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Malum (Hardcover)
Ingolf U Dalferth; Translated by Nils F. Schott
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We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time,
media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and
smart phones scan and touch us. In Horn, Henning Schmidgen reflects
on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces
constitute sites of mediation between interior and exterior.
Schmidgen uses the concept of "horn"-whether manifested as a
rhinoceros horn or a musical instrument-to stand for both natural
substances and artificial objects as spaces of tactility. He enters
into creative dialogue with artists, scientists, and philosophers,
ranging from Salvador Dali, William Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to
Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the
complex interplay between tactility and technological and
biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dali conceived of images
as tactile entities during his "rhinoceros phase" or examining the
problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49,
Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of
touch in media.
In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Hoeffe provides a
sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in
the project of modernity. Hoeffe addresses a set of complex
questions concerning the possibility of political justice and
equity in the modern world, the destruction of nature, the
dissolving of social cohesion, and the deregulation of
uncontrollable markets. Through these considerations, he shows how
the idea of freedom is central to modernity, and he assesses
freedom's influence in a number of cultural dimensions, including
the natural, economic and social, artistic and scientific,
political, ethical, and personal-metaphysical. Neither rejecting
nor defending freedom and modernity, he instead explores both from
a Kantian point of view, looking closely at the facets of freedom's
role and the fundamental position it has taken at the heart of
modern life. Expanding beyond traditional philosophy, Critique of
Freedom develops the building blocks of a critical theory of
technology, environmental protection, economics, politics,
medicine, and education. With a sophisticated yet straightforward
style, Hoeffe draws on a range of disciplines in order to clearly
distinguish and appreciate the many meanings of freedom and the
indispensable role they play in liberal society.
Bergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early
twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of
philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty
years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy,
including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science,
philosophy of life, aesthetics, ethics, social and political
thought, and religion. The essays explore Bergson's influence on a
number of different fields, and also extend his thought to pressing
issues of our time, including philosophy as a way of life,
inclusion and exclusion in politics, ecology, the philosophy of
race and discrimination, and religion and its enduring appeal. The
volume will be valuable for all who are interested in this
important thinker and his continuing relevance.
We can calculate financial fraud, but how do we measure bad faith?
How can we evaluate the words of the pharmaceutical industry or of
eco-scientific ideologies, or the subtle deception found in
political scheming? Henri Atlan sheds light on these questions
through the concept of "ona'ah," which in Hebrew refers to both
fraud in financial transactions and the verbal injury inflicted by
speech. The world of "ona'ah" is a world of an "in-between," where
the impossible purity of absolute Platonic truth gives way to a
more relative notion--the near-theft, the quasi-lie. Today it seems
that no discourse is safe from fraudulent excesses, be they
intentional or no. As both philosopher and biologist, Atlan works
on several registers. He forges links between the Talmud, the
Kabbalah, and the big questions of our time, multiplying the
bridges between science, philosophy, and current ethical dilemmas.
In a context of financial and moral crises that appear to be
weakening our democracies, Henri Atlan's work allows us to rethink
the status of fraud in the contemporary world.
We can calculate financial fraud, but how do we measure bad faith?
How can we evaluate the words of the pharmaceutical industry or of
eco-scientific ideologies, or the subtle deception found in
political scheming? Henri Atlan sheds light on these questions
through the concept of "ona'ah," which in Hebrew refers to both
fraud in financial transactions and the verbal injury inflicted by
speech. The world of "ona'ah" is a world of an "in-between," where
the impossible purity of absolute Platonic truth gives way to a
more relative notion--the near-theft, the quasi-lie. Today it seems
that no discourse is safe from fraudulent excesses, be they
intentional or no. As both philosopher and biologist, Atlan works
on several registers. He forges links between the Talmud, the
Kabbalah, and the big questions of our time, multiplying the
bridges between science, philosophy, and current ethical dilemmas.
In a context of financial and moral crises that appear to be
weakening our democracies, Henri Atlan's work allows us to rethink
the status of fraud in the contemporary world.
