Save Middlesex Philosophy!

- But when ypu talk about the political system which is worthy of philosophy, which of the present-day systems do you mean?
-- None of them, I replied. That's precisely my complaint. There is no present-day political regime which lives up to the philosopher's nature. That's why his nature is twisted and transformed. It's like the seed of some exotic plant. When it's sown outside its native land, it tends to lose its distinguishing properties and vigour, and degenerate into the indigenous variety

Plato, Phaedo, 497 a-b

Middlesex is being closed down and a call for care is issued out, at the time of the first age of immanence of world the response find its way to every corner, and also the terror. I don't know whether our poverty (as Heidegger quotes Die Armut from Hölderlin: "Es koncentrirt sich bei uns alles auf's Geistige, wir sind arm geworden, um reich zu werden" ) can save it. Jean-Luc Nancy's writes (from petition website):

''Not only in Great Britain but everywhere it is a dark age for the Humanities. Does that mean as well for Human Being ? maybe, and for Being at all. Are we able to understand that ? Of course Humanities are to be renewed, reinvented: but not by destruction.''

I wish you think (sich besinnen) on these words of Nancy. The question does not concern whether philosophy is a successful faculty or not, it is about the long silence of mouths opening to the open. Philosophy became an occupation, officer's of state speaking the law of phallus are squirting on les non-dupes errant.

What is to be done?

Counter-terrorism. say a stop (say three times NO!) to elastic regimes, end the optical illusion of public. A time for plasticity, let's explode.

Revolutions concerning the ordering of words should become revolutions in concreto here lies the basic lesson of Kant.

Organize pain.

Sign / Support:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html

http://savemdxphil.com/

Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity And The Persistence Of The Subject

Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity And The Persistence Of The Subject
(Continuum Collection)
by Caroline Williams

# Paperback: 254 pages
# Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group (May 2005)

an amazon reviewer called desire
"An ambitious but successful project. This critical overview of contemporary french thought focuses on the continuing role of the subject and traces the overlap and the distance between the theories of Althusser, Lacan, Derrida, Foucault and situates them in relation to the thought of Spinoza, Hegel and brings in the works of many other contemporary figures. This study is great for bringing out key themes in an instructive and critical manner, especially for the student who is advanced in philosophy but lacks specialized knowledge in this area of thought. A great introduction into current debates on subjectivity, the unconscious, language and social structures, etc... and surely of interest to those with a deeper background as well."

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On Charles Taylor’s Philosophical Anthropology and Cultural Moral Realism

Strong Evaluation Without Sources
On Charles Taylor’s Philosophical Anthropology and Cultural Moral Realism
by Arto Laitinen

- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy/Sociology, University of Jyväskylä
- 373 pages

This study examines three central claims by Charles Taylor: 1) strong
evaluations are inescapable for human beings; 2) strong evaluations are best
interpreted in a pluralist, moral realist and 'cultural' way; 3) such cultural moral
realism must ultimately rely on some 'constitutive goods'/'moral sources'. The
first two claims are defended in this study in a qualified form, but the third one
is criticized and rejected after close scrutiny.
The first part of the study examines some central concepts of philosophical
anthropology (human agency, personhood, identity, interpersonal recognition)
and asks how the notion of 'strong evaluation' can illuminate them. Taylor's
concept of 'strong evaluation' refers to value-judgements and evaluations which
are based on qualitative distinctions concerning the worth of options. The first
chapter is a detailed examination of this concept; criticizing some of Taylor's
own characterizations, defending Taylor against Kantian criticisms, but
suggesting a more extended theory than Taylor's own (making room for e.g.
'small values' and deontic norms). The next chapters specify and defend in
qualified form Taylor's views that human agents are inevitably strong
evaluators, and that they ought to have the basic moral status of persons, and
that a person's 'identity' consists of strong evaluations. Interpersonal
recognition is analyzed in this study in terms of norms and values.
Misrecognition an inadequate response to the relevant norms and values.
The second part of the study develops a novel 'cultural moral realist'
approach to ethics, claiming that values are relational, dependent on subjects
and cultures, but that cultural relativism, internalism, and non-objectivism are
wrong in restricting the validity of values. The moral theory defended covers
questions of the universal validity and relational ontology of goods, cultural
diversity, plurality, generality, and the incommensurability of goods, moral
knowledge and personal orientation. It draws upon the work of Taylor, John
McDowell, and Joseph Raz. The central thesis is that cultural moral realism
does not need any 'moral sources' or 'constitutive goods'.

Keywords: strong evaluation, Charles Taylor, person, identity, recognition,
cultural relativism, subject-dependence, moral realism, moral sources,
constitutive goods, pluralism, universalism, ethics, philosophical anthropology.

