarate, Quentin Gailhac; Contributions by Renaud Barbaras, Andrew Barrette, Bruce Begout, …
R2,161 Discovery Miles 21 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Generative Worlds. New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and Time accounts for the phenomenological concept of generativity. In doing so, this book brings together several recent phenomenological studies on space and time. Generative studies in phenomenology propose new ways of conceiving space, time, and the relation between them. Edited by Luz Ascarate and Quentin Gailhac, the collection reveals new dimensions to topics such as the generation of life, birth, historicity, intersubjectivity, narrativity, institution, touching, and places, and in some cases, the contributors invert the classical definitions of space and time. These transformative readings are fruitful for the interdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and fields such as cosmology, psychology, and the social sciences. The contributors ask if phenomenology reaches its own concreteness through the study of generation and whether it manages to redefine certain dimensions of space and time which, in other orientations of the Husserlian method, remain too abstract and detached from the constitutive becoming of experience.

Zeropolis - the Experience of Las Vegas (Paperback): Bruce Begout Zeropolis - the Experience of Las Vegas (Paperback)
Bruce Begout
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Las Vegas, an artificial city brought to life in the heart of the Mojave desert, is the ultimate urban temptation: its shopping malls, theme parks and casinos offer an unceasing parade of entertainments and diversions. Its architecture combines slick, commercial seduction with a childish, cartoon-like appearance; its streets and arcades are constantly animated with visitors and residents willingly submitting to the opium of this spectacular place.
Las Vegas has always fascinated those who write about the American malaise, from Tom Wolfe to J. G. Ballard, but Begout reveals the city's other side, adding a valuable philosophical dimension to the nightmarish, fantastic visions that haunt the imagination of novelists and film-makers. The author draws minutely detailed portraits in the form of city scenes - portraits that are often tragic and sometimes extremely comic. Begout lets himself be dragged into this party, this "paradise for bastards," as Nick Tosches calls it.
For Begout, Las Vegas is the consummation of the modern city, the ultimate destination of our urban experiments, the great supermarket of the global village. "Neither near nor far, neither here nor elsewhere, Las Vegas is distinguished by nothingness. For us it is zeropolis, the non-city that is the very first city, just as zero is the very first number."
"This is a real gem, as brilliant and remarkable as its subject"--"Livres Hebdo"
"Begout felicitously combines the philosopher's capacity for thinking with
the novelist's descriptive power. A success."--"Le Nouvel Observateur"

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