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"In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B. Jucan traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metaphysics. Through case studies that cross times and geographies, the book unpacks the notion of fakeness through the related logics of dissimulation (deception) and simulation (performativity) as seen with software/AI, television, plastics, and the internet. Specifically, Jucan shows how these (dis)simulation machines and performative objects construct impoverished pictures of the world, ensuring a repeatable sameness through processes of hollowing out embodied histories and lived experience. Through both its methodology and its subjects-objects of study, the book further seeks ways to counter the abstracting mode of thinking and the processes of voiding performed by the twinning of Cartesian metaphysics and global capitalism. Enacting a model of creative scholarship rooted in the tradition of writing as performance, Jucan, a multimedia performance-maker and theatre director, uses the embodied "I" as a framing and situating device for the book and its sites of investigation. In this way, she aims to counter the Cartesian voiding of the thinking "I" and to enact a different kind of relationship between self and world from the one posited by Descartes and replayed in much Western philosophical and - more broadly - academic writing: a relationship of separation that situates the "I" on a pedestal of abstraction that voids it of its embodied histories and fails to account for its positionality within a socio-historical context and the operations of power that define it"--
Truthfulness and falsehood. --- Performative (Philosophy) --- Capitalism --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy. --- (dis)simulation. --- René Descartes. --- algorithm. --- global capitalism. --- internet. --- performance. --- performativity. --- plastics. --- post-truth. --- theatricality.
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Sex After Life aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and critical theories. Arguing against a notion of the queer as counter-normative, Sex After Life appeals to the concept of life as a philosophical problem. Life is neither a material ground nor a generative principle, but can nevertheless offer itself for new forms of problem formation that exceed the all too human logics of survival.
Queer theory. --- Ecofeminism. --- Life. --- Life --- Eco-feminism --- Ecological feminism --- Feminist ecology --- Green feminism --- Feminism --- Human ecology --- Women and the environment --- Gender identity --- Philosophy --- critical theory --- feminist theory --- queer theory --- Deleuze and Guattari --- Gilles Deleuze --- René Descartes --- Social norm --- Vitalism
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Once, the concept of 'the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was innovative and inspiring, yielding what is still the master narrative of the rise of modern science. That narrative, however, has turned into a straitjacket-so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. Even so, in Floris Cohen's view neither the early, theory-centered historiography nor present-day contextual and practice-oriented approaches compel us to drop the concept altogether. Instead, he offers here a narrative restructured from the ground up, by means of a comprehensive approach, sustained comparisons, and a tenacious search for underlying patterns. Key to his analysis is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct, yet tightly interconnected revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five-to-thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world.'
Mathematics -- History. --- Science -- History. --- Science -- Methodology. --- Science -- Philosophy. --- Science --- Science, Ancient --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- History --- History. --- Science, Ancient. --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- geschiedenis --- history --- science --- wetenschap --- Christiaan Huygens --- Galileo Galilei --- Isaac Newton --- Mathematical sciences --- René Descartes
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When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus' family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also attempts to define Gorlaeus' place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early Cartesian circles. Christoph LuÌthy is professor of the history of philosophy and science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Gorlæus, David --- Atomism. --- Philosophers --- Natuurfilosofie. --- Natuurwetenschappen. --- Gorlaeus, David --- Nederland. --- Gorlaeus, David, 1591-1612. --- Philosophers -- Netherlands. --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Physics - General --- Gorlaeus, David, --- Goorle, David van, --- Van Goorle, David, --- Scholars --- Religion and science. --- Philosophy --- History. --- Atomic theory --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Pluralism --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Religious aspects --- geschiedenis --- history, geography, and auxiliary disciplines --- history --- geography --- and auxiliary disciplines --- Atomism --- Conrad Vorstius --- David van Goorle --- God --- Metaphysics --- René Descartes
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During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, they wove a tapestry of correspondence that has become a cherished part of American history and literature. With Abigail and John Adams, historian G. J. Barker-Benfield mines those familiar letters to a new purpose: teasing out the ways in which they reflected-and helped transform-a language of sensibility, inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming Americanized. Sensibility-a heightened moral consciousness of feeling, rooted in the theories of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Adam Smith and including a "moral sense" akin to the physical senses-threads throughout these letters. As Barker-Benfield makes clear, sensibility was the fertile, humanizing ground on which the Adamses not only founded their marriage, but also the "abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity" they and their contemporaries hoped to plant at the heart of the new nation. Bringing together their correspondence with a wealth of fascinating detail about life and thought, courtship and sex, gender and parenting, and class and politics in the revolutionary generation and beyond, Abigail and John Adams draws a lively, convincing portrait of a marriage endangered by separation, yet surviving by the same ideas and idealism that drove the revolution itself. A feast of ideas that never neglects the real lives of the man and woman at its center, Abigail and John Adams takes readers into the heart of an unforgettable union in order to illuminate the first days of our nation-and explore our earliest understandings of what it might mean to be an American.
Adams, Abigail Smith --- Adams, John --- Sentimentalism --- United States --- Social life and customs --- To 1775 --- 1783-1865 --- 1775-1783 --- Sentimentalism. --- Adams, Abigail, --- Adams, John, --- Sentimentality --- Emotions --- Novanglus, --- Adams, Abigail Smith, --- Smith, Abigail, --- history, usa, united states of america, historical, presidents, presidential, american revolution, revolutionary war, letters, communication, married couple, writing to each other, correspondence, sensibility, americanized, cultural studies, culture, moral consciousness, morality, adam smith, john locke, rene descartes, injustice, inhumanity, courtship, sex, relationships, parenting, politics, social life, customs, reformation, masculinity, femininity, sentimentalism.
