History Criticism category: 15616 books
Interanimations
Receiving Modern German Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philosophy itself. In doing so, he reconceives philosophical...
Phenomenology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This comprehensive new book introduces the core history of phenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. From critiques of artificial intelligence research programs to ongoing work on embodiment and enactivism, the authors trace how...
by Lorena Cebolla Sanahuja
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book examines the history of cosmopolitanism from its origins in the ancient world up to its use in Kantian political philosophy. Taking the idea of ‘common property of the land’ as a starting point, the author makes the original case that attention to this concept is needed to properly understand...
Dignity
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity. In such contexts, the concept of dignity typically signifies something like the fundamental moral status belonging to all humans. Remarkably, however, it...
Matter and Form
From Natural Science to Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political...
Against the Modern World
Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
The first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and...
Counterfactuals
Paths of the Might have Been
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad...
by Jack Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key figures in the Frankfurt School, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal...
Aristocratic Liberalism
The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis De Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
"Liberalism" is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, but has been an especially difficult concept for historians and political scientists to define. Burckhardt, Mill, and Tocqueville define one type of liberal thought. They share an aristocratic liberalism marked...
From Critical to Speculative Idealism
The Philosophy of Solomon Maimon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is the first part of a larger work on the philosophy of Solomon Maimon and its systematic place in the history of thought. Here we deal with so me of the fundamental themes of Maimon's philosophy, including his examination of Kant's philosophy, his re lation to such immediate post-Kantians...
by James Deotis Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The research of Professor J. D. Roberts has interested me for several years. It has interested me because he has been working in a really rich area of intellectual history. Even before Professor Whitehead taught us to speak of the seventeenth century as the "century of genius," many of us...
Berdyaev’s Philosophy of History
An Existentialist Theory of Social Creativity and Eschatology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
BERDYAEV AS A PHILOSOPHER How shall a non-Russian, above all a North American, assimilate the extraordinary assemblage of ideas which is Berdyaev's philosophy? Dr. Richardson does not exaggerate the difficulties. And he introduces us with great care (and what a formidable task it must have been) precisely...
by P. J. E. Kail
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a crucial text in the history of empiricism and in the history of philosophy more generally. Its central and seemingly astonishing claim is that the physical world cannot exist independently of the perceiving mind. The meaning of this claim, the powerful...
by VEDA
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The text is structured in chronological and ideological order and presents nine basic types of the classical perception of the problem of knowledge through an analysis of the atomistic theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle’s doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant’s theory, phenomenological-existential,...