In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.
Italy at the Banquet of Nations: Hegel in Politics and Philosophy -- Italy's Modernist Idealism and the Artistic Reception of Schopenhauer -- Aesthetic Decadence and Modernist Idealism: Schopenhauer's Literary-Artistic Legacy -- Avant-Garde ...
With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English.
Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world and the material world, 'Material Feminisms' presents a way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality.
With enormous implications for philosophy, the law and all areas of human interactivity, the author argues that amongst all the natural phenomena, intentional actions are unique in that they occur because they should!
A state of the art guide to meditation science and history, its facts and myths, Covers the development of meditation practices across the world, exploring how the varieties of meditation techniques were created in different cultural and ...
Providing a clear and thoughtful discussion of human suffering, Ian Wilkinson explores some of the ways in which research into social suffering might lead us to reinterpret the meaning of modern history as well as revise our outlook upon ...
Speaking both to scholars and to the continued vitality of Fanon’s ideas among today’s social movements, this book offers a rigorous and profoundly original engagement with Fanon that affirms his importance in the effort to bring about ...
W. J. Mander examines the nature of idealist ethics: the form and content of ethical belief most typically adopted by philosophical idealists.
Also included is Abraham Flexner’s 1939 essay “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge,” which originally prompted Ordine to write this book.