Surveys category: 1940 books

This book attempts to solve Aristotle's definition of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics by seeing it in a new light. This definition has always been considered an unsolvable problem. Starting with a detailed analysis of the Greek text, and of the various attempts to emend the text in order...

This book explores the philosophical writings of Gerda Walther (1897–1977). It features essays that recover large parts of Walther’s oeuvre in order to show her contribution to phenomenology and philosophy. In addition, the volume contains an English translation of part of her major...

Partez à la découverte de la dialectique avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Le terme « dialectique » dérive du mot composé grec διαλ́εγειν (dialegein), qui indique dès le départ que son sens n'est pas simple. La signification la plus courante de λ́εγειν, c'est « parler...

God created man in his own image; but did man perhaps return the compliment? The question of God's existence has been a pivotal issue for every civilization. Those with faith in God want assurance that their belief is justified, and atheists want confirmation that God is nowhere to be found. When...

What makes for a philosophical classic? Why do some philosophical works persist over time, while others do not? The philosophical canon and diversity are topics of major debate today. This stimulating volume contains ten new essays by accomplished philosophers writing passionately about works in the...

Che il rapporto tra la religione e la politica (o, se si vuole, la vita sociale) sia uno dei temi di più lunga durata che possano impegnare lo studioso di storia è quasi una ovvietà. Meno ovvio è in quanti modi sia percepito, e si svolga, tale rapporto. Che, in materia, lItalia sia stata un luogo...

Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume's Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues that we cannot understand Hume's project without an appreciation of his own understanding of custom, and in particular,...

À l’heure où tous les candidats au baccalauréat révèlent une incapacité à comprendre les grands problèmes et les œuvres de ceux qui ont tenté de les résoudre, on ne peut que se poser la question : la philosophie est-elle un savoir, dont la nature s’apprend ? Ou n’est-elle pas plutôt une expérience intime des plus hautes vérités, qui défie la formulation scolaire ?

“Who has the right to know?” asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. “Who has the right to eat?” asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: “what does it mean to be a responsible academic in a ‘northern’ university given the incarnate connections between the university’s operations and death and...

De l'ennui, un discours est-il possible et lequel ? En fait, c'est d'un long évitement qu'il s'agit : longtemps ignoré des psychologues, oublié des aliénistes, traité par les moralistes de façon confuse ou identifié au vide par les métaphysiciens, les discours en ont traité comme par omission,...

Qu'y a-t-il sous le mot peuple ? Qu'est-ce que parler du peuple, ou au nom du peuple ? C'est, par un acte de rupture, s'extraire de lui et le faire apparaître ainsi comme pure spontanéité, se dérobant à toute prise ; mais c'est, du même coup, se mettre dans la situation de l'intellectuel qui,...

This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international, diplomatic, and domestic levels.

Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.

New scientific and technological developments challenge us to reconsider our moral world order. This book offers an original philosophical approach to this issue: it makes a distinctive contribution to the development of a relational approach to moral status by re-defining the problem in a social and phenomenological way.