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Rising in Words is a book replete with new ideas to reform the old-to reorient, to challenge, to provoke thought, to persuade, and to educate. Here is philosophy that matters. Original thought, incisive social commentary, methodical analysis, and creative inspiration come alive in nine high-impact works, covering topics from the meaning of Progress to the impact of history, from the decline of intellectualism to the future of humanity.
A translation of the essay 'On Promethean Shame' by Günther Anders with a comprehensive introduction and analysis of his work.
This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography and Anthropocene studies.
In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan explore the process of fictioning in contemporary art through three focal points: performance fictioning, science fictioning and machine fictioning.
Examining the under-theorized relationship between revolution and fascism, this book outlines a politics of resistance to these forms of domination. Through an examination of the psychic conditions created by integrated world capitalism, as well as by the revolutionary projects that oppose this form of financial and social organization, Anthony Faramelli identifies the limits of revolutionary thinking. In doing so he argues that revolutionary projects inevitably reproduce the same organization of life and structures of control as capitalism. Following its analysis of revolution and fascism, this book argues for a way out of our current political stasis through the development of a philosophically informed practice of resistance termed 'assemblage politics'. Drawing on the resistant philosophies developed by Deleuze and Guattari, Howard Caygill's defiant philosophy, and the Zapatista insurgents, the form of resistance proposed is marked by a structural fluidity that allows it to avoid being captured by capitalism's repressive structures. Enabling a better understanding of the current social-political landscape, and providing a fuller context of the political necessity to move away from notions of revolution, this book is relevant to those interested in postcolonial theory and Latin American politics, political philosophy and the growing field of resistance studies.
Subversive Spirituality is a gathering together of articles written by Eugene Peterson over the past twenty-five years. Made up of occasional pieces, short biblical studies, poetry, pastoral readings and interviews, this book reflects on the overlooked facets of the spiritual life. Peterson captures the epiphanies of life with the pleasing pastoral style and inspiring depth of insight for which he is well known. Peterson describes his book this way: "The gathering of articles and essays, poems and conversations, is a kind of kitchen midden of my noticings of the obvious in the course of living out the Christian life in the vocational context of pastor, writer, and professor. The randomness and repetitions and false starts are rough edges that I am leaving as is in the interests of honesty. Spirituality is not, by and large, smooth. I do hope, however, that they will be found to be 'freshly phrased.'"
Fifteen important papers about Hegel covering forty-five years of work by one of America's most prominent Hegel scholars: 1. "What Marx Could ... and Should Have Learned from Hegel" (1974) 2. "Hegel and the Marxist-Leninist Critique of Religion" and "Reply to Commentators" (1970) 3. "Present, Past, and Future in the Writings of Alexander Herzen" (1990) 4. "The Use and Abuse of Hegel by Nietzsche and Marx" (1989) 5. "Hegel and Solovyov" (1974) 6. "The Existentialist Rediscovery of Hegel and Marx" (1971) 7. "Concept and Concrescence: An Essay in Hegelian-Whiteheadian Ontology" (1986) 8. "Some Recent Reinterpretations of Hegel's Philosophy" (1964) 9. "Gustav G. Shpet as Interpreter of Hegel" (1999) 10. "The Hegelian Roots of S.L. Frank's Ethics and Social Philosophy" (1994) 11. "Lukács's Use and Abuse of Hegel and Marx" (1987) 12. "Pierre Macherey's Hegel ou Spinoza" (1990) 13. "The Dialectic of Action and Passion in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit" (1970) 14. "Life as Ontological Category: A Whiteheadian Note on Hegel" (1980) 15. "Shpet as Translator of Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes" (2009)
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so. By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was --and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.
