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This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s
thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary
activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or
breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who
had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This
“singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s
philosophical writings demands explication. In this book, some of
today’s leading scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light
on how Nancy’s thought both shares with and departs from
Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and
Lyotard, elucidating “the sharing of voices,” in Nancy’s
phrase, between Nancy and these thinkers. Contributors: Georges Van
Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher,
Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy,
and John H. Smith
Jean Wahl (1888-1974), once considered by the likes of Georges
Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to
be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been
forgotten outside France. Yet his influence on French philosophical
thought can hardly be overestimated. Levinas wrote that "during
over a half century of teaching and research, [Wahl] was the life
force of the academic, extra-academic, and even, to a degree
anti-academic philosophy necessary to a great culture." And
Deleuze, for his part, commented that "Apart from Sartre, who
remained caught none the less in the trap of the verb to be, the
most important philosopher in France was Jean Wahl." Besides
engaging with the likes of Bataille, Bergson, Deleuze, Derrida,
Levinas, Maritain, and Sartre, Wahl also played a significant role,
in some cases almost singlehandedly, in introducing French
philosophy to movements like existentialism, and American
pragmatism and literature, and thinkers like Hegel, Kierkegaard,
Nietzsche, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Yet Wahl was also an original
philosopher and poet in his own right. This volume of selections
from Wahl's philosophical writings makes a selection of his most
important work available to the English-speaking philosophical
community for the first time. Jean Wahl was Professor of Philosophy
at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, save during World War II, which
he spent in the United States, having escaped from the Drancy
internment camp. His books to appear in English include The
Pluralist Philosophies of England and America (Open Court, 1925),
The Philosopher's Way (Oxford UP, 1948), A Short History of
Existentialism (Philosophical Library, 1949), and Philosophies of
Existence (Schocken, 1969).
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Fashion: Seductive Play (Hardcover)
Eugen Fink; Edited by Stefano Marino, Giovanni Matteucci; Translated by Ian Alexander Moore, Christopher Turner
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R2,800
Discovery Miles 28 000
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In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was
published. This first English language edition, updated with an
introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes
available Fink’s philosophical investigation into fashion to an
English-speaking audience. One of the greatest figures in the
“phenomenological movement,” Fink here investigates fashion at
various philosophical levels - aesthetic, ethical, social - and in
relationship to other forms of human culture, especially
contemporary culture. Although there have been many transformations
and changes in the world of fashion since the late 1960s, from
prêt- -porter to fast fashion, fashion’s connection to
both high culture and popular culture, and the new relationship
between fashion and the advent of social media, Fink’s insights
allow wide-ranging and far-reaching inquiries into fashion's
philosophical essence. Fink's extraordinary lucidity and his unique
conceptual capacities have made his work crucial to the study of
the philosophy of fashion today. His work, like that of Simmel’s,
Veblen’s or Benjamin’s, is as essential and important now as
when it was first published.
Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of
phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of
Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the
World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts
to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms
the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than idle
amusement, and reflects on the movement from "child's play" to
"cosmic play." Well-known for its nontechnical, literary style,
this skillful translation by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher
Turner invites engagement with Fink's philosophy of play and
related writings on sports, festivals, and ancient cult practices.
In this lecture course, Reiner Schurmann develops the idea that, in
between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular
humanist Renaissance, there was a distinctive medieval Renaissance
connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. Focusing on Thomas
Aquinas's ontology and epistemology, William of Ockham's
conceptualism, and Meister Eckhart's speculative mysticism,
Schurmann shows how thought began to break free from religion and
the hierarchies of the feudal, neo-Platonic order and devote its
attention to otherness and singularity. A crucial supplement to
Schurmann's magnum opus Broken Hegemonies, Neo-Aristotelianism and
the Medieval Renaissance will be essential reading for anyone
interested in the rise and fall of Western principles, and thus in
how to think and act today.
Jean Wahl (1888-1974), once considered by the likes of Georges
Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to
be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been
forgotten outside France. Yet his influence on French philosophical
thought can hardly be overestimated. Levinas wrote that "during
over a half century of teaching and research, [Wahl] was the life
force of the academic, extra-academic, and even, to a degree
anti-academic philosophy necessary to a great culture." And
Deleuze, for his part, commented that "Apart from Sartre, who
remained caught none the less in the trap of the verb to be, the
most important philosopher in France was Jean Wahl." Besides
engaging with the likes of Bataille, Bergson, Deleuze, Derrida,
Levinas, Maritain, and Sartre, Wahl also played a significant role,
in some cases almost singlehandedly, in introducing French
philosophy to movements like existentialism, and American
pragmatism and literature, and thinkers like Hegel, Kierkegaard,
Nietzsche, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Yet Wahl was also an original
philosopher and poet in his own right. This volume of selections
from Wahl's philosophical writings makes a selection of his most
important work available to the English-speaking philosophical
community for the first time. Jean Wahl was Professor of Philosophy
at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, save during World War II, which
he spent in the United States, having escaped from the Drancy
internment camp. His books to appear in English include The
Pluralist Philosophies of England and America (Open Court, 1925),
The Philosopher's Way (Oxford UP, 1948), A Short History of
Existentialism (Philosophical Library, 1949), and Philosophies of
Existence (Schocken, 1969).
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