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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dimitris vardoulakis”
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  • The Ruse of Techne

    Heidegger’s Magical Materialism

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities like authenticity, poetry, and thinking—in short, the ineffectual—are critical for Heidegger as they offer the only path to the truth of being throughout his work.By unearthing the source of the conception of non ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Spinoza, the Epicurean

    Authority and Utility in Materialism

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series Spinoza Studies

    $104.99 USD

  • Freedom from the Free Will

    On Kafka's Laughter

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Brings Kafka's fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.Many of Kafka's narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the Metamorphosis, and the land surveyor in The Castle is stuck in the village unable either to leave or to gain access to the castle. Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Kafka constructs these plots of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Sovereignty and Its Other

    Toward the Dejustification of Violence

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series Commonalities
    In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which violence is justified. Vardoulakis shows how it is possible to deconstruct the various justifications of violence. Such dejustifications can take place ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Spinoza’s Authority Volume I

    Resistance and Power in Ethics

    Edited by A. Kiarina Kordela, Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
    Spinoza's political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present.Spinoza's Authority Volume I: Resistance and Power in Ethics makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Politics of Nothing

    On Sovereignty

    Edited by Clare Monagle, Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what happens to the political when considered in the frame of the productive potential of the nothing? The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Stasis Before the State

    Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series Commonalities
    This book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. Within this structure, to resist sovereignty is to reproduce the logic of exclusion characteristic of sovereignty.In contrast ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Spinoza's Authority Volume II

    Resistance and Power in the Political Treatises

    Edited by A. Kiarina Kordela, Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
    Spinoza's political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present. Spinoza's Authority Volume II makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception and utilization of Spinoza's ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Sparks Will Fly

    Benjamin and Heidegger

    Edited by Andrew Benjamin, Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.Despite being contemporaries, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger never directly engaged with one another. Yet, Hannah Arendt, who knew both men, pointed out common ground between the two. Both were concerned with the destruction of metaphysics, the development of a new way of reading and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Doppelganger

    Literature's Philosophy

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Philosophy and Kafka

    by Paul Alberts, Ronald Bogue, Chris Danta, Paul Haacke, Rainer Nagele, Brian O'Connor, Andrew R. Russ, Peter Schwenger, Kevin W. Sweeney, Dimitris Vardoulakis, Isak Winkel Holm ...
    The relationship of philosophy with Kafka’s oeuvre is complex. It has been argued that Kafka’s novels and stories defy philosophic extrapolation; conversely, it has also been suggested that precisely the tendency of Kafka’s writings to elude discursive solution is itself a philosophical tendency, one that is somehow contributing to a wiser relationship of human beings with language. These matters ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Truth and Truthfulness

    An Essay in Genealogy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine.Modern culture exhibits two ... Read more

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