... mixture of aspects is itself a product of careful thinking; it is a decision about the truth of what is basically real. It is therefore itself artificial. Consequently, as with the “sometimes” logic, one needs to achieve the posture of not thinking in terms of either a simple contrast or a simple lack...

... from his thought and that that politics is disturbing enough to invalidate the entire thought that gave rise to it. It does so in this case, however, by rather decisively separating Heidegger from Schmittian “decisionism,” which, as we shall go on to see, probably cannot be done quite so simply...

...Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States, and Henry W. Halleck was commanding general of the nation's army during the gravest domestic crisis in American history. On their shoulders rested the decisions that would be instrumental in determining whether the nation would remain whole...

... Black Lives Matter Ferris Deeohn Midwest Compass Group political ecology beneficiaries of stewardship decision-makers Earth Stewardship geopower Global North Remaking the Earth, modifying organisms, resuscitating species. Each of these activities must be apprehended as a specific economy...

...This chapter discusses war and death. War is a violent conflict and is typified by extreme aggression. War will not stop as long as people live under diverse conditions of existence. On the other hand, death is a result of a conscious decision, which is neither inevitable nor incalculable...

...The introduction offers several vignettes to mark the limits of Marx’s conceptualization of the slave, Agamben’s concept of the decision in states of emergency, and Cathy Caruth and Shoshana Felman’s unacknowledged connection to “European Man” as the image of thought producing their idea of trauma...

...At stake in this chapter is a reading of Lacan and the Sophists as sharing a common and radical challenge to the Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction (something “cannot be and not be at the same time”). This is what Cassin has elsewhere theorized as the Aristotelian “decision of meaning...

...This chapter addresses the question: Who or what decides? How, for Derrida, does a bona fide decision take place? Decision is analyzed in many places in Derrida's work, particularly in the late work. The chapter focuses “micrologically” on what seems to be Derrida's fullest and most elaborate...

..., and of the event with regard to the decision. For if nothing ever happens to a subject, nothing deserving the name ‘event,’ the schema of decision tends regularly—at least, in its ordinary and hegemonic sense (the one that still seems dominant in Schmittian decisionism, in his theory of exception...

...Through a discussion of the medical shared decision-making paradigm, this chapter argues that the question of ethics is less about achieving clear-cut justified agreements than about the difficulties to stitch together what really matters to people. The point is that moral deliberation, which...

... zeal, and wishful thinking motivated the FCC to refrain from engaging in results-driven decision-making despite its legal obligation to serve the public interest and generate a complete evidentiary record. For example, the FCC has used statistics to support the conclusion that ample facilities-based...

... Gracián Baltasar Irigaray Luce Nietzsche Friedrich Pessoa Fernando Sheehan Thomas Sophocles Teresa of Ávila différance ontico ontological difference ontological difference Dasein anarchy epoch epochal communism decision equivalence infrapolitics true life They harass me with the demand...

... McCormick’s analysis of “The Force of Law” essay demonstrates, a similar preoccupation appeared already in that piece. As McCormick argues, countering the accusation that, in “The Force of Law,” Derrida reveals the decisionism at the heart of his theory—one that is continuous with that of Heidegger...

...This chapter discusses the relation between conscience and the person. Conscience refers to that “inner voice” that advises a person and commands him in the presence of a moral decision as to how to act in a given situation. There is no mature person without the voice of conscience...

... the best of these accounts, which equates the will with the power of decision through which we form the intentions and purposes that distinguish human action from mere behavior, misses the phenomena of projective motivation. This chapter also shows how the heroic conception of striving will adds...

..., which is shown to be both philosophically and politically insufficient, close readings of Heidegger, Kierkegaard and Derrida trace complex relations between sophistry, rhetoric and philosophy, truth and untruth, decision, madness and stupidity, in an exploration of the possibility of developing...