books by Howard Caygill (philosopher dictionary experience)

books by Howard Caygill

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Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience

1 review
Howard Caygill

Routledge, 1998

a reader of benjamin
Caygill's book is largely unilluminating and somewhat misguided. While this work tracks many of the places where Benjamin mentions experience directly (such as Experience, One-way Street, On the Program of Coming Philosophy, Surrealism, The PAris Arcades, etc.) he does not offer insight into how the material analysis would render the theological and political categories as a hightened critical ...

A Kant Dictionary (Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries)

4 reviews
Howard Caygill

Wiley-Blackwell, 1995

The 5 stars are for usefulness
This book would be very useful to you if you are taking an undergraduate course in Kantian philosophy. If you're having trouble remembering what Kant means when he uses the words "transcendentalism" and "ethics" and "pure reason" and stuff like that, this book will be a good resource. And the definitions aren't just a few words, many are more than a page. The only warning I would place on ...

Levinas and the Political (Thinking the Political)
Howard Caygill

Routledge, 2002

Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most influential philosophers of the Twentieth Century and is best known for his work on ethics and theology. Levinas & the Political analyzes themes such as the deconstruction of metaphysics as a reconfiguration of the political embodiment; the face of alterity, his engagement with Heidegger and Bataille, and his re-thinking of the political for an understanding of the significance of the Holocaust.

Introducing Walter Benjamin
Howard Caygill

Totem Books, 1994

Walter Benjamin was a philosopher but perhaps more importantly he was an experienced critic of such passion, erudation and virtuosity.

The Life and Death of Images: Exchanges on Art and Culture

Tate Publishing, 2008

From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty, in reaction to its perceived suppression by ethical and political imperatives. However, beauty is ...

Critique of Pure Reason

4 reviews
Immanuel Kant

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Standard translation of landmark text
Norman Kemp Smith's translation seems to be one of the standard English translations of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Is it the best? I don't speak German, but it's certainly serviceable. This is a daunting work. It's also a necessary work, inasmuch as any understand of contemporary thought and intellectual history must encounter it. Kant has influenced nearly every major school of thought ...

Critique of Pure Reason, Second Edition

2 reviews
Immanuel Kant

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Critique of Pure Reason
An excellent, brilliant study in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, one of the great thinkers in the Western World.