Free Download Comparative Law and the Task of Negative Critique
by Pierre Legrand
English | 2023 | ISBN: 036772300X | 317 Pages | True PDF | 18 MB

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by Lucy Bailey
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103238235X | 178 Pages | True PDF | 12.5 MB

Free Download Bernard Faure, "The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism"
English | ISBN: 0691073740 | | 420 pages | PDF | 85 MB
Through a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"-its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works-and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. Given this apparent duplicity in its discourse, Faure reveals how Chan structures its practice and doctrine on such mental paradigms as mediacy/immediacy, sudden/gradual, and center/margins.

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English | ISBN: 9004680403 | 2023 | 164 pages | PDF | 13 MB
The book follows the movements of the concept of "woman" from the Early modern to the post-colonial age, through the words of women who challenged its patriarchal definition, laying the groundwork for a feminist critique of the present.

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English | ISBN: 3031450744 | 2023 | 147 pages | EPUB, PDF | 21 MB + 4 MB
This book challenges the Western contemporary "praise for Nature". From food to body practices, from ecological discourses to the Covid-19 pandemic, contemporary imaginaries abound with representations of an ideal "pure Nature", essentially defined according to a logic of denial of any artificial, modified, manipulated ― in short, cultural ― aspect.

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English | ISBN: 1666928313 | 2023 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 547 KB + 2 MB
The socio-cultural phenomenon of digital enhancement, that is, the attempt to perfect the subject's offline life by means of digital media, seduces people into participating in digitalization. Subjects paradoxically want to participate in digital change even though it is well known that digitalization also impairs their freedom and privacy, and this book investigates both the freedom-impairing and the freedom-enhancing aspects of digital enhancement. Sarah Bianchi provides an empirically informed critical aesthetic diagnosis, a perspective that makes the overlooked affect- and power-sensitive Janus face of subjectivity in digital enhancement perceivable: the subjects' desire to be governed by the logic of perfection-that is, the heart of digital enhancement-and their simultaneous desire for self-government. To this end, An Aesthetic Critique of Digital Enhancement: Government of the Self and Desire makes Foucault's "history of the present" in its Nietzschean genealogy productive for contemporary critical thought on digital enhancement. Through genealogical critique, this approach provides the needed semantics to question the costs of our digital present and to conceptualize how an enlightened agency might be critically constructed.

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English | ISBN: 0268201528 | 2021 | 480 pages | PDF | 33 MB
This new edition of the English translation of Maurice Blondel's Action (1893) remains a philosophical classic.

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In this live critique show, now available to watch as a replay, Karl reviews animal and macro images submitted by members. Looking at each of the submissions, he gives his feedback and advice. He also demonstrates some simple post-production tips that can easily be applied to any image, and shares a number of tips for photographing macro shots of nature or animals. These include using extension tubes, compositional techniques, and how to achieve sufficient depth of field.

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031405897 | 529 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This book studies various perspectives in the history of European philosophy on the relationship between time and movement. Ever since the pre-Socratic thinker Zeno of Elea linked time and space to understand bodily movement, his so-called paradoxes of motion have remained unsolved. One of his most important critics, the French philosopher Henri Bergson, criticized the usual connection between time and space and established a new way of understanding time as duration (durée). Whereas Zeno presented an objectivist understanding of time, Bergson emphasized its subjectivist meaning. Both contradictory positions seem incompatible, referring to pure intellect (Zeno) on the one hand or pure sensation (Bergson) on the other. Looking at Hegel's Phenomenology, this book shows that the outer and inner consciousness of time became crucial to his principle of movement and change. In his view, time is an integral part of dialectical processes that are historically substantiated. Hegel sought to subordinate pure concepts and ideas so that they would become indispensable moments of the self knowing spirit. Cassirer appreciated the idealism of coming into being but rejected Hegel's concept of the absolute. Instead, he established his philosophy of symbolic forms, in which the development of different perceptions and conceptions of time - from situational affective experience to the mathematical system of relations - determines the direction of the symbolic formation process. In the end, the sensitive concept of time is replaced by the relational concept of natural numbers, in which all here-and-now experiences are embedded. Finally, Bourdieu attempts to reintegrate symbolic forms into social processes. The book reflects on the concepts mentioned here by discussing their pros and cons in order to shed more light on the relationship between time and movement in European thought.

Free Download Paul Guyer, Nick Zangwill, Christopher Janaway, "Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment: Critical Essays"
English | 2003 | pages: 282 | ISBN: 0742514196, 0742514188 | PDF | 16,2 mb
Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, first published in 1790, was the last of the great philosopher's three critiques, following on the heels of Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788). In the first two, Kant dealt with metaphysics and morality; in the third, Kant turns to the aesthetic dimension of human experience, showing how our experiences of natural and artistic beauty, the sublime magnitude and might of nature, and of purposive organisms and ecological systems gives us palpable evidece that it is possible for us not only to form moral intentions, but also to realize our freely chosen moral goals within nature as we experience it. The present volume collects twelve of the most important critical discussions on the Critique of the Power of Judgment written by leading Kant scholars and aestheticians from the United States and Great Britain. In addition to a substantive introduction by the editor, the book includes an extensive, annotated bibliography of the most important work on Kant and on the background and arguments of his third Critique published throughout the twentieth century.