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No-one who reads this book will ever see the world the same again. Derek Mitchell's aim is to pursue phenomenology, and therefore appearances obliquely, in a number of areas. Predominantly, these are the appearances of houses, landscapes, places, people and history; but these specific studies coalesce into a more general theory about appearances, place and time and thereby provide a phenomenology of the everyday. In this pursuit, the author brings together works of philosophy, literature, his...
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We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack of attention. It inquires into the effects of distraction, defined not as the opposite of attention, but as truly discontinuous intellect. Human being has to be reconceived, according to this argument, not as quintessentially thought-bearing, but as subject to repeated, causeless blackouts of mind.T
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Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits of their own culture. But, today, we have become skeptical about the ability of an individual philosopher to engage in "universal thinking," so philosophy seems to capitulate in the face of cultural relativism. In Introduction to Antiphilosophy, Boris Groys argues that modern "antiphilosophy" does not pursue the universality of thought as its goal but proposes in its place the universality of life, material forces, social practices, passions, and experiences --angst, vitality, ecstasy, the gift, revolution, laughter or "profane illumination" --and he analyzes this shift from thought to life and action in the work of thinkers from Kierkegaard to Derrida, from Nietzsche to Benjamin. Ranging across the history of modern thought, Introduction to Antiphilosophy endeavors to liberate philosophy from the stereotypes that hinder its development. --Publisher.
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The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall.
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Philosophie --- Nietzsche, Friedrich, --- Philosophie. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Modern philosophy --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm --- Nietzsche, Friedrich --- Nietzsche, Friederich
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This book presents a provocative new interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil, arguably Nietzsche's most important work. The problem is that it appears to express merely a loosely connected set of often questionable opinions. Can Nietzsche really be an important philosopher if this is his most important book? Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick address this question with a close reading that emphasizes how Nietzsche writes. They argue that the first part of Beyond Good and Evil presents coherent and interconnected arguments for subtle and well-thought-out positions on traditional issues. Nietzsche's infamous doctrine of the will to power turns out to be a compelling account of the structure and origin of the human soul. And although he rejects some aspects of traditional philosophy, Nietzsche's aim is to show how philosophy's traditional aspirations to seek both the true and the good can be fulfilled. Beyond Good and Evil turns out to be a major work of philosophy and Nietzsche's masterpiece.
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Are the things of this world given to thought? Are things really meant to be known, to be taken as the objective manifestations of a transcendental conditioning power? The Western philosophical tradition, according to François Laruelle, presupposes just this transcendental constitution of the real--a presupposition that exalts philosophy itself as the designated recipient of the transcendental gift. Philosophy knows what things really are because things--all things--are given to philosophy to be known. Laruelle's trenchant essays show how this presupposition controls even the ostensibly radical critiques of the philosophical tradition that have proliferated in the postmodern aftermath of Nietzsche and Heidegger. For these critiques persist in assuming that the disruptive other is in some way given to their own discourse--which shows itself thereby to be still philosophical. An effective critique of philosophy must be non-philosophical. It must, according to Laruelle, suspend the presupposition that otherness is given to be known, that thought has a fundamentally differential structure. Non-philosophy begins not with difference, not with subject and object, but with the positing of the One. From this axiomatic starting point, non-philosophy takes as its material philosophy, rethought according to the One. The non-philosophy project does not, like so much postmodern philosophy, herald the end of philosophy. It takes philosophy as an occasion to raise the question of another kind of thought--one that, instead of differentially relating to the world that it presupposes, asserts that it is ultimately, in the flesh, at One with what it can never know. Publisher's note.
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Philosophy, Modern. --- Metaphysics. --- Modern philosophy --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Academic collection
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Metaphysics --- Philosophy, Modern --- #GROL:SEMI-111 --- Modern philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Philosophy of mind --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy, Modern.
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Nous serons neuf milliards en 2043, soit deux milliards de plus en trente-et-un ans. Nous traversons une crise économique profonde qui s'ajoute aux changements climatiques, à la dégradation de l'environnement et la perte de biodiversité. Face à ces défis, chacun peut agir. Au quotidien, en utilisant notre pouvoir d'achat comme bras de levier pour favoriser les produits équitables et respectueux de l'environnement. Dans notre mode de vie, en limitant notre consommation des ressources, en choisissant d'autres façons de se déplacer ou d'habiter. De manière plus globale, en recréant des villes plus autonomes dans leurs besoins, capables de valoriser leurs déchets, plus vertes et conviviales. Pour cela, il nous faut renouer avec la nature et développer une démarche démocratique où l'économie redevient un outil au service de la société. Ce livre propose dix voies d'actions pour rendre le monde de demain plus vivable pour tous.
Civilization --- Civilization, Modern --- Human beings --- Twenty-first century --- Ecology --- Forecasting --- Philosophy --- Civilization - Forecasting --- Civilization, Modern - Philosophy --- Twenty-first century - Forecasts
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