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help with understanding Deleuze's argument on "difference first, identity second"
if i'm not mistaken, deleuze says you only know about "apple" because you know apple is not an orange, is not a tea, is not justice, is not rock,...
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I cannot find 20th-Century Philosophy: The Speculative Tradition, by Peter Koestenbaum. Where should I look for it?
The paperback series Readings in the History of Philosophy is an 8 volume series about Western philosophy, from the Presocratics to the twentieth century. The Volumes and their Editors are:
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Does the last man hate work?
Does the last man hate work? This probably strikes the site as a facile question, but Zarathustra does seem to end with beginning his work, and the last man has lost the capacity to hate himself (that'...
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What does Baudrillard propose to do with realization of Simulacra?
There's literally the quote on the wiki page on Simulacra and Simulation:
..The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the
truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is ...
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Are there any good sources that would help me read Lacan's Seminar XVII?
I've been interested in psychoanalysis for the past year or so; I've read a little bit of Freud (the introductory lectures, the case study on the Rat Man, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and about half ...
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How is art critical of life after modernity has ended?
Assuming valuable art is still being made, given it can no longer voice modernity except in a pastiche and irrelevance, in what way can it be utopian: by which I just mean capable of being read as a ...
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Why is the non-aesthetic position on art not absorbed by society?
The rejection of the "aesthetic" view on art has been around for a very long time.
Off the top of my head, there's at least Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art", with rather ...
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How come nihilism is so popular today?
I've been trying to attack this question (or more precisely, come up with an answer to that fact) for some time now, but after a while of research I'm suddenly not so sure of the reason the situation ...
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So how does deconstruction actually impact the modernity of science?
Is deconstructive reading essentially a meta reading of a passage? But how does this play out with science? Some scientist can put out a theory and some one can say these are the reasons he said xyz. ...
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What is the difference between operatic, operative, and operational from Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation?
The following is the conclusion from the chapter Simulacra and Science Fiction. I did not understand it, and such a specific categorization seemed unusual to me. I was hoping someone might be able to ...
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How did Baudrillard justify the existence of a "fundamental" reality?
The postmodern semiotic concept of hyperreality was contentiously coined by Baudrillard in Simulacra and Simulation. Baudrillard defined "hyperreality" as "the generation by models of a ...
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Are French postmodernism, Critical Theory and their heirs related to idealism?
Are French postmodernism (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, etc.), and Critical Theory (Adorno, Marcuse, etc.), and their heirs such as gender and postcolonial studies (Butler, Saïd) related to idealism?
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What were Jacques Derrida's most important ideas?
I've been studying Sociology for a few years, and am coming up on modern theory: post-structuralism, deconstruction etc. I've read a bit of it, but the ideas often seem somewhat removed from everyday ...
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How does post modernism relate to post structuralism?
Going through the wikis of both, I get a similar feeling from both of them, but I can't put in words exactly how they are related. Here are simple introductions from wiki:
Postmodernism is an ...
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What are the differences between postmodernism, post-structuralism and deconstruction?
I know they can be used interchangeably, but in the spirit of structuralism, what are the differences between them?
From Postmodernism - Wikipedia, I think that postmodernism and post-structuralism ...
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