The Allure Of Things Process And Object In Contemporary Philosophy

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Object
ISBN : 147259424X

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The Allure of Things by Roland Faber Pdf

Author : Roland Faber,Andrew Goffey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472527820

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The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy by Roland Faber,Andrew Goffey Pdf

The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy contests the view that metaphysics is something to be overcome. By focusing on process and object oriented ontology (OOO) and rejecting the privileging of human existence over the existence of non-human objects, this collection explores philosophy's concern with things themselves. Interest in Latour, Stengers, Whitehead, Harman and Meillassoux has prompted a resurgence of ontological questions outside the traditional subject-object framework of modern critical thought. This new collection consequently proposes a pragmatic and pluralist approach to 'modes of existence'. Drawing together an international range of leading scholars, The Allure of Things fully covers the similarities between OOO and process philosophy, and is an essential addition to the literature on metaphysics.

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725260702

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The Cosmic Spirit by Roland Faber Pdf

Are we more than stardust? Is the appearance of the fragile Earth in the vast universe more than an accident? Are we not children of a Spirit that pervades the dust, rejuvenates life, and embraces the ever-evolving universe? Is there a cosmic Spirit that wants us to awaken to a consciousness of universal meaning, sacred purpose, and mutual friendship with all beings? This book answers these questions with a spirituality of the numinous in our relation to the elements of the Earth in the matrix of the multiverse by taking you on a journey through nine paths and nineteen meditations of awakening. Not bound by any religion, but in deep appreciation of the religious and spiritual heritage of human encounters with the divine depth of existence in our selves and in nature, they invite you to become sojourners by engaging the most profound embodiments of the intangible Spirit by which it facilitates its own materialization in the cosmos and our spiritualization of the cosmos. Use--says this Spirit--the stardust that you are to become a spirit-faring species in an eternal journey of the cosmos to realize its ultimate motive of existence--the attraction of love!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michał Dudek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040027264

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On Flat Ontologies and Law by Michał Dudek Pdf

This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory. Associated with the emergence of new materialism in the humanities and social sciences, the elaboration of flat ontologies challenges the binarism that has maintained the separation of culture from nature, and the human from the nonhuman. Although most work in legal theory and sociolegal studies continues to adopt a non-flat, anthropocentric and immaterial take on law, the critique of this perspective is becoming more and more influential. Engaging the increasing legal interest in flat ontologies, this book offers an account of the main theoretical perspectives, and their importance for law. Covering the work of the five major theorists in the area – Gabriel Tarde, Bruno Latour, Manuel DeLanda, Karen Barad and Graham Harman – the book aims to encourage this interest, as well as to explicate the important problems of and differences between these perspectives. Flat ontologies, the book demonstrates, can offer a valuable new perspective for understanding and thinking about law. This book will appeal mainly to scholars and students in legal theory and sociolegal studies; as well as others with interests in the posthumanist turn in philosophy and social theory.

Author : Veronika Krajícková
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666942309

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Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker by Veronika Krajícková Pdf

Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker: Parallels Between Woolf’s Fiction and Process Philosophy introduces Virginia Woolf as a nondualist and process-oriented thinker whose ideas are, despite no direct influence, strikingly similar to those of Alfred North Whitehead. Veronika Krajíčková argues that in their respective fields, literature and philosophy, Woolf and Whitehead both criticized the materialist turn of their time and attempted to reattribute importance to experience and undermine long-rooted dualisms such as subject and object, the animate and the inanimate, the human and the nonhuman, or the self and the other. By erasing the gaps between these dualities, the two thinkers anticipated the poststructuralist thought with which Woolf has been anachronically associated in the last decades. Krajíčková shows that there is no need to analyze Woolf’s fiction via critical and philosophical theories that developed much later. This book demonstrates that Woolf and Whitehead’s ideas may help us adopt more ecologically friendly, selfless, intersubjective, and harmless modes of being in the present day. Both figures emphasize the intrinsic value and importance of each constituent of reality and teach us to appreciate the aesthetic values dispersed throughout our environment.

Author : Zahi Zalloua
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810137806

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Theory’s Autoimmunity by Zahi Zalloua Pdf

Engaging scholars from across humanistic fields grappling with the role and value of theory in our times, Theory's Autoimmunity argues for reclaiming theory's skepticism as a value. To cultivate theory's skeptical impulses is to embrace what Jacques Derrida has termed autoimmunity: a condition of openness to the outside—openness of the self, the community, democracy, or other ideals—that allows for change. Openness to change comes with risks, and the self-protective temptation to immunize oneself or one's community against these risks is strong. Yet without such risks, without openness to otherness, no encounter with the new, with difference, can ever take place. Without autoimmunity, theory becomes stagnant and programmatic, unable to receive and respond to the other or the event, to address, revise, and produce new meanings. Taking up the challenge of thinking theory as skepticism, with and against philosophy, this study turns to literature as an interlocutor, investigating the ways theory, like the literary works of Montaigne, Baudelaire, Stendhal, Morrison, or Duras, declines to put on the interpretive brakes, to stop reading at a point of understanding. Undoing and remaking itself, theory—those critical interpretive practices that revel in the creation and proliferation of meaning—becomes autoimmune.

Author : Michael Halewood
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474449120

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Language and Process by Michael Halewood Pdf

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He primarily draws on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, and incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, to view the world as 'in process'.

