The Epitaph Project
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The Epitaph Project
1995–
Joyce Burstein
Introduction by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Joyce Burstein began the epitaph project in 1995 by securing a mortgage for a plot at Hollywood Forever, an historic cemetery in Los Angeles known for housing the remains of Rudolph Valentino and other silent film era stars.The public artwork exists as a tombstone carved from slate like a chalkboard and is accompanied by a bronze box containing chalk. Passersby are invited to write an epitaph on the stone. Burstein collects these sometimes profound or irreverent compositions with a photograph.
The project has expanded to include two multi-media presentations, a website, an installation, and the present book, of more than 300 selections, featuring an essay by Peter Lamborn Wilson.
This ongoing project enlists the help of all spectators in a process of self-discovery about death and life, as one does not exist without the other.
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A wonderful sampling of writings by 19th-century economist and social philosopher, Henry George.Contents:Chapter 1: An Introductory Essay on George’s PhilosophyChapter 2: Exhortative WorksChapter 3: A Clarification of the Single Tax and PropertyChapter 4: On Government, Politics, and the WorldChapter 5: Georgism versus SocialismChapter 6: On Sundry Important MattersChapter 7: Views on Religion and Personal CorrespondenceSome favorite quotes:”We start out with these two principles, which I think are clear and self-evident: that which a man makes belongs to him, and can by him be given or sold to anyone that he pleases. But that which existed before man came upon the earth, that which was not produced by man, but which was created by God — that belongs equally to all men” (p. 61).”Do we not all want more wealth? Why, then, should we tax and fine the production of wealth?” (p. 54).”Land is not wealth or capital, but is, on the contrary, that original factor of production from which labor produces wealth and capital”...
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Cultural Semiosis traces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the historical and the social. Understood semiotically, cultural signs and signifiers are inscribed in the fabric of cultural practices. Cultural semiosis enters the spaces of everyday language, visuality, sexuality and symbolization. These original essays interpret and provide tools for the understanding of cultural studies within a philosophical framework.Contributors: M. Alison Arnett, Debra Bergoffen, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Adi Ophir, Francois Raffoul, Mark Roberts, Stephanie Sage, Hugh J. Silverman.
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Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has made major contributions to aesthetic theory, Plato and Hegel studies, humanistic studies, and the philosophy of history. A student of Martin Heidegger, Gadamer took up and developed a number of central Heideggerian insights. He also had productive public debates with contemporaries such as Emilio Betti and J?rgen Habermas. The shape of contemporary hermeneutics is due almost entirely to Gadamer’s influence, and his magnum opus, Truth and Method, is considered one of the great philosophical works of the twentieth century. This book is dedicated to Gadamer in honor of his hundredth birthday, in 2000. The essays provide a measure of the classical character of Gadamer’s work by showing the breadth of engagement his ideas have provoked. As in Gadamer’s own life and work, dialogue and conversation figure as important themes in all of the essays. While they encompass a diversity of philosophical perspectives, interests, and styles, the essays also suggest the ever-present possibility of dialogue across language and tradition and of the formation of new modes of discourse and philosophizing....
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This anthology is a significant contribution to the debate over the relevance of Martin Heidegger’s Nazi ties to the interpretation and evaluation of his philosophical work. Included are a selection of basic documents by Heidegger, essays and letters by Heidegger’s colleagues that offer contemporary context and testimony, and interpretive evaluations by Heidegger’s heirs and critics in France and Germany.
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No dustjacket.Haiti & Somalia:
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The International Trade in Toxic Waste
Mitchel Cohen
