The Metaphysics Of Terror

Author : Giovanna Borradori
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226066653

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Philosophy in a Time of Terror by Giovanna Borradori Pdf

The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.

Author : Rasmus Ugilt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441170538

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The Metaphysics of Terror by Rasmus Ugilt Pdf

This groundbreaking study aims to provide a philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of terror, in particular the political reactions to it, such as public anxiety and pre-emptive wars, and to re-articulate the understanding of metaphysics through a consideration of its political implications. The book reveals that the key feature of terror is "potentiality," that is, terror is always about "what could happen" as opposed to "what is likely to happen." This notion helps broaden the scope of the investigation, as the argument spans the ontology, political psychology, political cosmology, and political theology of terror. Each chapter begins with an empirical discussion, examining such topics as the political practices in reaction to terror, the politics of fear, warfare, sovereignty, and the debates about the state of exception in relations to anti-terrorism laws. This unique examination of our political reality uncovers the axiom of terrorism, namely its "potentiality." Going beyond the scope of terrorism studies, it explains the philosophical underpinnings of terror without compromising on the empirical facts drawn from policymaking, jurisprudence and related fields.

Author : Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226450554

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Metaphysical Horror by Leszek Kolakowski Pdf

'A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan,' writes Leszek Kolakowski at the start of this endlessly stimulating book, 'must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.' For over a century, philosophers have argued that philosophy is impossible or useless, or both. Although the basic agenda dates back tot he days of Socrates, there is still disagreement about the nature of truth, reality, knowledge, good and God. This may make little practical difference to our lives, but it leaves us with a feeling of radical uncertainty described by Kolakowski as 'metaphysical horror'. Is there any way out of this cul-de-sac? This trenchant analysis confronts these dilemmas head on. Philosophy may not provide definitive answers to the fundamental questions, yet the quest itself transforms our lives. It may undermine most of our certainties, yet it still leaves room for our spiritual yearnings and religious beliefs. Kolakowski has forged a dazzling demonstration of philosophy in action. It is up to readers to take up the challenge of his arguments.

Author : Rasmus Ugilt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 1501301721

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The Metaphysics of Terror by Rasmus Ugilt Pdf

Author : Calvin L. Warren
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822371847

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Ontological Terror by Calvin L. Warren Pdf

In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for thinking through the tensions between blackness and Being. He illustrates how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing. This nothingness serves as a destabilizing presence and force as well as that which whiteness defines itself against. Thus, the function of blackness as giving form to nothing presents a terrifying problem for whites: they need blacks to affirm their existence, even as they despise the nothingness they represent. By pointing out how all humanism is based on investing blackness with nonbeing—a logic which reproduces antiblack violence and precludes any realization of equality, justice, and recognition for blacks—Warren urges the removal of the human from its metaphysical pedestal and the exploration of ways of existing that are not predicated on a grounding in being.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191516023

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Holy Terror by Terry Eagleton Pdf

Holy Terror is a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the modern day. Rather than add to the mounting pile of political studies of terrorism, Terry Eagleton offers here a metaphysics of terror with a serious historical perspective. Writing with remarkable clarity and persuasive insight he examines a concept whose cultural impact predates 9/11 by millennia. From its earliest manifestations in rite and ritual, through the French Revolution to the 'War on Terror' of today, terror has been regarded with both horror and fascination. Eagleton examines the duality of the sacred (both life-giving and death-dealing) and relates it, via current and past ideas of freedom, to the idea of terror itself. Stretching from the cult of Dionysus to the thought of Jacques Lacan, the book takes in en route ideas of God, freedom, the sublime, and the unconscious. It also examines the problem of evil, and devotes a concluding chapter to the idea of tragic sacrifice and the scapegoat. Written by one of the world's foremost cultural critics, Holy Terror is a provocative and ambitious examination of one of the most urgent issues of our time.

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135965037

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The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll Pdf

Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear his comprehensive knowledge of obscure and forgotten works, as well as of the horror masterpieces. Working from a philosophical perspective, he tries to account for how people can find pleasure in having their wits scared out of them. What, after all, are those "paradoxes of the heart" that make us want to be horrified?

Author : Francois Debrix
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317533832

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Global Powers of Horror by Francois Debrix Pdf

Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror’s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror’s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror’s production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond humanity, the book is also about horror’s own attempt at re-forming or re-creating matter, from the perspective of post-human, non-human, and inhuman fragmentation. Through several contemporary instances of dismantling of human bodies and pulverization of body parts, this book makes several interrelated theoretical contributions. It works with contemporary post-(geo)political figures of horror—faces of concentration camp dwellers, body parts of victims of terror attacks, the outcome of suicide bombings, graphic reports of beheadings, re-compositions of melted and mingled remnants of non-human and human matter after 9/11—to challenge regimes of terror and security that seek to forcefully and ideologically reaffirm a biopolitics and thanatopolitics of human life in order to anchor today’s often devastating deployments of the metaphysics of substance. Critically enabling one to see how security and terror form a (geo)political continuum of violent mobilization, utilization, and often destruction of human and non-human bodies and lives, this book will be of interest to graduates and scholars of bio politics, international relations and security studies.

