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The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in Mulla Sadra

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Christian Jambet

Zone Books, 2006

The Act of Being: Metaphysics, Religion, and Politics.
Christian Jambet is his book The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in Mulla Sadra, elaborates on some of the central concepts of the Iranian Shi'ite philosopher Mulla Sadra. An enigmatic figure of the Persian Islamic world, Mulla Sadra's views could be described as a philosophy influnenced by Aristotle and Avicenna (Ibn Sina), obviosly based on Qur'anic revelation and Shi'ite world view. ...

Aminadab (French Modernist Library)
Maurice Blanchot

Bison Books, 2002

The world of Aminadab , Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction of power, authority, and hierarchy. The novel opens when Thomas, upon seeing a woman gesture to him from a window of a large boarding house, enters the building and slowly becomes embroiled in its inscrutable workings. Although Thomas is ...

French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States

1 review
Francois Cusset

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008

A transformation of U.S. intellectual life or merely a surface reading?
If someone was not aware of the controversy surrounding the works of philosophers and literary critics going by the names of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, Michel Foucault, and Alain Badiou and decided to read samples of their work, it might be interesting to see if such a reader would find them as "radical" as they are sometimes portrayed in both the ...

Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

University of Illinois Press, 2007

This volume collects and translates Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s studies of Heidegger, written and revised between 1990 and 2002. All deal with Heidegger’s relation to politics, specifically through Heidegger’s interpretations of the poetry of Hölderlin. Lacoue-Labarthe argues that it is through Hölderlin that Heidegger expresses most explicitly his ideas on politics, his nationalism, and the importance of myth in his thinking, ...

Map of Death Valley National Monument, Trona, Wildrose, Stovepipe Wells, Furnace Creek, Scotty's Castle, ...
Kym Guide

Hennessy Communications, 2008

Map of Death Valley National Monument, Trona, Wildrose, Stovepipe Wells, Furnace Creek, Scotty's Castle, Darwin, Panamint Springs, Beatty, Lathrop Wells, Death Valley Junction, Shoshone, Tecopa Hot Springs, Baker, California, Nevada: Kym's Guide #63 (2008 Printing, Number Sixty-Three). ISBN 0863854095. EAN 9780863854095.

The Ground of the Image (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Fort

Fordham University Press, 2005

” The Ground of Image offers more recent and more focused reflections on the nature of representation and art, especially painting.” — Bookforum If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as ...

The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
Nicole Loraux

Zone Books, 2001

Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call forâ€”-if not inventâ€”-amnesty. They agree to forget the unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis . More precisely, what they agree to deny is that stasis â€”-simultaneously partisanship, faction, and seditionâ€”-is at the ...

The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Jean Genet

Stanford University Press, 2004

This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt an affinity, including May ’68 and the treatment of immigrants in France, but especially the Black Panthers and the Palestinians. We follow him from the Chicago Democratic Convention ...

The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art

2 reviews
Arnaud Maillet

Zone Books, 2004

Through A Glass Darkly
Arnaud Maillet's study of the Claude Glass was informative and insightful in the main. As an artist and geometer I found all of the information contained in the book of great interest and instructive. As one who has of late been studying the subject of reflections and mirrors in general, as well as applications to the nuero-visual and geometric, this filled an improtant gap in my knowledge. It ...

For What Tomorrow . . .: A Dialogue (Cultural Memory in the Present)

1 review
Jacques Derrida, Elisabeth Roudinesco

Stanford University Press, 2004

Stunning, Thought Provoking Insight into the works of Jacques Derrida
For those who are new to Derrida and those who read his works, I strongly recommend this book. I have read over a dozen works by Derrida, about the same number of journal articles and was even fortunate enough to attend his lectures in Paris. Despite this, I find his work still demands the highest level of concentration and diligence, much like the writers and thinkers he reads in turn ...

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