Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism - 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 Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism write by Tim Themi. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics. Bringing together Jacques Lacan and Friedrich Nietzsche, Tim Themi focuses on their conceptions of ethics and on their accounts of the history of ethical thinking in the Western tradition. Nietzsche blames Plato for setting in motion a degenerative process that turned ethics away from nature, the body, and its senses, and thus eventually against our capacities for reason, science, and a creative, flourishing life. Dismissing Platos Supreme Good as a mirage, Lacan is very much in sympathy with Nietzsches reading. Following this premise, Themi shows how Lacans ethics might build on Nietzsches work, thus contributing to our understanding of Nietzsche, and also how Nietzsches critique can strengthen our understanding of Lacan.
Eroticizing Aesthetics
Eroticizing Aesthetics - 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 Eroticizing Aesthetics write by Tim Themi. This book was released on 2021-06-03. Eroticizing Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics implicit in each and how this invokes an erotic process celebrating the real of what is usually excluded from articulation. Bataille came to deem eroticism as the standpoint from which to grasp humanity as a whole, based on his understanding of our transition to humanity being founded on a series of taboos placed on inner animality. An erotic outlet for the latter was historically the aesthetic dimensions of our religions, but Bataille’s view of how this was gradually diminished has much in keeping with Nietzsche’s critique of Christian-Platonic dualism and Lacan’s of the desexualised Good of Western metaphysics. Building from these often surprising proximities, Themi closely examines Bataille’s many interventions into the history of aesthetics — from his confrontations with Breton’s surrealism to his own novels and encounter with the animal cave paintings of Lascaux — radically re-illuminating the corollary phenomena of Dionysos in Nietzsche’s philosophy and the “jouissance [enjoyment] of transgression” in the psychoanalysis of Lacan. A new ethical criterion for aesthetic works and creations on this basis becomes possible.
Renaturalising
Renaturalising - 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 Renaturalising write by Jessica McKenzie. This book was released on 2011. Renaturalising available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This thesis is the first study to examine the interaction between estuarine discharge and coastal environments, for intermittent estuaries in Victoria. The study examined water quality, bacteria and seaweed communities and the diet of mussels, concluding that estuarine discharge is an important driver for the productivity of nearshore marine environments.
The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy - 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 Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy write by John Burns. This book was released on 2020-09-27. The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view that although poets and philosophers continually quarrel, a harmonious union between the two groups is achievable in a manner promising application to a variety of contemporary cultural-political and aesthetic debates, all of which have implications for the current status of the humanities.
Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor
Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor - 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 Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor write by Charles Freeland. This book was released on 2013-05-28. Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With its privileging of the unconscious, Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic thought would seem to be at odds with the goals and methods of philosophy. Lacan himself embraced the term "anti-philosophy" in characterizing his work, and yet his seminars undeniably evince rich engagement with the Western philosophical tradition. These essays explore how Lacan's work challenges and builds on this tradition of ethical and political thought, connecting his "ethics of psychoanalysis" to both the classical Greek tradition of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and to the Enlightenment tradition of Kant, Hegel, and de Sade. Charles Freeland shows how Lacan critically addressed some of the key ethical concerns of those traditions: the pursuit of truth and the ethical good, the ideals of self-knowledge and the care of the soul, and the relation of moral law to the tragic dimensions of death and desire. Rather than sustaining the characterization of Lacan's work as "anti-philosophical," these essays identify a resonance capable of enriching philosophy by opening it to wider and evermore challenging perspectives.
