Philosophical designs for a socio-cultural transformation : beyond violence and the modern era.

Tokyo, Japan : Ecole des hautes études en sciences culturelles (E. H.E.S.C.); Boulder, Co.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1998.

English

856 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents. Introduction: For philosophical designs. The language of subjectivity: values and conscience. Preface. Philosophy and evaluative thought. Proust on value. Conscience makes Cowards of Us All. Anarchic conscience and enlightenment reason. Histoire, langages, pratiques. Popular Appropiation: readers and their books. Foucault's chiasmus: autorship between science and literature. Genetic and molecular bodies. Secede and Assemble: ready-made events in molecular biology. Bios becomes zoe (Draft fragments). The theory of the Will of Place as World Thought. Sur "Don". Critique sociale et sens moral. Consuming places and sociological view. Capitalist society and capitalism. La sociologie fait-elle comprendreles crises? De discours féminin. Asian thought and Ryokan. Women and psychoanalysis. Burning acts, injurious speech. The enemy outside: thoughts on the psychodynamics of extreme violence with special attention to men and masculinity. La violence et les femmes a Paris au XVIII siecle. Violence against women: challenges to the Liberal State and Relational Feminism. Against postmodernism. Walter Benjamin, remembrance, and the first world war. A political ideology and profile of Walter Benjamin. Aristotle's theater of envy; paradox, logic, and literature. Pragmatism, art and violence: the case of Rap. Outline for an anthropology of religion and violence. Acerca de la violencia. Violencias salvajes: usos, costumbres y Sociedad Civil en México. The century of technology. From vernacularism to globalism: the temporal reality of traditiona settlements.

"Modern epistemology and moder society have separated subject from object, defined economy as industrialization, structured politics into the formations of nation-states, and institutionalized social practices. These "philosophical and social designs of separations" have given birth to physical and symbolic violences at various levels. State power, iperialism,, male domination, as well as the ritual "violence" within human existence itself are expressed in various scenes in the world of everyday life. To overcome this violence requieres the promotion of a philosophical design that reconsiders the significations of modernity itself. This volume presents work from the front lines of an international intellectual effort to fundamentally reconsider "the social", "the natural", "the human", and "the cultural". This project is not, however, a one-sided critical negation of modernity. Rather, the contributions create an opportunity to rethink the modern in all its depth, to draw forth a critical affirmation of modernity, and to seek new ways of deploying the intelligence of West and East. Through transdisciplinary "thinking" technologies" drawing on fields such as philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, contemporary social research, women's studies, architecture and urban studies, participants develop ponted examinations of various phenomena and sites within the contemporary situations. The presen collection contains original writings by and interviews with prominent thinkers. It also includes an essay entitled "Asian Thought and Ryokan", by Japan's most outstanding thinker, Takaaki Yoshimoto. In response to Western contributors' focus on the problematization of subject and subjectivity, Eastern contributors have raised the problematization of predicative will and place." (Copied cover).