[PDF] The Unhappy Consciousness eBook

Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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This study argues that the Bengali novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay produced some of the most searching critical reflections on modernity in colonial India. It rejects assumptions that Bankim was a conservative, claiming that his art must be seen in a different, historical context.

Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : School of Oriental & African Studies University of London
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195645859

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Critical study on Bengali novelist, Bankim Chandra Chatterji, 1838-1894.

Author : E.F. Kaelin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400985223

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In the wake of so many other keys to the treasure, whoever undertakes still another book of criticism on the novels and drama of Samuel Beckett must assume the grave burden of justifying the attempt, especially for him who like one of John Barth's recent fictional characterizations of himself, believes that the key to the treasure is the treasure itself. No one will ever have the privilege of the last word on these texts, since any words other than the author's own found therein must be referred back to the text themselves for cautious verification. Indeed, the words the author has used to create the oeuvre stand by virtue of their own creativeness, or fail in their pretense, and need no critical comment to be appreciated for what they have achieved or have failed to achieve. In criticism there is no privileged point of view - not even the author's own. He has consulted his knowledge and experience to make the work, and whoever would criticize his efforts would seem to owe him the indulgence of doing the same. If communication is mediated through the works, the author and his readers respond in recipro cal fashion to the expressiveness of their contexts. For the philosopher of art, the challenge is extremely tempting - on a manifold count.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788120814738

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wide criticism both from Western and Eastern scholars.

Author : Bruce Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317827724

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This highly original history of ideas considers the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present. As Baugh's lucid narrative makes clear, Hegel's influence on French philosophy has been profound, and can be traced through all the major intellectual movements and thinkers in France throughout the 20th Century from Jean Wahl, Sartre, and Bataille to Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida. Baugh focuses on Hegel's idea of the unhappy consciousness, and provides a bold new account of Hegel's early reception in French intellectual history.

Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190692677

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Preface -- Introduction: what is critical theory? -- The frankfurt school -- A matter of method -- Critical theory and modernism -- Alienation and reification -- Enlightened illusions -- The utopian laboratory -- The happy consciousness -- The great refusal -- From resignation to renewal -- Unfinished tasks -- Further reading -- Index

Author : Walter Albert Davis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299120146

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A profound, challenging, wide-ranging book, back in print for a new generation "Inwardness and Existence accomplishes what no book before or after has even approximated: it demonstrates with great lucidity and insight the shared philosophical project that animates psychoanalysis, Marxism, existentialism, and Hegelian dialectics. Davis roots the reader in the enterprise of questioning what is given and probing beyond what is safe in order to demonstrate that psychoanalytic inquiry, Marxist politics, existential reflection, and dialectical connection all move within the same orbit. No one who reads it will ever think about existence itself in the same way again. Davis's landmark work will profoundly transform anyone who reads it."--Todd McGowan, author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan

Author : Robert B. Pippin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400836948

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In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to Kant's philosophy and demonstrating their continued relevance for contemporary thought. As Robert Pippin shows, Hegel argues that we must understand Kant's account of the self-conscious nature of consciousness as a claim in practical philosophy, and that therefore we need radically different views of human sentience, the conditions of our knowledge of the world, and the social nature of subjectivity and normativity. Pippin explains why this chapter of Hegel's Phenomenology should be seen as the basis of much later continental philosophy and the Marxist, neo-Marxist, and critical-theory traditions. He also contrasts his own interpretation of Hegel's assertions with influential interpretations of the chapter put forward by philosophers John McDowell and Robert Brandom.