Wish I had thought of it department... Terrific idea that could be made use of for RC purposes........ December 02, 2013 _Bloomsbury Philosophy’s 12 Days of Quizmas_ (http://bloomsburyphilosophy.typepad.com/continuum_philosophy/2013/12/bloomsbury-philosophys-12-days-of-qu izmas.html) A festive 12 days of philosophical questioning, speculation and rumination, from the 2nd to 13th of December. Who wants lumps of coal and satsumas in their stocking when you can have Badiou!? Best of all, everyone that enters will receive instructions at the end of the 12 days to claim a 20% discount on ALL Bloomsbury Philosophy titles! 12 questions, one per day. Each question will be put up here, on the blog, at 4pm every day. Answer, by email, to [email protected], for a chance to win a book of your choice from our _Philosophy Revelations series!_ (http://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/revelations-pdf-for-quiz.pdf) Including Badiou, Ranciere, Deleuze, Adorno and more! DAILY QUIZ: Click _HERE_ (http://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/day8-q.pdf) for today's question (Day 8) Questions posted up to Day # 8 : Questions: 1. Max Horkheimer concludes his seminal _Eclipse of Reason_ (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/eclipse-of-reason-9781780938189/) with a prophetic statement that states the enlightenment is an emancipation from what? And that to carry out this emancipatory task we must denounce what? 2. Jean Baudrillard’s _The Intelligence of Evil_ (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-intelligence-of-evil-9781780935683/) explores a contemporary post- 9/11 cultural landscape “whereby there is no longer anything on which there is nothing left to say”. Yet, as he reminds us, “it is in the nature of meaning that not everything has it”. This “Hyperreal” condition has often permeated Baudrillard’s sociological analyses, but in what text was the term first used? 3. Alain Badiou’s magnum opus, _Being and Event_ (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/being-and-event-9781472511065/) , constitutes a profound intervention in the history of Western philosophy, yet as Badiou states toward the beginning: “There is no difference between what I have done and what such philosophers as Plato, Descartes, Leibniz, or Hegel have done, a hundred times over since the very origins of our discipline...” What is it that Badiou says he, and these other philosophers, have done? 4. According to Armand Ajzenberg, Henri Lefebvre considered _Rhythmanalysis_ (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rhythmanalysis-9781472507167/) to be the de facto fourth volume of which groundbreaking study? 5. Which renowned French theorist said of Gilles Deleuze that: “Perhaps one day this century will be known as Deleuzian”? 6. In Michel Henry’s _Barbarism_ (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/barbarism-9781441132659/) , the concept that supplies the title describes a “collapse of culture”, and the estrangement of life from itself through the techno-scientific socio-economic world of late-capitalism. In the opening to the ‘ Preface of the Second Edition’, Henry describes the divergence – “For the first time in the history of humanity” - of which two things, in the emergence of a “titanic battle”? 7. Quentin Meillassoux, in _After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency_ (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/after-finitude-9781441173836/) , first defines “correlationism” as the idea “according to which…”? 8. “The aesthetic mode of thought is much more than a way of thinking about art. It is an idea of thought, linked to an idea of the distribution of the sensible.” Jacque Rancière’s _The Politics of Aesthetics_ (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-politics-of-aesthetics-9781780935355/) comprises one of his most lucid and succinct accounts of how he envisages the inherent political nature of aesthetics, and the possibility of aesthetics to rethink the political. Art thus becomes, for Rancière, a democratic modality and a principle means of generating what, in the blandly consensual times in which we live?
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