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Plato's "Phaedo", Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" and Heidegger's
"Being and Time" are three of the most profound meditations on
variations of the ideas that to practice philosophy is to practice
how to die. This study traces how these variations are connected
with each other and with the reflections of this idea to be found
in the works of other ancient and modern philosophers - including
Neitzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and levinas. The book
also shows how this philosophical thanatology motivates or is
motivated by experiences documented in psychoanalysis and in the
anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths.
From the relative obscurity in which Levinas's work languished
until very recently, Emmanuel Levinas must now be judged as one of
the most influential figures in contemporary Continental
philosophy. There is no better guide than John Lewelyn to lead one
through the thickets of Levinas's prose. Bursting with questions,
multiple references, cascading citations and multilingual puns and
nuances, this book is the compelling record of intellectual
obsession. Taking as its guiding thre
the theme of genealogy, the book gives a broadly chronological and
impressively manageable presentation of the whole sweep of the
Levinas's work. Balanced and finely grained, Llewelyn confronts
questions of method, Heidegger, phenomenology, the theme of
sensibility, religion, enjoyment, feminity, eros, justice and the
political. The book reaches a stunning climax in a series of
chapters that give a hestitant but tolerant discussion of the
question of God in Levinas, the relation to Levinasian ethics to
Nietzschean genealogy, and an extraordinary discussion of metaphor
that leads into a wholly original analysis of Levinas's poetics and
metaphorics. The book concludes with a sensitive reading of the
autobiographical epigraphs to Levinas's "Otherwise than Being..."
and a consideration of the Holocaust.
From the relative obscurity in which Levinas's work languished
until very recently, Emmanuel Levinas must now be judged as one of
the most influential figures in contemporary Continental
philosophy. There is no better guide than John Lewelyn to lead one
through the thickets of Levinas's prose. Bursting with questions,
multiple references, cascading citations and multilingual puns and
nuances, this book is the compelling record of intellectual
obsession. Taking as its guiding thre
the theme of genealogy, the book gives a broadly chronological and
impressively manageable presentation of the whole sweep of the
Levinas's work. Balanced and finely grained, Llewelyn confronts
questions of method, Heidegger, phenomenology, the theme of
sensibility, religion, enjoyment, feminity, eros, justice and the
political. The book reaches a stunning climax in a series of
chapters that give a hestitant but tolerant discussion of the
question of God in Levinas, the relation to Levinasian ethics to
Nietzschean genealogy, and an extraordinary discussion of metaphor
that leads into a wholly original analysis of Levinas's poetics and
metaphorics. The book concludes with a sensitive reading of the
autobiographical epigraphs to Levinas's "Otherwise than Being..."
and a consideration of the Holocaust.
The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns
Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and
particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of 'formal distinction'.
Why did the nineteenth-century poet and self-styled philosopher
Gerard Manley Hopkins find this revolutionary teaching so
appealing? John Llewelyn answers this question by casting light on
various neologisms introduced by Hopkins and reveals how Hopkins
endorses Scotus claim that being and existence are grounded in
doing and willing. Drawing on modern responses to Scotus made by
Heidegger, Peirce, Arendt, Leibniz, Hume, Reid, Derrida and
Deleuze, Llewelyn's own response shows by way of bonus why it would
be a pity to suppose that the rewards of reading Scotus and Hopkins
are available only to those who share their theological
presuppositions.
In the 1930s, flying was all the rage. All over Britain women and
men had grown up watching wartime flying aces perform aerobatics in
the sky. Now they too were learning how to fly. Robert Owen is the
only son from a Welsh vicarage, now a brilliant pilot and flying
instructor, recently of the Royal Air Force. He has taken a new job
at the flying school at Best, a prosperous cathedral town in
England. Flying has never seemed so alluring and so terrifying.
Human frailty is tested in the drilling and repetition of hours in
flight, and Robert's skills as a pilot and in diplomacy with pupils
with delusions about their competence are tested to their limits.
And then he falls in love, risking his heart as well as his body in
the air.
John Llewelyn Rhys (1911-1940) was born in Abergavenny. He
published The Flying Shadow in 1936 (also reissued by Handheld
Press), and in 1939 published The World Owes Me A Living (filmed in
1945). Both were powerful novels about British aviation in the
1930s: the planes, the pilots, their need to be in the air, their
skill and bravery, their hard-drinking lives, the long-distance
record-breaking attempts, and death through accidents and taking
one risk too many. In August 1940 Rhys died in an RAF training
flight. His widow, the novelist Jane Oliver (author of Handheld's
best-selling Business as Usual), assembled his last book for
publication: a collection of short stories published in 1941 as
England is My Village. It won the prestigious Hawthornden Prize in
1942, and in the same year Jane Oliver set up the John Llewelyn
Rhys Prize in her late husband's memory: 'something to give young
writers the extra chance he didn't get'. This new edition of
England is My Village, and The World Owes Me A Living is a stunning
rediscovery of this brilliant writer. 'Had he lived,' an obituary
noted, 'he might have become the Kipling of the RAF.' Rhys's prose
is spare and direct, with no words wasted. The dialogue is
immediate, conveying mood, emotion, relationships, character and
action with precision. The stories date from 1936 to 1940 and
remind us of the responsibilities placed on very young men flying
thousands of feet up in the air in boxes of metal, petrol and
canvas. The Introduction is written by Kate Macdonald and Luke
Seaber.
