Surveys category: 1940 books

Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication...

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...

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,...

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...

Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive proposal. “Penetrating...

Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is engaged in re-discovering the names,...

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation...

About eighty-five years ago, philosophers and literary intellectuals as diverse as Edmund Husserl, George Santayana, and Paul ValZry, aware of the declining influence of Christianity, spoke of 'the crisis of Western civilization.' In Wretched Aristotle: Using the Past to Rescue the Future, Jude P....

This investigation of Kierkegaard as a political thinker with regard to the Danish context, and to his place in the history of political thought, deals with the more direct discussion of politics in Kierkegaard, and the ways in which political ideas are embedded in his literary, aesthetic, ethical, philosophical ,and religious thought.

Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or...

Il est une disposition qui tend à dominer dans les sciences, et dont le matérialisme contemporain ne manque pas de se prévaloir : c’est l’aversion non déguisée des savans pour les causes finales et pour tout ce qui y ressemble. Je ne m’explique pas bien, je l’avoue, cette aversion. En...

Le procès de la révolution française est toujours à recommencer. A chaque phase nouvelle de cette histoire, nouveaux points de vue, nouvelles théories. Que de fois n’a-t-elle pas changé, cette philosophie de l’histoire révolutionnaire ! Que de fois une logique victorieuse n’a-t-elle pas...

Le problème de la vie future, quels que soient les progrès de l’esprit critique et sceptique, ne cessera jamais d’émouvoir les âmes et d’éveiller la curiosité des esprits. De notre temps même, si positif, dit-on, ce problème a été agité à plusieurs reprises, discuté et résolu dans...

Y a-t-il une science sociale ? La vie des sociétés, qui est un fait naturel tout aussi bien que la vie individuelle, est-elle soumise à des lois ? Peut-on dégager ces lois de l’ensemble complexe qu’elles régissent et des accidens innombrables qui les masquent et qui les déforment ? Quelles...