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  • The Origin of the Political

    Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?

    Serier serie Commonalities
    In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others”— as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western ... Læs mere

    219,24 kr.

  • Two

    The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought

    Oversat af Zakiya Hanafi ...
    Serier serie Commonalities
    The debate on “political theology” that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.The reason for this, says Roberto Esposito, lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event; rather, it is the ... Læs mere

    233,49 kr.

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  • The Life of the Mind

    The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think

    af Hannah Arendt ...
    "A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates." — NewsweekConsidered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    af Lars Svendsen ...
    Oversat af John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... Læs mere

    157,99 kr.

  • Grammars of Creation

    Are great works of art, literature and music 'creations' or 'inventions'? Does the mathematician 'invent' or 'discover'? Exploring an often neglected field, this book asks whether the current revolutions in our means of communication and in the biological sciences, may bring with them radical changes in the concept of individual creation and of poetic and philosophical invention. Are we returning ... Læs mere

    86,99 kr.

  • Between Word and Image

    Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

    Serier serie Studies in Continental Thought
    A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: "Probing and lucid" (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Philosophy

    Wisdom as a Practice

    Oversat af Karen Margolis ...
    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 ... Læs mere

    107,49 kr.

  • The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan

    From Hellenism to Celan

    From the distinguished polymath George Steiner comes a profound and illuminating vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language.With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great ... Læs mere

    97,49 kr.

  • Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images

    Serier serie Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with ... Læs mere

    238,49 kr.

  • Three Critics of the Enlightenment

    Vico, Hamann, Herder

    af Isaiah Berlin ...
    This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project – to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of their views.The contributions of these particular critics could hardly be more important. Giambattista Vico estabished that the humanties are and ... Læs mere

    171,58 kr.

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Serier serie Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Læs mere

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  • Creation and Anarchy

    The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

    Oversat af Adam Kotsko ...
    Serier serie Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to ... Læs mere

    157,21 kr.