Resistance Flight Creation

Author : Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0801486459

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Resistance, Flight, Creation by Dorothea Olkowski Pdf

Thirteen women at the forefront of philosophy locate new feminist points of view within the discipline by rigorously engaging works of contemporary French philosophy. In so doing, they both transform the standard practices of the field and carve out new territory. These writers amplify the work of feminist philosophers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Sarah Kofman in ways that are both stylistically and substantively creative. They also appropriate for radical feminist use the works of male philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Paul Sartre.The essays illustrate the manner in which feminist philosophers bypass traditional methodology in favor of a disciplinary freedom characterized by fluid methodologies--best exemplified in Beauvoir's work--and by the employment of imaginative forms, including the autobiographical and the poetic. The modes of inquiry used here range variously from psychoanalysis and existentialism to deconstruction, post-structuralism, and newly resurgent phenomenology. This volume also contains a comprehensive bibliography of feminist thinkers who are enacting French philosophy in English, German, and French.

Author : Stefan Herbrechter,Ivan Callus,Manuela Rossini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317198277

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European Posthumanism by Stefan Herbrechter,Ivan Callus,Manuela Rossini Pdf

In literary studies and beyond, ‘theory’ and its aftermaths have arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions, publishers, journals, and academics. Yet the influence of theory in its Anglo-American forms has remained reliant on Continental European ideas. Similar patterns can be discerned within the latest theoretical paradigm – posthumanism. European ideas influence posthumanism’s challenge to established understandings of humanism, anthropomorphism, and anthropocentrism, which is characterised by the increased urgency and proliferation of questions such as ‘What does it mean to be human?’ and ‘What is the relationship between humans and their nonhuman others (machines, animals, plants, the inorganic, gods, systems, and various figures of liminality, from ghosts to angels, from cyborgs to zombies)?’ European Posthumanism examines the histories and geographies of posthumanism and looks at the genealogies which have been at work in the rise of posthumanist thought and culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Author : Julianne Lynch,Julie Rowlands,Trevor Gale,Andrew Skourdoumbis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317277309

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Practice Theory and Education by Julianne Lynch,Julie Rowlands,Trevor Gale,Andrew Skourdoumbis Pdf

Practice Theory and Education challenges how we think about ‘practice’, examining what it means across different fields and sites. It is organised into four themes: discursive practices; practice, change and organisations; practising subjectivity; and professional practice, public policy and education. Contributors to the collection engage and extend practice theory by drawing on the legacies of diverse social and cultural theorists, including Bourdieu, de Certeau, Deleuze and Guattari, Dewey, Latour, Marx, and Vygotsky, and by building on the theoretical trajectories of contemporary authors such as Karen Barad, Yrjo Engestrom, Andreas Reckwitz, Theodore Schatzki, Dorothy Smith, and Charles Taylor. The proximity of ideas from different fields and theoretical traditions in the book highlight key matters of concern in contemporary practice thinking, including the historicity of practice; the nature of change in professional practices; the place of discursive material in practice; the efficacy of refiguring conventional understandings of subjectivity and agency; and the capacity for theories of practice to disrupt conventional understandings of asymmetries of power and resources. Their juxtaposition also points to areas of contestation and raises important questions for future research. Practice Theory and Education will appeal to postgraduate students, academics and researchers in professional practice and education, and scholars working with social theory. It will be of particular interest to those who wish to move beyond the limiting configurations of practice found in contemporary neoliberal, new managerialist and narrow representationalist discourses.

Author : Rajeshwari S. Vallury
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442691094

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Surfacing the Politics of Desire by Rajeshwari S. Vallury Pdf

A particular model of masculine desire has traditionally been evoked in an effort to understand the subordinate role of women in male-authored fiction. Because of this, the belief that male-authored texts are unfailingly built upon the denial of feminine difference has come to dominate many aspects of literary studies. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire re-examines the "myths" of masculine desire in order to challenge this premise, placing literature at the centre of recent feminist debates over the ontology and politics of sexual difference. Citing examples of textual resistance to analytical feminist thought, Rajeshwari S. Vallury argues that literature is expressive of desires that are not always configured in terms of oppression or the denial of difference. In other words, a particular politics of reading obscures the multiplicity of desire that literature is capable of affirming and risks sacrificing the possibilities of both literature and desire. Through a re-evaluation of the sexual politics practiced by nineteenth-century male writers such as Balzac, Gautier, and Maupassant, Vallury moves towards a reconfiguration of the relationship between aesthetics and politics. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire calls into question dominant feminist approaches to the literary representation of gender. Enlisting the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, Vallury calls for a different method of reading, one based on a deeper understanding of the politics of literature.

