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- FREE THE TARNAC 9 + A statement of support by Giorgio Agamben
23 Nov 2008 at 10:24 pm
This e-mail is from semiotext(e).
[note about the blog: due to my busy engagements I couldn't post anything for 2 months, I'll post a 50 book set sometime in this week.]
Nine friends in France have been arrested and accused of terrorism, although no proof has been brought against them. Attached please find a petition written by the publisher Eric Hazan, which can be signed (name, occupation, city) and returned to: lafabrique@lafabrique.fr
A statement of support by Giorgio Agamben is pasted in below.
Thanks very much.
TERRORISM OR TRAGICOMEDY?
On the morning of November 11, 150 police officers, most of which belonged to the anti-terrorist brigades, surrounded a village of 350 inhabitants on the Millevaches plateau, before raiding a farm in order to arrest nine young people (who ran the local grocery store and tried to revive the cultural life of the village). Four days later, these nine people were sent before an anti-terrorist judge and ?accused of criminal conspiracy with terrorist intentions.? The newspapers reported that the Ministry of the Interior and the Secretary of State ?had congratulated local and state police for their diligence.? Everything is in order, or so it would appear. But let?s try to examine the facts a little more closely and grasp the reasons and the results of this ?diligence.?
First the reasons: the young people under investigation ?were tracked by the police because they belonged to the ultra-left and the anarcho autonomous milieu.? As the entourage of the Ministry of the Interior specifies, ?their discourse is very radical and they have links with foreign groups.? But there is more: certain of the suspects ?participate regularly in political demonstrations,? and, for example, ?in protests against the Fichier Edvige (Exploitation Documentaire et Valorisation de l'Information Générale) and against the intensification of laws restricting immigration.? So political activism (this is the only possible meaning of linguistic monstrosities such as ?anarcho autonomous milieu?) or the active exercise of political freedoms, and employing a radical discourse are therefore sufficient reasons to call in the anti-terrorist division of the police (SDAT) and the central intelligence office of the Interior (DCRI). But anyone possessing a minimum of political consc
ience could not help sharing the concerns of these young people when faced with the degradations of democracy entailed by the Fichier Edvige, biometrical technologies and the hardening of immigration laws.
As for the results, one might expect that investigators found weapons, explosives and Molotov cocktails on the farm in Millevaches. Far from it. SDAT officers discovered ?documents containing detailed information on railway transportation, including exact arrival and departure times of trains.? In plain French: an SNCF train schedule. But they also confiscated ?climbing gear.? In simple French: a ladder, such as one might find in any country house.
Now let?s turn our attention to the suspects and, above all, to the presumed head of this terrorist gang, ?a 33 year old leader from a well-off Parisian background, living off an allowance from his parents.? This is Julien Coupat, a young philosopher who (with some friends) formerly published Tiqqun, a journal whose political analyses ? while no doubt debatable ? count among the most intelligent of our time. I knew Julien Coupat during that period and, from an intellectual point of view, I continue to hold him in high esteem.
Let?s move on and examine the only concrete fact in this whole story. The suspects? activities are supposedly connected with criminal acts against the SNCF that on November 8 caused delays of certain TGV trains on the Paris-Lille line. The devices in question, if we are to believe the declarations of the police and the SNCF agents themselves, can in no way cause harm to people: they can, in the worst case, hinder communications between trains causing delays. In Italy, trains are often late, but so far no one has dreamed of accusing the national railway of terrorism. It?s a case of minor offences, even if we don?t condone them. On November 13, a police report prudently affirmed that there are perhaps ?perpetrators among those in custody, but it is not possible to attribute a criminal act to any one of them.?
The only possible conclusion to this shadowy affair is that those engaged in activism against the (in any case debatable) way social and economic problems are managed today are considered ipso facto as potential terrorists, when not even one act can justify this accusation. We must have the courage to say with clarity that today, numerous European countries (in particular France and Italy), have introduced laws and police measures that we would previously have judged barbaric and anti-democratic, and that these are no less extreme than those put into effect in Italy under fascism. One such measure authorizes the detention for ninety-six hours of a group of young ? perhaps careless ? people, to whom ?it is not possible to attribute a criminal act.? Another, equally serious, is the adoption of laws that criminalize association, the formulations of which are left intentionally vague and that allow the classification of political acts as having terrorist ?intentions? or ?inclinat
ions,? acts that until now were never in themselves considered terrorist.
