Tag: undoing

Free Download Seven Prophets and the Culture War: Undoing the Philosophies of a World in Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781594175251 | 2024 | 4 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 261 MB
Author: Alexandre Havard
Narrator: Leon Griesbach
Three of the seven "prophets" presented in this book-Descartes,Rousseau, and Nietzsche-provoked or facilitated, through their intellectual activity, great upheavals. The others-Pascal, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Soloviev- predicted these very upheavals but showed us the way to overcome them. If we study all seven of these philosophers in depth, we will have an easier time grasping the essence and origin of the universal drama now unfolding before our eyes and we will make wise and courageous choices for a better future. Alex Havard walks us through the hills and valleys of recent history: the philosophical pitfalls embraced by the world, and the transcendent values and virtues that will help us overcome them. This book is our way forward, as a collective community-a way to understand where the intellectual confusion began, so that we may find our way out of it.

Free Download Premesh Lalu, "Undoing Apartheid "
English | ISBN: 1509552820 | 2023 | 202 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of ‘petty apartheid’, which controlled the minutia of everyday life, became a means of dragooning human beings into adapting to increasingly mechanized forms of life that stifle desire and creative endeavour. As a result, apartheid is incessantly repeated in the struggle to move beyond it.

Free Download William Desmond, "The Voiding of Being: The Doing and Undoing of Metaphysics in Modernity"
English | 2019 | pages: 313 | ISBN: 0813232481 | PDF | 2,1 mb
In contemporary philosophy the status, indeed the very viability of metaphysics is a much contested issue. The reflections offered here explore diverse aspects of this contested status and offer a defence of metaphysics. In other works, perhaps most fully in Being and the Between, William Desmond has tried to develop what he calls a metaxological metaphysics in response to different skeptical, if not hostile approaches to metaphysics quite common in our time. The Voiding of Being complements the systematic dimensions of this metaxological metaphysics outlined in Being and the Between. It presents a set of studies which amplify important themes in the unfolding of modern metaphysics, in relation to major earlier and contemporary thinkers, while adding nuance to what is involved in the more systematic articulation of a metaxological metaphysics. There is what the author calls a voiding of being in modernity, expressed in diverse developments of thought. "The Voiding of Being," might seems to conjure up too negative associations but the aim of the thoughts gathered here is not at all negative. While attempting to understand the voiding of being in modern thought, our appreciation of the promise of metaphysical thinking can also be renewed and indeed extended – extended beyond skepticism and hostility to metaphysics. Desmond engages many interlocutors along the way, from the long tradition, such as Heraclitus, Aquinas and Hegel, as well as more contemporary thinkers like Heidegger and Marion. As the book’s subtitle suggests, it is concerned with the continued doing of metaphysics and not only the contemporary undoing of it.

Free Download Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (Early American Studies) by Kathleen M. Brown
English | February 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1512823279 | True EPUB | 456 pages | 10.3 MB
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery’s harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. This book explores those challenges.

Free Download Professor Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes "
English | ISBN: 1648250610 | 2023 | 238 pages | PDF | 107 MB
The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life.