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This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the origins of
Schopenhauer's philosophy and its inherent aporias. It is divided
into four parts. The first section delves into the pietistic
upbringing of young Schopenhauer and his introduction to philosophy
through the teachings of G.E. Schulze, as well as his study of
Plato, Schelling, and Kant. Faced with the "negative" outcomes of
Kant's criticism, particularly the unknowability of the
thing-in-itself, young Schopenhauer initially engaged with Fichte
and Schelling (this is covered in the second part of the volume).
However, Schopenhauer formed the opinion that these two
philosophers, instead of upholding and expanding upon Kant's ideas,
ultimately diverge from them. That notwithstanding, he implicitly
inherited certain pivotal concepts from Fichte and Schelling. The
third part explores Schopenhauer's initial endeavor to formulate a
new metaphysics after Kant, known as the theory of "better
consciousness." In the fourth part, the book demonstrates how the
internal contradictions within that theory and Schopenhauer's
transformative encounter with Indian wisdom (Hinduism and Buddhism)
lead him to abandon his first attempt at a system and develop his
metaphysics of will. The last and most substantial chapter of the
book focuses on the author's analysis of the inherent aporias
within Schopenhauer's mature system, approaching them from a
genetic perspective.
Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the
spell of Immanuel Kant's transcendental philosophy. In this book,
Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant
in a book of two parts, written 21 years apart. The first part of
the book, 'Observation', originally published in 2001, lays the
foundations of Ferraris' New Realism, foreshadowing the realist
turn that has become characteristic of 21st century philosophy. The
second part, 'Speculation', written in 2021, outlines a complete
metaphysical theory of realism. What ties both parts of the book
together is the the notion of hysteresis, the ability of effects to
survive even when their causes have ceased to exist.
This book explores the complex domain of social reality, asking
what this reality is, how it is composed and what its dynamics are
in both theoretical and practical terms. Through the examination of
some of the most important contemporary theories of social
ontology, the book discusses the fundamentals of the discipline and
lays the foundations for its development in the political sphere.
By analyzing the notion of State and the redesign of ontology, the
author argues in favor of a realist conception of the State and
shows the reasons why this promotes a better understanding of the
dynamics of power and the actualization of a greater justice
between generations. This book captures the relationship between
different generations within the same political context, and
presents it as a necessary condition for the re-definition of the
concepts of State and meta-State.
During his late period, Nietzsche is particularly concerned with
the value that mankind attributes to truth. In dealing with that
topic, Nietzsche is not primarly interested in the metaphysical
disputes on truth, but rather in the effects that the "will to
truth" has on the human being. In fact, he argues that the "faith
in a value as such of truth" influenced Western culture and started
the anthropological degeneration of the human type that
characterizes European morality. To call into question the value of
truth is therefore necessary, if one wants to help mankind to find
her way in the labyrinth of nihilism. In this new addition to
Nietzsche scholarship, Gori explores the origin and aim of the
philosopher's late perspectival thought by merging the theoretical
with the historical approach, with a special focus on the
epistemological debate that influenced Nietzsche. As a result, the
book provides a contextual reading of the issue that supports the
idea that Nietzsche's attitude in addressing the problem of truth
is, in a broad sense, pragmatic.
Ranging from Antiquity to contemporary analytic philosophy, it
provides a concise but thorough analysis of the arguments developed
by some of the most outstanding philosophers of all times. Besides
the aesthetics of music proper, the volume touches upon
metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of language, psychology,
anthropology, and scientific developments that have influenced the
philosophical explanations of music. Starting from the very origins
of philosophy in Western thought (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle) the
book talks about what music is according to Augustine, Descartes,
Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, the Romantics, Schopenhauer,
Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Susanne Langer, Bloch, Adorno, and many
others. Recent developments within the analytic tradition are
illustrated with particular attention to the ontology of the
musical artwork and to the problem of music and emotions. A
fascinating idea which recurs throughout the book is that
philosophers allow for a sort of a secret kinship between music and
philosophy, as means to reveal complementary aspects of truth.
During his late period, Nietzsche is particularly concerned with
the value that mankind attributes to truth. In dealing with that
topic, Nietzsche is not primarly interested in the metaphysical
disputes on truth, but rather in the effects that the "will to
truth" has on the human being. In fact, he argues that the "faith
in a value as such of truth" influenced Western culture and started
the anthropological degeneration of the human type that
characterizes European morality. To call into question the value of
truth is therefore necessary, if one wants to help mankind to find
her way in the labyrinth of nihilism. In this new addition to
Nietzsche scholarship, Gori explores the origin and aim of the
philosopher's late perspectival thought by merging the theoretical
with the historical approach, with a special focus on the
epistemological debate that influenced Nietzsche. As a result, the
book provides a contextual reading of the issue that supports the
idea that Nietzsche's attitude in addressing the problem of truth
is, in a broad sense, pragmatic.
