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almahu_9949203541202882
Format:
1 online resource (505 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350107892
Content:
"For the past thirty years, Howard Caygill has been a distinctive and radical voice in continental philosophy. For the first time, this volume gathers together Caygill's most significant philosophical essays, the majority of which are not freely available and many of which are previously unpublished. Here, a major philosopher is at work, offering rich, rigorous and politically-engaged readings of canonical and lesser-known figures and texts. From Kant and Frantz Fanon to Herman Kahn, founder of the Hudson Institute, Caygill uncovers the untapped resources that the history of philosophy provides for contemporary thought, whilst critically pushing beyond the limits of the tradition. Divided into two parts, the first part of the collection reveals the philosophical backdrop to Caygill's acclaimed study of political resistance, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (2015), whilst the second part sees Caygill further develop his account of resistance through wide-ranging analyses of contemporary culture. Exploring numerous subjects, including Nietzsche, metaphysics, radical politics, and digital resistance, to name but a few, Force and Understanding introduces readers to the orienting themes of Caygill's thought and provides the opportunity to engage with one of the most astute, learned, and critical philosophical minds around."--
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Editor's Introduction, Stephen Howard -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE: CONDITIONS Section one: Starting points -- 1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics -- 2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx -- 3. Violence, Civility and the Predicaments of Philosophy -- 4. Politics and War: Hegel and Clausewitz -- 5. Perpetual Police? Kosovo and the Elision of Police and Military Violence -- Section two: Affirmation -- 6. The Consolation of Philosophy, or 'Neither Dionysus Nor the Crucified' -- 7. Philosophy and Cultural Reform in the Early Nietzsche 8. Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy -- 9. Under the Epicurean Skies -- 10. That Perhaps Abused Word? -- Section three: Life -- 11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene -- 12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture -- 13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure -- 14. Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary upon 'Two Things Fill the Mind' -- 15. Life and Energy Section four: Philosophy/science -- 16. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze's Biophilosophy -- 17. The Force of Kant's Opus postumum -- 18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance 19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction -- 20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological Scales Section five: Immanence -- 21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism -- 22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka's "Nature Theatre of Oklahama" -- 23. Benjamin's Natural Theology -- 24. Levinas's Silence -- 25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982 PART TWO: RESISTANCE -- 26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers -- 27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon -- 28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate -- 29. Clausewitz and Idealism -- 30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience 31. Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias -- 32. Strategic Intervention and the Digital Capacity to Resist -- 33. XR: Thinking Resistance at the End of the World -- Afterword by Jacqueline Rose.
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Caygill, Howard Force and Understanding : Writings on Philosophy and Resistance London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2020
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350107892
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