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Sea as Mirror Essayings in and against Philosophy as History
ISBN: PB: 9783035803686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Sea as Mirror traces the pressing and repressed material and symbolic presence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean from Plato to Heidegger. To do so, Wu Yi employs the maritime as a lens to understand the drive of philosophy as both a...
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Heidegger's De(con)struction of Metaphysics
ISBN: PB: 9783035803693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Being and Time, Heidegger announced the "Task of Destroying the History of Ontology" in order to free what had remained "unthought" in Western metaphysics. The unpublished part of that work was to be titled "Basic Features of a Phenomenological De...
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Galileo Spirals Out of Control
ISBN: HB: 9783035803723, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Who is throwing melons and pumpkins from the highest tower in Pisa? It's the mad scientist Galileo Galilei, confounding the old ideas of the Greeks around Aristotle. This strange old fellow does science everywhere, even in the taverns! When Galileo m...
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Luther. The Origin of Modern Self-Consciousness Lectures, Volume 12
ISBN: PB: 9783035800166, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm
If we are to understand the specifically modern function of self-consciousness, we must first look to the origins of the concept. Among the key thinkers who elaborated on self-consciousness was the German monk and theologian Martin Luther. Reiner Sch...
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£59,50
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Modern Philosophies of the Will
ISBN: PB: 9783035803075, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, December 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through the lenses of Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, this edited volume traces the development of the relation between the will and the law as self-given. Modern Philosophies of the Will explores a variety of topics including: the ontological turn i...
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Reading Marx On Transcendental Materialism
ISBN: PB: 9783035802016, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this book, Reiner Schurmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schurmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories...
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£24,00
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Critique The Stakes of Form
ISBN: PB: 9783035802405, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break, marginalization, tearing, and opening indicate. As a philosophic...
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Critique and the Digital
ISBN: PB: 9783035802429, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Erich Horl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today's world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of it. The contributors investigate and question not...
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What is Anarchism? Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman
ISBN: PB: 9783035802269, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...
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Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart
ISBN: PB: 9783035801484, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2020
144 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
In this lecture course, Reiner Schurmann develops the idea that, in between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular humanist Renaissance, there was a distinctive medieval Renaissance connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. Focusing...
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