DOCSLIB.ORG

Utopian Discourse in the Work of Theodor W. Adorno, Luce Irigaray and Giorgio Agamben

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 12-2010 Messianic light : utopian discourse in the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Luce Irigaray and Giorgio Agamben. Heather Anne Thiessen 1956- University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Recommended Citation Thiessen, Heather Anne 1956-, "Messianic light : utopian discourse in the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Luce Irigaray and Giorgio Agamben." (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1427. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/1427 This Doctoral Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MESSIANIC LIGHT: UTOPIAN DISCOURSE IN THE WORK OF THEODOR W. ADORNO, LUCE IRIGARAY AND GIORGIO AGAMBEN By Heather Anne Thiessen B.A., Michigan State University, 1981 M.A., University of Chicago, 1982 M.Div., Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2000 Th.M., Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2002 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Division of Humanities University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky December 2010 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. MESSIANIC LIGHT: UTOPIAN DISCOURSE IN THE WORK OF THEODOR W. ADORNO, LUCE IRIGARAY AND GIORGIO AGAMBEN By Heather Anne Thiessen B.A., Michigan State University, 1981 M.A., University of Chicago, 1982 M.Div., Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2000 Th.M., Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2002 A Dissertation Approved on October 25, 2010 by the following Dissertation Committee: iOCssertation Director ii DEDICATION To the remarkable women who taught me to read the Bible. !1'ON n:JT1J' n~J; N; 'll 7P; 7:JNflI1Y1Jp nJpftI "For the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever." Ps. 9:18 iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank all the members of the committee, Dr. Annette Allen, Dr. Steven Matthew Biberman, Dr. Carl Hausman, and Dr. David Owen, for their patience over many years. A special debt of thanks for guidance and calm persistence goes to Dr. Mary Ann Stenger. Thanks to the Women's Center at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary for a leave that made this work possible, and for the possibilities that made taking it a struggle. Finally, deep thanks to my family, and in particular to Zoe, whose gift of parrhesia is beyond price. iv ABSTRACT MESSIANIC LIGHT: UTOPIAN DISCOURSE IN THE WORK OF THEODOR W. ADORNO, LUCE IRIGARAY AND GIORGIO AGAMBEN Heather A. Thiessen December 15, 2010 What is the idea that "utopia" names? How can discourse represent that idea? Setting aside temporarily deeper problems with the idea of representation, and focusing on how a complex philosophical discourse might approach the problem of conveying or representing a large, only fairly precise, and important idea is the question of this dissertation. It ultimately answers that question obliquely, by focusing on the way the utopian discourse present in the work of three late 20th century philosophers, Theodor W. Adorno, Luce Irigaray, and Giorgio Agamben, addresses a subject position that can be named a "subject of possibility." How this subject of possibility might relate to the possibilities for transcendence located in the material world that is the stage for utopian imagination is another area of the study's investigation. The dissertation introduces the question with a look at the problems associated with utopia. It considers utopian discourse in select works of each of these thinkers, paying attention to dystopian context, identification of style and language, subject­ object considerations, and the discursive treatment of space and time. In particular, it traces the theme of messianic expectation, v in a loose secular sense, through this discourse. Finally, it links the way the messianic theme provides content to the idea of utopia present in this discourse. It claims that the messianic idea thematizes a materialist interpretation of transcendence and metaphysical experience that is developed in the work of each of these authors. That is, these authors locate the metaphysical moment necessary for the idea of utopia in the transcendent relation of the material subject to the subject of language and thought; in its concrete difference from that subject. This materialist moment provides a base for a non-representational and trans formative approach to utopian imagination and perhaps even utopian practice, by linking the idea of "utopia" to a non­ linguistic understanding of the negation of suffering. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................ i v ABSTRACT ....................................................... v CHAPTER I. MISE-EN-SCENE ............................................ 1 The Flavor of Utopia· ................................... 1 Terminology ............................................ 3 Backstory - Established Features of Utopia ............ 13 The Subj ect of Utopia ................................. 30 Utopian Discourse in the Theatre of the Humanities .... 32 Relevance of Utopia in the Late 20th Century ........... 36 Reasons for the Choice of These Thinkers .............. 36 Transcendence ......................................... 49 The Matter of Messianic Light ......................... 51 Plan of the Work and Key Issues ....................... 56 II. REFLECTION ............................................... 58 The Universal Guilt Context ........................... 61 Adorno's Philosophical Aim ............................ 67 The Relation of Utopia to Adorno's Work ............... 74 The Actuality of Philosophy .......................... 77 Utopia in Negative Dialectics ........................ 84 Physicality and Suffering ............................ 91 Semblance and Second Reflection in Aesthetic Theory .. 93 The Concept of Utopia ................................ 98 vii CHAPTER PAGE Subjectivity and Its Objective Content ............... 99 The Myth of the Constitutive Subject ................ 102 Conceptual Commitment as Utopian Discourse ........... 105 Textual form as Utopian Discursive Practice .......... 107 Adorno's Critique of Language ........................ 113 The Subj ect of Utopia ................................ 118 Space and Time 122 Adorno's Reader as a Subject of Possibility .......... 126 III. RADIATION .............................................. 129 Dystopian Repression and Response .................... 132 Utopia in Irigaray's Work ............................ 139 A Utopian Ethical Vision ............................ 139 Love's Negative Dialectical Labor ................... 146 Sharing an Intersubjective World by Way of Love ..... 151 Features of Irigaray's Utopian Scene ................. 165 Theory as Praxis ..................................... 165 Mimesis, Poiesis, Hypnosis ........................... 168 Woman-as-Subject as a Condition for Utopia ........... 172 Pursuit of Unalienated Language 176 Treatment of Space and Time .......................... 181 Unresolved Questions ................................. 186 IV. HALO ................................................... 190 Introduction ......................................... 190 A Preliminary Note on Gender ........................ 196 Dystopian Vision - Spectacular Society ............... 198 Agamben's Theoretical Proj ect ........................ 204 Agamben's Interest in Language ...................... 207 Identity and Community .............................. 209 viii CHAPTER PAGE Vocation, Inoperativity, and Profanation ............ 211 Utopia in Agamben's Work ............................. 214 The Coming Community of Whatever Being .............. 217 "The very topia of things" .......................... 220 Anthropological Machine Out of Order ................ 225 Agamben on Messianic Time in The Time That Remains .. 231 Utopia as "The Profane" .............................. 239 Philosophy as Strategy and Intervention .............. 240 Textual Form and Considerations of Language .......... 242 The Problem of Language from a Utopian Perspective ... 244 Treatment of Subject-Object Relationship ............. 251 The Space and Time of Potentiality ................... 255 The Outside Inside .................................. 256 Time .......•........................................ 259 The Very Topia of Things ............................. 262 V. MESSIANIC LIGHTING ..................................... 265 Introduction - The Subject of Utopia ................. 265 Summary ............................................. 265 The Subj ect of Utopia ............................... 265 Critical Comparisons ................................. 268 One Dystopian Assessment in Three Parts ............. 268 Dystopian Suffering ................................. 271 Critical
Recommended publications
  • Loneliness of Human in the Philosophy of Ernst Bloch Culture

