Derrida: Profanations

Derrida: Profanations
Title Derrida: Profanations PDF eBook
Author Patrick O'Connor
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 218
Release 2010-07-08
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1441181709

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Knowledge and Profanation

Knowledge and Profanation
Title Knowledge and Profanation PDF eBook
Author Martin Mulsow
Publisher BRILL
Pages 375
Release 2019-06-17
Genre History
ISBN 9004398937

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Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions – occasionally with good reason. In the history of knowledge of religion and profanation unintended consequences often play a decisive role. Can too much knowledge of religion be harmful? Could the profanation of a foreign religion turn out to be a double-edged sword? How much profanating knowledge of other religions could be tolerated in a premodern world? In eleven contributions, internationally renowned scholars analyze cases of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors. Contributors are: Asaph Ben-Tov, Ulrich Groetsch, Andreas Mahler, Karl Morrison, Martin Mulsow, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Wolfgang Spickermann, Riccarda Suitner, John Woodbridge, Azzan Yadin, and Holger Zellentin.

Profanations

Profanations
Title Profanations PDF eBook
Author Giorgio Agamben
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 71
Release 2020-10-20
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1942130562

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The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our times. In ten essays, Agamben rethinks approaches to a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation between genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes addressed here attest to the very creativity of Agamben’s singular mode of thought and his persistent pursuit to grasp the act of witnessing, sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering — the talking cricket in Pinocchio; “helpers” in Kafka’s novels; pictorial representations of the Last Judgment, of anonymous female faces, and of Orson Wells’s infamous object of obsession Rosebud. “In Praise of Profanity,” the central essay of this small but dense book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation, the concept of profanation — as both the “return to common usage” and “sacrifice” — reorients perceptions of how power, consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. In short, Agamben provides not only a new and potent theoretical model but also a writerly style that itself forges inescapable links between literature, politics, and philosophy.

Lectures on the Will to Know

Lectures on the Will to Know
Title Lectures on the Will to Know PDF eBook
Author M. Foucault
Publisher Springer
Pages 309
Release 2013-04-09
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1137044861

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In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.

Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge. [With] Supp

Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge. [With] Supp
Title Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge. [With] Supp PDF eBook
Author Encyclopaedia Perthensis
Publisher
Pages 716
Release 1816
Genre
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge

Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge
Title Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Encyclopaedia Perthensis
Publisher
Pages 770
Release 1806
Genre
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CtEU

CtEU
Title CtEU PDF eBook
Author Maarten Simons
Publisher Universitaire Pers Leuven
Pages 209
Release 2011
Genre Education
ISBN 9058678741

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The university is an institution that goes back to the Middle Ages. As universitas magistrorum et scholarium, the university was a community of scholars and students gathered around books and preoccupied with study and the search for truth. What is the role of the university today? The meanings of teaching, study, and research have changed. Screens are replacing books, online learning environments are replacing lecture halls, and students are becoming learners. In the context of a growing emphasis on innovation and development, competition among institutions, and the privatization of knowledge, the role of communities of scholars and students is changing. Some argue that the university is entering a new phase; others claim that we face the end of the university. Curating the European University features projects involving new ways of publishing, alternative organizations of departments, proposals for open access and open source, and university architecture and accessibility; it offers a unique contribution to the public debate on the role of the university.