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This essay critiques feminist treatments of maternal-fetal "relationality" that unwittingly replicate features of Western individualism (for example, the Cartesian division between the asocial body and the social-cognitive person, or the conflation of social and biological birth). I argue for a more reflexive perspective on relationality that would acknowledge how we produce persons through our actions and rhetoric. Personhood and relationality can be better analyzed as dynamic, negotiated qualities realized through social practice.

This book explores the breadth of philosophical interest in life and death during the early modern period. It connects debates in philosophy with the life sciences, linking the study of organisms to the practical aspect of philosophy, and reminding us that that philosophers were concerned with learning how to live and how to die.

An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon is one of Joseph de Maistre's most original and important works. Best known for his defence of throne and altar and for his critique of the political and religious thought of the Enlightenment, Maistre also addressed more fundamental philosophical issues. His critique of Bacon, written between 1814 and 1816, is a vigorous attack on the materialism and scientism that he believed characterized the thought of the French philosophes.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Irigaray's Project -- 2. Irigaray's Nietzsche -- 3. Irigaray's Sensible Transcendental -- 4. Shattering Mirrors -- 5. Deleuze's Project -- 6. Deleuze's Nietzsche -- 7. Deleuze's Becoming-Imperceptible -- 8. Mapping Lines of Flight -- 9. Corporeal Cartographies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Main description: Without doubt Richard Rorty is one of the most honored, famous and disputed philosophers of our days. All over the world interest in his inspiring and provoking thoughts goes beyond the circles of academic philosophy. The present volume includes "The Brain as Hardware, Culture as Software" and "Philosophy-Envy" of Richard Rorty, papers presented by students of the philosophy department at university of Münster and Rorty's responses to and comments on them. Rorty's lecture has been publicly presented at the 8. Münstersche Vorlesungen zur Philosophie on may 26th 2004. The students presented their intensively prepared papers on the following day. The volume gives an overview of the main topics of his philosophy as well as a detailed analysis of central concepts. "The papers are of very high quality indeed, and the level of discussion during the day I spent with the students was equally high. I have never, in any university, encountered students who combined such detailed knowledge of my writings with such penetrating criticisms of my views." (Richard Rorty)

Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of liberal democracy-perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had. Moreover, in Reading Leo Strauss, Smith shows that Strauss's defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme Left and extreme Right.Smith asserts that this philosophical skepticism defined Stra

Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Permissions -- Epigraphs -- CONTENTS -- The Classroom -- A Warning -- The Vulgar, Not the Vulgate -- Clowns -- Bubbles -- Tiresias' Secret -- Choke Me -- Solomon Kane's Demon -- The Face of Nakedness -- Alone with Enki -- Fuckzilla -- Solidarity -- Akiko's Boys -- Prince and Lady -- Generous Promiscuity -- Acknowledgements.

FC -- Half title -- ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BLOOMSBURY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- OCTOBER 27TH 1960 -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CONSCIOUS RESISTANCE -- The Disasters of War -- The Critique of Pure Resistance -- Resistance to Empire -- Resistant and Political Consciousness -- Unconscious Resistance -- 2 VIOLENT RESISTANCE -- The Logic of Escalation -- The 'Protracted War of Resistance' -- Gandhian Resistance: Ahimsa and Satyagraha -- Resisting Apocalypse -- Non-Violence and the Capacity to Resist -- 3 RESISTANT SUBJECTIVITIES -- Modes of Resistance -- Anti-Colonial Resistance -- The Figure of the Partisan -- The Gandhian Vow -- 'Resist the Military' -- The Resistant Dead -- Genet's Resistant Subjectivity -- 4 TOTAL DOMINATION AND THE CAPACITY TO RESIST -- Anti-Fascist Theories of Resistance -- The French Resistances -- Resistance and Total Domination -- Near-Zero Capacities of Resistance: the Manhunt Doctrine -- Salò or the End of Resistance -- 5 THE CONTEMPORARY CAPACITY TO RESIST -- The Other Side of the Spectacle -- Indigenous Resistances -- The Calls to Resistance -- The Technology of Resistance -- Digital Resistance -- Afterword: Outside the Law -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Prologue : the story of human society -- Plato's vegetarian republic -- Confucius' polite society -- Aristotle and the hierarchy of nature -- Mohammed's message of doom -- Machiavelli's psychopathic state -- Hobbes' wicked world -- Locke's feudal freedom -- Rousseau's ode to liberty -- The founding fathers' constitutional recipe -- Mr. Smith's excellent inquiry into money -- Marx's messianic materialism -- Mill's optimistic liberalism -- Durkheim's strange science -- The philosophical dance with fascism -- Hitler's doctrine of hate -- Mao's little red book -- Epilogue : the end of history?