    Loneliness of Human in the Philosophy of Ernst Bloch Culture

    SHS Web of Conferences 72, 03002 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf /20197203002 APPSCONF-2 019 Loneliness of human in the philosophy of Ernst Bloch culture Pavel Lyashenko 1, and Maxim Lyashchenko 1 1Orenburg State University, 460018, Orenburg, Russia Abstract. The problem of loneliness from the view point of philosophical and anthropological knowledge acquires special significance, is filled with new content in connection with the unfolding of the modern society transformation processes, as a result, with a new stage in the reappraisal of the modern culture utopian consciousness. At the same time, Ernst Bloch's culture philosophy induce particular scientific interest, according to which the meaningful status of utopia is determined by the fact that it forms a certain ideal image of the human world, which is the space of culture as a whole. In this regard, the study of the loneliness phenomenon in Ernst Bloch culture philosophy allows us to identify the socio-cultural mechanisms of loneliness, as well as key factors in the development of modern society, leading the person to negation and the destruction of his being. 1 Introduction Like a lot of factors that form the everyday world of human, loneliness, culture, utopia belong to the phenomena of human being that are complex for scientific and philosophical comprehension. Turning to the theoretical heritage of the past and modern philosophical research leads to mutually exclusive judgments about loneliness, about culture, and about utopia. Sometimes we come to the idea of the incompatibility of these phenomena, in the absence of any strong and stable connection between them.
  • NATURE, SOCIOLOGY, and the FRANKFURT SCHOOL by Ryan

