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5The power of the impossible: on community and the creative lifeIFF BOOKS. 2018.Learned, exigent, original, and timely, Erik Roraback's The Power of the Impossible: On Community and the Creative Life presents authoritative readings of what important theorists from Spinoza to Bataille, Blanchot, Nancy, Žižek, and others have had to say about community and the individual, with sections along the way on how those theorists might lead us to approach work by Henry James, James Joyce, Ralph Ellison, Dante Alighieri, and, surprisingly, the great tennis player, Ivan Lendl. Roraback…Read more
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352“Emancipating Forms Of Death With Polanyi And Leibniz”In Charles Tandy (ed.), Death and Anti Death, vol. 14: Four Decades after Michael Polanyi, Three Centuries after G. W. Leibniz, Ria University Press. 2016.This chapter demonstrates that G.W. Leibniz and Michal Polanyi’s creative work in multiple fields of attention may serve a twenty first century in need of scholars willing to put daring and speculative imaginative inter–disciplinary risks in play. Such a cultural development would activate a general and cross–cultural sensibility that may salvage knowledge work, which is often predicated on property and power, for instead intellectual work that would serve the production of multiple truths…Read more
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Charles University, PragueFaculty Of Philosophy And ArtsDirector, American Literature And Cultural-Studies
Praha, Hlavní Mesto Praha, Czechia
Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy, Misc |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |
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