Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
In 1795 Immanuel Kant proclaimed that the peoples of the earth have entered into a 'universal community'. Since Kant wrote this, the processes of inter-connection between the peoples of the earth has grown even more pronounced, and the notion of 'cosmopolitics' has thus come to seem a defining one for the contemporary age. […]

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The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-1978)

Publisher: Columbia University Press
The Neutral is comprised of the written texts from which Barthes lectured and centers around 23 figures, also referred to as traits or twinklings, that are possible embodiments of the Neutral (sleep, silence, tact, etc.) or of the anti-Neutral (anger, arrogance, conflict, etc.). His lectures draw on a diverse set of authors […]

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The Empirical Stance

Publisher: Yale University Press
What is empiricism and what could it be? The author, a contributor to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and offers a programme for renewal of the empiricist tradition.

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