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Westernness
The word "West" is omnipresent and often unquestioned. The goal of this volume is to elaborate a critical reflection on this concept and make these implicit processes explicit. The articles focus on spatio‐temporal practices regarding the production and representation of westernness. Taking critical perspectives, which view the West from the inside and the outside, they address issues of highest political and social relevance.
Meillassoux Dictionary
Fully cross-referenced A-Z entries define French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux's 75 most important concepts and the key figures who have influenced him.
The Rest and the West
THE FIRST AND LONG-AWAITED INSIDER BIOGRAPHY OF LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA One of seven children raised in abject poverty by a single parent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva acquired his politics on the hard road of personal suffering, inspired by the selfless example of his mother. He started work at the age of eight and didn’t learn to read for another two years. At twenty, he lost his wife and child. A union organizer in the 1980s, when Brazil still languished under military dictatorship, Lula helped form the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT or Brazilian Workers’ Party). His first steps in politics were faltering. He came last running for governor of São Paulo and would have retreated from e...
Narrative and Becoming
What is narrative? Ridvan Askin brings together aesthetics, contemporary North American fiction, Gilles Deleuze, narrative theory and the recent speculative turn to answer this question. Through this process, he develops a transcendental empiricist concept of narrative. Askin argues against the established consensus of narrative theory for an understanding of narrative as fundamentally nonhuman, unconscious and expressive.
Narrating Nonhuman Spaces
Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of space and description in challenging the conventional link between narrative and human (inter)subjectivity. Bringing together New Formalism, ecocriticism, and narrative theory, the included essays demonstrate that literature can transgress the strong and long-established boundary of the human frame that literary and narrative scholarship clings to. The focus is firmly on the contemporary but with strategic samplings in earlier cultural texts (the American transcendentalists, modernist fiction) that anticipate present-day anxieties about the nonhuman, while at the same time offering important conceptual tools for working through them.
Globales Christentum
Der «Missionsauftrag» und der neue Volk-Gottes-Begriff im Neuen Testament sind so etwas wie die «Ursprungsprägung» des Christentums als «Geht-hin-Religion». Das Christentum macht von Anfang an verschiedene Transformationen durch und wird immer vielfältiger. Jede Wahrnehmung von Völkern jenseits der Grenzen der christlichen Welt führte in den verschiedenen Kirchen zu einer missionarischen Dynamik – manchmal verbunden mit Eroberungsunternehmungen und kolonialen Projekten. Eine qualitativ neue Zeit für die Globalisierung des Christentums kam im Windschatten der frühneuzeitlichen Entdeckungsfahrten. Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit Transformationen, Denkformen und Perspektiven des...
Hölderlin und Heidegger
Das Buch bildet einen Versuch, Heideggers Umgang mit Hölderlins Dichtung kritisch zu überprüfen. Es stellt Verbindungslinien zwischen der Poetologie Hölderlins, dem Deutschen Idealismus und der Gedankenwelt der Spätaufklärung heraus und zeigt, wie Heidegger in seiner Hölderlin-Aneignung manchen geistesgeschichtlichen Bezügen viel und anderen wenig oder keine Beachtung schenkt. Auf diese Weise werden die Unterschiede in den Einstellungen der beiden Denker zu ontologischen, erkenntnistheoretischen, ästhetischen, sozialen und politischen Fragen deutlich und es ergibt sich ein differenziertes Bild der Heidegger'schen Hölderlinauslegung.
Westernness
The word "West" is omnipresent and often unquestioned. The goal of this volume is to elaborate a critical reflection on this concept and make these implicit processes explicit. The articles focus on spatio‐temporal practices regarding the production and representation of westernness. Taking critical perspectives, which view the West from the inside and the outside, they address issues of highest political and social relevance.
Kant on Reality, Cause, and Force
Original analysis of Kant's category of reality, with wide-ranging implications for understanding his critical philosophy and its development.
