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Cyberspace Odyssey

Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology

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Cyberspace Odyssey

Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology

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The emergence of the hominids, more than five million years ago, marked the start of the human odyssey through space and time. This book deals with the last stage of this fascinating journey: the exploration of cyberspace and cybertime. Through the rapid global implementation of information and communication technologies, a new realm for human experience and imagination has been disclosed. Reversely, these postgeographical and posthistorical technologies have started to colonize our bodies and minds. Taking Homer’s Odyssey and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as his starting point, the author investigates the ‘informatization of the worldview’, focusing on its implications for our culture–arts, religion, and science–and, ultimately, our form of life. Moving across a wide range of disciplines, varying from philosophical anthropology and palaeontology to information theory, and from astrophysics to literary, film and new media studies, the author discusses our ‘cyberspace odyssey’ from a reflective position beyond euphoria and nostalgia. His analysis is as profound as nuanced and deals with issues that will be high on the agenda for many decades to come. In 2003 a Dutch Edition of Cyberspace Odyssey received the Socrates Prize for the best philosophy book published in Dutch.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443821934

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Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy

By: Jos De Mul

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Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy

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In this erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy, Jos de Mul sheds a fascinating light on the ambivalent character of our present culture, which oscillates between modern enthusiasm and postmodern irony. Along the way, he engages the work of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Habermas, Lacan, Barthes, and Derrida; visual artists Magritte and Stella; poets Georg and Coleridge; and composers Schonberg, Cage, and Reich, among others, providing a sort of intellectual history of Romantic, Modernist, and Postmodernist "tempers.

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SUNY Press

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0791442179

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Destiny Domesticated

The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology

By: Jos de Mul

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Destiny Domesticated

The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology

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Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy. Destiny Domesticated investigates three ways Western civilization has tried to tame fate: the heroic affirmation of fate in the tragic culture of the Greeks, the humble acceptance of divine providence in Christianity, and the abolition of fate in modern technological society. Against this background, Jos de Mul argues that the uncontrollability of technology introduces its own tragic dimension to our culture. Considering a range of literary texts and contemporary events, and drawing on twenty-five centuries of tragedy interpretation from philosophers such as Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, literary critics George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, and others, de Mul articulates a contemporary perspective on the tragic, shedding new light on philosophical topics such as free will, determinism, and the contingency of life.

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1438449712

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Cyberspace Odyssey

Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology

By: Jos de Mul

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The Tragedy of Finitude

Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life

By: Jos de Mul

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Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life

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The author then elaborates a systematic reconstruction of Dilthey's ontology of life. In the final section of the book, Dilthey's hermeneutic ontology is confronted with the works of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida, and its relevance in current philosophical debate is evaluated."--Jacket.

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Yale University Press

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The Tragedy of Finitude

Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life

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Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life

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Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy

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Destiny Domesticated

The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology

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Destiny Domesticated investigates three ways Western civilization has tried to tame fate: the heroic affirmation of fate in the tragic culture of the Greeks, the humble acceptance of divine providence in Christianity, and the abolition of fate in modern technological society. Against this background, Jos de Mul argues that the uncontrollability of technology introduces its own tragic dimension to our culture. Considering a range of literary texts and contemporary events, and drawing on twenty-five centuries of tragedy interpretation from philosophers such as Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, literary critics George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, and others, de Mul articulates a contemporary perspective on the tragic, shedding new light on philosophical topics such as free will, determinism, and the contingency of life.

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Cyberspace Odyssey

Cyberspace Odyssey

Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy

Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy

Destiny Domesticated

Destiny Domesticated

Cyberspace Odyssey

Cyberspace Odyssey

The Tragedy of Finitude

The Tragedy of Finitude

The Tragedy of Finitude

The Tragedy of Finitude

Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy

Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy

Destiny Domesticated

Destiny Domesticated

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