Coming Back to the Absurd: Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus: 80 Years On /
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This collection of essays from some of the world's leading Camus scholars is a celebration of the enduring significance and impact of Albert Camus's first philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus . Coming Back to the Absurd examines Camus's unique contribution to philosophy through The Myth since its publication. The essays within are intended to engage students and scholars of existentialism, phenomenology and the history of philosophy, as well as those simply seeking greater understanding of one of the most influential philosophers and philosophical constructs of the twentieth century. In revisiting The Myth , the authors hope to inspire a new generation of Camus scholars.
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Recalling Masaryk's The Czech Question : Humanity and Politics on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century /
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This book presents T. G. Masaryk's efforts to shape the identity of a small nation in late the 19th and early 20th century. It features contributions from leading Czech scholars who analyse Masaryk's efforts 120 years later. Masaryk is considered the most important figure in modern Czech history. Drawing on the ideas of his ideological predecessors and humanists, he wanted to integrate the Czech nation into the family of advanced world nations in line with international intellectual trends. Masaryk was the first in world history to fulfil the Platonic ideal of a philosopher who founded a state.
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Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration /
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Parasite presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. In this book, philosophers explore the film using sources such as the ancient satirist Lucian's De Parasito, Nietzsche's "the vengeance of the weak," Dostoyevsky's "Underground," or Marxism, among others.
Parasite is a philosophically interesting film because it presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. Michel Serres, in his book called The Parasite , holds that parasites are not in fact useless, but that they establish communications between different spheres and are thus able to transform large-scale organisms. Parasites import coincidences, activate defence systems, and establish new links with the host. In this book, philosophers explore the film from various angles: using the ancient satirist Lucian's De Parasito , Nietzsche's concept of "the vengeance of the weak," Dostoyevsky's "underground," Marxism, and many more.
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Shusterman's Somaesthetics : From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art /
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This edited collection provides an in-depth and wide-ranging exploration of pragmatist philosopher Richard Shusterman's distinctive project of "somaesthetics," devoted not only to better understanding bodily experience but also to greater mastery of somatic perception, performance, and presentation. Against contemporary trends that focus narrowly on conceptual and computational thinking, Shusterman returns philosophy to what is most fundamental-the sentient, expressive, human body with its creations of living beauty. Twelve scholars here provide penetrating critical analyses of Shusterman on ontology, perception, language, literature, culture, politics, aesthetics, cuisine, music, and the visual arts, including films of his work in performance art.
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Plotinus on What We Think We Are /
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The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus invites us to take part in his philosophizing when he encourages his readers to think about what they think they are, as living beings, human beings, as rational beings, ethical subjects and as philosophers. He is interested in what we say about ourselves in ordinary language and notices that such ordinary experience conflicts with what the Platonic tradition claims we (truly) are. This conflict does not lead him to turn away from the human terms and expressions, but impels him to take seriously what we say about ourselves and to explain it philosophically.
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1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations. :
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Philosophie des Sehens : Das Auge und der Blick /
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Der Mensch ist ein Augentier. Schon die vorsokratische Philosophie feierte den Sehsinn als den edelsten, womit das Auge zum herausgehobenen Gesichtssinn wurde. Gleichwohl wurde von der Antike an, im Deutschen Idealismus und in der Aufklärungsphilosophie das Sehen gegenüber dem begrifflichen Erkennen abgewertet, was im Zusammenhang mit der Verachtung des Leibes und der Sinne steht. Eine angemessene Würdigung erfährt das Sehen in der Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung von Merleau-Ponty, bei Bergson und bei Sartre, dessen Blicktheorie für eine Subjekt- und für eine Intersubjektivitätstheorie grundlegend ist. Die Studie belegt, dass das Sehen für unser Erkennen, unseren Weltzugang und unsere Existenz grundlegend und nicht zu ersetzen ist.
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Feministisch Denken : Die Philosophie hinter der Revolution /
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"Feministisch denken" führt kompakt und verständlich durch die Hintergründe, Grundlagen und Auswirkungen, aber auch die Sackgassen und Irrwege der feministischen Bewegung und der revolutionären Philosophie dahinter. Geistreich und scharfzüngig zeigt Carol Hay unverblümt, wie unsere Gesellschaft noch immer von Misogynie durchzogen ist, und lässt dabei keine der essenziellen Fragen des Feminismus aus, um deren Beantwortung seit Jahrhunderten gerungen wird: Sind Geschlechterrollen und Genderidentitäten angeboren oder erlernt? Wie hängt Sexismus mit anderen Formen der Diskriminierung zusammen? Wer zählt als Frau*, und vor allem: Wer entscheidet darüber? Welche Verantwortung tragen Frauen* selbst für die Aufrechterhaltung des Patriarchats? Was, wenn überhaupt, können wir tun, damit die Bedürfnisse von Frauen* gesellschaftlich anerkannt werden? "Feministisch denken" ist als Einstieg ebenso geeignet wie als Denkanstoß für Fortgeschrittene.