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Deleuze & Guattari - What Is Philosophy?

What Is Philosophy? (Paperback)
by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari

# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Columbia University Press; New Ed edition (April 15, 1996)

Philosophy, according to the authors, is the only study that is concerned with the creation of concepts, which distinguishes it from science, logic, and art. To support this thesis, the authors discuss the nature of these disciplines and the thought of a wide spectrum of philosophers, from Plato to Foucault. Unfortunately, singular insights are buried in a text so dense with metaphor and figurative language (e.g., "the plane of immanence," "conceptual personae") that it is impossible to decide whether they have argued their case successfully or even whether they have made their thesis fully intelligible. For academic libraries collecting these authors and continental philosophy.
Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Mgt. Lib., Washington, D.C.

what is not.

Agamben - Infancy and History

Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience
by Giorgio Agamben
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Verso (January 19, 2007)

Argues that contemporary existence is marked by a denial of experience. Through explorations of the work of Kant, Hegel and Husserl, Agamben addresses the question of language and experience. His chapter on childhood and games explores the notion of "dumb", pre-linguistic experience.

here

Heidegger - Aristotle's Metaphysics: Theta 1-3

Aristotle's Metaphysics th 1-3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force
(Studies in Continental Thought)

# Hardcover: 228 pages
# Publisher: Indiana University Press (November 1995)

nothing to say, no stupid reviews, here is THE WORK


thaumazein

is there a sabbath for thought ?

[gustave doré - the enigma]

Is There a Sabbath for Thought?:
Between Religion and Philosophy
(Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
by William Desmond

Paperback: 380 pages
Publisher: Fordham University Press (June 1, 2005)

Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book’s meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel,Nietzsche, Shestov, and Soloviev, among others, and pursues with a philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, poverty, imagination, courage and witness, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond arbitrarysubjectivism and reductionist objectivism.

In this book, he attempts to look at religion with a fresh and open mind,asking how philosophy might itself stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just how religion might stand up to the questions posed to it by philosophy. Desmond tries to pursue a new and different policy, one faithful to the light of this dialogue.

"world: ...lost in subtle metaphor, retreats" Sylvia Plath

Heidegger Reexamined - H. Dreyfus (ed.)

Heidegger Reexamined
by Hubert L. Dreyfus (Editor), Mark Wrathall (Editor)
thank you Routledge

1408 pages

This collection of facsimile reprints brings together the most important recent scholarship examining the major stages in Heidegger's philosophical career. The first volume focuses on Heidegger's major work, Being and Time , as well as Heidegger's essays and lecture courses produced during the genesis of Being and Time, and shortly after its publication. The second volume covers the period from shortly after the publication of Being and Time up to the Letter on Humanism - that is, the period of Heidegger's notorious 'turn'. Volume three addresses the 'late' Heidegger: his thought from the 1940s until his death in 1976. It focuses on language and poetry, his renewed encounter with pre-Socratic philosophy, his development of the doctrine of the fourfold of earth, sky, mortals, and divinities, and his repeated attempts to radicalize his earlier accounts of Being and unconcealment. The fourth and final volume focuses on Heidegger's significance for contemporary issues in philosophy. Articles in this volume explore Heidegger's relevance to particular areas such as philosophy of mind and language, and relate Heidegger's thought to the philosophy of other contemporary philosophers like Wittgenstein, Searle, Davidson, Rorty, Levinas and Derrida.

to begin with being with-in
Fearless yet, if he must, man stands, and lonely vol 1
Before God, simplicity protects him, vol 2
No weapon does he need nor subterfuge vol 3
Until God's being "not there" helps him. vol 4
Hölderlin

Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art

Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art by William Desmond
* Publisher: State University of New York Press
* Pub. Date: August 2003
* ISBN-13: 9780791457450
* 336pp

Though our time is often said to be post-religious and post-metaphysical, many continue to seek some encounter with otherness and transcendence in art. This book deals diversely with the issues of art, origins, and otherness, both in themselves and in philosophical engagements with the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Addressing themes such as eros and mania, genius and sublime, transcendence and the saving power of art, William Desmond tries to make sense of the paradox that too much has been asked of art that now almost nothing is asked of it. He argues that there is more to be said philosophically of art, and claims that art has the power to open up mindfulness beyond objectifying knowledge, as well as beyond thinking that claims to be entirely self-determining.

