S/D: Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Inspired by the Good books on the philosophy of science? thread: What are your favorite contemporary works of Continental philosophy, and who are your favorite contemporary Continental philosophers? To clarify, by "contemporary" I mean people who are still writing and publishing now. So this isn't the place to discuss Derrida, Foucault, etc.

To begin, here's a slightly modified version of something I just posted to the Good books on the philosophy of science? thread:

... I will unreservedly and enthusiastically recommend Gr4h4m H4rm4n's Pr1nce of Networks, esp. if you're interested in contemporary "Continental" philosophy. H4rm4n is a realist philosopher who builds upon Latour, his own idiosyncratic interpretation of He1degger, and Le1bniz, among other thinkers. In this book, he spends the first half on his interpretation of Latour, and the second half discussing the relevance of Latour's work to H4rm4n's own object-or1ented onto1ogy. Fantastic.

It's available for free in .pdf form at the publisher's website (just Google the title). Although, of course, you should purchase a copy of the high-quality paperback and support the author and publisher!

And everything by S1avoj Z1zek, obviously. Esp. The T1cklish Subject.

Should've left that ungoogleproofed -- Zizek would be a riot on ILX.

contentially philosophy is apparently getting pretty 133t

I wonder what he would have to say about Grizzly Bear.

Z already put out one book in the Spring and has two more coming in the fall.

Grizizekly Bear

heidegger and leibniz still googlin themselves too huh

leibniz uses bing

I knew I was going to get shit for googleproofing those names the second I posted that. Thanks, ILX. :-)

I mentioned this on the Zizek thread, but I'm taking a class with him and Av1t4l R0n3ll starting next week. <3

I just saw Examined Life, and R0n3ll was great in it! That class sounds amazing. What it's on? (I'm assuming you're an EGS student?)

I'm at Tisch and taking it in the German Dpt. The course is Philosophy + Language: Hegel, Freud & Literature

Destroy: zizek (sorry)

what counts as contemporary?

I'd say search: niklas luhmann, Soren brier, John deely, humberto maturana...

Oh wow, Morday. That sounds incredible.

Ryan, why don't you like Zizek?

Simon Critchley!

That was an xpost! (I'll try to answer that later when I'm not on my phone)

I wanna see Examined Life! (torrent?)

Oh shit. I read Infinitely Demanding last winter, and I thought he had some good ideas although I disagree with his political stance.

He and Z had an interesting public quarrel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Critchley#The_Critchley-Zizek_Debate

Gianni vattimo
Roberto Esposito
agamben (kinda)

Yeah I disagree with alot of these dudes (except maye luhmann) but I just
judge quality based on how interesting they are. Critchley's "very little, almost nothing" is a favorite of mine.

xpost

Mordy, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o3UoG2KlW0

Just click on the video under "Video Responses" to get to part 2, 3, etc., etc.

When you finish watching it, let me know what you think!

Major takeaway from the film: Cornell West is amazing and that the philosophy documentary is a highly interesting genre, esp. in cases such as this one and the Z film where Taylor's trying to make a film for a general audience.

Michael serres
Katherine hayles

Stanley cavell! (ok sorry I'll stop now)

C4v3ll and other post-L3vin4s narrative ethics people have always annoyed me -- always a little too pretty.

Michael serres

I've heard his name mentioned several times now; think it's time for me to look into him a bit more.

The Parasite was just published in a new edition and features an introduction from my dissertation advisor!

Oh wow, there your advisor is. He's putting out a book this fall, too? I'm v. interested in posthum4n1sm, so I think I'll check it out.

Incidentally, apparently I had already placed the Serres book on the posthumanism wishlist I created for myself on Amazon. Excellent.

Yeah he just turned the manuscript this past weekend in fact.

Ryan, if you don't mind my asking, what are you writing your dissertation on?

Kind of a genealogy of American philosophy and the theme of "self-reference" from Edwards and Emerson to Peirce--and try to triangulate Peirce with Luhmann (second-order cybernetics) and Derrida. Sounds fancier than it is!