Surveys category: 1940 books
Foucault/Paul
Subjects of Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
The way which society conceives of power in the twenty-first century determines how it approaches future issues. Placing the twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault into critical conjunction with the apostle Paul, Fuggle re-evaluates the way in which power operates within society and underpins ethical and political actions.
Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics
Toward a New Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics. It puts us in a position to ask this question: what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, relativism,...
by Stefanie Rocknak
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume’s conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual analysis, Rocknak shows that Hume...
The Paradox of Existence
Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Young Schelling
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This book is not a merely historical reconstruction of Schelling’s thought; its main goal is to provide a contribution for a better comprehension of the importance of the philosophical quest of the young German philosopher from within, which represents a turning point for the whole thought of modernity....
Aristocratic Liberalism
The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis De Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
"Liberalism" is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, but has been an especially difficult concept for historians and political scientists to define. Burckhardt, Mill, and Tocqueville define one type of liberal thought. They share an aristocratic liberalism marked...
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
The Foundation of Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2010
Kant’s "Critique of Pure Reason" is so outstanding among modern philosophical works, that it can be termed "the" foundation of modern philosophy. Schopenhauer termed it "the most important book ever to have been written in Europe." Otfried Höffe guides the reader through...
The Ways We Think
From the Straits of Reason to the Possibilities of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Ways We Think critiques predominant approaches to the development of thinking in education and seeks to offer a new account of thought informed by phenomenology, post-structuralism and the ‘ordinary language’ philosophical traditions.
Presents an original account of thinking for education...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This book offers an array of important perspectives on Kant and nonconceptualism from some of the leading scholars in current Kant studies. As well as discussing the various arguments surrounding Kantian nonconceptualism, the book provides broad insight into the theory of perception, philosophy of...
Foucault and Feminism
Power, Gender and the Self
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book offers a systematic attempt to explore the point of convergance between feminist theory and the work of Michel Foucault.
Berkeley's Three Dialogues
New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This is the first volume of essays devoted to Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, a classic of early modern philosophy. Leading experts examine all the central issues in Berkeley's work. The Three Dialogues is a dramatization of Berkeley's philosophy in which the two protagonists...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with Ion, a professional...
Kant's Philosophical Revolution
A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophy
Perhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult...
by Sean D. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content, the content of deomonstrative thoughts, and the unity of proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology and analysis, Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully pursued.
Donald Davidson
A Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers. He developed a systematic picture of the human mind and its relation to the world, an original and sustained vision that exerted a shaping influence well beyond analytic philosophy of mind and language. At its center is an idea...