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Brill Academic Publishers | 2008-12-15 | ISBN: 9004166254 | 324 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB Ask for the tragic and Europe will answer. Leaving behind the philosophers' enthusiasm of the nineteenth century, 'tragedy' and 'the tragic' now seem little more than vague containers. However, it appears that we still discover a tragic essence in our personal lives. Time and again tragedy is being registered, written down and staged. ... Ebook description

McFarland | 2008 | ISBN 0786433345 | 227 Pages | PDF OCR | 4.3 MB The notion of film consciousness is one that has played around various film and philosophical discourses without ever really surfacing as a cogent theory. Representing the first major expression of film consciousness as a tangible concept, this critical study revisits notions of memory, retentional consciousness, narrative expectation, and spatio-temporal perception while also analyzing several major films. ... Ebook description

UC Press | 1967 | ISBN NA | 80 Pages | PDF OCR | 7.3 MB In 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of students at Cambridge. The present volume has been compiled from notes taken down at the time by three of the students: Rush Rhees, Yorick Smythies, and James Taylor. They have been supplemented by notes of conversations on Freud (to whom reference was made in the course on aesthetics) between Wittgenstein and Rush Rhees, and by notes of some lectures on religious belief. ... Ebook description

Duke University Press | 2001-10 | ISBN: 0822327112 | 296 pages | PDF | 4 MB In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of “the figural” to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, the figural defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between linguistic and plastic representation breaks down. ... Ebook description

Other Press | 1999 | ISBN 189274614X | 266 Pages | PDF OCR | 5.4 MB By detailing the constitutive incompletion of the Lacanian project, the contributors have guaranteed the success of their book, which will remain a major reference for a long time to come. Thanks GP | | PLEASE MORE MIRRORS | ... Ebook description

Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: 6th: International Congress Proceedings By J.J. Cohen Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd | 1982 | 870 Pages | ISBN: 0444854231 | PDF | 9.88 MB ... Ebook description

Verso | 2000 | ISBN 1859847242 | 266 Pages | PDF OCR | 6 MB Kant, sober Enlightenment thinker and philosopher's philosopher, seems the very antithesis of Lacan, the "wild theorist" of psychoanalysis. But, drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, Alenka Zupancic here demonstrates that the two thinkers stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -- impossible because of the infinite and inhuman demands it makes on us. ... Ebook description