@book {82679, title = {Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticisms of Artwork (Thinking Art)}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Oxford University Press, USA}, organization = {Oxford University Press, USA}, abstract = {

Dangerous Art\ takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards. When we think that a work is racist, or morally dangerous, what do we mean? James Harold approaches the topic from two angles. First, he takes up the moral question on its own. What could it mean to say that a work of art (rather than, say, a human being) is\ immoral? He then steps back and examines how moral evaluation fits into the larger task of evaluating artworks. If an artwork is immoral, what does that tell us about how to value the artwork?

By tackling the issue from both sides, Harold demonstrates how many of the reasons previously given for thinking that works of art are immoral do not stand up to careful scrutiny. While many philosophers of art have simply assumed that artworks can be evaluated morally and proceeded as though such assessments were unproblematic, Harold highlights the complexities and difficulties inherent in such evaluations. He argues that even when works of art are rightly condemned from a moral point of view, the relationship between that moral flaw and their value as artworks is complex. He instead defends a moderate, skeptic version of autonomism between morality and aesthetics. Employing figures and ideas from ancient Greece, classical China, and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as William Styron{\textquoteright}s novel\ The Confessions of Nat Turner,\ he argues that we cannot judge artworks in the same way that we judge people on moral grounds. In this sense, we can judge an artwork to be both wicked and
beautiful; nothing requires us to judge an artwork more or less valuable aesthetically just because we judge it to be morally bad or good. Taking up complex issues at the intersection of art and ethics,\ Dangerous Art\ will appeal to philosophers and students interested in art, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of mind.

James Harold\ is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College.

}, isbn = {978-0197519769}, author = {Harold, James} } @book {81728, title = {Die Austreibung des Anderen}, year = {2016}, month = {08/2016}, publisher = {FISCHER, S.}, organization = {FISCHER, S.}, abstract = {

Der international als {\guillemotright}neuer Star der deutschen Philosophie{\guillemotleft} gehandelte Byung-Chul Han legt nach seinem Bestseller {\guillemotright}Psychopolitik{\guillemotleft} sein neues Buch {\"u}ber Gesellschaft, Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation heute vor:
Die Zeit, in der es den Anderen gab, ist vorbei. Der Andere als Freund, der Andere als H{\"o}lle, der Andere als Geheimnis, der Andere als Verf{\"u}hrung, der Andere als Eros verschwindet. Er weicht dem Gleichen. Die Wucherung des Gleichen macht heute die pathologischen Ver{\"a}nderungen aus, die den Sozialk{\"o}rper befallen. Sie gibt sich dabei als Wachstum. Nicht Entfremdung, Entzug, Verbot, Verdr{\"a}ngung, sondern {\"U}berkommunikation, {\"U}berinformation, {\"U}berproduktion und {\"U}berkonsumtion machen ihn krank. Nicht Repression durch den Anderen, sondern Depression durch das Gleiche ist das Zeitzeichen von heute. Byung-Chul Hans neuer Essay sp{\"u}rt der Gewalt des Gleichen in den Ph{\"a}nomenen wie Angst, Globalisierung und Terrorismus nach, die die heutige Gesellschaft kennzeichnen.

}, isbn = {9783103972122}, author = {Byung-chul Han} } @book {81031, title = {The death of God and the meaning of life}, year = {2014}, month = {05/2014}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Ltd}, organization = {Taylor \& Francis Ltd}, abstract = {

"What is the meaning of life? In today{\textquoteright}s secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition of The Death of God and the Meaning of Life. Three new chapters explore S{\o}ren Kierkegaard{\textquoteright}s attempts to preserve a Christian answer to the question of the meaning of life, Karl Marx{\textquoteright}s attempt to translate this answer into naturalistic and atheistic terms, and Sigmund Freud{\textquoteright}s deep pessimism about the possibility of any version of such an answer. Part 1 presents an historical overview of philosophers from Plato to Marx who have believed in a meaning of life, either in some supposed {\textquoteleft}other{\textquoteright} world or in the future of this world. Part 2 assesses what happened when the traditional structures that give life meaning began to erode. With nothing to take their place, these structures gave way to the threat of nihilism, to the appearance that life is meaningless. Young looks at the responses to this threat in chapters on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Foucault and Derrida. Fully revised and updated throughout, this highly engaging exploration of fundamental issues will captivate anyone who{\textquoteright}s ever asked themselves where life{\textquoteright}s meaning (if there is one) really lies. It also makes a perfect historical introduction to philosophy, particularly to the continental tradition."{\textendash}pub. desc. Part I. Before the death of God. Plato {\textendash} Kant and Christianity {\textendash} Kierkegaard {\textendash} Schopenhauer {\textendash} Freud {\textendash} Early Nietzsche {\textendash} Hegel {\textendash} Marx {\textendash} Part II. After the death of God. Later Nietzsche {\textendash} Posthumous Nietzsche {\textendash} Early Heidegger {\textendash} Sartre {\textendash} Sartre (continued) {\textendash} Camus {\textendash} Foucault {\textendash} Derrida {\textendash} Later Heidegger.

