When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities like the Holocaust - "the age of extremes," to use Hobsbawm's famous phrase. But in this new book, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events and ideologies. Rather, in his view, the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now.
Drawing on his Spheres trilogy, Sloterdijk interprets the actualization of the real in the 20th century as a passion for economic and technological "antigravitation." The rise of consumerism and the easing of the burdens of human life by the constant deployment of new technologies have killed off the kind of radicalism that was rooted in the belief that power would rise from a material base of production. If the 20th century can still inspire us today, it is because the fundamental shift that it brought about opened the way for a critique of extremist reason, a post-Marxist theory of enrichment and a general economy of energy resources based on excess and dissipation.
While developing his highly original interpretation of the 20th century, Sloterdijk also addresses a series of related topics including the meaning of the Anthropocene, the domestication of humans and the significance of the sea. The volume also includes major new pieces on Derrida and on Heidegger's politics. This work, by one of the most original thinkers today will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as anyone interested in philosophy and critical theory.
Название: MRint Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Reader +CD ISBN: 023040023X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230400238 Издательство: Macmillan ELT Рейтинг: Цена: 15680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is an adapted Intermediate level reader written by Helen Fielding. Now a new year and finally Bridget has a boyfriend, called Mark Darcy. After Rebecca appears on the scene trying to steal Mark away, Bridget decides to go to Thailand, where her problems only get worse. Includes an Audio CD.
Автор: Collins, A Название: MRint Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Reader ISBN: 0230400221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230400221 Издательство: Macmillan ELT Рейтинг: Цена: 10990.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is an adapted Intermediate level reader written by Helen Fielding. Now a new year and finally Bridget has a boyfriend, called Mark Darcy. After Rebecca appears on the scene trying to steal Mark away, Bridget decides to go to Thailand, where her problems only get worse.
Impossible Modernism reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) to examine the relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. It focuses particularly on how they both resisted the forms of narration established by nineteenth-century academic historians and turned instead to traditional literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the forms that historical representation might take. Tracing the fraught relationship between poetry and history back to Aristotle's Poetics and forward to Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations, Robert S. Lehman establishes the coordinates of the intellectual-historical problem that Eliot and Benjamin inherited and offers an analysis of how they grappled with this legacy in their major works.
Автор: Whittaker Название: Reason ISBN: 1316626105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316626108 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 28510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Originally published in 1934, this book presents a series of essays on various important figures and ideas in the development of philosophy. The essays cover the following subjects: `Reason`; `Comte and Mill`; `Schopenhauer`; `Vico`s new science of humanity`; and `Transcendence in Spinoza`. An index of names is also included.
Автор: Faubert Michelle Название: Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists ISBN: 1138663689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138663688 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on psychologist-poets who grew out of the literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas.
Автор: Berkeley, Richard Название: Coleridge and the crisis of reason ISBN: 0230521649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230521643 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This exciting new study examines Coleridge`s understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the context informing Coleridge`s understanding of German thinkers. It establishes the central importance of the contested status of reason for Coleridge`s poetry and later religious thought.
Автор: Rajan Название: The Lofty Rhyme ISBN: 036713988X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367139889 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 117390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: First published in 1970. The present study, a discussion of Milton`s major poetry, seeks to examine each of the poems on its own distinctive grounds and also to delineate the pattern of continuity which the poems enter into and sustain.
