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George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity
George Grant's mystique as a public philosopher is due in part to the seemingly contradictory political stances he took through the years. His opposition to the Vietnam war and his linking of liberalism with technological progress and imperialism brought him favour among the political left during the 1960s. Then, in the following decade, his opposition to abortion earned him allies on the political right, despite his rejection of limitless capitalist growth and free trade with the US. This collection of original essays reveals the complex philosophic, artistic, and religious sources underlying Grant's public positions of nationalism, pacifism, and conservatism.
The collection begins with Grant's previously unpublished writing on Céline. This is a bold and vigorous Grant, writing on a topic about which he is passionate and deeply informed. Grant's own work is followed by two pieces that explore his devotion to Céline, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Weil, and Strauss also receive special attention here. Many of the essays draw on manuscripts and notes left unpublished by Grant, thus contributing new perspectives to the ongoing discussion of his work.
The focus of this book is the unknown George Grant, namely, the philosophic, religious, and artistic inspiration behind his well-known public positions. Here we discover the great modern thinkers who animated Grant, and whose writings occupied him for much of his life.
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Through a glass, darkly : blurred images of cultural tradition and modernity over distance and time
In today's European arts and sciences most of the time we see not only other, but also our own cultural traditions and the different forms of modernity like a dim image in a mirror. The question this book addresses is whether it is possible to get an almost face-to-face intimacy with various forms of cultural tradition and modernity by using our experiences and our powers of imagination, i.e. our expectations, in a more fruitful way.
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Philosophie in Rom - Römische Philosophie?
Die Beiträge zur Altertumskunde enthalten Monographien, Sammelbände, Editionen, Übersetzungen und Kommentare zu Themen aus den Bereichen Klassische, Mittel- und Neulateinische Philologie, Alte Geschichte, Archäologie, Antike Philosophie sowie Nachwirken der Antike bis in die Neuzeit. Dadurch leistet die Reihe einen umfassenden Beitrag zur Erschließung klassischer Literatur und zur Forschung im gesamten Gebiet der Altertumswissenschaften.
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Estética y Tecnología
Sólo mediante un ejercicio dudoso de análisis podemos pensar en la humanidad desnuda, despojada de todas las mediaciones técnicas que se han confundido con su piel. El punto cero del cuerpo humano, más que una verdad autoevidente, es un mito, gesto mitológico de la metafísica. La desnudez es un efecto óptico al que llegamos sólo tras ocultar las capas que la han construido. Lo técnico no es un añadido a lo humano, sino uno de los medios por el que nos abrimos a la alteración; nos ubica y dispone en lugares distintos para vincularnos con lo familiar, lo nunca visto y lo que no puede entenderse sin su mediación. Por ello es que podemos contar, atendiendo a las mediaciones artefacturales, las historias de los órganos, de la mente, de los lazos sociales, de las interacciones entre especies e incluso la comprensión del tiempo y del espacio. Así, un pensamiento riguroso demanda entender los modos de ser de estas mediaciones y las determinaciones que emergen gracias a su intervención. En este volumen pretendemos hac
er lo propio en el campo de la estética, y para ello discutimos conceptos básicos de la ontología, distinciones tradicionales entre arte y artefacto y analizamos obras artísticas concretas. Sebastian Lomelí [Texto de la editorial].
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The Axial Age and Its Consequences
This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression.
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