Author: Friedrich Nietzsche File Type: pdf This is the third volume to appear in an edition that will be the first complete, critical, and annotated English translation of all of Nietzsches work. Volume 2 Unfashionable Observations, translated by Richard T. Gray, was published in 1995 Volume 3 Human, All Too Human (I), translated by Gary Handwerk, was published in 1997. The edition is a new English translation, by various hands, of the celebrated Colli-Montinari edition, which has been acclaimed as one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last half century. The present volume provides for the first time English translations of all of Nietzsches unpublished notebooks from the summer of 1872 to the end of 1874. The major works published in this period were the first three Unfashionable Observations David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer, On the Utility and Liability of History for Life, and Schopenhauer as Educator. Translations of the preliminary notes for these pieces are coordinated with the translations of the published texts printed in Volume 2 Unfashionable Observations. The content of these notebooks goes far beyond the notes and plans for published and unpublished Unfashionable Observations, encompassing numerous sketches related to Nietzsches major philological project from this period, a book on the pre-Platonic Greek philosophers. The ideas that emerged from Nietzsches deliberations on these early Greek thinkers are absolutely central to his thought from this period and contribute in significant ways to the development of several of his major themes the role of the philosopher vis-a-vis his age and the surrounding culture the relationships among philosophy, art, and culture the metaphorical nature of language and its relationship to knowledge the unmasking of the modern drive for absolute truth as a palliative against the horror of existence and Nietzsches unfashionable attack on modern science and modern culture, especially on the Germany of the Bismarck Reich. These notebooks represent important transitional documents in Nietzsches intellectual development, marking, among other things, the shift away from philological studies toward unabashed cultural criticism. **

Author: Sanchez File Type: epub Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular textsPutting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity findsits roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of history and tradition suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamyfrom Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeareto show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporaryqueer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality.Deliberately unfaithful to disciplinary norms and national boundaries, this book assembles new conceptual frameworks at the juncture of secular and religious thought, political and aesthetic form. It thereby enlarges the contexts, objects, and authorized genealogies of queer scholarship. Retracing a history that did not have to be, Sanchez recovers writing that inscribes radical queer insights at the premodern foundations of conservative and heteronormative culture.

Author: Andrew Kliman File Type: pdf The recent financialcrisis and Great Recession have been analyzed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude, on the basis of in-depth analyses of official U.S. data, that Marxs crisis theory can explain these events.Marx believed that the rate of profit has a tendency to fall, leading to economic crises and recessions. Many economists, Marxists among them, have dismissed this theory out of hand, but Andrew Klimans careful data analysis shows that the rate of profit did indeed decline after the post-World War II boom and that free-market policies failed to reverse the decline. The fall in profitability led to sluggish investment and economic growth, mounting debt problems, desperate attempts of governments to fight these problems by piling up even more debt and ultimately to the Great Recession.Klimans conclusion is simple but shocking Short of socialist transformation, the only way to escape the new normal of a stagnant, crisis-prone economy is to restore profitability through full-scale destruction of existing wealth, something not seen since the Depression of the 1930s.ReviewOne of the very best of the rapidly growing series of works seeking to explain our economic crisis. ... The scholarship is exemplary and the writing is crystal clear. Highly recommended! -- Professor Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, NYU, author of Dance of the Dialectic Clear, rigorous and combative. Kliman demonstrates that the current economic crisis is a consequence of the fundamental dynamic of capitalism, unlike the vast bulk of superficial contemporary commentary that passes for economic analysis. -- Rick Kuhn, Deutscher Prize winner, Reader in Politics at the Australian National University and long-time activist. Among the myriad publications on the present day crisis, this work stands out as something unusual. Kliman is an excellent theorist, and an equally excellent analyst of empirical data. -- Paresh Chattopadhyay, Universite du Quebec a Montreal The Failure of Capitalist Production is essential reading for all Marxists and lefts interested in what caused the Great Recession. It debunks the fads and fashionable arguments of neoliberalism, underconsumption and inequality with a battery of facts. It restores Marxs law of profitability to the centre of any explanation of capitalist crisis with compelling evidence and searching analysis. It must be read. -- MIchael Roberts About the AuthorAndrew Kliman is Professor of Economics at Pace University, New York. He is the author of Reclaiming Marxs Capital A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency and many writings on crisis theory, value theory, and other topics.

