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At the Limits of Presentation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

At the Limits of Presentation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This study explores the significance of art in Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophy. The main object of the work is to discuss the notion of art and its contribution to some of Nancy's central ontological ideas. Art's importance is considered in its own right - the main questions being whether art does have ontological significance, and if so, how one should describe this with respect to the theme of presentation. According to the work's central argument, with his thinking on art Nancy attempts to give one viewpoint to what is called the metaphysics of presence and to its deconstruction. On which grounds may one say that art is not reducible to philosophy? These topics are examined by highlighting the differentiation between the notions of «presentation» and «representation» with regard to the influence of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida on Nancy's thought.

Hutchins - Hutchens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 970

Hutchins - Hutchens

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Facing the Other
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Facing the Other

What is the significance of the body? What might phenomenology contribute to a theological account of the body? And what is gained by prolonging the overlooked dialogue between St. John Paul II and Emmanuel Levinas? Nigel Zimmermann answers these questions through the agreements and the tensions between two of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. John Paul II, the Polish pope, philosopher, and theologian, and Emmanuel Levinas, the French-Jewish philosopher of Lithuanian heritage, were provocative thinkers who courageously faced and challenged the assumptions of their age. Both held the human person in high regard and did their thinking with constant reference to God and to t...

Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy is the first single-authored, book-length introduction to Nancy's ideas and it offers a clear and succinct appraisal of a burgeoning reputation.

Difficult Atheism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Difficult Atheism

Drawing primarily on the work of Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, plus Quentin Meillassoux and Slavoj Zizek, Watkin explores the theme of atheism through the ideas of the death of God and nihilism in contemporary French philosophy.

Embodiment, Relation, Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Embodiment, Relation, Community

In this volume, Garnet C. Butchart shows how human communication can be understood as embodied relations and not merely as a mechanical process of transmission. Expanding on contemporary philosophies of speech and language, self and other, and community and immunity, this book challenges many common assumptions, constructs, and problems of communication theory while offering compelling new resources for future study. Human communication has long been characterized as a problem of transmitting information, or the “outward” sharing of “inner thought” through mediated channels of exchange. Butchart questions that model and the various theories to which it gives rise. Drawing from the wo...

The Stoics: A Guide for the Perplexed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Stoics: A Guide for the Perplexed

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-06-22
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

An introduction to the Stoics, ideal for undergraduate students taking courses in Ethics and Ancient Philosophy.

Phenomenology or Deconstruction?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Phenomenology or Deconstruction?

Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricur and Jean-Luc Nancy. A constant dialogue with Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes provides the impetus to establishing a new understanding of 'being' and 'presence' that exposes significant blindspots inherent in traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction. In reproducing neither a stock phenomenological reaction to deconstruction nor the routine deconstructive reading of phenomenology, Christopher Watkin provides a fresh assessment of the possibilities f...

Relativism: A Guide for the Perplexed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 119

Relativism: A Guide for the Perplexed

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-07-23
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

A student's guide to the historical context and key themes in relativism across the discipline of philosophy.

Private Selves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Private Selves

  • Categories: Law

Explores different conceptions of legal personhood within EU data protection law and wider issues of privacy and individual rights.