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.

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Deleuze - Deleuze: A Critical Reader

Deleuze: A Critical Reader
(Blackwell Critical Reader)
by Paul Patton

# Hardcover: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (January 30, 1997)

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This review is from: Deleuze: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) (Paperback)
--Two years after the death of French theorist Gilles Deleuze, fourteen critic-philosophers sync down together to scale his rich oeuvre. They have sensed him well, for this reader is exhilarated and renewed, having been returned to cognition more violently. My dog-eared volumes of Deleuze have spine-rolled even further since obtaining the essays in this anthology.
--Deleuze chose to refer to his canon as "nomadology" (a pun on Leibniz's "monadology": a theory of discrete particles), the ordering of nomadic perception and discernment, a non-totalizing heretic force or "eye of the Outside." The essays compiled in DELEUZE: A CRITICAL READER travel compulsively in their attempt to match the speed and strangeness of their subject (Deleuze's writings are beautifully difficult), allowing his philosophy to stand at breadth. The Deleuzian source-code is located in a sweep of precursors, ranging from the expected (Spinoza, Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Foucault) to the more secular (Melville, Proust, Baudelaire, Peguy, the painter Francis Bacon). Each essay asserts itself in the grand manner, passionate and knowing yet without the maudlin knee-tribute we find in so much recent Foucault criticism.

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Derrida - Signeponge=Signsponge

Signeponge=Signsponge
by Jacques Derrida

Format: Hardcover, 160pp
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pub. Date: December 1985

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Derrida - Of Grammatology

Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida (Author)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator)

Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Corrected edition (January 8, 1998)

Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Spivak's translation, which captures the richness and complexity of the original. This corrected edition adds a new index of the critics and philosophers cited in the text and makes one of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works even more accessible and usable.

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Derrida - Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money

Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money
by Jacques Derrida (Author)
Peggy Kamuf (Translator)

Paperback: 182 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (September 1, 1994)

Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt.

Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years.

For both readers of Baudelaire and students of literary theory, this work will prove indispensable.

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Derrida - The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation

The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation
by Jacques Derrida (Author)
Christie McDonald (Editor), Peggy Kamuf (Translator), Avital Ronell (Translator)

"Originally published in French in 1982, this collection is a good representation of the range of Derrida's working styles."-South Atlantic Review "No writer has probed the riddle of the Other with more patience and insight than Jacques Derrida. . . . By rigorously interrogating the writings of major Western figures, Derrida not only forces a rethinking of the nature of reading and writing but calls into question basic as-sumptions about ourselves and our world. . . . The Ear of the Other will be especially useful to people who have little or no prior acquaintance with Derrida's work. . . . Through a careful reexamination of Nietzsche's autobiography Ecce Homo, Derrida elaborates some of the far-reaching implications of twentieth-century reinterpretations of human subjectivity."-Mark C. Taylor, Los Angeles Times Book Review. "Ably translated. . . . The long 'Roundtable on Autobiography' . . . is authentic philosophical discussion, illuminating not only the preceding lecture but Derrida's work as well."-Choice.

Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; New Ed edition (December 1, 1988)

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Husserl & Heidegger and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Trancendental Phenomenology

Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Trancendental Phenomenology
by Steven Galt Crowell (Author)

Paperback: 323 pages
Publisher: Northwestern University Press (April 14, 2001)

In a penetrating and lucid discussion of the enigmatic relationship between the work of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Steven Galt Crowell proposes that the distinguishing feature of twentieth-century philosophy is not so much its emphasis on language as its concern with meaning. Arguing that transcendental phenomenology is indispensable to the philosophical explanation of the space of meaning, Crowell shows how a proper understanding of both Husserl and Heidegger reveals the distinctive contributions of each to that ongoing phenomenological project.

