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• 1. Substance as the systematic unity of the necessary plurality
• 2. The status of individual things in Spinoza's substance
• 3. The truth conditions and the problem of the attributes
• 4. The first kind of knowledge: imaginatio
• 5. The second grade of knowledge (ratio) and its limitations
• 6. The supreme grade of knowledge
• 7. The desired system as a goal lying beyond the horizon.

This book presents a systemic analysis of Spinoza's philosophy and challenges the traditional views. It deals with Spinoza's concepts of substance, truth conditions, attributes, and the first, second, and supreme grades of knowledge. Based upon an analysis of the relevant details in all of Spinoza's philosophical works, the book reveals many important points, including the following: Spinoza's system is not, nor is meant to be, a foundational-deductive system but was meant to be a coherent system of a network model. Spinoza's reality is not made in the image of a mathematical model. Imaginatio, the first grade of knowledge, and ratio, the second grade, are parts or properties of the supreme grade of knowledge, scientia intuitiva, which is their essence. Finite beings, especially humans, are necessary and eternal (unless they are mistakenly perceived by imaginatio) whereas time, place, and death are simply "entities of imagination." The salvation, happiness, and blessedness that Spinoza's Ethics offers us, are active and depend only upon us. Concluding a careful examination and interpretation, the book suggests additional novel viewpoints in interpreting Spinoza's philosophical psychology and political philosophy.

"A comprehensive new reading of Walter Benjamin's major works, as well as a great number of his less well-known publications, from one of America's foremost cultural and literary critics"-- Provided by publisher.

• Disclosing beauty: on order and disorder in Plato's Symposium / D.C. Schindler
• "All men by nature desire to know": the classical background of Aquinas on beauty and truth / Eric D. Perl
• The obviousness of the kalon in Aristotle's ethics / Michael Pakaluk
• Beauty and the intellectual virtues in Aristotle / Mark K. Spencer
• Justice is beautiful: Aristotle, Aquinas, and justice as a virtue / Jonathan J. Sanford
• The light of pure character: honestum, decorum, and the stoic sage / Mary Beth Ingham
• Beauty as form in Augustine's De vera religione: the implications of moral pedagogy for a theology of history / Paige E. Hochschild
• Beauty and the good in Dionysius the Areopagite / Brendan Thomas Sammon
• Beauty in Hugh of St. Victor: the first Christian theological aesthetics? / Boyd Taylor Coolman
• Beauty, pleasure, and happiness in Albert the Great's Super ethica commentum et quaestiones / Martin J. Tracey
• Bonaventure's aesthetic imperative: pulcherrimum carmen / Christopher M. Cullen, SJ
• Manifesting being: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Bonaventure and the transcendental status of beauty / Mark McInroy
• Beauty and aesthetic perception in Thomas Aquinas / Daniel D. De Haan
• Symphonic grandeur: moral beauty and the judgment of harmony in John Duns Scotus / Mary Beth Ingham
• Beauty and the read: purifying our vision and our loves / Alice M. Ramos

In the past twenty years or more, there has been a growing interest among philosophers and theologians alike in the transcendentals and especially in the beautiful. This seems fortuitous since so much of contemporary culture is fixated in many ways on beauty, on what might be called a superficial or man-made beauty, intent on outward appearance, with little or no concern for the human person's interiority and distinctive nature. The Ancients and the Medievals, on the contrary, were sensitive not only to the beauty of nature and art but also to beauty as intelligible, that is, to the beauty of moral harmony and of metaphysical splendor. While the question of whether the beautiful is in fact a transcendental aspect of being continues to be a subject of dispute in contemporary scholarship, the relationship between the beautiful and the good has been accepted since ancient times and has been attended to in recent publications. None of these publications, however, offers a systematic treatment of this relationship by drawing from the wisdom of both ancient and medieval thought in such a way as to bring together the work of scholars in this tradition. Beauty and the Good intends therefore to make a singular contribution by presenting a richer alternative to the contemporary cult of beauty and appearance on the one hand, and to the concomitant decline of real beauty on the other hand. In addition to highlighting the centrality of beauty in the Aristotelian account of moral virtue, where virtue is kalon and virtuous actions are done for the sake of kalon (the word kalon designates that which is beautiful, noble, and good)-an account which is found echoed in the medieval notion of intrinsic goodness (bonum honestum), understood as intelligible or spiritual beauty-this volume will provide the metaphysical and theological grounding for beauty, as influenced in part by Plato and Neoplatonism, together with a much needed account of how we know and judge beauty, and how for the recognition of true good and real beauty we need to be properly disposed. The integration of philosophical and theological reflection on the nature and relationship of beauty and the good, on our perception and judgment of beauty and of the good as beautiful, and on the motivational role of beauty in human action has as its goal to produce a coherent volume of essays.
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• (from table of contents) Preface
• Introduction--Setting the Scene
• Kant's Argument for the Categorical Imperative Constructed
• A Priori Synthetic Practical Propositions as Strict Requirements of Human Agential Self-Understanding
• Kant's Justification in the Context of His Critical Philosophy as a Whole
• The Moral Law as the Sole Fact of Pure Reason in "CPrR"
• The Moral Law as the Sole Fact of Pure Reason in "GMM"
• Klaus Steigleder and Michael Wolff
• Owen Ware
• How Valid is Kant's Argument?
• Bibliography
• Subject Index
• Persons Index

