Force and Understanding Writings on Philosophy and Resistance
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University, London, UK. He is author of On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Kafka: In Light of the Accident (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Stephen Howard is a Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.
For the past three decades Howard Caygill has been one of the two or three leading practitioners and exponents of European philosophy in the UK. This remarkable collection of selected essays is an intellectual event in itself, demonstrating Caygill’s remarkable range, depth and unique form of critical engagement. Of especial note are the five exquisite essays on Nietzsche, the parallel essays on life and the life sciences, and the defiant series of essays that anticipate and complement Caygill’s resistance trilogy. And then there is the beautiful, moving, and great demystifying opening essay on Gillian Rose.
J. M. Bernstein, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA
Caygill is one of our foremost practitioners of the past, present and future philosophical difficulties of Kant’s [so-called] Copernican revolution. This collection essays the life force of understanding, resisting both metaphysics and the death of metaphysics with a non-resentful joyous living in the turmoil of the loss of the ‘object in-itself’.
Nigel Tubbs, Professor of Philosophical and Educational Thought, University of Winchester, UK
Ringing true and brilliant and crystal clear, <i>Force and Understanding </i>confirms what we have long thought and have yet to say: Howard Caygill is to be counted among the great thinkers of our time.
George Smith, Edgar E. Coons, Jr. Professor of New Philosophy and Founder and President of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, USA
For the past thirty years, Howard Caygill has been a distinctive and radical voice in continental philosophy. For the first time, this volume gathers together Caygill’s most significant philosophical essays, the majority of which are not freely available and many of which are previously unpublished.
Here, a major philosopher is at work, offering rich, rigorous and politically-engaged readings of canonical and lesser-known figures and texts. From Kant and Frantz Fanon to Herman Kahn, founder of the Hudson Institute, Caygill uncovers the untapped resources that the history of philosophy provides for contemporary thought, whilst critically pushing beyond the limits of the tradition.
Divided into two parts, the first part of the collection reveals the philosophical backdrop to Caygill’s acclaimed study of political resistance, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (2015), whilst the second part sees Caygill further develop his account of resistance through wide-ranging analyses of contemporary culture. Exploring numerous subjects, including Nietzsche, metaphysics, radical politics, and digital resistance, to name but a few, Force and Understanding introduces readers to the orienting themes of Caygill’s thought and provides the opportunity to engage with one of the most astute, learned, and critical philosophical minds around.
Editor’s Introduction, Stephen Howard
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: CONDITIONS
Section one: Starting points
1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics
2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx
3. Violence, Civility and the Predicaments of Philosophy
4. Politics and War: Hegel and Clausewitz
5. Perpetual Police? Kosovo and the Elision of Police and Military Violence
Section two: Affirmation
6. The Consolation of Philosophy, or ‘Neither Dionysus Nor the Crucified’
7. Philosophy and Cultural Reform in the Early Nietzsche
8. Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy
9. Under the Epicurean Skies
10. That Perhaps Abused Word…
Section three: Life
11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene
12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture
13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure
14. Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary upon ‘Two Things Fill the Mind’
15. Life and Energy
Section four: Philosophy/science
16. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze’s Biophilosophy
17. The Force of Kant’s Opus postumum
18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance
19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction
20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological Scales
Section five: Immanence
21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism
22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka’s “Nature Theatre of Oklahama”
23. Benjamin's Natural Theology
24. Levinas’s Silence
25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982
PART TWO: RESISTANCE
26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers
27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon
28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate
29. Clausewitz and Idealism
30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience
31. Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias
32. Strategic Intervention and the Digital Capacity to Resist
33. XR: Thinking Resistance at the End of the World
Afterword by Jacqueline Rose
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University, London, UK. He is author of On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Kafka: In Light of the Accident (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Stephen Howard is a Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.