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| | Postmodern philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Beginning as a critique of Continental philosophy, it was heavily influenced by phenomenology, structuralism and existentialism, including both Soren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger. | | | Postmodern philosophy claims to be especially skeptical about simple binary oppositions that allegedly dominate Western metaphysics and humanism, such as the expectation that the philosopher may cleanly isolate knowledge from ignorance, social progress from reversion, dominance from submission, or presence from absence. | | | Postmodern philosophy is an eclectic and elusive movement characterized by its criticism of Western philosophy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy
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| | Sublime (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since the end of the 18th century, influenced by the works of the Romantic writers, the sublime, beautiful and picturesque have a more defined philosophy, and have florished in many forms of art. | | | The sublime, as a theme in aesthetics, went into something of a decline during the Modernist period, though, particularly in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, the sublime has had something of a revival. | | | It is a frequent theme in paintings of John Constable and William Turner, who tried to reach the essence of the sublime through experiment. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)
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| | Nachwort |
| | It is not that philosophy is read as literature nor literature as philosophy but that the interconnections between the two fields are brought into constant connection: sometimes as literary theory, sometimes as philosophy in literature, sometimes as philosophy as literature, sometimes as philosophical methods for the study of literature, sometimes as the philosophico-literary framework. | | | The textuality of philosophy is the postmodernity of modern philosophy. | | | In this sense, the textuality of philosophy is the dominant concern of postmodern philosophy. |
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http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/hsilverman/nachwort.htm
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| | Renaissance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Marxist historians view the Renaissance as a pseudo-revolution with the changes in art, literature, and philosophy affecting only a tiny minority of the very wealthy and powerful while life for the great mass of the European population was unchanged from the Middle Ages. | | | At the end of the 16th century Italy again became a center of musical innovation, with the development of the polychoral style of the Venetian School, which spread northward into Germany around 1600. | | | The Italian Renaissance was intertwined with the intellectual movement known as Renaissance humanism and with the fiercely independent and combative urban societies of the city-states of central and northern Italy in the 13th to 16th centuries. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance
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| | Jean-François Lyotard [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Whereas in the libidinal philosophy the focus was to see that a single interpretation of an event did not become hegemonic, in Lyotard's later philosophy he is primarily concerned with the problems of justice that arise between competing interpretations of events. | | | In Lyotard's philosophy of postmodernism and the differend, he develops an aesthetic theory of postmodern art. | | | According to Lyotard, postmodernity is characterised by the end of metanarratives. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/Lyotard.htm
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| | Existentialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Moreover, one-time Marxist Nikolai Berdyaev developed a philosophy of Christian existentialism in his native Russia, and later in France, in the decades preceding World War II. | | | Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as anxiety, dread, freedom, awareness of death, and consciousness of existing, that are primary. | | | Existentialism decisively rejects this argument, asserting instead that as conscious beings we always find ourselves already in a world, a prior context and history that is given to consciousness and in which it is situated, and that we cannot think away that world. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism
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| | Eurozine - Articles |
| | Since I know that you are working on a book on Kant's aestethics and since the sublime has been somewhat of a topos common to recent French philosophy (Lyotard, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Derrida) and American theory (de Man, Hertz, Fry, Guerlac), I would like to relate this to some other current concerns. | | | For Husserl, it is synonymous with the Greek idea of a universal science, for Heidegger, with the Greek notion of philosophy as being attuned to the wonder of Being, and for Patocka, with the Platonic project of a tendance of the soul. | | | Burke's sublime, not Kant's, is linked by Lyotard to the concern with the event, the happening, the occurrence of Being, that prevails in his understanding of post-modernity, and post-modern art. |
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http://www.eurozine.com/article/2002-05-31-gaschelund-en.html
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| | Archive - Grotto - Samizdat |
| | The troubled concept of aura -- derived from Baudelaire, Proust and Proust's Bergsonian persona (and inflected with East European Jewish mystical tendencies) -- seems the key to Benjamin's philosophy of history, while also his chief problem (complaint) with Heidegger, given that Heidegger's concept of historicity rang false for Benjamin. | | | It is for this reason that Benjamin was liberated from the grey annals of German philosophy and became the patron saint of late-modern 'theory'... | | | Perhaps an aesthetician of milieux (and a connoisseur of ennui), Benjamin rightly deserves to be liberated from the annals of Marxian rhetoric and placed in the Pantheon of Post-Romantic Thought next to a wide array of ur-revolutionary thinkers -- poets, artists, novelists -- versus theoreticians and epistemologists. |
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http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/benjamin1.html
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| | Postmodernism - Deconstruction -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources |
| | Celebrations of Postmodernity, the insistence of a continuation of modernity, interpretations of globally-emerging postmodern spaces, even the call for an analysis of hypermodernity thus coexist in the collection at hand. | | | The standpoint known as "postmodernism" (or, better, hypermodernism) is a dead-end. | | | Tom Bridges is the author of The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (SUNY Press, 1994). |
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http://www.erraticimpact.com/~20thcentury/html/postmodernism.htm
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| | Jean-François Lyotard [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Lyotard abandoned his libidinal philosophy in the later years of the seventies, beginning a philosophy of paganism that developed, by the eighties, into his unique version of postmodernism. | | | Whereas in the libidinal philosophy the focus was to see that a single interpretation of an event did not become hegemonic, in Lyotard's later philosophy he is primarily concerned with the problems of justice that arise between competing interpretations of events. | | | In the libidinal philosophy Lyotard uses the idea of libidinal energy to describe events and the way they are interpreted or exploited, and he develops a philosophy of society and theory in terms of the economy of libidinal energies. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/Lyotard.htm
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| | Freeman, "Frankenstein with Kant" |
| | Rosalind Krauss, in her influential essay "Poststructuralism and the 'Paraliterary,'" speculates about a new genre she calls "paraliterary," which is neither criticism nor fiction, philosophy nor literature, but something composed of both and identical to neither. | | | On the one hand, it is a testing out of the shifting boundary between philosophy, personified by Kant's Critique of Judgment, and literature, represented by Shelley's Frankenstein; on the other, it investigates what rebounds from these two texts: what comes back, or returns. | | | Victor proceeds to chronicle the Monster's various atrocities: "his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the sunken white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips" (52). |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Articles/freeman.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philosophy |
| | French philosophy in the nineteenth century is at first dominated by an eclectic Spiritualistic movement with which the names of Maine de Biran and, especially, Victor Cousin are associated. | | | If philosophy is the explanation as a whole of that world which the particular sciences investigate in detail, it follows that the latter find their culmination in the former, and that as the sciences are so will philosophy be. | | | Philosophy is like a tower whence we obtain the panorama of a great city -- its plan, its monuments, its great arteries, with the form and location of each -- things which a visitor cannot discern while he goes through the streets and lanes, or visits libraries, churches, palaces, and museums, one after another. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12025c.htm
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| | Friedrich Schelling's System of Transcendental Philosophy |
| | The proper sense by which this type of philosophy must be apprehended is thus the aesthetic sense, and that is why the philosophy of art is the true organon of philosophy (§3). | | | The objective world is simply the original, as yet unconscious, poetry of the spirit the universal organon of philosophy - and the keystone of its entire arch - is the philosophy of art. | | | Transcendental philosophy has to explain how knowledge as such is possible, it being presupposed that the subjective element therein is to be taken as dominant or primary. |
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/schellin.htm
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| | Medieval Philosophy |
| | Medieval philosophy is conventionally construed as the philosophy of Western Europe between the decline of classical pagan culture and the Renaissance. | | | Still, it is perhaps most useful not to think of medieval philosophy as defined by the chronological boundaries of its adjacent philosophical periods, but as beginning when thinkers first started to measure their philosophical speculations against the requirements of Christian doctrine and as ending when this was no longer the predominant practice. | | | His views on logic and what we would call philosophy of language are sophisticated and novel; indeed, he is a serious contender for the title of the greatest logician of the entire medieval period, early or late. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-philosophy