    NATURE, SOCIOLOGY, and the FRANKFURT SCHOOL by Ryan

    NATURE, SOCIOLOGY, AND THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL By Ryan Gunderson A DISSERTATION Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sociology – Doctor of Philosophy 2014 ABSTRACT NATURE, SOCIOLOGY, AND THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL By Ryan Gunderson Through a systematic analysis of the works of Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Erich Fromm using historical methods, I document how early critical theory can conceptually and theoretically inform sociological examinations of human-nature relations. Currently, the first-generation Frankfurt School’s work is largely absent from and criticized in environmental sociology. I address this gap in the literature through a series of articles. One line of analysis establishes how the theories of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse are applicable to central topics and debates in environmental sociology. A second line of analysis examines how the Frankfurt School’s explanatory and normative theories of human- animal relations can inform sociological animal studies. The third line examines the place of nature in Fromm’s social psychology and sociology, focusing on his personality theory’s notion of “biophilia.” Dedicated to 바다. See you soon. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I owe my dissertation committee immense gratitude for offering persistent intellectual and emotional support. Linda Kalof overflows with kindness and her gentle presence continually put my mind at ease. It was an honor to be the mentee of a distinguished scholar foundational to the formation of animal studies. Tom Dietz is the most cheerful person I have ever met and, as the first environmental sociologist to integrate ideas from critical theory with a bottomless knowledge of the environmental social sciences, his insights have been invaluable.
  • Historical Critique Or Transcendental Critique in Foucault: Two Kantian Lineages Colin Koopman, University of Oregon

    Historical Critique Or Transcendental Critique in Foucault: Two Kantian Lineages Colin Koopman, University of Oregon

    Colin Koopman 2010 ISSN: 1832-5203 Foucault Studies, No. 8, pp. 100-121, February 2010 ARTICLE Historical Critique or Transcendental Critique in Foucault: Two Kantian Lineages Colin Koopman, University of Oregon ABSTRACT: A growing body of interpretive literature concerning the work of Michel Foucault asserts that Foucault’s critical project is best interpreted in light of various strands of philosophical phenomenology. In this article I dispute this interpretation on both textual and philosophical grounds. It is shown that a core theme of ‘the phenomenological Foucault’ having to do with transcendental inquiry cannot be sustained by a careful reading of Foucault’s texts nor by a careful interpretation of Foucault’s philosophical commitments. It is then shown that this debate in Foucault scholarship has wider ramifications for understanding ‘the critical Foucault’ and the relationship of Foucault’s projects to Kantian critical philosophy. It is argued that Foucault’s work is Kantian at its core insofar as it institutes a critical inquiry into conditions of possibility. But whereas critique for Kant was transcendental in orientation, in Foucault critique becomes historical, and is much the better for it. Keywords: Michel Foucault, Critique, Immanuel Kant, Phenomenology, Transcen- dental Critique. 100 Koopman: Historical Critique or Transcendental Crititique in Foucault ‚You seem to me Kantian or Husserlian. In all of my work I strive instead to avoid any reference to this transcendental as a condition of the possibility for any knowledge. When I say that I strive to avoid it, I don’t mean that I am sure of succeeding< I try to historicize to the utmost to leave as little space as possible to the transcendental.
  • Hansen, Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter

    Hansen, Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter

    Cinema and Experience WEIMAR AND NOW: GERMAN CULTURAL CRITICISM Edward Dimendberg, Martin Jay, and Anton Kaes, General Editors Cinema and Experience Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Th eodor W. Adorno Miriam Bratu Hansen UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2012 by Th e Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hansen, Marian Bratu, 1949–2011. Cinema and experience : Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Th eodor W. Adorno / Miriam Bratu Hansen. p. cm.—(Weimar and now: German cultural criticism ; 44) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-520-26559-2 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-520-26560-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Motion pictures. 2. Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889–1966—Criticism and interpretation. 3. Benjamin, Walter, 1892–1940—Criticism and interpretation. 4. Adorno, Th eodor W., 1903–1969—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PN1994.H265 2012 791.4309—dc23 2011017754 Manufactured in the United States of America 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In keeping with a commitment to support environmentally responsible and sustainable printing practices, UC Press has printed this book on Rolland Enviro100, a 100 percent postconsumer fi ber paper that is FSC certifi ed, deinked, processed chlorine-free, and manufactured with renewable biogas energy.
  • THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK George Santayana (1863-1952)

    THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK George Santayana (1863-1952)

    Georg Hegel (1770-1831) ................................ 30 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) ................. 32 Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804-1872) ...... 32 John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) .......................... 33 Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) ..................... 33 Karl Marx (1818-1883).................................... 34 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ................ 35 Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914).............. 35 William James (1842-1910) ............................ 36 The Modern World 1900-1950 ............................. 36 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) .................... 37 Ahad Ha'am (1856-1927) ............................... 38 Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) ............. 38 Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) ....................... 39 Henri Bergson (1859-1941) ............................ 39 Contents John Dewey (1859–1952) ............................... 39 Introduction....................................................... 1 THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK George Santayana (1863-1952) ..................... 40 The Ancient World 700 BCE-250 CE..................... 3 Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) ................... 40 Introduction Thales of Miletus (c.624-546 BCE)................... 3 William Du Bois (1868-1963) .......................... 41 Laozi (c.6th century BCE) ................................. 4 Philosophy is not just the preserve of brilliant Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ........................ 41 Pythagoras (c.570-495 BCE) ............................ 4 but eccentric thinkers that it is popularly Max Scheler
  • The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative

    The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative

    The limits of polyphony: Dostoevsky to Petronius MARIA PLAZA Stockholm University In times when a theorist grows as authoritative as the Russian thinker Mikh- ail Mikhailovich Bakhtin has grown today, his theories are sometimes hastily applied to more texts than they can usefully explain. While the rereading, and possibly reconception, of the Roman novel in the light of his ideas on the novelistic genre is certainly a most important and exciting project, there may be a risk of overstatement. My aim in this paper, therefore, is to suggest an answer to the question of whether Petronius’ Satyrica can be said to be a “polyphonic novel” in Bakhtin’s sense.1 The concept of “polyphony” is fully developed in Bakhtin’s book Prob- lems in Dostoevsky’s Poetics,2 although there are discussions of the related categories “dialogism” and “heteroglossia” in his important essays of the 1930’s.3 It should be noted, however, that “heteroglossia” is not equivalent to polyphony: it implies a diversity of speech styles in a language, some- times with the further requirement that the styles should reflect and inter- penetrate each other; while polyphony always requires an interpenetration of ————— 1 It is not my aim to offer an exhaustive analysis; rather, I hope to present some examples and general arguments for my suggested solution, in order to make a modest contribution to an ongoing debate about Bakhtin and the classics. 2 The first edition of this work, entitled Problemy tvorchestva Dostoevskogo [Problems of Dostoevsky’s creative art], appeared in 1929, and was a much narrower discussion than the influential second edition of 1963.
  • Mikhail Bakhtin and Discourse on Genre Novel

    Mikhail Bakhtin and Discourse on Genre Novel

    Int.J.Eng.Lang.Lit&Trans.StudiesINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, Vol. LITERATURE3.Issue. 1.2016 (Jan-Mar) AND TRANSLATION STUDIES (IJELR) A QUARTERLY, INDEXED, REFEREED AND PEER REVIEWED OPEN ACCESS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL http://www.ijelr.in KY PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH ARTICLE Vol. 3. Issue 1.,2016 (Jan-Mar. ) MIKHAIL BAKHTIN AND DISCOURSE ON GENRE NOVEL NIYATI KABTHIYAL1, Prof. SUREKHA DANGWAL2 1Ph.D. Research Scholar, Dept. of English & MEOFL, HNBGU, Srinagar Garhwal 2Dept. of English & MEOFL, HNBGU, Srinagar Garhwal ABSTRACT In Western tradition, Socrates frequently employed a method of dialogue in argumentation, which allowed dramatic clash of juxtaposed points of view punctuated by the final word of a single person (interlocutor); and that mode of interaction came to acquire after him the name "Socratic dialogue". His disciple Plato further developed this many-voiced mode in writing, also known as Platonic dialogue; the master piece of which we have in the Republic, manifesting outstanding success of the mode. The ancient practice attracted the attention of Russian formalist and genre theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, and he used the concept while theorizing his views on the stylistic mode of the new novelistic (artistic-prose) genres vis-à-vis high poetic genres (epic, dramatic, lyric). Bakhtin located in the Socratic dialogues one of the earliest forms of what he termed variously in the novel: heteroglossia and dialogism Kristeva is later believed to have rechristianed these antecedent concepts as intertextuality (Worton & Judith Still 3). The basic property of any discourse Bakhtin locates in dialogic orientation. He perceives dialogism as pervading not only the internal dialogism of the word, but stretching beyond to cover the entire compositional structure of a discourse (Leitch 1091).
  • University of Oklahoma Graduate College

