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The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volumes I and II
One-Volume Digital Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The Collected Works of Spinoza: Complete Digital Edition, combining volumes I and II, provides for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done...
by Edwin Curley, Benedictus de Spinoza
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's...
Autobiologies
Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
What does heredity mean for identity? What role does the individual have in shaping a personal or a human history? What is the ethical status of seemingly biologically determined behaviours? What does individual death mean in the light of species extinction? Autobiologies explores the importance of...
Minding the Modern
Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of human agency—will,...
Women Philosophers on Autonomy
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
We encounter autonomy in virtually every area of philosophy: in its relation with rationality, personality, self-identity, authenticity, freedom, moral values and motivations, and forms of government, legal, and social institutions. At the same time, the notion of autonomy has been the subject of...
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time -- listed in accessible and succinct form -- by one of the world's greatest scholars.
From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets,"...
by Keith Aspley
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Surrealism was a broad movement, which attracted many adherents. It was organized and quite strictly disciplined, at least until the death of its leader, AndrZ Breton, in 1966. As a consequence, its membership was in a constant state of flux: persons were constantly being admitted and excluded, and...
Philosophic Pride
Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and...
by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1996
Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication...
VOLTAIRE: 60+ Works in One Volume - Philosophical Writings, Novels, Historical Works, Poetry, Plays & Letters
Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Voltaire's philosophical writings, novels, historical works, poetry, plays & letters. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. François-Marie Arouet...
The British Aesthetic Tradition
From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century....
Philosophies of Art and Beauty
Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid...
by Anthony J. Cascardi
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained,...
The Zen Arts
An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects....