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Alexander is on page 75 of 272 of Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom
Can't believe I'm only just familiarizing myself with Zerilli. She's just fantastic.
May 03, 2017 05:45AM Add a comment
Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom

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Alexander is on page 50 of 400 of A Democratic Theory of Judgment
I've been looking for a book like this ever since I've started reading democratic theory. Stunningly good so far.
Apr 10, 2017 10:06AM Add a comment
A Democratic Theory of Judgment

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Alexander is on page 340 of 521 of The Life of the Mind
I've come to kind of grinding halt on this - partly because I've been busy, but mostly because I simply do not care about 'the will' - at all. I've just never found it an intelligible concept, and for all of Arendt's efforts - and they are considerable - the whole notion remains entirely vacuous for me. It's not her fault tho.
Apr 03, 2017 08:53PM Add a comment
The Life of the Mind

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Alexander is on page 255 of 521 of The Life of the Mind
Done with 'Thinking' - on to 'Willing'....
Mar 21, 2017 11:08AM Add a comment
The Life of the Mind

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Alexander is on page 53 of 521 of The Life of the Mind
I don't think I've ever read anyone so deeply yet casually acquainted with the Western philosophical canon as Arendt. Merleau-Ponty is here spoken of alongside Kant, Aquinas and Plato as if old friends, partners in a modest conversation that just so happens to bear on the essence of thought. Put otherwise - Arednt knows everything and I know nothing D:
Mar 15, 2017 07:39PM Add a comment
The Life of the Mind

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Been itching to read more Arendt ever since I made it through The Human Condition a while back. Mucho excitement.
Mar 11, 2017 07:21PM Add a comment

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Alexander is on page 55 of Deleuze and the Political (Thinking the Political)
A lot more 'Deleuze' than 'the political' right now, but we'll see how we go...
Mar 08, 2017 08:15AM Add a comment
Deleuze and the Political (Thinking the Political)

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Alexander is on page 105 of 224 of Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
"One task of democratic theory is... to prepare us, to help us identify or imagine or attune us to the openings and solicitations and limits of sovereign power. Democratic theory identifies obstacles to such openings, like the work of logics that seem to clarify matters but actually or also freeze action."
Mar 04, 2017 07:26PM Add a comment
Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy

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Alexander is on page 41 of 224 of Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
Reading this is like putting on a old, memory-strewn sweater again - it's the stuff that got me into philosophy <3
Mar 01, 2017 07:17AM Add a comment
Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy

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Alexander is on page 170 of 256 of The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment (New Directions in Critical Theory, 38)
There's a beautiful essay here on 'Europe as a Special Area for Human Hope'. Reading it now just over a decade after it's publication is almost an exercise in despair. Ferrara's vision of an exemplary European civitas to-come reads now as dream from another time, it's optimism barely recognisable. But then, perhaps that's just what we need.
Feb 27, 2017 09:40PM Add a comment
The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment (New Directions in Critical Theory, 38)

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Alexander is starting Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience (Volume 27) (Theory Out Of Bounds)
"The question is not "What is music?" but, rather, "What is musical?". ... The musical is a more worthy quest, for it refers not to the territory of music but to the limit at which sound becomes musical ... The musical is what we listen for in music, what we attempt to engender in music, what we long to hear, what is satisfying about music."

So much yes.
Jan 30, 2017 03:04AM Add a comment
Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience (Volume 27) (Theory Out Of Bounds)

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