Download or read book Kritik der zynischen Vernunft written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kritik der zynischen Vernunft written by Peter Sloterdijk (Philosoph, Deutschland) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critique of Cynical Reason written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sloterdijk finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal and institutional settings. His book is less a history of the impulse than an investigation of its role in the postmodern 1970s and 80s. The work was originally published in German as Kritik der zynischen Vernuft, 2v. (1983, Suhrkamp Verlag). This is a paperbound reprint of the 1987 cloth edition (1585-3; $45.00). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Critique of Cynical Reason written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cynic Enlightenment written by Louisa Shea and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original study reveals the importance of ancient Cynicism in defining the Enlightenment and its legacy. Louisa Shea explores modernity's debt to Cynicism by examining the works of thinkers who turned to the ancient Cynics as a model for reinventing philosophy and dared to imagine an alliance between a socially engaged Enlightenment and the least respectable of early Greek philosophies. While Cynicism has always resided on the fringes of philosophy, Shea argues, it remained a vital touchstone for writers committed to social change and helped define the emerging figure of the public intellectual in the 18th century. Shea's study brings to light the rich legacy of ancient Cynicism in modern intellectual, philosophical, and literary life, both in the 18th-century works of Diderot, Rousseau, Wieland, and Sade, and in recent writings by Michel Foucault and Peter Sloterdijk. Featuring an important new perspective on both Enlightenment thought and its current scholarly reception, The Cynic Enlightenment will interest students and scholars of the Enlightenment and its intellectual legacy, 18th-century studies, literature, and philosophy.
Download or read book Franco Berardi Bifo written by Franco Berardi and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bifos Essay ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den gegenwärtigen politischen Zuständen, die in seinem Heimatland Italien herrschen, das seit nunmehr drei Jahrzehnten unter dem medialen und politischen Einfluss des Premierministers und Medienmagnaten Silvio Berlusconi steht. Der Autor entwirft ein Bild des »Berlusconilandes«, in dem die italienische Sprache, ihre kollektive Imagination und ihre Sinnlichkeit verdorben worden sind und die Politik des »Mafia-Medien-Moguls« wie ein »Psycho-Gift« wirkt, das langsam alles zerstört. Fernsehen und Werbung werden immer pornografischer und obszöner, was in der Gesellschaft zu einer Form von falschen Lusterwartungen, Selbsthass und aggressiver Scham geführt hat. Bifo beschreibt den aggressiven Wettbewerb zwischen Macho-Männern, deren größte Lust im Beschmutzen des weiblichen Körpers besteht, Ausdruck ihrer umfassenden Verachtung der Frau. Als »Therapie« schlägt der Autor eine Ethik vor, die nicht moralisch oder politisch ist, sondern vom Skeptizismus ausgehend zur Reaktivierung der Empathie als einem Weg zur Lust und zum »Großen Mitgefühl« führt, das ein politischer Zustand ist. Der Autor, Medientheoretiker und Medienaktivist Bifo – Franco Berardi (*1949), Gründer von Radio Alice in den 1970er Jahren, lehrt Medienästhetik an der von ihm mit ins Leben gerufenen European School of Social Imagination in San Marino. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
Download or read book Bertolt Brecht written by Steve Giles and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of this volume of essays marks the centenary of the birth of Bertolt Brecht on 10 February 1898. The essays were commissioned from scholars and critics around the world, and cover six main areas: recent biographical controversies; neglected theoretical writings; the semiotics of Brechtian theatre; new readings of classic texts; Brecht's role and reception in the GDR; and contemporary appropriations of Brecht's work. This volume will be essential reading for all those interested in twentieth century theatre, modern German studies, and the contemporary reassessment of post-war culture in the wake of German unification and the collapse of Stalinist communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The essays in this volume also address a variety of general questions, concerning - for example - authorship and textuality; the nature of Brecht's Marxism in relation to his understanding of modernity, science and Enlightenment reason; Marxist aesthetics; radical cultural politics; and feminist performance theory.
