Surveys category: 1940 books
Nineteenth-Century British Secularism
Science, Religion and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called 'Secularism' – the particular movement and creed founded by George...
The Spectre Of Hegel
Early Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological...
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 842-992 (1518-1519)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus' life and in the history of his times. He travels on horseback from Louvain to Basel to assist his publisher and friend Johann Froben during the crucial phases in the production of his revised New Testament, the edition that he...
Dignity
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity. In such contexts, the concept of dignity typically signifies something like the fundamental moral status belonging to all humans. Remarkably, however, it...
by Heather Battaly
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
What is a virtue, and how are virtues different from vices? Do people with virtues lead better lives than the rest of us? Do they know more? Can we acquire virtues if so, how?
In this lively and engaging introduction to this core topic, Heather Battaly argues that there is more than one kind...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was...
by Kevin Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
An introduction to three great philosophical traditions, namely those of India, the Middle East and the Far East. Fifty eastern thinkers are covered. Each is placed within the context of his or her own tradition and key ideas are explored together with relevant biographical information. The book focuses...
Minds Without Fear
Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Minds Without Fear is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy--both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities--played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively...
El pensamiento moderno
Filosofía del Renacimiento
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 7, 2013
En este ensayo, Villoro compara el pensamiento moderno con el renacentista, y con ello reinterpreta el Renacimiento a través de la modernidad. Para el filósofo, es en los siglos XV y XVI cuando se manifiesta el primer germen de lo que será un giro decisivo en la imagen del mundo y del hombre y...
English Writings of Hu Shih
National Crisis and Public Diplomacy (Volume 3)
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Hu Shih (1891-1962), Chinese philosopher, historian and diplomat. 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....
Nietzsche and Napoleon
The Dionysian Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Among Nietzsche’s favourite authors were Bonapartists, who largely formed Nietzsche’s view of Napoleon – open the pages of the Nietzschean corpus and you will find a Napoleonic landscape, and Nietzsche’s promotion of Napoleon serves to support the Bonapartist movement of the late nineteenth...
Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour propre ) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour propre is the passion that drives human individuals to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or...
The Machiavellian Moment
Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other...
by Catalin Avramescu
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked...