edinburgh university press the edinburgh dictionary of continental philosophy jan 2006

deleuze foucault ‘John Protevi has put together a very useful dictionary and I expect it to be used extensively by students seeking clear and crisp definitions of key concepts, as well as helpful and reliable accounts of the main intellectual figures, in continental philosophy. The entries are uniformly excellent and Protevi’s grasp of the key concepts is first-rate.’ Keith Ansell Pearson, University of Warwick ‘The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy can be recommended to novices and scholars alike because it satisfies the pressing need for a reliable guide to the most recent developments in Continental philosophy not only in Europe, but also, and more unusually, in North America.’ Professor Robert Bernasconi, Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy, The University of Memphis With over 450 clearly written definitions and articles by an international team of specialists, this authoritative dictionary covers the thinkers, topics and technical terms associated with the many fields known as ‘continental philosophy’. Special care has been taken to explain the complex terminology of many continental thinkers. Researchers, students and professional philosophers alike will find the dictionary an invaluable reference tool. Key features include: • in-depth entries on major figures and topics •over 190 shorter articles on other figures and topics •over 250 items on technical terms used by continental thinkers, from ‘abjection’ [Kristeva] to ‘worldhood’ [Heidegger] •coverage of related subjects that use continental terms and methods •extensive cross-referencing, allowing readers to relate and pursue ideas in depth. John Protevi is Associate Professor of French Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Time and Exteriority (Bucknell, 1994); Political Physics (Athlone, 2001); and co-author, with Mark Bonta, of Deleuze and Geophilosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2004). He is currently working on a book on ‘political physiology’ that will combine cognitive science and poststructuralism. Cover design: River Design, Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF www.eup.ed.ac.uk ISBN 0 7486 1716 7 9 780748 617166 ISBN 0-7486-1716-7 The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy Edited by John Protevi Edited by John Protevi derridahusserl phenomenology poststructuralism epistemology german idealism feminism irigaray marxism time The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy Edited by John Protevi Edinburgh The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy [...]... object in the manner of the ‘determinate’ judgements analysed in the first Critique but seeks out its concept by reflecting upon its acts of judgement In the Analytic of the aesthetic judgement of taste Kant explores the characteristics of such judgements in terms of the basic headings of the table of the categories established in the first Critique, namely quality, quantity, relation and modality The quality... on the one hand as the very e-vent of a language as invitation, consent or call to the other On the other hand, to the extent that they are within language – and since there are no singular utterances – they necessarily function as repetitions or citations of themselves This opens the threat of mechanical parody, and even of eschatological closure, as well as the chance of a response come from the other,... african philosophy hand, there might only be some notion of race or ‘blackness’ that functions as the unifying category under which are gathered all the profound historical and cultural differences of human life on the continent of Africa On the other hand, simply rejecting the notion of ‘African philosophy might reinstate the racist notion of a ‘primitive mentality’ Therefore, consideration of Bantu Philosophy, ... concerns beauty In the ‘Transcendental Aesthetic’ of the Critique of Pure Reason Kant distinguished between aesthetic as a doctrine of ‘a priori sensibility’ and the ‘critique of taste’ The aesthetic judgement belongs largely to the latter, and is analysed in the first part of the Critique of Judgement This form of judgement has for Kant two fundamental peculiarities: it involves the ascription of a quality... The quality of such judgements consists in the absence of ‘interest’ – they are as indifferent to the materiality as they are to the rational ideas informing their objects The quantity of such judgements consists in their ‘universal validity’, but this universality is founded neither upon the subjective summing of 12 aesthetics individual judgements nor on the universality of the concept The relation... notion of ‘Africa’s real problems’ touches upon another important topic of debate in the field of African Philosophy, that is the role of the critique of Eurocentrism and the work provoked by the onset of the postcolonial age The historical reality of imperial colonial projects throughout the African continent left indelible marks upon both Western and African intellectual life The project of critiquing... know of the world, the farther we are from an understanding of the work of art as a pure origin What is at issue is the hold language has over what it describes in the work of art Wendy Steiner (The Colors of Rhetoric, 1982) describes this conflict as one in which prose works engage the established linguistic signifying system while visual arts emphasise the thingly nature of the work of art, yet the. .. Philosophy, the text and its reception, provides the following challenge: that one be wary of rejecting the honorific of philosophy even as one interrogates the supposed unity of ‘Africa’ Thus the major questions fuelling the recent growth in interest in the field of ‘African philosophy are: What is African about African philosophy? What kinds of questions characterise the practice of African philosophy? ... not rather than defining its positive qualities The searching and inconclusive character of the investigation extends to the discussion of the deduction of such judgements and to their proximity with the experience of the sublime It has also contributed to the intense discussion provoked by the aesthetic judgement which saw a remarkable renaissance late in the twentieth century in the writings of Arendt,... replacement for the real–possible distinction, and as a way of reformulating the relationship between the empirical and the transcendental (the latter being the ‘ground’ or ‘condition’ of the former) The concept of the possible is problematic in two ways We tend to think of the possible as pre-existing the real, and the real as a possibility that has been instantiated in existence But this process of realisation . irigaray marxism time The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy Edited by John Protevi Edinburgh The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy