Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted. For John D. Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth over them.

A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order. The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were a...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂安·德昆西教授，就职于约翰·F.肯尼迪大学。研究哲学和意识，是哲学研究大学意识研究所主任，智慧学院的创立者，意识、宇宙论和灵性的国际演讲者。他的著作包括：《彻底的认识》、《从僵尸到天使的意识》和小说《深度精神》。他生活在加利福尼亚。

A spirited & severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in writing including examples from: Blake & Wordsworth to Clint Eastwood. From the Inside Flap This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake ae...(展开全部)

Hermeneutics as Politics, perhaps the most important critique of post-modern thought ever written, is here reissued in a special fifteenth anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert B. Pippin argues that the book has rightfully achieved the status of a classic. Rosen illuminates the underpinnings of post-modernist thought, providing valuable insight as he pursues two argume...(展开全部)

Steven Lukes' Power: A Radical View is a seminal work still widely used some 30 years after publication. The second edition includes the complete original text alongside two major new essays. One assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. The other reconsiders Steven Lukes' own views in light...(展开全部)

Material Hermeneutics explores the ways in which new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history. From the first lunar calendar to the black hole image, and from an ancient mummy in the Italian Alps to the irrigated valleys of Mesopotamia, this book demonstrates how revolutions in science have taught us far more than we imagine...(展开全部)

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault’s work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault’s work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault’s work became a sustained and largely suc...(展开全部)

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (1929-2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Paul Rabinow (1944-2021) was a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.