"Crowell present an original, distinguished addition to contemporary views of both the relation between Husserl and Heidegger and . . . of Heidegger's early and very early philosophical itinerary. . . . [C]ertain to be an important contribution to the field." --Gail Soffer, New School for Social Research

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Husserl - Cartesian Meditations

Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology (Paperback)
by Edmund Husserl (Author), Dorion Cairns (Translator)

Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 31, 1977)

The "Cartesian Meditations" translation is based primarily on the printed text, edited by Professor S. Strasser and published in the first volume of Husserliana: Cartesianische Meditationen und Pariser Vorträge, ISBN 90-247-0214-3. Most of Husserl's emendations, as given in the Appendix to that volume, have been treated as if they were part of the text. The others have been translated in footnotes.
Secondary consideration has been given to a typescript (cited as "Typescript C") on which Husserl wrote in 1933: "Cartes. Meditationen / Originaltext 1929 / E. Husserl / für Dorion Cairns". Its use of emphasis and quotation marks conforms more closely to Husserls practice, as exemplified in works published during his lifetime. In this respect the translation usually follows Typescript C. Moreover, some of the variant readings n this typescript are preferable and have been used as the basis for the translation. Where that is the case, the published text is given or translated in a foornote.
The published text and Typescript C have been compared with the French translation by Gabrielle Pfeiffer and Emmanuel Levinas (Paris, Armand Collin, 1931). The use of emphasis and quotation marks in the French translation corresponds more closely to that in Typescript C than to that in the published text. Often, where the wording of the published text and that of Typescript C differ, the French translation indicates that it was based on a text that corresponded more closely to one or the other usually to Typescript C. In such cases the French translation has been quoted or cited in a foornote.


"To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness."

Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle

Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook) (Hardcover)
by Maria C. Galavotti (Editor)

Hardcover: 257 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 11, 2006)


The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in Vienna in 2003, Cambridge and Vienna Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, to commemorate the philosophical and scientific work of Frank Plumpton Ramsey (19031930). This Ramsey conference provided not only historical and biographical perspectives on one of the most gifted thinkers of the Twentieth Century, but also new impulses for further research on at least some of the topics pioneered by Ramsey, whose interest and potential are greater than ever.

Ramsey did pioneering work in several fields, practitioners of which rarely know of his important work in other fields: philosophy of logic and theory of language, foundations of mathematics, mathematics, probability theory, methodology of science, philosophy of psychology, and economics. There was a focus on the one topic which was of strongest mutual concern to Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, namely the question of foundations of mathematics, in particular the status of logicism.

Although the major scientific connection linking Ramsey with Austria is his work on logic, to which the Vienna Circle dedicated several meetings, certainly the connection which is of greater general interest concerns Ramsey's visits and discussions with Wittgenstein. Ramsey was the only important thinker to actually visit Wittgenstein during his school-teaching career in Puchberg and Ottertal in the 1920s, in Lower Austria; and later, Ramsey was instrumental in getting Wittgenstein positions at Cambridge.

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Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition

Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition (Paperback)
by Saul A. Kripke

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (June 7, 2007)


Times Literary Supplement : Saul Kripke has thought uncommonly hard about the central argument of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and produced an uncommonly clear and vivid account of that argument...set out with all the clarity, incisiveness and economy that one expects of its author.

Philosophical Books : Kripke's interpretation, and his arguments, deserve--and will repay--extremely careful attention.

About the Author
Saul Kripke, McCosh Professor of Philosophy,Princeton, is a philosopher of international reputation. His Naming and Necessity (Harvard University Press, 1980) is also available in paperback.

"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."

Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations

Philosophical Investigations/Philosophische Untersuchungen (Paperback)
by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Author), G. E. M. Anscombe (Translator)

Written by one of the century's truly great thinkers, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is a remarkable--and surprisingly approachable--collection of insights, statements, and nearly displayed thinking habits of the philosopher's work on language, symbols, categories, and a host of other topics. Organized into nearly 700 short observations, this book is a treasure trove for anyone who needs to think carefully about objects, categories, and symbols, especially in relation to structured logic applications in computer programming.
The short (and sometimes aphoristic) observations in Philosophical Investigations allow the reader to ponder basic questions on what describes a category, how language works in everyday situations, and how symbols function to represent our world.

Originally a series of notes to himself as he lectured on philosophy, the book is a brilliant grab bag of thought and example. Often framed as a question ("How do I recognize that this is red?"), the philosopher provides short answers in a sentence or two, never more than a paragraph. (The second part of the book uses longer answers of several pages to develop its arguments.) An index lets the reader browse on topics of interest--such as language, concept, games, or naming.

