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Steeds als ik de zin van het leven te pakken heb, komen ze met iets nieuws
levenslessen van grote filosofen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Als jongeman hield Daniel Klein een schriftje bij met korte citaten en levenslessen van grote filosofen, voorzien van eigen commentaar. Op gevorderde leeftijd vindt hij het schriftje terug. Hij raakt opnieuw geïnspireerd door deze denkers en door wat ze te melden hebben over de juiste manier van...
Van oude en nieuwe deugden
Levenskunst van Aristoteles tot Nussbaum
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Levenskunst is een manier om de zoektocht naar het goede leven vorm te geven. De westerse mens heeft de vrijheid veroverd om te kiezen wie hij wil zijn. Maar hoe die vrijheid in te vullen? En hoe kan een maatschappij vol vrije individuen goed functioneren? Daarvoor is een nieuwe moraal nodig die niet...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari poses for previous...
Pontano’s Virtues
Aristotelian Moral and Political Thought in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major themes of early modern moral and...
by Jay Stevenson PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Beginning with the pre-Socratics and Eastern philosophers, including religious philosophy, all major philosophers and schools are covered, right up to present day. The new edition includes more visual illustrations and pictures to further explain and enhance the subject of philosophy. Included are:
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A Real Mind
The Life and Work of Axel Hägerström
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
This comprehensive presentation of Axel Hägerström (1868-1939) fills a void in nearly a century of literature, providing both the legal and political scholar and the non-expert reader with a proper introduction to the father of Scandinavian realism. Based on his complete work, including unpublished...
Our Practices, Our Selves
Or, What it Means to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001
A book for everyone interested in learning how philosophy is done and what it can tell us about who we are.
The Individual without Passions
Modern Individualism and the Loss of the Social Bond
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The innovative characteristic of the book lies in its tackling an extremely timely and important issue—mainly individualism—from the original point of view of a theory of passions. It underlines the importance of the problem of the passions both in forming individual identity and in building the...
Ideas Under Fire
Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Since Aristotle’s famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically, however, some of the most powerful and influential...
by K. Gevirtz
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
Autobiologies
Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
What does heredity mean for identity? What role does the individual have in shaping a personal or a human history? What is the ethical status of seemingly biologically determined behaviours? What does individual death mean in the light of species extinction? Autobiologies explores the importance of...
German Philosophy
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy—including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger—from a French perspective.
In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy...
by Nicolae Râmbu
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In his unmistakable style, Friedrich Nietzsche approached the issue of all classes of values, not only the moral ones. The author presents Nietzsche as a philosopher of values par excellence by analysing vital and economic values, religious and political values, moral and aesthetic values, and, in...
Why We Think the Things We Think
Philosophy in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing really matters if everything is just an illusion or a dream? These ideas are some of the central questions...