Introducing continental philosophy. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Kul-Want & Piero.
• Authors: Want, Christopher
• Other Names: Piero 1967- artist.
• Contents: Kant's Copernican revolutionThe power of the new; Alterity: the Other; The sublime; Nietzsche's verdict: God is dead; The death of metaphysics?; Metaphysics and language; A question of perspective; The spectre of nihilism; Absurd metaphysics; Kant withdraws; Metaphysics by the back door; The colonial "Other"; Re-thinking the unknown; The will to power; Love thy neighbour?; The birth of the Overman; Heidegger: the end of modernity?; The threat of technology; Hegel: history's perfect conclusion; Masters and slaves; Being and Time; The problem with modernity; Dasein; The limits of understanding. Thinking creatively; What is Continental philosophy?; A distinguished company; Continental vs. Analytic philosophy; The value of logic; A shared history; Against repression; The limitations of theory; Into the unknown; Experience and the Self; The search for structure; Suspicion of universal truths; The fantasy of consciousness; The symbolic order; The Trojan horse of communication; The unconscious: a blind spot; The universal medium of exchange; "Incalculable relations"; "They do not know it, but they are doing it"; Kant and the unknowable. Art as a sign of the end; The puzzle of Communism's failure; The Frankfurt School; Consumption as desire; Oppositional art; Walter Benjamin and "high Capitalism"; Violence and the law; Striking against Capitalist logic; The power of montage; Alienation visible; The storm of progress; Further influence of Nietzsche; A philosophy of expenditure; The plenitude of excess; Fiction and reality in psychoanalysis; "I myself do not exist ... ; Sartre: Existentialism and authenticity; Nausea: the chaos behind language; Freedom of choice; Fighting terror with commitment; Existentialism and Marxism. 1968: the watershed; Refusing fixed meaning; Collapse of the ideologies; Evental occurrences; The "trace" of Communism; Lyotard: the question of knowledge; Information overload; The limits of the mind; Rancière and the unheard voice; Derrida: the metaphysics of presence; Saussure's limitless meanings; Deconstruction; Derrida the juggler; "Peut-être"; Thinking about friendship; Back to Nietzsche; Phallo-logocentrism; Woman cannot lack; Jouissance; A void in representation; The subject as producer; The private and the political; Producing producers; Biopolitics: multiple forces of power. Monitoring for normality; The terrorist state; Separating violence and the law; The power of language; "As if not"; Neither in heaven nor in hell; "I would prefer not to"; The black hole of the bourgeoisie; The alterity of death; Language at degree zero; Deleuze: "schizoanalysis"; Anti-Oedipus; The Metamorphosis: schizophrenic desire; The body without organs; Pure immanence; Casting off the shackles; Glossary; Further Reading; About the Author; Acknowledgements; About the Illustrator; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Icon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource, chiefly illustrations
• Subjects: 190; Continental philosophy -- Comic books, strips, etc; Continental philosophy -- Popular works; Philosophy, Modern -- Comic books, strips, etc; Philosophy, Modern -- Popular works; Philosophie continentale -- Bandes dessinées; Philosophie continentale -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation; PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General; PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Continental philosophy; Philosophy, Modern; illustrated books; Popular works; Nonfiction comics; Illustrated works; Graphic novels; Comics (Graphic works); Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Graphic novels; Ouvrages illustrés; Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848317758; 1848317751
• Related ISBNs: 9781848314177; 1848314175
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.