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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book offers new perspectives on the history of analytical philosophy, surveying recent scholarship on the philosophical study of mind, language, logic and reality over the course of the last 200 years. Each chapter contributes to a broader engagement with a wider range of figures, topics and...
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,...
The Rise of Man (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Sketch of the Origin of the Human Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Here is the evolution of man through the eyes of Dr. Carus. Opening with a chapter on divinity, he then charts the rise of man: “Anthropoid Apes,” “Primitive Man,” “Neanderthal Man,” as well as further sections on civilization, race, and a Darwinian chapter entitled, “The Triumph of the Best.”
The Philosophy Book
From the Vedas to the New Atheists, 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality—and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 milestones of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field over the last 3,500 years. The brief, engaging entries cover a range of topics...
A Rumor of Empathy
Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes the scandal of empathy in Lipps and Strachey. Yet when all the philosophical arguments and categories are complete and all the hermeneutic circles spun out, we are quite simply in the presence of another human being.
Figuratively Speaking
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
In this updated edition of his brief, engaging book, Robert J. Fogelin examines figures of speech that concern meaning--irony, hyperbole, understatement, similes, metaphors, and others--to show how they work and to explain their attraction. Building on the ideas of Grice and Tversky, Fogelin contends...
Hegel teologo
e l’imperdonabile assenza del «principe di questo mondo»
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 29, 2018
«Un’interpretazione originalissima, un Hegel inedito, non soltanto ripensato, ma che – meraviglia! – viene raccontato e per questo diviene finalmente leggibile.»
Elmar Salmann
«Un lavoro avvincente… nuovo e originale per quanto riguarda il significato complessivo del pensiero hegeliano…...
Interaction and Everyday Life
Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Essays in Honor of George Psathas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology have many adherents and practitioners throughout the world. The international character of interest in these two areas is exemplified by the papers in this book, which come from scholars in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, and...
Enlightenment Contested
Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking...
by Jon Nuttall
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This new textbook is a lively and highly accessible introduction to philosophy. From the fundamental issues of philosophical thought to the latest theories in the philosophy of mind, An Introduction to Philosophy provides clear and incisive discussion of the key areas of philosophy for students new...
by Zuzana Parusniková
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book studies Hume’s scepticism and its roots, context, and role in the philosopher’s life. It relates how Hume wrote his philosophy in a time of tumult, as the millennia-old metaphysical tradition that placed humans and their cognitive abilities in an ontological framework collapsed and gave...
The Sound of Ontology
Music as a Model for Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The Sound of Ontology: Music as a Model for Metaphysics explores connections between Western art music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the ideas that dominated philosophy leading up to and during that period. In the process of establishing John Cage as Richard Wagner’s heir via Arnold...
The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy
Wicked Wisdom of the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
From the bedtime story by L. Frank Baum to the classic 1939 film, no story has captured the imaginations of generations of children - and adults - like The Wizard of Oz. The story of Dorothy’s journey through Oz, the colorful characters, places, songs, and dialogue have permeated popular culture...
by Marc Djaballah
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on...