Foucault's work presents a challenge to orthodox, habitual forms of belief and practice. This text, with an interdisciplinary focus, argues that one of the keys to understanding Foucault is his political thought. It is this which he expressed in his last writings and which pulled together his earlier interests in power, agency and subjectivity. In this volume Foucault scholars and commentators on politics explore the significance of these last writings. They examine such issues as the question of Foucault and human rights; his relationship to ethical thought, power and freedom; his relationship to feminism; and comparisons for his work with Levinas and Rawls.
The idea of complementing borders is appropriately ambiguous with respect to Latin America. People inhabiting cultural borders do not belong to either of the two sides, yet they are contained within the complementation that emerges when two or more cultures interdependently and incongruously interact. In giving an account of complementing borders, ......
`As a companion to Foucault's original texts, carefully showing what he's done and why - and how that could be applied elsewhere - it's outstanding' - www.theory.org.uk `Very much a `hands-on' tool kit of a book, scholarly but accessible.... a very useful textbook which approaches its subject in an original way' - Sociological Research Online ......
This accessible book examines critically the writings of Deleuze and Guattari, clarifying the ideas of these two notoriously difficult thinkers without over-simplifying them. Divided into three sections - Knowledge, Power, and Liberation of Desire - the book provides a systematic account of the intellectual context as well as an exhaustive analysis of the key themes informing Deleuze and Guattari's work. It provides the framework for reading the important and influential study Capitalism and Schizophrenia and, with the needs of students in mind, explains the key concepts in Deleuze and Guattari's discussion of philosophy, art and politics. Definitive and incisive, the book will be invaluable in situating the philosophy of these two major figures within the perspective of the social and human sciences.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy)
The fruit of the author's many courses on Emmanuel Levinas in Europe and the United States, this study is a clear introduction for graduate students and scholars who are not yet familiar with Levinas's difficult but exceptionally important oeuvre. After a first chapter on the existential background and the key issues of his thought, chapters 2, 3, ......
The dramatic resurgence of American Pragmatism was one of the most important intellectual developments in the Twentieth Century. As the influence of this revitalised movement continues to spread across a variety of disciplines ranging from law to literary theory, the time is ripe for a considered reassessment of both its origins in the works of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey and its later revival in the hands of thinkers such as Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. This three-volume collection gathers together the necessary material for just such an 'assessment'. As such, it will an invaluable research tool for scholars and students who need to understand the significance of Pragmatism's unique place in the history of ideas.
Theodor W.Adorno was one of the towering intellectuals of the twentieth century. His contributions cover such a myriad of fields, including the sociology of culture, social theory, the philosophy of music, ethics, art and aesthetics, film, ideology, the critique of modernity and musical composition, that it is difficult to assimilate the sheer ......
Including a bibliography of Hook's works, as well as a foreword by Cornel West and afterword by Richard Rorty, this collection of essays examines the rich and varied experience of one of America's most misunderstood intellectuals. It is useful for students and scholars of American intellectual history and philosophy.
The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity
An anthology of Latin American philosophers in English. Besides the contemporary period, it includes key texts from the colonial and independent period to provide the reader with some historical background. It is divided into four sections - Colonial Beginnings and Independence, Philosophical Anthropology, Values, and The Search for Identity.