Author : Graham Harman
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781953035219

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Skirmishes by Graham Harman Pdf

Author : Murdoch Stephens
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498570886

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Critical Environmental Communication by Murdoch Stephens Pdf

How do contemporary critical thinkers find a way to work between the doubt that grounds their thinking and the knowing needed to ground emancipatory political struggles? In this overview of four contemporary thinkers’—Timothy Morton, Peter Sloterdijk, Slavoj Žižek, and Bruno Latour—approaches to critique and climate change, communication scholar Murdoch Stephens discusses and analyses the fissures, elisions, and paradoxes that inform critical theory. This book delves into how critical theory offers important insights for those interested in climate change, but also how critical theory faces challenges to its constitution when faced with issues that are both urgent and yet require a scientific rigour that is not the specialty of critique. Written from the perspective of the interdisciplinary field of environmental communication, Critical Environmental Communication: How Does Critique Respond to the Urgency of Climate Change? argues for re-orienting the field towards the tensions and possibilities drawn from these four authors.

Author : Nathalie Mitev,Jeremy Aroles,Kathleen A. Stephenson,Julien Malaurent
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030616878

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New Ways of Working by Nathalie Mitev,Jeremy Aroles,Kathleen A. Stephenson,Julien Malaurent Pdf

This volume focuses on new ways of working, and explores implications of these new practices with a particular emphasis on the place occupied by technology, materiality and bodies within contemporary working configurations. It draws together an international range of scholars to examine diverse subjects such as: the gig economy, social media as a work space, the role of materiality in living labs, managerial techniques and organizational legitimacy. Drawing on global perspectives, from France to Nigeria, this book presents a fascinating examination of the many new ways people are working, and relating to their work. Part of the esteemed Technology, Work and Globalization series, this book is valuable reading for scholars working on organizational studies, ethnography, technology management, and management more generally.

Author : Adrian Ivakhiv
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781947447875

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Shadowing the Anthropocene by Adrian Ivakhiv Pdf

A spectre is haunting humanity: the spectre of a reality that will outwit and, in the end, bury us. "The Anthropocene," or The Human Era, is an attempt to name our geological fate - that we will one day disappear into the layer-cake of Earth's geology - while highlighting humanity in the starring role of today's Earthly drama. In Shadowing the Anthropocene, Adrian Ivakhiv proposes an ecological realism that takes as its starting point humanity's eventual demise. The only question for a realist today, he suggests, is what to do now and what quality of compost to leave behind with our burial. The book engages with the challenges of the Anthropocene and with a series of philosophical efforts to address them, including those of Slavoj Zizek and Charles Taylor, Graham Harman and Timothy Morton, Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, and William Connolly and Jane Bennett. Along the way, there are volcanic eruptions and revolutions, ant cities and dog parks, data clouds and space junk, pagan gods and sacrificial altars, dark flow, souls (of things), and jazz. Ivakhiv draws from centuries old process-relational thinking that hearkens back to Daoist and Buddhist sages, but gains incisive re-invigoration in the philosophies of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead. He translates those insights into practices of "engaged Anthropocenic bodymindfulness" - aesthetic, ethical, and ecological practices for living in the shadow of the Anthropocene.

Author : Alex Wilkie,Martin Savransky,Marsha Rosengarten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134890705

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Speculative Research by Alex Wilkie,Martin Savransky,Marsha Rosengarten Pdf

Is another future possible? So called ‘late modernity’ is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events brought about by the interplay between and patterning of social–natural, techno–scientific and political-economic developments. The future has indeed become problematic. The question of how heterogeneous actors engage futures, what intellectual and practical strategies they put into play and what the implications of such strategies are, have become key concerns of recent social and cultural research addressing a diverse range of fields of practice and experience. Exploring questions of speculation, possibilities and futures in contemporary societies, Speculative Research responds to the pressing need to not only critically account for the role of calculative logics and rationalities in managing societal futures, but to develop alternative approaches and sensibilities that take futures seriously as possibilities and that demand new habits and practices of attention, invention, and experimentation.

Author : Roland Faber
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780227179987

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The Mind of Whitehead by Roland Faber Pdf

For Alfred North Whitehead, the fundamental basis of reality is connectivity; the possibility, interdependence and actualisation that defy our human desire for structure, categorisation and division. In this spirit, Professor Roland Faber combines the disparate interests of Whitehead's study - from Mathematics to Divinity, Political Philosophy to Cosmology - to trace the thematic similarities of this work, and establish their unity in the 'mind' of Whitehead. Focussing on the experience of reading Whitehead's rich text, Faber invites the reader not to search for fixed patterns but to explore the impermanence and diversity of Whitehead's ideas. The Mind of Whitehead offers the curious reader a creative exploration of a crucial twentieth-century philosopher, speaking to global concerns from a position of possibility and complexity.

Author : Bjørnar Olsen,Mats Burström,Caitlin DeSilvey,Þóra Pétursdóttir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429576096

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After Discourse by Bjørnar Olsen,Mats Burström,Caitlin DeSilvey,Þóra Pétursdóttir Pdf

After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects. The new millennium brought about serious changes to the intellectual landscape. Favoured approaches associated with the linguistic and the textual turn lost some of their currency, and were followed by a new curiosity and concern for things and their natures. Gathering contributions from archaeology, heritage studies, history, geography, literature and philosophy, After Discourse offers a range of reflections on what things are, how we become affected by them, and the ethical concerns they give rise to. Through a varied constellation of case studies, it explores ways of dealing with matters which fall outside, become othered from, or simply cannot be grasped through perspectives derived solely from language and discourse. After Discourse provides challenging new perspectives for scholars and students interested in other-than-textual encounters between people and the objects with which we share the world.