LIBROS DEL AUTOR: sean gaston

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: sean gaston

  • Jacques Derrida and the Challenge of History
    Sean Gaston
    In the first book-length study of Derrida and the question of history, and in response to the 2016 publication of Derrida's 1964-1965 seminar on Heidegger and history, Sean Gaston explores Derrida's own political responses to the historical events of his time. He argues that contemporary philosophy can provide a basis for thinking about history. ...
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    53,90 €

  • Concept of World from Kant to Derrida
    Gaston / Sean Gaston
    In the mid-eighteenth century metaphysics was broadly understood as the study of three areas of philosophical thought: theology, psychology and cosmology. This book examines the fortunes of the third of these formidable metaphysical concepts, the world.Sean Gaston provides a clear and concise account of the concept of world from the mid-eighteenth century to the end of the twen...
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    85,23 €

  • Derrida, Literature and War
    Sean Gaston
    Derrida, Literature and War argues for the importance of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida’s work in thinking today about war and literature. Sean Gaston starts by marking Derrida’s attempts to resist the philosophical tradition of calculating on absence as an assured resource, while insisting on the (mis)chances of the chance encounter. Gaston re-examines the ...
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    75,92 €

  • Starting with Derrida
    Sean Gaston
    How does one start with Derrida? In this exciting and accessible book, Sean Gaston presents a new kind of introduction to Jacques Derrida, arguably the most important and influential European thinker of the last century. Derrida claimed that ’However old I am, I am on the threshold of reading Plato and Aristotle ... we need to read them again and again and again. In Starting wi...
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    42,00 €

  • Derrida and Disinterest
    Sean Gaston
    Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and importance have been disputed, and its definition reworked by such pivotal figures as Nietzsche, Shaftesbury, Locke and Kant. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gaston looks at the treatment of disinterest in the work of two major modern Continental philosophers: Jacques Derrida and ...
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    103,63 €