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In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay
'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place
in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps even
the occasional obscurity of Benjamin's text have undoubtedly
contributed to the diversity, conflict, and richness of
contemporary readings. Interest has heightened following the
attention that philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Giorgio
Agamben have devoted to it. Agamben's own interest started early in
his career with his 1970 essay, 'On the Limits of Violence', and
Benjamin's essay continues to be a fundamental reference in
Agamben's work. Written by internationally recognized scholars,
Towards the Critique of Violence is the first book to explore
politico-philosophic implications of Benjamin's 'Critique of
Violence' and correlative implications of Benjamin's resonance in
Agamben's writings. Topics of this collection include mythic
violence, the techniques of non-violent conflict resolution,
ambiguity, destiny or fate, decision and nature, and the relation
between justice and thinking. The volume explores Agamben's usage
of certain Benjaminian themes, such as Judaism and law, bare life,
sacrifice, and Kantian experience, culminating with the English
translation of Agamben's 'On the Limits of Violence'.
The past decades have seen a growing "philosophical" interest in a
number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago's oeuvre has been
left somewhat aside. This volume aims at filling this gap by
providing a diverse range of philosophical perspectives and
expositions on Saramago's work. The chapters explore some possible
issues arising from his works: from his use of Plato's allegory of
the cave to his re-readings of Biblical stories; from his critique
and "reinvention" of philosophy of history to his allegorical
exploration of alternative histories; from his humorous approach to
our being-towards-death to the revolutionary political charge of
his fiction. The essays here confront Saramago's fiction with
concepts, theories, and suggestions belonging to various
philosophical traditions and philosophers including Plato, Pascal,
Kierkegaard, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Patocka,
Derrida, Agamben, and Zizek.
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Philosophy and Kafka (Paperback)
Brendan Moran, Carlo Salzani; Contributions by Paul Alberts, Ronald Bogue, Chris Danta, …
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R1,296
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The relationship of philosophy with Kafka's oeuvre is complex. It
has been argued that Kafka's novels and stories defy philosophic
extrapolation; conversely, it has also been suggested that
precisely the tendency of Kafka's writings to elude discursive
solution is itself a philosophical tendency, one that is somehow
contributing to a wiser relationship of human beings with language.
These matters are the focus of the proposed volume on Philosophy
and Kafka. The proposed collection brings together essays that
interrogate the relationship of philosophy and Kafka, and offer new
and original interpretations. The volume obviously cannot claim
completeness, but it partially does justice to the multiplicity of
philosophical issues and philosophical interpretations at stake.
This variety informs the composition of the volume itself. A number
of essays focus on specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka's
work, from Adorno's to Agamben's, from Arendt's to Benjamin's, from
Deleuze and Guattari's to Derrida's. A number of essays consider
the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for
examining Kafka's writings: here Kafka's name goes alongside those
of Socrates, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Buber,
Heidegger, Blanchot, and Levinas. Finally, a number of essays
consider Kafka's writings in terms of a specific philosophical
theme, such as communication and subjectivity, language and
meaning, knowledge and truth, the human/animal divide, justice, and
freedom. In all contributions to the volume, such themes, motifs,
and interpretations arise. To varying degrees, all essays are
concerned with the relationship of literature and philosophy, and
thus with the philosophical significance of Kafka's writings.
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Philosophy and Kafka (Hardcover, New)
Brendan Moran, Carlo Salzani; Contributions by Paul Alberts, Ronald Bogue, Chris Danta, …
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R2,280
Discovery Miles 22 800
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The relationship of philosophy with Kafka's oeuvre is complex. It
has been argued that Kafka's novels and stories defy philosophic
extrapolation; conversely, it has also been suggested that
precisely the tendency of Kafka's writings to elude discursive
solution is itself a philosophical tendency, one that is somehow
contributing to a wiser relationship of human beings with language.
These matters are the focus of the proposed volume on Philosophy
and Kafka. The proposed collection brings together essays that
interrogate the relationship of philosophy and Kafka, and offer new
and original interpretations. The volume obviously cannot claim
completeness, but it partially does justice to the multiplicity of
philosophical issues and philosophical interpretations at stake.
This variety informs the composition of the volume itself. A number
of essays focus on specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka's
work, from Adorno's to Agamben's, from Arendt's to Benjamin's, from
Deleuze and Guattari's to Derrida's. A number of essays consider
the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for
examining Kafka's writings: here Kafka's name goes alongside those
of Socrates, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Buber,
Heidegger, Blanchot, and Levinas. Finally, a number of essays
consider Kafka's writings in terms of a specific philosophical
theme, such as communication and subjectivity, language and
meaning, knowledge and truth, the human/animal divide, justice, and
freedom. In all contributions to the volume, such themes, motifs,
and interpretations arise. To varying degrees, all essays are
concerned with the relationship of literature and philosophy, and
thus with the philosophical significance of Kafka's writings.
