NEW BOOKS: Latest OA titles from re.press

re.press is an Australian publishing company that publishes quality philosophy books in both print and open access formats.  Click here to read the vision of the press.

You can download the following new titles for free:

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

Edited by Andrew Benjamin and Charles Rice

The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics

Edited by Lorenzo Chiesa and Alberto Toscano

Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics

By Graham Harman

The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Zizek

By Geoff Boucher

To support the novel vision of re.press, please request your university library to purchase the print versions of the books.  This can be done through their website (http://www.re-press.org/content/view/12/27/).  Many thanks!

Aesthetics Video and Audio Recordings

The Aesthetics Research Group at the University of Kent is pleased to make public its archive of recorded lectures in aesthetics:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/hpa/aestheticsresearchgroup/materialsarchive.html

The archive includes audio and video recordings of research talks given by Noël Carroll, Howard Caygill, Gregory Currie, David Davies, Susan Dwyer, Jonathan Friday, Andrew Kania, Jerrold Levinson, Patrick Maynard, Aaron Meskin, Alex Neill, Kathleen Stock, Cain Todd, Rob van Gerwen, Scott Walden, Kendall Walton, Tom Wartenberg.

Jerrold Levinson’s entire lecture series on “Key Concepts in Aesthetics” is also available in audioformat.

For more information on future events organized by The Aesthetics Research Group please visit www.aesthetics-research.org

New Open Access title from re.press: Reading Hegel: The Introductions

From re.press, Melbourne, Australia, free OA title:

Reading Hegel: The Introductions

edited and introduced by Aakash Singh and Rimina Mohapatra

Bringing together for the first time all of G.W.F. Hegel’s major Introductions in one place, this book ambitiously attempts to present readers with Hegel’s systematic thought through his Introductions alone. The Editors articulate to what extent, precisely, Hegel’s Introductions truly reflect his philosophic thought as a whole. Certainly each of Hegel’s Introductions can stand alone, capturing a facet of his overarching idea of truth. But compiled all together, they serve to lay out the intricate tapestry of Hegel’s thought, woven with a dialectic that progresses from one book to another, one philosophical moment to another.

Hegel’s reflections on philosophy, religion, aesthetics, history, and law—all included here—have profoundly influenced many subsequent thinkers, from post-Hegelian idealists or materialists like Karl Marx, to the existentialism of Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre; from the phenomenological tradition of Edmund Husserl to Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and other post-moderns, to thinkers farther afield, like Japan’s famous Kyoto School or India’s Aurobindo. This book provides the opportunity to discern how the ideas of these later thinkers may have originally germinated in Hegel’s writings, as well as to penetrate Hegel’s worldview in his own words, his grand architecture of the journey of the Spirit.

To support the novel vision of re.press, please request your university library to purchase the print versions of the books.  This can be done through their website (http://www.re-press.org/content/view/12/27/).  Many thanks!

Downloadable texts by Early Modern philosophers

Here’s a link to Jonathan F. Bennett’s website where you can download pdfs of the works of some early Modern philosophers, e.g., Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Smith, Reid, Newton, Locke, Hume, Kant, and many more.

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/

These texts are particularly helpful for those who are teaching Early Modern Philosophy or the History of Philosophy and for those students who are familiarizing themselves with the works of these philosophers.

Happy downloading and enjoy!

New Issue on Jacques Ranciere, ART AND RESEARCH, 2:1 (2008)

ART AND RESEARCH, 2:1 (2008)

The Contents include:

• Editorial: Five Lessons in Artistic Research
• Sophie Berrebi: Everything you wanted to know…
• Jacques Rancière: Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community
• Stephen Wright: Behind Police Lines
• Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield: Nowhere is aesthetics contra ethics
• An Exchange with Jacques Rancière
• Jacques Rancière and Indisciplinarity: an Interview
• Sophie Berrebi: Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics is Politics

Visit the issue homepage at http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/v2n1/v2n1editorial.html.

Rare free access to some International Journal of Philosophical Studies (IJPS) articles

The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (IJPS) is pleased to announce free access to the 5 most read articles from volume 15 (2007).

Phenomenology of ‘Authentic Time’ in Husserl and Heidegger
Author: Klaus Held

Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution
Author: Noam Chomsky

Sartre and Bergson: A Disagreement about Nothingness
Author: Sarah Richmond

Perception, Judgment and Individuation: Towards a Metaphysics of Particularity
Author: Andrew Benjamin

Perception of Duration Presupposes Duration of Perception – or Does it? Husserl and Dainton on time
Author: Dan Zahavi

Maria Baghramian
School of Philosophy
UCD Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/staff/baghramian_maria.htm
Editor: International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Taylor and Francis
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/09672559.html
Co-director: Postgraduate Programme in Cognitive Science, UCD
http://cspeech.ucd.ie/~cogsci/

Open Access Philosophy Books from re.press

re.press is an Australian publishing company that publishes quality philosophy books in both print and open access formats.  Click here to read the vision of the press.

You can download the following books for free:

The Radical Critique of Liberalism: In Memory of a Vision

by Toula Nicolacopoulos

The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou’s Minimalist Metaphysics

by Sam Gillespie

The Concept of Model

by Alain Badiou (ed. and trans. by Zachary Fraser and Tzuchien Tho)

The Praxis of Alain Badiou

edited by Paul Ashton, A.J. Bartlett, and Justin Clemens

The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking

edited by Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, and George Vassilacopoulos

To support the novel vision of re.press, please request your university library to purchase the print versions of the books.  This can be done through their website (http://www.re-press.org/content/view/12/27/).  Thanks and enjoy your new ebooks!