This book explores the complex domain of social reality, asking
what this reality is, how it is composed and what its dynamics are
in both theoretical and practical terms. Through the examination of
some of the most important contemporary theories of social
ontology, the book discusses the fundamentals of the discipline and
lays the foundations for its development in the political sphere.
By analyzing the notion of State and the redesign of ontology, the
author argues in favor of a realist conception of the State and
shows the reasons why this promotes a better understanding of the
dynamics of power and the actualization of a greater justice
between generations. This book captures the relationship between
different generations within the same political context, and
presents it as a necessary condition for the re-definition of the
concepts of State and meta-State.
Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the
spell of Immanuel Kant's transcendental philosophy. In this book,
Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant
in a book of two parts, written 21 years apart. The first part of
the book, 'Observation', originally published in 2001, lays the
foundations of Ferraris' New Realism, foreshadowing the realist
turn that has become characteristic of 21st century philosophy. The
second part, 'Speculation', written in 2021, outlines a complete
metaphysical theory of realism. What ties both parts of the book
together is the the notion of hysteresis, the ability of effects to
survive even when their causes have ceased to exist.
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Doc-Humanity (Hardcover)
Maurizio Ferraris; Translated by Sarah De Sanctis
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However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new
world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something
that was ever defined once and for all, but remains an open
project. For several decades we have been witnessing a revolution.
However, unlike the political and ideological revolutions that took
place around the First World War, this is a technological and much
more radical one that does not depend on people's beliefs, but
rather on the tireless labour of machines. The rise of automation
has brought about a revelation of something that had hitherto
remained hidden in the workshops of homo faber . That is, there are
very few functions, apart from consumption, where a machine cannot
replace a human being, be these material or spiritual - machines
need energy, but they can also do without it, whereas humans die if
deprived of it, or one can imagine a machine producing symphonies,
but not enjoying them. So while human beings are still needed,
their roles and scopes have to be reconsidered. Workers may be
superfluous, but humans are still needed, including those who until
recently only recognised themselves as producers. The exclusion of
workers from production does not discount humans being able to
produce value in the form of consumption. Recognising this will
enable us to conceive the "Webfare" - a new digital system that
will teach us to find new names and new forms, more tolerance and
room for traditional human needs. Above all, it will teach us how
to transform the time given to us by automation into an opportunity
for progress.
This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of
contemporary objects: the cell phone. "Where are you?"-a question
asked over cell phones myriad times each day-is arguably the most
philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of
presence the cell phone has wrought in contemporary social life and
public space. Throughout all public spaces, cell phones are now a
ubiquitous prosthesis of what Descartes and Hegel once considered
the absolute tool: the hand. Their power comes in part from their
ability to move about with us-they are like a computer, but we can
carry them with us at all times-in part from what they attach to us
(and how), as all that computational and connective power becomes
both handy and hand-sized. Quite surprisingly, despite their name,
one might argue, as Ferraris does, that cell phones are not really
all that good for sound and speaking. Instead, the main
philosophical point of this book is that mobile phones have come
into their own as writing machines-they function best for text
messages, e-mail, and archives of all kinds. Their philosophical
urgency lies in the manner in which they carry us from the effects
of voice over into reliance upon the written traces that are,
Ferraris argues, the basic stuff of human culture. Ontology is the
study of what there is, and what there is in our age is a huge
network of documents, papers, and texts of all kinds. Social
reality is not constructed by collective intentionality; rather, it
is made up of inscribed acts. As Derrida already prophesized, our
world revolves around writing. Cell phones have attached writing to
our fingers and dragged it into public spaces in a new way. This is
why, with their power to obliterate or morph presence and replace
voice with writing, the cell phone is such a philosophically
interesting object.
In recent years, the word 'virus' has lost its biological perimeter
of reference to acquire a much broader - could say 'paradigmatic' -
meaning. The term 'virus' can be seen as a key word or an
explanatory model also for processes that go beyond the infectious
sphere. Every event appears to have a viral character: from the way
information is transmitted to the processes of cultural
globalization, from the impact of human beings on the planet to the
subversion of ecosystems, from pandemic risks to the demographic
increase on the planet. This seems to be indeed the Age of the
Virus. Its model can be applied to most of the phenomena that
characterize the twenty-first. Its profile - its looming and
invisible nature, its ability to use other people's resources to
spread and to transform into a dangerous doppelganger - is perfect
to represent the fears of the contemporary age.
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