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From a Marxist Feminist Point of View : Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature /
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This book shows the fruitfulness of approaching key philosophical and political questions from a Marxist-feminist point of view. The idea is that different modes of production like capitalism and feudalism have structures -- 'relations of produc
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Post-Aufklärungs-Gesellschaft : Was wir verlieren und was uns bevorsteht /
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Aufklärung ist das Beste, was die Menschheit je hervorgebracht hat. Ihre Essenz besteht in dem Streben nach Objektivität und intersubjektiver Rechtfertigung. Ein elitäres Minderheitenprojekt, dem große Teile der Menschheit enorme Errungenschaften zu verdanken haben. Dennoch ist derzeit das Ende der zweiten Aufklärungsepoche zu beobachten. Ursächlich sind die immensen Belastungen einer emanzipierten Lebensform ebenso wie aktuelle politische und soziologische Stressfaktoren. Zu diesen gehören ein kapitalistisch verkürztes Freiheitsverständnis ebenso wie Migrationsbewegungen, eine mangelnde Verteidigung des ethischen Universalismus oder ein Antirassismus ohne Bewusstsein für negative Dialektik. Die Erosion bewirkt eine Rückkehr zu den autoritären Standardmodellen der Menschheit gepaart mit den technischen und medialen Potentialen der Moderne. Zeit für einen Blick zurück in Dankbarkeit und eine kritische Betrachtung dessen, was uns erwartet.
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Poetics of Value : The Primacy of Insurgency as Marxist Methodology /
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Throughout value-form theory, the present is understood as a homogenising form of subsumption, determining all lives in its commodification of time. In Poetics of Value , Elliot C. Mason employs the 'fugitive' imaginary of black studies to locate other temporalities that antagonise the present. Through close readings of four contemporary poets, Mason finds an exposure to social temporalities that exceed the productive time of value. Poetics of Value proposes the survival of fugitive temporalities as a methodology for Marxism, exceeding the temporal forms of both value and its Marxist criticism.
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An Unmanaged World: A Philosophical Study of Global Dynamics /
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This book is devoted to the philosophical analysis of key problems of world development and prospects for global management. Based on both rich factual material and a holistic understanding of the world, the author shows how modern globalization has shifted the arena of interaction from individual territories and regions to the entire space of the Earth. The global problems resulting from this shift have led to a weakly regulated and unmanaged world, one that gives rise to acute contradictions for the world community. How can we improve this situation? According to the author, we must learn to "think globally and act together." This study argues that humanity needs a global civilizational revolution aimed at forming a planetary civil society and initiating a shift within international relations, from the "right of power" to the "power of law."
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Socio-Poiesis: A Theory on Liberation and Suffering : Toward a New Ethics of Shared Creation and Emancipation /
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Socio-Poiesis is a neologism coined to integrate and intersect theory and practice across several branches of the humanities, including social sciences, psychoanalysis, practical wisdom, Eastern philosophies, ethics, household management, and political philosophy. In this theory, there is a significant point of convergence with the ideas of thinkers like Erich Fromm, Adam Schaff, Adam Blaner, Jacob Moreno, Robin George Collingwood, and others.
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Jeannette Rankin, Republican Party Radical /
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Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress, has understandably been celebrated for improving government diversity. However, she did not fit in comfortably with that body's chauvinistic routine, encountering hostility to her ideas, to her gender, and even to her presence during the two terms that she was able to serve. It is the claim of the present work that she is better understood as a radical: a feminist, a pacifist, an advocate for the rights of the poor, a supporter of Irish nationalism, an American Civil Liberties Union leader, and a keen labor union ally.
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Critical Encounters with Habermas's Political and Legal Theory /
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With over a dozen contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines, this book revisits Jürgen Habermas's defining text on legal and political theory, Between Facts and Norms (1992). The contributors interrogate the prospects for Habermas's optimistic defense of liberal democracy in our current age of straining global capitalism and menacing authoritarian populisms. The authors arrive at different conclusions, with some contributors engaging directly with his theory while others assessing it through the prisms of political economy, the media, policing, employment discrimination law, international relations theory, social movements, democratic institutions and the historical context of Between Facts and Norms .
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On Revolt, Rebellion and Revolution : Navigating the Challenges of Human Conflict /
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Analyzing revolt, rebellion and revolution from a philosophical perspective is crucial because of philosophy's inherent flexibility either to spark conflicts or to maintain stability. Today's growing societal polarization, intolerance and demonization of "the other" are worsened by the widespread dissemination of misinformation and conspiracy theories that fuel anger and alienation. Consequently, rebellion often becomes a preferred way for individuals to pursue their self-interests, often at the expense of their communities. This anthology explores these concepts from diverse perspectives, highlighting their significance in understanding current social tensions and the potential for change or stability.
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Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism : Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consci...
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Written under conditions of tsarist censorship, Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature appears to be a dispassionate account of nature, life, the psyche, and society, based on the most up-to-date science, but, in fact, it has a Marxist goal: to defend the idea of historical materialism. After developing a thoroughly materialist, determinist view of reality, Bogdanov explains how forms of social labour determine the forms of human ideology. Cognition from the Historical Point of View explains the causal connections between labour, forms of cognition, and ideological constructs. Finally, The Science of Social Consciousness , written after the relaxation of censorship, presents a history of European ideological development from an explicitly Marxist point of view.
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