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ISBN 10: 3035303223 

ISBN 13: 9783035303223

Author: Bert Olivier

The philosophical essays collected here are predicated on the conviction that we live in a time when all-encompassing philosophical systems can no longer be seriously entertained as a true reflection of extant reality. Instead, an indefinite number of perspectives on – or discursive appropriations of – what is thought of as ‘reality’ are possible. Sometimes they diverge and sometimes they intersect in surprising ways, as these essays show. While the belief in an all-inclusive philosophical system is rejected, the author shows that every perspective displays a coherence and illuminating power of its own. The collection is divided into two parts. The first considers philosophy, the individual and society, covering themes including the deleterious effects of capitalism on natural ecosystems, the modern conception of ‘immortality’ in Nietzsche’s thought, Lacan’s provocative interpretation of capitalist discourse, the current status of the humanities in universities, individual autonomy, the meaning of ‘identification’, global ‘terrorism’, and Plato’s philosophical self-subversion. The second part gathers together perspectives on the arts and society, with the author arguing that reflections on cinema, architecture and music never isolate these arts from social concerns, but demonstrate their interconnectedness.

Table of contents:

Part 1 Philosophy, the individual, and society

• Chapter 1 – Nature, capitalism, and the future of humankind

• Chapter 2 – Nietzsche, immortality, singularity, and eternal recurrence

• Chapter 3 – Lacan on the discourse of capitalism: Critical prospects

• Chapter 4 – The ‘quasi-universality’ of the humanities

• Chapter 5 – The humanities, technology, and universities

• Chapter 6 – That strange thing called ‘identifying’

• Chapter 7 – Foucault and individual autonomy

• Chapter 8 – ‘Terror(ism)’ in the context of cosmopolitanism

• Chapter 9 – The subversion of Plato’s quasi-phenomenology and mytho-poetics in the Symposium

Part 2 The arts and society

• Chapter 10 – Women’s ‘nature’ and architectural design

• Chapter 11 – Music and architecture: Time and/or space?

• Chapter 12 – Images and mediation

• Chapter 13 – Communication and real confusion: Babel

• Chapter 14 – Extra-ordinary cinema

• Chapter 15 – Cinema and communication: ‘Cinelogic’ and ‘cineaesthesis’

• Chapter 16 – Avatar: Ecopolitics, technology, science, art, and myth

• Chapter 17 – ‘Sustainable’ architecture and the ‘law’ of the fourfold

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