The Dialectics Of Seeing
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The Dialectics Of Seeing
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Author : Susan Buck-Morss
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1991-07-01
The Dialectics Of Seeing written by Susan Buck-Morss and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamin's vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, Buck-Morss makes visible the conceptual structure that gives these fragments philosophical coherence. She uses images throughout the book to demonstrate that Benjamin took the debris of mass culture seriously as the source of philosophical truth. The Paris Arcades that so fascinated Benjamin (as they did the Surrealists whose "materialist metaphysics" he admired) were the prototype, the 19th century "ur-form" of the modern shopping mall. Benjamin's dialectics of seeing demonstrate how to read these consumer dream houses and so many other material objects of the time—from air balloons to women's fashions, from Baudelaire's poetry to Grandville's cartoons—as anticipations of social utopia and, simultaneously, as clues for a radical political critique. Buck-Morss plots Benjamin's intellectual orientation on axes running east and west, north and south—Moscow Paris, Berlin-Naples—and shows how such thinking in coordinates can explain his understanding of "dialectics at a standstill." She argues for the continuing relevance of Benjamin's insights but then allows a set of "afterimages" to have the last word.
The Dialectics Of Seeing Walter Benjamin And The
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Author : Susan Buck-Morss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Dialectics Of Seeing Walter Benjamin And The written by Susan Buck-Morss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
The Arcades Project
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Author : Walter Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Arcades Project written by Walter Benjamin and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.
Origin Of Negative Dialectics
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Author : Susan Buck-Morss
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1979-12
Origin Of Negative Dialectics written by Susan Buck-Morss and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-12 with History categories.
Susan Buck-Morss examines and stresses the significance of Critical Theory for young West Germ intellectuals after World War II. Looking at the differences between German and American situations during this time period, Origin of Negative Dialectics convincingly sketches the learning process that ended in antagonism. “[The Origin of Negative Dialectics] is by far the best introduction for the American reader to the complex, esoteric, and illusive structure of thought of one of the most seminal Marxian thinkers of the twentieth century. It belongs on the same shelf as Martin Jay’s history of the Frankfurt School, The Dialectical Imagination.” – Lewis A. Coser, State University of New York, Stony Brook
The Dialectics Of Art
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Author : John Molyneux
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2020-08-04
The Dialectics Of Art written by John Molyneux and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Art categories.
To the question of &lquo;what is art?&rquo;, it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly circular answer is deeply unsatisfying. In a tour de force spanning renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic to contemporary leading figures, The Dialectics of Art instead approaches its subject matter as a distinct field of creative human labour that emerges alongside and in opposition to the alienation and commodification brought about by capitalism. The pieces and individuals Molyneux examines — from Michelangelo’s Slaves to Rembrandts Jewish Bride to the vast drip paintings of Jackson Pollock – are presented as embodying the social contradictions of their times, giving art an inherently political relevance. In its relationship of creative and dialectical tension to prevailing social relationships and norms, such art points beyond the existing order of things, hinting at a potential future society not based on alienated labour in which creative production becomes the property and practice of all.
Hegel Haiti And Universal History
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Author : Susan Buck-Morss
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2009-02-22
Hegel Haiti And Universal History written by Susan Buck-Morss and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-22 with Philosophy categories.
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a “new humanism,” one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.
Melancholy Dialectics
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Author : Max Pensky
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 2001
Melancholy Dialectics written by Max Pensky and has been published by Univ of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Bereavement categories.
A new interpretation of the work of one of the major critical thinkers of the twentieth century
The Dialectics Of Liberation
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Author : David Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2015-06-09
The Dialectics Of Liberation written by David Cooper and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with Philosophy categories.
A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues. Edited by David Cooper, The Dialectics of Liberation compiles interventions from congress contributors Stokely Carmichael, Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Paul Sweezy, and others, to explore the roots of social violence. Against a backdrop of rising student frustration, racism, class inequality, and environmental degradation—a setting familiar to readers today—the conference aimed to create genuine revolutionary momentum by fusing ideology and action on the levels of the individual and of mass society. The Dialectics of Liberation captures the rise of a forceful style of political activity that came to characterize the following years.
The Art Of Reconciliation
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Author : D. Petersson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-05-14
The Art Of Reconciliation written by D. Petersson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with Art categories.
Dag Petersson offers a comprehensive critique of the philosophy that has dominated 200 years of modern thought, politics, economy, and culture. The basic question is this: why does dialectical metaphysics fail to keep what it promises? What is it about dialectics, that makes it fall into irreducibly distinct variations of itself, when all it promises is to synthesize, to reconcile and make whole what is fragmented and alien to itself? An undisciplined creativity intrinsic to completing reason comes to light through analyses of how dialectical systems begin. Every dialectical philosophy must account for its own birth, and it is at this point, when it also articulates its promise of universal synthesis, that the book discovers a desire for light-writing, or photography. Only the most immediate element light can mediate the necessary self-determination of thought at its origin. Light must begin to write. A philosophical critique of dialectics is therefore also a point of departure for a new aesthetic ontology of photography.
The Dialectics Of Friendship
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Author : Roy Porter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-02-14
The Dialectics Of Friendship written by Roy Porter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-14 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1989, The Dialectics of Friendship explores the ideals and paradoxes of friendship against the backdrop of other relationships. The book begins with an introduction to the subject of friendship in its historical and cultural setting. Following chapters explore the ideal of friendship in classical Greece, and the richness and ambiguities of friendship in the Christian tradition. The social dimensions of friendship are discussed, including among children, between men, between women, and between humans and animals, and the wider historical and political aspects of friendship are examined. The Dialectics of Friendship will appeal to those with an interest in the sociology, psychology, and history of friendship, as well as psychoanalysis, literary criticism, and classics.