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What are the limits of a history of structures? Can we aspire to a total or global history? In a letter to Giovanni Tabacco from 1980, discovered by Gian Maria Varanini, Cinzio Violante expressed his dissatisfactions as a historian, in a period in which he renewed his methodological ideas, with new research and broad summary visions. The problems of Violante and Tabacco are still relevant nowadays, while their dialogue is the sign of a generation united by a way of being historians that became the intellectual and moral commitment of entire existences.
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What are the limits of a history of structures? Can we aspire to a total or global history? In a letter to Giovanni Tabacco from 1980, discovered by Gian Maria Varanini, Cinzio Violante expressed his dissatisfactions as a historian, in a period in which he renewed his methodological ideas, with new research and broad summary visions. The problems of Violante and Tabacco are still relevant nowadays, while their dialogue is the sign of a generation united by a way of being historians that became the intellectual and moral commitment of entire existences.
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"Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the major writers of the Frankfurt School, with ongoing relevance to current debates about value, abstraction, and domination, Sohn-Rethel's ideas are here presented at their fullest scope and with their greatest theoretical clarity. Out of print for many years, this new Historical Materialism edition contains a new introduction by Chris O'Kane, an afterword by Chris Arthur, and a complete compilation of the responses to Intellectual and Manual Labour published in the Italian journal Lotta Continua, including a substantial article by Antonio Negri"--
Marxian economics. --- Historical materialism. --- Capitalism.
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"Atlas of Material Worlds is a highly designed narrative atlas illustrating the agency of non-living materials with unique, ubiquitous, and often hidden influence on our daily lives. Employing New Materialism as a jumping off point, it examines the increasingly blurry lines between the organic and inorganic, engaging the following questions: What roles do non-living materials play? Might a closer examination of those roles reveal an undeniable agency we have long overlooked or disregarded? If so, does this material liveliness change our understanding of the social structures, ecologies, economies, cosmologies, technologies, and landscapes that surround us? And, perhaps most importantly, why does material agency matter? This is the story of the world's driest nonpolar desert, pink flamingos, and cerulean blue lithium ponds; industrial shipping logistics, pudding-like jiggling substrates, and monuments of mud; galactic bodies, radioactive sheep, and the yellowcake of uranium. Put simply, this book dares readers to see the world anew, from material up. Atlas of Material Worlds offers this new relationship to our host environment in a time of mounting crises-accelerating climate change, ballooning socioeconomic inequality, and rising toxic nationalism-uniquely telling materialist stories for practitioners and students in landscape, architecture, and other built environment disciplines"--
Environmental sciences --- Material culture --- Materialism --- Science --- Technology
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Dernier ouvrage d'épistémologie de Gaston Bachelard, Le Matérialisme rationnel (1953) étudie la chimie, définie comme la science des transformations et des créations matérielles. Il commence par interroger les conditions d'émergence de cette science, en soulignant la rupture qu'elle a dû opérer avec l'alchimie et la cosmologie, où Bachelard décèle le jeu de l'imaginaire et les symboles de l'inconscient.A travers une lecture philosophique passionnée des traités scientifiques, il pose ensuite de manière remarquablement précise la question des relations entre chimie contemporaine et physique nucléaire. Il y voit une rencontre historique entre deux rationalismes régionaux et cherche à préciser les termes de l'unification de ces deux traditions théoriques et expérimentales. Il montre enfin que la nouvelle ontologie de l'énergie qui émerge au croisement de ces deux disciplines déborde de toutes parts les catégories philosophiques traditionnelles.Cet ouvrage est présenté dans une nouvelle édition critique comportant une présentation, des notes explicatives, une table analytique, un index et une bibliographie.
Épistémologie. --- Matérialisme. --- Materialism --- Materialism. --- Philosophie des sciences. --- Rationalisme. --- Sciences --- Théorie de la connaissance. --- Philosophie.
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Europe --- political antagonism --- far right --- class struggle --- materialism --- epistemology
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Les rapports entre marxisme et phénoménologie ont constitué un axe fondamental du débat culturel européen, dans les années 1960 et 1970. Dans la France de l’après-guerre, Sartre et Merleau-Ponty faisaient déjà référence, sur le plan de la fondation théorique, à la tradition phénoménologique de Husserl et de Heidegger, et sur le plan de l’engagement civil, au marxisme. Trần Đức Thảo, élève de Merleau-Ponty, mettra en place dès 1951 une première synthèse de ces deux paradigmes dans son Phénoménologie et matérialisme dialectique. Onze années après, Jean-Toussaint Desanti reviendra sur l’exigence d’une convergence entre phénoménologie et marxisme. En Italie, puis en Allemagne, d’autres tentatives vont émerger. Ce volume a pour ambition de proposer une synthèse sur le sujet. Il vise également à promouvoir une première réflexion historique sur le courant philosophique qui, pendant au moins deux décennies, a occupé la scène intellectuelle, et à évaluer son héritage dans le débat contemporain. The links between Marxism and phenomenology were a fundamental axis of the European cultural debate in the 1960s and 1970s. In post-war France, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty already referred, in terms of theoretical foundation, to the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Heidegger, and in terms of civil engagement, to Marxism. As early as 1951, Trần Đức Thảo, a student of Merleau-Ponty’s, established a first synthesis of these two paradigms in his Phenomenology and Dialectical Materialism. Eleven years later, Jean-Toussaint Desanti returned to the demand for a convergence between phenomenology and Marxism. Other attempts emerged first in Italy and then in Germany. The aim of this volume is to propose a synthesis on the subject. It also aims to promote an initial historical reflection on the philosophical current which, for at least two decades, has occupied the intellectual scene, and to evaluate its legacy in contemporary debate.
Phenomenology --- Marxism --- Phenomenology. --- Historical materialism. --- History --- Philosophy --- History. --- phénoménologie --- marxisme --- travail --- phenomenology --- work
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’Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the absence of a soul. The Atheist’s Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot’s Éléments, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this little-known and little-studied work. This book is accompanied by a digital edition of Jacques-André Naigeon’s Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot (1823), a work which, Warman argues, represents the first publication of Diderot’s Éléments, long before its official publication date of 1875. The Atheist’s Bible constitutes a major contribution to the field of Diderot studies, and is of further interest to scholars and students of materialist natural philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment and beyond.
Literature (General) --- perception --- Enlightenment --- philosophy --- mind --- nature --- Diderot --- man --- matter --- body --- emotion --- human --- soul --- materialism --- Naigeon
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Debates concerning the units and levels of selection have persisted for over fifty years. One major question in this literature is whether units and levels of selection are genuine, in the sense that they are objective features of the world, or merely reflect the interests and goals of an observer. Scientists and philosophers have proposed a range of answers to this question. This Element introduces this literature and proposes a novel contribution. It defends a realist stance and offers a way of delineating genuine levels of selection by invoking the notion of a functional unit.
Natural selection --- Realism. --- Philosophy. --- Empiricism --- Philosophy --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Conceptualism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Materialism --- Nominalism --- Positivism --- Rationalism
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Mensen en dingen zijn met elkaar verbonden in talloze dagelijkse routines. Een deur openen, de fiets pakken, eten koken: het zijn handelingen waarin armen, benen en ogen als vanzelf de deurklink, trappers en pannen vinden. De dingen zijn een verlengstuk van onszelf geworden. Pas als de deurklink kapotgaat, we de pan niet kunnen vinden of we ons scheenbeen stoten aan de trapper, worden we ons van hun bestaan bewust. Daarmee doen we de dingen geen recht, zegt dingenonderzoeker Warna Oosterbaan. Want als er in de geschiedenis één trend is aan te wijzen, dan is het wel dat dingen steeds belangrijker worden. Bovendien zijn ze een prominente rol gaan spelen in onze zorgen over de toekomst van onze planeet. Moeten er minder dingen komen, moeten ze anders ontworpen of geproduceerd worden? Voordat je die vragen kunt beantwoorden moet je je eerst verdiepen in de vraag wat dingen in ons leven doen, vindt Oosterbaan. Met nieuwsgierige blik en met soepele pen onderzoekt hij de dingenwereld en maakt daarbij gebruik van inzichten uit de sociologie, filosofie, archeologie, cultuur en geschiedenis. Hij pleit voor een 'nieuw materialisme', voor de aandacht voor dingen die ze verdienen.
Sociology of culture --- utensils --- designs [artistic concepts] --- materialism [philosophical movement] --- Materialisme.
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