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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619181);Numbers and politics are inter-related at almost every level - be it the abstract geometry of understandings of territory, the explosion of population statistics and measures of economic standards, the popularity of Utilitarianism, Rawlsian notions of justice, the notion of value, or simply the very idea of political science. Time and space are reduced to co-ordinates, illustrating a very real take on the political: a way of measuring and controlling it.This book engages with the relation between politics and number through a reading, exegesis and critique of the work of Martin Heidegger. The importance of mathematics and the role played by the understandings of calculation is a recurrent concern in his writing and is regularly contrasted with understandings of speech and language. This book provides the most detailed analysis of the relation between language, politics and mathematics in Heidegger's work. It insists that questions of language and calculation in Heidegger are inherently political, and that a far broader range of his work is concerned with politics than is usually admitted.Key FeaturesA unique introduction to the political dimension of Heidegger's work, opening it up to a wider audience*Offers an original exploration of the relationship between language, mathematics and politics in Heidegger's thinking*Shows how questions of politics and calculation are inter-related in modern conceptions of the political"

Studying philosophy and psychology in Paris -- Teaching at Lille and the École Normale Supérieure -- Psychology and mental illness -- Translating Binswanger and von Weizsäcker -- Nietzsche and Heidegger -- Madness - Uppsala to Warsaw -- Hamburg, Kant -- Defence, publication, reception, revision -- Coda : towards archaeology.

Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most challenging and contentious thinkers currently working within the European tradition. This is the first collection devoted to his work for English-language audiences and will act as an introduction to his work, set an agenda for engagement with his ideas, and relate his writings to a range of political, theoretical and practical contexts. Since his philosophical bestseller Critique of Cynical Reason (1983), Sloterdijk has exercised an important influence over German and other European thought and recently interest in his diverse oeuvre has gr

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; 1. The Polis and the Khora; 2. From Urbis to Imperium; Part II; 3. The Fracturing of the West; 4. The Reassertion of Empire; 5. The Pope's Two Swords; 6. Challenges to the Papacy; Part III; 7. The Rediscovery of Roman Law; 8. Renaissance and Reconnaissance; 9. The Extension of the State; Coda: Territory as a Political Technology; Notes; Index.

Introduction : terror and the state of territory -- Geographies of fear, threat, and division -- Territorial strategies of Islamism -- Rubble reduced to dust : targeting weak states -- Iraq : destruction and reconstitution -- Territorial integrity and contingent sovereignty -- Coda : the spatial extent of sovereignty

Today's global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the relationship between territory and sovereignty is under siege. Unfolding an updated understanding of the concept of territory, Stuart Elden shows how the contemporary ""war on terror"" is part of a widespread challenge to the connection between the state and its territory. Although the importance of territory has been disputed under globalization, territorial relations h

Henri Lefebvre has been celebrated as one of the most influential social theorists of the twentieth century. Understanding Henri Lefebvre places Lefebvre in his historical and intellectual context and analyzes the extraordinary range of his work, across politics, philosophy, history, literature and culture.Particular emphasis is given to LefebvreGÇÖs trilogy of inspirational thinkersGÇöHegel, Marx and Nietzsche; his links to contemporaries such as Heidegger, Axelos and the Situationalists; and his critiques of existentialism and structuralism. Analysis of his writings on cities are balanced wi

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Space and History in Being and Time -- Ontology, History and Time -- The Space of Dasein and Equipment -- Reading Kant Phenomenologically -- Towards Hölderlin and Nietzsche -- Chapter Two: In the Shadow of Nazism: Reading Hölderlin and Nietzsche -- Einführung: Introduction -- I: Hölderlin -- The Germania and Rhine Hymns -- The Ister Hymn -- II: Nietzsche -- Returning to the Augenblick -- Space and the Body -- Excursus: The Beiträge -- Power and Perspectivism -- Chapter Three: Art, Technology, Place and the Political -- The Origin of the Work of Art -- Re-thinking the & -- #928 -- ó& -- #955 -- & -- #962 -- -- The Question of Technology -- Dwelling Poetically at the Place of the Fourfold -- Platial Descriptions -- Art and Space -- Chapter Four: Towards a Spatial History -- I: A History of Limits -- Archaeology -- Genealogy -- II: Mapping the Present -- Chapter Five: The Spaces of Power -- I: Re-placing Madness and Civilisation -- Leprosy, Water and Madness -- Confinement and Correction -- Observing and Classifying -- The Birth of Moral Imprisonment -- II: Not Through Bentham's Eyes -- A Torturous Sediment -- The Army, Schools, Monasteries, Factories -- The Spaces of Medicine -- The Panopticon and Panopticism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

Esta es una compilación de algunas de las reflexiones que escribí para mi blog Progressive Geographies durante el proceso de investigación para una serie de libros sobre Michel Foucault. Comienza con una breve reflexión respecto a lo que estaba haciendo con estos posts, y luego es seguida por un pequeño texto que escribí para el periódico online Berfrois acerca del proceso de escribir los libros. Le siguen algunos fragmentos seleccionados de posts en mi blog. Allí reflexiono sobre la investigación en bibliotecas, mi propia colección y en archivos, así como sobre la escritura propiamente tal. Trato de compartir lo que funcionó y lo que no y, más que presentarlos como un resultado final, muestro un poco del cómo los libros son producidos.