Through an interpretation of Castoriadis' elucidation of the fundamental connections between time, history and society, this book argues that Castoriadis' notion of radical autonomous thinking, the work of political activists and philosophers in creating new social forms, presup…
Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity
by Benjamin, Andrew E., Rice, Charles
fromAnamnesis
Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity
by Benjamin, Andrew E., Rice, Charles
fromAnamnesis
Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remai…
Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity
by Benjamin, Andrew E., Rice, Charles
fromAnamnesis
Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remai…
Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity
by Benjamin, Andrew E., Rice, Charles
fromAnamnesis
Table of Contents AESTHETICS and PHILOSOPHY Henry Sussman Booking Benjamin: The Fate of a Medium Winfried Menninghaus On the ̀vital significance of Kitsch. Walter Benjamins Politics of ̀bad taste Michael Mack Modernity as an unfinished Project: Benjamin and Political Romanticism R…
"The Mathematics of Novelty: Badious Minimalist Metaphysics tackles the issue of philosophical materialism in Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou, enquiring after the source and nature of the novelty that both philosophers of multiplicity claim to discover in the objective world. In…
Sam Gillespie's The Mathematics of Novelty presents a new account of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze, identifying conceptual impasses in their philosophical projects and proposing a way through by recourse to the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan.
This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and bi…