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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry is the sole exception. This is an astonishing omission, one this collection of original essays will...
by Douglas McManaman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The typical university philosophy course today often gives students the impression that philosophical knowledge is radically inconclusive. But philosophy has a very important place in Catholic theological tradition. St. Thomas Aquinas calls philosophy the handmaiden of theology. This Introduction...
Trading Ontology for Ideology
The Interplay of Logic, Set Theory and Semantics in Quine’s Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Willard VanOrman Quine has probably been the most influential th American philosopher of the 20 century. His work spans over seven decades, and covers many domains in philosophy. He has made major contributions to the fields of logic and set theory, philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy...
Philosophy and the Martial Arts
Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This is the first substantial academic book to lay out the philosophical terrain within the study of the martial arts and to explore the significance of this fascinating subject for contemporary philosophy.
The book is divided into three sections. The first section concerns what philosophical...
Pragmatism's Advantage
American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a "philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmatism. Joseph Margolis offers a modified pragmatism as...
by Little Green Apples Publishing, LLC ™
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The Philosophy Concepts and Principles Study Brief provides a concise, conceptual overview of the vast and far-reaching field of philosophy. This academic outline is the ideal orientation for a college student enrolled in an introductory Philosophy course. It is also recommended as a quick primer...
Philosophy as a Literary Art
Making Things Up
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Despite philosophers’ growing interest in the relation between philosophy and literature in general, over the last few decades comparatively few studies have been published dealing more narrowly with the literary aspects of philosophical texts. The relationship between philosophy and literature...
Philosophy and Poetry
Continental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...
Communication and Expression
Adorno's Philosophy of Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno’s philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy. Yet Adorno’s own philosophy of language has not yet been fully and systematically examined in its own right. Philip Hogh argues...
by Nathan Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical...
Volume 11, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy
German and Scandinavian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Kierkegaard's relation to the field of philosophy is a particularly complex and disputed one. He rejected the model of philosophical inquiry that was mainstream in his day and was careful to have his pseudonymous authors repeatedly disassociate themselves from philosophy. But although it seems clear...
Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Post-Structuralist Reader, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This first volume focuses on a collection of texts from the latter twenty years of Educational Philosophy and Theory, selected for their critical status as turning points or important awakenings in post-structural theory. In the last twenty years, the applications of the postmodern and poststructuralist...
German Philosophy
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy—including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger—from a French perspective.
In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy...
by Christina van Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of learning some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, a sequence of chapters takes the reader through...