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Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "...
Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy
While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature and...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy
The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as...
Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
Law's Trace argues for the political importance of deconstruction by taking Derrida’s reading of Hegel as its point of departure. While it is well established that seemingly neutral and inclusive legal and political categories and representations are always, in fact, partial and exclusive, among...
Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they...
Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It explores Agamben’s work on language, ontology, power, law and criticism from the 1970s to his most recent publications. Introducing Agamben's...
Published July 30th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
