History Criticism category: 15616 books
Reality and Negation - Kant's Principle of Anticipations of Perception
An Investigation of its Impact on the Post-Kantian Debate
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Kant, in the Critique of pure reason, only dedicates a few pages to the principle of Anticipations of Perception and only a few critical studies are outspokenly dedicated to this issue in recent critical literature. But if one considers the history of post-Kantian philosophy, one can immediately perceive...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book explores the complexity of two philosophical traditions, extending from their origins to the current developments in neopragmatism. Chapters deal with the first encounters of these traditions and beyond, looking at metaphysics and the Vienna circle as well as semantics and the principle...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
From a variety of perspectives, the essays presented here explore the profound interdependence of natural philosophy and rational religion in the `long seventeenth century' that begins with the burning of Bruno in 1600 and ends with the Enlightenment in the early Eighteenth century. From the writings...
by Ulrich Steinvorth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies. The author explores the nature of the self and free will, and how pride links to technology and rational theology. It refers to the work of Lionel Trilling,...
by Kenneth R. Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
The philosopher David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 26, 1711. Known for his re-thinking of causation, morality, and religion, Hume has left a lasting mark on history. James Madison, the 'father' of the U.S. Constitution, drew heavily on Hume's writing, especially his 'Idea of Perfect...
Dialectical Readings
Three Types of Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1997
Interpretation pervades human thinking. Whether perception or experience, spoken word or written theory, whatever enters our consciousness must be interpreted in order to be understood. Every area of inquiry—art and literature, philosophy and religion, history and the social sciences, even many...
by Michael N. Forster
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is a towering figure in modern thought, but one who has hitherto been severely underappreciated. Michael Forster seeks to rectify that situation He considers Herder's philosophy in the round and argues that it is both far more impressive in quality and far more...
Hegel and Ancient Philosophy
A Re-Examination
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
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...
Ontologies of Nature
Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
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...
Advancing Phenomenology
Essays in Honor of Lester Embree
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Philip Blosser and Thomas Nenon The essays in the volume were assembled in honor of Lester Embree, who celebrated his 70th birthday on January 9, 2008. A preview of this volume was presented to Professor Embree at a reception sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology that was...
A Cultivated Reason
An Essay on Hume and Humeanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1999
As Plato’s tripartite division of the soul, Descartes’s criterion of clear and distinct ideas, and Kant’s notion of the categorical imperative attest, philosophy has traditionally been wedded to rationalism and its “intellectualist” view of persons. In this book Christopher Williams seeks...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Investigate the challenging and nuanced philosophy of the long nineteenth century from Kant to Bergson
Philosophy in the nineteenth century was characterized by new ways of thinking, a desperate searching for new truths. As science, art, and religion were transformed by social pressures and...
How to Think Politically
Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' – Steven Pinker
What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news and the hysteria to explore the timeless...
Kurdish Journalism
A History and Union Catalogue, 1898-1958
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
This study is divided into three chapters. Chapter one deals with the Kurds and their country Kurdistan. It covers a short account on the geography of the area, the population of the people, situation of the Kurds in the countries where they live, their origin and their language and literature. In...