The Power of Philosophy

The Power of Philosophy
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9783319969114
ISBN-13 : 3319969110
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The Power of Philosophy by : Kaustuv Roy

This book explores the possibility of philosophical praxis by weaving an ontological thread through four principal thinkers: Heidegger, Schelling, Goethe, and Heraclitus. It argues that a special kind of redemptive power awaits the structural understanding of thought that is beyond semantic formations such as concepts and ideational systems. The author claims that the “power” is negative in nature, trans-personal, and derived directly from the understanding of thought as a structural pulse. The book travels backwards in time, encountering successively Heidegger’s critique of calculative thinking, Schelling’s Mind/Nature relation, Goethe’s Delicate Empiricism, and the aphoristic wisdom of Heraclitus in search of a redemptive power that lies in the self-knowledge of thought. This power is ontological and not historical or developmental; it is the same at all times and all points of history. The author refers to the praxis as “philosophical bilingualism.”

Power

Power
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Publisher : Penguin Classics
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : 0241435080
ISBN-13 : 9780241435083
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Power by : Michel Foucault

This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.

Foucault's Politics of Philosophy

Foucault's Politics of Philosophy
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9781351724142
ISBN-13 : 1351724142
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Foucault's Politics of Philosophy by : Sandro Chignola

Oriented around the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’, this book tracks the phases in which Foucault’s genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to governance. This theme, Sandro Chignola argues here, is the key to understanding four features of Foucault’s work over this period. First, it foregrounds its immediate political character. Second, it demonstrates that Foucault’s "Greek trip" also aims at a politics of the subject that is able to face the processes of the governmentalization of power. Third, it makes clear that the idea of the "government of the self" is – drawing on an ethics of intellectual responsibility that is Weberian in origin – an answer to the processes that, within neoliberal governance, produce the subject as an individual (as a consumer, a market agent, an entrepreneur, and so on). Fourth, the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’ implies that Foucault’s research was never simply scholarly or neutral; but rather was characterized by a specific political position. Against recent interpretations that risk turning Foucault into a scholar, here then Foucault is re-presented as a key figure for jurisprudential and political-philosophical research.

The Psychic Life of Power

The Psychic Life of Power
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 0804728127
ISBN-13 : 9780804728126
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Psychic Life of Power by : Judith Butler

Judith Butler's new book considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. It combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, and offers a more sustained analysis of the theory of subject formation implicit in her previous books.

Philosophy

Philosophy
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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages : 616
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ISBN-10 : 1559349883
ISBN-13 : 9781559349888
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Philosophy by : Brooke Noel Moore

Power, Love and Evil

Power, Love and Evil
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9789401205382
ISBN-13 : 9401205388
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Power, Love and Evil by : Wayne Cristaudo

Love and evil are real – they are substances of force fields which contain us as constituent parts. Of all the powers of life they are the two most pregnant with meaning, hence the most generative of what is specifically human. Love and evil stand in the closest relationship to each other: evil is both what destroys love and what forces more love out of us; it is, as Augustine astutely grasped, privative (requiring something to negate) but it is also born out of misdirected love. Breaking with naïve realist and post-modern dogmas about the nature of the real, this book provides the basis for a philosophy of generative action as it draws upon examples from philosophy, literature, religion and popular culture. While this book has a sympathetic ear for ancient and traditional narratives about the meaning of life, it offers a philosophy appropriate for our times and our crises. It is particularly directed at readers who are seeking for new ways to think about our world and self-making, and who are as dissatisfied with post-Nietzschean and post-Marxian 20th century social theory as they are by more traditional philosophical and naturalistic accounts of human being.

The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9781135851712
ISBN-13 : 1135851719
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault by : Mark G.E. Kelly

This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career, arguing that Foucault had a consistent but ever-growing political and philosophical viewpoint.

Knowledge and Power

Knowledge and Power
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 0801497132
ISBN-13 : 9780801497131
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Knowledge and Power by : Joseph Rouse

This lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences through a detailed and original account of science as an interpretive social practice.

Political Philosophy: All That Matters

Political Philosophy: All That Matters
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Publisher : John Murray
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 9781444174397
ISBN-13 : 1444174398
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Political Philosophy: All That Matters by : Johanna Oksala

What is political philosophy? A philosophical study of political ideas such as authority, freedom, justice and democracy? An inquiry into the best form of government? An attempt to rationally justify forms of authority? Johanna Oksana asks exactly these questions as she opens this brilliant new guide to political philosophy. Rather than attempting to provide the reader with a definite answer, the book invites readers to recognize many of the issues encountered in everyday life as political, the outcome of human practices that incorporate power relations, social norms and obligations. It suggests that political philosophy should be understood as an open-ended, critical project that to some extent concerns everyone. The book employs an original structure which will be a huge help to both students and general readers seeking to understand the topic. Each chapter, which moves chronologically from antiquity to the twentieth century, focuses on selected classic texts in political philosophy, which are briefly introduced and analysed. The texts then function as a springboard for a discussion of central contemporary issues in political philosophy.

Discipline and Punish

Discipline and Punish
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780307819291
ISBN-13 : 0307819299
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Discipline and Punish by : Michel Foucault

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.