    University of Oklahoma Graduate College

    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by SHAREOK repository UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA GRADUATE COLLEGE THE LIFE AND WORK OF GRETEL KARPLUS/ADORNO: HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO FRANKFURT SCHOOL THEORY A Dissertation SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of P hilosophy BY STACI LYNN VON BOECKMANN Norman, Oklahoma 2004 UMI Number: 3147180 UMI Microform 3147180 Copyright 2005 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GRETEL KARPLUS/ADORNO: HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO FRANKFURT SCHOOL THEORY A Dissertation APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH BY ____________________________ _ Prof. Catherine Hobbs (Chair) _____________________________ Prof. David Gross ____________________________ _ Assoc. Prof. Susan Kates _____________________________ Prof. Helga Madland _____________________________ Assoc. Prof. Henry McDonald © Copyright by Staci Lynn von Boeckmann 2004 All Rights Reserved To the memory of my grandmother, Norma Lee Von Boeckman iv Acknowledgements There a number of people and institutions whose contributions to my work I would like to acknowledge. For the encouragement that came from being made a Fulbright Alternative in 1996, I would like to thank t he Fulbright selection committee at the University of Oklahoma. I would like to thank the American Association of University Women for a grant in 1997 -98, which allowed me to extend my research stay in Frankfurt am Main.
  • Of Ernst Bloch Michael Löwy

    Of Ernst Bloch Michael Löwy

    C The Principle of Hope from Ernst Bloch is undoubtedly one C R R I of the major works of emancipatory thought in the twentieth century. I Romanticism, Marxism S Monumental (more than 1600 pages), it occupied the author for a large S I I S part of his life.Written during his exile in United States, from 1938 to S 1947, it would be reviewed for the first time in 1953 and a second in & & and Religion in the 1959. Following his condemnation as “revisionist” by authorities of the C C R German Democratic Republic, the author eventually left East Germany R I in 1961. I “Principle of Hope” of T T I Nobody had ever written a book like this, stirring in the same I Q breath the visionary pre-Socratic and Hegelian alchemy, the new Q U U Ernst Bloch E Hoffmann, the serpentine heresy and messianism of Shabbataï Tsevi, E Schelling’s philosophy of art, Marxist materialism, Mozart’s operas V V O and the utopias of Fourier. Open a page at random: it is about the man O L. L. 2 of Renaissance, the concept of (material) substance in Parecelse and 2 Jakob Böhme, of the Holy Family in Marx, of the doctrine of knowledge I I S in Giordano Bruno and the book on the Reform of Knowledge of S S Spinoza. The erudition of Bloch is so encyclopedic that very few readers S Michael Löwy U U E are capable of judging the entirety of each theme developed in the three E #1 volumes of the book.
  • BOOK REVIEWS Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Is

    BOOK REVIEWS Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Is

    ,~ BOOK REVIEWS T. W. ADORNO. Aest'/Jetic' Theory_ Adorno, Jurgen Habermas), this T,anslated by C. Lenhardt. Edited by book constitutes a summa aesthe- Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. tit;a. An English translation has London: Routledg'e & KeganPaul, long been overdue First publishe~ 1984, Pp x + 526. in German in 1970 one year after Aesthetics has be,come a central Adorno's death the boo~ soori area for Marxistthought in twentieth- app'eared in French (1974) and Italian century Europe. Among prominent (1915). For years it has been dabated Western Marxist philosophers' the and used on the EurQpean conti~ent. names of Georg lukacs, ~Jean-Paul Until recently, however, Aesthetic Theory has receiv~d little attention Sartre, and Theodor W. Adorno imm- ~ ediately, come to mind. It is not clear, in the English speaking world. Th~ however, whether Marxist thought publication of Lenhardt's translation has entered the mainstre,am of conte- in 1984 makes a wider reception mporary Western aesthetics. In add,i- possible. tion to unavoidable pol itico-economic This reception will not be easy barriers, a blockade of ignorance and, or smooth. The book is complex and hostility has prevailed between provocative, just, as its author was Anglo-Arneri~n and Continental bri IIiant and, cont roversial. An H~ge- philosophy. Although less rigid in Iian Marxist critical of bot~ Hegel aes~hetics than' in philosophy of and Marxist-Leninism; an assimilated science, this blocl-ade has often pre- German Jew exiled for more than vented productive dialogue between fifteen years in England and the Westerr) Marxists and leading figures United States; a polished, modern in Anglo-American aesthetics.
  • Select Foucault Bibliography

