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If, as Walter Benjamin believed, 'historical understanding is to be
viewed primarily as an afterlife of that which is to be
understood', what are the afterlives of the central concepts of
modern European philosophy today? These essays reflect on the
afterlives of three such concepts - 'the transcendental', 'the
universal' and 'otherness' - as they continue to animate
philosophical discussion at and beyond the limits of the
discipline. Anthropology, law, mathematics and politics each
provide occasions for testing the historical durability and
transformative capacity of these concepts.
This book offers an exciting look at the important and often uneasy
place of philosophy in cultural theory today. In the United States
and Britain, cultural studies has taken a largely non-philosophical
form. Yet, in its hostility to disciplinary boundaries and its
search for theoretical generality, cultural studies has much in
common with a philosophical tradition of totalization from which it
has historically distanced itself. Throughout, Osborne shows how
and why concepts currently popular in cultural theory have brought
philosophical questions to center stage. He discusses many
important thinkers who have straddled the philosophy-cultural
divide such as Benjamin, Adorno, Jameson, and Clement Greenberg.
Criticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between
activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more
subterranean terms of art-judgment are largely neglected on both
sides. These essays combine a re-examination of the terms of
judgement of contemporary art with critical interpretations of
individual works and exhibitions by Luis Camnitzer, Marcel Duchamp,
Matias Faldbakken, Anne Imhof and Cady Noland. The book moves from
philosophical issues, via the lingering shadows of
medium-specificity (in photography and art music), and the changing
states of museums, to analyses of the peculiar ways that works of
art relate to time.To give artistic form to crisis, it is
suggested, one needs to understand contemporary art's own
constitutive crisis of form.
This collection explores, in Adorno's description, 'philosophy
directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of
Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art
and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of
time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the
key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.
Philosophy in Cultural Theory boldly crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a philosophical critique of cultural theory today. Drawing on the legacy of Walter Benjamin, Peter Osborne looks critically at central philosophical debates in cultural theory, such as: * the relationship between sign and image * the technological basis of cultural form * the conceptuality of art * the place of fantasy in human affairs. It will appeal to those in philosophy, cultural studies and art theory.
Since 1972, the journal Radical Philosophy has provided a forum for
the discussion of radical and critical ideas in philosophy. It is
the liveliest and probably the most widely read philosophical
journal in Britain. This anthology reprints some of the best
articles to have appeared in the journal during the past five
years. It covers topics in social and moral philosophy which are
central to current controversies on the left, focusing on
theoretical issues raised by the socialist, feminist and
environmental movements.Topics covered include feminist
perspectives on a range of traditional philosophical issues and
contemporary problems; theoretical questions involved in the
rethinking of socialism and Marxism; and questions about the
relation between humanity and nature raised by environmental
debates. The pieces included engage with contemporary issues in
critical terms, and represent the best of recent philosophical work
on the left. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in
the current state of radical thought.
A Critical Sense brings together in a single volume the leading
figures of contemporary radical theory. Moving freely between
philosophy, politics and cultural studies, it offers a fascinating
overview of the lines of thought of today's intellectual
left.
Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and critical theory, literary
studies, deconstruction, pragmatism, postcolonial and queer theory
are discussed in a series of interviews from the journal Radical
Philosophy. Those interviewed are:
Judith Butler
Cornelius Castoriadis
Drucilla Cornell
Axel Honneth
Istvan Meszaros
Edward Said
Renata Salecl
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Cornel West
Slavoj Zizek
For those unfamiliar with the often daunting work of some of
today's most important thinkers, ACritical Sense will offer an
ideal introduction; for those already acquainted with the writings
of the theorists interviewed here, the collection will throw new -
and often surprising - light on familiar ground.
A Critical Sense brings together in a single volume the leading figures of contemporary radical theory. Moving freely between philosophy, politics and cultural studies, it offers a fascinating overview of the lines of thought of today's intellectual left. Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and critical theory, literary studies, deconstruction, pragmatism, postcolonial and queer theory are discussed in a series of interviews from the journal Radical Philosophy. Those interviewed are: Judith Butler Cornelius Castoriadis Drucilla Cornell Axel Honneth Istvan Meszaros Edward Said Renata Salecl Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Cornel West Slavoj Zizek For those unfamiliar with the often daunting work of some of today's most important thinkers, ACritical Sense will offer an ideal introduction; for those already acquainted with the writings of the theorists interviewed here, the collection will throw new - and often surprising - light on familiar ground.
