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Västerländsk filosofi, från ca 1900
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An incantatory catalog of cultural artifacts either lost to time or never realized.* A boarder for two years following a national funeral, Mirabeau is removed from the Pantheon and …
Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault.In 1976, Jean …
A focused exploration of Baudrillard's understanding and use of alterity and "otherness," a crucial theme that appears and reappears throughout his work as a whole.Alterity is in …
A series of dialogues with the most exciting and controversial German philosopher writing today.Peter Sloterdijk first became known in this country for his late 1980s Critique of …
The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.All history is the history of struggles for …
The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces.An epic project in both size and purview, Peter …
Peter Sloterdijk's essay on Friedrich Nietzsche and the benefits and dangers of narcissistic jubilation. For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a …
There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the "optically correct" is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't …
In The Empire of Disorder, Alain Joxe offers the first truly comprehensive analysis of the new world disorder of the twenty-first century. The contemporary world, claims Joxe, is …
Baudrillard's unsettling coda: previously unpublished texts written just before the visionary theorist's death in 2007.History that repeats itself turns to farce. But a farce that …