    Select Foucault Bibliography

    Select Foucault Bibliography by John Protevi / Permission to reproduce granted for academic use [email protected] / http://www.protevi.com/john/Foucault/PDF/Foucault_Bibliography.pdf I. Translations of the Major Works | II. Interviews, Essays, etc. | III. Secondary Literature | IV. Biographies and Biographical Criticism I. Translations of the Major Works • Mental Illness and Psychology [1954] (NY: Harper & Row, 1976). • Madness and Civilization [1961] (NY: Pantheon, 1965). • Birth of the Clinic [1963] (NY: Pantheon, 1973). • The Order of Things [1966] (NY: Pantheon, 1970). • The Archaeology of Knowledge [1969] (NY: Pantheon, 1972). • Discipline and Punish [1975] (NY: Pantheon, 1977). • The History of Sexuality • Vol. I: An Introduction [1976] (NY: Pantheon, 1978). • Vol. II: The Use of Pleasure [1984] (NY: Random House, 1985). • Vol. III: The Care of the Self [1984] (NY: Random House, 1986). II. Interviews, Essays, etc. • Language, Counter-Memory, Practice (Cornell UP, 1977). • Power/Knowledge [1972-77] (NY: Pantheon, 1980). • The Foucault Reader (NY: Pantheon, 1984). • The Final Foucault (MIT Press, 1988). also secondary essays and bibliography. • The Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 [1994] • Volume I: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (NY: The New Press 1997) • Volume II: Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology (NY: The New Press, 1998) III. Secondary Literature A. Books • Foucault: The Will to Truth, by Alan Sheridan (Tavistock, 1980). • Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, by Hubert Dreyfus & Paul Rabinow (U Chicago, 1982). • Foucault, Marxism and History, by Mark Poster (Polity Press,1984). • Foucault, by Gilles Deleuze (U Minnesota, 1988). • MF's Archaeology of Scientific Reason, by Gary Gutting (Cambridge UP, 1989). • Michel Foucault's Force of Flight, by James Bernauer (Humanities, 1991).
  • Department of Philosophy

    Department of Philosophy

    St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo Department of Philosophy Syllabus Fall Term 2019 Course: PHIL 230J – GOD AND PHILOSOPHY: Section 001 Instructor: Professor Nikolaj Zunic Class Times: 10:00 am – 11:20 am on Mondays and Wednesdays Class Location: SJ1 3016 Office: SH 2003 [Sweeney Hall on the St. Jerome’s Campus] Phone: (519) 884-8111 ext. 28229 E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays: 9:30 am – 10:00 am and 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm; and by appointment: please e-mail the professor. Required Text Brian Davies, Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2000. [ISBN 978-0-19-875194-6] Course Description Does God exist? Can God’s existence be proven? What is God’s essence? What is the human being’s relationship to God? What is faith? Is it possible to know God? Is God-talk meaningful and coherent? Does God have a rightful place in philosophical discourse? These are some of the many questions and problems that will be investigated in PHIL 230J: GOD AND PHILOSOPHY this term. As the title of the course suggests, we will be exploring the relationship between God “and” philosophy, generally speaking, not simply a philosophical concept of God. The emphasis should be placed on the conjunction which signifies a relation. To be sure, the reality of God is much greater than what is conceived within the parameters of philosophy alone. Blaise Pascal famously distinguished between the “God of the prophets” and the “God of the philosophers”. Bearing this in mind, we will endeavour to investigate the full reality of God, rather than merely what philosophers consider God to be.