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"In 1966, Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University that cast the entire history of Western Philosophy into doubt. The following year, Derrida published three brilliant but mystifying books that convinced the pollsters that he was the most important philosopher of the late 20th Century. Unfortunately, nobody was sure whether the intellectual movement that he spawned - Deconstruction - advanced philosophy or murdered it. The truth?...
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Published in 1973, L'Etourdit was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's darkest and most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that 'there is no such thing as a sexual relationship,' which seeks to undermine our certainties about intimacy and reality. In There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin take...
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¿Qué fue lo que hice al anunciar este seminario bajo el título de "La vida-la muerte", es decir, reemplazando por un guion o por un espaciado sin él o por un guion sin palabra, por un silencio marcado, la y que en general pone la muerte con la vida, yuxtapuesta la una a la otra o, más seguramente, opuesta? Lo que quizás aparece justamente como problema en lo referido a la vida la muerte es la relación de yuxtaposición o de oposición, la relación...
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In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life!, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further integrates philosophy and human existence, richly detailing...
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Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts the development of philosophical thinking not as a buildup of compelling books and arguments but as a lifelong, intimate struggle with intellectual and...
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Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. How are we to make sense of this mix? Should we factor Heidegger's domestic and political associations into our understanding of his thought, or should we treat his intellectual work independently of his abhorrent politics? How does any...
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This book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel. Their conversation addresses, among other things, questions of presence and its manufacture, the technicity of presentation,...
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La frágil piel del mundo es un libro de filosofía que busca preguntas y respuestas a nuestro mundo actual fuera del pensamiento convencional. ¿Por qué no pensar desde una realidad que nos afecta profundamente: la fragilidad? Jean Luc Nancy piensa sobre cómo tenemos que llevar este presente que se puede romper en cualquier momento por la situación política, medioambiental, tecnológica.
¿De dónde surge esa fragilidad que nos envuelve? De la...
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Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open to alterity and its transformations. Against cynical initiatives that seek to instrumentalize the question of identity in an attempt to manipulate sentiment...
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With Annihilation Songs: Three Shakespeare Reintegrations, writer and award-winning filmmaker Jason DeBoer presents radical anagrammatic takes on The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Hamlet. Using only the words contained within each original drama, DeBoer's experimental fictions were created by disintegrating and then reintegrating Shakespeare's language into new narratives of warfare and desire. The result is an ultra-vivid hypertext, a...
11) Foucault
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Asediados por virus, cataclismos y algoritmos, pareciera que asistimos hoy a la implosión del humanismo como intento por hacer del Hombre el punto neurálgico de toda experiencia. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) fue uno de los primeros en advertir, a comienzos de los años 60, en una escena intelectual dominada aún por el existencialismo de Jean-Paul Sartre y Maurice Merleau-Ponty, acerca de las aporías y los peligros de ese ideal. Convencido de que...
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In our post-Christian society many skeptics, atheists, and agnostics assume that the Christian faith involves belief in spite of a lack of evidence and that Christianity encourages its adherents to be satisfied with not understanding the world. This is untrue. Christianity has a legacy of thought and logic, and a convincing case can be made that modern science and Western culture could only have sprung from the Judeo-Christian worldview. Although...
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Two contemporary philosophers take two very different approaches to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages, and then each reflects upon the approach of the other. Barry Stocker takes a deconstructionist approach, discussing the importance of Rousseau in the work of Jacques Derrida. John Bolender approaches Rousseau's Essay in terms of cognitive science, most especially in light of the theories of Noam Chomsky and Alan Page Fiske....
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Prompted by the thirtieth anniversary of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's death, this exchange between two prominent intellectuals is rich with surprising insights. Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth...
15) Awaiting the Impossible: A Dialogue with Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Endless Wait for Messiah
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This book dialogues with deconstruction's "religion without religion" and its implications for theology. In the view of many, deconstruction is a purely nihilistic force bent on the wanton destruction of long-held philosophical, religious, and moral traditions. However, this perspective ignores the fact that deconstruction--in the hands of its standard bearers like Jacques Derrida, John Caputo, and others--has all along been a religious exercise in...
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Embark on a voyage of enlightenment with the entirety of Aristotle's works at your fingertips. Traverse the intricate pathways of one of history's greatest minds, all within a single, definitive collection.
✨ "Knowledge is the end of all endeavor," and Aristotle's musings embody a treasure trove of insights on ethics, logic, science, and the nature of existence itself.
Elevate your perspective with writings that have, for centuries, brought...
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Donna Haraway conversa en Como una hoja con su antigua alumna Thyrza N. Goodeve, escritora y académica. La entrevistadora conocerá al perro y al gato de la bióloga y filósofa, después de atravesar un jardín lleno de plantas cultivadas por la autora del Manifiesto para cyborgs.
Ambas hablarán, en la cocina de la casa de Santa Cruz, California, sobre el devenir personal de la profesora, sobre sus referencias intelectuales y sobre las ideas que...
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Contemporary continental thought is marked by a move away from the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century European philosophy, as new materialisms and ontologies seek to leave behind the thinking of language central to poststructuralism as it has been traditionally understood. At the same time, biopolitical philosophy has brought critical attention to the question of life, examining new formations of life and death. Within this broader turn, Derridean...
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Manhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University's Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return.
A young European intellectual's...
20) Intoxication
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From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication...
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