Authors:W. Daniel Wilson, Robert C. Holub,
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Keywords: germany, enlightenment, dialectic, reason, impure
Number of Pages: 495
Published: 1993-11
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0814324967
ISBN-13: 9780814324967
Authors:Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid N
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: present, memory, cultural, enlightenment, dialectic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0804736332
ISBN-13: 9780804736336
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism."Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of Western history and of subjectivity itself ou
Author: A-T. Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: poiesis, life, analecta, husserliana, onto, soul, dialectic, light, darkness, passions, elemental
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1992-07-31
List price: $299.00
ISBN-10: 0792316010
ISBN-13: 9780792316015
The dialectic of light and darkness studied in this collection of essays reveals itself as a primal factor of life as well as the essential element of the specifically human world. From its borderline position between physis and psyche, natural growth and techne, bios and ethos, it functions as the essential factor in all the sectors of life at large. We see its crucial role in all sectors of life while, prompted by man’s creative imagination, it enhances and spurs his vital as well as societal and spiritual life. This rare collection contains studies by Thomas Ryba, Krystina Górniak-Ko
Author: Mark E. Blum
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: western, historical, thinking, logics, foundational, quantum, continuum, dialectic, continuity
Number of Pages: 497
Published: 2006-02-24
List price: $93.95
ISBN-10: 0820463981
ISBN-13: 9780820463988
Continuity, quantum, continuum, and dialectic are foundational logics of Western historical thought. The historiographical method to discern them is a critique of historical reason. Through ’stylistics’ Mark E. Blum demonstrates how the inner temporal experience of the person shapes both judgment and historical action. Blum’s work augments the epistemology of Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Edmund Husserl. Studies of significant persons from Shakespeare through the Framers of the American Constitution, as well as contemporary adolescents, illustrate the intergenerational
Authors:Slavoj Zizek, John Milbank, Creston Davis,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: short, circuits, dialectic, paradox, christ, monstrosity
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-04-24
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0262012715
ISBN-13: 9780262012713
What matters is not so much that ÂiÂek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief. —John Milbank To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in my atheism, I am more Christian than Milbank. —Slavoj ÂiÂek In this corner, philosopher Slavoj ÂiÂek, who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion’s illusions
Author: Catherine Malabou
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: studies, critical, religion, politics, culture, insurrections, deconstruction, dusk, writing, dialectic, destruction, plasticity
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2009-10-21
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0231145241
ISBN-13: 9780231145244
A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and adapted to a reading of Hegel’s own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and their openness to positive reinvention. In French to describe something as plastic is to recognize both its flexibility and its explosivene
Authors:Georg Lukacs, John Rees, Slavoj Zizek, Esther Leslie,
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: tailism, dialectic, consciousness, class, history, defence
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2000-07
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1859847471
ISBN-13: 9781859847473
Georg Lukacs was dubbed "the philosopher of the October Revolution" and his masterpiece History and Class Consciousness (1923) is commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known as "Western Marxism" which includes the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. However, as the liberating energies of the Russian Revolution were sapped by Stalinism, Lukacs was subjected to ferocious attack for "deviations" from the "party line". In the mid-1920s, Lukacs wrote a sustained and passionate response to this onslaught. Unpublished at the