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of Kant's justification of the categorical imperative. The book contests the standard interpretation of Kant's views by arguing that he never abandoned his view about this as expressed in his Groundwork. It is distinctive in the way in which it places Kant's argument in the context of his transcendental philosophy as a whole, which is essential to understand it as an argument from within human agential self-understanding. The book reviews that existing literature, then presents a logical construction of Kant's argument, which it defends by examining what Kant has to say about synthetic a priori practical propositions in the context of his transcendental philosophy as a whole, and by a detailed examination of how he presents his argument in the Second Critique and the Groundwork. Particular attention is given to the views of two scholars who share many of the views expressed in this book: Klaus Steigleder and Michael Wolff. Special attention is also given to the views of Owen Ware, who, while sharing many of our arguments has a very different overall view. The concluding chapter provides a statement about the validity of Kant's argument.
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• (from table of contents) Einleitung
• Die Kritik der reinen Vernunft als neuartige epistemologische Transzendentalphilosophie
• Die Nominaldefinition der Wahrheit und die (transzendentale) Logik
• Kants dualistische Konzeption des Erkenntnisvermögens
• Wahrheit als Korrespondenz von Anschauung und Denken
• Schlussbetrachtung

"Welchen Wahrheitsbegriff vertritt Kant in der 'Kritik der reinen Vernunft' und wie ist die wahrheitsdifferente Bestimmung eines Objekts überhaupt möglich? Das Buch zeigt mit der Argumentation bei Kant, wie die Frage nach den Möglichkeitsbedingungen von Wahrheit das epistemologische Programm der Selbsterkenntnis reiner Vernunft anleitet, um sich gegen wahrheitsskeptische Einwände von rationalistischer und empiristischer Seite abzusichern."--Back cover

• The Great Tradition (June 1952-July 1953)
• Ideologie und Terror, Ideology and Terror
• Ideologie und Terror : Wesen und Originalität
• Der totalitären Herrschaft Ideologie und Terror
• Proto-Ideology and Terror : Draft
• Ideology and Terror : A Novel Form of Government
• Von Hegel zu Marx
• Impact of Marx : Notes
• Law and Power : Draft
• The Great Tradition and the Nature of Totalitarianism : Notes
• Understanding and Politics
• On the Nature of Totalitarianism : An Essay in Understanding : Draft
• The Difficulties of Understanding : Draft
• Understanding and Politics
• Religion and Politics
• Religion and Politics : Draft A
• Religion and Politics (Abbr. Version) : Lecture
• Religion and Politics
• The Modern Challenge To Tradition : (July-December 1953)
• Karl Marx and the Tradition of Political Thought : The Broken Thread of Tradition : Draft
• Palenville Fragment : Draft
• Karl Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought : The Modern Challenge to Tradition : Draft
• Karl Marx and the Tradition of Political Thought
• First New York Fragment : Draft
• Gauss Material Part I. Drafts
• Second New York Fragment : Draft
• Gauss Material Part II. Drafts
• Lectures : Notes
• Breakdown of Authority
• Authority : Freedom
• The Concept of Man as Laborer
• Authority, politically speaking : Lecture
• Eine Art Buch : A Book That Can't Be Written (January-September 1954)
• Tradition and the Modern Age
• Tradition and the Modern Age : Draft
• Tradition and the Modern Age
• Philosophy and Politics : The Problem of Action and Thought after the French Revolution : Draft
• Concern with Politics in Recent European Philosophical Thought
• Concern with Politics in Recent Philosophical Thought : Draft A
• Concern with Politics in Recent European Philosophical Thought : Draft C
• Anhang, Appendix
• Zu dieser Ausgabe, Editorial Principles for the Edition
• Siglenverzeichnis, Abbreviations
• Kommentar, Commentary
• Ideologie und Terror, Ideology and Terror
• Von Hegel zu Marx
• Impact of Marx
• Law and Power
• The Great Tradition and the Nature of Totalitarianism
• Understanding and Politics
• Religion and Politics
• Karl Marx and the Tradition of Political Thought : The Broken Thread of Tradition
• Palenville Fragment
• Karl Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought : The Modern Challenge to Tradition
• Karl Marx and the Tradition of Political Thought
• First New York Fragment
• Gauss Material Part I
• Second New York Fragment
• Gauss Material Part II
• Lectures
• Authority, politically speaking
• Tradition and the Modern Age
• Philosophy and Politics : The Problem of Action and Thought after the French Revolution
• Concern with Politics in Recent European Philosophical Thought
• Ins Endlose greaten : Nachwort, Afterword
• Dank, Acknowledgments
• Zeittafel, Timeline
• Bibliographie, Bibliography
• Namen-, Werk- und Sachregister, Indexes

• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction / Brigitte Weltman-Aron
• Another Rousseau : Reinterpreting a Writer through the Implicit and the Unsaid / Michael O'Dea
• Du silence innocent au silence philosophique : L'économie du discours du gouverneur dans l'enfance d'Émile / Johanna Lenne-Cornuez
• Le silence éducatif dans l'Emile / Jean-Luc Guichet
• Faire le choix de se taire : silence et tolérance dans l'Emile / Ourida Mostefai
• Laconism and the Literary Politics of the Social Contract / Masano Yamashita
• Making Silence Speak : on the Role of Silence in Rousseau's Political Theory / Jason Neidleman
• The Silent Expression of the General Will / Flora Champy
• Rousseau's Political Laws of the Heart / Peter Westmoreland
• Éloquence muette : Rousseau and le corps morcelé / Adam Schoene
• La peinture du silence : Du rapport entre imitation musicale, imagination et passions dans l'Essai sur l'origine des langues et l'Emile de Rousseau / Francesco Boccolari
• Silent Representation and the Representation of Silence : Music and Pantomime in Rousseau / Nathan John Martin
• Traduit du silence : l'expérience contemplative selon Rousseau / Jean-Franc̦ois Perrin
• "Pour vous, peuples modernes, vous n'avez point d'esclaves" : Le silence sur la traite dans le second Discours, Emile et le Contrat social / Céline Spector
• Index of Names and Works

