Philosophy : Movements

Ideas, says Sande Cohen, have attained “commodity” status in the academy, and knowledge is now seen as another capitalistic “industry.” In Academia and the Luster of Capital, Cohen both reveals and interrogates the specific and material workings of this economy of the marketplace of ideas.Cohen uses paradigms from Baudrillard, Lytoard, Deleuze, and Guattari to assemble a “war machine” against the well-oiled apparatus of self-preservation and self-reproduction of the academic institution. In detailed and concrete arguments, he challenges accepted theories of criticism, especially university-based myths. Academia and the Luster of Capital constitutes a compelling statement for the abandonment of legitimating, officiating paradigms of thought in all academic disciplines, and outlines possibilities for the emergence of the new in thought in action. more...

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From the ninth to the fifteenth centuries Jewish thinkers, influenced by Islamic theological speculation, classical philosophers and Christian Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, philosophized about Judaism. The essays in this comprehensive Companion present all the major Jewish thinkers of the period and the philosophical and non-philosophical contexts of their thoughts. more...

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Grant argues that the Age of Reason really began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to 1600) when the first large scale institutionalization of reason in the history of civilization occurred. This study shows how reason was used in the university subjects of logic, natural philosophy, and theology. more...

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The significance of Machiavelli's political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. A distinguished team of political theorists and historians reassess the evidence, examining the character of Machiavelli's own republicanism and charting his widespread influence, the founders of the American Republic among others. more...

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Possibly one off the most significant yet most overlooked works of the twentieth century, it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. more...

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