The Technique of Thought

The Technique of Thought
Author: Ian James
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 145295920X

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Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality The Technique of Thought explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the work of four contemporary French thinkers—Jean-Luc Nancy, François Laruelle, Catherine Malabou, and Bernard Stiegler. Situating their writings within both contemporary scientific debates and the philosophy of science, Ian James elaborates a philosophical naturalism that is notably distinct from the Anglo-American tradition. The naturalism James proposes also diverges decisively from the ways in which continental philosophy has previously engaged with the sciences. He explores the technical procedures and discursive methods used by each of the four thinkers as distinct “techniques of thought” that approach scientific understanding and knowledge experimentally. Moving beyond debates about the constructed nature of scientific knowledge, The Technique of Thought argues for a strong, variably configured, and entirely novel scientific realism. By bringing together post-phenomenological perspectives concerning individual or collective consciousness and first-person qualitative experience with science’s focus on objective and third-person quantitative knowledge, James tracks the emergence of a new image of the sciences and of scientific practice. Stripped of aspirations toward total mastery of the universe or a “grand theory of everything,” this renewed scientific worldview, along with the simultaneous reconfiguration of philosophy’s relationship to science, opens up new ways of interrogating immanent reality.

The Technique of Thought

The Technique of Thought
Author: Ian James
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy, French
ISBN: 9781517904302

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The Technique of Thought explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the work of four contemporary French thinkers--Jean-Luc Nancy, François Laruelle, Catherine Malabou, and Bernard Stiegler. Situating their writings within both contemporary scientific debates and the philosophy of science, Ian James elaborates a philosophical naturalism that is notably distinct from the Anglo-American tradition.

Post-Continental Philosophy

Post-Continental Philosophy
Author: John Mullarkey
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826464620

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Post-Continental Philosophy outlines the shift in Continental thought over the last 20 years through the work of four central figures: Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Michel Henry, and François Laruelle. Though they follow seemingly different methodologies and agendas, each insists on the need for a return to the category of immanence if philosophy is to have any future at all. Rejecting both the German phenomenological tradition of transcendence (of the Ego, Being, Consciousness, Alterity, or Flesh), as well as the French Structuralist valorisation of Language, they instead take the immanent categories of biology (Deleuze), mathematics (Badiou), affectivity (Henry), and axiomatic science (Laruelle) as focal points for a renewal of thought. Consequently, Continental philosophy is taken in a new direction that engages science and nature with a refreshingly critical and non-reductive approach to life, set-theory, embodiment, and knowledge. However, each of these new philosophies of immanence still regards what the other is doing as transcendent representation, raising the question of what this return to immanence really means. John Mullarkey's analysis provides a startling answer. By teasing out their internal differences, he discovers that the only thing that can be said of immanence without falling back into transcendent representation seems not to be a saying at all but a 'showing', a depiction through lines. Because each of these philosophies also places a special value on the diagram, the common ground of immanence is that occupied by the philosophical diagram rather than the word. The heavily illustrated final chapter of the book literally outlines how a mode of philosophical discourse might proceed when using diagrams to think immanence.

The Technique of the Novel

The Technique of the Novel
Author: Carl Henry Grabo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1928
Genre: English fiction
ISBN:

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The Technique

The Technique
Author: Robert Cornelius
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1467039551

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My book is a culmination of fifteen years of research and field study in an area that not many people are aware of, that being the subconscious mind. Instead of writing another non-fiction, how-to-book, I decided to convey all the experiences I had attained and all the knowledge I had acquired by incorporating them into an autobiographical novel. The information that is offered in my book is done in such a manner that the reader is not only entertained, but more importantly, enlightened toward understanding how to make life a little much easier and satisfying by utilizing a method I have coined "The Technique." Through the use of flash-backs and descriptive narrative, the storyline follows best-selling novelist John Templeton as he embarks upon an adventurous 10-day writing odyssey by delving into the inner world of subconscious awareness and creative intelligence, searching for the elusive fulfillment toward achieving true mental, physical and emotional well-being, harmony and balance. What he discovers along this rare and unusual journey is the very heart of the novel which is divided into 3 parts: Books 1,2 and 3, Book 1 focuses on terminology, book 2 in character development, while book 3 encompasses methodology, all woven into one neat package.

A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique

A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique
Author: Fred Busch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2021-08-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000428850

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This collection of selected papers explores psychoanalytic technique, exemplifying Fred Busch’s singular contribution to this subject, alongside the breadth and depth of his work. Covering key topics such as what is unique about psychoanalysis, interpretation, psychic truth, the role of memory and the importance of the analyst's reveries, this book brings together the author's most important work on this subject for the first time. Taken as a whole, Busch’s work has provided an updated Freudian model for a curative process through psychoanalysis, along with the techniques to accomplish this. Meticulous in providing the theoretical underpinnings for their conclusions, these essays depict how Busch, as a humanist, has continuously championed what in retrospect seems basic to psychoanalytic technique but which has not always been at the forefront of our thinking: the patient’s capacity to hear, understand and emotionally feel interventions. Presenting a deep appreciation for Freudian theory, this book also integrates the work of analysts from Europe and Latin America, which has been prevalent in his recent work. Comprehensive and clear, these works focus on clinical issues, providing numerous examples of work with patients whilst also presenting concise explanations of the theoretical background. In giving new meaning to basic principles of technique and in reviving older methods with a new focus, A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists.

The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955

The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955
Author: Jacques Lacan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1988
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780393307092

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A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Société Française de Psychanalyse. The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.

The Technique of Controversy

The Technique of Controversy
Author: Boris Basil Bogoslovsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1928
Genre: Logic
ISBN:

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Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique

Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique
Author: Amanda Cole
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2022-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9811652562

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This book focuses on the teaching and philosophy of the pioneering performing arts teacher and educator Marjorie Barstow. She is one of the best and brightest exponents of the Alexander Technique (AT), an approach to awareness and movement widely deployed and valued in the performing arts and outside artistic circles. By comparing her approach to the educational philosophy of John Dewey, this book resurrects Marjorie Barstow’s name, and gives her pedagogy and legacy the attention it deserves.