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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This volume illustrates the relevance of phenomenology to a range of contemporary concerns. Displaying both the epistemological rigor of classical phenomenology and the empirical analysis of more recent versions, its chapters discuss a wide range of issues from justice and value to embodiment and...
by Christian Dupont
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This work investigates the early encounters of French philosophers and religious thinkers with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Following an introductory chapter addressing context and methodology, Chapter 2 argues that Henri Bergson’s insights into lived duration and intuition...
The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays
Translation and Introduction by Fiachra Long, Annotations by Fiachra Long and Claude Troisfontaines
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
I was very happy when in 1997 Fiachra Long came to spend part of his sabbatical leave at the Archives Maurice Blondel at Louvain-Ia-Neuve. This allowed him to bring together and complete his translation of three important articles from Maurice Blondel, known as the philosopher of Aix-en-Province....
HENRY BERGSON Premium Collection
Laughter, Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, Dreams & Meaning of the War & Dreams (From the Renowned Nobel Prize Winning Author & Philosopher)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Henri Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until World War II. Bergson is known for his influential arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than...
The Collected Works of Henri Bergson
Laughter, Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, Matter and Memory, Meaning of the War & Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness Creative Evolution Matter and Memory Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict Dreams
by Paul Strathern
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Leibniz fue el primero de los grandes filósofos alemanes en producir un sistema filosófico omnicomprensivo. Llegó a la notable conclusión de que el tiempo y el espacio no existen, de que son suposiciones supersticiosas. Sólo las cosas existen, y sólo Dios es capaz de verlas como realmente son,...
by Paul Strathern
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
La filosofía se puso realmente difícil con Hegel. Su método dialéctico produjo el más grandioso sistema metafísico que ha conocido el hombre. El propio Hegel admitió que "sólo existe un hombre que me entiende, y, en realidad, tampoco él". El sistema de Hegel abarca absolutamente...
by Paul Strathern
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Con Sócrates se inicia la gran época de la filosofía, transcurrido apenas un siglo desde sus comienzos. Sócrates dedicaba tanto tiempo a pasear por las calles de Atenas hablando de filosofía, que nunca llegó a escribir nada. Su método basado en preguntas provocadoras -lo que se llamó dialéctica-...
by Eva Brann
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Eva Brann, who has taught at St. John’s College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the works discussed. In her words: "The first essay looks at the 'Pre-Socratics' Heraclitus and Parmenides....
The Iroquois and the Athenians
A Political Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Political communities are constituted through the representation of their own origin. The Iroquois and the Athenians is a philosophical exploration of the material traces left by that constitutional act in the political practices of the classical Iroquois and Athenians. Tempering Kant with Nietzsche...
What is Orientation in Global Thinking?
A Kantian Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Starting from Kant's striking question 'What is orientation in thinking?', this book argues that the main challenge facing global normative theorising lies in its failure to acknowledge its conceptual inadequacies. We do not know how to reason globally; instead, we tend to apply our domestic political...
by Alain de Botton
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 23, 2016
«Un invito a adottare la filosofia come uno ‘stile di vita’... o come un efficace terapia contro il male di vivere.»
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La filosofia è inutile se non cura i turbamenti dell’anima, così come la medicina che non cura i dolori del corpo. Guidato da questo principio di Epicuro,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
This remarkably comprehensive Handbook provides a multifaceted yet carefully crafted investigation into the work of Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest philosophers the world has ever seen. With original contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this authoritative volume first...
My National Identity is My Pains
The Genesis Of Our Problems.
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The renewed quest for an independent state of Biafra dates back to late 1960s. Biafra was first declared an independent state by Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu on 30th of May 1967, following the resolutions of the joint session of the Advisory Committee of Chiefs, Elders and the Consultative Assembly of...