Gillian Rose Bücher

Gillian Roses autobiographische Erzählung "Love's Work" beginnt auf dem Flughafen in New York, mit Jim, dem aidskranken Freund, und Edna, die 93 Jahre alt ist, sieben Tage in der Woche als Sekretärin arbeitet und kürzlich Gesichtskrebs bekommen hat. Eine Geschichte, die nach Auschwitz führt und zurück in die Kindheit in einer jüdischen Familie in England, zu Yvette, mit der sie eine Reise nach Israel plant, die aber vor der Reise stirbt. Gillian Rose erzählt von ihrem Leben und ihren Toten, leidenschaftlich, witzig, mit herzzerreißender Ehrlichkeit. Sie konfrontiert sich mit ihrem protestantischen und jüdischen Erbe, mit der Zärtlichkeit der Liebe, den Schwierigkeiten der Freundschaft, mit Philosophie, die sie zu ihrem Beruf gemacht hat, mit Sterblichkeit.

The book challenges the limitations of post-modernism, critiquing its quest for a coherent 'new ethics' and ironic philosophy. Rose revitalizes discussions on power, domination, transcendence, and eternity, offering fresh insights into these complex debates. Through her arguments, she seeks to move beyond despairing rationalism, providing a thoughtful exploration of philosophical concepts that resonate with contemporary issues.

Exploring the intersection of life and death, the fragments left by philosopher Gillian Rose reflect her journey through terminal illness while embracing the joys of companionship and memory. Her writing balances the stark realities of despair with a celebration of life, embodying her commitment to intellectual engagement until the end. This work serves as a poignant conclusion to her philosophical contributions, offering serene insights that resonate with the human experience and affirm the value of connection, even in the face of mortality.

Focusing on visual methods research, this bestselling guide equips students and researchers with essential skills for executing projects effectively. It provides a clear, step-by-step approach, enhanced by practical examples that illustrate the application of various methods. This resource serves as a comprehensive tool for navigating the complexities of visual research, making it accessible and applicable for users at different levels.

Exploring themes of justice, morality, and human suffering, the narrative interweaves historical events like the Holocaust with art, specifically Poussin's painting, to challenge post-modernist perspectives. It delves into the complexities of the human soul and the impact of crises such as AIDS, prompting readers to reflect on profound ethical dilemmas and the nature of truth in a fragmented world. Through these connections, the work critiques contemporary thought and emphasizes the enduring relevance of historical lessons.

Introducing the new urban aesthetic -- The new urban aesthetic : a conceptual framework -- The conceived aesthetics of urban redevelopment : the case of Msheireb Downtown, Qatar -- The perceived aesthetics of digital urbanism : feeling digital embodiment in smart Milton Keynes -- The lived aesthetic of urban social media : anticipating the Culture Mile's Future -- The new urban aesthic and its power -- Conclusion : the differentiation and potentialities of the new urban aesthetic.

The Melancholy Science is Gillian Rose’s investigation into Theodor Adorno’s work and legacy. Rose uncovers the unity discernable among the many fragments of Adorno’s oeuvre, and argues that his influence has been to turn Marxism into a search for style. The attempts of Adorno, Lukács and Benjamin to develop a Marxist theory of culture centred on the concept of reification are contrasted, and the ways in which the concept of reification has come to be misused are exposed. Adorno’s continuation for his own time of the Marxist critique of philosophy is traced through his writings on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger. His opposition to the separation of philosophy and sociology is shown by examination of his critique of Durkheim and Weber, and of his contributions to the dispute over positivism, his critique of empirical social research and his own empirical sociology. Gillian Rose shows Adorno’s most important contribution to be his founding of a Marxist aesthetic that offers a sociology of culture, as demonstrated in his essays on Kafka, Mann, Beckett, Brecht and Schönberg. Finally, Adorno’s ‘Melancholy Science’ is revealed to offer a ‘sociology of illusion’ that rivals both structural Marxism and phenomenological sociology as well as the subsequent work of the Frankfurt School.

This work offers a groundbreaking critique of Hegel, focusing on the shortcomings of sociological methods in understanding his philosophy. It challenges conventional interpretations and delves into the complexities of Hegel's ideas, highlighting their relevance and implications in contemporary discussions. The author aims to reshape the discourse surrounding Hegel, encouraging readers to reconsider the relationship between sociology and philosophy.

Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love, love that becomes real and lasting through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents’ divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends’ tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete—to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge (“I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,” Rose writes, “My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers”) and with unsettling wisdom (“To live, to love, is to be failed”), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.

A fierce vigilance of thought. - Guardian This is a book to make one want to read philosophy once again. I can think of no higher praise. - Times Higher Education