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Chiasmatic encounters
The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and encounter. In Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics, fourteen international contributors representing various fields of expertise analyze this central concept and its significance for contemporary cultural theory. The authors discuss the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, adapting their ideas of chiasmatic relations to cultural analysis. As the internal and external horizons of perception and experience are intertwined and reversed, various cultural texts, like a Vermeer painting, a symphony of Sibelius, a David Lynch movie, or a young girl walking in her summer dress, are seen from new and unexpected angles. The book also addresses the chiasmatic crossing between ethics and politics-- between unconditional ethical responsibility and always conditional political choices. Representing the cutting edge of contemporary cultural theory and interdisciplinary thinking, Chiasmatic Encounters is essential reading for anyone working in continental philosophy, aesthetics, or political theory.
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Birth, death, and femininity : philosophies of embodiment
Issues surrounding birth and death have been fundamental for Western
philosophy as well as for individual existence. The contributors to this volume
unravel the gendered aspects of the classical philosophical discourses on death,
bringing in discussions about birth, creativity, and the entire chain of human
activity. By linking their work to major thinkers such as Heidegger, Nietzsche,
Beauvoir, and Arendt, and to major philosophical currents such as ancient
philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy, they
challenge prevailing feminist articulations of birth and death. These philosophical
reflections add an important sexual dimension to current thinking on identity,
temporality, and community.
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New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics
New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics traces Aristotelian influences in modern and pre-modern discourses on knowledge, rights, and the good life. The contributions offer new insights on contemporary discussions on life in its cognitive, political, and ethical dimensions.
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