Surveys category: 1940 books

Oswald Spengler: Der Mensch und die Technik. Beitrag zu einer Philosophie des Lebens Erstdruck: München: Beck, 1931. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Oswald Spengler: Der Mensch und die Technik. Beitrag zu einer Philosophie des Lebens, München:...

Oswald Spengler: Reden und Aufsätze Inhaltsverzeichnis Reden und Aufsätze Heraklit Der Sieger Einführung zu Ernst Droems »Gesängen« Pessimismus Frankreich und Europa Aufgaben des Adels Plan eines neuen Atlas Antiquus Altasien Nietzsche und sein Jahrhundert Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der deutschen...

Oswald Spengler: Neubau des deutschen Reiches Erstdruck: München, C. H. Beck, 1924. Inhaltsverzeichnis Neubau des deutschen Reiches 1. Der Sumpf 2. Staatsdienst und Persönlichkeit 3. Die Erziehung - Zucht oder Bildung 4. Das Recht als Ergebnis von Pflichten 5. Die deutsche Währung 6. Gegen den Steuerbolschewismus...

This comprehensive collection of original essays written by an international group of scholars addresses the central themes in Latin American philosophy. Represents the most comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Latin American philosophy available today Comprises a specially commissioned...

Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and introduced some of the most influential texts in Mexican philosophy, which constitute a unique and robust tradition that will challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically...

In this book the author presents an understanding of the primary philosophical truths and the form of religious activity of people that God wants to see on the Earth. He also provides a detailed explanation of God, Evolution, man, the purpose of human life, and the Path of spiritual self-realization.The...

What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained,...

A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.

Organized topically rather than historically, this book provides an excellent introduction to the subject of African Philosophy. Samuel Oluoch Imbo synthesizes the ideas of key African philosophers into an accessible narrative. The author focuses on five central questions: What are the definitions...

Philosophy and space travel are characterized by the same fundamental purpose: exploration. An essential guide for both philosophers and Trekkers, Star Trek and Philosophy combines a philosophical spirit of inquiry with the beloved television and film series to consider questions not only about the...

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique De la Nature des choses est un grand poème en langue latine du poète philosophe latin Lucrèce, qui vécut au premier siècle avant notre...

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects....

Transnational Turkish Islam provides an overview of Turkish organized Islam in seven European countries. It shows how Turkish Islamic organizations have developed from typical migrant associations in the 1970s and 1980s into present-day European Islamic associations with their own cultural and religious specificities and agendas.

In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philosophy itself. In doing so, he reconceives philosophical...