Philosophy
THE INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY UPON THE CONDUCT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Clinical and Metapsychological Considerations
| Publication Type | Web Article |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Howard F. Stein |
| Abstract | Psychogeography begins with the vicissitudes of selfhood in a human body and proceeds outward to encompass the world. The issue of boundaries takes us to the heart of psychogeography. Symbolic group-boundaries have the quality of dreamlike condensations. Through boundaries we express anxiety over body integrity or cohesion versus disorganization, maleness versus femaleness, pleasure versus unpleasure, animateness versus inanimateness, security versus danger, symbiosis versus emotional separation (representational differentiation). How these all are resolved finds ultimate expression in the delineation of inside from outside: what and who are to be included in the group, and what and who are to be excluded from it. |
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The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2001 |
| Authors | Quentin Smith |
| Journal Title | Philo |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Abstract | The metaphilosophy of naturalism is about the nature and goals of naturalist philosophy. A real or hypothetical person who knows the nature, goals and consequences of naturalist philosophy may be called an “informed naturalist.” An informed naturalist is justified in drawing certain conclusions about the current state of naturalism and the research program that naturalist philosophers ought to undertake. One conclusion is that the great majority of naturalist philosophers have an unjustified belief that naturalism is true and an unjustified belief that theism (or supernaturalism) is false. I explain this epistemic situation in this paper. I also articulate the goals an informed naturalist would recommend to remedy this situation. These goals, for the most part, have as their consequence the restoring of naturalism to its original state (approximately, to a certain degree, given the great difference in the specific theories), which is the state it possessed in Greco-Roman philosophy before naturalism was “overwhelmed” in the Middle Ages, beginning with Augustine (naturalism had critics as far back as Xenophanes, sixth century B.C.E., but it was not “overwhelmed” until much later). Contemporary naturalists still accept, unwittingly, the redefinition of naturalism that began to be constructed by theists in the fifth century C.E. and that underpins our basic world-view today. |
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Paolo Virno and Judith Revel revisit the Foucault/Chomsky debate
| Publication Type | Web Article |
| Year of Publication | 1998 |
| Authors | Paolo Virno and Judith Revel |
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COLLECTED WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Posted November 7th, 2007 by Sevag AsatourAn astonishing collection of the works of the German Philosopher and Philologist Friedrich Nietzsche. Also included are letters and correspondences that are of paramount interest to reseachers interested in the more intricate and intimate windings of Nietzsches' thought.
Jean Baudrillard died in March this year
Posted October 3rd, 2007 by Garen KarapetianThe last great remaining philosopher dies.
Desire and Pleasure
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1994 |
| Authors | Gilles Deleuze |
| Journal Title | Magazine Littéraire |
| Volume | 325 |
| Notes | private notes by Deleuze on Foucault, written in 1977, published in France in 1994 in Magazine littéraire 325 |
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What is Enlightenment? (Was ist Aufklärung?)
| Publication Type | Thesis |
| Year of Publication | 1978 |
| Authors | Michel Foucault |
Poststructuralist Anarchism
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DERRIDA: NEGOTIATING THE LEGACY
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2007 |
| Authors | Norris; Beardsworth; Thomson; Dillon; Zehfuss; Ansorge; Bulley; Biccum; Howells; Edkins; Watt; Thomassen |
| Series Editor | Fagan; Glorieux; Hasimbegovic; Suetsugu |
| City | Edinburgh |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Number of Pages | 256 |
| ISBN Number | 978-0748625475 |
| Key Words | Derrida; negotiation; legacy |
| Abstract | The death of Jacques Derrida in 2004 represented a major interruption in contemporary intellectual life. This death calls for an engagement with Derrida’s work and an attempt to understand his legacy. Such a discussion is fraught with tension between remaining faithful after death and putting Derrida’s writing to work in new directions, posing challenges and exposing limitations. In short this legacy is, necessarily, a negotiation. The aim of this book is to grapple with this specific theme and to explore the implications of Derrida’s death for the future of critical thought itself. The authors demonstrate that there is no single way to adopt or inherit Derrida’s thought. Rather, through their engagement with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies, each chapter illuminates the degree to which on-going reflection, radical critique, and above all radical self-critique are demanded by deconstruction. This book provides the key starting point for any serious assessment of what the implications of the work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers might be. |
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'This wide-ranging encounter with Jacques Derrida’s legacy is consistently innovative, discerning, and challenging. Taken as a whole, the collection is both a fitting tribute and an original contribution to critical political philosophy.'
'Far from the hackneyed responses that greeted Derrida’s passing, this volume negotiates the profound legacy of his path-breaking thought for ethics, politics and global issues. Through a series of essays - some of them provocative, all of them original - this volume rightly understands that fidelity to Derrida’s memory is best expressed in terms of a critical engagement that both confronts and draws inspiration from the many challenges his work continues to pose.' |
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