Publications tagged with "philosophy":
Deleuze: History and Science
2010Paperback, 168 pagesISBN 0982706715This is a collection of essays, most published here for the first time, on Gilles Deleuze's ideas about history and science. Its focus is on ontological or metaphysical questions: What are the legitimate social entities that can be used in historical explanations, given a materialist metaphysics? What are the legitimate inhabitants of the materi...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesThe Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death
2010Paperback, 290 pagesISBN 098253096XThis book is an attempt to defend the undefendable: the suicide bomber as a figure of thinking, a figure that foregrounds the singularity of each event; and it is this un-understandability-which is part of understanding itself-that the suicide bomber never lets us forget. For, the suicide bomber is the poet par excellence, reminding us of the p...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesThe Novel Imagery: Aesthetic Response as Feral Laboratory
2009Paperback, 188 pagesISBN 0981946291The Novel Imagery: Aesthetic Response as Feral Laboratory slowly builds and shapes a theory of reading and how readers participate in meaning creation. From the fundamental ontological and functional connections between author, text and reader, The Novel Imagery develops an original way of seeing the reader's role in the novel as deeply creative...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesThe Ethics of Uncertainty: Aporetic Openings
2009Paperback, 120 pagesISBN 0974853429The Ethics of Uncertainty asks what it means to live, act, decide, and respond responsibly, in the aporia of freedom itself - a freedom which on one hand opens us to the open space of possible possibilities, and on the other, leaves us no stable ground or measure for pre/determined decision making. The aporia of freedom is conditioned by the in...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesPhilosophy of Culture, Schopenhauer and Tradition (Schopenhauer Studies - Schopenhauer - Studien 6)
2008Paperback, 412 pagesISBN 0974853410Schopenhauer's grim philosophy of culture with its honest insight into the human condition is unprecedented. But the influence of other philosophers, from Plato to Kant, as well of Eastern Thought needs to be explored: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, The Frankfurt School as well as Samuel Beckett fell under his spell. The editor Wolfgang Schirmacher...Publication Program: Interventions
