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How radical thought has internalized the experience of defeat A rising star of contemporary critical theory offers an expansive critique on a prominent tradition of thought, 'the jargon of finitude.' Associated with Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, over the past few decades this tradition...

This major work offers an historical description and systematic analysis of the root causes of this global economic crisis, which the authors understand as a crisis of western civilization, and provides a comprehensive solution based on theological social justice.

Il confronto tra psicoanalisi e spiritualità è una tematica che fin dai suoi esordi ha impegnato e appassionato gli specialisti di quella che Freud definì scienza dell’inconscio. Attraverso una rivisitazione ad ampio respiro delle opere di autori dell’importanza di Jung, Fromm, Hillman e ovviamente...

Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts.

Il XIX è stato il secolo delle Masse e degli Individui: del movimento operaio e dei capitani d’industria, dei rivoluzionari e dei dandy, di Bakunin e Oscar Wilde, di Marx e Baudelaire. Ma è stato anche il secolo di Friedrich Nietzsche: l’epoca della morte di Dio e della nascita del Superuomo....

«Il ciclone Michel Onfray continua a scuotere il mondo della cultura francese.» La Repubblica «Michel Onfray, spirito libero e libertario, uno dei maggiori filosofi contemporanei francesi, è al centro di una polemica a 360 gradi, nel mirino (come sempre) anche della sinistra “ufficiale”.» La...

A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds—reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet—marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape,...

Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a "re-enchantment" of the world that faces the modern condition squarely, without nostalgia.

Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century. In the second edition of...

This book explores the philosophical writings of Gerda Walther (1897–1977). It features essays that recover large parts of Walther’s oeuvre in order to show her contribution to phenomenology and philosophy. In addition, the volume contains an English translation of part of her major...

Partez à la découverte de la dialectique avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Le terme « dialectique » dérive du mot composé grec διαλ́εγειν (dialegein), qui indique dès le départ que son sens n'est pas simple. La signification la plus courante de λ́εγειν, c'est « parler...

God created man in his own image; but did man perhaps return the compliment? The question of God's existence has been a pivotal issue for every civilization. Those with faith in God want assurance that their belief is justified, and atheists want confirmation that God is nowhere to be found. When...

Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume's Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues that we cannot understand Hume's project without an appreciation of his own understanding of custom, and in particular,...

À l’heure où tous les candidats au baccalauréat révèlent une incapacité à comprendre les grands problèmes et les œuvres de ceux qui ont tenté de les résoudre, on ne peut que se poser la question : la philosophie est-elle un savoir, dont la nature s’apprend ? Ou n’est-elle pas plutôt une expérience intime des plus hautes vérités, qui défie la formulation scolaire ?