kral çalışma

Understanding Deleuze - Claire Colebrook

Understanding Deleuze - Claire Colebrook

[bu goygoycu tanıtım yazısı için özür dilerim adam gibi 1tane bulamadım]
he best introduction to Deleuze, and to the collective writings of Deleuze and Guattari, available yet! Claire Colebrook has produced a truly accessible pathway into the labyrinthine enchantments offered for contemporary thought by Deleuzianism, making concepts clear, showing their political and theoretical complexity, elaborating their social and artistic relevance. A wonderful, lucid opening onto the new worlds of Deleuze.' Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University 'A wonderfully clear introduction to key Deleuzian concepts and to their effectiveness in fields ranging from ethics and politics to cinema, literary and cultural studies. Claire Colebrook provides a series of effortless transitions from Deleuze's philosophical concerns (eg: difference, representation, desire and affect) to concrete problems in a variety of fields. This book is an excellent guide to an important body of critical thought.' Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of NSW A genuine attempt to think differently, Gilles Deleuze's work challenges, provokes and frustrates. Surprisingly practical as well as innovative, it is now being seen as a 'must read' for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Claire Colebrook's Understanding Deleuze offers a comprehensive and very accessible introduction to his work.

anlarsin ya

Deleuze - Desert Islands and Other Texts

Desert Islands and Other Texts (1953-1974)
Gilles Deleuze
Translated by Mike Taormina


"One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died in 1995. The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on Rousseau, Kafka, Jarry, etc.), belong to literary criticism and announce Deleuze's last book, Critique and Clinic (1993). But philosophy clearly predominates in the rest of the book, with sharp appraisals of the thinkers he always felt indebted to: Spinoza, Bergson. More surprising is his acknowledgement of Jean-Paul Sartre as his master. "The new themes, a certain new style, a new aggressive and polemical way of raising questions," he wrote, "come from Sartre." But the figure of Nietzsche remains by far the most seminal, and the presence throughout of his friends and close collaborators, Felix Guattari and Michel Foucault. The book stops shortly after the publication of Anti-Oedipus, and presents a kind of genealogy of Deleuze's thought as well as his attempt to leave philosophy and connect it to the outside -- but, he cautions, as a philosopher.

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Deleuze: An Introduction - Todd May

Deleuze: An Introduction - Todd May
Cambridge

This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work
of one of the twentieth century’s most important and elusive thinkers.
Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May
organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze’s
philosophy: how might one live? The author then goes on to explain how
Deleuze offers a view of the cosmos as a living thing that provides ways
of conducting our lives that we may not have dreamed of. Through this
approach the full range of Deleuze’s philosophy is covered.
Offering a lucid account of a highly technical philosophy, Todd May’s
introduction will be widely read among those in philosophy, political
science, cultural studies, and French studies.

Todd May is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and
Religion at Clemson University in South Carolina.

Contents
1 How Might One Live?
2 Spinoza, Bergson, Nietzsche: The Holy Trinity
3 Thought, Science, and Language
4 The Politics of Difference
5 Lives


intro

Non-philosophy of Deleuze - Gregg Lambert

The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze takes up Deleuze's most powerful argument on the task of contemporary philosophy in the West. Deleuze argues that it is only through a creative engagement with the forms of non-philosophy--notably modern art, literature and cinema--that philosophy can hope to attain the conceptual resources to restore the broken links of perception, language and emotion. In short, this is the only future for philosophy if it is to repair its fragile relationship to immanence to the world as it is.A sequence of dazzling essays analyze Deleuze's investigations into the modern arts. Particular attention is paid to Deleuze's exploration of Liebniz in relation to modern painting and of Borges to an understanding of the relationship between philosophy, literature and language. By illustrating Deleuze's own approach to the arts, and to modern literature in particular, the book demonstrates the critical significance of Deleuze's call for a future philosophy defined as an "art of inventing concepts."
Table Of Contents
Preface: On the art of commentary
Part I: On the image of though from Leibniz to Borges ("time of its hinges")
1. Philosophy and "non-philosophy"
2. How time places truth in crisis
3. How the problem of judgement
4. The paradox of concepts
Part II: On the (baroque) line
5. "The mind-body problem" and the art of cryptography
6. The riddle of the flesh (the "fuscum subnigrum")
7. On God (the "place vide")
Part III: On the powers of the false
8. The baroque detective: Borges as precursor
9. How the true world became a fable
10. Artaud's problem and ours: belief in the world as it is
11. On the uses (and abuses) of literature for life
Conclusion: On the art of creating concepts

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Deleuze - Dialogues

Gilles Deleuze with Claire Parnet
Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Barbara Habberjam, and Eliot Albert

"The best introduction to Deleuzian philosophy. A dazzling exposition of Deleuze�s concepts and methodologies, of how to think in new ways in order to liberate life wherever it is imprisoned . . . Dialogues affirms how a new type of revolution is about to become possible."
—Eric Alliez

