Force and understanding : writings on philosophy and resistance

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Force and understanding : writings on philosophy and resistance

Howard Caygill ; edited by Stephen Howard ; afterword by Jacqueline Rose

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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For the past thirty years, Howard Caygill has been a distinctive and radical voice in continental philosophy. For the first time, this volume gathers together Caygill's most significant philosophical essays, the majority of which are not freely available and many of which are previously unpublished. Here, a major philosopher is at work, offering rich, rigorous and politically-engaged readings of canonical and lesser-known figures and texts. From Kant and Frantz Fanon to Herman Kahn, founder of the Hudson Institute, Caygill uncovers the untapped resources that the history of philosophy provides for contemporary thought, whilst critically pushing beyond the limits of the tradition. Divided into two parts, the first part of the collection reveals the philosophical backdrop to Caygill's acclaimed study of political resistance, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (2015), whilst the second part sees Caygill further develop his account of resistance through wide-ranging analyses of contemporary culture. Exploring numerous subjects, including Nietzsche, metaphysics, radical politics, and digital resistance, to name but a few, Force and Understanding introduces readers to the orienting themes of Caygill's thought and provides the opportunity to engage with one of the most astute, learned, and critical philosophical minds around.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction, Stephen Howard Acknowledgements PART ONE: CONDITIONS Section one: Starting points 1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics 2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx 3. 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 Violence Section two: Affirmation 6. The Consolation of Philosophy, or 'Neither Dionysus Nor the Crucified' 7. Philosophy and Cultural Reform in the Early Nietzsche 8. Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy 9. Under the Epicurean Skies 10. That Perhaps Abused Word... Section three: Life 11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene 12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture 13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure 14. Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary upon 'Two Things Fill the Mind' 15. Life and Energy Section four: Philosophy/science 16. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze's Biophilosophy 17. The Force of Kant's Opus postumum 18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance 19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction 20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological Scales Section five: Immanence 21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism 22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka's "Nature Theatre of Oklahama" 23. Benjamin's Natural Theology 24. Levinas's Silence 25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982 PART TWO: RESISTANCE 26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers 27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon 28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate 29. Clausewitz and Idealism 30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience 31. Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias 32. Strategic Intervention and the Digital Capacity to Resist 33. XR: Thinking Resistance at the End of the World Afterword by Jacqueline Rose

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  • NCID
    BC0025179X
  • ISBN
    • 9781350107861
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 493 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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