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| | Kant, Immanuel -- Aesthetics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | This new philosophy came to be known as 'critical' or 'transcendental' philosophy. | | | This claim of the disinterestedness of all aesthetic judgments is perhaps the most often attacked by subsequent philosophy, especially as it is extended to include fine art as well as nature. | | | Theoretical philosophy has as its topic the cognition of sensible nature; practical philosophy has as its topic the possibility of moral action in and on sensible nature. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/k/kantaest.htm
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| | Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
| | Philosophy will find help in poetry, art, etc., in a closer relationship with them, it will be reborn and will re-interprete its own past of metaphysics—which is not past" (Notes de cours, 1959-60, p.39. | | | The guiding thread that we had been following was his critique of transcendental philosophy, particularly the notion of subjectivity that is implied in this philosophical project. | | | In this brief introduction to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, I will not pursue this thread of his thought further, but I must insist that he continues, to the time of his death, to remain in touch with the empirical sciences, particularly psychology but not absolutely excluding biology and physics. |
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| | CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE |
| | This is clear from the distinction that she draws between a theocentric philosophy and an egocentric philosophy. | | | In the history of philosophy, we generally agree that modernity begins with the advent of a philosophy focussed both a critical analysis of the limits of human understanding and on the attempt to give the scientific project a solid foundation in order to secure its progress. | | | Yet while she agreed with Heidegger’s criticism of Husserl’s Kantian transcendentalism and his emphasis on the question of being, she draws conclusions that are different than his. |
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| | Will Durant Online: The Gentle Philosopher |
| | Book IV will go "behind the scenes" to study the law and economy, morals and manners, art and music, literature and science and philosophy of Europe in the age of Luther. | | | Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse and is at best but a brave stupidity, but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. | | | In 1917, as a requirement for the doctorate in philosophy, Will Durant wrote his first book, Philosophy and the Social Problem, which argued that philosophy was languishing because it avoided the actual problems of society. |
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| | Postmodern philosophy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Defenders of post-modernism would argue that there is a distinct difference, however: while relativism and nihilism are generally viewed as an abandonment of meaning and authority, postmodern philosophy is generally viewed as an openness to meaning and authority from unexpected places, and that the ultimate source of authority is the "play" of the discourse itself. | | | Derrida, to whom (A philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning) deconstruction is attributed, approached postmodern philosophy as a form of textual criticism. | | | Derrida thus claimed to have deconstructed Western philosophy by arguing, for example, that the Western ideal of the present logos is undermined by the expression of that ideal in the form of markings by an absent author. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/p/po/postmodern_philosophy.htm
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| | litowitz.htm |
| | Secondly, he is committed to the principle that philosophy is fundamentally flawed if it fails to provide legal scholars with the conceptual criteria necessary to articulate a conception of a just (i.e., progressive) state and the legal reforms that may be necessary to achieve it. | | | For graduate students who are sympathetic to postmodernism, there are ample and intellectually stimulating opportunities for taking issue with Litowitz's characterizations of the postmodernists under review and his claims about the political and legal implications of their work. | | | As for the content, the first chapter skillfully characterizes the values of modernism, sketches an interpretation of the link between philosophical postmodernism and postmodernism in art, and then plots out salient differences between modernism and postmodernism. |
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http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/litowitz.htm
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| | This is the Existentialism Page. |
| | Existentialism as a distinct philosophical and literary movement belongs to the 19th and 20th centuries, but elements of existentialism can be found in the thought (and life) of Socrates, in the Bible, and in the work of many premodern philosophers and writers. | | | Sartre first gave the term existentialism general currency by using it for his own philosophy and by becoming the leading figure of a distinct movement in France that became internationally influential after World War II. | | | Sartre's philosophy is explicitly atheistic and pessimistic; he declared that human beings require a rational basis for their lives but are unable to achieve one, and thus human life is a futile passion. Sartre nevertheless insisted that his existentialism is a form of humanism, and he strongly emphasized human freedom, choice, and responsibility. |
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| | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling |
| | The identity philosophy derives from Schelling's conviction that the self-conscious I must be seen as a result, rather than as the originating act it is in Fichte, and thus that the I cannot be seen as the generative matrix of the whole system. | | | Schelling's WA philosophy is never completed: its Idealist aim of systematically unifying subject and object by comprehending the real development of history from the very origins of being founders on problems concerning the relationship between philosophical system and historical contingency which do not admit of solutions. | | | Philosophy cannot positively represent the absolute because ‘conscious’ thinking operates from the position where the ‘absolute identity’ of the subjective and the objective has always already been lost in the emergence of consciousness. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schelling
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| | Philosophy of Postmodernism: Definition, Postmodern Philosophers Quotes, End of Post Modernism Rise of Realism |
| | Philosophy: Existentialism - Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus - On the True Foundations of how we exist as Matter in Space. | | | Western philosophy is in this sense logocentrist, committed to the idea that words are capable of communicating unambiguously meanings that are present in the individuals mind. | | | Philosophy of Art: Renaissance to Modern Art Gallery |
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| | review-3.993 |
| | [5] This sort of generalization about "postmodern" philosophy (such as it is) is well known. | | | The fluid play of differences we find in postmodernity is likened to the disorienting encounter with the artwork--the blow (%Stoss%) or "shock"--described by Heidegger and Benjamin. | | | For what is the task of true philosophy if not to draw that archetypal map?"^1^ [3] Needless to say (especially in the [virtual] pages of the present journal) this endorsement of philosophy's "utopian aim" would not find many adherents today. |
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http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.993/review-3.993
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| | Johann Gottlieb Fichte |
| | After a disappointing interview with Kant, he resolved to demonstrate his mastery of the latter's philosophy by writing a treatise on a theme as yet unaddressed by Kant: namely, the question of the compatibility of the Critical philosophy with any concept of divine revelation. | | | Though Fichte's proposal never caught on as a general name for what was once called "philosophy," it did become the universally acknowledged name for his own distinctive version of transcendental idealism. | | | In an effort to clarify the task and method of transcendental philosophy, Fichte insisted upon the sharp distinction between the "standpoint" of natural consciousness (which it is the task of philosophy to "derive," and hence to "explain") and that of transcendental reflection, which is the standpoint required of the philosopher. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/johann-fichte
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| | Renaissance |
| | This page is intended to be a growing collection of links to Renaissance poetry texts (and related resources), with a special emphasis on the English literature of the period. | | | The broad headings for this site are Exhibits (illuminations, manuscript images, and other illustrations); Paleography; Research Links; On-Line Texts; Institutions; and Journals. | | | From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther, 1483-1546. |
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| | Christian Century: Blind spots: Christianity and postmodern philosophy |
| | The postmodern philosophers are not much interested in the philosophy of the natural sciences, but an analysis of this sort, which has been made by others, is a clear implication and extension of their views. | | | Are postmodern philosophers the latest sophists, willing to blow rhetorical smoke in people's eyes in the service of any private interest able to buy their services? | | | Though the postmodern philosophers are mainly atheists, or as Derrida puts it, "rightly pass" for atheists, their arguments actually show not that God does not exist, but that we are not God, either individually or collectively. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_12_120/ai_103996827
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| | Sublime |
| | Natürlich haben Sublime dieses Genre nicht neu erfunden, das erwartet bei dieser Art von Musik auch niemand... | | | This Website and all contents are the property of the Sublime Music Co.... | | | Siden har tekster fra sublimealbumene sublime, 40.oz to freedom og Robbin the hood og lenker til andre band... |
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| | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| | In an effort to promote her brother's philosophy, she rented a large house on a hill in Weimar, called the "Villa Silberblick," and moved both Nietzsche and his collected manuscripts to the residence. | | | Central to Nietzsche's philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation," which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines which drain life's energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. | | | Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche
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| | PES Yearbook: 1998: Gert Biesta, The Right to Philosophy of Education |
| | This becomes clear when we look at the way in which the transcendental style of critique is applied in educational philosophy. | | | Derrida sees the history of Western philosophy as a continuous attempt to locate a fundamental ground which serves both as an absolute beginning and as a center from which everything originating from it can be mastered and controlled. | | | Like transcendental critique, deconstruction problematizes the dogmatic installment of the critical criterion. |
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