When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a ...great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable compromise even for peace. But just what are those limits? At what point does peace secured with compromise become unjust? Focusing attention on vitally important questions that have received surprisingly little attention, Margalit argues that we should be concerned not only with what makes a just war, but also with what kind of compromise allows for a just peace.
The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. ...Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994. This first English-language selection introduces readers to the HCDM’s wide range of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates. Contributors are: Samir Amin, Jan Otto Andersson, Konstantin Baehrens, Lutz-Dieter Behrendt, Mario Candeias, Robert Cohen, Alex Demirović, Klaus Dörre, William W. Hansen, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle, Juha Koivisto, Wolfgang Küttler, Morus Markard, Eleonore von Oertzen, Christof Ohm, Rinse Reeling Brouwer, Jan Rehmann, Thomas Sablowski, Peter Schyga, Victor Strazzeri, Peter D. Thomas, André Tosel, Michael Vester, Lise Vogel, and Victor Wallis.
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.
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.
What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the ...biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. The result is a provocative genealogy of morals that asks us to reevaluate the priority given to religion, absolute rules, and pure reason in accounting for the basis of morality.
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.
Contemporary theorists use the term “social construction” with the aim of exposing how what's purportedly “natural” is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the ...social is politically significant. The chapters in this book draw on insights from feminist and critical race theory to develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. On this interpretation, the point of saying that gender and race are socially constructed is not to make a causal claim about the origins of our concepts of gender and race, or to take a stand in the nature/nurture debate, but to locate these categories within a realist social ontology. This is politically important, for by theorizing how gender and race fit within different structures of social relations we are better able to identify and combat forms of systematic injustice. The central chapters of the book offer critical social realist accounts of gender and race. These accounts function as case studies for a broader approach that draws upon notions of ideology, practice, and social structure developed through interdisciplinary engagement with research in social science. Ideology, on the proposed view, is a relatively stable set of shared dispositions to respond to the world, often in ways that also shape the world to evoke those very dispositions. This looping of our dispositions through the material world enables the social to appear natural. Additional chapters in the book situate a critical realist approach in relation to philosophical methodology, and to debates in analytic metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
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