In the most accessible and personal of his works, Deleuze examines, through a series of discussions with Claire Parnet, such revealing topics as his own philosophical background and development, the central themes of his work, and some of his relationships, in particular with the philosopher Félix Guattari. This new edition contains a new essay, �The Actual and the Virtual.�

Contents

Preface to the English Edition Gilles Deleuze
Translators' Introduction
1. A Conversation: What Is It? What Is It For?
2. On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature
3. Dead Psychoanalysis: Analyse
4. Many Politics
5. The Actual and the Virtual, by translated by Eliot Ross Albert
6. Pericles and Verdi: The Philosophy of François Châtelet, by Translated by Joseph Hughes
Notes
Index

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Deleuze - The Fold: Leibniz And The Baroque

Gilles Deleuze - The Fold: Leibniz And The Baroque
Foreword and translation by Tom Conley

"The scope of Deleuze's understanding makes this book pertinent to artists, writers, architects, or anyone generally interested in ideas. The Fold attests to Deleuze's status as one of the most relevant and insightful philosophers." —San Francisco Bay Guardian

"A significant and needed contribution that proposes a radically new conception of the notion of Baroque and, at the same time, is a new interpretation of Leibniz's work." —Réda Bensmaïa

In The Fold, Gilles Deleuze argues that Leibniz's writings constitute the grounding elements of a Baroque philosophy and of theories for analyzing contemporary arts and science. A model for expression in contemporary aesthetics, the concept of the monad is viewed in terms of folds of space, movement, and time. Similarly, the world is interpreted as a body of infinite folds and surfaces that twist and weave through compressed time and space. According to Deleuze, Leibniz also anticipates contemporary views of event and history as multifaceted combinations of signs in motion and of the "modern" subject as nomadic, always in the process of becoming.

go monad go

Deleuze & Guattari - Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Preface by Michel Foucault
Translated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane

The authors combine elements of the work of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche to develop a political analysis of desire as it is repressed or expressed in Western culture.

"This is a major philosophical work, by perhaps the most brilliant philosophical mind at work in France today. It is both trendy and technically difficult; it has an interesting cross-resonance with the American counter-culture. There are brilliant and suggestive treatments here of the psychological subject, fascism, repression, collective fantasy, which are quite unequalled elsewhere." —Fredric Jameson

"This book must be read, regardless of its style and complexity. It is relevant to about every sociological orientation, not only within Marxism, and to every specialty within our discipline." —Contemporary Sociology

"Anti-Oedipus, more than any other intersection of Marx and Freud, renders palpable the metaphor of the unconscious as a worker, and does it in a brilliant, appropriately nutty way." —New Republic

I am agony

Deleuze - Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature

Empiricism and Subjectivity
An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature

Gilles Deleuze
Translated by Constantin V. Boundas

"Anticipates much of Deleuze�s own thought. . . . For those concerned to see the emergence of a distinctive contemporary thought . . . this book is essential."
—David Allison, State University of New York, Stony Brook

At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of David Hume's philosophy, the work is invaluable for understanding the progress of Deleuze's thought.

Contents

Preface to the English-Language Edition
Translator's Introduction: Deleuze, Emipiricism, and the Struggle for Subjectivity
1. The Problem of Knowledge and the Problem of Ethics
2. Cultural World and General Rules
3. The Power of Imagination in Ethics and Knowledge
4. God and the World
5. Empiricism and Subjectivity
Principles of Human Nature
Conclusion: Purposiveness

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Deleuze - Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties

Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties by Gilles Deleuze

This concise, systematic key to Kant's thought by noted philosopher Gilles Deleuze surveys the essential themes of all three Critiques (Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgment), taking into account their interrelationships and revealing the structure of Kant's entire critical philosophy.

kant kant kant çokokant

Deleuze - Bergsonism

Gilles Deleuze - Bergsonism

In this analysis of one major philosopher by another, Gilles Deleuze identifies three pivotal concepts - duration, memory, and élan vital - that are found throughout Bergson's writings and shows the relevance of Bergson's work to contemporary philosophical debates. He interprets and integrates these themes into a single philosophical program, arguing that Bergson's philosophical intentions are methodological. They are more than a polemic against the limitations of science and common sense, particularly in Bergson's elaboration of the explanatory powers of the notion of duration - thinking in terms of time rather than space.

élan vital

Heidegger's last seminar - zahringen 1973 - the origin of thinking

"Are we already home at home there? hardly. what does 'to become at home in the origin of thinking' mean? It means: to attain there the grounded odyssey in Dasein, from which thinking receives the determination of its essence. "

into the dawn of origin