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Cover of Philosophy for Non-Philosophers
by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017

In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar...
Cover of Le eclissi dell'anima. Grandi personaggi in crisi: le loro vite, il loro insegnamento. Bergman, Nietzsche, Jung, Heidegger, Hesse, Hemingway

Le eclissi dell'anima. Grandi personaggi in crisi: le loro vite, il loro insegnamento. Bergman, Nietzsche, Jung, Heidegger, Hesse, Hemingway

Grandi personaggi in crisi: le loro vite, il loro insegnamento. Bergman, Nietzsche, Jung, Heidegger, Hesse, Hemingway

by Nicola Ghezzani
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 7, 2016

In questo libro l’autore racconta le storie di Judy Garland, Ingmar Bergman, Nietzsche, Jung, Heidegger, Hesse, Hemingway e altri ancora. L’analisi biografica di questi personaggi, come quella dei pazienti in psicoterapia, dimostra che ciascuno di noi ha un suo genio personale dalla cui realizzazione dipende il senso della vita.
Cover of The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics

The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics

Making Sense of Things

by A. W. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011

This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided...
Cover of Kant and Spinozism

Kant and Spinozism

Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze

by B. Lord
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

Beth Lord looks at Kant's philosophy in relation to four thinkers who attempted to fuse transcendental idealism with Spinoza's doctrine of immanence. Examining Jacobi, Herder, Maimon and Deleuze, Lord argues that Spinozism is central to the development of Kant's thought, and opens new avenues for understanding Kant's relation to Deleuze.
Cover of The Concept of Existence in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript
by R.H. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The writings of Kierkegaard continue to be a fertile source for con­ temporary philosophical thought. Perhaps the most interesting of his works to a philosopher is the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments. The Fragments is a brief, algebraic piece in which the author...
Cover of Discourse on Method and the Meditations
by René Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005

René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy...
Cover of Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues
by George Berkeley
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999

Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy...
Cover of Sette brevi lezioni di filosofia
by Pierre Kazim
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 19, 2016

Il pensiero è la qualità propria dell'uomo. Niente zanne, niente artigli, nessuna resistenza fisica cospicua, ma sufficiente pensiero. Noi siamo tutto questo. Nel corso della storia dell'uomo tante idee si sono evolute, altre superate. L'attuale realtà circostante, ciò che ci succede e che si...
Cover of Pascal
by Émile Boutroux
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2015

Extrait :  Blaise Pascal naquit à Clermont-Ferrand le 19 juin 1623. Il appartenait à une vieille famille d’Auvergne,  dont un ancêtre, Étienne Pascal, maître des requêtes, avait été anobli par le roi Louis XI. Si ancienne  qu’elle...
Cover of Des rapports de la morale et de la science dans la philosophie de Descartes
by Émile Boutroux
Language: French
Release Date: August 2, 2016

La partie des écrits de Descartes relative à la morale n'est pas sans étendue ; mais ni par sa nature ni par son contenu, elle ne paraît rentrer dans son oeuvre philosophique proprement dite. Ce sont avant tout les lettres à la princesse Élisabeth et à la reine de Suède : Descartes s'y accommode aux désirs et aux besoins de ses illustres correspondantes.  
Cover of L’Intellectualisme de Malebranche
by Émile Boutroux
Language: French
Release Date: August 2, 2016

La philosophie de Malebranche est essentiellement intellectualiste. Ce disciple de Descartes n’aborde aucune recherche, qu’il ne s’engage à rejeter toute notion dépourvue d’évidence rationnelle. Excepte-t-il les vérités de la foi ? Délibérément il a fait de la raison le principe, non seulement de toute science, mais de la morale, et de la religion même.   
Cover of De la contingence des lois de la nature
by Émile Boutroux
Language: French
Release Date: August 2, 2016

Introduction  Chapitre Ier. — De la Nécessité  Chapitre II. — De l’Être  Chapitre III. — Des Genres  Chapitre IV. — De la Matière  Chapitre V. — Des Corps  Chapitre VI. — Des Êtres vivants  Chapitre VII. — De l’Homme  Conclusion   
Cover of History of Jewish Philosophy
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005

Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right, but the History of Jewish Philosophy explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from philosophical interpretations of the Bible right up to contemporary...
Cover of The Faith of a Heretic

The Faith of a Heretic

Updated Edition

by Walter A. Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest account of his views on religion. Although he considered himself...
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