Kant In The Land Of Extraterrestrials
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Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials
Author | : Peter Szendy |
Publsiher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-09-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780823255511 |
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“Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials.” This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks of science fiction). What is revealed in the aliens of which Kant speaks—and he no doubt took them more seriously than anyone else in the history of philosophy—are the limits of globalization, or what Kant called cosmopolitanism. Before engaging Kantian considerations of the inhabitants of other worlds, before comprehending his reasoned alienology, this book works its way through an analysis of the star wars raging above our heads in the guise of international treaties regulating the law of space, including the cosmopirates that Carl Schmitt sometimes mentions in his late writings. Turning to track the comings and goings of extraterrestrials in Kant’s work, Szendy reveals that they are the necessary condition for an unattainable definition of humanity. Impossible to represent, escaping any possible experience, they are nonetheless inscribed both at the heart of the sensible and as an Archimedean point from whose perspective the interweavings of the sensible can be viewed. Reading Kant in dialogue with science fiction films (films he seems already to have seen) involves making him speak of questions now pressing in upon us: our endangered planet, ecology, a war of the worlds. But it also means attempting to think, with or beyond Kant, what a point of view might be.
Plurality of Words
Author | : Steven J. Dick |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1984-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521319854 |
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This book analyses the debate over extraterrestrial life from Aristotle to Kant.
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750 1900
Author | : Michael J. Crowe |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521359864 |
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This is the first in-depth study in English of the international debate that developed between 1750 and 1900 concerning the question of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. Taking a history of ideas approach, the author describes the controversies that-arose over this question and reveals the great extent to which this issue influenced astronomical, philosophical, and religious thought. Professor Crowe shows that the majority of the leading astronomers of the last two centuries participated in this debate and he analyzes how their views interacted with new developments such as Newtonian mechanics, stellar astronomy, Darwinian theory, and astrophysics. This fascinating and critical history shows that the longstanding and widespread belief in extraterrestrial life has for centuries acted to alter major areas of our intellectual life.
Plurality of Worlds
Author | : Steven J. Dick |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1014742016 |
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Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense
Author | : Leslie Adelson |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783110525649 |
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Alexander Kluge’s revolutionary storytelling for the 21st-century pivots on the production of anti-realist hope under conditions of real catastrophe. Rather than relying on possibility alone, his experimental miniatures engender counterfactual horizons of futurity that are made incrementally accessible to lived experience through narrative form. Innovative close readings and theoretical reflection alike illuminate the dimensional quality of future time in Kluge’s radical prose, where off-worldly orientation and unnatural narrative together yield new sensory perspectives on associative networks, futurity, scale, and perspective itself. This study also affords new perspectives on the importance of Kluge’s creative writing for critical studies of German thought (including Kant, Marx, Benjamin, and especially Adorno), Holocaust memory, contemporary globalization, literary miniatures, and narrative studies of futurity as form. Cosmic Miniatures contributes an experiential but non-empirical sense of hope to future studies, a scholarly field of pressing public interest in endangered times.
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750 1900
Author | : Michael John Crowe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Life on other planets |
ISBN | : OCLC:1409470871 |
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Experimenting the Human
Author | : G Douglas Barrett |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2023-01-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780226823393 |
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An engaging argument about what experimental music can tell us about being human. In Experimenting the Human, G Douglas Barrett argues that experimental music speaks to the contemporary posthuman, a condition in which science and technology decenter human agency amid the uneven temporality of postwar global capitalism. Time moves forward for some during this period, while it seems to stand still or even move backward for others. Some say we’re already posthuman, while others endure the extended consequences of never having been considered fully human in the first place. Experimental music reflects on this state, Barrett contends, through its interdisciplinary involvements in postwar science, technology, and art movements. Rather than pursuing the human's beyond, experimental music addresses the social and technological conditions that support such a pursuit. Barrett locates this tendency of experimentalism throughout its historical entanglements with cybernetics, and in his intimate analysis of Alvin Lucier’s neurofeedback music, Pamela Z’s BodySynth performances, Nam June Paik’s musical robotics, Pauline Oliveros’s experiments with radio astronomy, and work by Laetitia Sonami, Yasunao Tone, and Jerry Hunt. Through a unique meeting of music studies, media theory, and art history, Experimenting the Human provides fresh insights into what it means to be human.
Novels by Aliens
Author | : Kate Marshall |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2023-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226827841 |
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A wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century’s fascination with the weird. Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers of fiction and criticism are avidly experimenting with strange, even alien perspectives and protagonists. Kate Marshall’s Novels by Aliens explores this development broadly while focusing on problems of genre fiction. She identifies three key generic hybrids that harness a longing for the nonhuman: the old weird, an alternative tradition within naturalism and modernism for the twenty-first century’s cowboys and aliens; cosmic realism, the reach for words legible only from space in otherwise terrestrial narratives; and pseudoscience fiction, which imagines speculative futures beyond human life on earth. Offering sharp and surprising insights about a breathtaking range of authors, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Kazuo Ishiguro, Willa Cather to Maggie Nelson, Novels by Aliens tells the story of how genre became mood in the twenty-first century.