Phenomenology category: 832 books
by Jonathan Webber
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
In Rethinking Existentialism, Jonathan Webber articulates an original interpretation of existentialism as the ethical theory that human freedom is the foundation of all other values. Offering an original analysis of classic literary and philosophical works published by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de...
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Extrait : "Les matières contenues dans cette partie de la philosophie qui va maintenant nous occuper sont les mêmes que l'on rencontre dans la plupart des traités de logique. Mais dans mon système, il faut le bien remarquer, elles sont étroitement liées à toutes celles que l'on désigne généralement sous d'autres noms;"
CRITIQUE DE LA RAISON PURE
TOME PREMIER
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Philosophe allemand du 18 ème siècle, Emmanuel KANT (1724-1804) est connu principalement pour son livre de la « Critique de la RAISON PURE », un des ouvrages les plus complexes et les plus marquants de la philosophie moderne, apportant une révolution au moins aussi grande que celle de Descartes...
Totality and Infinity
An Essay on Exteriority
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Problems of Religious Luck
Assessing the Limits of Reasonable Religious Disagreement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
To speak of being religious lucky certainly sounds odd. But then, so does “My faith holds value in God’s plan, while yours does not.” This book argues that these two concerns — with the concept of religious luck and with asymmetric or sharply differential ascriptions of religious value —...
Plato’s Animals
Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments....
Heidegger and Leibniz
Reason and the Path with a Foreword by Hans Georg Gadamer
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Heidegger holds that our age is dominated by the ambition of reason to possess the world. And he sees in Leibniz the man who formulated the theorem of our modern age: nothing happens without a reason. He calls this attitude `calculating thought' and opposes to it a kind of thought aimed at preserving...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This volume offers perspectives on the theme of surprise crossing philosophical, phenomenological, scientific, psycho-physiology, psychiatric, and linguistic boundaries. The main question it examines is whether surprise is an emotion. It uses two main theoretical frameworks to do so: psychology, in...
The Logic of Invariable Concomitance in the Tattvacintāmaṇi
Gaṅgeśa’s Anumitinirūpaṇa and Vyāptivāda with Introduction Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The history of Indian logic is roughly divided into three periods: old Nyaya, Buddhist logic and new Nyaya. Each period is characterized by the production of some outstanding Sanskrit text. The main texts of the first and second period have been translated into, and explained in, European languages....
Philosophy in Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man
World, Metaphor, Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world. As an application of Ricœurian methodology to a non-narrative film, the book calls into question the fundamental concept of the film world. Firmly rooted within the context of experimental...
How is Society Possible?
Intersubjectivity and the Fiduciary Attitude as Problems of the Social Group in Mead, Gurwitsch, and Schutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
How is society possible? In Die Krisis der europiiischen Wissenschaflen und die transzendentale Phiinomenoiogie, I Edmund Husserl is found with a pathos send ing out pleas for belief ("Glauben") in his transcendental philosophy and tran scendental ego. The traditional idea of theoretical...
Being with the Dead
Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques...
Philosophy and Vulnerability
Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Kaum ein anderes Schlagwort beherrscht heute den öffentlichen Diskurs so sehr wie die Transparenz. Sie wird vor allem im Zusammenhang mit der Informationsfreiheit emphatisch beschworen. Wer aber die Transparenz allein auf moralischer Ebene thematisiert und sie etwa auf Fragen der Korruption reduziert,...