Bøger af Jeff Collins

Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its methods, broken its procedures and contaminated it with literary styles of writing. Derrida's philosophy is a puzzling array of oblique, deviant and yet rigorous tactics for destabilizing texts, meanings and identities. 'Deconstruction', as these strategies have been called, is reviled and celebrated in equal measure. Introducing Derrida introduces and explains his work, taking us on an intellectual adventure that disturbs some of our most comfortable habits of thought.

During the last decade, corporate America paid out more than 90% of free cash flow in share buybacks. Many major U.S. corporations have found themselves enfeebled by such irresponsible behavior, while shareholders who have stayed the course now own shares in smaller, weaker firms. So, while executives and Wall Street traders have benefitted from the current financial system, growing Asian corporations have quickly taken market share from their Western counterparts. The Western media have played their role by avoiding press coverage of the financial destruction of corporate America for benefit of the few, all while blaming China and a host of other nations for U.S. societal and economic ills. To find the real pandemic of the 21st century, look no further than a fiat paved Wall Street.The Fed and Congress have contributed to this predicament by printing vast amounts of enabling currency and passing hallucinogenic 'budgets' that will financially enslave the younger generations, forever. The worldwide use of fiat has eliminated any real price discovery, as asset prices and their supportive debts continue to explode. Big business and big government have taken the reins, and for most Americans, the ride will be increasingly terrifying.

Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction, existentialism and phenomenology, he stands behind all major strands of post-structuralist and postmodern thought. Heidegger announced the end of philosophy and of humanism, and was a committed Nazi and vocal supporter of Hitler's National Socialism. Was Heidegger offering a deeply conservative mythology or a crucial deconstruction of philosophy as we have known it? "e;Introducing Heidegger"e; provides an accessible introduction to his notoriously abstruse thinking, mapping out its historical contexts and exploring its resonances in ecology, theology, art, architecture, literature and other fields. The book opens up an encounter with a kind of thinking whose outlines might still not yet be clear, and whose forms might still surprise us.