Buku pengantar estetika karangan Dr. A.A.M. Djelantik, memiliki posisinya yang unik. Sejauh ini tidak terlalu banyak paparan tentang estetika yang runtut, koheren, menyeluruh dan praktis yang dituangkan dalam bahasa Indonesia. Berdasarkan pengalamannya baik sebagai budayawan maupun pengamat seni, A.A.M. Djelantik berusaha setahap demi setahap mengurangi kompleksitas dunia seni, serta menyederha…
Cabang-cabang utama pemikiran filsafat beserta pertanyaan-pertanyaan muncul. Kenapa harus memperlajari filsafat merupakan salah satu pertanyaan yang menghujam filsafat. Bayangkan dunia tanpa filsafat. Dalam buku ini, karya enam filsuf besar dan pandangan mereka tentang manusia, Tuhan, alam, sejarah, kenyataan, etika, dan politik akan dijabarkan; dan pemikiran yang mendominasi dunia filsafat kon…
Kodrat manusia bukan hanya rasional melainkan juga relasional. Komponen utama relasionalitas: Aku, Teks, Liyan (Other), Fenomen. Framework elaborasi filosofis relasionalitas memiliki kepentingan fondasional untuk interpretasi kajian sosial: riset kualitatif-fenomenologis studi-studi identitas, gerakan sosial, konflik-damai, pendidikan intersubjektif, dialog sosio-politis-religius, kearifan loka…
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism should we submit ourselves to a miserable third way of economic liberalism and government-as-administration? In this major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Žižek takes on the reigning ideology with a plea that we should re-appropriate several &ls…
Herbert Marcuse's Negations is both a radical critique of capitalist modernity and a model of materialist dialectical thinking. In a series of essays, originally written in the period stretching from the 1930s to 1960s, Marcuse takes up the presupposed categories that have, and continue to, ground thought and action in our administered society: liberalism, industrialism, individualism, hedonism…
This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that he was merely an apologist for bourgeois society. The second study examines the experiential content …