Tag: literature
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Beckett, Lacan, and the Gaze
The book advances the claim that Beckett’s visual universe can be described neither through a general theory of “modernist perception” nor through a simple psychoanalytic allegory of seeing, but only by reconstructing the specific way in which the gaze functions as an impersonal, structuring dimension where subject and world fail to meet. In forming a…
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Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice
Brown’s Beckett, Lacan and the Voice stakes its claim on a very precise terrain: it proposes that Beckett’s entire œuvre can be re-read if one takes seriously the Lacanian thesis that the voice is a specific psychoanalytic object—neither pure sound nor mere vehicle of meaning, but the residue of language that both grounds and unravels…
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‘The Unnamable’ by Samuel Beckett
Beckett’s The Unnamable presents itself as the limit‐case of narrative fiction and as an experiment in what remains of subjectivity when every conventional support of the novel—plot, character, world, and even a stable first person—is progressively dissolved. It pursues, with almost pedantic consistency, the question of whether there can be a self at all once…
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‘The Art of Literature’ by Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer’s The Art of Literature advances a stringent, programmatic account of writing in which the value of literature is indexed to the purity of its cognitive aim and to the discipline with which style renders thought visible. The volume’s distinctive contribution is twofold: first, it binds the praxis of authorship to a normative anthropology—of learning,…
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Philosophical Book Review: Chasing Homer: Good Luck, and Nothing Else: Odysseus’s Cave
This book stages a controlled experiment in narrative pressure and philological memory. László Krasznahorkai compresses a pursuit story into a sequence of conceptual modules—Velocity, Faces, Relating to sheltered places, and so on—whose cumulative claim is that survival, once reduced to method, becomes a cognitive discipline that interrogates its own premises. The distinctive contribution lies in…
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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature by Kojin Karatani is a work of such immense theoretical rigor and historical complexity that to engage with it is to confront not merely the history of modern Japanese literature, but the very processes by which modernity itself, both in the East and West, has been constituted. This volume occupies…
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Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France | 2 Volumes
In these two volumes, drawn together under the common title Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France, a rich panorama of philosophical exchange emerges, one that gently but decisively overturns many entrenched perspectives on the reception of German Idealism. From the outset, the books proclaim a sweeping project: they place before our eyes the overlooked…
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Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation | 9 Volumes
The Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation series represents a look through the evolving landscape of computational intelligence and symbolic reasoning over the course of several decades. This collection of nine volumes encapsulates the proceedings of nine international conferences, each serving as a milestone in the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and symbolic mathematical computation. The…
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Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems | 6 Volumes
Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems is a comprehensive anthology spanning six volumes, encapsulating the proceedings of the 13th to the 18th International Conferences on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS) held in Spain from 2018 to 2023. Edited by a distinguished group of scholars including Hilde Pérez García, Lidia Sánchez González, Manuel Castejón Limas, Héctor Quintián, Emilio…
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Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems | 3 Volumes
The anthology Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems is a monumental compilation that encapsulates the forefront of research and philosophical inquiry into the realms of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) and multi-agent systems (MAS). Spanning three significant international workshops—EXTRAAMAS 2021, held virtually due to the global pandemic; EXTRAAMAS 2022, also conducted virtually; and EXTRAAMAS 2023…
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Explainable Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to Interpretable Machine Learning
Explainable Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to Interpretable Machine Learning by Uday Kamath and John Liu is a seminal work in the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, particularly in the critical domain of explainable AI (XAI). As AI systems become increasingly integrated into the fabric of society, influencing decisions in healthcare, finance, justice, and beyond, the…
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