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Visconti
Through an analysis of the works of Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, García Düttmann explores the insight that it is never the real but always the possible that blocks the path to change.
Philosophy of Exaggeration
'Philosophy of Exaggeration' addresses the philosophical relevance of exaggeration & discusses key thinkers including Adorno, Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Deleuze, Derrida, Freud, Kant, Hegel, Levinas & Wittgenstein.
Between Cultures
Moving effortlessly across disciplines, this book approaches multiculturalism in the light of the struggle for recognition.
The Memory of Thought
The Memory of Thought reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's dialectical thinking, Auschwitz is the name of an incommensurable historical event that seems to put a provisional end to history as a negative totality. In Heidegger's thinking of Being, Germanien is a name inscribed in an historical mission on which the fate of Western civilization seems to depend: it thus becomes the name of a positive totality of history.
The Gift of Language
The book starts with the assumption that proper names are not just conventional linguistic marks but rather mark the singularity of language within language. Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Rosenweig all explored the question of how to conceive of a name if it entails an experience of the singularity of language. Their thoughts revolve around the language, forming a constellation that can be read as a configuration of the name. This book is composed of four texts which each follow a different thread in order to develop a conception of language as gift, as a memory and promise of the other, as a memory and promised offered to the other.
Performatives After Deconstruction
What has happened since de Man and Derrida first read Austin? How has the encounter between deconstruction and the performative affected each of these terms? In addressing these questions, this book brings together scholars whose works have been provoked in different ways by the encounter of deconstruction and the performative. Following Derrida's appeal to any rigorous deconstruction to reckon with Austin's theorems and his ever growing commitment to rethink and rewrite the performative and its multiple articulations, it is now urgent that we reflect upon the effects of a theoretical event that has profoundly marked the contemporary scene. The contributors to this book suggest various ways of re-reading the heritage and future of both deconstruction and the performative after their encounter, bringing into focus both the constitutive aporia of the performative and the role it plays within the deconstruction of the metaphysical tradition.
Work of Giorgio Agamben
This collection of essays, newly available in paperback, seeks to explore Agamben's work from philosophical and literary perspectives, thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.
United by AIDS
"The appearance of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the 1980s and its rapid spread around the world has left deep marks in society which have led to a variety of reactions and a new commitment on the part of artists and activists worldwide. United by AIDS, published in conjunction with an extensive group show on the topic of loss, remembrance, activism, and art in response to HIV/AIDS at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, sheds light on the multifaceted and complex interrelation between art, activism, and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present"--Page 4 of cover.
Derrida and Queer Theory
Coming from behind (derrière)-how else to describe a volume called "Derrida and Queer Theory"? - as if arriving late to the party, or, indeed, after the party is already over. After all, we already have Deleuze and Queer Theory and, of course, Saint Foucault. And judging by Annamarie Jagose's Queer Theory: An Introduction, in which there is not a single mention of "Derrida" (or "deconstruction") - even in the sub-chapter titled "The Post-Structuralist Context of Queer" - one would think that Derrida was not only late to the party, but was never there at all. This untimely volume, then, with wide-ranging essays from key thinkers in the field, addresses, among other things, what could be call...
The End of Art
Since Hegel, the idea of an end of art has become a staple of aesthetic theory. This book analyzes its role and its rhetoric in Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger in order to account for the topic's enduring persistence. In addition to providing a general overview of the main thinkers of post-Idealist German aesthetics, the book explores the relationship between tradition and modernity. For despite the differences that distinguish one philosopher's end of art from another's, all authors treated here turn the end of art into an occasion to thematize and to reflect on the very thing that modernism cannot or should not be: tradition. As a discourse, the end of art is one of our modern traditions.
