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"Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy" present the most
cutting-edge scholarship in this major area of research and study.
The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings
in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating
resource for students and academics from a range of disciplines
across the humanities and social sciences. "Deleuze and Guattari's
Philosophy of History" constructs, problematizes and defends a
Deleuzian philosophy of history. Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of
time, it identifies key ideas and suggestions related to the
philosophy of history from Deleuze and Guattari's major writings -
including the seminal contemporary texts "Anti-Oedipus", "A
Thousand Plateaux", ""Difference and Repetiton" and "The Logic of
Sense" - and from this strating point goes on to develop a full and
coherent philosophy of history. The book engages with Deleuze's
theory of the 'pure past', exploring its implications for our
understanding of history and time. The book covers the following
themes: the role of dates in historical chronology; historical
causality; historical origins; the character of historical events;
and the diagnosis of such actual historical events as the rise of
capitalism in Europe. This text is a groundbreaking, valuable and
original contribution to the scholarship on Deleuze and Guattari,
and contemporary Continental philosophy as a whole.
Through original speculations on the surprisingly complementary
concepts of simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the
great philosophers of time, this book proposes an innovative theory
of staggered time. In the early 20th Century, Bergson and Husserl
(following Einstein) made Simultaneity-what it means for events to
occur at the same time-a central motif in philosophy.In the late
20th Century, Derrida and Deleuze instead emphasized Delay-events
staggered over distant times.This struggle between convergent and
staggered time also plays out in 20th Century aesthetics
(especially music), politics, and the sciences. Despite their
importance in the history of philosophy, this is the first book to
comprehensively examine the concepts of simultaneity and delay.By
putting simultaneity and delay into a dialectical relation, this
book argues that time in general is organized by elastic rhythms.
Lampert's concepts describe the time-structures of such diverse
phenomena as atonal music, political decision-making, neuronal
delays, leaps of memory and the boredom of waiting; and
simultaneities and delays in everyday experience and behaviour.
In the sixth Logical Investigation, Husserl defines meaning,
objectivity, and knowledge by appealing to "syntheses of
fulfilment" each act of conscious ness has a meaning-intention
whereby it anticipates a range of fulfilling intuitions, whose
ongoing synthesis would identify intended objects in the face of
their changing appearances. Synthesis is essential to
phenomenological description. But what does it mean to say that one
experience is combined with others? This monograph is a
speculative-exegetical Husserlian analysis of the ground, the
mechanisms, and the results of synthesis. Focusing on Husserl's
Logical Investigations, I argue that synthesizing consciousness
must be a self-propelling, self-explicating system of
interpretative acts driven by ongoing forward and backward
references, grounding its structures as it proceeds, and positing
its origins as that which must have been given "in advance." To
this end, I develop a dialectical reading of Husserl's largely
untreated category of "referring backward" (zuruckweisen).
Treatments of Husserl's concept of synthesis have tended to focus
on Husserl's later work on passive synthesis. By drawing out the
centrality of the concept of synthesis in the Logical
Investigations, I show how synthesis is at the foundation of
intentionality as such, and also indicate the continuity of
descriptive categories that run through both the early and the late
Husserl. The Introduction to this study schematizes the modem
history of the concept of synthesis, and reviews the secondary
literature on Husserl's concept of synthesis."
Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century,
this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making
alongside the philosophy of time. When we make simple decisions,
like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a
linear model of the future. But when we make open-ended decisions,
like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we
presuppose a much more complex model of the future. We project a
variety of virtual futures. We can carry out a decision in many
different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different
points in time. Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures
of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the
future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision
concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments
that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book
innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a
multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the
theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger,
Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other
decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple
futures.
The concept of the short term involves a complex network of
quantitative, qualitative, and operational ideas. It is essential
everywhere from the ontology of time, to the science of memory, to
the preservation of art, to emotional life, to the practice of
ethics. But what does the idea of the short term mean? What makes a
temporal term short? What makes a time segment terminate? Is the
short term a quantitative idea, or a qualitative or functional
idea? When is it a good idea to understand events as short term
events, and when is it a good idea to make decisions based on the
short term? What does it mean for the nature of time if some of it
can be short? Jay Lampert explores these questions in depth and
makes use of the resources of short (as well as long) term
processes in order to develop best temporal practices in ethical,
aesthetic, epistemological, and metaphysical activities, both
theoretical and practical. The methodology develops ideas based on
the history of philosophy (from Plato to Hegel to Husserl to
Deleuze), interdisciplinary studies (from cognitive science to
poetics), and practical spheres where short term practices have
been studied extensively (from short term psychotherapy to short
term financial investments). Philosophy of the Short Term is the
first book to deal systematically with the concept of the short
term.
Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century,
this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making
alongside the philosophy of time. When we make simple decisions,
like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make use of a
linear model of the future. But when we make open-ended decisions,
like the decision to get fitter, or more involved in politics, we
presuppose a much more complex model of the future. We project a
variety of virtual futures. We can carry out a decision in many
different ways at once, which may converge and diverge at different
points in time. Using a phenomenological approach, The Many Futures
of a Decision explores what we learn about the structure of the
future specifically from decision-making. Most theories of decision
concentrate on the rationality: the evidence and value assessments
that build up grounds for a rational decision. Instead, this book
innovatively engages with the nature of the future as a
multi-layered decisions project. Through interpretations of the
theories of decision in philosophers like Husserl and Heidegger,
Schmitt and Habermas, Derrida and Deleuze, along with other
decision theories, Lampert develops an original theory of multiple
futures.
Through original speculations on the surprisingly complementary
concepts of simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the
great philosophers of time, this book proposes an innovative theory
of staggered time. In the early 20th Century, Bergson and Husserl
(following Einstein) made Simultaneity-what it means for events to
occur at the same time-a central motif in philosophy. In the late
20th Century, Derrida and Deleuze instead emphasized Delay-events
staggered over distant times. This struggle between convergent and
staggered time also plays out in 20th Century aesthetics
(especially music), politics, and the sciences. Despite their
importance in the history of philosophy, this is the first book to
comprehensively examine the concepts of simultaneity and delay. By
putting simultaneity and delay into a dialectical relation, this
book argues that time in general is organized by elastic rhythms.
Lampert's concepts describe the time-structures of such diverse
phenomena as atonal music, political decision-making, neuronal
delays, leaps of memory and the boredom of waiting; and
simultaneities and delays in everyday experience and behaviour.
Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History constructs,
problematizes and defends a Deleuzian philosophy of history.
Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of time, it identifies key ideas
and suggestions related to the philosophy of history from Deleuze
and Guattari's major writings - including the seminal contemporary
texts Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaux, Difference and Repetiton
and The Logic of Sense. The book covers the following themes: the
role of dates in historical chronology; historical causality;
historical origins; the character of historical events; and the
diagnosis of such actual historical events as the rise of
capitalism in Europe. This text is a groundbreaking, valuable and
original contribution to the scholarship on Deleuze and Guattari,
and contemporary Continental philosophy as a whole.
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