History Criticism category: 15616 books
Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language
Primary source texts from the Pre-Socratics to Mill
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
For the first time in English, this anthology offers a comprehensive selection of primary sources in the history of philosophy of language. Beginning with a detailed introduction contextualizing the subject, the editors draw out recurring themes, including the origin of language, the role of nature...
A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy
From Russell to Rawls
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of the historical development of all major aspects of analytic philosophy, the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition in the twentieth century.
Features coverage of all the major subject areas...
Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity
From Static and Genetic Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity, Janet Donohoe offers a compelling look into Husserl’s shift from a "static" to a "genetic" approach in his analysis of consciousness. Rather than view consciousness as an abstract unity, Husserl began investigating consciousness by...
The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language
14th century Hebrew-Spanish Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st. It presents a critical, up-to-date analysis of Santob de Carrión, also known as Sem Tob, a writer and thinker whose philosophy arose in the Spain of...
The Little Book of Big Ideas
150 Concepts and Breakthroughs that Transformed History
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history – from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politics, economics and art – each presented in brief, accessible form. ‘Big’ ideas are those concepts and theories that have radically transformed our...
Revolution and History in Walter Benjamin
A Conceptual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This book places Benjamin’s writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any analysis of Benjamin’s approach to revolution is that he deploys notions that belong to the domain of individual experience. His theory of modernity...
Counter-Memorial Aesthetics
Refugee Histories and the Politics of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Verónica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This edited volume features 20 essays written by leading scholars that provide a detailed examination of L’Homme by René Descartes. It explores the way in which this work developed themes not just on questions such as the circulation of the blood, but also on central questions of perception and...
by Jacqueline Broad, Karen Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women's political thought in Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern era. The authors examine women's ideas about topics such as the basis of political authority, the best form of political organisation, justifications of obedience...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact...
by Robert Miner
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an “attempter.” In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes of his oeuvre: experimental scepticism,...
Consciousness and the Great Philosophers
What would they have said about our mind-body problem?
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Consciousness and the Great Philosophers addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to the contemporary problem of consciousness. Each of the thirty-two chapters within this edited collection focuses on a major philosophical figure from the history of philosophy,...
by Stephen Priest
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
The Empiricists represent the central tradition in British philosophy as well as some of the most important and influential thinkers in human history. Their ideas paved the way for modern thought from politics to science, ethics to religion. The British Empiricists is a wonderfully clear and concise...
Philosophy, History and Politics
Studies in Contemporary English Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012