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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought. The first group of contributors explores themes in Mendelssohn’s metaphysics and aesthetics, presenting...
Frege
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This new book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Frege's remarkable philosophical work, examining the main areas of his writings and demonstrating the connections between them.
Frege's main contribution to philosophy spans philosophical logic, the theory of meaning, mathematical...
Philosophies of Art and Beauty
Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid...
by Emanuele Severino
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translation
Between 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected to a thorough investigation by the Vatican Inquisition. The “fundamental incompatibility” identified between his thought and Christian doctrine...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Written between 1873 and 1876, The "Untimely Meditations", or "Thoughts out of Season" is a collection of four essays by famed philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In the first essay 'David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer', Nietzsche attacks David Strauss's "The Old and the New Faith: A Confession"....
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical...
The Antipodean Philosopher
Interviews on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
In this second volume of The Antipodean Philosopher, Graham Oppy and N.N. Trakakis have brought together fourteen leading Australasian philosophers, inviting them to speak in a frank and accessible way about their philosophical lives: for example, what drew them to a career in philosophy, what philosophy...
The Senecans
Four Men and Margaret Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young historian arrives to ask Peter Stothard, Editor of the Time Literary Supplement and former editor of The Time, some sharp questions about his memories of the Thatcher era. During the interview the offices from where he long observed British politics...
Active Perception in the History of Philosophy
From Plato to Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The aim of the present work is to show the roots of the conception of perception as an active process, tracing the history of its development from Plato to modern philosophy. The contributors inquire into what activity is taken to mean in different theories, challenging traditional historical accounts...
by Jeremy Stangroom, Philip Stokes, 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,...
English Writings of Hu Shih
Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Hu Shih (1891-1962),. In the 1910s, Hu studied at Cornell University and later Columbia University, both in the United States. At Columbia, he was greatly influenced by his professor, John Dewey, and became a lifelong advocate of pragmatic evolutionary change. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in...
A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy
From Russell to Rawls
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of the historical development of all major aspects of analytic philosophy, the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition in the twentieth century.
Features coverage of all the major subject areas...
by Karl Marx
Language: German
Release Date: July 2, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: July 2, 2017
Karl Marx: Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844 Die nur fragmentarisch überlieferten Manuskripte entstanden von April bis August 1844 und wurden erstmals in der Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, Erste Abteilung, Band 3, Berlin 1932, ediert. – Über die Anordnung und Konstitution der...
Texte Schriften
Ausgewählt, eingeleitet und kommentiert von Bruno Kern
Language: German
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Wem gehört eigentlich Karl Marx? Wahrscheinlich verhält es sich hier nicht viel anders als im Fall der Bibel: Auch sie ist nicht einfach der Alleinbesitz gläubiger Juden und Christen, sondern ein Menschheitserbe, aus dessen Reichtum alle, gerade auch die Nichtglaubenden, schöpfen können. Karl...