Surveys category: 1940 books
Aesthetic Origins
Peter Viereck and the Imaginative Sources of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
While it is gaining in academic prominence, discussion of the imagination is too often neglected. Society is dangerously unaware of the intimate relationship between culture and politics, ethics and aesthetics. Challenging this, Jay Patrick Starliper examines the imagination through the lens of the...
by Charles de Rémusat
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
L’Écosse est un peu oubliée. Le temps n’est pourtant pas si éloigné où la raison, l’imagination, l’amour de la vérité, de la poésie, de la nature, dirigeaient vers ce pays et nos esprits et nos pas. La voix de maîtres respectés...
by Charles de Rémusat
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Première partie Et ce Locke en un mot dont la main courageuse A de la vérité posé la borne heureuse. Voltaire parlait ainsi, et on l’en croyait : temps heureux, jours de certitude et d’espérance ! On ne doutait guère alors, et en métaphysique...
by Charles de Rémusat
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
« Vous dites, écrivait le poète Gray à un de ses amis, que vous ne pouvez concevoir comment lord Shaftesbury est parvenu à être un philosophe en vogue. Je vous le dirai. D’abord il était lord. Secondement, il était aussi vain qu’aucun de ses...
Sapere aude I
Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Wolfgang Deppert
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Als Vertreter der philosophischen Disziplin „Wissenschaftstheorie“ hat sich Professor Dr. Wolfgang Deppert in seiner akademischen Wirksamkeit darum gekümmert, Philosophie nicht als einen Hort geistigen Museumswissens zu verstehen, sondern philosophisches Denken möglichst auf die Probleme der heute...
Nur ein Versuch - Die Schrift und ihre Schöpfung
Die Schrift und ihre Schöpfung
Language: German
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Epochenübergreifende Abhandlungen, Note: 1,0, Europa-Universität Flensburg (ehem. Universität Flensburg) (Institut für Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Derridas Grammatologie als Medienphilosophie , 20 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache:...
Der dritte Feminismus
Denkwege jenseits der Geschlechtergrenzen
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Gibt es eigentlich noch eine feministische Bewegung? Wie wichtig ist die Philosophie der Differenz heute, ist der Separatismus passe? Wie kann Philosophieren unter feministischen Vorzeichen heute aussehen? Der „dritte Feminismus“ umreißt den gegenwärtigen Stand der Diskussion auf einem philosophischen...
The Greatest Escape
Adventures in the History of Solitude
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2004
"Oh, if there were someone to tell us the history of that subtle feeling called solitude," mused the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In The Greatest Escape, David Balcom answers that call, showing that solitude is an inevitable-yet vital and exciting-facet of our existence with a long,...
by Richard M Capobianco
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
In Heidegger’s Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger’s lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things. Drawing upon a wide variety of texts,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have seen a renaissance in the study of virtue -- a topic that has prevailed in philosophical work since the time of Aristotle. Several major developments have conspired to mark this new age. Foremost among them, some argue, is the birth of virtue...
Understanding Teaching and Learning
Classic Texts on Education by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman and Mill
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Generous selections from these four seminal texts on the theory and practice of education have never before appeared together in a single volume. The Introductions that precede the texts provide brief biographical sketches of each author, situating him within his broader historical, cultural and intellectual...
What the Tortoise Taught Us
The Story of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
What the Tortoise Taught Us offers a lively, concise journey through western philosophy that explores the lives of major philosophers, their ideas, and how their thinking continues to influence our lives today. Using a chronological approach, Burton Porter shows how various philosophers address life's...
Submission and Subjection in Leviathan
Good Subjects in the Hobbesian Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Leviathan invests the sovereign with nearly absolute power, and that vast sovereign has drawn the reader's eye for 350 years. Yet Hobbes has much to say about subjects as well, and he articulates a normative conception of a good subject.
Adam Smith's Political Philosophy
The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
When Adam Smith published his celebrated writings on economics and moral philosophy he famously referred to the operation of an 'invisible hand'. Adam Smith’s Political Philosophy makes visible this hand by examining its significance in Smith’s political philosophy and relating it to similar concepts...