Download or read book In Medias Res written by Willem Schinkel and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sloterdijk has in recent years grown into one of Germany's most influential thinkers. His work, which is extremely relevant for philosophers, scientists of art and culture, sociologists, political scientists and theologists, is only now gradually being translated in English. This book makes his work accessible to a wider audience by putting it to work in orientation towards current issues. Sloterdijk's philosophy moves from a Heideggerian project to think 'space and time' to a Diogenes-inspired 'kynical' affirmation of the body and a Deleuzian ontology of network-spheres. In a range of accessible and clearly written chapters, this book discusses the many aspects of this thought"--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Cr tica de la raz n c nica written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by Siruela. This book was released on 2003 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Crítica de la razón cínica es una de las obras más provechosas e inteligentes aparecidas en Alemania.» (Fernando Savater) . «Desde 1983 Peter Sloterdijk cuenta entre los filósofos más importantes de la Alemania de posguerra. De un día para otro se hizo famoso con su Crítica de la razón cínica, un libro que conmovió al gran público como casi ninguna otra obra de diagnóstico filosófico del tiempo desde La decadencia de Occidente de Oswald Spengler. [Éste] simpatizaba con los césares [...]. El patrono de Sloterdijk, por el contrario, era el Diógenes del barril, el burlón y el irónico. [...] Crítica de la razón cínica cuenta cómo [...] la conciencia moderna tomó conciencia de sí, y cómo ahora, con correcta conciencia, obra sin embargo incorrectamente.»(Rüdiger Safranski) . «El cinismo es la falsa conciencia ilustrada. Es la moderna conciencia infeliz sobre la que la Ilustración ha trabajado tanto con éxito como en vano.» (Peter Sloterdijk)
Download or read book Bertolt Brecht written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of this volume of essays marks the centenary of the birth of Bertolt Brecht on 10 February 1898. The essays were commissioned from scholars and critics around the world, and cover six main areas: recent biographical controversies; neglected theoretical writings; the semiotics of Brechtian theatre; new readings of classic texts; Brecht’s role and reception in the GDR; and contemporary appropriations of Brecht’s work. This volume will be essential reading for all those interested in twentieth century theatre, modern German studies, and the contemporary reassessment of post-war culture in the wake of German unification and the collapse of Stalinist communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The essays in this volume also address a variety of general questions, concerning - for example - authorship and textuality; the nature of Brecht’s Marxism in relation to his understanding of modernity, science and Enlightenment reason; Marxist aesthetics; radical cultural politics; and feminist performance theory.
Download or read book Classical Cynicism written by Luis Navia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a school of philosophy with a defined set of beliefs and convictions, classical Cynicism represents an unconventional sect of philosophers and a way of life. This is a complete account of classical Cynicism from its beginnings in the Socratic circle to its extinction in late Roman times. In this thoroughly documented study, Navia explores various issues related to the sources of information about the Cynics, the development of Cynicism, and the principal representatives of classical Cynicism. Exploring the relationship between classical Cynicism and cynicism as understood in its ordinary modern sense, the author argues that despite their common designation, they represent significantly different philosophical attitudes. This book explicates the main ideas associated with classical Cynicism and argues that, its shortcomings notwithstanding, classical Cynicism furnishes us with a wealthy source of philosophical enlightenment. Individual chapters are devoted to Antisthenes, Diogenes, and Crates, the three principal classical Cynics. Attention is given to the development and application of certain fundamental Cynic ideas and to the transformation of these ideas throughout the eight centuries during which Cynicism was an influential philosophical movement. The book provides abundant references to primary and secondary sources and includes a bibliography of over five hundred entries.
