Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies In Rousseau and Diderot

Mass Enlightenment uncovers the tensions and contradictions associated with the rise of capitalism and mass culture as they were already making themselves felt during the second half of the eighteenth century and shows that the works of Rousseau and Diderot display a manifest awareness of the negative side of "enlightenment" and "progress". Simon explores the themes of individual freedom and mo…

The Wisdom of Sartre

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0-8065-2250-X

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104 pgs.; 21 cm.

Judul Seri

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194 WIS w

Reveries of The Solitary Walker

After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, "The Reveries." In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the ma…

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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0-13-433434-5

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xxii + 159 pgs.; 21,5 cm.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

194 SIM j

Towards A Critique Of Foucault

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0-7102-0764-6

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vii + 179 pgs.; 23,5 cm.

Judul Seri

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194 TOW t

Abnormal: Lectures At The College De France 1974-1975

second collection of lectures by the influential philosopher addresses the role of psychiatry in the modern criminal justice system, the theme of societal defense against criminals, how to define "abnormality" and "normality," and how to identify and categorize criminal behavior and perpetrators.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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First Published

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0-679-75255-2

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333 pgs.; 20,5 cm.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

194 FOU d

Postmodern Fables

This latest offering from one of the most important philosophers of our time is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics, paying particular attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment.

Minima Memoria: In The Wake Of Jean-Francois Lyotard

Minima Memoria attests to the impact of the works of Jean-François Lyotard, one of the most influential French philosophers of the twentieth century, and the continuing effects of these works across a wide array of fields: philosophy, literature, political theory, gender theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. Particular attention is paid to Lyotard's repeated warnings regarding the way in whi…

The Inhuman: Reflections On Time

Jean-François Lyotard is one of Europe's leading philosophers, well known for his work The Postmodern Condition. In this important new study he develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity. In a wide-ranging discussion the author examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno, and Derrida and looks at the works of modernist and postmodernist artists such as Cézanne, Debussy…