Any artificial intelligence researcher looking to understand human language will be intrigued by Wittgenstein's ideas on how symbols and language operate. And for anyone who designs software with objects, this book's careful attention to thinking about what makes a good category demonstrates rigorous thinking about everyday objects and things. Philosophical Investigations is at times a strange and often wonderful book that reveals the thought processes of one of history's finest minds. It exposes the fundamental problems of using language as a means of teaching machines to think using words. --Richard Dragan

"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."

Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation

Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation
by Matthew B. Ostrow

Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (December 17, 2001)

"... an original, detailed and highly compelling interpretation of Wittgenstein's philosophical aims and central concerns. Ostrow shares Diamond's and Conant's sense of dissatisfaction with the traditional readings of the work, but the interpretation he offers is significantly different from theirs and represents the first book-length attempt to develop an alternative approach in a systematic way which engages fully the details of Wittgenstein's text." Marie McGinn, University of York

"In this increasingly polarized field of Wittgenstein studies, the book's contention of the dialectical and therapeutic nature of the propositions in the Tractatus will delight some who will feel they have found a strong new speaker." Journal of the History of Philosophy

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"The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up until now has intangibly weighed down our consciousness." Would Wittgenstein have been willing to describe the Tractatus as an attempt to find "the liberating word"? This is the basic contention of this strikingly innovative new study of the Tractatus. Matthew Ostrow argues that, far from seeking to offer a new theory in logic in the tradition of Frege and Russell, Wittgenstein viewed all such endeavors as the ensnarement of thought.

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

Adorno's Positive Dialectic

Adorno's Positive Dialectic
by Yvonne Sherratt

Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (August 20, 2007)

This book offers a radically new interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt systematically traces an utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought. She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyzes his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistemological, psychological, historical and sociological thought interconnect to form an utopian image

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The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
by Chris Ealham (Editor), Michael Richards (Editor)

Hardcover: 310 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 31, 2005)

This book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the cataclysmic civil war that engulfed Spain from 1936 to 1939. It features specially commissioned articles from leading historians in Spain, Britain and the US which examine the complex interaction of national and local factors, contributing to the shape and course of the war. They argue that the 'splintering of Spain' resulted from the myriad cultural cleavages of society in the 1930s that are investigated here at both local and national levels. Thus, this book tends to see the civil war less as a single great conflict between two easily identifiable sets of ideas, social classes or ways of life, than historians have previously done. The Spanish tragedy, at the level of everyday life, was shaped by many tensions, both those that were formally political and those that were to do with people's perceptions and understanding of the society around them.

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The Arabs in History by Bernard Lewis

The Arabs in History
by Bernard Lewis

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 6New Ed edition (May 23, 2002)

`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history? In this well-established classic, Professor Lewis examines the key issues of Arab development - their identity, the national revival which cemented the creation of the Islamic state, and the social and economic pressures that destroyed the Arab kingdom and created the Islamic empire. He analyses the forces which contributed to that empire's eventual decline, and the effects of growing Western influence. Today, with the Arab world facing profound social and political challenges, it constitutes an essential introduction to the Arabs and their history

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Husserl - Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Second Book

Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Second Book: Studies in the Phenomenology of Constitution
(Husserliana: Edmund Husserl Collected Works)
by Edmund Husserl

# Hardcover: 464 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (September 22, 1989)

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The present translation draws upon nearly half a century of Husserl scholarship as well as the many translations into English of other books by Husserl, occasioned by W.R. Boyce Gibsons pioneering translation of Ideas, First Book, in 1931. Based on the most recent German edition of the original text published in 1976 by Martinus Nijhoff and edited by Dr. Karl Schuhmann, the present translation offers an entirely new rendering into English of Husserls great work, together with a representative selection of Husserls own noted and revised parts of his book. Thus the translation makes available, for the first time in English, a significant commentary by Husserl on his own text over a period of about sixteen years.

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Husserl - Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book

Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology
(Edmund Husserl Collected Works)
by Edmund Husserl (Author)

# Paperback: 428 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (September 30, 1983)

The present translation draws upon nearly half a century of Husserl scholarship as well as the many translations into English of other books by Husserl, occasioned by W.R. Boyce Gibsons pioneering translation of Ideas, First Book, in 1931. Based on the most recent German edition of the original text published in 1976 by Martinus Nijhoff and edited by Dr. Karl Schuhmann, the present translation offers an entirely new rendering into English of Husserls great work, together with a representative selection of Husserls own noted and revised parts of his book. Thus the translation makes available, for the first time in English, a significant commentary by Husserl on his own text over a period of about sixteen years.