Silence, Implicite et Non-Dit chez Rousseau/Silence, the Implicit, and the Unspoken in Rousseau explore les differentes approches et modalites du silence a l'oeuvre chez Rousseau. Silence, Implicite et Non-Dit chez Rousseau/Silence, the Implicit, and the Unspoken in Rousseau explores the role of silence in Rousseau's work, the ways silence operates, and different approaches to it that Rousseau takes.
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• Part 1: The Meaning of Dao, De and Metaphysics
• 1. "The Meaning of Dao and De"- Philosophical Daoism's Core Thesis
• 2. Dao: A Discussion with the Meaning of Wu at its Centre
• 3. De: With Xuande as an Example 4.Spontaneously self-so (ziran): An Analysis from Two Perspectives
• 5. What Is Daoist Metaphysics?
• Part 2: From Physics to Metaphysics
• 1. Daoist Physics
• 2. Dao and Things
• 3. Transformation: Between Eternity and Transience.
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Drawing on evidence from a wide range of classical Chinese texts, this book argues that xingershangxue, the study of "beyond form", constitutes the core argument and intellectual foundation of Daoist philosophy. The author presents Daoist xingershangxue as a typical concept of metaphysics distinct from that of the natural philosophy and metaphysics of ancient Greece since it focusses on understanding the world beyond perceivable objects and phenomena as well as names that are definable in their social, political, or moral structures. In comparison with other philosophical traditions in the East and West, the book discusses the ideas of dao, de, and "spontaneously self-so", which shows Daoist xingershangxue's theoretical tendency to transcendence. The author explains the differences between Daoist philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy and proposes that Daoist philosophy is the study of xingershangxue in nature, providing a valuable resource for scholars interested in Chinese philosophy, Daoism, and comparative philosophy.
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This book is a consideration of Hegel's view on logic and basic logical concepts such as truth, form, validity, and contradiction, and aims to assess this view's relevance for contemporary philosophical logic. The literature on Hegel's logic is fairly rich. The attention to contemporary philosophical logic places the present research closer to those works interested in the link between Hegel's thought and analytical philosophy (Stekeler-Weithofer 1992 and 2019, Berto 2005, Rockmore 2005, Redding 2007, Nuzzo 2010 (ed.), Koch 2014, Brandom 2014, 1-15, Pippin 2016, Moyar 2017, Quante & Mooren 2018 among others). In this context, one particularity of this book consists in focusing on something that has been generally underrated in the literature: the idea that, for Hegel as well as for Aristotle and many other authors (including Frege), logic is the study of the forms of truth, i.e. the forms that our thought can (or ought to) assume in searching for truth. In this light, Hegel's thinking about logic is a fundamental reference point for anyone interested in a philosophical foundation of logic.
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• 1. Historical and Philosophical Contexts
• 2. The Buddhist Doctrine of Non-Self
• 3. The True Nature of Self-Awareness
• 4. Self-Awareness and the Pratyabhijna's forerunners
• 5. A Linguistic Consciousness
• 6. Subjectivity and First-Person Stance
• 7. Self.
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This book examines the theory of consciousness developed by the school of Recognition, an Indian philosophical tradition that thrived around the tenth c. CE in Kashmir, and argues that consciousness has a linguistic nature. It situates the doctrines of the tradition within the broader Indian philosophical context and establishes connections with the contemporary analytic debate. The book focuses on Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta (tenth c. CE), two Hindu intellectuals belonging to the school of Recognition, Pratyabhijna in Sanskrit. It argues that these authors promoted ideas that bear a strong resemblance with contemporary 'higher-order theories' of consciousness. In addition, the book explores the relationship between the thinkers of the school of Recognition and the thought of the grammarian/philosopher Bhartrhari (fifth c. CE). The book bridges a gap that still exists between scholars engaged with Western traditions and Sanskrit specialists focused on textual materials. In doing so, the author uses concepts from contemporary philosophy of mind to illustrate the Indian arguments and an interdisciplinary approach with abundant reference to the original sources. Offering fresh information to historians of Indian thought, the book will also be of interest to academics working on Non-Western Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Religion, Hinduism, Tantric Studies and South Asian Studies.
