The Speculative Turn

The Speculative Turn
Author: Levi Bryant
Publisher: re.press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2011
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0980668344

Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. However, one common thread running through the new brand of continental positions is a renewed attention to materialist and realist options in philosophy. Among the current giants of this generation, this new focus takes numerous different and opposed forms. It might be hard to find many shared positions in the writings of Badiou, DeLanda, Laruelle, Latour, Stengers, and Zizek, but what is missing from their positions is an obsession with the critique of written texts. All of them elaborate a positive ontology, despite the incompatibility of their results. Meanwhile, the new generation of continental thinkers is pushing these trends still further, as seen in currents ranging from transcendental materialism to the London-based speculative realism movement to new revivals of Derrida. As indicated by the title The Speculative Turn, the new currents of continental philosophy depart from the text-centered hermeneutic models of the past and engage in daring speculations about the nature of reality itself. This anthology assembles authors, of several generations and numerous nationalities, who will be at the center of debate in continental philosophy for decades to come.

State, Religion and Muslims

State, Religion and Muslims
Author: Melek Saral
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004421513

State, Religion and Muslims offers a comprehensive insight into the discrimination against Muslims at the legislative, executive and judicial level across the 12 Western countries situating discriminatory practices in their institutional framework with a multidisciplinary look.

Universität in Zeiten von Bologna

Universität in Zeiten von Bologna
Author: Brigitte Kossek
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3847100378

Literaturangaben. - Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.

Medium, Messenger, Transmission

Medium, Messenger, Transmission
Author: Sybille Krämer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Communication
ISBN: 9789089647412

Medium, Messenger, Transmission uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor for the function of all transmission media.

Theorizing Social Memories

Theorizing Social Memories
Author: Gerd Sebald
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134586418

Public debates over the last two decades about social memories, about how as societies we remember, make sense of, and even imagine and invent, our collective pasts suggest that grand narratives have been abandoned for numerous little stories that contest the unified visions of the past. But, while focusing on the diversity of social remembering, these fragmentary accounts have also revealed the fault-lines within the theoretical terrain of memory studies. This critical anthology seeks to bridge these rifts and breaks within the contemporary theoretical landscape by addressing the pressing issues of social differentiation and forgetting as also the relatively unexplored futuristic aspect of social memories. Arranged in four thematic sections which focus on the concepts, temporalities, functions and contexts of social memories, this book includes essays that range across disciplines and present a variety of theoretical approaches, from phenomenological sociology and systems theory to biography research and post-colonialism.

An Answer from the Silence

An Answer from the Silence
Author: Max Frisch
Publisher: Swiss List
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780857427106

This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!" This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the hero of Frisch's book is countered by "an answer from the silence" he meets when face-to-face with death. When An Answer from the Silence begins, the protagonist has just turned thirty and is engaged to be married and about to start work as a teacher. Frightened by the idea of settling down, he journeys to the Alps in a do-or-die effort to climb the unclimbed North Ridge, and by doing so prove he is not ordinary. But having reached the top he returns not in triumph, but in frostbitten shock, having come dangerously close to death. This highly personal early novel reflects a crisis in Frisch's own life, and perhaps because of this intimate connection, he refused to allow it to be included in his Collected Works in the 1970s. Now available in English, this distinctive book will thrill fans of Frisch's other works.

Gender Change in Academia

Gender Change in Academia
Author: Birgit Riegraf
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2010-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3531925016

Editors’ Foreword The fundamental changes currently taking place in the national and international science landscapes can no longer be overlooked. Within those changes, reforms do not go ‘as planned’ but, as is always the case with processes of rationali- tion, have a series of unintended effects. At the same time it becomes incre- ingly clear who in this process are the winners and who are the losers, although this is still subject to fluctuation and change. This can be illustrated by two - amples from current events: Where the range of taught courses is concerned, as part of the Bologna Process the new structuring of student study paths and their organisation is aimed at unifying the European area of science to ensure a study that is equally permissive and efficient. However, it is to be deplored that the mobility of s- dents has become more restricted because of an increasing specialisation in the available study paths. Also, bachelor degrees do not meet with the anticipated high response from the labour market in all countries, so that the master’s degree is becoming more or less a ‘must’, while at the same time the number of study places on master’s courses is limited. Instead of the intended reduction in the duration of study time in comparison to the previous German ‘Magister’ and ‘Diplom’, rather a prolongation in the duration of studies has been recorded.

Hegel: Contra Sociology

Hegel: Contra Sociology
Author: Gillian Rose
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2000-12-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441122060

This original and challenging book presents a radical revision of traditional assessments of Hegel. Gillian Rose argues that the classical origins of contemporary non-Marxist and Marxist sociology rest on the 'neo-Kantian' paradigm and that Hegel's thought anticipates and criticises the limitations of this paradigm and the problems of methodologism and moralism in sociological method. Hegel's major mature works are expounded in the light of his early radical writings. From this unusual perspective Dr Rose shows that Hegel's speculative discourse is a powerful critique of bourgeois property relations and law, or art and religion as misrepresentation and of the inversions and end of culture. The book concludes with a discussion of the end of philosophy, the repetition of sociology and the culture and fate of Marxism.

Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World

Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World
Author:
Publisher: International Comparative Soci
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789004524446

Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to renew the comparative method by questioning the inherited comparative categories. By varying the analytical perspectives in different empirical and social sciences fields, this volume opens new spaces for the comparative method.