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Autonomia: Post-Political Politics

FROM GENERATION ONLINE

Autonomia: Post-Political Politics
(Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
by Sylvère Lotringer (Editor) & Christian Marazzi (Editor)

Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails.... I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of the last politically creative movement in the West was at stake, but no one in the United States seemed to realize that, or be willing to listen. Put together as events in Italy were unfolding, the Autonomia issue--which has no equivalent in Italy, or anywhere for that matter--arrived too late, but it remains an energizing account of a movement that disappeared without bearing a trace, but with a big future still ahead of it.
--Sylvère Lotringer

Semiotext(e) is reissuing in book form its legendary magazine issue Autonomia: Post-Political Politics, originally published in New York in 1980. Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi with the direct participation of the main leaders and theorists of the Autonomist movement (including Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Franco Piperno, Oreste Scalzone, Paolo Virno, Sergio Bologna, and Franco Berardi), this volume is the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West. The movement itself was broken when Autonomia members were falsely accused of (and prosecuted for) being the intellectual masterminds of the Red Brigades; but even after the end of Autonomia, this book remains a crucial testimony of the way this creative, futuristic, neo-anarchistic, postideological, and nonrepresentative political movement of young workers and intellectuals anticipated issues that are now confronting us in the wake of Empire. In the next two years, Semiotext(e) will publish eight books by such Italian "Post-Fordist" intellectuals as Antonio Negri, Christian Marazzi, Paolo Virno, and Bifo, as they update the theories of Autonomia for the new century.

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Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba

Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom) (Paperback)
by Ania Loomba

# Paperback: 263 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (October 19, 2005)

'Colonialism/Postcolonialism' moves adroitly between the general and the particular, the conceptual and the contextual, the local and the global, and between texts and material processes. Distrustful of established and self-perpetuating assumptions, foci and canonical texts which threaten to fossilize postcolonial studies as a discipline, Loomba's magisterial study raises many crucial issues pertaining to social structure and identity; engaging with different modes of theory and social explanation in the process. There is no doubt that this book remains the best general introduction to the field.
–Kelwyn Sole, Professor, English Department, University of Cape Town

Easily the most informative and wide-ranging series of its kind, so packed with bright ideas that it has become and indispensable resource for students of literature.
–Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester, UK

The New Critical Idiom is a constant resource, essential reading for all students.
–Tom Paulin, University of Oxford

"a future was lost yesterday
as easily and irretrievably
as a tennis ball at twilight"
Sylvia Plath's 'April 18'

Braudel - Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism

Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism
(The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History)
by Fernand Braudel

"In this concise book... Braudel summarizes the broad themes of his three-volume Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400-1800 and offers his reflections on the historian's craft and on the nature of the historical imagination... Taken as a whole, the book is provocative and stimulating. On occasion, it rises to revelation when two or three sentences of compressed but brilliant prose force us to reconsider the events of an entire century or the history of a continent." -- American Historical Review.

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Hardt & Negri - Empire

Empire
by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri

# Paperback: 478 pages
# Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition (September 15, 2001)

Empire is a sweeping book with a big-picture vision. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue that while classical imperialism has largely disappeared, a new empire is emerging in a diffuse blend of technology, economics, and globalization. The book brings together unlikely bedfellows: Hardt, associate professor in Duke University's literature program, and Negri, among other things a writer and inmate at Rebibbia Prison in Rome. Empire aspires to the same scale of grand political philosophy as Locke or Marx or Fukuyama, but whether Hardt and Negri accomplish this daunting task is debatable. It is, however, an exciting book that is especially timely following the emergence of terrorism as a geopolitical force.

