What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the existing theories not even having the same subject, not answering the same question? In Actual Consciousne…
Preliminary Material /Ana Ofak and Philipp von Hilgers -- Einleitung /Ana Ofak and Philipp von Hilgers -- Für Niklas Luhmann: wie Rekursiv ist Kommunikation? /Heinz von Foerster -- Antwort /Niklas Luhmann -- Abendländische Rekursionen /Erich Hörl -- Rekursion und Wissen. zur Eme…
Nicht nur in der Mathematik wird seit den 1950ern, der Dekade der ersten Computer, mit Rekursionen gerechnet. Auch die epistemologisch orientierten Disziplinen sind dazu übergangen, die Formation neuen Wissens durch Rückgriffe auf vergangene Konstellationen aufzuarbeiten. Denn g…
Dissecting anarchist history from classic examples through contemporary occurrences, and even tying it to everyday life, this exploration collects many disparate movements into a cohesive whole to better understand anarchy in theory and praxis. The book posits modern anarchy as …
"In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on untapped sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jew…
"Any level of study within literature and culture requires an engagement with a wider scope of themes, issues and discourses, and these debates are often centred around key 'essays'. This book examines a wide range of these essays on topics such as posthumanism, racism, feminism…
Deep classics: rethinking classical reception
Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles - and has even pr…
Deep classics: rethinking classical reception
