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TransPositions

 
The TransPositions series features contemporary theories: the texts are written by philosophers and thinkers who see themselves emphatically in the sphere between philosophical debate and those urgently acute questions as posed in today's wider debate.
 
Reiner Schürmann - Lecture - Vol. 12 – Luther – The Origin of Modern Self-Consciousness
2024
English edition
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forthcoming
First of 29 volumes of Reiner Schürmann's so far unpublished lecture notes on the history of western thought, this publication traces the rise of self-consciousness in its modern form and function, with Luther as the central figure of Schürmann's study.
Reiner Schürmann - Heidegger\'s De(con)struction of Metaphysics
2024
English edition
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forthcoming
The Heideggerien deconstruction of metaphysics by Reiner Schürmann.
Reiner Schürmann - The Place of the Symbolic - Essays on Art and Politics
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The Place of the Symbolic brings together Reiner Schürmann's essays on the nexus between art and politics.
Reiner Schürmann - Ways of Releasement - Writings on God, Eckhart, and Zen
2024
English edition
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A collection of early texts by Reiner Schürmann, on religion, Zen, language, Eckhart and Heidegger.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Thinking With - Jean-Luc Nancy
2023
texts in English, German, French
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A collection of about thirty texts to resume the passionate conversation that Jean-Luc Nancy was engaged in throughout his life, with philosophers and artists from all over the world.
Thierry de Duve - Hommes, encore un effort… - Anthropogenèse, christianisme, sexuation
2023
French edition
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In this essay, Thierry de Duve leaves the aesthetics and history of the art to approach, under the religious prism, two anthropological questions that the mutation of the symbolic order in progress makes pressing: the difference of the sexes and the future of the politics of emancipation.
Reiner Schürmann - Modern Philosophies of the Will
2022
English edition
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Through Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, this seminar traces the development of the relation between the will and the law as self-given.
Reiner Schürmann - Le principe d\'anarchie - Heidegger et la question de l\'agir
2022
French edition
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The relation between being and acting and the principle of anarchy in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
Bernard Stiegler - Philosophies singulières - Conversation avec Michaël Crevoisier
2021
French edition
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Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Bernard Stiegler talk about what links them to philosophy.
Reiner Schürmann - Reading Marx - On Transcendental Materialism
2021
English edition
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Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.
Reiner Schürmann - Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance - On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart
2020
English edition
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In this course, Reiner Schürmann develops the idea of a distinctive Medieval Renaissance, connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. His analysis is drawn from readings of St. Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham and Meister Eckhart's works.
Reiner Schürmann - The Philosophy of Nietzsche
2020
English edition
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This volume of Reiner Schürmann's lectures unpacks Nietzsche's ambivalence towards Kant, in particular positioning Nietzsche's claim to have brought an end to German idealism against the backdrop of the Kantian transcendental-critical tradition.
Alenka Zupančič - Qu\'est-ce que le sexe ?
2019
French edition
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Sexuality as a properly philosophical problem of psychoanalysis.
Reiner Schürmann - Tomorrow the Manifold - Essays on Foucault, Anarchy, and the Singularization to Come
2019
English edition
Diaphanes
This collection assembles key essays of Reiner Schürmann centering on the concepts of anarchy and the singularization to come. Setting out from the question of the status of practical philosophy at the end of metaphysics, these texts track the crucial role of Schürmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991.
Christian Marazzi - Le socialisme du capital
2017
French edition
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The socialism of Capital: a collection of texts by economist Christian Marazzi on the new capitalist regime formed out of the 2008 crisis.
Epidemic Subjects - Radical Ontology
2017
English edition
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Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the “girl,” this series of essays brings together a team of contributors to forge a radically inclusive definition of subjectivity in modern philosophy.
Reiner Schürmann - Des hégémonies brisées
2017
French edition
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The posthumous publication of the German philosopher: a major work on the collapse of Western philosophy and on the necessity to rethink the past to build the future.
Judith Butler - Dépossession
2016
French edition
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Taking the form of a dialogue between the philosopher Judith Butler and the anthropologist Athena Athanasiou, this thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism.
Joseph Vogl - De l\'indécision
2016
French edition
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An “anti-history” of the indecision in which Joseph Vogl probes the literary figures of Oreste, Wallenstein, Joseph K., Bartleby, or the man without qualities.
Colin Crouch - L\'étrange survie du néolibéralisme
2016
French edition
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The new impact of corporations on both the state and the market as the new paradigm of neoliberalism.
Daniel Tyradellis - Qu\'appelons-nous penser ?
2013
French edition
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The two philosophers share a dialogue on the representation of thought.
Joseph Vogl - Crédit et débit
2013
French edition
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Collection of interviews with author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and philosopher and professor of literature Joseph Vogl, specially produced by Kluge for German television.
Niklas Luhmann - La réalité des médias de masse
2013
French edition
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This essay offers a careful analysis of the mass media system and the simplifying selections it operates within the complexity and contingency of the world.
Colin Crouch - Post-démocratie
2013
French edition
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Starting from the deep malaise and the violent crisis of confidence in state institutions in modern democracies, this essay analyzes the growing influence and power of the multinational corporations in modern democracies.
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