Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022669951X
Size: 76.79 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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One of Jacques Derrida’s richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of the relationship between life and death, undertaking multidisciplinary analyses of a range of topics, including philosophy, linguistics, and the life sciences. In seeking to understand the relationship between life and death, he engages in close readings of Freudian psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger, French geneticist François Jacob, and epistemologist Georges Canguilhem. Derrida gave his “Life Death” seminar over fourteen sessions between 1975 and 1976 at the École normale supérieure in Paris as part of the preparation for students studying for the agrégation, a notoriously competitive qualifying exam. The theme for the exam that year was “Life and Death,” but Derrida made a critical modification to the title by dropping the coordinating conjunction. The resulting title of Life Death poses a philosophical question about the close relationship between life and death. Derrida argues that death must be considered neither as the opposite of life nor as the truth or fulfillment of it, but rather as that which both limits life and makes it possible. Through these captivating sessions, Derrida thus not only questions traditional understandings of the relationship between life and death, but also ultimately develops a new way of thinking about what he calls “life death.”
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Author: Peter Bornedal
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498579310
Size: 31.28 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Nietzsche’s Naturalist Deconstruction of Truth: A World Fragmented in Late Nineteenth-Century Epistemology offers a new interpretation of Nietzsche’s discussions of truth and knowledge, covering the period from his early essay “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense” to his late notebooks. It places these discussions in the context of the neo-Kantian, Naturalist, Positivist, and Pragmatic schools influential in Nietzsche’s late nineteenth-century Europe. Peter Bornedal argues for a view of Nietzsche’s epistemological thought as an elaboration of this paradigm: proposing ideas that are anti-metaphysical and anti-theological in their polemic orientation, and in general promoting new scientific naturalist ideals in the discussions of knowledge. Bornedal suggests that the rational pursuit of these new ideals to the unencumbered mind logically leads to Nihilism in its most profound epistemological sense. Nietzsche’s “critique of metaphysics” is thus seen as having sprung from sources different from and, at times, in patent opposition to more recent postmodern and deconstructionist critiques. This book contextualizes Nietzsche in relation to a number of philosophical peers and juxtaposes him to contemporary thinkers in a way that resolves some of the difficulties that have plagued recent Nietzsche scholarship.
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Size: 58.92 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Translating and interpreting
Languages : en
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Author: Diane P. Michelfelder
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791400081
Size: 50.81 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Text of and reflection on the 1981 encounter between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, which featured a dialogue between hermeneutics in Germany and post-structuralism in France.
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Author: هان كانج
Publisher: Dar Attanweer
ISBN: 6144720731
Size: 73.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Poetry
Languages : ar
Pages : 176
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كتبت هان الكتاب أثناء إقامتها في وارسو، مدينة تحوم فيها ظلال الماضي العنيف. تجد هان نفسها مطاردة بحكاية أختها الكبيرة التي ماتت بعد ساعتين فقط من ولادتها. تلجأ الرواية لاستكشاف الأشياء البيضاء؛ القماط الذي كان في الوقت نفسه تابوتًا لأختها، حليب الأم الذيي لم تستطع أختها أن تشربه، الصفحة الفارغة التي حاولت أن تعيد كتابة القصة فيها وغيرها. من خلال لغة شاعرية ومكثّفة، تجوب الرّاوية الشوارع غير المألوفة لها والمكسوة بالثلج، حيث المباني التي سحقت من قبل في أثناء الحرب. تتداخل هوية تلك الشوارع وتتشابك وتجد الراوية نفسها تسأل: "هل يمكنني أن أمنح أختي هذه الحياة؟"