}, isbn = {9780415841139}, author = {Young, Julian.} } @book {82467, title = {Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Createspace Independent Publishing Platform}, organization = {Createspace Independent Publishing Platform}, abstract = {

LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com.

What if the government let anyone use a currency of his or her choosing? What if the government permitted entrepreneurs to innovate in the monetary sector, such as by creating digital currencies or minting commodity money? This is precisely what F.A. Hayek argues.

This book is the very core of the Hayekian approach to monetary policy, and the book that drew the world{\textquoteright}s attention to this radical thinker following his Nobel Prize in economics. The argument is substantively similar to Mises{\textquoteright}s but rather than a gold standard, Hayek argues for completely abandoning government attempts to reform money. The result would be competitive private currencies that permits the market alone to choose the dominant currency the world over.

}, isbn = {9781495251436}, author = {Hayek, Friedrich A. Von} } @book {80460, title = {Dignity, Rank, and Rights}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, isbn = {9780199915439}, author = {Waldron, Jeremy. and Dan-Cohen, Meir. and Dimock, Wai-chee and Herzog, Don and Rosen, Michael} } @book {79318, title = {Debating the Ethics of Immigration : Is There a Right to Exclude?}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Oxford University Press Inc}, organization = {Oxford University Press Inc}, abstract = {

Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question. Appealing to the right to freedom of association, Wellman contends that legitimate states have broad discretion to exclude potential immigrants, even those who desperately seek to enter. Against this, Cole argues that the commitment to the moral equality of all human beings - which legitimate states can be expected to hold - means national borders must be open: equal respect requires equal access, both to territory and membership; and that the idea of open borders is less radical than it seems when we consider how many territorial and community boundaries have this open nature. In addition to engaging with each other{\textquoteright}s arguments, Wellman and Cole address a range of central questions and prominent positions on this topic. The authors therefore provide a critical overview of the major contributions to the ethics of migration, as well as developing original, provocative positions of their own.

}, author = {Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole} } @book {80461, title = {Die Sakralität der Person: Eine neue Genealogie der Menschenrechte}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Suhrkamp}, organization = {Suhrkamp}, isbn = {3518754505}, url = {https://books.google.com.tw/books?id=eu47CgAAQBAJ\&dq=Hans+Joas,+Die+Sakralit{\"a}t+der+Person,+Berlin:+Suhrkamp,+2011\&hl=zh-TW\&source=gbs_navlinks_s}, author = {Joas, Hans} } @article {79683, title = {Die Gegenwart der Trag{\"o}die}, journal = {Versuch {\"u}ber Urteil und Spiel. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp}, year = {2005}, author = {Menke, Christoph} } @book {80263, title = {Desert Islands: and Other Texts, 1953--1974 (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Semiotext(e)}, organization = {Semiotext(e)}, address = {California}, abstract = {

A fascinating anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze."One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died in 1995.

The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on Rousseau, Kafka, Jarry, etc.), belong to literary criticism and announce Deleuze{\textquoteright}s last book, Critique and Clinic (1993). But philosophy clearly predominates in the rest of the book, with sharp appraisals of the thinkers he always felt indebted to: Spinoza, Bergson. More surprising is his acknowledgement of Jean-Paul Sartre as his master.

"The new themes, a certain new style, a new aggressive and polemical way of raising questions," he wrote, "come from Sartre." But the figure of Nietzsche remains by far the most seminal, and the presence throughout of his friends and close collaborators, Felix Guattari and Michel Foucault. The book stops shortly after the publication of Anti-Oedipus, and presents a kind of genealogy of Deleuze{\textquoteright}s thought as well as his attempt to leave philosophy and connect it to the outside -- but, he cautions, as a philosopher.

