Continental Philosophy

Louis Althusser (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

About: The discourse notebook is an effort (in conjunction with ‘The Bernstein Tapes’*) to make available lectures in contemporary continental philosophy.

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About Nietzsche Source: Nietzsche Source is a web site devoted to the publication of scholarly content on the work and life of Friedrich Nietzsche. The contents of the site and its internet addresses are stable and can be freely consulted
and used for scholarly purposes. Two editions are currently being published in Nietzsche Source: the digital version of the standard critical edition
[http://www.nietzschesource.org/documentation/en/eKGWB.html] and the facsimile edition of the entire Nietzsche estate [http://www.nietzschesource.org/documentation/en/DFGA.html].

John Protevi has posted a new outline of Foucault’s Security, Territory, Population 1-4

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New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry

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Noelle McAfee has the new entry:

Feminist political philosophy is an area of philosophy focused on understanding and critiquing the way political philosophy is usually construed, often without any attention to feminist concerns, and to articulating how political theory might be reconstructed in a way that advances feminist concerns. Feminist political philosophy is a branch of both feminist philosophy and political philosophy. As a branch of feminist philosophy, it serves as a form of critique or a hermeneutics of suspicion (Ricœur 1970). That is, it serves as a way of opening up or looking at the political world as it is usually understood and uncovering ways in which women and their current and historical concerns are poorly depicted, represented, and addressed. As a branch of political philosophy, feminist political philosophy serves as a field for developing new ideals, practices, and justifications for how political institutions and practices should be organized and reconstructed.

While feminist philosophy has been instrumental in critiquing and reconstructing many branches of philosophy, from aesthetics to philosophy of science, feminist political philosophy may be the paradigmatic branch of feminist philosophy because it best exemplifies the point of feminist theory, which is, to borrow a phrase from Marx, not only to understand the world but to change it (Marx and Engels 1998). And, though other fields have effects that may change the world, feminist political philosophy focuses most directly on understanding ways in which collective life can be improved. This project involves understanding the ways in which power emerges and is used or misused in public life (see the entry on feminist perspectives on power). As with other kinds of feminist theory, common themes have emerged for discussion and critique, but there has been little in the way of consensus among feminist theorists on what is the best way to understand them. This introductory article lays out the various schools of thought and areas of concern that have occupied this vibrant field of philosophy for the past thirty years.

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SEP’s new entry on “Religion and Political Theory”

And Balibar’s Spinoza and Politics

On Aristotle

Two of the most prominent questions in Kant’s critical philosophy concern reason. The first, central to his theoretical philosophy, is the unprovable pretensions of reason in earlier “rationalist” philosophers, especially Leibniz and Descartes. The second, central to his practical philosophy, is the subservient role accorded to reason by the British empiricists—above all Hume, who declared, “Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals.” (Treatise, 3.1.1.11; see also the entry on Rationalism vs. Empiricism.) Thus the titles of two key works: the monumental Critique of Pure Reason, and the Critique of Practical Reason that is middle point of his great trio of moral writings (between the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and The Metaphysics of Morals).

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SEP has published a new entry on Pragmatism.

The Philosopher’s Zone: “Uprootedness and national conflicts“

John Protevi has posted a new draft of his “Deleuze and Cognitive Science” lecture.

Richard Clarke’s Philosophy’s Other, which I know and highly recommend.

Paul E. has set up his own Heidegger blog, appropriately named: Another Heidegger Blog!

A new SEP entry.

And a new foundation encouraging philosophers to think about education (via Crooked Timber)

A new SEP entry on Race

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A new SEP entry.

John Protevi and Dan Smith have just published a wonderful entry on Deleuze. It’s quite remarkable.

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New entry of SEP

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new entry on this topic.

The Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy’s fall 2007 is about Noelle McAfee’s “Two Feminism”.

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Planet Philosophy.

It looks quite interesting.

The University of Utah has many Tanner lectures available on pdf.

Of possible interest: Appiah, Benhabib, Cavell, Foucault, Fraser, Geertz, Habermas, Honneth, Lear, Nussbaum, Rorty, and many more.

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