Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Oprisko, Robert L
• Rubenstein, Diane
• Oprisko, Robert L.

Titel

Michael A. Weinstein: Action, Contemplation, Vitalism

Auflage

1st

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book is a major reassessment of Michael Weinstein's political philosophy. It situates his singular contribution, designated as &dquotecritical vitalism,&dquote in the context of both canonical American and contemporary continental theory. Weinstein is presented as a philosopher of life and as an American Nietzsche. Yet the contributors also persuasively argue for this form of thinking as a prescient prophecy addressing contemporary society's concern over the management of life as well as the technological changes that both threaten and sustain intimacy. This is the first full scale study of Weinstein's work which reveals surprising aspects of a philosophic journey that has encompassed most of the major American (pragmatic or vitalist) or Continental (phenomenological or existential) traditions. Weinstein is read as a comparative political theorist, a precursor to post-structuralism, and as a post-colonial border theorist. A different aspect of his oeuvre is highlighted in each of the book's three sections. The opening essays comprising the &dquoteAction&dquote diptych contrasts meditative versus extrapolative approaches; &dquoteContemplation&dquote stages a series of encounters between Weinstein and his philosophic interlocutors; &dquoteVitalism&dquote presents Weinstein as a teacher, media analyst, musician, and performance artist. The book contains an epilogue written by Weinstein in response to the contributors.