Author : James Samuelson,Henry Lawson,William Sweetland Dallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106275308

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The Popular Science Review by James Samuelson,Henry Lawson,William Sweetland Dallas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3080913

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The Popular Science Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ellen Mortensen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739114670

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Sex, Breath, and Force by Ellen Mortensen Pdf

Provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference, taking into account shifts in feminist thought, post-humanist theories, and queer studies. This collection of essays offers insights into the question of sexual difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology.

Author : Helen A. Fielding,Dorothea E. Olkowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253030115

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Feminist Phenomenology Futures by Helen A. Fielding,Dorothea E. Olkowski Pdf

Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of their field and chart its political and ethical course in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the feminist body in health and ethics, these essays affirm the base of the discipline as well as open new theoretical spaces for work that bridges bioethics, social identity, physical ability, and the very nature and boundaries of the female body. Entanglements with thinkers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, and Arendt are evident and reveal new directions for productive philosophical work. Grounded in the richness of the feminist philosophical tradition, this work represents a significant opening to the possible futures of feminist phenomenological research.

Author : Morny Joy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0719055237

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Divine Love by Morny Joy Pdf

Religious themes have permeated Luce Irigary's thought from the beginning, but this book is the only major study of this dimension of her work -- both her rejection of traditional western religions, and her recent explorations of eastern religions.

Author : Mandana Limbert
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804774604

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In the Time of Oil by Mandana Limbert Pdf

Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation following the discovery of oil, and how they now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion. Focusing on shifting structures of governance and new forms of sociality as well as on the changes brought by mass schooling, piped water, and the fracturing of close ties with East Africa, Mandana Limbert shows how personal memories and local histories produce divergent notions about proper social conduct, piety, and gendered religiosity. With close attention to the subtleties of everyday life and the details of archival documents, poetry, and local histories, Limbert provides a rich historical ethnography of oil development, piety, and social life on the Arabian Peninsula.

Author : Nestor M. Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317184638

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Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships by Nestor M. Davidson Pdf

With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention on this critical need, as leading experts on affordable housing law and policy come together to address key issues of concern and to suggest appropriate responses for future action. Focusing in particular on how best to understand and implement the joint work of public and private actors in housing, this book considers the real estate aspects of affordable housing law and policy, access to housing, housing finance and affordability, land use, housing regulation and housing issues in a post-Katrina context. Filling a critical gap in the scholarly literature available, this book will be of particular interest to policy-makers, academics, lawyers and students of housing, land use, real estate, property, community development and urban planning

Author : Dorothea E. Olkowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253001146

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Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn by Dorothea E. Olkowski Pdf

A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to the study of consciousness: “Beautifully written, engaging throughout, and captivating” (Claire Colebrook, The Pennsylvania State University). What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that mathematics itself—the historic link between science and philosophy—plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields. Focusing on language, its usage and expression of worldview, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.

Author : Darrell Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135013691

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Traditions of Systems Theory by Darrell Arnold Pdf

The term ‘systems theory’ is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy. What unites each of these traditions of systems theory is a shared focus on general features of systems and their fundamental importance for diverse areas of life. Yet there are considerable differences among these traditions, and each tradition has developed its own methodologies, journals, and forms of anaylsis. This book explores this terrain and provides an overview of and guide to the traditions of systems theory in their considerable variety. The book draws attention to the traditions of systems theory in their historical development, especially as related to the humanities and social sciences, and shows how from these traditions various contemporary developments have ensued. It provides a guide for strains of thought that are key to understanding 20th century intellectual life in many areas.

Author : Lydia Rainford
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789042016071

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She Changes by Intrigue by Lydia Rainford Pdf

Covers gender studies, continental philosophy, critical theory.

Author : Joanne Faulkner
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780821443293

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Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy by Joanne Faulkner Pdf

Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche’s reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identification that these readers form with Nietzsche’s texts is an enactment of the kind of identity-formation described in Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. This investment of their subjectivity guides their understanding of Nietzsche’s project, the revaluation of values. Not only does this work make a provocative contribution to Nietzsche scholarship, but it also opens in an original way broader philosophical questions about how readers come to be invested in a philosophical project and how such investment alters their subjectivity.