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Author |
: Carsten Strathausen |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816650293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816650292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Leftist Ontology by : Carsten Strathausen
Rich with analyses of concepts from deconstruction, systems theory, and post-Marxism, with critiques of fundamentalist thought and the war on terror, this volume argues for developing a philosophy of being in order to overcome the quandary of postmodern relativism. Undergirding the contributions are the premises that ontology is a vital concept for philosophy today, that an acceptable leftist ontology must avoid the kind of identity politics that has dominated recent cultural studies, and that a new ontology must be situated within global capitalism.
Author |
: Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1859842917 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781859842911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ticklish Subject by : Slavoj Žižek
With his characteristic wit, Zizek addresses the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and liberal-democratic multiculturalism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author |
: Ruth Groff |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2012-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136995576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136995579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ontology Revisited by : Ruth Groff
Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of things exist, as a fundamental ontological matter, and what they are like. These are topics of interest not just to social and political philosophers, but to social scientists and to philosophers of social science as well. "Ruth Groff has broken new ground in demonstrating the connection between social and political thought and the ontology of causal powers. Her account of the structure of Humean thinking about agency is excellent. Especially significant is the role that she assigns to Kantianism in the analysis that she develops. She moves effortlessly between contemporary metaphysics, political theory, critical social theory, and the history of modern philosophy, offering trenchant insights along the way into the work of thinkers ranging from Hume himself to Mill, Adorno, and Martha Nussbaum, and into debates over agent causation and emergence. There is even a discussion, in the final chapter, of Spinoza. This is big-picture philosophy at its best: rigorous and exacting at the level of detail; original, compelling and systematic in the whole." - Stephen Mumford, Professor of Metaphysics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham
Author |
: Carsten Strathausen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816650306 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816650309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Leftist Ontology by : Carsten Strathausen
Rich with analyses of concepts from deconstruction, systems theory, and post-Marxism, with critiques of fundamentalist thought and the war on terror, this volume argues for developing a philosophy of being in order to overcome the quandary of postmodern relativism. Undergirding the contributions are the premises that ontology is a vital concept for philosophy today, that an acceptable leftist ontology must avoid the kind of identity politics that has dominated recent cultural studies, and that a new ontology must be situated within global capitalism.
Author |
: Suzi Adams |
Publisher |
: Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780823234585 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0823234584 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Castoriadis's Ontology by : Suzi Adams
This book is the first systematic reconstruction of Castoriadis's philosophical trajectory. It critically interprets the shifts in his ontology by reconsidering the ancient problematic of human institution(nomos) and nature(physis), on the one hand, and the question of beingand creation, on the other.Unlike the order of physis, the order of nomos has played no substantial role in the development of Western thought. The first part of the book suggests that Castoriadis sought to remedy this by elucidating the social-historical as the region of being that eludes the determinist imaginary of inherited philosophy. This ontological turn was announced in his 1975 magnum opus, The Imaginary Institution of Society.With the aid of archival sources, the second half of the book reconstructs a second ontological shift in Castoriadis's thought that occurred during the 1980s. The author argues that Castoriadis extends his notion of ontological creationbeyond the human realm and into nature. This move has implications for his overall ontology and signals a shift toward a general ontology of creative physis
Author |
: L. Nathan Oaklander |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 117 |
Release |
: 2013-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110326871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110326876 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis C. D. Broad's Ontology of Mind by : L. Nathan Oaklander
C. D. Broad's writing on various philosophical issues spans more than half a century. Rather than attempt to trace the development of his thought throughout these fifty years this book considers his most representative work, namely, The Mind and Its Place in Nature. Nor does the scope of this study encompass the whole of that book, but only some of the issues he discusses in it. Specifically, Oaklander considers what Broad has to say about such fundamental issues as substance, universals, relations, space, time, and intentionality in the contexts of perception, memory and introspection. L. Nathan Oaklander studied philosophy at the university of Iowa. He is a student of Gustav Bergmann, one of the most distinguished ontologist in 20th century philosophy.
Author |
: Roberto Esposito |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2021-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509546442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509546448 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Instituting Thought by : Roberto Esposito
This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis. Two approaches have been particularly influential – one indebted to the thought of Martin Heidegger, the other indebted to Gilles Deleuze. While opposed in their political thrust and orientation, both approaches remain trapped within the political ontology that has framed our conceptual language for some time. In order to move beyond this political ontology, Esposito turns to a third approach that he characterizes as ‘instituting thought’. Indebted to the work of the French political philosopher Claude Lefort, this third approach recognizes that the road to reconstructing a productive relation between ontology and politics, one that is both realistic and innovative, lies in instituting praxis. Building on this insight, Esposito conceptualizes social being as neither univocal nor plurivocal but as cross-cut by the dual semantics of political conflict. This new book by one of the most original European philosophers writing today will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, social and political theory and the humanities generally.
Author |
: Leonidas Zelmanovitz |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 471 |
Release |
: 2015-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739195123 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739195123 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ontology and Function of Money by : Leonidas Zelmanovitz
The central thesis of the book is that in order to evaluate monetary policy, one should have a clear idea about the characteristics and functions of money as it evolved and in its current form. That is to say that without an understanding about how money evolved as a social institution, what it is today, and what is possible to know about monetary phenomena, it is not possible to develop a meaningful ethics for money; or, to put it differently, to find what kind of institutional arrangements may be deemed good money for the kind of society we are in. And without that, one faces severe limitations in offering a normative position about monetary policy. The project is, consequently, an interdisciplinary one. Its main thread is an inquiry of moral philosophy and its foundations, as applied to money, in order to create tools to evaluate public policy in regard to money, banking, and public finance; and the views of different schools on those topics are discussed. The book is organized in parts on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics of money to facilitate the presentation of all the subjects discussed to an educated readership (and not necessarily just one with a background in economics).
Author |
: Cat Moir |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2019-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004272873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004272879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism by : Cat Moir
In Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. The reception of Bloch’s work has seen him variously painted as a naïve realist, a romantic nature philosopher, a totalitarian thinker, and an irrationalist whose obscure literary style stands in for a lack of systematic rigour. Moir challenges these conceptions of Bloch by reconstructing the ontological, epistemological, and political dimensions of his speculative materialism. Through a close, historically contextualised reading of Bloch’s major work of ontology, Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (The Materialism Problem, its History and Substance), Moir presents Bloch as one of the twentieth century’s most significant critical thinkers.
Author |
: Vassilios Paipais |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2016-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137570697 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137570695 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Ontology and International Political Thought by : Vassilios Paipais
This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent liberal, post-liberal, dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics. Paipais locates the temptation of depoliticisation in their labouring under the fundamental fantasy of various guises of foundationalism (in the form of either political anthropology or ontology as ‘in the last instance’ ground) or, conversely, anti-foundationalism (the denial of all grounds, yet still operating within a foundationalist imaginary). He argues, instead, for a formal political ontology of the void (against historicism) shot through an ‘incarnate’ messianic nihilism (against ethicism and teleological forms of politics). In so doing, the author offers critical readings of the messianic nihilism of Benjamin, Agamben, Taubes and Žižek by problematising the antinomian tendencies in their respective political theologies. The book argues for a version of Žižek’s Badiouian politics of militancy supplemented by a proper participatory understanding of St Paul’s messianic meontology and incarnational Christology as a means to reconceptualise the nexus between subjectivity, universality and political action in world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations theory, political theory, critical social theory and political theology.