La philosophie politique de Claude Lefort (qui a enseigné à l’université de Caen de 1967 à 1971) est fortement ancrée dans le XXe siècle. Elle s’est nourrie de la pensée de nombreux auteurs, à ...commencer par celle de Maurice Merleau-Ponty dont il est l’héritier intellectuel. Elle s’est aussi inspirée de la sociologie et de l’anthropologie. Le dialogue ainsi instauré se poursuit aujourd’hui avec cet ouvrage qui rassemble des interlocuteurs issus de différentes disciplines. Il pose la question de l’héritage actuel de Lefort : dans quelle mesure une pensée qui a tant apporté à la compréhension du siècle dernier peut-elle encore éclairer « les ténèbres » du monde qui lui succèdent ? Différents spécialistes internationaux de l’œuvre, philosophes, sociologues ou anthropologues, de différentes générations et influencés par lui, reprennent ici les thèmes principaux de sa réflexion : le politique, la démocratie vs le totalitarisme, la bureaucratie ; ainsi que la lecture de ses auteurs de référence.
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Cultureexamines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions ...of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that have not been fully accounted for in critical readings of the period's philosophical, scientific, or literary representations of animals. Where such prior readings have focused on the role of reason in debates about human exceptionalism, this book turns instead to a series of cultural sites in which we find animal and human bodies sharing environments, mutually transforming and defining one another's lives. To uncover the animal body's role in anatomy, eroticism, architecture, labor, and consumption, Karen Raber analyzes canonical works including More'sUtopia, Shakespeare'sHamletandRomeo and Juliet, and Sidney's poetry, situating them among readings of human and equine anatomical texts, medical recipes, theories of architecture and urban design, husbandry manuals, and horsemanship treatises. Raber reconsiders interactions between environment, body, and consciousness that we find in early modern human-animal relations. Scholars of the Renaissance period recognized animals' fundamental role in fashioning what we call "culture," she demonstrates, providing historical narratives about embodiment and the cultural constructions of species difference that are often overlooked in ecocritical and posthumanist theory that attempts to address the "question of the animal."
In this groundbreaking book, David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually ...understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé.
The history and theory of the total work of art pose a whole series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts, and cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism.
In a major departure from the existing literature David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary and a German aesthetic, which interrelate across the whole epoch of European modernism, culminating in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890s forward.
Die Ästhetik der Ruinen kennzeichnet eine Lust am Paradoxen. Zwischen Natur und Kultur, Erbauung und Zerstörung, Melancholie und Hoffnung, Vergangenheit und Zukunft erscheinen die Ruinen als Spuren ...der Zeit im Raum der Gegenwart ihrer ästhetischen Begegnung. Kevin Bücking zeigt, inwiefern die Ästhetik der Ruinen und des Ruinösen in einem besonderen Zusammenspiel aus leiblich-sinnlichen Erfahrungen und begrifflichen Reflexionen besteht. In Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichen ästhetischen Medien wie Malerei, Fotografie, Film, Computerspiel und Virtual Reality wird ersichtlich: Die Faszination an Ruinen und Ruinösem ist als ein atmosphärisches Reflexionsgeschehen zu verstehen.
What is »justice« from the perspective of contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy? Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach, open to different philosophical traditions, and seeks to decenter ...Western notions of normativity. She focuses on two thinkers, namely the feminist Fatima Mernissi (d.2015) and Mohammed Arkoun (d.2010), a well-known critic of hegemony and orthodoxy. She situates their thinking within current debates among Arab thinkers and brings their ideas into dialog with Western political philosophy. This study thus challenges stereotypes about the Arab-Islamic world by discussing postcolonial theories of gender justice, political freedom, and religion.
Sous couleur de jouer : la formule est de Claude Lévi-Strauss. Elle donne à croire que la conduite ludique dissimule sa véritable essence. Que fait celui dont on dit qu’il joue ? Au départ de ce ...livre, il y a le refus de prendre le jeu pour quelque chose qui va de soi, pour une manière d’être et de faire immédiatement abordable et déchiffrable : l’intention de le considérer plutôt comme une attitude mentale, une aventure intérieure presque impossible à saisir, que l’on ne parvient à identifier, à désigner, à décrire qu’au moyen de mots. Nul ne se comprend, ne se fait comprendre qu’en passant par des façons de dire (et de penser) tirées de l’expérience commune. La Psyché de Pierre Corneille, dans son trouble, découvre cette évidence : Et je dirais que je vous aime, Seigneur, si je savais ce que c’est que d’aimer. Ainsi, le joueur ne peut dire qu’il joue, ne peut dire s’il joue – et d’abord ne peut jouer qu’à la condition de savoir ce que c’est que le jeu. Rencontrée en cet étrange détour, l’idée de Jeu relève plus d’une approche anthropologique que d’une élucidation d’ordre psychologique. Quand on s’attache à traiter de l’indicible, ne convient-il pas, au moins pour commencer, de prêter attention à ce qui s’en dit ? Publié initialement par José Corti en 1989, épuisé depuis plusieurs années, il était urgent de rééditer cet ouvrage fondamental de Jacques Henriot, permettant tout autant de penser le jeu que de critiquer des pensées trop rapides pour analyser ce qui fait jeu et, peut-être plus, le jouer.
h4Offers a new systematic account of the philosophical potential of Saint Paul's letters/h4ulliShows the present-day philosophical importance of the letters of the founder of Christianity/liliArgues ...that important ontological problems concerning dualism, nihilism and the event appear in an unexpected light when read through a Pauline lens/liliShows a new philosophical appraisal of the Pauline conception of faith in terms of an art of living/liliOffers a new systematic approach to the intriguing present-day philosophical turn to the Letters of Saint Paul in the works of Heidegger, Taubes, Badiou, Agamben and Zizek/liliDiscusses how Saint Paul allows philosophers to rethink the notions of law and community giving rise to a new type of political philosophy/li/ulpThe re-examination of Saint Paul's letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today./ppIn discussion with a range of authors contributing to this movement, including Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, and Taubes, Gert-Jan van der Heiden offers a new and systematic account of the philosophical potential of these letters. He does so by uncovering a dialectic of exception, which revolves around the Pauline notions of the outcast and the spirit./ppAgainst a general tendency to understand the significance of Paul in politico-theological terms alone, van der Heiden focuses on the ontological potential of Saint Paul's letters by elucidating what they imply for our thinking about (non-)beings, world, event, time, exception and spirit. Ultimately, he shows how this dialectic implies a new understanding of being and thinking and gives rise to a new art of living, both ethically and politically./p