Hardt and Negri maintain that empire--traditionally understood as military or capitalist might--has embarked upon a new stage of historical development and is now better understood as a complex web of sociopolitical forces. They argue, with a neo-Marxist bent, that "the multitude" will transcend and defeat the new empire on its own terms. The authors address everything from the works of Deleuze to Jefferson's constitutional democracy to the Chiapas revolution in a far-ranging analysis of our contemporary situation. Unfortunately, their penchant for references and academese sometimes renders the prose unwieldy. But if Hardt and Negri's vision of the world materializes, they will undoubtedly be remembered as prophetic. --Eric de Place

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Lacoue-Labarthe - Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics

Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics
(Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Jacques Derrida (Introduction)
Christopher Fynsk (Translator)

Paperback: 308 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (January 1, 1998)

Philosopher, literary critic, translator (of Nietzsche and Benjamin), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is one of the leading intellectual figures in France. This volume of six essays deals with the relation between philosophy and aesthetics, particularly the role of mimesis in a metaphysics of representation.

Comment [1997]

“Typography is a book whose importance has not diminished since its first publication in French in 1979. On the contrary, I would say, it is only now that one can truly begin to appreciate the groundbreaking status of these essays. The points it makes, the way it approaches the questions of mimesis, fictionality, and figurality, is unique. There are no comparable books, or books that could supersede it.” —Rudolphe Gasché,

State University of New York, Buffalo

“Lacoue-Labarthe’s essays still set the standards for thinking through the problem of subjectivity without simply retreating behind insights already gained. But this book is much more than a collection of essays: it constitutes a philosophical project in its own right. Anybody interested in the problem of mimesis—whether from a psychoanalytic, platonic, or any other philosophical angle—cannot avoid an encounter with this book. Lacoue-Labarthe is a philosopher and a comparatist in the highest sense of the word, and the breadth of his knowledge and the rigor of his thought are exemplary.” —Eva Geulen,

New York University

Review

“In demonstrating how mimesis has determined philosophical thought, Lacoue-Labarthe provokes us into reconsidering our understanding of history and politics. . . . Together with the introduction, these essays are essential reading for anyone interested in Heidegger, postmodernism, and the history of mimesis in philosophy and literature.” —The Review of Metaphysics

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Sylvia Plath - On the Decline of Oracles

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Photography: A Middle-Brow Art (Paperback)
by Pierre Bourdieu
# Paperback: 232 pages
# Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (March 1, 1996)

“It is one of only a few studies to apply the results of surveys and interviews to form an analysis from a social perspective. It is also important because it reveals aspects of Bourdieu’s theories at an early stage.”—Choice


“The significance of Bourdieu’s work for American studies lies in his powerful argument about the social definitions of popular aesthetics. His insistence that even the most trivial photographs serve social functions can be extended beyond photography and, thus, should be of interest to any student of popular culture.”—American Quarterly


“The book contains several elements by Bourdieu: an analysis of the role of photography in the family life of peasants and small-town and urban dwellers, and an exploration of the ‘social definition of photography,’ including a brief essay on how different classes and groups express their aesthetic worldview in response to different photographs and photographic styles. Additional chapters by Bourdieu’s colleagues explore the sociology of the camera club, photographic practice and the fine arts, and the nature of photography as an occupation. . . . Sociologists interested in culture will learn a great deal about the operation of a peculiar and pervasive symbolic system from this book. Bourdieu’s writing (as that of his colleagues) is intricate, complex, and intellectually rewarding.”—American Journal of Sociology

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Arendt - The Portable Hannah Arendt

The Portable Hannah Arendt
by Hannah Arendt
ed. Peter Baehr
# Paperback: 640 pages
# Publisher: Penguin Classics (July 29, 2003)

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, Men in Dark Times, The Jew as Pariah, and The Human Condition, as well as many shorter writings and letters. Sections include extracts from her work on fascism, Marxism, and totalitarianism; her treatment of work and labor; her writings on politics and ethics; and a section on truth and the role of the intellectual.

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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.

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Agamben - The Coming Community

The Coming Community (Theory Out of Bounds, Vol 1)
by Giorgio Agamben
# Paperback: 105 pages
# Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (March 1993)

In this extraordinary and original philosophical achievement, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philosophical thought. Agamben's exploration is, in part, a contemporary response to the work of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and, more historically, Plato, Spinoza, and medieval scholars and theorists of Judeo-Christian scriptures.