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An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America-and beyond The rise of nation-states is a hallmark of the modern age, yet we are still untangling how the phenomenon unfolded across the globe. Here, Nicola Miller offers new insights into the process of nation-making through an account of nineteenth-century Latin America, where, she argues, the identity of nascent republics was molded through previously underappreciated means: the creation and sharing of knowledge. Drawing evidence from Argentina, Chile, and Peru, Republics of Knowledge traces the histories of these countries from the early 1800s, as they gained independence, to their centennial celebrations in the twentieth century. Miller identifies how public exchange of ideas affected policymaking, the emergence of a collective identity, and more. She finds that instead of defining themselves through language or culture, these new nations united citizens under the promise of widespread access to modern information. Miller challenges the narrative that modernization was a strictly North Atlantic affair, demonstrating that knowledge traveled both ways between Latin America and Europe. And she looks at how certain forms of knowledge came to be seen as more legitimate and valuable than others, both locally and globally. Miller ultimately suggests that all modern nations can be viewed as communities of shared knowledge, a perspective with the power to reshape our conception of the very basis of nationhood. With its transnational framework and cross-disciplinary approach, Republics of Knowledge opens new avenues for understanding the histories of modern nations-and the foundations of modernity-the world over.
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• Paul Lodge and Lloyd Strickland: Introduction, Including a Sketch of Leibniz's Life and Philosophical Works
• 1: Lucy Sheaf: "Confessio philosophi"
• 2: Mogens Laerke: "De summa rerum"
• 3: Lloyd Strickland: "Discourse on Metaphysics"
• 4: Julia Jorati: The Correspondence with Arnauld
• 5: Julia Borcherding: "New System of the Nature of Substances..."
• 6: John Whipple: The Correspondence with De Volder
• 7: Martha Brandt Bolton: New Essays on Human Understanding
• 8: Paul Lodge: The Theodicy
• 9: Lloyd Strickland: "The Monadology"
• 10: Daniel J. Cook: "Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese"
• 11: Gregory Brown: The Correspondence with Clarke.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the modern period. He offered a wealth of original ideas in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophical theology, among them his signature doctrines on substance and monads, pre-established harmony, and optimism. This volume contains introductory chapters on eleven of Leibniz's key philosophical writings, from youthful works ("Confessio philosophi", "De summa rerum"), seminal middle-period writings ("Discourse on Metaphysics", "New System"), to masterpieces of his maturity ("Monadology", "Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese"). It also covers his two main philosophical books (New Essays on Human Understanding and Theodicy), and three of his most important philosophical correspondences with Antoine Arnauld, Burcher De Volder, and Samuel Clarke. Written by internationally-renowned experts on Leibniz, the chapters offer clear, accessible accounts of the ideas and arguments of these key writings, along with valuable information about their composition and context. By focusing on the primary texts, they enable readers to attain a solid understanding of what each text says and why, and give them the confidence to read the texts themselves. Offering a detailed and chronological view of Leibniz's philosophy and its development through some of his most important writings, this volume is an invaluable guide for those encountering Leibniz for the first time.
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• Introduction: Arguments for a Non-Naturalist Reading of Early Chinese Thought Part I: Groundwork-Questioning a Naturalistic Interpretation of Early Chinese Thoughts
• 1. "Naturalism" in Western Philosophy and its Use in Scholarship on Chinese Thought
• 2. Rethinking Transcendence and Nature
• 3. The Naturalist Project of the Han Part II: Transcendence-Readings of Key Concepts and Texts
• 4. Does Tian Will? The Debate in Warring States and Han
• 5. The Relationship Between Tian and Humanity
• 6. Tian and the Grounding of Ritual
• 7. Dao and the Propensities of Tian
• 8. Dao and Cosmogony
• 9. Dao as Action and Natural Law Part III: Substance-Readings of Key Concepts and Texts
• 10. Qi as Substance in the Early Han
• 12. Chapter Twelve: Qi as Essential Spirit
• 13. An Essential Reading of Xing
• 14. An Essential Reading of Xin Bibliography Index.
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Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian, this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought, highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.
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• Introduction. The timeliness of Hypatia / Dawn LaValle Norman and Alex Petkas
• Hypatia and Synesius. Hypatia and the desert : a late antique defense of classicism / Alex Petkas
• Desire and despair : Synesius, Hypatia, and no consolation of philosophy / Helmut Seng
• Synesius' letters to Hypatia : on the "end" of a philosopher-friendship and its timelessness / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
• Hypatia in context. Bloody iuvenalia : Hypatia, Pulcheria Augusta, and the beginnings of Cyril of Alexandria's episcopate / Walter F. Beers
• The shattered icon : an alternative reading of Hypatia's killing / Mareile Haase
• The private devotions of intellectual Hellenes / David Frankfurter
• "A mere geometer?" : Hypatia in the context of Alexandrian Neoplatonism / Sebastian Gertz
• Hypatia in her ancient and modern reception. Hypatia's sisters? : gender and the triumph of knowledge in Nonnus' Dionysiaca / Joshua Fincher
• The ideal (bleeding?) female : Hypatia of Alexandria and distorting patriarchal narratives / Victoria Leonard
• Hypatia and her eighteenth-century reception / Edward Watts
• Starring Hypatia : Amenábar's Agora and the tropology of reception / Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle
• Appendix A : Translation of primary sources on Hypatia / Alex Petkas and Dawn La Valle Norman
• Appendix B : Hypatia's death according to Socrates, Hist. Eccl. 7.15 : a textual commentary / Mareile Haase

