Le Différend

Le Différend
Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1988
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780816616114

In The Differend, Lyotard subjects to scrutiny- from the particular perspective of his notion of 'differend' (difference in the sense of dispute)- the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 362
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ISBN: 338504622X

Are the Lips a Grave?

Are the Lips a Grave?
Author: Lynne Huffer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231164173

Lynne Huffer’s ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists’ politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault’s ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray’s lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference. Through this theoretical lens, Huffer examines everyday experiences of ethical connection and failure connected to sex, including queer sexual practices, sodomy laws, interracial love, pornography, and work-life balance. Her approach complicates sexual identities while challenging the epistemological foundations of subjectivity. She rethinks ethics “beyond good and evil” without underestimating, as some queer theorists have done, the persistence of what Foucault calls the “catastrophe” of morality. Elaborating a thinking-feeling ethics of the other, Huffer encourages contemporary intellectuals to reshape sexual morality from within, defining an ethical space that is both poetically suggestive and politically relevant, both conceptually daring and grounded in common sexual experience.

Lyotard and Theology

Lyotard and Theology
Author: Lieven Boeve
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 056752311X

Lieven Boeve contextualises Lyotard's writings and approach with reference to his theological thought. By focusing on issues such as the nature of the differend within language, the sublime experience and our (in)ability to witness to the breakdowns of language and representation, Lyotard's thought provokes theology to reconsider its own foundations. Taking up issues such as a highly relevant critique of capitalism, itself vital to today's understanding of Christian praxis in a global world, Lyotard offers us a perspective by which to re-evaluate Christianity beyond its being a hegemonic discourse as it moves toward being a discourse concerned with love. Through exploring the Christian narrative as an 'open' one, Boeve aims to make use of new possibilities for theology through a renewed comprehension of Lyotard's significance for today.

Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite
Author: International Society for Phenomenology, Fine Arts, and Aesthetics. Conference Harvard Divinity School)
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2003-01-31
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781402008580

This handsomely produced volume contains 22 contributions from international scholars, which were originally presented at the 2000 Conference of the International Society for Phenomenology, Fine Arts, & Aesthetics. The papers center around the theme of gardens and include a wide range of topics of interest to phenomenologists but also, perhaps, to gardeners with a philosophical bent. A sampling of topics: Leonardo's Annunciation Hortus Conclusus and its reflexive intent; hatha yoga--a phenomenological experience of nature; the Chinese attempt to miniaturize the world in gardens; conflating and compressing time in commodified space and architecture; constructing the deconstructive landscape (the ruin aesthetic); and a phenomenological-anthropological aproach to Zen gardens. The volume is lightly indexed by name (mostly philosophers). Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Law and Practice of the Common Commercial Policy

Law and Practice of the Common Commercial Policy
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004393412

Law and Practice of the Common Commercial Policy provides a comprehensive analysis of the salient features of the European Union’s trade law and policy since the Treaty of Lisbon: legislation, case law, treaty making and institutional practice.

Plenishment in the Earth

Plenishment in the Earth
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1995-02-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791423103

This book is an ethic of inclusion leading from gender and sexual difference through the social world of race and culture to the natural world.

The Gift of Beauty

The Gift of Beauty
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1996-07-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 143841790X

Ross explores the developments in Western thought, from Plato and Aristotle through Kant and Hegel, when art was separated from science and philosophy. At the heart of the project is a reexamination of the good, found in Plato as that which makes being possible, which gives authority to knowledge and beckons to art, preserved in Levinas as infinite responsibility. The idea of the good is interpreted as nature's abundance, giving beauty and truth as gifts, calling us to respond. It gives rise to an ethics of inclusion, expressed in art.