Surveys category: 1940 books
Intermedialities
Philosophy, Arts, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research called 'intermedialities.' The concept of intermedialities stresses the necessity of situating philosophical and...
THE CASE OF WAGNER
NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER, AND SELECTED APHORISMS
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
The Case of Wagner is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1888. Subtitled "A Musician's Problem", it has also been known as The Wagner Case in English.
The book is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche's rupture with the German...
by Leszek Kolakowski
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
"[An] important essay by a philosopher who more convincingly than any other I can think of demonstrates the continuing significance of his vocation in the life of our culture."—Karsten Harries, The New York Times Book Review
With The Presence of Myth, Kolakowski demonstrates that...
Heidegger on East-West Dialogue
Anticipating the Event
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
This book traces a most obscure and yet most intriguing theme concealed in Heidegger’s thinking and work, which has hitherto not yet been made the focus of a thorough and sustained investigation: that is, the emergence and course of Heidegger’s interest in East Asian thought and of his reflection...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society. First published in 1711, revised and enlarged in 1730, and now edited and published with a critical apparatus for the...
The Rebuke of History
The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In 1930, a group of southern intellectuals led by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren published I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. A stark attack on industrial capitalism and a defiant celebration of southern culture, the book has raised the...
Truth
A History and a Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, Truth manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to the private mental worlds of great philosophers;...
Does Anything Really Matter?
Essays on Parfit on Objectivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely...
The Point of View of the Universe
Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth: the good of one individual is of no more importance than the good of any other....
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what...
Tarrying with the Negative
Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Žižek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted...
The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism
Zhuangzi’s Unique Moral Vision
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision argues that we can read early Daoist texts as works of moral philosophy that speak to perennial concerns about the well-lived life in the context of the Way. Lee argues that we can interpret early Daoism as an ethics of attunement.
The Riddles of Philosophy
Presented in an Outline of Its History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
From the introduction by Fritz C. A. Koelln: "Rudolf Steiner's Riddles of Philosophy: Presented in an Outline of Its History is not a history of philosophy in the usual sense of the word. It does not give a history of the philosophical systems, nor does it present a number of philosophical problems historically....