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The Semantic Theory Of Knowledge

by Adam Olech

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 The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewiczâ€™s meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementations to solve certain traditional epistemological problems and their metaphysical consequences.
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Dialectics Beyond Dialectics - Translated By Cain Elliott And Jan Burzyski

by Malgorzata Kowalska

76,25€ + 10% CARD

 <I>Dialectics beyond Dialectics </I>is a study of contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida. It analyses, on the first level of generalization, the decomposition of Hegelianism understood as <I>philosophy of totality</I>. Many French philosophers of the 20<UP>th</UP> century deconstruct Hegelian dialectics and harshly criticize the very idea of totality as either dangerous or impossible. The thesis of the book is that, on doing so, they do not really break with dialectics, but transform it. On the second level of generalization, the issue of the book is modernity and the thesis is that transformations of dialectics reveal transformations of modern consciousness which despite hasty declarations on the <I>end of modernity </I> still remains ours.
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Illusion In Painting - An Attempt At Philosophical Interpretation

by Mateusz Salwa

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 This book aims to present <I>trompe-l½il </I>painting, which epitomizes the myth of the illusionistic image an early modern way of thinking about pictures, according to which it is possible to create an image identical to what it represents that at the same time preserves its own pictorial identity. <I>Trompe-l½il</I>, despite being a marginal genre, embodied an ideal that painting should attain, and therefore is a good point of departure for analyzing issues such as (aesthetic) illusion in art. As the myth undermines Platos aesthetics, it is his philosophy of art, with its dichotomies of appearance/reality or mimesis/diegesis that offers the most useful context for the discussion of this topic and shows that <I>trompe-l½il </I>is a playful and ironic genre, which has cognitive value as well.
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Illusion In Painting - An Attempt At Philosophical Interpretation

by Mateusz Salwa

68,17€ + 10% CARD

 This book aims to present <I>trompe-l½il </I>painting, which epitomizes the myth of the illusionistic image an early modern way of thinking about pictures, according to which it is possible to create an image identical to what it represents that at the same time preserves its own pictorial identity. <I>Trompe-l½il</I>, despite being a marginal genre, embodied an ideal that painting should attain, and therefore is a good point of departure for analyzing issues such as (aesthetic) illusion in art. As the myth undermines Platos aesthetics, it is his philosophy of art, with its dichotomies of appearance/reality or mimesis/diegesis that offers the most useful context for the discussion of this topic and shows that <I>trompe-l½il </I>is a playful and ironic genre, which has cognitive value as well.
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Morales Et Politiques Postmodernes

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 Les auteurs contribuant à ce recueil ont été invités à réfléchir sur notre condition postmoderne, non pas tant sur les sens différents qua pris le terme du postmoderne que sur lheure quil est. La réflexion se déroule dans lhorizon de la pensée des classiques du postmodernisme, Jean-François Lyotard en tête, et dans lhorizon des questions qui y sont, explicitement ou implicitement, posées : Quen est-il de la possibilité même de laction politique et du jugement moral dans un monde qui apparaît, à la fois, sans alternative et déboussolé ? Quen est-il désormais du sujet de laction et du jugement ? Ou, plus simplement mais plus pathétiquement aussi, quen est-il de lhumain ? Quest-ce quil devient ou est déjà devenu et comment peut-on encore le penser ?
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Culture As Verb - Probes Into The New Humanities

by Ryszard Nycz

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Time And Alterity In South African Writing - André Brink, J.M. Coetzee, And Zakes Mda Revisited

by Paulina Grzda

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 <P>The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed coronatime, which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this book provides a chance to reevaluate neoliberalisms temporal regimes of growth, decline, deceleration and acceleration. South Africa and its contemporary literature are a perfect background against which to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on three South African authors, André Brink, J.M. Coetzee and Zakes Mda, the book examines contemporary South African revisioning of time and alterity. Through some of the previously unexplored texts, it studies what living in a post-conflict, post-revolutionary and highly traumatized society entails for ones perception of time and otherness.</P>
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Agency At Work - Ethnographies In/Of Late Industrialism

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 <P>Rooted in anthropological and ethnological traditions, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism revealed in interactions between a coal power plant and a local community in Opole Silesia, in southwestern Poland. In this context, the authors show by the use of the ethnographic method, how variables and forces of various scales shape political events centered around the power plant; grassroots economic dynamics and entrepreneurship; the local semiosphere uniting the divided social group; affective dimensions of a social protest; (un)doing gender in the industrial workplace; and the mobile livelihoods of migrant industrial workers. By doing so, they concretize in different ways both the concept of late modernity and agency.</P>
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Time And Alterity In South African Writing - Andre Brink, J.M. Coetzee, And Zakes Mda Revisited

by Paulina Grzeda

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 Reevaluating neoliberalismâ€™s temporal regimes of growth and decline, the book invites us to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on works by Brink, Coetzee and Mda, it studies South African revisioning of time and alterity. It also examines what living in a post-revolutionary society entails for oneâ€™s perception of time and otherness.
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Aesthetics And Modernity - Toward A New Philosophical Functionalization Of Art

