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The Agony Of Eros

by Byung-Chul (Professor, Universitat Der Kunste Berlin) Han

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 An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.
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Abuse Of Property

by Daniel Loick

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 A fundamental critique of the current property regime, calling for radical social and political change.In The Abuse of Property, Daniel Loick offers a multifaceted philosophical critique of the concept of property, broadly understood. He argues that property should not be the dominant framework in which human beings regulate the use of things, that property is not the same as use. Property rights, in his view, are not conditions of freedom or justice, but deficient, dysfunctional, and harmful ways of interacting with other people and the natural environment. He dissects not only the classic justifications of property (from John Locke''s justification of property as a natural right based on individual freedom to Hegel''s justification of property as a form of mutual recognition) but also the classic critiques of property, from Proudhon and Marx up to Adorno and Agamben.Through an innovative critical approach to legal studies, Loick demonstrates how the concept of property, historically applied to things and people and still a linchpin of our distorted relation with the world, forms a direct line from the Occupy movement to Black Lives Matter and beyond.Untimely Meditations series
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Good Entertainment - A Deconstruction Of The Western Passion Narrative

by Byung-Chul (Professor, Universitat Der Kunste Berlin) Han

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 A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing varietyâ€"infotainment, edutainment, servotainmentâ€"and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.
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Against Nature

by Lorraine (Max Planck Institute For History Of Science) Daston

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 A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.
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Enlivenment - Toward A Poetics For The Anthropocene

by Andreas Weber

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 A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.
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Good Entertainment - A Deconstruction Of The Western Passion Narrative

by Byung-Chul Han

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 A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing varietyâ€"infotainment, edutainment, servotainmentâ€"and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.
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Enlivenment - Toward A Poetics For The Anthropocene

by Andreas Weber

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 A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.
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Law As Refuge Of Anarchy - Societies Without Hegemony Or State

by Hermann Amborn

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 A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state.Over the course of history, people have developed many varieties of communal life; the state, with its hierarchical structure, is only one of the possibilities for society. In this book, leading anthropologist Hermann Amborn identifies a countermodel to the state, describing communities where reciprocity is a dominant social principle and where egalitarianism is a matter of course. He pays particular attention to such communities in the Horn of Africa, where nonhierarchical, nonstate societies exist within the borders of a hierarchical structured state. This form of community, Amborn shows, is not a historical forerunner to monarchy or the primitive state, nor is it obsolete as a social model. These communities offer a concrete counterexample to societies with strict hierarchical structures.Amborn investigates social forms of expression, ideas, practices, and institutions that oppose the hegemony of one group over another, exploring how conceptions of values and laws counteract tendencies toward the accumulation of power. He examines not only how the nonhegemonic ethos is reflected in law but also how anarchic social formations can exist. In the Horn of Africa, the autonomous jurisdiction of these societies protects against destructive outside influences, offers a counterweight to hegemonic violence, and contributes to the stabilization of communal life. In an era of widespread dissatisfaction with Western political systems, Amborn''s study offers an opportunity to shift from traditional theories of anarchism and nonhegemony that project a stateless society to consider instead stateless societies already in operation.
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Death Algorithm And Other Digital Dilemmas

by Roberto Simanowski

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 Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.
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Waste - A New Media Primer

by Roberto Simanowski

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 On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other aspects of the digital revolution.With these engaging and provocative essays, Roberto Simanowski considers what new media has done to us. Why is digital privacy being eroded and why does society seem not to care? Why do we escape from living and loving the present into capturing, sharing and liking it? And how did we arrive at a selfie society without self-consciousness?Simanowski, who has been studying the Internet and social media since the 1990s, goes deeper than the conventional wisdom. For example, on the question of Facebook''s responsibility for the election of Donald Trump, he argues that the problem is not the "fake news" but the creation of conditions that make people susceptible to fake news. The hallmark of the Internet is its instantaneousness, but, Simanowski cautions, speed is the enemy of depth. On social media, he says, "complex arguments are jettisoned in favor of simple slogans, text in favor of images, laborious explorations at understanding the world and the self in favor of amusing banalities, deep engagement in favor of the click." Simanowski wonders if we have sold our soul to Silicon Valley, as Faust sold his to the Devil; credits Edward Snowden for making privacy a news story; looks back at 1984, 1984, and Apple''s famous sledgehammer commercial; and considers the shitstorm, mapping waves of Internet indignation—including one shitstorm that somehow held Adidas responsible for the killing of dogs in Ukraine. "Whatever gets you through the night," sang John Lennon in 1974. Now, Simanowski says, it''s Facebook that gets us through the night; and we have yet to grasp the implications of this.
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Portrait Of The Manager As A Young Author - On Storytelling, Business, And Literature

