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Zusatztext Ringing true and brilliant and crystal clear, Force and Understanding confirms what we have long thought and have yet to say: Howard Caygill is to be counted among the great thinkers of our time. Informationen zum Autor 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).Providing insight into the roots of his philosophy of resistance, this collection brings together Howard Caygill’s most significant philosophical essays, the majority of which are not freely available and many of which are previously unpublished. Zusammenfassung 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most significant philosophical essays, the majority of which are not freely available and many of which are previously unpublished.Here, a major philosopher is at work, offering rich, rigorous and politically-engaged readings of canonical and lesser-known figures and texts.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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor’s Introduction, Stephen HowardAcknowledgements PART ONE: CONDITIONS Section one: Starting points 1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx3. 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 Nietzsche8. Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy 9. Under the Epicurean Skies10. That Perhaps Abused Word… Section three: Life 11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure14. 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 Biophilosophy17. The Force of Kant’s Opus postumum 18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological Scales Section five: Immanence 21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka’s “Nature Theatre of Oklahama”23. Benjamin's Natural Theology24. Levinas’s Silence25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982 PART TWO: RESISTANCE 26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon 28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate29. Clausewitz and Idealism 30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience31. Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias32. Strategi...