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Republic (Paperback, New edition)
Plato; Translated by John Llewelyn Davies, David James Vaughan; Introduction by Stephen Watt; Series edited by Tom Griffith
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Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an
Introduction by Stephen Watt. The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have
influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such
is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N.
Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject
as foot-notes to Plato's work. Beyond philosophy, he has exerted a
major influence on the development of Western literature, politics
and theology. The Republic deals with the great range of Plato's
thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a
well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument and myth
to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by
desires and appetites. Regarded by some as the foundation document
of totalitarianism, by others as a call to develop the full
potential of humanity, the Republic remains a challenging and
intensely exciting work.
Focusing on the idea of universal suffrage, John Llewelyn accepts
the challenge of Derrida's later thought to renew his focus on the
ethical, political, and religious dimensions of what makes us
uniquely human. Llewelyn builds this concern on issues of
representation, language, meaning, and logic with reflections on
the phenomenological figures who informed Derrida's concept of
deconstruction. By entering into dialogue with these philosophical
traditions, Llewelyn demonstrates the range and depth of his own
original thinking. The Rigor of a Certain Inhumanity is a rich and
passionate, playful and perceptive work of philosophical analysis.
-- Indiana University Press
Pursuing Jacques Derrida's reflections on the possibility of
"religion without religion," John Llewelyn makes room for a sense
of the religious that does not depend on the religions or
traditional notions of God or gods. Beginning with Derrida's
statement that it was Kierkegaard to whom he remained most
faithful, Llewelyn reads Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Feuerbach,
Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Deleuze, Marion, as well as Kierkegaard
and Derrida, in original and compelling ways. Llewelyn puts
religiousness in vital touch with the struggles of the human
condition, finding religious space in the margins between the
secular and the religions, transcendence and immanence, faith and
knowledge, affirmation and despair, lucidity and madness. This
provocative and philosophically rich account shows why and where
the religious matters.
Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the
natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction,
and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques
Derrida (1930-2004), with its relentless interrogation of the
anthropocentric metaphysics of presence, has already proven highly
influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume,
drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others,
builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental
issues of our time. The volume brings together fifteen prominent
scholars, from a wide variety of related fields, including
eco-phenomenology, eco-hermeneutics, new materialism, posthumanism,
animal studies, vegetal philosophy, science and technology studies,
environmental humanities, eco-criticism, earth art and aesthetics,
and analytic environmental ethics. Overall, eco-deconstruction
offers an account of differential relationality explored in a
non-totalizable ecological context that addresses our times in both
an ontological and a normative register. The book is divided into
four sections. "Diagnosing the Present" suggests that our times are
marked by a facile, flattened-out understanding of time and thus in
need of deconstructive dispositions. "Ecologies" mobilizes the
spectral ontology of deconstruction to argue for an originary
environmentality, the constitutive ecological embeddedness of
mortal life. "Nuclear and Other Biodegradabilities," examines
remains, including such by-products and disintegrations of human
culture as nuclear waste, environmental destruction, and species
extinctions. "Environmental Ethics" seeks to uncover a demand for
justice, including human responsibility for suffering beings, that
emerges precisely as a response to original differentiation and the
mortality and unmasterable alterity it installs in living beings.
As such, the book will resonate with readers not only of
philosophy, but across the humanities and the social and natural
sciences.
The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns
Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and
particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of 'formal distinction'.
Hundreds of years later, why did the 19th century poet and
self-styled philosopher Gerard Manley Hopkins find this
revolutionary teaching so appealing? John Llewelyn answers this
question by casting light on various neologisms introduced by
Hopkins and reveals how Hopkins endorses Scotus' claim that being
and existence are grounded in doing and willing. Drawing on modern
responses to Scotus made by Heidegger, Peirce, Arendt, Leibniz,
Hume, Reid, Derrida and Deleuze, Llewelyn's own response shows why
it would be a pity to suppose that the rewards of reading Scotus
and Hopkins are available only to those who share their theological
presuppositions.
Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the
natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction,
and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques
Derrida (1930-2004), with its relentless interrogation of the
anthropocentric metaphysics of presence, has already proven highly
influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume,
drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others,
builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental
issues of our time. The volume brings together fifteen prominent
scholars, from a wide variety of related fields, including
eco-phenomenology, eco-hermeneutics, new materialism, posthumanism,
animal studies, vegetal philosophy, science and technology studies,
environmental humanities, eco-criticism, earth art and aesthetics,
and analytic environmental ethics. Overall, eco-deconstruction
offers an account of differential relationality explored in a
non-totalizable ecological context that addresses our times in both
an ontological and a normative register. The book is divided into
four sections. "Diagnosing the Present" suggests that our times are
marked by a facile, flattened-out understanding of time and thus in
need of deconstructive dispositions. "Ecologies" mobilizes the
spectral ontology of deconstruction to argue for an originary
environmentality, the constitutive ecological embeddedness of
mortal life. "Nuclear and Other Biodegradabilities," examines
remains, including such by-products and disintegrations of human
culture as nuclear waste, environmental destruction, and species
extinctions. "Environmental Ethics" seeks to uncover a demand for
justice, including human responsibility for suffering beings, that
emerges precisely as a response to original differentiation and the
mortality and unmasterable alterity it installs in living beings.
As such, the book will resonate with readers not only of
philosophy, but across the humanities and the social and natural
sciences.
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