Author : George Panichas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351521703

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Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art by George Panichas Pdf

Fyodor Dostoevsky's highest and most permanent achievement as a novelist lies in his exploration of man's religious complex, his world and his fate. His primary vision is to be found in his last five novels: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, A Raw Youth, and The Brothers Karamazov. This volume culminates twenty years of studying, teaching, and writing on Dostoevsky. Here George A. Panichas critically analyzes the religious themes and meanings of the author's major works. Focusing on the pervasive spiritual consciousness at play, Panichas views Dostoevsky not as a religious doctrinaire, but as a visionary whose five great novels constitute a sequential meditation on man's human and superhuman destiny.

Author : Rustom Bharucha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317744658

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Terror and Performance by Rustom Bharucha Pdf

‘This work goes where other books fear to tread. It reaches the parts other scholars might imagine in their dreams but would neither have the international reach nor the critical acumen and forensic flourish to deliver.’ Alan Read, King's College London ‘This book is not only timely. It is overdue – and it is a masterpiece unrivalled by any book I know of.’ Erika Fischer-Lichte, Freie Universität Berlin ‘The first and only book that focuses on the intersections of performance, terror and terrorism as played out beyond a Euro-American context post-9/11. It is an important work, both substantively and methodologically.’ Jenny Hughes, University of Manchester ‘A profound and tightly bound sequence of reflections ... a rigorously provocative book.’ Stephen Barber, Kingston University London In this exceptional investigation Rustom Bharucha considers the realities of Islamophobia, the legacies of Truth and Reconciliation, the deadly certitudes of State-controlled security systems and the legitimacy of counter-terror terrorism, drawing on a vast spectrum of human cruelties across the global South. The outcome is a brilliantly argued case for seeing terror as a volatile and mutant phenomenon that is deeply lived, experienced, and performed within the cultures of everyday life.

Author : Peter Wilberg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1440477663

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Event Horizon: Terror, Tantra and the Ultimate Metaphysics of Awareness by Peter Wilberg Pdf

No explanation of HOW things came to be, whether through a God or Big Bang, diminishes in any way the mystery THAT anything exists at all - even that there 'is' a God or 'was' a Big Bang. Yet as soon as we allow ourselves to wonder at this ultimate mystery, we open ourselves also to an ultimate terror - the terror of conceiving, even for a moment, the possibility of nothing existing or ever having come to be at all. Once we approach the 'black hole' of this ultimate terror and mystery we have already slipped beyond the ultimate horizon of the space-time universe of physics. Recognising this, philosopher Peter Wilberg draws on dark tantric and occult symbolism, the science of 'black holes' and the terrors portrayed in the sci-fi horror movie surrounding them ('Event Horizon') to introduce an ultimate metaphysics beyond 'being' and 'non-being' - one that reveals instead a multidimensional universe of awareness and its hidden powers.

Author : Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317175995

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Battling Terrorism by Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto Pdf

The attacks of September 11, 2001, the US response and the international community's approval of the subsequent military action represent a new paradigm in the international law relating to the use of force. Previously, acts of terrorism were seen as criminal acts carried out by private, non-governmental entities. In contrast, the September 11 attacks were regarded as an act of war which marked a turning point in international relations and law. This exceptional and timely volume examines the use of force in the war against terror. The work is based on the central theme that the use of force is visibly enrolled in a process of change and it evaluates this within the framework of the uncertainty and indeterminacy of the UN Charter regime. The status of pre-emptive self-defence in international law and how it applies to US policy towards rogue states is examined along with the use of military force, including regime change, as an acceptable trend in the fight against state-sponsored terrorism.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015008190186

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Pdf

Author : Jack G. Voller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0875801943

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The Supernatural Sublime by Jack G. Voller Pdf

"Voller reveals in Part 1 the way in which the psychological and narrative structures of the sublime, as elaborated by Edmund Burke and his contemporaries, gave Gothic fictions much of their characteristic shape and tone. He defines the Gothic mode in close readings of works by Radcliffe, Reeve, Lewis, and Brown. The Supernatural Sublime breaks new ground by establishing a classification schema for Gothic fictions, an anatomy based on the underlying structure of the sublime experience and its powerful influence on what can be called the metaphysical implications of Gothic supernaturalism." "In Part 2, Voller extends his examination of supernatural sublimity into the works of major Romantic authors on both sides of the Atlantic. He demonstrates that, while authors such as Coleridge, the Shelleys, Byron, Hawthorne, and Poe were familiar with Gothic supernaturalism, their use of the supernatural is not an adoption of Gothic conventions but a sophisticated critique of them. Influenced by Kant's idealist interpretation of sublimity, and rejecting what they understood to be the histrionic excesses of Gothic fiction, the Romantics elaborated a more psychologically astute and intellectually subtle supernaturalism that served as a foundation for later nineteenth-century supernaturalism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : James Stacey Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199751136

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The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death by James Stacey Taylor Pdf

The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role.