}, author = {Gilles Deleuze} } @article {79113, title = {Die Menschheit zum Scheusal machen. Zu Kants Auffassung der Todesstrafe}, journal = {Perspektiven der Philosophy}, volume = {28}, year = {2002}, publisher = {Editions Rodopi B.V.}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {9042009543}, url = {http://www.amazon.de/Perspektiven-der-Philosophie-Band-28-2002/dp/9042009543/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps\&ie=UTF8\&qid=1423585804\&sr=1-1-catcorr\&keywords=perspektiven+der+philosophie+bd.+28}, author = {H.-G. Schmitz} } @book {80774, title = {Dis-agreement : politics and philosophy}, year = {1999}, publisher = {University of Minnesota Press}, organization = {University of Minnesota Press}, abstract = {

"Is there any such thing as political philosophy?" So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Ranciere brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness in the face of a new world order.What precisely is at stake in the relationship between "philosophy" and the adjective "political"? In Disagreement, Ranciere explores the apparent contradiction between these terms and reveals the uneasy meaning of their union in the phrase "political philosophy" -- a juncture related to age-old attempts in philosophy to answer Plato{\textquoteright}s devaluing of politics as a "democratic egalitarian" process.

According to Ranciere, the phrase also expresses the paradox of politics itself: the absence of a proper foundation. Politics, he argues, begins when the "demos" (the "excessive" or unrepresented part of society) seeks to disrupt the order of domination and distribution of goods "naturalized" by police and legal institutions. In addition, the notion of "equality" operates as a game of contestation that constantly substitutes litigation for political action and community. This game, Ranciere maintains, operates by a primary logic of "misunderstanding". In turn, political philosophy has always tried to substitute the "politics of truth" for the politics of appearances.

Disagreement investigates the various transformations of this regime of "truth" and their effects on practical politics. Ranciere then distinguishes what we mean by "democracy" from the practices of a consensual system in order to unravel the ramifications of the fashionable phrase "the end of politics". His conclusions will be of interest toreaders concerned with political questions from the broadest to the most specific and local.

}, isbn = {0816628440}, author = {Ranci{\`e}re, Jacques} } @book {80235, title = {Democracy{\textquoteright}s discontent : America in search of a public philosophy}, year = {1998}, pages = {417}, publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, organization = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, abstract = {

1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.

What ails democracy in America today, and what can be done about it? This work traces the political predicament to a defect in the public philosophy by which we live. The author identifies the dominant public philosophy of the 1990s and finds it flawed.

The public philosophy of contemporary liberalism

{\textendash} Rights and the neutral state

{\textendash} Religious liberty and freedom of speech

{\textendash} Privacy rights and family law

{\textendash} Economics and virtue in the early republic

{\textendash} Free labor versus wage labor

{\textendash} Community, self-government, and progressive reform

{\textendash} Liberalism and Keynesian revolution

{\textendash} The triumph and travail of the procedual republic

{\textendash} Conclusion : In search of a public policy.

}, isbn = {0674197453}, author = {Michael J. Sandel} } @book {80112, title = {Difference and Repetition}, year = {1994}, publisher = {Columbia University Press}, organization = {Columbia University Press}, address = {New York}, author = {Gilles Deleuze} } @book {80485, title = {Den Staat braucht selbst ein Volk von Teufeln}, series = {Universal-Bibliothek}, volume = {8507}, year = {1988}, pages = {174}, publisher = {Reclam}, organization = {Reclam}, address = {Stuttgart}, isbn = {978-3150085073}, author = {von Otfried H{\"o}ffe} } @book {80976, title = {Dialectic of enlightenment}, year = {1972}, publisher = {Herder and Herder}, organization = {Herder and Herder}, abstract = {

Translation of Dialektik der Aufklärung, which was published originally under title: Philosophische Fragmente. The concept of Enlightenment {\textendash} Excursus I. Odysseus or myth and enlightenment {\textendash} Excursus II. Juliette or enlightenment and morality {\textendash} The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception {\textendash} Elements of Anti-Semitism: limits of enlightenment.

}, isbn = {9780070731479}, author = {Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno} } @article {79112, title = {Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blo{\ss}en Vernunft; Die Metaphysik der Sitten}, volume = {6}, year = {1968}, publisher = {Walter de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {3110014394}, url = {http://www.amazon.de/Immanuel-Kant-Akademie-Textausgabe-innerhalb-Metaphysik/dp/3110014394/ref=sr_1_2?s=books\&ie=UTF8\&qid=1423584469\&sr=1-2\&keywords=metaphysik+der+Sitten+akademie+ausgabe}, author = {Immanuel Kant} } @article {79492, title = {On Denoting}, journal = {Mind}, volume = {14}, year = {1905}, pages = {479{\textendash}493}, issn = {00264423, 14602113}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2248381}, author = {Bertrand Russell} }