Surveys category: 1940 books
by Emerita S. Quito
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This work is essentially a philosophy of history. The author’s research on this topic spans more than three decades. Part One of this book has three chapters. Chapter I is divided into seven sections featuring philosophers who see a plan in history. Chapter II is divided into two sections featuring...
Does Santa Exist?
A Philosophical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa—from a co–executive producer of The Big Bang Theory
Emmy award–winning comedy writer and philosophy scholar Eric Kaplan brilliantly turns a search for the truth about Santa into a laugh-out-loud metaphysical romp. Surveying...
The Cosmos of Duty
Henry Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Roger Crisp presents a comprehensive study of Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics, a landmark work first published in 1874. Crisp argues that Sidgwick is largely right about many central issues in moral philosophy: the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics, consequentialism, hedonism about well-being,...
by Anthony K. Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
With his An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s "On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life", Anthony K. Jensen shows how 'timely' Nietzsche’s second "Untimely Meditation" really is. This comprehensive and insightful study contextualizes and analyzes a wide range of Nietzsche’s...
Modern French Philosophy
From Existentialism to Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This handy guide provides detailed coverage of all the key movements of the last 100 years of French though and gives short but readable accounts of the life, works and influence of famous philosophers and eccentric personalities.
Pythagoras
His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
This is the story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts. Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson...
The Fate of Transcendentalism
Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The Fate of Transcendentalism examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of American transcendentalism and shows the movement’s influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers, and artists who have drawn inspiration and energy from the creative outpouring it produced. In this wide-ranging study,...
by M. Rosengren
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich material has given rise to. The book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What does it mean to"do theory" in America? In what ways has "French Theory" changed American intellectual and artistic life? How different is it from what French intellectuals themselves conceived, and what does all this tell us about American intellectual life? Is "French...
Heidegger in 60 Minutes
Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Heidegger is without a doubt one of the most important thinkers in the history of the Western world. He called his philosophy a “fundamental ontology”. His interest as a philosopher extended beyond the individual sciences to the underlying question of the meaning of life as a whole. His key question,...
Sartre in 60 Minutes
Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Sartre is surely one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. His “philosophy of existence” influenced not just academic debate but the whole of Western civilization, especially European youth. In France, from the end of WW2 on into the 1960s, a certain “youth culture” milieu composed...
Heidegger's Children
Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany's brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to...
The Philosophy of Life and Death
Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Sixty years after its first edition, there is an increasing consensus among scholars that the work posthumously published as Philosophical Investigations represents something that is far from a complete picture of Wittgenstein’s second book project. G.H. von Wright’s seminal research on the Nachlass...