Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens. Welcome to the Network Society! Michel Foucault - French Philosopher. Michel Foucault was a French philosopher or more specifically a historian of systems of thought, a self-made title created when he was promoted to a new professorship at the prestigious Collège de France in 1970. Foucault is generally accepted as having been the most influential social theorist of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born on October 15, 1926, in Poitiers, France, and died in Paris in 1984 from an AIDS-related illness.
As an openly homosexual man he was one of the first high-profile intellectuals to succumb to the illness, which was at the time still most unknown. However, it would appear that he knew he had AIDS and he reportedly was not afraid to die as he sometimes shared with his friends his thoughts of suicide. Foucault’s father was a surgeon, and encouraged the same career for his son. Foucault graduated from Saint-Stanislas school having studied philosophy with Louis Girard who would become a notorious professor. Friedrich Kittler - Professor of Media Philosophy. Friedrich Adolf Kittler, Ph.D., was a literary scientist and media theorist. He was born in 1943 in Rochlitz, Saxony (Germany) and he died on October 18, 2011 in Berlin (Germany). His research and work is focused on media, history, communications, technology, and the military. Friedrich Kittler has been called the Derrida of the digital age. His innovative media theories have transformed the nature of technological scholarship and led the way in the field.
Kittler is an innovative and hard to define theorist, who has pushed theoretical works of literary scholars into technological fields with unprecedented modes of critical thought. Through his unique brand of media determinism his work is influencing new generations of students across the world. In 1958 his family fled the German Democratic Republic, heading to West Germany. Friedrich Kittler became an Assistant Professor in German at Freiburg for the next decade. Friedrich Kittler comments on film and novel as media:
Base de données en ligne Emmanuel Lévinas. Jacques Derrida. Jacques Derrida (/ʒɑːk ˈdɛrɨdə/; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida;[1] July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. Derrida is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.[3][4][5] During his career Derrida published more than 40 books, together with hundreds of essays and public presentations. He had a significant influence upon the humanities and social sciences, including—in addition to philosophy and literature—law[6][7][8] anthropology,[9] historiography,[10] linguistics,[11] sociolinguistics,[12] psychoanalysis, political theory, feminism, and queer studies.
Particularly in his later writings, he frequently addressed ethical and political themes present in his work. Life[edit] Derrida was the third of five children. Derrida traveled widely and held a series of visiting and permanent positions. Zygmunt Bauman. Zygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925) is a Polish sociologist. He has resided in England since 1971 after being driven out of Poland by an anti-semitic campaign engineered by the Communist government. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Bauman is one of the world's most eminent social theorists writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity. Biography According to the Institute of National Remembrance, from 1945 to 1953 Bauman was a political officer in the Internal Security Corps (KBW),[1] a military unit formed to combat Ukrainian nationalist insurgents and part of the remnants of the Polish Home Army .
Further Bauman worked as an informer for the Military Intelligence from 1945 to 1948. In an interview in The Guardian, Bauman confirmed that he had been a committed communist during and after World War II and had never made a secret of it. Work Early work Modernity and rationality Awards and honours. Ulrich Beck. Ulrich Beck (2007) Ulrich Beck (ur. 15 maja 1944 w Słupsku) – socjolog niemiecki. Życie[edytuj | edytuj kod] Jest profesorem monachijskiego Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität oraz London School of Economics and Political Science. Koncepcje i poglądy[edytuj | edytuj kod] Zajmuje się m.in. zagadnieniami związanymi z ryzykiem, środowiskiem oraz globalizacją.
Ulrich Beck uchodzi za najlepiej znanego współczesnego socjologa niemieckiego i należy do najczęściej cytowanych współczesnych przedstawicieli nauk społecznych [1] Wybrane publikacje[edytuj | edytuj kod] Risikogesellschaft – Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (1986)Riskante Freiheiten – Gesellschaftliche Individualisierungsprozesse in der Moderne (1994, redaktor wraz z Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim)Eigenes Leben – Ausflüge in die unbekannte Gesellschaft, in der wir leben (1995, współautorzy: W.
Tłumaczenia prac na język polski[edytuj | edytuj kod] Książki: Społeczeństwo ryzyka. Publikacje z tekstami: Przypisy Linki zewnętrzne[edytuj | edytuj kod] Giorgio Agamben - Professor of Philosophy. Giorgio Agamben, Phd., Baruch Spinoza Chair at European Graduate School EGS, is a professor of aesthetics at the University of Verona, Italy and teaches philosophy at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. As a post graduate he participated in seminars with Martin Heidegger in Freiburg and directed the Italian Walter Benjamin Edition.
Agamben's unique blending of literary theory, continental philosophy, political thought, religious studies, literature and art makes him one of the most challenging thinkers of our time. He was a visiting professor in Paris and has taught at American universities such as UC Berkeley, Los Angeles, Irvine, Santa Cruz, and Northwestern. Agamben's book Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture (1992) is a blend of philology, medieval physics and psychology, the psychoanalysis of toys, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy.
Means Without End (1996, Trans. Professor of Philosophy. Jean Baudrillard, Ph.D., French sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity, was born July 27, 1929 in the northern town of Reims. The son of civil servants and the grandson of peasant farmers, Jean Baudrillard was the first in his family to attend university. Jean Baudrillard was a university sociology teacher and a leading intellectual figure of his time. His early life was influenced by the Algerian war in the 1950s and 1960s. He taught German in a lycée before completing his doctoral thesis in sociology under the tuition of Henri Lefebvre. Jean Baudrillard was a thinker who built on what was being thought by others and breaks through via a key reversal of logic to make a fresh analysis. Jean Baudrillard's philosophy centers on the twin concepts of 'hyperreality' and 'simulation'.
Jean Baudrillard's impatience with Marx bloomed into explicit dissociation in For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (1972) and The Mirror of Production (1973). Jacques Lacan - Philosopher. Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born in 1901 to a bourgeois Catholic family. He was an admirable student, and excelled especially at Latin and philosophy. He went to medical school, and began studying psychoanalysis in the 1920s with the psychiatrist GaÎtan de Clérambault. He studied at the Faculté de Médecine de Paris, and worked with patients suffering from délires ý deux, or "automatism," a condition in which the patient believes his actions, writing, or speech, are controlled by an outside and omnipotent force. A growing psychoanalytical movement in France had been showing a particular interest in similar patients. Lacan wrote his thesis for his doctorat d'état in 1932 titled De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité, in which he drew a connection between phsychiatric medicine and psychoanalysis.
It was this combination of the theoretical and the clinical that would become Lacan's practice and inform what he would call his "return to Freud. "