Materialismus

Maintenant la finitude: peut-on penser l'absolu?

by Bitbol, Michel

fromBibliothèque des savoirs

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"Depuis plusieurs années, les "nouveaux réalismes" sont au coeur d'un vif débat philosophique. Ce livre y prend part en faisant la critique de l'une de leurs principales variétés, le "matérialisme spéculatif" de Quentin Meillassoux (auteur, en 2006, de Après la finitude). Il s'o…

The spectre of capital: idea and reality

by Arthur, Christopher J.

fromHistorical materialism book series

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"What is money? What is capital? The Spectre of Capital tackles such fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level. It argues that the modern world is ruled by a 'spectre', the spectre of capital. This insight is rooted in an original combination of the ideas of Marx and H…

The schema of the theory of reification

by Hiromatsu, Wataru, Katsumori, Makoto

fromHistorical materialism book series

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"Hiromatsu argues that the change from Hegel's theory of self-alienation to the concept of reification is crucial in establishing a new relational worldview which is still relevant today. Amongst other topics, his discussion of the understanding of society sees such as a relatio…

Ownership and appropriation

by Strang, Veronica

fromASA monographs

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"In a world of finite resources, expanding populations, and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatised, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating confli…

Making things international

by Salter, Mark B.

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"Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and the international through the lens of objects. It represents the first substan…

Making things international

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"Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and the international through the lens of objects. It represents the first substan…

Aesthesis and perceptronium: on the entanglement of sensation, cognition, and …

by Wilson, Alexander

fromPosthumanities

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A new speculative ontology of aesthetics. In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience, cognition, organism, and matter.…

Aesthesis and perceptronium: on the entanglement of sensation, cognition, and …

by Wilson, Alexander

fromPosthumanities

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A new speculative ontology of aesthetics. In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience, cognition, organism, and matter.…

Intellectual and manual labour: a critique of epistemology

by Sohn-Rethel, Alfred

fromHistorical materialism book series

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"Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the major writers of the Frankfurt School, with ongoing relevance to current debates about value, abstraction, and domination, Sohn-Rethel's ideas…

The incorporeal: ontology, ethics, and the limits of materialism

by Grosz, Elizabeth A.

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The Stoics, materialism, and the incorporeal -- Spinoza, substance, and attributes -- Nietzsche and Amor Fati -- Deleuze and the plane of immanence -- Simondon and the preindividual -- Ruyer and an embryogenesis of the world

Macrosociology: four modern theorists

by Elwell, Frank W.

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Social theorists dwell on the canonical works of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim but little on the theories of the major contemporary macrotheorists. This book fills this gap with a focus on the work of four modern theorists who have taken on the larger questions spawned by classical …

Macrosociology: four modern theorists

by Elwell, Frank W.

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Social theorists dwell on the canonical works of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim but little on the theories of the major contemporary macrotheorists. This book fills this gap with a focus on the work of four modern theorists who have taken on the larger questions spawned by classical …