Force and understanding : writings on philosophy and resistance /: writings on philosophy and resistance. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Works.
• Further Information: Note: Howard Caygill ; edited by Stephen Howard ; foreword by Jacqueline Rose.
• Authors: Caygill, Howard
• Editors: Howard, Stephen
• Contents: Editor's Introduction, Stephen HowardAcknowledgementsPART ONE: CONDITIONSSection one: Starting points1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx3. Violence, Civility and the Predicaments of Philosophy 4. Politics and War: Hegel and Clausewitz 5. Perpetual Police? Kosovo and the Elision of Police and Military ViolenceSection two: Affirmation 6. The Consolation of Philosophy, or 'Neither Dionysus Nor the Crucified'7. Philosophy and Cultural Reform in the Early Nietzsche8. Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy 9. Under the Epicurean Skies10. That Perhaps Abused Word… Section three: Life11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure14. Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary upon 'Two Things Fill the Mind'15. Life and EnergySection four: Philosophy/science16. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze's Biophilosophy17. The Force of Kant's Opus postumum18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological ScalesSection five: Immanence21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka's 'Nature Theatre of Oklahama'23. Benjamin's Natural Theology24. Levinas's Silence25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982PART TWO: RESISTANCE26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon 28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate29. Clausewitz and Idealism 30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience31. Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias32. Strategic Intervention and the Digital Capacity to Resist 33. XR: Thinking Resistance at the End of the WorldAfterword by Jacqueline Rose.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 101; Philosophy; Resistance (Philosophy)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350107885; 9781350107854
• Related ISBNs: 9781350107861
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