Becoming War-Machines: Neoliberalism, Critical Politics and Singularities of Struggle

By Michael K. Middleton

The implications of part a century of intensified procedures of neoliberal
globalization announce themselves in becoming inequalities in prosperous facilities of world
trade and in impoverished websites populated via exploited groups and assets.
Political upheavals, social marginalizations, and monetary insecurities brought by way of
these disasters in either the worldwide South and the worldwide North represent a tenuous
common floor among assorted collectivities of fight.
This dissertation takes this capability universal floor among disparate
communities marginalized by means of neoliberalism as a terrain on which to discover attainable
solidarities among those ‘singularities of struggle.’ It asks how neighborhood struggles waged by way of
communities within the international North and international South contest and avoid the stipulations of
neoliberalism, and what sorts of political identification, collective identifications, and
micropolitical strength are invented in those struggles.
To solution those questions, Deleuze and Guattari’s “State-form” and “war-machine” are mobilized as severe instruments for conceptualizing how neoliberalism
universalist assumptions are manifested in singular occasions. specific consciousness is
given to the universally-singular expressions of fabric poverty, differential inclusion,
and subordination wrought by way of neoliberal globalization, and the demanding situations those
conditions create for theorizing universal topoi of oppositional discourse, together with
identity, collectivity, and gear.

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The Elements of Moral Philosophy

The parts of ethical Philosophy via James Rachels and Stuart Rachels is a best-selling textual content for undergraduate classes in ethics. 13 thought-provoking chapters introduce readers to significant ethical strategies and theories in philosophy via transparent, comprehensible motives and compelling discussions.

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The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time (The Britannica Guide to the World's Most Influential People)

By Britannica Educational Publishing

It's been stated that after it involves luck, it isn't what you recognize, yet who you recognize.

The a hundred such a lot Influential Philosophers of All Time is one name during this eight e-book sequence, during which readers get the simplest of either worlds. Concise yet information-packed biographies aspect the lives and life's paintings of hundreds of thousands of best participants from an collection of disciplines.

Readers gets to understand the main minds inside technology, artwork, writing, song, invention, politics and philosophy. each one worthy compendium bargains a entire index, complementary visuals, and behind-the-scenes info that show the very human nature in the back of world-changing personalities.

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Contesting Nietzsche

By Christa Davis Acampora

In this groundbreaking paintings, Christa Davis Acampora deals a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s an important thought of the agon. interpreting a powerful array of fundamental and secondary assets and synthesizing a long time of Nietzsche scholarship, she indicates how the agon, or contest, geared up center components of Nietzsche’s philosophy, supplying a brand new appreciation of the subtleties of his infamous perspectives approximately energy. by means of focusing so intensely in this specific guiding curiosity, she bargains a thrilling, unique vantage from which to view this iconic philosopher: Contesting Nietzsche.
 
Though existence—viewed in the course of the lens of Nietzsche’s agon—is fraught with fight, Acampora illuminates what Nietzsche famous because the agon’s generative advantages. It imbues the human event with value, that means, and price. studying Nietzsche’s embellishments of agonism—his comments on kinds of contests, characteristics of contestants, and the stipulations within which both might thrive or deteriorate—she demonstrates how a lot the agon formed his philosophical initiatives and significant tests of others. The agon led him from one set of matters to the subsequent, from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, through Homer, Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In displaying how one obsession catalyzed such a lot of assorted pursuits, Contesting Nietzsche sheds essentially new gentle on a few of this philosopher’s such a lot tough and paradoxical ideas.

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La tranquillité de l'âme

By Seneca

Aussi n'est-il plus besoin à présent de recourir à des remèdes trop durs - ils sont désormais derrière nous : tu n'as plus à lutter contre toi-même, à te mettre en colère contre toi-même, à te montrer sévère envers toi-même. Ce qui importe désormais, l'étape finale, c'est d'avoir confiance en toi et d'être convaincu que tu suis le bon chemin, sans te laisser dérouter par les lines de ceux - et ils sont nombreux - qui se sont fourvoyés de tous côtés. Nous allons donc chercher remark l'âme peut avancer d'une attract toujours égale et aisée, se sourire à elle-même, observer avec bonheur ses propres réalisations; remark, sans interrompre l. a. joie qu'elle en tire, elle peut rester clans cet état de calme et ne connaître ni hauts ni bas : ce sera l. a. tranquillité. Cherchons une règle générale permettant d'atteindre cet état : de ce remède universel, tu prendras los angeles half que tu veux.

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The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology

By Jonathan Cohen

The pink and the Real deals a brand new method of longstanding philosophical puzzles approximately what shades are and the way they healthy into the wildlife. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role-functionalist therapy of color--a view in response to which colours are similar to yes useful roles concerning perceptual results on topics. Cohen first argues (on extensively empirical grounds) for the extra basic relationalist view that shades are constituted when it comes to relatives among gadgets, perceivers, and viewing stipulations. He responds to semantic, ontological, and phenomenological objections by contrast thesis, and argues that relationalism bargains the simplest wish of respecting either empirical effects and usual trust approximately colour. He then defends the extra particular function functionalist-account by way of contending that the latter is the main believable type of colour relationalism.

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An Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Sciences (San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy)

By Alfred Claassen

Many to be had books say specific strategy, framework, philosophy, or strategy is the main to a rosy destiny for the social sciences, psychology, or cultural reports. in spite of the fact that, they make those claims individually and in technical and really good methods. This ebook addresses all of those facets right away in a full of life and generalist manner. strange approximately it's its seamless circulate throughout a wide range of fields and matters. infrequent approximately it's the emotional stress it builds and sustains. targeted approximately it's that, whereas grounding and orienting the human sciences, it addresses the most important questions of philosophy. Brimming with clean perception, An Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Sciences is an formidable, daring, deeply concept, and powerfully felt paintings with a tone as exact as its principles.

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Becoming and Time in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

By Samantha E. Bankston

This dissertation interrogates the idea that of changing into because it operates in an ontological
system of immanence. Our undertaking is to enquire turning into by itself phrases. we have now
chosen Gilles Deleuze because the thinker of changing into par excellence, who asks how
becoming results the mounted constructions of representational notion. regardless of being the
driving strength of Deleuze?s philosophical undertaking, he by no means officially systematized his
concept of turning into. Reconstructing the conceptual historical past of turning into in Deleuze?s
philosophy allows us to comic strip a differential, immanent ontology and its temporal and
causal approaches. From the outset, we find that Bergonian period and Nietzschean
eternal go back are re-appropriated in Deleuze?s inspiration of turning into. opposite to his
critics, Deleuze doesn't evince dualist ontology. Remapping the temporal strains which
inform the process his writings, we find that Deleuze?s ontology is tripartite.
Absolute changing into, sensory turning into, and effectuated being give you the panorama
through which natural distinction is produced. Staging conceptual encounters among
Bergson, Nietzsche, Leibniz, Borges, Klossowski, and Proust permits us to formulate an
explicit proposal of changing into from their implicit temporalities in Deleuze?s philosophy. In
the finish, we follow the recent inspiration of changing into to Deleuze?s works, demonstrating that
his canon dramatizes the immanent ontology he theorizes.

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