Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality
Title | Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Crispin Sartwell |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1996-07-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1438418736 |
Sartwell presents an extreme and provocative philosophy of life. He explores what happens if we love this world precisely as it is, with all of its pain, with all of its evil, with all of its bizarre and arbitrary and monstrous thereness. In a highly personal and brutally direct style, Sartwell explores the themes of transgressive sexuality, political anarchism, addiction, death, and embodiment. The author engages contemporary and historical debates in cultural criticism, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, and expresses deep suspicions about them. He asserts that scientific philosophical conceptualization is a movement toward death, a rejection of reality The author engages contemporary and historical debates in cultural criticism, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, and expresses deep suspicions about them. He asserts that scientific philosophical conceptualization is a movement toward death, a rejection of reality Moral and political values—the ethical rejection of the particular precisely from within the particular—are, Sartwell claims, an assault on human authenticity. Thus, transgression—which is described as the affirmation of embodiment through obscenity—is something we radically require.
Against the State
Title | Against the State PDF eBook |
Author | Crispin Sartwell |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 2014-02-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0791478351 |
Irreverent and incisive critique of liberal theories of the state.
Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation
Title | Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation PDF eBook |
Author | Jesse S. Cohn |
Publisher | Susquehanna University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781575911052 |
"Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation is intended to provide readers of literary criticism, art history, political philosophy, and the social sciences with a fresh perspective from which to revisit dead-end theoretical debates over concepts such as "agency," "essentialism," and "realism" - and, at the same time, to offer a new take on anarchism itself, challenging conventional readings of the tradition. The anarchism that emerges from this reinterpretation is neither a musty rationalism nor a millenarian irrationalism, but a living body of thought that points beyond the sterile antinomies of post-modern and Marxist theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Genealogical Pragmatism
Title | Genealogical Pragmatism PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Stuhr |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1997-10-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438421540 |
Drawing on the work of popular American writers, American philosophers, and Continental thinkers, this book provides a new interpretation of pragmatism and American philosophy.
American Philosophy
Title | American Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Erin McKenna |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2015-02-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1441178937 |
American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world. Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work of present-day American philosophers in the context of a history of resistance, through a philosophical tradition marked by a commitment to pluralism, fallibilism and liberation, this book tells the story of a philosophy shaped by major events that call for reflection and illustrates the ways in which philosophy is relevant to lived experience. This book presents a survey of the historical development of American philosophy, as well as coverage of key contemporary issues in America including race theory, feminism, indigenous peoples, and environmentalism and is the ideal introduction to the work of the major American thinkers, past and present, and the sheer breadth of their ideas and influence.
The American Philosopher
Title | The American Philosopher PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip McReynolds |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2015-08-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1498513166 |
Over the course of nearly a decade, Phillip McReynolds conducted a series of interviews with prominent American philosophers including, among others, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Joseph Margolis, Richard Bernstein, Bruce Wilshire, John Lachs, Richard Shusterman, and Crispin Sartwell. The American Philosopher: Dialogues on the Meaning of Life and Truth brings these interviews together, bridginga wide variety of topics both personal and professional, and ultimately addressing what it means to be an American philosopher. With interviews that are both philosophical and biographical in nature, this book will be of interest to those who specialize in pragmatism and the history of American philosophy, academics in fields such as comparative literature, history, political science, sociology, and American studies, and to anyone with an interest in “America” as an idea
Entanglements
Title | Entanglements PDF eBook |
Author | Crispin Sartwell |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2017-03-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438463898 |
A work of maximally ambitious scope with a foundation in humility, Entanglements sets out a philosophical system of the sort rarely seen over the past century. In a discipline marked by greater and greater specialization and the narrowing of increasingly insular traditions and approaches, Crispin Sartwell has spent his career engaging widely across philosophical topics and texts. Here he brings together his philosophical positions in a unified system that is coherent across the issues and subdisciplines in the field. In addition to presenting his own theories of truth, knowledge, free will, beauty, and the political state, Sartwell's criticisms of other figures and movements provide an overview of the history of philosophy. The project of presenting an overarching philosophical system is a resolutely old-fashioned one, and in undertaking it, Sartwell is not only encapsulating an extraordinarily unique and productive career but also nudging philosophy back to its broader aims of explaining the world and our place in it.