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Thinking Philosophically
An Introduction to the Great Debates
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates presents a highly accessible introduction to five of the most fundamental debates in world philosophy.
Introduces five fundamental philosophical debates in a highly engaging and accessible manner that invites readers to enter the...
Truth
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to explain philosophy to the general...
by Paul Janet
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
L’idéalisme jouit depuis quelques années d’une assez grande faveur auprès d’une certaine portion de la jeunesse philosophique de notre pays. Quelques esprits distingués qui ne veulent pas du matérialisme parce qu’il leur paraît une doctrine grossière, ni du spiritualisme parce que c’est,...
100 pagine di filosofia
Le origini del pensiero occidentale
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Il pensiero greco da Talete a Parmenide, da Socrate a Plotino, passando per Platone e Aristotele. Un testo divulgativo, scritto in maniera semplice, e soprattutto ideale per chi si vuole approcciare per la prima volta alla storia della filosofia.
L'autore
Luca Falchi, architetto,...
La Jeunesse de Friedrich Nietzsche – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de La jeunesse de Friedrich Nietzsche de Théodore de Wyzewa.
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Freud
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural...
Treatise on Tolerance
From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "Treatise on Tolerance” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Treatise on Tolerance was Voltaire's first major philosophical work in his battle against the infamous. The text aims at the rehabilitation of Jean Calas, a...
by Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise...
Princeton Readings in Political Thought
Essential Texts since Plato - Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology
This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and engaging anthologies of Western political thinking, one that spans from antiquity to the twenty-first...
by Frederick Beiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex...
by S. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and realities, and the nature of signs and sacraments.
by Manuel DeLanda, Graham Harman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Until quite recently, almost no philosophers trained in the continental tradition saw anything of value in realism. The situation in analytic philosophy was always different, but in continental philosophy realism was usually treated as a pseudo-problem. That is no longer the case.
In this provocative...
Descartes-Agonistes
Physico-mathematics, Method & Corpuscular-Mechanism 1618-33
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes’ projects in physico-mathematics,...
by Luce Irigaray
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Feminist philosopher, linguist, and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray is renowned for her analyses of language, studies that can be precise and poetic at the same time. In this volume of her work on language, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, she is concerned with developing a model that can reveal those...