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... Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Perelman Bob . 1996 . The Marginalization of Poetry . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Rabaté Jean-Michel . 2010 . “Philosophizing with Beckett: Adorno and Badiou...

...Peter Fenves Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 71 of 224 6808 boundar Of Philosophical Style—from Leibniz to Benjamin Peter Fenves...

...Frances Ferguson Philosophers frequently attempt to achieve clarity about particular problems in moral philosophy both by modeling specific hypothetical cases very exactly and by turning to literature for examples. Ferguson here relies on some of the work of Bernard Williams, Donald Davidson...

... . Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus . Translated by Beardsworth R. Collins G. . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . ———. 2004a . De la misère symbolique 1: L'époque hyperindustrielle . Paris : Galilée . ———. 2004b . Philosopher par accident: Entretiens avec Élie...

...Wolfgang Fritz Haug Duke University Press 2007 Philosophizing with Marx, Gramsci, and Brecht Wolfgang Fritz Haug 1. Why Gramsci and Brecht? I don’t have to introduce you to Karl Marx, though one could apply Brecht’s...

...David Golumbia The theoretical movements known as Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology depend on the “critique of correlationism” offered by the French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux in his 2008 After Finitude . There Meillassoux claims to have shown that Kant and all philosophers...

...Tom Eyers The Anglophone reception of the French philosopher Alain Badiou has focused largely on his ontological and political commitments. Where Jacques Rancière is increasingly received as a philosopher of art above all else, Badiou's own critical commitments have received less attention...

...Nina Power; Alberto Toscano Alain Badiou has defined his philosophical project in terms of the attempt to account for the abandonment and betrayal of the revolutionary impetus in the 1970s. This article examines this contention by tracking the way in which the definition of different antipolitical...

... of Friedrich Nietzsche—on the psychopathology of ressentiment that plagues Western, European democracies. The review focuses on Sloterdijk’s philosophical project but also takes into consideration the philosopher’s politics, which have received much criticism in both his native Germany and abroad. I...

...Hoon Song Authorship is the key site where the power of North Korea's leader gathers itself. The founding father, Kim Il Sung, “authored” the nation by scripting the philosophico-political text Juch'e . But this element of leader-as-author—the “king” who is also “philosopher”—is constitutively...

...Michael Gallope Abstract Daniel Chua and Alexander Rehding's book Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth (2021) offers a deep philosophical discussion of NASA's Golden Record that had been attached to the side of its 1977 Voyager probe. The Golden Record was an album...

..., 2020), views Benjamin in the context of a philosophic eventism and an ontological theory of language as revelation. Underscoring the centrality of the concepts of experience and translation in Benjamin's thinking, and providing relevant personal testimony concerning recent Chilean history, Oyarzun...

... not be the same from one moment to the next and a certain kind of knowledge therefore becomes impossible. In such worlds, in which “the future constancy of the real is not guaranteed” and moreover “contingency is necessary” (to recall the work of philosopher Quentin Meillassoux), the project of detection...

...Ryan Bishop Polyscaler autonomous remote sensing systems are presently constituting new regimes of teleactivity for real-time surveillance and data gathering. This essay continues several ongoing projects that examine the philosophical, technological, and political ramifications of these systems...

...Tracie Morris “Rakim's Performativity” considers the influence and relevance of pioneering Rapper Rakim's influential track “Follow the Leader” through the lens of J. L. Austin's theory of performativity presented in his philosophical work How to Do Things with Words . The author reflects...

...Bruce Robbins “Do Something, Quick!” lays out some of the formal qualities of the philosophical example considered as a literary genre, the subject of the three essays that follow. This introduction takes Adam Smith’s famous imagining of a hypothetical earthquake in China, from The Theory of Moral...

...Miglena Nikolchina This essay addresses the mostly long-distance friendship between French philosopher Louis Althusser and Russian Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili as a vantage point for exploring the question why, by the end of the 1960s, critical and projective thinking in the West...

...Paul North Philosophical truth is universal; yet, if what is true for all is actually to be understood by all, an educator of unparalleled breadth and flexibility is needed. Peter Sloterdijk, German philosophical writer, cultural critic, operatic jester, with thirty years of national fame and more...

...Terry Smith Cézanne's comment, in a letter to a younger artist, “I owe you the truth in painting and I shall tell it to you,” is often cited by commentators, including other artists, exhibition curators, art historians, and philosophers. Some take it up as a pointer to the kinds of truth available...

... concept of being as a measure for other humans and as a philosophical and political justification for their dispossession, enslavement, and extermination, the very first acts of colonization. His insistence on the poststructuralists’ legacy of an antihumanist practice that desires to articulate...