? Giorgio Agamben
Libération, November 19, 2008
ATTACHMENTS THAT CAME WITH THE MAIL
photo by koudelka (it is there, in the event's haunting we are -a community, we remember- experiencing a particular twilight. we are the threshold of resistance [bauman "modernity and the holocaust"] to stop this)
- German Idealism: "For a god, knowing always the proper measure"
28 Aug 2008 at 07:42 am
"No power will again be suppressed, then general freedom and equality will reign among spirits! ? A higher spirit, sent from heaven, must found this new religion among us, it will be the last, greatest task of humanity." Hölderlin
Yes, I'm bored of french theory. deutschland über alles. anyway. as long as this is modernity, the determination of "as" firstly touches what does not come before it, the void that led the sentence to appear. that is why a german issue issued itself.
note that a 15 book schelling issue is next and there will be a suprise for all, a new schelling pdf that I made. have a nice summer! sun shines! hölderlin sings! this belated romantic suffers!
have a look at salvatore puglia. a unique encounter with his work: Christopher Fynsk' "Infant Figures"
edit: relevant titles which are posted already:
[new link] JL Nancy & Lacoue-Labarthe - The Literary Absolute -- The Theory Of Literature In German Romanticism
FICHTE
Fichte - The Science of Rights
Fichte: The System of Ethics
The Science Of Knowing: J.g. Fichte's 1804 Lectures On The Wissenschaftslehre
Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination
by Frederick Beiser
Hegel
(The Routledge Philosophers)
by Frederick Beiser
The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism
(Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
by Karl Ameriks (Editor)
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics
(Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
by J. M. Bernstein (Editor)
Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte and Kant
by Kyriaki Goudeli
German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
by Terry Pinkard
The German Aesthetic Tradition
by Kai Hammermeister
The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism
(Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy)
by Peter Koslowski (Editor)
Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism
(Studies in Continental Thought)
by David F. Krell
Nietzsche and the German Tradition
The Philosopher's Voice: Philosophy, Politics, and Language in the Nineteenth Century
(Suny Series in Philosophy)
by Andrew G. Fiala
The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism
(Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)
by Manfred Frank
Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism
(Studies in German Idealism)
German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives
by Espen Hammer
Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830
(Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
by Martin Priestman
Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity
(Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
by Andreas Killen
Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine Biography, Celebrity, Politics
(Routledge Studies in Romanticism)
by David Higgins
The Rhetoric of Romanticism
by Paul de Man
Hölderlin sath:
For a god, knowing always the proper measure,
Touches sparingly and just for a moment the homes
Of men ? unexpectedly, and no one knows when.
But then something boisterous may appear,
And wildness may come to the holy place from afar.
Grasping about roughly, it touches upon madness,
And fills some intention thereby.
Gratitude doesn't follow the gift
From the gods immediately:
It has to be deeply studied first.
For if the giver hadn't been cautious,
From the blessing of the hearth both
Floor and ceiling would have gone up in flames.
- Fichte - The Science of Rights
27 Aug 2008 at 10:47 pm
SCIENCE OF RIGHTS
Grundlage des Naturrech~ nach
Principien der Wissenschaftslehre
J. G. FICHTE
T R A N S L A T E D FROM T H E GERMAN
BY
A. E. KROEGER
WITH A PREFACE BY
W I L L I A M T. H A R R I S
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- Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte and Kant
27 Aug 2008 at 10:16 pm
Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte and Kant
by Kyriaki Goudeli
# Hardcover: 224 pages
# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (January 15, 2003)
This book offers an important reappraisal of Schelling's philosophy and his relationship to German Idealism. Focusing on Schelling's self-critique in early identity philosophy the author rejects those criticisms of Schelling made by both Hegel and Heidegger. This work significantly redraws the boundaries of metaphysical thinking, arguing for a dialogue between rational philosophy, mythology and cosmology.
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- German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
27 Aug 2008 at 10:10 pm
German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
by Terry Pinkard
# Paperback: 392 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 16, 2002)
Published a little more than two years ago, Pinkard's Hegel: A Biography has quickly become the standard life in English of the world's major Romantic-era philosopher, not least because of its magisterial explications of the finer points of Hegel's thought, along with its extremely forthright judiciousness about the life. To have another work from Pinkard, professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, in so short a time is remarkable. Pinkard takes readers-carefully, succinctly and in a manner sensitive to the political and social ferment of the time-on a journey through the most important hundred years in philosophy since the Renaissance. Beginning with the Kantian revolution in human understanding of its own knowledge (the ethical and political consequences that result from it), Pinkard walks readers through the philosophical chaos that reigned through the 1790s, when Hegel was at university with Halderlin and Schelling and the German states were in upheaval, through to Hegel's "completion" of Kant's project (announced with 1807's Phenomenology of Spirit) and Schopenhauer's version of idealism (mirrored in Kierkegaard's pessimism). In Pinkard's hands, what could be just names come alive as men and ideas that have much to teach us about our own beliefs about how to live. As he writes of Hegel's phenomenology, "it was to provide an education, a bildung, a formation for its readership so that they could grasp who they had become (namely, a people individually and collectively `called' to be free), why they had become those people, and why that had been necessary."
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- Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity
27 Aug 2008 at 10:05 pm
Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity
(Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
by Andreas Killen
# Hardcover: 303 pages
# Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (January 16, 2006)
Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups--railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators--Andreas Killen traces the emergence in the 1880s and then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness. During this period, Killen explains, Berlin became arguably the most advanced metropolis in Europe. A host of changes, many associated with breakthroughs in technologies of transportation, communication, and leisure, combined to radically alter the shape and tempo of everyday life in Berlin. The resulting consciousness of accelerated social change and the shocks and afflictions that accompanied it found their consummate expression in the discourse about nervousness.
Wonderfully researched and clearly written, this book offers a wealth of new insights into the nature of the modern metropolis, the psychological aftermath of World War I, and the operations of the German welfare state. Killen also explores cultural attitudes toward electricity, the evolution of psychiatric thought and practice, and the status of women workers in Germany's rapidly industrializing economy. Ultimately, he argues that the backlash against the welfare state that occurred during the late Weimar Republic brought about the final decoupling of modernity and nervous illness.
From the Inside Flap
"Berlin Electropolis is the first English-language history of neurasthenia or of nerves in the German context. However, the author does more than just narrate the history of this central, yet puzzling malady; he discusses the construction, maintenance, and ultimate unraveling of a cultural assumption, by which modernity and progress were seen as creating nervous pathology. Killen introduces readers to a great deal of fascinating material and forges new connections between science, culture and society."--Paul Lerner, author of Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
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- Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830
27 Aug 2008 at 9:56 pm
Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830
(Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
by Martin Priestman
# Paperback: 324 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (November 2, 2006)
Romantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain, from the 1780s onward. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, as well as a host of less canonical poet-intellectuals and controversialists of the time. Above all, the book conveys the excitement of Romantic atheism, whose dramatic appeals to new developments in politics, science and comparative mythology lent it a protean energy belied by the more recent conception of "loss of faith."
mirror rim
- Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism
27 Aug 2008 at 9:46 pm
Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism
(Studies in German Idealism)
by William Desmond (Editor), Ernst-Otto Onnasch (Editor), Paul Cruysberghs (Editor)
# Hardcover: 175 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 29, 2004)
This volume comprises studies written by prominent scholars working in the field of German Idealism. These scholars come from the English speaking philosophical world and Continental Europe. They treat major aspects of the place of religion in Idealism, Romanticism and other schools of thought and culture. They also discuss the tensions and relations between religion and philosophy in terms of the specific form they take in German Idealism, and in terms of the effect they still have on contemporary culture. The authors consider figures such as Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Jacobi.
The book will prove very informative to researchers and teachers working in the fields of philosophy, philosophy of religion, and classical German philosophy.
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- The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism
27 Aug 2008 at 9:41 pm
The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism
(Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)
by Manfred Frank
Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert (Translator)
Often portrayed as a movement of poets lost in swells of passion, early German Romanticism has been generally overlooked by scholars in favor of the great system-builders of the post-Kantian period, Schelling and Hegel. In the twelve lectures collected here, Manfred Frank redresses this oversight, offering an in-depth exploration of the philosophical contributions and contemporary relevance of early German Romanticism. Arguing that the early German Romantics initiated an original movement away from idealism, Frank brings the leading figures of the movement, Fredrich Schlegel and Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), into concert with contemporary philosophical developments, and explores the role that Friedrich Hölderlin and other members of the Homberg Circle had upon the development of early German Romantic philosophy.
zahit bizi tan eyleme
- The Philosopher's Voice: Philosophy, Politics, and Language in the Nineteenth Century
27 Aug 2008 at 9:38 pm
The Philosopher's Voice: Philosophy, Politics, and Language in the Nineteenth Century
(Suny Series in Philosophy)
by Andrew G. Fiala
# Hardcover: 352 pages
# Publisher: State University of New York Press (October 2002)
This analysis of the relationship between philosophy and politics recognizes that political philosophers must continually struggle to distinguish their voices from others that clamor within political life. Author Andrew Fiala asks whether it is possible to maintain a distinction between philosophical speech and other political and poetic language. His answer is that philosophy distinguishes itself from politics by its methodological self-consciousness of the nature of its voice. By focusing on the different ways in which this methodological norm was enacted in the lives and work of Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, the author puts the problem in a larger context and considers the roles that these thinkers played in the political history of the nineteenth century. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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ellen burgin - I scream, you scream
- de Man - The Rhetoric of Romanticism
27 Aug 2008 at 9:34 pm
The Rhetoric of Romanticism
by Paul de Man
# Paperback: 327 pages
# Publisher: Columbia University Press (April 15, 1984)
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- Nietzsche and the German Tradition
27 Aug 2008 at 9:29 pm
Nietzsche and the German Tradition
by Nicholas Martin (Editor), Christa Davis Acampora (Contributor), Thomas H. Brobjer (Contributor), Daniel W. Conway (Contributor), Malcolm Humble (Contributor), Friedrich Nietzsche Society Conference 1997 University of St. andrews (Corporate Author)
# Paperback: 314 pages
# Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (December 2003)
Nietzsche and the German Tradition. To those persuaded that Nietzsche is the anti-German, antitraditional thinker par excellence, this title may well appear contradictory. Just how potentially contradictory (but also fruitful) it is, can be gauged by recasting it as a series of questions, emphasising each word in turn: Nietzsche and the German Tradition? Nietzsche and the German Tradition?
Nietzsche and the German Tradition? Nietzsche and the German Tradition? Nietzsche and the German Tradition?
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- Krell - Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism
27 Aug 2008 at 9:26 pm
Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism
(Studies in Continental Thought)
by David F. Krell
# Paperback: 243 pages
# Publisher: Indiana University Press (April 1998)
Among all poisons, the soul is the most potent.
—NOVALIS, DAS ALLGEMEINE BROUILLON, 2: 706
Every substance can become a poison. For only through
the activity of an organism does a substance become poisonous.
—SCHELL1NG, ERSTER ENTWURF, 73
The living is something fixed and determined in-and-for-itself
Whatever it touches chemically on the outside is immediately
transformed by this contact. . .. The living immediately poisons
this other, transforms it, as spirit does when it intuits something,
transforming it and making it its own. For that something
is its representation.
—HEGEL, ENZYKLOPÄDIE, 9:402-403
captain krell is here!
