Télécharger le livre :  Cruelty
In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been humanity’s constant companion, attesting to a darker side of human...

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Parution : 2025-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Fighting Antisemitism Today
In autumn 1962 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture on fighting antisemitism to the German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, a lecture that remains as topical and urgent today as it was in the 1960s.  After the Second World War, Germany...

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Parution : 2025-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Fictions
From ancient philosophy to contemporary theories of fiction, it is a common practice to relegate illusory appearances to the realm of the non-existent, like shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. Contrary to this traditional mode of drawing a metaphysical distinction...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Moral Progress in Dark Times
The challenges we face today are unprecedented, from the existential crisis of climate change to the global security threats posed by aggression in Ukraine and elsewhere. Add to this the crisis of liberal democracy and we seem to be swirling in a state of moral...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-11-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Music
A year after the end of the Second World War, the first International Summer Course for New Music took place in the Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany. The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was intended to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism
On 6 April 1967, at the invitation of the Socialist Students of Austria at the University of Vienna, Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture which is not merely of historical interest. Against the background of the rise of the National Democratic Party of Germany, which had...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics and Aesthetics
In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Rancière, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics and aesthetics, arguing that aesthetics forms the fundamental basis for social and political upheaval. Beginning from his...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy and Community
The concept of community is tainted by the events of the twentieth century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the purposes of exclusion and oppression. In this dialogue with Peter Engelmann, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy attempts to reframe community as...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Expulsion of the Other
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Aesthetics
This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works.  The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Correspondence 1925-1935
In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus. The writer expressly invited the philosopher to 'consider, with me, how such a work - and I mean Leverkuhn's work - could...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  In the World Interior of Capital
Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-16
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