Download or read book Diese merkw rdige Kleinigkeit einer Vision written by David Clarke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christoph Hein is one of the best-known authors of the former GDR, and his works of fiction have been widely interpreted as responses to and critiques of socialist society. In this study, David Clarke undertakes a detailed analysis of all of Christoph Hein’s major works of fiction from Der fremde Freund (1928) to Willenbrock (2000) in order to explore Hein’s critique of the GDR regime, whilst also demonstrating how aspects of that critique provided a starting point for Hein’s rejection of capitalism both before and after German unification. For Hein, socialism had failed to make good its promise to create a community bound together by common values and goals, preferring instead to impose conformity upon its citizens. Capitalism, he believed, was equally unable to meet the need for community, and Hein sought to demonstrate the consequences of this state of affairs in the figure of Wörle in his first post-unification novel, Das Napoleon-Spiel (1993). After this point, Clarke argues, Hein was nevertheless forced to re-examine his criticism of capitalism, a process which ultimately led to the more differentiated and convincing portrayal to be found in Willenbrock.
Download or read book Sloterdijk written by Jean-Pierre Couture and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Sloterdijk, in the tradition of Nietzsche and Heine, is an iconoclast who uses humour and biting critique to challenge many of modernitys sacred thinkers, from Kant to Heidegger, in the process radically reinterpreting the canon of Western philosophy. In this unique textbook, leading Sloterdijk expert Jean-Pierre Couture explains in accessible language Sloterdijks exceptional contribution, breaking his thought down into five key approaches: psychopolitics, anthropotechnics, spherology, controversy, and therapeutics. Sloterdijks frequent public controversies, with supporters of Habermas and the Frankfurt school in particular, are assessed and their significance for current philosophical debates explained. This fascinating book will be an essential companion for those interested in the hybrid aesthetics of thought situated at the crossroads of art and philosophy. Its up-to-date analyses of Sloterdijks recently translated corpus will make it essential reading for all students and scholars of modern European thought.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Critical Theory written by Ian Buchanan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, and socio-political critical theory. Entries clearly explain complex theoretical discourses such as Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, and postmodernism. There are biographies of hundreds of important figures in the field, with feature entries for those who have heavily influenced areas of the discipline, such as Derrida and Deleuze. This new edition of the dictionary has been updated to extend coverage of diaspora, race and postcolonial theory, including key authors such as C. L. R. James and Paul Gilroy, and of queer and sexuality studies, including notable figures such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Fully revised to keep up to date with this diverse field, this new edition expands the coverage to include entries such as hyperobject and transgender. Entries are fully cross-referenced and many contain further reading suggestions. Covering all aspects of critical theory from globalization and race studies, to queer theory and feminism, this multidisciplinary A-Z is essential for students in the humanities and social sciences.
Download or read book Cool Conduct written by Helmut Lethen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.
Download or read book Situating Existentialism written by Jonathan Judaken and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogues of which they were a part. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and global nature of existential arguments, the chosen texts relate to philosophy, religion, literature, theater, and culture and reflect European, Russian, Latin American, African, and American strains of thought. Readings are grouped into three thematic categories: national contexts, existentialism and religion, and transcultural migrations that explore the reception of existentialism. The volume explains how literary giants such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy were incorporated into the existentialist fold and how inclusion into the canon recast the work of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, and it describes the roles played by Jaspers and Heidegger in Germany and the Paris School of existentialism in France. Essays address not only frequently assigned works but also underappreciated discoveries, underscoring their vital relevance to contemporary critical debate. Designed to speak to a new generation's concerns, the collection deploys a diverse range of voices to interrogate the fundamental questions of the human condition.
Download or read book Crime Stories written by Todd Herzog and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Weimar Republic (1918–1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public’s reaction to their crimes. The author argues that the development of a new type of crime fiction during this period - which turned literary tradition on its head by focusing on the criminal and abandoning faith in the powers of the rational detective - is intricately related to new ways of understanding criminality among professionals in the fields of law, criminology, and police science. Considering Weimar Germany not only as a culture in crisis (the standard view in both popular and scholarly studies), but also as a culture of crisis, the author explores the ways in which crime and crisis became the foundation of the Republic’s self-definition. An interdisciplinary cultural studies project, this book insightfully combines history, sociology, literary studies, and film studies to investigate a topic that cuts across all of these disciplines.