This volume provides an overview of contemporary Italian philosophy
from the perspective of animality. Its rationale rests on two main
premises: the great topicality of both Italian contemporary
philosophy (the so-called "Italian Theory") and of the animal
question (the so-called "animal turn" in the humanities and the
social sciences) in the contemporary philosophical panorama. The
volume not only intersects these two axes, illuminating Italian
Theory through the animal question, but also proposes an original
thesis: that the animal question is a central and founding issue of
contemporary Italian philosophy. It combines historical-descriptive
chapters with analyses of the theme in several philosophical
branches, such as biopolitics, Posthumanism, Marxism, Feminism,
Antispeciesism and Theology, and with original contributions by
renowned authors of contemporary Italian (animal) philosophy. The
volume is both historical-descriptive and speculative and is
intended for a broad academic audience, embracing both Italian
studies and Animal studies at all levels.
How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper
way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own
peculiar theorization of the act of reading and the politics of
interpretation that this entails. The approach must be figural,
that is, focused on images, and driven by the notion of
actualization. Figural reading, in the very sui generis
Benjarninian way, understands figures as constellations, whereby an
image of the past juxtaposes them with an image of the present and
is thus actualized. To apply this method to Benjamin's own work
means first to identify some figures. The book singles out the
Flaneur, the Detective, the Prostitute and the Ragpicker, and then
sets them alongside a contemporary account of the same figure: the
Flaneur in Juan Goytisolo's Landscapes after the Battle (1982), the
Detective in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy (1987), the Prostitute
in Dacia Maraini's Dialogue between a Prostitute and her Client
(1973), and the Ragpicker in Mudrooroo's The Mudrooroo/Muller
Project (1993). The book thereby, on the one hand, analyses the
politics of reading Benjamin today and, on the other, sets his work
against a variety of contemporary aesthetics and politics of
interpretation.
This volume provides an overview of contemporary Italian philosophy
from the perspective of animality. Its rationale rests on two main
premises: the great topicality of both Italian contemporary
philosophy (the so-called "Italian Theory") and of the animal
question (the so-called "animal turn" in the humanities and the
social sciences) in the contemporary philosophical panorama. The
volume not only intersects these two axes, illuminating Italian
Theory through the animal question, but also proposes an original
thesis: that the animal question is a central and founding issue of
contemporary Italian philosophy. It combines historical-descriptive
chapters with analyses of the theme in several philosophical
branches, such as biopolitics, Posthumanism, Marxism, Feminism,
Antispeciesism and Theology, and with original contributions by
renowned authors of contemporary Italian (animal) philosophy. The
volume is both historical-descriptive and speculative and is
intended for a broad academic audience, embracing both Italian
studies and Animal studies at all levels.
The past decades have seen a growing "philosophical" interest in a
number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago's oeuvre has been
left somewhat aside. This volume aims at filling this gap by
providing a diverse range of philosophical perspectives and
expositions on Saramago's work. The chapters explore some possible
issues arising from his works: from his use of Plato's allegory of
the cave to his re-readings of Biblical stories; from his critique
and "reinvention" of philosophy of history to his allegorical
exploration of alternative histories; from his humorous approach to
our being-towards-death to the revolutionary political charge of
his fiction. The essays here confront Saramago's fiction with
concepts, theories, and suggestions belonging to various
philosophical traditions and philosophers including Plato, Pascal,
Kierkegaard, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Patocka,
Derrida, Agamben, and Zizek.
One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is
the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in
his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul,
Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this
one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinkers: his
primary interlocutors, his secondary references, and the figures
who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly
mentioned.
One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is
the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in
his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul,
Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this
one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinkers: his
primary interlocutors, his secondary references, and the figures
who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly
mentioned.
In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay
'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place
in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps even
the occasional obscurity of Benjamin's text have undoubtedly
contributed to the diversity, conflict, and richness of
contemporary readings. Interest has heightened following the
attention that philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Giorgio
Agamben have devoted to it. Agamben's own interest started early in
his career with his 1970 essay, 'On the Limits of Violence', and
Benjamin's essay continues to be a fundamental reference in
Agamben's work. Written by internationally recognized scholars,
Towards the Critique of Violence is the first book to explore
politico-philosophic implications of Benjamin's 'Critique of
Violence' and correlative implications of Benjamin's resonance in
Agamben's writings. Topics of this collection include mythic
violence, the techniques of non-violent conflict resolution,
ambiguity, destiny or fate, decision and nature, and the relation
between justice and thinking. The volume explores Agamben's usage
of certain Benjaminian themes, such as Judaism and law, bare life,
sacrifice, and Kantian experience, culminating with the English
translation of Agamben's 'On the Limits of Violence'.
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