Surveys category: 1940 books

Discurso pronunciado el 25 de agosto de 2000 en Weimar en conmemoración del centenario de la muerte de Friedrich Nietzsche «Me gustaría describir el acontecimiento Nietzsche como una especie de catástrofe dentro de la historia del lenguaje y, de paso, aportar pruebas para la tesis de que su intervención...

Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History of Philosophy is devoted to ancient philosophy, and throughout his work Hegel frequently frames his positions in relation to the thinkers and movements...

Charles Hodge engaged the leading thinkers of his day to defend the human ability to know God. This involved him in affirming the importance of both orthodoxy and piety in the life of a Christian. His work involved expanding on the insights of the Westminster Confession of Faith as it applied to the theory of salvation and the role of Christ.

This book explores the problem of time and immanence for phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida. Detailed readings of immanence in light of the more familiar problems of time-consciousness and temporality provide the framework for...

This volume contains essays that offer both historical and contemporary views of nature, as seen through a hermeneutic, deconstructive, and phenomenological lens. It reaches back to Ancient Greek conceptions of physis in Homer and Empedocles, encompasses 13th century Zen master Dōgen, and extends...

Jonas Olson presents a critical survey of moral error theory, the view that there are no moral facts and so all moral claims are false. In Part I (History), he explores the historical context of the debate, and discusses the moral error theories of David Hume and of some more or less influential twentieth...

The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism examines the ways in which five Scottish philosophers - Lord Kames (1696-1782), Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), and James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864) - tackled a problem which has haunted Western...

In quest'opera, che anticipa il dibattito contemporaneo sul cosiddetto «mind-body problem», Bergson conferma il suo distacco dalle forme intellettualistiche del pensiero moderno e prospetta una concezione dinamica dell'identità dell'io e del reale. Questa edizione italiana...

«Uno stimolo per noi a cercare di comprendere la comicità nella sua psicogenesi si trova nell’affascinante e vitale volume di Bergson, Il riso» (Freud).

Ce n’est pas l’usage, même en Allemagne, d’assigner au cordonnier théosophe de la Renaissance, Jacob Boehme, une place importante dans l’histoire de la philosophie. On reconnaît en lui, avec Hegel, un esprit puissant ; mais, quand on accorde que de son œuvre obscure et confuse se dégage...

Cet ouvrage sur l'espace est un texte panoramique qui rassemble l'examen sociologique, ethnologique, biologique et psychologique de l'espace vécu ; l'examen physique et mathématique de l'espace théorique ; l'examen de la perspective en peinture pour l'espace esthétique ; l'examen métaphysique...

Redécouvrir Montesquieu, en son temps et dans le temps long de l’histoire : les œuvres clés du siècle des Lumières, Lettres persanes, L’Esprit des lois, Considérations sur les Romains, prennent tout leur sens si l’on prend en compte à la fois leur dimension littéraire, politique, philosophique,...

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterise two of her most popular novels are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist and psychoanalytic.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.- Francois de La RochefoucauldIn the early 17th century, a French writer earned great acclaim for publishing a book of maxims that influenced French society centuries after he wrote. Important thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche admired him, and literary...