...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 157 of 237 The Question of Philosophy and Poiesis in the Posthistorical Age: Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics...

...Fernando Gomez Ethics Is the Original Philosophy; or, The Barbarian Words Coming from the Third World: An Interview with Enrique Dussel Fernando Gomez Translated by Fernando Gomez Some...

...Robert B. Brandom When Philosophy Paints Its Blue on Gray: Irony and the Pragmatist Enlightenment Robert B. Brandom 1. A Second Enlightenment Classical American pragmatism can be viewed as a minor, parochial philosophical...

...Gary Gutting Foucault’s Philosophy of Experience Gary Gutting Michel Foucault was always, and quite deliberately, a moving target, so he may well have demurred from the idea that these three thick volumes represent ‘‘essential...

...Xudong Zhang Duke University Press 2005 Political Philosophy and Comparison: Bourgeois Identity and the Narrative of the Universal Xudong Zhang 1. The Legitimacy of Comparison: Historical, Political, and Philosophical...

...Benedetto Fontana Duke University Press 2006 Reason and Politics: Philosophy Confronts the People Benedetto Fontana 1 This essay attempts to analyze the political thought of Leo Strauss, whose...

... of Exception ( Homo Sacer II.1 ), and The Kingdom and the Glory ( Homo Sacer II.2 ). Agamben's recent work, Profanations , is, however, not a part of that series. As its title indicates, it turns from the sacred to the profane, and in so doing reveals the most profound intentions of Agamben's philosophy...

... in the “transcendental Pétainism” of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Unless otherwise noted, all translations are our own. The Philosophy of Restoration: Alain Badiou and the Enemies of May Nina Power and Alberto Toscano...

...Helen Small The standard claim made for literary examples in moral philosophy is that they assist moral reasoning by offering appropriately complex descriptions of the conditions under which moral decisions are made or might plausibly be made. This essay offers a critical examination of that claim...

... rights for boundary 2, and sadly he leaves that unfinished along with his much- anticipated study of George Eliot. Kant’s Kiss: Reflections on the Philosophy of Lifestyle Eric O. Clarke Style is not the man...

..., and generic humanity. With the theme of compression in hand, this essay offers an alternative reading of Stiegler's aesthetic theory on the grounds that it is not yet compressive enough. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 compression philosophy metaphysics abstraction technology References...

...Yi Feng Abstract As a prominent representative figure of American Language poetry, Charles Bernstein has incorporated many themes concerning “nothingness” into his poetry. Contrary to the traditional Western philosophy that defines the concept of “nothingness” as meaninglessness and agnosticism...

...Runa Bandyopadhyay Abstract Charles Bernstein's pataquericalism is not just a poetics but a philosophy of life, a leftist way to wrench freedom from authority to recognize the actual face of reality that toggles us with hope and despair, to explore hitherto undreamed regions of the mind in order...

... in German philosophy, and their effectiveness is evaluated. Absolute Teacher, Sloterdijk Paul North If we are living in a period of epigonal theory, as Anthony Adler (2015) has recently written, then we have the task somehow from within...

... and Translation Bureau of the Communist Party of China, who has written extensively on questions of economics and philosophy. The dialogue was initiated at the invitation of Professor Li when Professor Arif Dirlik of the Chinese University of Hong Kong was a visiting scholar with the Contemporary Marxism...

... of literalism has long been exploded by various branches of philosophy and literary-cultural theory. The fundamentalists posit a primordial—and mythical—“literal” meaning of the Qur'an that has never in fact been articulated. The so-called fundamentalists wish to ignore both history and the necessity...

...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...

...Dennis Tenen The Infinite Monkey Theorem (IMT) is a familiar trope (involving monkeys and typewriters), meant to explore the limits of randomly generated composition. In this essay, I draw a brief genealogy of the trope in philosophy and in fiction, discuss its relevance to several major...

... defense of Vedic monotheism, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s efforts at using modern disciplinary knowledge (history, philosophy, science, aesthetics) to formulate a system of Hindu ethics and to establish Krishna as a singular messianic figure like Christ or Buddha, or a later moment in Savarkar’s time...

...David Simpson The vocabulary of fear-terror has been confused and confusing throughout its expression in the classical and modern languages, whether in literature, in aesthetics, or in political science. As such, it is unlikely ever to be tamed by the rigors of philosophy, with its aspiration...