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Buku karya Marcus Boon yang berjudul Memuliakan Penyalinan (Bagaimana Penyalinan Bekerja dan Menjadi Dasar Hidup Manusia) merupakan terbitan terjemahan KUNCI Publication kedua yang disebarkan secara gratis setelah buku Budaya Bebas karya Lawrence Lessig (2011). Buku ini menjelaskan tentang merasuknya penyalinan dalam yang dinamakan budaya kontemporer. Mulai dari dompet Louis Vuitton sampai Har…
A brilliant account of the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Popper explains the central ideas in his work, making this ideal reading for anyone coming to his life and work for the first time.
The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
Buku ini menjajikan pergulatan pemikiran yang berkembang di Prancis. Di dalamnya anda akan menemukan banyak aliran pemikiran dari para pemikir yang terkenal secara luas seperti Henri Bergson, Blondel, Teilhard de Chardin, Gabriel Marcel, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Paul Ricoeur, Levinas, Foucault, Derrida dan Lyotard berikut beberapa aliran dari deretan tokoh pemikir Prancis abad keduapul…
Nietzsche adalah salah satu pemikir terbesar dalam filsafat modern. Gagasan-gagasannya memberontak kemapanan dan mengejutkan banyak kalangan. Ia melawan arus zamannya yang dikuasai oleh ketundukan pada otoritas agama dan ilmu. Ia berteriak sinis pada kekuasaan, ketika banyak orang takluk dan menghamba pada negara. Buku ini merupakan telaah pertama tentang pemikiran filsuf kntroversial itu.…
Demonstrates how Nietzsche initiated a new mode of philosophical thinking. First published in 1962, this landmark book is one of the first to dispute the deep-seated assumption that dialectics provides the only possible basis for radical thought.
Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe, and r…
Long considered 'the noblest of the senses,' vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political a…
Acclaimed throughout the world as a philosopher of liberation and revolution, Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. His penetrating critiques of the ways modern technology produces forms of society and culture with oppressive modes of social control indicate his enduring significance in the contemporary moment. This collection of unpublished or unc…
The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his most important work to date, Glas. Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial�book. Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in…
Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato.
Martin Buber believed that life's deepest truth lies in human relationships. In this classic work he puts this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society.
To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. In Wickedness she sets out to delineate not so much the nature of wickedness as its actual sources. Midgley's analysis proves that the capacity for real wickedness is an inevitable part of human nature. This is not however a blanket accepta…
Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to this extent adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Norris also very forcefully challenges the view that the academic 'disciplines' as we know them are so many artificial constructs of recent date an…
This is an essential guide to an thinker. Frederic Jameson sees Lyotard as responding to a contemporary 'crisis of representation' in the sciences a crisis which calls into question 'an essentially realistic epistemology, which conceives of representation as the reproduction, for subjectivity, of an objectivity that lies outside it projects a mirror theory of knowledge and art, whose fundame…