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Philosophy and Working-through the Past
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Social Pathologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
At certain moments in his political essays, Kant conceives of socio-historical emancipation as a process of working ourselves out of pathological legacies, suggesting that emancipation would involve a process of working through our affective attachments to entrenched, regressive social arrangements....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive...
Animals
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize -- before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy. This volume examines the richness and complexity of that long history. Twelve essays trace the significance of animals from Greek and Indian...
Truth
A History and a Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, Truth manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to the private mental worlds of great philosophers;...
by Thomas Molnar
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In Archetypes of Thought, originally published in 1991 with the title Philosophical Grounds, Thomas Molnar follows seven basic themes of Western philosophical speculation from their development in the earliest times of systematic thought through their evolution through the centuries and civilizations...
by David Sepkoski
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century?
In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared...
Monism
Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s.
Prophecy
The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God, when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal, transitory creatures? What happens to...
Philosophy and Logic In Search of the Polish Tradition
Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume contains papers on truth, logic, semantics, and history of logic and philosophy. These papers are dedicated to Jan Wolenski to honor his 60th birthday. Jan Wolenski is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. He is likely...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diverse range of issues....
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Written between 1873 and 1876, The "Untimely Meditations", or "Thoughts out of Season" is a collection of four essays by famed philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In the first essay 'David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer', Nietzsche attacks David Strauss's "The Old and the New Faith: A Confession"....
The Senecans
Four Men and Margaret Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young historian arrives to ask Peter Stothard, Editor of the Time Literary Supplement and former editor of The Time, some sharp questions about his memories of the Thatcher era. During the interview the offices from where he long observed British politics...
English Writings of Hu Shih
Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Hu Shih (1891-1962),. In the 1910s, Hu studied at Cornell University and later Columbia University, both in the United States. At Columbia, he was greatly influenced by his professor, John Dewey, and became a lifelong advocate of pragmatic evolutionary change. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in...