Francois Julliens Unexceptional Thought

Author : Arne De Boever
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786615770
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought written by Arne De Boever and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the French Hellenist and sinologist François Jullien has published more than thirty books, half of which have been translated into English, he remains much less known in the English-language world than many of his fellow “French philosophers”. This may be due to his work being perceived as within the limits of sinology. This book attempts to rectify this, highlighting Jullien’s work at the intersection of Chinese and Western thought and drawing out the “unthought” in both traditions of thinking. This "unthought" can be seen as what conditions our thought, and opens it up onto new ways of thinking and understanding. The notion of "unthought" is at the core of Jullien’s methodology, operating in what he calls the "divergence of the in-between". Written in an engaging style, Arne De Boever offers an accessible introduction to François Jullien’s work that emphatically challenges some of the core assumptions of Western reasoning.

Author : Bartholomew Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538147505
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy written by Bartholomew Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) and his relationship to philosophy. On the one hand, this book reveals Pessoa’s serious knowledge of philosophy and playful philosophical explorations and how he has the gift of synthesizing, appropriating, and subverting complex ideas into his art; and, on the other hand, the chapters shed new light on central aspects and problems of philosophy through the prism of Pessoa’s diverse writings. The volume includes sixteen new essays from an international group of scholars, analyzing Pessoa’s multifaceted poetic work alongside philosophical themes and movements, from conceptions of time, ancient and modern aesthetics, philosophy of language, transcendentalism, immanence, and nihilism; to Islamic philosophy, Indian philosophy, Daoism, neo-paganism, and the philosophy of the self. The breadth of his work provides a springboard for new thinking on the aesthetic and the spiritual, the logic of value and capitalist modernity, and ecological thought and postmodernism. The volume also includes the most complete English translation of Pessoa's text (written by his heteronym Álvaro de Campos) called "Notes for the Memory of my Master Caeiro."

Author : Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538167336
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Art Does written by Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what and how artworks mean things is conventionally satisfied by appealing to literature from either philosophy of art or philosophy of language. This book offers an alternative by positioning art as a type of meaning-making tool whose function can only be understood through the application of the philosophy of technology.

Author : Polona Tratnik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538154234
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art as Capital written by Polona Tratnik and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In global terms, creative industries are on the rise, as are new media investigations in art and initiatives that encourage innovation in the arts, for end-use in the economy. However, there is a significant lack of critical reflection on this form of creative production. This important book points out the dangers and downfalls that accompany such a boom of the creative industries and the subordination of art to the economy and politics. Specifically, it shows that art, as a mode of social and aesthetic practice, is losing the very thing which it has striven for so desperately in the course of modernity: its independence from other spheres of human activity.

Author : Tim Themi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538147831
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eroticizing Aesthetics written by Tim Themi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics implicit in each and how this invokes an erotic process celebrating the real of what is usually excluded from articulation. Bataille came to deem eroticism as the standpoint from which to grasp humanity as a whole, based on his understanding of our transition to humanity being founded on a series of taboos placed on inner animality. An erotic outlet for the latter was historically the aesthetic dimensions of our religions, but Bataille’s view of how this was gradually diminished has much in keeping with Nietzsche’s critique of Christian-Platonic dualism and Lacan’s of the desexualised Good of Western metaphysics. Building from these often surprising proximities, Themi closely examines Bataille’s many interventions into the history of aesthetics — from his confrontations with Breton’s surrealism to his own novels and encounter with the animal cave paintings of Lascaux — radically re-illuminating the corollary phenomena of Dionysos in Nietzsche’s philosophy and the “jouissance [enjoyment] of transgression” in the psychoanalysis of Lacan. A new ethical criterion for aesthetic works and creations on this basis becomes possible.

Author : J. Colin McQuillan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538146266
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baumgarten's Aesthetics written by J. Colin McQuillan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) introduced “aesthetics” as a new science in his Reflections on Poetry (1735) and developed this new part of philosophy in a series of later works, culminating in his unfinished Aesthetics (1750/1758). This volume is the first collection of essays in the English language devoted to Baumgarten’s aesthetics. The essays highlight the distinguishing features of Baumgarten’s aesthetics, situate it in its historical context, document its reception, and examine its contributions to contemporary philosophy.

Author : William D. Melaney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538147866
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figural Space written by William D. Melaney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a psychoanalytically informed conception of semiotics that was first explored in her influential study, The Revolution of Poetic Language, and then modified in later books that develop semiotics in new directions. Kristeva’s agreements and disagreement with Hegel are important to the book’s argument, which ultimately defends Hegel against familiar, poststructuralist detractions. However, the book’s conceptual argument requires a historical exposition, with chapters devoted to literary figures ranging from Spenser to Ishiguro. One of the purposes of the book is to demonstrate that Hegel’s contribution to modern thought is at least partially exhibited in the history of literature, which also corroborates some of the deeper insights of psychoanalysis.

Author : Kerstin Howaldt
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666929131
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Materialist Literary Theory written by Kerstin Howaldt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory, it conceptualizes the potential of New Materialism as a timely mode of critique toward the current human condition and its effect on literature and the present. Organized around the key New Materialist concepts of entanglement and speculation, the chapters by renowned literary scholars and theorists approach literary texts and theory from onto-epistemological and speculative realist perspectives. Both concepts critically bespeak our precarious relation to matter during the Anthropocene. Entanglement analyzes this human inference with the material environment and its consequences, while speculation makes palpable our cognitive limits in grasping these consequences and our continued obligation to try to do so. Literature emerges as a site where entanglement and speculation, as well as their alignment, are intensively presented and negotiated. In highlighting these connections, the chapters in this collection bring entanglement and speculation (theory) together to form a critical literary theory fit for the Anthropocene.

Author : Hannah Richter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000964868
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viral Critique written by Hannah Richter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynamics and power structures that shaped Western democracies, non-Western societies and international politics during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted not only social relations and personal lives across the globe, but also the landscape of postfoundational theory. Giorgio Agamben, one of its most prominent figures, attracted harsh criticism for his suggestion that the pandemic was nothing but an invented tool of state power. In the face of a collectively experienced emergency, it seemed tempting to forgo critical questioning in favour of taking action on a manifestly real, viral threat. Resisting this temptation, this volume makes the case that COVID-19 has rendered postfoundational critique urgently necessary. The chapters collected here use postfoundational theory to unpack the pandemic’s global social event beyond dominant narratives of unprecedentedness, exception and necessity. The authors explore where the pandemic has actually altered political, social and economic dynamics. But they also highlight where divisions, inequalities and expropriation continued unchanged, or even reinforced, throughout and after the COVID-19 event. The chapters apply, scrutinise and re-work the writings of postfoundational thinkers from Jacques Derrida, Roberto Esposito and Gilles Deleuze to Jasbir Puar to both offer a better understanding of the pandemic’s social reality and to draw from it visions for a different post-pandemic future. Viral Critique will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Economics and Cultural Studies. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.

Author : Rockwell F. Clancy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031534646
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China, Engineering, and Ethics: A Sketch of the Landscape written by Rockwell F. Clancy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: