History Criticism category: 15616 books
by Marc Djaballah
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on...
The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism
Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570–1689)
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Offers an extremely bold, far-reaching, and unsuspected thesis in the history of philosophy: Aristotelianism was a dominant movement of the British philosophical landscape, especially in the field of logic, and it had a long survival. British Aristotelian doctrines were strongly empiricist in nature,...
by Miles Groth
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Despite Martin Heidegger’s influence on twentieth-century philosophy, understanding his way of thinking is difficult if one relies solely on the English translations of his work. Since Gilbert Ryle misjudged his work in a 1929 review of Sein und Zeit, Heidegger’s philosophy has remained an enigma...
by Dr Lucas Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The Kant Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Immanuel Kant, one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and...
Civilization and Democracy
The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Nineteenth-century Italy is a vast, unexplored territory in the history of modern political thought and liberal democratic theory. Apart from Mazzini, Pareto, and Mosca, the authors of this period are little read, even though their central concerns – the riddle of human liberation, progress, and...
by John Deigh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Emotions, Values, and the Law brings together ten of John Deigh's essays written over the past fifteen years. In the first five essays, Deigh ask questions about the nature of emotions and the relation of evaluative judgment to the intentionality of emotions, and critically examines the cognitivist...
Heroes of History
A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world.
Heroes of...
The Riddles of Philosophy
Presented in an Outline of Its History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
From the introduction by Fritz C. A. Koelln: "Rudolf Steiner's Riddles of Philosophy: Presented in an Outline of Its History is not a history of philosophy in the usual sense of the word. It does not give a history of the philosophical systems, nor does it present a number of philosophical problems historically....
Philosophy, Science, and History
A Guide and Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader is a compact overview of the history and philosophy of science that aims to introduce students to the groundwork of the field, and to stimulate innovative research. The general introduction focuses on scientific theory change, assessment, discovery,...
by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.
With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through...
Eric Voegelin
Philosopher of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
"The order of history emerges from the history of order" is the sentence that opens Eric Voegelin's multivolume work, Order and History. A search for an understanding of the order that can be found in history, and within the human being who is the subject of history, has resulted in a large...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
A preface explains the study of history as a purge of corruption from society and men. It notes the contrary view that sees history as food to enliven, build up and sustain culture. Chapter 1 states what history is, its logical justification, its difficulty in proving the events within it. It notes...
A History of Habit
From Aristotle to Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happier, healthier, and smarter with the acquisition of just a few simple practices, the discourse of habit is a staple of contemporary culture high and low....
Lonergan and Historiography
The Epistemological Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Although Bernard Lonergan is known primarily for his cognitional theory and theological methodology, he long sought to formulate a modern philosophy of history free of progressive and Marxist biases. Yet he never addressed this in any single work, and his reflections on the subject are scattered in...