Surveys category: 1940 books
Verstehen
The Uses of Understanding in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In late nineteenth-century German academic circles, the term verstehen (literally, understanding, or comprehension) came to be associated with the view that social phenomena must be understood from the point of view of the social actor. Advocates of this approach were opposed by positivists who stressed...
Black Heretics, Black Prophets
Radical Political Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Sven Hroar Klempe
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book investigates the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's (1813�1855) contributions to our understanding of psychology. In Kierkegaard's historical context, psychology was challenged from both scientific and philosophical perspectives. Kierkegaard considered psychology a core discipline...
Berkeley's Puzzle
What Does Experience Teach Us?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge and conception of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: even if the things we experience (apples, tables, trees, etc), are mind-independent how does our sensory experience of them enable us to conceive of them...
Tenerezza
La rivoluzione del potere gentile
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2017
La tenerezza, quando è autentica, non sopporta facili definizioni: si insinua con delicata tenacia tra le grandi virtù civili e la retorica del potere, è ciò che ci manca per poter vivere e sentire in un mondo finalmente comune. Per questo parlarne è un’impresa ardua e bellissima. E tanto più...
Education Policy
Philosophical Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Education Policy sees 12 philosophers of education critique current and recent UK educational policies relating to higher education and faith-based education, assessment, the teaching of reading, vocational and civic education, teacher education, the influence of Europe and the idea of the ‘Big...
by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions,...
Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 2
Marx, Freud, Sartre, Camus, Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
"Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes Volume 2” comprises the five books “Marx in 60 Minutes”, “Freud in 60 Minutes”, “Sartre in 60 Minutes”, “Heidegger in 60 Minutes”, and “Camus in 60 Minutes”. Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the...
Rousseau in 60 Minutes
Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Rousseau possessed a brilliant mind and one that questioned every accepted value and idea. Whatever most were “for”, Rousseau was always “against”! He was against monarchy, against the church, against the status quo, against inequality, against traditional education, against marriage, and (of...
by John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin. He read extensively in German and British Darwinists, and his own works dealt often with such obvious Darwinian themes as struggle and evolution. Yet most of what Nietzsche said about Darwin was hostile: he sharply attacked many of his...
by John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths, both descriptive and valuative, about us and the world....
Come essere stoici
Riscoprire la spiritualità degli antichi per vivere una vita moderna
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 18, 2017
I dodici principi dello stoico
Evitare reazioni affrettate
Ricordarsi della transitorietà delle cose
Scegliere obiettivi in nostro potere
Essere virtuosi
Prendersi un momento e respirare profondamente
Mettere i problemi in prospettiva
Parlare poco e bene
Scegliere in modo accorto le proprie...
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America
From 1600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work.
Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, this...
Hegel's Political Philosophy
On the Normative Significance of Method and System
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Hegel famously argues that his speculative method is a foundation for claims about socio-political reality within a wider philosophical system. This systematic approach is thought a superior alternative to all other ways of philosophical thinking. Hegel's method and system have normative significance...