by Iwona Lorenc

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 The book is a reflection over how art functions in late modernity. It emphasizes processes of fictionalizing reality and exposes, how phenomenology can be used to extract this problem on a foundation of aesthetics. It is a panoramic outlook over existing views, but also a self-sufficient theoretical proposal.
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The Semantic Theory Of Knowledge

by Adam Olech

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 The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewiczâ€™s meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementations to solve certain traditional epistemological problems and their metaphysical consequences.
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Deconstruction, Politics, Performatics

by Anna R. Burzynska

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 The book examines the philosophy of Jacques Derrida not only as the creator of a specific mode of interpretation called "deconstruction" but also as an initiator of recent ethical and political reflection, a pioneer of performatics, and a precursor of current research on experience.
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The Rise And Fall Of Modern Man

by Jacek Dobrowolski

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 Award winning essay in philosophical anthropology reflecting on who, in terms of history of ideas, modern western man was, is, and will perhaps become. It examines how Selfhood and individuality connect to science and technology, and offers an imaginative exploration of various modern narratives of human singularity.
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Toward Metaphysics - New Tendencies In French Philosophy In The Middle Of The Twentieth Century

by Jacek Migasinski

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 This book presents and analyzes specific metaphysical tendencies that were revived within particular branches of French philosophy from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using the examples of the five philosophers active in this period (Louis Lavelle, Ferdinand Alquié, Jean Wahl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Lévinas), who did not belong to or did not form any school of thought, the author attempts to show that the specificity of this non-classical metaphysics could be located in its anti-naturalist, non-substantial, non-objectival, dialectic, critical, non-systematic and pluralist character. The analysis is preceded by a comprehensive introduction in which both theoretical and historical inspirations for the ideas presented in the book are explained. The summary provides possible influences that the described ideas could exercise over more recent currents in French philosophy.
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Farewell To Postmodernism - Social Theories Of The Late Left

by Bartosz Kuzniarz

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 In the late 1960s, a whole pantheon of thinkers regarding themselves as radicals stole a part of the anarchic praxis of late capitalism, turned it into philosophy, and with the resulting set of views turned against the foundations of the system in a purportedly radical gesture. Postmodernism was the name for the superficially revolutionary culture which then came into existence. The thought of the late left appears as the subsequent response to the cunning of the system.<BR> The main figures of <I>Farewell to Postmodernism </I>are Perry Anderson, David Harvey, Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton and Slavoj ´i¸ek. The book provides an encyclopaedic introduction to their work, while at the same time seeking to grasp the current trajectory of radical thought.
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Strangers By Choice - An Asocial Philosophy Of Life.- Translated By Tul'Si Bhambry And Agnieszka Wakiewicz. Editorial Work By Tul'Si Bhambry.

by Andrzej Waskiewicz

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 <I>Strangers by Choice </I>explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Building on Simmels notion of the stranger, the author sheds light on the experience of spiritual idealists, both real and fictional, who maintain a distance from mainstream society in order to live by the laws of their transcendental homelands. Wakiewicz addresses representations of strangeness from a broad spectrum of Western culture, including Stoic philosophy, Augustine of Hippo, Henry David Thoreau, the physicist Richard Feynman, and finally Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Highlighting how these writers and thinkers have negotiated individuality and community, this interdisciplinary study contributes to debates on identity in both practical philosophy and the history of ideas.
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The Changing Guise Of Myths - Philosophical Essays

by Andrzej Leder

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 This book is an analysis of contemporary life, seen under the perspective of immutable, ancient myths. It researches into the field of philosophical anthropology, where different moods of todayÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s life are analyzed. Then, different aspects of the culture of the late modernity, seen as a society of spectacle, are discussed.
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The Remnants Of Modernity - Two Essays On Sarmatism And Utopia In Polish Contemporary Literature

by Przemyslaw Czaplinski

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 Polish culture after 1989 has been defined by conflicts surrounding the remnants of modernity, phenomena marginalised during communism. The book considers two such phenomena: the search for a common tradition and the disappearance of utopia. Throughout the 19<UP>th</UP> and 20<UP>th</UP> centuries, romanticism provided a common tradition. After 1989, its place was assumed by Sarmatism, an elite and xenophobic pre-modern cultural formation, into which contradictory values were introduced, creating an explosive mixture of emancipation and populism. The second remnant, the heritage of utopia, is addressed in works whose critical visions of change are not comprehensive projects, but rather rebellions. They begin with a questioning of authority, and lead to a posthuman definition of humanity and interspecies solidarity.
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The Remnants Of Modernity - Two Essays On Sarmatism And Utopia In Polish Contemporary Literature

by Przemyslaw Czaplinski

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 Post-communist Polish culture faced a problem: how to reconcile a growing demand for individual autonomy with a growing need for interpersonal and interspecies solidarity. The author argues that writers sought a solution in the processing of remnants â€" in the productive destruction of two leftovers of modernity: Sarmatian and utopia.
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Farewell To Postmodernism - Social Theories Of The Late Left

by Bartosz Kuzniarz

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 The grand narrative of capitalism continues at the beginning of the 21st century, though in a different (postmodern) key from its previous forms. In such circumstances, the New Leftist predilection for colourful peripheries â€" something it has unwittingly shared with postmodernism â€" must give way to a tendency for ethically responsible reflection.

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