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This book is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and Simondon.
Technics and time, 2 : disorientation
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This book is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and Simondon.
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Acting out
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Acting Out is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In How I Became a Philosopher, he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in phenomenological research. Inspired by the Greek stoic(...)
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Acting Out is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In How I Became a Philosopher, he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in phenomenological research. Inspired by the Greek stoic Epictetus, Stiegler began to read, write, and discover his vocation, eventually studying philosophy in correspondence with Gérard Granel who was an important influence on a number of French philosophers, including Jacques Derrida, who was later Stiegler's teacher.
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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was one of the twentieth century's prolific and influential philosophers. He was director d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent books to be translated into English are Eyes of the University; Rogues: Two Essays on Reason;(...)
Geneses, genealogies, genres, & genius
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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was one of the twentieth century's prolific and influential philosophers. He was director d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent books to be translated into English are Eyes of the University; Rogues: Two Essays on Reason; and On Touching; Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Sur Walter Benjamin
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Th�oricien de ce que l�on a appel� �l��cole de Francfort�, Adorno (1903-1969), fut � la fois philosophe, sociologue et musicologue. A l�av�nement du nazisme, il �migre aux Etats-Unis. Rentr� en Allemagne, sa critique de la consommation culturelle au sein de la soci�t� industrielle acquiert une influence d�cisive sur la pens�e moderne,(...)
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Sur Walter Benjamin
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Th�oricien de ce que l�on a appel� �l��cole de Francfort�, Adorno (1903-1969), fut � la fois philosophe, sociologue et musicologue. A l�av�nement du nazisme, il �migre aux Etats-Unis. Rentr� en Allemagne, sa critique de la consommation culturelle au sein de la soci�t� industrielle acquiert une influence d�cisive sur la pens�e moderne, notamment � travers des ouvrages comme Minima moralia (1960). Sur Walter Benjamin rassemble tous les essais qu�il a consacr�s � l�auteur de Paris, capitale du xixe si�cle, � qui l�unissait une amiti� qui n��tait pas seulement intellectuelle, comme en t�moigne la correspondance qu�ils ont �chang�e. C�est pourquoi ces textes, qui constituent l�une des analyses les plus p�n�trantes de l��uvre de Benjamin, dessinent aussi un portrait �mouvant de cette figure qui, � bien des �gards, demeure �nigmatique.
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The open: man and animal
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In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the “human” has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. In an argument that ranges from ancient Greek, Christian, and Jewish texts to twentieth-century thinkers such as Heidegger,(...)
The open: man and animal
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In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the “human” has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. In an argument that ranges from ancient Greek, Christian, and Jewish texts to twentieth-century thinkers such as Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kojève, Agamben examines the ways in which the distinction between man and animal has been manufactured by the logical presuppositions of Western thought, and he investigates the profound implications that the man/animal distinction has had for disciplines as seemingly disparate as philosophy, law, anthropology, medicine, and politics.
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The coming community
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In this extraordinary and original philosophical achievement, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philosophical thought. Agamben's exploration is, in part, a contemporary response to the work of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and, more historically, Plato, Spinoza, and medieval scholars and theorists of(...)
The coming community
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In this extraordinary and original philosophical achievement, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philosophical thought. Agamben's exploration is, in part, a contemporary response to the work of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and, more historically, Plato, Spinoza, and medieval scholars and theorists of Judeo-Christian scriptures.
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Que serait une communauté sans présupposés, sans conditions d'appartenance, sans identité? Peut-on imaginer une communauté faite d'hommes qui ne revendiquent pas une identité (être français, rouge ou musulman)? Comment penser désormais une communauté formée par des singularités quelconques, c'est-à-dire parfaitement déterminées, mais sans concept ou une propriété puisse(...)
La communauté qui vient: théorie de la singularité quelconque
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Que serait une communauté sans présupposés, sans conditions d'appartenance, sans identité? Peut-on imaginer une communauté faite d'hommes qui ne revendiquent pas une identité (être français, rouge ou musulman)? Comment penser désormais une communauté formée par des singularités quelconques, c'est-à-dire parfaitement déterminées, mais sans concept ou une propriété puisse leur servir d'identité?
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Malpas follows the development of Heidegger's topology through three stages: the early period of the 1910s and 1920s, through Being and Time, centered on the "meaning of being"; the middle period of the 1930s into the 1940s, centered on the "truth of being"; and the late period from the mid-1940s on, when the "place of being" comes to the fore. (Malpas also challenges the(...)
Heidegger's topology: being, place, world
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Malpas follows the development of Heidegger's topology through three stages: the early period of the 1910s and 1920s, through Being and Time, centered on the "meaning of being"; the middle period of the 1930s into the 1940s, centered on the "truth of being"; and the late period from the mid-1940s on, when the "place of being" comes to the fore. (Malpas also challenges the widely repeated arguments that link Heidegger's notions of place and belonging to his entanglement with Nazism.) The significance of Heidegger as a thinker of place, Malpas claims, lies not only in Heidegger's own investigations but also in the way that spatial and topographic thinking has flowed from Heidegger's work into that of other key thinkers of the past 60 years.
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
Chaosophy: texts and interviews 1972-1977
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Restricted Areas brings together the results from a nine year project looking at some of the key military bases in Eastern Germany that lie abandoned following the fall of the Iron Curtain and withdrawal of the Soviet Armed forces.
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Capital and language
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The Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the core theorists of the Italian postfordist movement, along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, and Bifo (Franco Berardi). But although his work is often cited by scholars (particularly by those in the field of "Cognitive Capitalism"), his writing has never appeared in English. This translation of his most recent(...)
Capital and language
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The Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the core theorists of the Italian postfordist movement, along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, and Bifo (Franco Berardi). But although his work is often cited by scholars (particularly by those in the field of "Cognitive Capitalism"), his writing has never appeared in English. This translation of his most recent work, Capital and Language (published in Italian in 2002), finally makes Marazzi's work available to an English-speaking audience. Capital and Language takes as its starting point the fact that the extreme volatility of financial markets is generally attributed to the discrepancy between the "real economy" (that of material goods produced and sold) and the more speculative monetary-financial economy. But this distinction has long ceased to apply in the postfordist New Economy, in which both spheres are structurally affected by language and communication. In Capital and Language Marazzi argues that the changes in financial markets and the transformation of labor into immaterial labor (that is, its reliance on abstract knowledge, general intellect, and social cooperation) are just two sides of the same coin. Capital and Language focuses on the causes behind the international economic and financial depression of 2001, and on the primary instrument that the U.S. government has since been using to face them: war. Marazzi points to capitalism’s fourth stage (after mercantilism, industrialism, and the postfordist culmination of the New Economy): the "War Economy" that is already upon us.
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