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The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing
the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors
of a supposedly monstrous and inhuman future increasingly dominate
films, art and popular culture. On the Human Condition is an
invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the
human stands today. Given the damage human beings have inflicted on
each other and their environment throughout history, should we
embrace humanism or try and overcome it? Dominique Janicaud
explores these urgent questions and more. He argues that whilst we
need to avoid apocalyptic talk of a post human condition, as
embodied in technology such as cloning, we should neither fall back
on a conservative humanism nor become technophobic. Drawing on
illuminating examples such as genetic engineering, the novel
Frankenstein, the legendary debate between Sartre and Heidegger
over humanism, and the work of Primo Levi, Domnique Janicaud also
explores the role of fantasy in understanding the human condition
and asks where the line lies between the human, inhuman and the
superhuman.
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On the Human Condition (Hardcover)
Dominique Janicaud; Translated by Eileen Brennan; Foreword by Simon Critchley
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R4,114
Discovery Miles 41 140
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing
the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors
of a supposedly monstrous and inhuman future increasingly dominate
films, art and popular culture. On the Human Condition is an
invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the
human stands today. Given the damage human beings have inflicted on
each other and their environment throughout history, should we
embrace humanism or try and overcome it? Dominique Janicaud
explores these urgent questions and more. He argues that whilst we
need to avoid apocalyptic talk of a post human condition, as
embodied in technology such as cloning, we should neither fall back
on a conservative humanism nor become technophobic. Drawing on
illuminating examples such as genetic engineering, the novel
Frankenstein, the legendary debate between Sartre and Heidegger
over humanism, and the work of Primo Levi, Domnique Janicaud also
explores the role of fantasy in understanding the human condition
and asks where the line lies between the human, inhuman and the
superhuman.
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Heidegger in France (Hardcover)
Dominique Janicaud; Translated by David Pettigrew, Francois Raffoul
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R2,216
R2,052
Discovery Miles 20 520
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Dominique Janicaud claimed that every French intellectual
movement-from existentialism to psychoanalysis-was influenced by
Martin Heidegger. This translation of Janicaud's landmark work,
Heidegger en France, details Heidegger's reception in philosophy
and other humanistic and social science disciplines. Interviews
with key French thinkers such as Francoise Dastur, Jacques Derrida,
Eliane Escoubas, Jean Greisch, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc
Marion, and Jean-Luc Nancy are included and provide further
reflection on Heidegger's relationship to French philosophy. An
intellectual undertaking of authoritative scope, this work
furnishes a thorough history of the French reception of Heidegger's
thought.
Is phenomenology in jeopardy? Will the phenomenological movement
survive intact amongst the ever-expanding adherence to some part of
this doctrine? Will phenomenology cease to be a major influence in
contemporary continental philosophy and beyond? Are we dealing with
a purely and intrinsically French phenomenon in the vast domain of
all philosophy? Can some resolution be brought about through the
limitation or delimitation of our sphere of investigation? Will we
ever succeed in lifting the ambivalence out of the phenomenological
project? Dominique Janicaud advises us to consider a "minimalist"
approach to these questions, one that would leave phenomenology
open to its greatest possibilities. We must consider the scientific
and metaphysical overinvestment of phenomenology. Yet we must also
imagine how phenomenology might finally escape this unifying and
foundational tendency, which has driven it to overburden immanence
with a transcendence that is none other than of subjectivity in its
various guises and at its various levels. This book aspires to
bring that ongoing debate to the English-speaking world.
This book follows up the developments in phenomenology discussed in
Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn": The French Debate,
attempting to establish what potentialities in the phenomenological
method exist at present.
The ideal introduction history of western philosophy: An
illuminating discourse on the major thinkers, from Plato to
Descartes to Nietzsche. A small marvel, A Beginner's Guide to
Philosophy provides an instructive and delightful introduction to
philosophy. Despite its brevity, this beginner's guide covers a
vast range of authors and topics. The reader will find discussions
of ancient and modern philosophy, beginning with the pre-Socratic
thinkers, before moving on to Plato and Aristotle. The narrative
then proceeds to an elegant survey of modern philosophers:
Descartes, Nietzche, Kant, and Hegel. At the end of this poignant
yet practical intellectual journey, Dominique Janicaud at last
addresses the problems that have occupied thinkers through the
ages: the existence of God, the meaning of life, human nature, and
the question of freedom.
This volume covers the debate over Janicaud's critique of the
Theological Turn of French Phenomenology. Janicaud argues that
theologically oriented philosophers have subverted the orientation
of phenomenology, whereas his critics give phenomenological
credentials to a religious experience.
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