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by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what...
The Revolt Against Dualism
An Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The Revolt Against Dualism, first published in 1930, belongs to a tradition in philosophical theorizing that Arthur O. Lovejoy called "descriptive epistemology." Lovejoy's principal aim in this book is to clarify the distinction between the quite separate phenomena of the knower and the...
The Sublime
From Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicited by phenomena that move viewers by transcending and overwhelming them. The book consists of an editor's introduction and fifteen chapters written from...
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 1998
The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: what can we know and how can we know it? What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of...
The Actual and the Possible
Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments...
Tweetable Nietzsche
His Essential Ideas Revealed and Explained
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Friedrich Nietzsche radically confronted Western culture, morality, and social mores, until his death in 1900. Occupying a first-rank position as a thinker, his thought later inspired numerous movements that weave the tapestries of contemporary culture: existentialism, theology, nihilistic culture,...
by Kristin Gjesdal
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
The philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer interests a wide audience that spans the traditional distinction between European (continental) and Anglo-American (analytic) philosophy. Yet one of the most important and complex aspects of his work - his engagement with German Idealism - has received comparatively...
The Fate of Transcendentalism
Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The Fate of Transcendentalism examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of American transcendentalism and shows the movement’s influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers, and artists who have drawn inspiration and energy from the creative outpouring it produced. In this wide-ranging study,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What does it mean to"do theory" in America? In what ways has "French Theory" changed American intellectual and artistic life? How different is it from what French intellectuals themselves conceived, and what does all this tell us about American intellectual life? Is "French...
Heidegger and the Romantics
The Literary Invention of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link.
Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature...
Concepts and Reality in the History of Philosophy
Tracing a Philosophical Error from Locke to Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
This book traces a deep misunderstanding about the relation of concepts and reality in the history of philosophy. It exposes the influence of the mistake in the thought of Locke, Berkeley, Kant, Nietzche and Bradley, and suggests that the solution can be found in Hegelian thought. Ellis argues that...
by Stephen Trombley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
A masterly distillation of two-and-a-half millennia of intellectual history, and a readable and entertaining crash course in Western philosophy
Short, sharp, and entertaining, this survey covers the development of all aspects of the
Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive and unitary study of the philosophy of Francis Bacon, with special emphasis on the medical, ethical and political aspects of his thought. It presents an original interpretation focused on the material conditions of nature and human life. In particular, coverage in...
Sympathy
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Our modern-day word for sympathy is derived from the classical Greek word for fellow-feeling. Both in the vernacular as well as in the various specialist literatures within philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, economics, and history, "sympathy" and "empathy" are routinely conflated. In practice,...