These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the
fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence
of things possible. Images present things as exclusively visible,
released from the laws of physics. Taking this idea as his point of
departure, Wiesing provides an overview of the fundamental
positions in contemporary image studies. He describes the use of
images as signs from a phenomenological perspective, reconstructs
Plato's concept of mimesis by way of the canon of images it
presupposes, and demonstrates the special relevance of extreme
types of images-- virtual reality, desktop windows, or abstract
photography--for the philosophical labor of the concept of the
image.
We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time,
media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and
smart phones scan and touch us. In Horn, Henning Schmidgen reflects
on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces
constitute sites of mediation between interior and exterior.
Schmidgen uses the concept of "horn"-whether manifested as a
rhinoceros horn or a musical instrument-to stand for both natural
substances and artificial objects as spaces of tactility. He enters
into creative dialogue with artists, scientists, and philosophers,
ranging from Salvador Dali, William Kentridge, and Rebecca Horn to
Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Marshall McLuhan, who plumb the
complex interplay between tactility and technological and
biological surfaces. Whether analyzing how Dali conceived of images
as tactile entities during his "rhinoceros phase" or examining the
problem of tactility in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49,
Schmidgen reconfigures understandings of the dynamic phenomena of
touch in media.
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Henri Bergson (Hardcover)
Vladimir Jankelevitch; Edited by Nils F. Schott, Alexandre Lefebvre; Translated by Nils F. Schott
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Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir
Jankelevitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries
written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed
interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider
Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives. Here
Jankelevitch covers all aspects of Bergson's thought, emphasizing
the concepts of time and duration, memory, evolution, simplicity,
love, and joy. A friend of Bergson's, Jankelevitch first published
this book in 1931 and revised it in 1959 to treat Bergson's later
works. This unabridged translation of the 1959 edition includes an
editor's introduction, which contextualizes and outlines
Jankelevitch's reading of Bergson, additional essays on Bergson by
Jankelevitch, and Bergson's letters to Jankelevitch.
Bergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early
twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of
philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty
years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy,
including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science,
philosophy of life, aesthetics, ethics, social and political
thought, and religion. The essays explore Bergson's influence on a
number of different fields, and also extend his thought to pressing
issues of our time, including philosophy as a way of life,
inclusion and exclusion in politics, ecology, the philosophy of
race and discrimination, and religion and its enduring appeal. The
volume will be valuable for all who are interested in this
important thinker and his continuing relevance.
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "lost
time" by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of
the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von
Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust.
Its starting point is the archival discovery of curve images that
Helmholtz produced in the context of pathbreaking experiments on
the temporality of the nervous system in 1851. With a "frog drawing
machine," Helmholtz established the temporal gap between stimulus
and response that has remained a core issue in debates between
neuroscientists and philosophers.
When naming the recorded phenomena, Helmholtz introduced the term
temps perdu, or lost time. Proust had excellent contacts with the
biomedical world of late-nineteenth-century Paris, and he was
familiar with this term and physiological tracing technologies
behind it. Drawing on the machine philosophy of Deleuze, Schmidgen
highlights the resemblance between the machinic assemblages and
rhizomatic networks within which Helmholtz and Proust pursued their
respective projects.
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Henri Bergson (Paperback)
Vladimir Jankelevitch; Edited by Nils F. Schott, Alexandre Lefebvre; Translated by Nils F. Schott
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Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir
Jankelevitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries
written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed
interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider
Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives. Here
Jankelevitch covers all aspects of Bergson's thought, emphasizing
the concepts of time and duration, memory, evolution, simplicity,
love, and joy. A friend of Bergson's, Jankelevitch first published
this book in 1931 and revised it in 1959 to treat Bergson's later
works. This unabridged translation of the 1959 edition includes an
editor's introduction, which contextualizes and outlines
Jankelevitch's reading of Bergson, additional essays on Bergson by
Jankelevitch, and Bergson's letters to Jankelevitch.
What does the infamous face transplant in France in 2005 share with
the examination of "swollen faces" in Latin America in the 1930s?