This collection explores Walter Benjamin's "philosophy directed
against philosophy". The essays, from 11 contributors, aim to cover
all aspects of Benjamin's writings. Subjects range from his early
work in the philosphy of art and language, through his cultural
criticism, to his final reflections on the concept of history. The
experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are
identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of
history.
Since 1972, the journal "Radical Philosophy" has provided a forum
for the discussion of radical and critical ideas in philosophy.
This anthology reprints some of the articles which have appeared in
the journal during the past five years. It covers topics in social
and moral philosophy which are central to current controversies on
the left, focusing on theoretical issues raised by the socialist,
feminist and environmental movements. Topics covered include
feminist perspectives on a range of traditional philosophical
issues and contemporary problems, theoretical questions involved in
the rethinking of socialism and Marxism, and questions about the
relation between humanity and nature raised by environmental
debates. The pieces included engage with contemporary issues in
critical terms, and represent the recent philosophical work on the
left. The book should be interesting reading for anyone involved in
studying the current state of radical thought.
No other single author has so commanding a critical presence across
so many disciplines within the arts and humanities, in so many
national contexts, as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The belated
reception of his work as a literary critic (dating from the late
1950s) has been followed by a rapid series of critical receptions
in different contexts: Frankfurt Critical Theory and Marxism,
Judaism, Film Theory, Post-structuralism, Philosophical
Romanticism, and Cultural Studies.
This collection brings together a selection of the most critically
important items in the literature, across the full range of
Benjamin's cultural-theoretical interests, from all periods of the
reception of his writings, but focusing upon the most recent, to
produce a comprehensive overview of the best critical
literature.
Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl
Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a
developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans
to be practical historical beings. Drawing upon passages from a
wide range of Marx's writings, and showing the links between them,
Osborne refutes the myth of Marx as a reductively economistic
thinker. What Marx meant by 'materialism', 'communism' and the
'critique of political economy' was much richer and more original,
philosophically, than is generally recognized. With the renewed
globalization of capitalism since 1989, Osborne argues, Marx's
analyses of the consequences of commodification are more relevant
today than ever before. Extracts are taken from the full breadth of
Marx's writings, from his student Notebooks on Epicurean
Philosophy, via the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and The
Communist Manifesto to Capital.
If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic
form.to make historical content into a philosophical truth" then it
is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth.
Never has this been more necessary or more difficult than with
respect to contemporary art. Contemporary art is a point of
condensation of a vast array of social and historical forces,
economic and political forms and technologies of image production.
Contemporary art expresses this condition, Osborne maintains,
through its distinctively postconceptual form. These
essays-extending the scope and arguments of Osborne's Anywhere or
Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art-move from philosophical
consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist
modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics of art and the
changing shape of art institutions, to interpretation and analysis
of particular works by Akram Zataari, Xavier Le Roy and Ilya
Kabakov, and the postconceptual situation of a crisis-ridden New
Music.
Ulrich describes his 150 grueling missions as a fighter pilot par
excellence, until being shot down and captured over England in
October 1940.
On July 22, 1779, one of the most lethal battles of the American
Revolution, in terms of the ratio of participants to numbers
killed, took place on a hill above Minisink Ford along the Delaware
River north of Port Jervis, New York. The Battle at Minisink Ford,
New York was a disaster for the American militia units. More than
one third of the militiamen perished. This important work reveals
primary sources about the battle that have not been seen in more
than one hundred and fifty years. So Many Brave Men, the first
major work written on the battle in thirty years, will encourage
new interest in the battle, and the men who fought there. Many of
the veterans of that catastrophe speak to us about that fateful day
from the distance of more than 230 years. They also speak of their
dedication to the cause of freedom and liberty. 828 Pages, 7" x 10"
Indexed, Bibliography, 15 illustrations, 5 maps
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