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"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence of this new culture of secrecy, and from Naples to the Netherlands controversy swirled for two centuries around the powers and limits of dissimulation, whether in affairs of state or affairs of the heart. This beautifully written work crisscrosses Europe, with a special focus on Italy, to explore attitudes toward the art of dissimulation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Discussing many canonical and lesser-known works, Jon R. Snyder examines the treatment of dissimulation in early modern treatises and writings on the court, civility, moral philosophy, political theory, and in the visual arts.
Secrecy --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Interpersonal communication --- Social aspects --- History. --- Italy --- Europe --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- 16th century. --- 17th century. --- affairs. --- aristocracy. --- canonical writing. --- commoners. --- communication. --- controversy. --- court writings. --- culture of secrecy. --- disguise. --- dishonesty. --- dissimulation. --- early modern europe. --- europe. --- inner lives. --- italy. --- masking emotions. --- modern history. --- moral philosophy. --- naples. --- netherlands. --- philosophers. --- political silence. --- political theory. --- private lives. --- rene descartes. --- secrecy. --- secret thoughts. --- textbooks. --- treatises. --- visual arts. --- writers and intellectuals.
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"David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living."--Jacket. "In Levin's view, all these philosophers attempted to understand, one way or another, the distinctive pathologies of the modern age. But every one also attempted to envision - if only through the faintest of traces, traces of mutual recognition, traces of another way of looking and seeing - the prospects for a radically different lifeworld."--Jacket.
Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Appearance (Philosophy) --- Eyesight --- Filosofie [Moderne ] --- Philosophie moderne --- Philosophy [Modern ] --- Seeing --- Sight --- Vision --- Vision (Physiologie) --- Zien [Het ] --- Philosophy, Modern --- Modern philosophy --- Vision. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Senses and sensation --- Blindfolds --- Eye --- Physiological optics --- aesthetic theory. --- benjamin. --- cultural criticism. --- descartes. --- edmund husserl. --- emmanuel levinas. --- enlightenment. --- ethics. --- friedrich nietzsche. --- heidegger. --- historical materialism. --- human experience. --- husserl. --- intentionality. --- levinas. --- martin heidegger. --- maurice merleau-ponty. --- merleau-ponty. --- modes of perception. --- moral character. --- morality. --- mutual recognition. --- natural philosophy. --- nietzsche. --- nihilism. --- ocularcentrism. --- perspectivism. --- phenomenology. --- philosophy. --- politics. --- privileging of vision. --- rene descartes. --- walter benjamin. --- wittgenstein.
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This collection of essays, papers originally delivered at conferences in Bonn and Boston, show in a detailed way the tone and nature of philosophical and theological issues and arguments at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century. They touch on a large number of authors and a broad spectrum of subjects and present these discussions with regard to the intellectual framework set by the earlier Parisian generation of Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and Godfrey of Fontaine. It becomes evident that the principal contributors to the new intellectual energy in early fourteenth-century discussions at Paris are Meister Eckhart, John Duns Scotus, Hervaeus Natalis, Durandus of St.-Pourçain, Walter Burley and Petrus Aureoli.
Philosophy --- anno 1300-1399 --- Paris --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Theology --- "">1 "13" <44 PARIS> --- Christian theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Filosofie. Psychologie--?"13"--Frankrijk--PARIS"">1 "13" <44 PARIS> Filosofie. Psychologie--?"13"--Frankrijk--PARIS --- Filosofie. Psychologie--?"13"--Frankrijk--PARIS --- History --- Universite de Paris --- Académie de Paris --- Université de France --- Université de Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne --- Université de droit, d'économie et de sciences sociales de Paris --- Université de Paris III --- Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne --- Université René Descartes --- Université de Paris VI --- Université Pierre et Marie Curie --- Université de Paris VII --- Université de Paris VIII: Vincennes --- Université Paris IX-Dauphine --- Université de Paris X: Nanterre --- Université Paris-Sud --- Université Paris-Val-de-Marne --- Université Paris-Nord --- France. --- Pa-li ta hsüeh --- Sorbonne (University) --- University of Paris --- Paris (France) --- Intellectual life --- Scholasticism --- Debates and debating --- Philosophie médiévale --- Scolastique --- Théologie --- Débats et controverses --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Histoire --- Université de Paris --- Vie intellectuelle --- Paris-Sorbonne university --- Université de Paris --- Parijs (France) --- Pařiž (France) --- Parizh (France) --- Париж (France) --- Parigi (France) --- Bārīs (France) --- باريس (France) --- Lutetia (France) --- Paryż (France) --- Párizs (France) --- Parisioi (France) --- Parisi (France) --- Παρίσι (France) --- Parys (France) --- Parij (France) --- Parĩ (France) --- Bali (France) --- Pa-lí (France) --- 巴黎 (France) --- Horad Paryz︠h︡ (France) --- Горад Парыж (France) --- Paryz︠h︡ (France) --- Парыж (France) --- Парис (France) --- Parighji (France) --- Pariggi (France) --- Pariis (France) --- Париж ош (France) --- Parizh osh (France) --- Parizo (France) --- Páras (France) --- Paarys (France) --- Pâ-lì-sṳ (France) --- 파리 (France) --- Palika (France) --- פריז (France) --- Lutèce (France) --- Seine (France) --- City of Paris
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