by Philipp Schönthaler

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 What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations.Corporations love a good story. Microsoft employs a chief storyteller, who heads a team of twenty-five corporate storytellers. IBM, Coca-Cola, and the World Bank are among other organizations that have worked with storytelling methods. And, of course, Steve Jobs was famous for his storytelling. Today, narrative is a privileged form of communication for organizations. In Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author, Philipp Schönthaler explains this unlikely alliance between business and storytelling. The contradictions are immediately apparent. If, as the philosopher Hans Blumenberg writes, stories are told to pass the time, managers would seem to have little time to spare. And yet, Schönthaler reports, stories are useful in handling complexity. When digital information flows too quickly and exceeds the capacity of the human brain, narrative can provide communicative efficiency and effectiveness. Words and numbers both vouch for truth, are both instrumentalized by management, and are inextricably interdependent. What happens, if narrative becomes ubiquitous? Does the commercialization of narratives have an effect on literature? Through the lens of storytelling, Schönthaler explores the relationship between economics and literature and describes a form of writing that takes place in their shared spheres. Most books on storytelling in the corporate world are written by business writers; this book offers the perspective of an award-winning literary author, who considers both the impact of storytelling on business and the impact of business on literature.
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German Philosophy - A Dialogue

by Alain Badiou e Jean-Luc Nancy

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 Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy—including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger—from a French perspective.In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy from a French perspective. Written in the form of a dialogue, and revised and expanded from a 2016 conversation between the two philosophers at the Universität der Künste Berlin, the book offers not only Badiou''s and Nancy''s reinterpretations of German philosophers and philosophical concepts, but also an accessible introduction to the greatest thinkers of German philosophy. Badiou and Nancy discuss and debate such topics as the legacies of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Schelling, and the unavoidable problem of Heidegger and Nazism. The dialogue is contentious, friendly, and often quotable, with strong—at times passionate—positions taken by both Badiou and Nancy, who find themselves disagreeing over Kant, for example, and in unexpected agreement on Marx, for another.What does it mean, then, to conduct a dialogue on German philosophy from a French perspective? As volume editor Jan Völker observes, "German philosophy" and "French philosophy" describe complex constellations that, despite the reference to nation-states and languages, above all encompass shared concepts and problems—although these take a range of forms. Perhaps they can reveal their essential import only in translation.
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Radical Fool Of Capitalism - On Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon, And The Auto-Icon

by Christian Welzbacher

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 A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his "radical foolery" embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time.
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Topology Of Violence

by Byung-Chul Han

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 One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.
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Shanzhai - Deconstruction In Chinese

by Byung-Chul Han

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 Tracing the thread of â€œdecreationâ€ in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.
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Positive Nihilism - My Confrontation With Heidegger

by Hartmut Lange

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 Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
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All And Nothing - A Digital Apocalypse

by Dirk Hofer e Martin Burckhardt

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 Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
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In The Swarm - Digital Prospects

by Byung-Chul Han

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 A prominent German thinker argues thatâ€"contrary to â€œTwitter Revolutionâ€ cheerleadingâ€"digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.
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Agony Of Eros

by Byung-Chul Han

39,75€ + 10% CARD

 An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.
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On Hitler'S Mein Kampf - The Poetics Of National Socialism

by Albrecht Koschorke

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 "Originally published as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Zur Poetik des Nationalsozialismus in the series Freohliche Wissenschaft by Matttthes & Seitz Berlin, 2016"--Colophon.
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Against Nature

by Lorraine Daston

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 A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.
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Inconsistencies

by Marcus Steinweg

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 Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
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Terror Of Evidence

by Marcus Steinweg

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 Meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments address topics that range from pathos and genius to careerism and club sandwiches.
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Topology Of Violence

by Byung-Chul (Professor, Universitat Der Kunste Berlin) Han

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 One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.
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