Author: Anthony Pagden File Type: epub Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagdens mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the clash of civilizations between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent. Worlds At War begins in the ancient world, where Greece saw its fight against the Persian Empire as one between freedom and slavery, between monarchy and democracy, between individuality and the worship of men as gods. Here, richly rendered, are the crucial battle of Marathon, considered the turning point of Greek and European history the heroic attempt by the Greeks to turn the Persians back at Thermopylae and Salamis, one of the greatest naval battles of all time, which put an end to the Persian threat forever. From there Pagdens story sweeps to Rome, which created the modern concepts of citizenship and the rule of law. Romes leaders believed those they conquered to be free, while the various peoples of the East persisted in seeing their subjects as property. Pagden dramatizes the birth of Christianity in the East and its use in the West as an instrument of government, setting the stage for what would become, and has remained, a global battle of the secular against the sacred. Then Islam, at first ridiculed in Christian Europe, drives Pope Urban II to launch the Crusades, which transform the relationship between East and West into one of competing religious beliefs. Modern times bring a first world war, which among its many murky aims seeks to redesign the Muslim world by force. In our own era, Muslims now find themselves in unwelcoming Western societies, while the West seeks to enforce democracy and its own secular values through occupation in the East. Pagden ends on a cautionary note, warning that terrorism and war will continue as long as sacred and secular remain confused in the minds of so many. Eye-opening and compulsively readable, Worlds at War is a stunning work of history and a triumph of modern scholarship. It is bound to become the definitive work on the reasons behind the age-old and still escalating struggle that, more than any other, has come to define the modern worlda book for anyone seeking to know why we came to be the way we are. From the Hardcover edition.**From Publishers WeeklyIn the pessimistic words of the ancient historian Herodotus, there will ever be perpetual enmity between the globes two halves. Pagden (Peoples and Empires), a professor of political science and history at UCLA, tackles the immense sweep of 2,500 years of bad blood and seeks to explain the feuds continuing existence despite the increasing erosion of national differences. Does the trouble have geographical roots, or might it stem from religious differences? Pagden is convinced that in fact East and West are separated more by values and culture than by anything elsedemocratic vs. authoritarian rule, secular vs. theocratic and, later, Christian vs. Muslim. Though some readers might cavil at Pagdens reductionist assertion that religion has caused more lasting harm to the human race than any other single set of beliefs, his book is an accessible and lucid exploration of the history of the East-West split, concluding with a nuanced look at the divisions and misapprehensions that continue to the present time. Fans of Jacques Barzun and Jared Diamond will be most impressed by Pagdens big picture perspective. (Mar. 4) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Booklist Plumbing millennia of conflict between European civilizations and those of the Near East, historian Pagdenoutlines historical antecedents to present frictions between the secular West and the Muslim world. If the collisions between Greek and Persian, Roman and barbarian, Christian and pagan, Christian and Muslim, and imperialist and nationalist have something in common,according toPagden, it is the rivalry of universalistic ideas about humanity and providence.Through each of these pairs of opposites, Pagden introduces intellectuals of the age who puzzled over their cultural adversary, often in response to a calamity, such as the Crusaders capture of Jerusalem in 1099 or the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Their analyses, whose realism or logic Pagden critiques, for returning humanity to its providential destination, be it Christianity, Islam, or liberal democracy, slot into the authors chronological narrative of major exacerbations of West-East animosity, from the Trojan War to the Iraq War. Inquisitive and incisive about the sweep of history, Pagden will connect with readers wanting to deepen their grasp of contemporary news. --Gilbert Taylor