- The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism
27 Aug 2008 at 9:23 pm
The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism
(Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy)
by Peter Koslowski (Editor)
# Hardcover: 293 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 19, 2005)
believe me this volume is very good
- The German Aesthetic Tradition
27 Aug 2008 at 9:18 pm
The German Aesthetic Tradition
by Kai Hammermeister
# Paperback: 259 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (November 4, 2002)
"This is a timely, useful, and compelling synthesis of important themes in German philosophical aesthetic thought. Recommended." Choice
"What Hammermeister inevitably achieves in this compact, yet wonderfully rich, book is much more than a scholarly overview of an important and difficult historical tradition in aesthetic philosophy." Philosophy and Literature
Product Description
This is the only available systematic critical overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present. The book begins with the work of Baumgarten and covers all the major writers on German aesthetics that follow: Kant, Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer and Adorno. It offers a clear and non-technical exposition of ideas, placing these in a wider philosophical context where necessary. Interest in this book extends far beyond the discipline of philosophy to those of literary studies, fine art and music.
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- Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine Biography, Celebrity, Politics
27 Aug 2008 at 9:12 pm
Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine Biography, Celebrity, Politics
(Routledge Studies in Romanticism)
by David Higgins
# Hardcover: 192 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (October 19, 2005)
In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject
of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping to shape the ideological consciousness of their middle-class readers. Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine considers how these magazines debated the nature of genius and how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses. Romantic writers often imagined genius to be a force that transcended the
realms of politics and economics. David Higgins, however, shows in this text that
representations of genius played an important role in ideological and commercial
conflicts within early nineteenth-century literary culture. Romantic Genius and the
Literary Magazine also bridges the gap between Romantic and Victorian literary history by considering the ways in which Romanticism was understood and sometimes
challenged by writers in the 1830s. It not only discusses a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors, but also examines the various structures in which these authors had to operate, making it an interesting and important book for anyone working on Romantic literature.
David Higgins is a Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, and has
published articles on Wordsworth, Hazlitt and nineteenth-century constructions
of race.
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- German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives
27 Aug 2008 at 9:06 pm
German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives
by Espen Hammer
# Hardcover: 339 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 7, 2007)
German Idealism is one of the most important movements in the history of
philosophy. It is also increasingly acknowledged to contain the seeds of many
current philosophical issues and debates. This outstanding collection of specially
commissioned chapters examines German idealism from several angles
and assesses the renewed interest in the subject from a wide range of fields.
Including discussions of the key representatives of German idealism such as
Kant, Fichte and Hegel, it is structured in clear sections dealing with:
metaphysics
the legacy of Hegel?s philosophy
Brandom and Hegel
recognition and agency
autonomy and nature
the philosophy of German romanticism
Amongst other important topics, German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives
addresses the debates surrounding the metaphysical and epistemological legacy
of German idealism; its importance for understanding recent debates in moral
and political thought; its appropriation in recent theories of language and the
relationship between mind and world; and how German idealism affected subsequent
movements such as romanticism, pragmatism, and critical theory.
Contributors: Frederick Beiser, Jay Bernstein, Andrew Bowie, Richard
Eldridge, Manfred Frank, Paul Franks, Sebastian Gardner, Espen Hammer,
Stephen Houlgate, Terry Pinkard, Robert Pippin, Paul Redding, Fred Rush,
Robert Stern.
Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo and a
Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is the author of Adorno
and the Political (Routledge, 2006).
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- Fichte: The System of Ethics
27 Aug 2008 at 10:47 pm
Fichte: The System of Ethics
(Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Daniel Breazeale (Editor), Guenter Zöller (Editor)
# Hardcover: 446 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (December 19, 2005)
Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is the most accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel. Fichte's ethics integrates the discussion of our moral duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of the human subject, and ranges over a number of important philosophical themes. This volume offers a new translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.
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- The Science Of Knowing: J.g. Fichte's 1804 Lectures On The Wissenschaftslehre
27 Aug 2008 at 10:46 pm
The Science Of Knowing: J.g. Fichte's 1804 Lectures On The Wissenschaftslehre
(S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Walter E. Wright (Translator)
# Paperback: 260 pages
# Publisher: State University of New York Press (September 30, 2005)
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