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Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative
Literary Studies, Modern Language Association Twenty-first-century
philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between
speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to
overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation
between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant's transcendental
philosophy attempted to displace the opposing priorities of those
orientations, any speculative critique of Kant will have to re-open
and consider anew the conflict and complementarity of reason and
experience. Rationalist Empiricism shows that the capacity of
reason and experience to extend and yet delimit each other has
always been at the core of philosophy and science. Coordinating
their discrepant powers, Brown argues, is what enables speculation
to move forward in concert with critique. Sweeping across ancient,
modern, and contemporary philosophy, as well as political theory,
science, and art, Brown engages with such major thinkers as Plato,
Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Bachelard, Althusser,
Badiou, and Meillassoux. He also shows how the concepts he develops
illuminate recent projects in the science of measurement and
experimental digital photography. With conceptual originality and
argumentative precision, Rationalist Empiricism reconfigures the
history and the future of philosophy, politics, and aesthetics.
Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative
Literary Studies, Modern Language Association Twenty-first-century
philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between
speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to
overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation
between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant’s transcendental
philosophy attempted to displace the opposing priorities of those
orientations, any speculative critique of Kant will have to re-open
and consider anew the conflict and complementarity of reason and
experience. Rationalist Empiricism shows that the capacity of
reason and experience to extend and yet delimit each other has
always been at the core of philosophy and science. Coordinating
their discrepant powers, Brown argues, is what enables speculation
to move forward in concert with critique. Sweeping across ancient,
modern, and contemporary philosophy, as well as political theory,
science, and art, Brown engages with such major thinkers as Plato,
Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Bachelard, Althusser,
Badiou, and Meillassoux. He also shows how the concepts he develops
illuminate recent projects in the science of measurement and
experimental digital photography. With conceptual originality and
argumentative precision, Rationalist Empiricism reconfigures the
history and the future of philosophy, politics, and aesthetics.
This collection revisits A Theory of Literary Production (1966) to
show how Pierre Macherey's remarkable-and still provocative-early
work can contribute to contemporary discussions about the act of
reading and the politics of formal analysis. Across a series of
historically and philosophically contextualized readings, the
volume's contributors interrogate Macherey's work on a range of
pressing issues, including the development of a theory of reading
and criticism, the relationship between the spoken and the
unspoken, the labor of poetic determination and of literature's
resistance to ideological context, the literary relevance of a
Spinozist materialism, the process of racial subjectification and
the ontology of Blackness, and a theorization of the textual
surface. Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production also
includes three new texts by Macherey, presented here in English for
the first time: his postface to the revised French edition of A
Theory of Literary Production; "Reading Althusser," in which
Macherey analyzes the concept of symptomatic reading; and a
comprehensive interview in which Macherey reflects on the
historical conditions of his early work, the long arc of his career
at the intersection of philosophy and literature, and the ongoing
importance of Louis Althusser's thought. Recent translations of
Macherey's work into English have introduced new readers to the
critic's enduring power and originality. Timely in its questions
and teeming with fresh insights, Pierre Macherey and the Case of
Literary Production demonstrates the depths to which his work
resonates, now more than ever.
Following significant advances in deep learning and related areas
interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly grown. In
particular, the application of AI in drug discovery provides an
opportunity to tackle challenges that previously have been
difficult to solve, such as predicting properties, designing
molecules and optimising synthetic routes. Artificial Intelligence
in Drug Discovery aims to introduce the reader to AI and machine
learning tools and techniques, and to outline specific challenges
including designing new molecular structures, synthesis planning
and simulation. Providing a wealth of information from leading
experts in the field this book is ideal for students, postgraduates
and established researchers in both industry and academia.
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Don't Try (Paperback)
Nathan Brown, Jon Dee Graham
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R405
Discovery Miles 4 050
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