Gillian Rose was a British scholar whose work spanned philosophy and sociology. Her scholarship critically engaged with neo-Kantianism and postmodernism, while also offering a robust defense of Hegel's speculative thought. As a social philosopher, Rose explored complex ideas with a distinctive analytical style, challenging prevailing intellectual currents.
This collection features lectures by a renowned philosopher that delve into the intersections of art, Marxism, and critical theory. Offering a unique perspective, the book presents insightful analyses and discussions that illuminate the complexities of cultural production and its societal implications. Readers can expect a thought-provoking exploration of how these themes intertwine and influence contemporary thought, showcasing the philosopher's significant contributions to the field.
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.
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.
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
Visual Methodologies is an introduction to reading visual culture. It explains which methods are available to the undergraduate student and shows exactly how to use them. The text begins with a discussion of general themes and recent debates.
Exploring the intersection of family photography and social dynamics, this book utilizes case studies from the UK to analyze domestic images and their public presentations. By integrating insights from material culture studies, geography, and anthropology, it treats photographs as significant objects that shape and reflect social practices, relationships, and identities. This approach reveals how the act of capturing and sharing family moments influences societal perceptions and personal connections within families.
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.
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.
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.
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.
