Dialectic Of Nihilsm

Author : Gillian Rose
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631137085
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialectic of Nihilsm written by Gillian Rose and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991-01-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fundamentally challenges the radical credentials of post-structuralism. Though Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze claim to have 'deconstructed' metaphysics, their work has much in common with previous attempts to 'end' the metaphysical tradition, from Kant to Nietzshe and Heidegger, and by sociology in general. Gillian Rose shows that this anti-metaphysical writing always appears in historically specific jurisprudential terms, which themselves found and recapitulate metaphysical categories. She reconsiders post-structuralism in this light and assesses the relationship between deconstruction and the earlier structuralism of Saussure and Levi-Strauss. She argues in conclusion that the choice between post-structuralist nihilism and Hegelian and Marxist dialectic is spurious.

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Dialectics and Nihilism written by Peter Heller and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Conor Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474008
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogy of Nihilism written by Conor Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought. From Parmenides to Alain Badiou, via Plotinus, Avicenna, Duns Scotus, Ockham, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, a genealogy of nothingness can be witnessed in development, with devastating consequences for the way we live.

Author : Michael J. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032017143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descent of the Dialectic written by Michael J. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2025 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic criticism or a form of reason that is able to synthesize human value with objective rationality. This book argues that defects in modern forms of social reason are the result of the powers of social structure and the norms and purposes they embody. Increasingly, modern societies are driven not by substantive values concerning human good but by the technical imperatives of economic management leading to a cultural condition of nihilism that has eroded dialectical consciousness. The first half of the book demonstrates the various ways that social power erodes and undermines critical-rational forms of consciousness. The second part of the book constructs an alternative basis for critical reason by showing how it requires seeing human value as essentially ontological: that is, constituted by objective forms of sociality that either promote human freedom or pervert our capacities and drives toward pathological forms of life. The philosophical claim is that a critical theory of ethics must be rooted in these concrete forms of life and that this will serve as a critical vantage point for critical political judgment and transformational praxis. Descent of the Dialectic will be of interest to researchers working in philosophy, political theory, social theory, and critical theory"--

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262265818
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monstrosity of Christ written by Slavoj Zizek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A militant Marxist atheist and a “Radical Orthodox” Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia. “What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief.”—John Milbank “To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in my atheism, I am more Christian than Milbank.”—Slavoj Žižek In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a militant atheist who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the other corner, “Radical Orthodox” theologian John Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. In The Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and press their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have not only proven themselves worthy adversaries, they have shown that faith and reason are not simply and intractably opposed. Žižek has long been interested in the emancipatory potential offered by Christian theology. And Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century's greatest ethical challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christ concerns the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event—God becoming human. For the first time since Žižek's turn toward theology, we have a true debate between an atheist and a theologian about the very meaning of theology, Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost, Universality, and the foundations of logic. The result goes far beyond the popularized atheist/theist point/counterpoint of recent books by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others. Žižek begins, and Milbank answers, countering dialectics with “paradox.” The debate centers on the nature of and relation between paradox and parallax, between analogy and dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation. Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over thirty books, including Looking Awry, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these three published by the MIT Press). John Milbank is an influential Christian theologian and the author of Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and other books. Creston Davis, who conceived of this encounter, studied under both Žižek and Milbank.

Author : Roy Starrs
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824816315
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deadly Dialectics written by Roy Starrs and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective seriously: it also provides the first adequate account of Mishima's intellectual background and characteristic modes of thought and it is the first book to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought and his psychology and militant politics - or, more specifically, between his nihilism, his sexuality and his propensity to violence.

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Amherst, U. of Massachusetts P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialectics and Nihilism written by Peter Heller and published by Amherst, U. of Massachusetts P. This book was released on 1966 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Amherst, U. of Massachusetts P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialectics and Nihilism written by Peter Heller and published by Amherst, U. of Massachusetts P. This book was released on 1966 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vittorio Possenti
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438452071
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nihilism and Metaphysics written by Vittorio Possenti and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism’s ascendency over metaphysics. Challenging the idea that nihilism has supplanted metaphysics, Vittorio Possenti finds in this philosophical turn the grounds for a mature renewal of metaphysics. Possenti takes the reader on a “third voyage” that goes beyond the “second voyage” indicated by Plato in the Phaedo. He traces the ascendancy of nihilism in philosophy, offering critical examinations of Nietzsche, Gentile, Heidegger, Habermas, Husserl, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Vattimo. With penetrating accounts of philosophical movements such as hermeneutics and logical empiricism, rich with both historical and theoretical insights, Possenti provides a compelling defense of the power of human reason to apprehend the most obvious but also the most profound aspect of things: that they exist. By exploring the ubiquity of nihilism and probing its philosophical roots, Possenti clears the way for a fresh reformulation of metaphysics.

Author : K. Ansell-Pearson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597769
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nihilism Now! written by K. Ansell-Pearson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-07-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity. For too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed 'what is to be done?'. All is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, there is nothing new seen under the sun. Such a 'postmodern' lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to think engagedly. Hence our contributors draw on the variety of topical issues: the future of life, the nature of life-forms, the techno-sciences, the body, religion...as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now.