Between Nihilism and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Nihilism and Politics write by Silvia Benso. This book was released on 2010-09-29. Between Nihilism and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.
Nihilism & Emancipation
Nihilism & Emancipation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nihilism & Emancipation write by Gianni Vattimo. This book was released on 2007-02-27. Nihilism & Emancipation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Features essays on ethics, politics, and law. This book re-evaluates the meaning, values, and the idea of freedom in Western culture. A daring marriage of philosophical theory and practical politics, this collection is the first of Gianni Vattimo's many books to combine his intellectual pursuits with his public and political life. Vattimo is a paradoxical figure, at once a believing Christian and a vociferous critic of the Catholic Church, an outspoken liberal but not a former communist, and a recognized authority on Nietzsche and Heidegger as well as a prominent public intellectual and member of the European parliament.
Dawn of Political Nihilism
Dawn of Political Nihilism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dawn of Political Nihilism write by David Ohana. This book was released on 2012. Dawn of Political Nihilism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the turbulent period between 1870 and 1930, the contours on modernity were taking shape, especially the connections between technology, politics and aesthetics. The trilogy The Nihilist Order traces the genealogy of the nihilist-totalitarian syndrome. Until now, nihilism and totalitarianism were considered opposites: one an orderless state of affairs, the other a strict regimented order. On closer scrutiny, however, a surprising affinity can be found between these two concepts that dominated the history of the first half of the twentieth century. Starting with Nietzsche's philosophy, this book traces the development of an intellectual school characterized by the paradoxical dual purpose of a wish to destroy, coupled with a strong desire to create imposing structures. This explosive combination of nihilist leanings together with a craving for totalitarianism was an ideal of philosophers, cultural critics, political theorists, engineers, architects and aesthetes long before it materialized in flesh and blood, not only in technology, but also in fascism, Nazism, bolshevism and radical European political movements. Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Sorel, the Italian Futurists, led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and Ernst J nger were all well-known intellectual and cultural figures. Here they are seen and understood in a different light, as creators of a modern political mythology that became a source of inspiration for belligerent ideological camps. Among the ideas propagated by this school, and later adopted by totalitarian regimes, were historical nihilism, a revolt against the rationalistic and universalistic pretensions of the Enlightenment, an affirmation of the dynamism of modern life, and the replacement of the traditional Judeo-Christian values of good and evil by other dualities such as authenticity and decadence. Concurrently there took place affirmation of the technological era, the creation of a 'new man' and a violent order, and the birth of a new political style in place of traditional world-views. When channeled into the political sphere, these aesthetic nihilist ideas paved the way for the rise of totalitarianism.
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger write by Charles Guignon. This book was released on 1993-02-26. The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains both overviews of Heidegger's life and works and analysis of his most important work, Being and Time.
Political Theology of International Order
Political Theology of International Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Theology of International Order write by William Bain. This book was released on 2020-04-09. Political Theology of International Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is contemporary international order truly a secular arrangement? Theorists of international relations typically adhere to a narrative that portrays the modern states system as the product of a gradual process of secularization that transcended the religiosity of medieval Christendom. William Bain challenges this narrative by arguing that modern theories of international order reflect ideas that originate in medieval theology. They are, in other words, worldly applications of a theological pattern. This ground-breaking book makes two key contributions to scholarship on international order. First, it provides a thorough intellectual history of medieval and early modern traditions of thought and the way in which they shape modern thinking about international order. It explores the ideas of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Martin Luther, and other theologians to rise above the sharp differentiation of medieval and modern that underpins most international thought. Uncovering this theological inheritance invites a fundamental reassessment of canonical figures, such as Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes, and their contribution to theorizing international order. Second, this book shows how theological ideas continue to shape modern theories of international order by structuring the questions theorists ask as well as the answer they provide. It argues that the dominant vocabulary of international order, system and society, anarchy, balance of power, and constitutionalism, is mediated by the intellectual commitments of nominalist theology. It concludes by exploring the implications of thinking in terms of this theological inheritance, albeit in a world where God is only one of several possibilities that can called upon to secure the regularity of order.