Sixteen hundred years after her death (d. 415 CE), the legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria's life, teaching, and especially her violent demise, continue to influence modern culture. Through a series of focused articles, this volume takes a fresh look at the most well-known ancient female philosopher under three aspects: first, through the evidence provided by her most famous pupil, Synesius of Cyrene; next, by placing her in her late antique cultural context, and, finally, through analysis of her reception both ancient and modern. Though the sources are meager, Hypatia's influence on her students and wider culture guaranteed that she remained an important figure throughout the centuries, albeit one ranging from chaste Neoplatonist to conniving witch. Along with its eleven new essays, this volume also includes a new translation of all the principal ancient sources touching on Hypatia

• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Duree
• Chapter Two: Gesture
• Chapter Three: Life
• Chapter Four: Perception
• Conclusion
• Bibliography.
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What does it mean to see time in the visual arts and how does art reveal the nature of time? Paul Atkinson investigates these questions through the work of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theory of time as duration made him one of the most prominent thinkers of the fin de siecle. Although Bergson never enunciated an aesthetic theory and did not explicitly write on the visual arts, his philosophy gestures towards a play of sensual differences that is central to aesthetics. This book rethinks Bergson's philosophy in terms of aesthetics and provides a fascinating and original account of how Bergsonian ideas aid in understanding time and dynamism in the visual arts. From an examination of Bergson's influence on the visual arts to a reconsideration of the relationship between aesthetics and metaphysics, Henri Bergson and Visual Culture explores what it means to reconceptualise the visual arts in terms of duration. Atkinson revisits four key themes in Bergson's work - duration; time and the continuous gesture; the ramification of life and durational difference - and reveals Bergsonian aesthetics of duration through the application of these themes to a number of 19th and 20th-century artworks. This book introduces readers and art lovers to the work of Bergson and contributes to Bergsonian scholarship, as well as presenting a new of understanding the relationship between art and time.
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• Introduction
• 1. Philosophy
• 2. Modernity
• 3. Shakespeare and Theatre
• 4. The World Viewed
• 5. Comedies and Melodramas
• 6. William Rothman and Film
• 7. Michael Fried and Art
• 8. Photography
• 9. Cavell's Perfectionism Conclusion Index.
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In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term "post-medium" in her work. It was a nod to the American "ordinary language" philosopher Stanley Cavell, who had been thinking through a concept of medium in art for 30 years. Today with the decline of post-modernism, Stanley Cavell has emerged as one of the most important figures for thinking again about the visual arts, film and theatre. Stanley Cavell and the Arts looks at Cavell's extensive writings on a wide variety of artforms and at a number of writers (Michael Fried, William Rothman) influenced by his work. Over a 50-year career, Cavell wrote about visual art, photography, classical music, Shakespeare, the plays of Samuel Beckett and perhaps most notably Hollywood cinema. Stanley Cavell and the Arts offers an overview of Cavell's writings on the arts, situating them within his wider philosophical practice, analysing in detail his treatment of particular art forms and looking at the work of those he has deeply shaped.
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Who was Jacques Derrida, and why does he have such a towering, and foreboding reputation across modern philosophy? For some he is the source of the crisis of alternative facts. For far right terrorist Anders Brievik, 'Derridian deconstruction' was the cause for the end of truth. In 1992, 18 philosophers wrote an open letter to the Times to complain when he was awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University. For others, he is a film star thinker who covered every possible subject from literature, politics, and language. Born in Algiers, the young Jackie, named after a character in a Chaplin movie, only to change to Jacques once he moved to Paris, was always an outsider. Here, despite an obvious genius, he found it difficult to find himself. However, in 1967, he changed the whole course of philosophy in one go: with the development of the ideas of deconstruction. Immediately, his reputation as a complex and confounding thinker was established. Feted by some, abhorred by others, Derrida's influence across late 20th century thought is unquestionable. And here Peter Salmon introduces the key concepts, showing that, despite the impression of being eclectic, Derrida was a writer who spent his life on a series of interlinked themes: ethics, friendship, language. Accessible, provocative and beautifully written, An Event, Perhaps introduces to a new readership the life and thinking of a philosopher whose influence over the 21st century is likely to be as important as it was on the previous century.
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• 1.
• Preface: Staying Woke and Staying Awake
• 2.
• Introduction: Athens and Jerusalem
• 3.
• Chapter
• 1- Philosophy and Antiphilosophy: Shestov's Life and Thought
• 4.
• Chapter 2 - Angel of History and Angel of Death: Shestov, Bataille, Benjamin
• 5.
• Chapter 3 - The Garden and the Wasteland: The Art of Gethsemane
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• Chapter 4 - Sleep and the Sleepless: Pascal and the Night of Gethsemane
• 7.
• Conclusion: Auschwitz and the End of the World.
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The Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles Deleuze and many others, Shestov developed a fascinating anti-Enlightenment philosophy that critiqued the limits of reason and triumphantly affirmed an ethics of hope in the face of hopelessness. In a wide-ranging reappraisal of his life and thought, which explores his ideas in relation to the history of literature and painting as well as philosophy, Matthew Beaumont restores Shestov to prominence as a thinker for turbulent times. In reconstructing Shestov's thought and asserting its continued relevance, the book's central theme is wakefulness. It argues that for Shestov, escape from the limits of rationalist Enlightenment thought comes from maintaining an insomniac vigilance in the face of the spiritual night to which his century appeared condemned. Shestov's engagement with the image of Christ remaining awake in the Garden of Gethsemane then, is at the core of his inspiring understanding of our ethical responsibilities after the horrors of the twentieth century.
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