Existentialism category: 383 books
by Martin Heidegger
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Quando nel 1927 Martin Heidegger pubblicò Essere e tempo, si ebbe subito la sensazione che un nuovo astro fosse sorto nel firmamento della filosofia. Da anni le sue lezioni – di cui Essere e tempo è il distillato – avevano richiamato intorno a quel giovane «sciamano del pensiero» un folto...
Aristoteles Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie
Philosophie der Antike
Language: German
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Aristoteles (altgriechisch: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, Betonung lateinisch und deutsch: Aristóteles; * 384 v. Chr. in Stageira; † 322 v. Chr. in Chalkis) gehört zu den bekanntesten und einflussreichsten Philosophen der Geschichte. Er hat zahlreiche Disziplinen...
Taste as Experience
The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Taste as Experience puts the pleasure of food at the center of human experience. It shows how the sense of taste informs our preferences for and relationship to nature, pushes us toward ethical practices of consumption, and impresses upon us the importance of aesthetics. Eating is often dismissed...
by Andrew Mason
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Fate and Freedom Volume 2 builds on the paths of thought opened up in volume 1 with a series of investigations engaging significant figures in both modern and ancient, eastern and western thought.
'Energy and Freedom' uses Pierre Klossowski's thought-provoking book Sade My Neighbour as a...
by John Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
Jesus is the man who made the West. What kind of man was he? Is he relevant to a modern world shaken by crises of meaning?
The churches have mainly projected him as Jesus the carer and comforter, Jesus meek and mild, friend of the weak. This is Jesus the Good Shepherd, who preaches on sin and...
Denying Death
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Terror Management Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This volume is the first to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of Terror Management Theory, providing a detailed overview of how rich and diverse the field has become since the late 1980s, and where it is going in the future. It offers perspectives from psychology, political science, communication,...
Making Sense of Heidegger
A Paradigm Shift
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Making Sense of Heidegger presents a radically new reading of Heidegger’s notoriously difficult oeuvre*.* Clearly written and rigorously grounded in the whole of Heidegger’s writings, Thomas Sheehan’s latest book argues for the strict unity of Heidegger’s thought on the basis of three theses:...
Martin Buber and His Critics (Routledge Revivals)
An Annotated Bibliography of Writings in English through 1978
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
First published in 1981. Martin Buber has been acclaimed as one of the major philosophical and religious thinkers of the twentieth century with his influence and achievements spanning numerous fields — however in each of these areas his work has also been severely criticised and his influence called...
by Espen Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The American philosopher Stanley Cavell (b. 1926) is a secular Jew who by his own admission is obsessed with Christ, yet his outlook on religion in general is ambiguous. Probing the secular and the sacred in Cavell’s thought, Espen Dahl explains that Cavell, while often parting ways with Christianity,...
A R R O W
A Brief Sketch of My Mind—A Shot in the Dark
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
We all live in a world of stories. Despite intuitions to the contrary, our minds have no direct link to realitywe all make our own reality with the stories we accept and reject. And if we have enough courage and creativity, we can even write our own stories. But the starting point to becoming the...
Why Do We Go to the Zoo?
Communication, Animals, and the Cultural-Historical Experience of Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Despite hundreds of millions of visitors each year, zoos have remained outside of the realm of philosophical analysis. This lack of theoretical examination is interesting considering the paradoxical position within which a zoo is situated, being a space of animal confinement as well as a site that...
by Serena Maria Nicoli
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book focuses on the role of intuition in querying Socratic problems, the very nature of intuition itself, and whether it can be legitimately used to support or reject philosophical theses. The reader is introduced to questions connected to the use of intuition in philosophy through an analysis...
Natural Novelty
The Newness Manifest in Existence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Novelty is real. Cause-effect relationships come into existence that cannot be attributed to repetition of the relationships that came before them. This idea is relevant to everything from historical sciences, philosophy, religion, to our own subjective experience. But why, in the most general possible...
by Jean Wahl, William C. Hackett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
William C. Hackett’s English translation of Jean Wahl’s Existence humaine et transcendence (1944) brings back to life an all-but-forgotten book that provocatively explores the philosophical concept of transcendence. Based on what Emmanuel Levinas called “Wahl’s famous lecture” from 1937,...