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  • Grammatology of Images

    A History of the A-Visible

    by Sigrid Weigel ...
    Translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith ...
    Series series Commonalities
    Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging.Weigel reinterprets ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • »Faith in the World«

    Post-Secular Readings of Hannah Arendt

    by Rafael Zawisza, Ludger Hagedorn, Roger Berkowitz, Agata Bielik-Robson, Milan Hanys, Martine Leibovici, James Josefson, Vivian Liska, Marci Shore0, Christina Schües1, Sigrid Weigel2 ...
    Dieses Buch greift ein zentrales, aber wenig beachtetes Thema im Werk Hannah Arendts auf: ihr ambivalentes Verhältnis zum jüdisch-christlichen Erbe. Schon in ihrer Dissertation über den Liebesbegriff bei Augustinus entwickelte sie die Hauptmomente ihrer Lesart. Arendts starkes Konzept der »Weltlichkeit« könnte gerade heute hilfreich sein für einen Ausgleich zwischen Säkularismus und dem ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Empathy

    Epistemic Problems and Cultural-Historical Perspectives of a Cross-Disciplinary Concept

    Edited by Vanessa Lux, Sigrid Weigel ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies, epistemic problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history.The authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the actions and feelings of others becomes charged with emotion and moral values associated with altruism or caregiving. They explore how the discovery ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging Freud and the Neurosciences

    Edited by Sigrid Weigel, Gerhard Scharbert ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book presents an overview of the term neuropsychoanalysis and traces its historical and scientific foundations as well as its cultural implications. It also turns its attention to some blind spots, open questions, and to what the future may hold. It examines the cooperative and conflicted relationship between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Articles from different fields investigate the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Testimony/Bearing Witness

    Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture

    Edited by Sybille Krämer, Sigrid Weigel ...
    What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is bearing witness a concept that is exclusively based in interpersonal relations? Or are there other modes of communicating or mediating to constitute a constellation of testimony?Testimony/Bearing ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Body-and Image-Space

    Re-Reading Walter Benjamin

    by Sigrid Weigel ...
    Translated by Georgina Paul ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his work has so far overlooked a crucial aspect of his thought - his use of images. Weigel shows that it ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Between Word and Image

    Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

    by Dennis J. Schmidt ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: "Probing and lucid" (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Heidegger's Black Notebooks

    Responses to Anti-Semitism

    Edited by Andrew J. Mitchell, Peter Trawny ...
    From the 1930s through the 1970s, the philosopher Martin Heidegger kept a running series of private writings, the so-called Black Notebook**s. The recent publication of the Black Notebooks volumes from the war years have sparked international controversy. While Heidegger’s engagement with National Socialism was well known, the Black Notebooks showed for the first time that this anti-Semitism was ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Herder

    Philosophy and Anthropology

    Edited by Anik Waldow, Nigel DeSouza ...
    J. G. Herder is enjoying a renaissance in philosophy and across the humanities. This book offers important new insights into the complexity and depth of his thought. This unprecedented collection fills a gap in the secondary literature, highlighting the genuinely innovative and distinctive nature of Herder's philosophy. Not only does Herder offer highly original answers to important philosophical ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow

    Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century in spite of his well-known transgressions—his complicity with National Socialism and his inability to show remorse or compassion for its victims. In The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow, Elliot R. Wolfson intervenes in a debate that has seen much attention in scholarly and popular media ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • On Being Human

    by Erich Fromm ...
    An insightful look at alienation in the modern world from the New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom .Social psychologist Erich Fromm observed the spread of alienation in the 1960s, arguing that humans who were once dynamic, creative beings were reduced to fixating on TV screens, emotionally pa... ... Read more

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