Beginning in an analysis of three paradigmatic instances of the encounter between art and technology in modernism-the invention of photography, the step beyond art in Futurism and Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and '30s-this book analyzes three philosophical responses to the question of nihilism-those of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Junger, and Martin Heidegger-all of which are characterized by an avant-garde sensibility that looks to art as a way to counter of the crisis of modernity. These responses are then brought to bear on...

Contents "French Philosophy Since 1945," Fredrika Spindler "Utopian Thinking in Past and Contemporary Times," Sinziana Ravini "Universal Modernism, Swedish Art Heroine," Charlotte Bydler "'Pastoral Power' and the Techniques for Controlling the Poor and Unemployed," Maurizio Lazzarato "Inventing a Silence," Alexandre Costanzo "The Ground Zero Mosque That Wasn't One: Media and Architecture in America," Joel McKim "Who's Afraid of Red, Blue and Yellow?," Sam Smiles "Water Lilies and the Gesture of Melancholy: On Monet's Late Works," Bente Larsen "Adorno and the Problem of Late Style," Sven-Olov...

Translating Hegel - The Phenomenology of Spirit and Modern Philosophy: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit stands at the crossroads of modern philosophy. Taking us from the lowest and simplest level of sense-certainty through ever more complex forms of knowing and acting, Hegel's monumental work even-tually aspires to nothing less than a blueprint for absolute knowledge: a unity of subject and object, finite and infinite, man and world, a notion that has continually provoked new reactions and counterreactions throughout the course of modernity. Is Hegel's work the consummation of classical...

About the book: Foucault's work on biopolitics and governmentality has inspired a wide variety of responses, ranging from philosophy and political science to history, legal studies, and urban planning. Drawing on historical sources from antiquity to twentieth century liberalism, Foucault presented us with analyses of freedom, individuality, and power that cut right to the heart of these matters in the present. About the series: Sodertorn Philosophical Studies is a book series published under the direction of the Department of Philosophy at Sodertorn University, Sweden. The series consists of...

The idea of a limit of reason, a measure that defines reason and that it must not overstep, has been a constitutive part of philosophy since its beginnings in Greek thought. Placing itself in opposition to the madness of hubris, the excesses of tragedy, and the stories of religion and myth, philosophy expels its others just as much as it thrives on them. It begins and ends at the limit; it is drawn towards its outside, and exists as a perpetual attempt to find a line of demarcation that always ends up passing through its interior.The present collection analyzes the phenomenon of limit and...