What does blood transfusion in Europe during the 17th century have
in common with the discovery of mosquitoes as parasitic vectors in
China at the close of the 19th century? And, last, how does the
reconstruction of noses using skin flaps in Bologna in the 16th
century relate to the opening of a forehead cyst in Guatemala in
1916? The six essays that form Figures of Medicine present a wealth
of symmetries. Francois Delaporte shows that each epistemological
concern demands its own mode of engagement; problems reside not
only in their objects but also in the historical situations in
which they emerge. Focusing on efforts to resolve medical problems
that are particular and nonetheless exemplary, Delaporte unpacks
these separate cases to show how multiple actors-over long periods
of time and across different geographies-must be taken into account
to remove epistemological blockages that stand in the way of
understanding. A remarkable contribution to the history of science
and medicine, this book shows the value of historical epistemology
from philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives.
These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the
fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence
of things possible. Images present things as exclusively visible,
released from the laws of physics. Taking this idea as his point of
departure, Wiesing provides an overview of the fundamental
positions in contemporary image studies. He describes the use of
images as signs from a phenomenological perspective, reconstructs
Plato's concept of mimesis by way of the canon of images it
presupposes, and demonstrates the special relevance of extreme
types of images-- virtual reality, desktop windows, or abstract
photography--for the philosophical labor of the concept of the
image.
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "lost
time" by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of
the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von
Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust.
Its starting point is the archival discovery of curve images that
Helmholtz produced in the context of pathbreaking experiments on
the temporality of the nervous system in 1851. With a "frog drawing
machine," Helmholtz established the temporal gap between stimulus
and response that has remained a core issue in debates between
neuroscientists and philosophers.
When naming the recorded phenomena, Helmholtz introduced the term
temps perdu, or lost time. Proust had excellent contacts with the
biomedical world of late-nineteenth-century Paris, and he was
familiar with this term and physiological tracing technologies
behind it. Drawing on the machine philosophy of Deleuze, Schmidgen
highlights the resemblance between the machinic assemblages and
rhizomatic networks within which Helmholtz and Proust pursued their
respective projects.
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Malum (Paperback)
Ingolf U Dalferth; Translated by Nils F. Schott
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What does the infamous face transplant in France in 2005 share with
the examination of "swollen faces" in Latin America in the 1930s?
What does blood transfusion in Europe during the 17th century have
in common with the discovery of mosquitoes as parasitic vectors in
China at the close of the 19th century? And, last, how does the
reconstruction of noses using skin flaps in Bologna in the 16th
century relate to the opening of a forehead cyst in Guatemala in
1916? The six essays that form Figures of Medicine present a wealth
of symmetries. Francois Delaporte shows that each epistemological
concern demands its own mode of engagement; problems reside not
only in their objects but also in the historical situations in
which they emerge. Focusing on efforts to resolve medical problems
that are particular and nonetheless exemplary, Delaporte unpacks
these separate cases to show how multiple actors-over long periods
of time and across different geographies-must be taken into account
to remove epistemological blockages that stand in the way of
understanding. A remarkable contribution to the history of science
and medicine, this book shows the value of historical epistemology
from philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives.
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Political Anthropology (Paperback)
Helmuth Plessner; Translated by Nils F. Schott; Introduction by Heike Delitz, Robert Seyfert; Epilogue by Joachim Fischer
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In Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht
und menschliche Natur), Helmuth Plessner considers whether
politics-conceived as the struggle for power between groups,
nations, and states-belongs to the essence of the human. Building
on and complementing ideas from his Levels of the Organic and the
Human (1928), Plessner proposes a genealogy of political life and
outlines an anthropological foundation of the political. In
critical dialogue with thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Eric
Voegelin, and Martin Heidegger, Plessner argues that the political
relationships cultures entertain with one other, their struggle for
acknowledgement and assertion, are expressions of certain
possibilities of the openness and unfathomability of the human.
Translated into English for the first time, and accompanied by an
introduction and an epilogue that situate Plessner's thinking both
within the context of Weimar-era German political and social
thought and within current debates, this succinct book should be of
great interest to philosophers, political theorists, and
sociologists interested in questions of power and the foundations
of the political.
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