"This book needs to be sampled for its purity and effervescence. There is an antic humor that I experience reading Agamben as well, and that occurs in acrobatic leaps from popular culture to writers like Aquinas. Beautifully translated by Michael Hardt, with the help of Brian Massumi, Mike Sullivan, and the author, Agamben comes through clearly in English, with an incandescence that is to be treasured, especially when it crops up in the realm of questions that point us in the direction of the very ground/lessness of our being—beings in the same spaces, yet not together." —SubStance

"A superb introduction to English-speaking readers of this important thinker and writer." —Rebecca Comay

"Giorgio Agamben, Italy's leading philosopher and essayist, is one of the most delicate and probing writers I have encountered in recent years. His work, which belongs to the type of writing we tend to associate with Walter Benjamin, is elegant, cheerful and--to resurrect a somewhat exhausted term--utterly revolutionary." —Avital Ronell

"Agamben's text is a rare philosophical meditation on community as a kind of linguistic belonging that moves beyond both identity and universality. Erudite and expansive, yet delivered with epigrammatic ease, this writing brings forth the most promising equivocations of meaning in Talmudic tales, Plato, Spinoza, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein to avow the contingency and communal 'being' within a history whose value is its irreparability. This is a moving and disruptive work that brings what is most dynamic in ontological thought to bear on what is most difficult to think about: contemporary forms of sociality." —Judith Butler

"The Coming Community tries to designate a community beyond any conception available under this name; not a community of essence, a being-together of existences; that is to say: precisely what political as well as religious identities can no longer grasp. Nothing less." —Jean-Luc Nancy

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Agamben - The Man Without Content

The Man Without Content
(Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Giorgio Agamben
# Paperback: 144 pages
# Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (June 1, 1999)

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In this book, one of Italy’s most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel’s claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself. He argues, however, that Hegel by no means proclaimed the “death of art” (as many still imagine) but proclaimed rather the indefinite continuation of art in what Hegel called a “self-annulling” mode.
With astonishing breadth and originality, the author probes the meaning, aesthetics, and historical consequences of that self-annulment. In essence, he argues that the birth of modern aesthetics is the result of a series of schisms—between artist and spectator, genius and taste, and form and matter, for example—that are manifestations of the deeper, self-negating yet self-perpetuating movement of irony.
Through this concept of self-annulment, the author offers an imaginative reinterpretation of the history of aesthetic theory from Kant to Heidegger, and he opens up original perspectives on such phenomena as the rise of the modern museum, the link between art and terror, the natural affinity between “good taste” and its perversion, and kitsch as the inevitable destiny of art in the modern era. The final chapter offers a dazzling interpretation of Dürer’s Melancholia in the terms that the book has articulated as its own.
The Man Without Content will naturally interest those who already prize Agamben’s work, but it will also make his name relevant to a whole new audience—those involved with art, art history, the history of aesthetics, and popular culture.

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Agamben - State of Exception

State of Exception (Paperback)
by Giorgio Agamben
# Paperback: 104 pages
# Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (January 15, 2005)

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Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.

The sequel to Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception is the first book to theorize the state of exception in historical and philosophical context. In Agamben's view, the majority of legal scholars and policymakers in Europe as well as the United States have wrongly rejected the necessity of such a theory, claiming instead that the state of exception is a pragmatic question. Agamben argues here that the state of exception, which was meant to be a provisional measure, became in the course of the twentieth century a working paradigm of government. Writing nothing less than the history of the state of exception in its various national contexts throughout Western Europe and the United States, Agamben uses the work of Carl Schmitt as a foil for his reflections as well as that of Derrida, Benjamin, and Arendt.

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Agamben - Remnants of Auschwitz

Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
by Giorgio Agamben
# Paperback: 176 pages
# Publisher: Zone Books (January 1, 2002)

In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony.

"In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, the survivors bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. As a consequence, commenting on survivors' testimony necessarily meant interrogating this lacuna or, more precisely, attempting to listen to it. Listening to something absent did not prove fruitless work for this author. Above all, it made it necessary to clear away almost all the doctrines that, since Auschwitz, have been advanced in the name of ethics."
--Giorgio Agamben

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Surplus: From Spinoza to Lacan

Surplus: From Spinoza to Lacan
(S U N Y Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)
by A. Kiarina Kordela
# Paperback: 240 pages
# Publisher: State University of New York Press (January 2008)

Maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx.
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