Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography.
La obra demuestra que la Ilustración radical, lejos ser un suceso periférico, constituye una parte vital e integral del fenómeno más amplio y tuvo mayor cohesión internacionalmente que la tendencia dominante de la Ilustración.
This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century.
Providing a unique interpretation of Kant's theory of judgement as integral to his overall project, Claudia Brodsky explores his continued relevance to contemporary theoretical concerns.
The interests and activities of John Stuart Mill (1806–73) were so wide-ranging that even the varied subjects of thirty previously published volumes of Collected Works cannot encompass them all.
Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy.
"e;Kant, Kantianism and Idealism"e; presents an overview of German Idealism, the major movement in philosophy from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th Century.
Wie aufgeklart war die europaische Aufklarung im Hinblick auf rechtliche, politische, gesellschaftliche, religiose und kulturelle Egalitatspostulate fur beide Geschlechter, deren Verwirklichung ein Zeitalter der Aufklarung allererst in ein aufgeklartes Zeitalter transformieren konnte?
The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism examines the ways in which five Scottish philosophers - Lord Kames (1696-1782), Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), and James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864) - tackled a problem which has haunted Western philosophy ever since Descartes: that of determining whether any form of perceptual realism is defensible, or whether the very idea of a material world existing independently of perception and thought is more trouble than it is worth.
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten publizierte 1760, zwei Jahre vor seinem Tod, eine in Frankfurt/Oder gehaltene Vorlesung zu den Anfangsgründen der praktischen Metaphysik (Initia philosophiae practicae primae).
The book covers Hume's biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters'; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the needs/interests of his readers/potential readers; his rhetorical turn and Ciceronian adjustments to his writing within the genre of the essay, including his two Enquiries; his political essays and his nine essays conventionally classified as economic.
Dieser Band versammelt Studien, die sich um eine angemessene und präzise Erfassung der unterschiedlichen Begründungsweisen für die Geltung und Wirksamkeit des Begriffs oder einer vor- oder transrationalen, mithin glaubenden oder fühlenden Vorstellung Gottes in Philosophie, Theologie, den Wissenschaften und den Künsten im langen 18.
Dieser neunte Band der »Studien zum achtzehnten Jahrhundert« enthält Vorträge, die anlässlich der neunten Jahrestagung der »Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts« im November 1984 an der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken gehalten wurden.
Kant hielt seit 1765 regelmäßig Vorlesungen über Logik, denen er ein Exemplar des »Meierschen Lehrbuchs« von 1752 als Leitfaden zugrunde legte, in welches er fortschreitend Anmerkungen und Erläuterungen eintrug, denen er in seinem Vortrag folgte.
In this new and original book, Claire Armon-Jones examines the concept of affect and various philosophical positions which attempt to define and characterize it: the standard view, the neo-cognitivist view, and the objectual thesis.
This book argues that the philosophical significance of Kant's aesthetics lies not in its explicit account of beauty but in its implicit account of intentionality.
In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state?
Our understanding of human rationality has changed significantly since the beginning of the century, with growing emphasis being placed on multiple rationalities, each adapted to the specific tasks of communities of practice.
Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition.
This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden pleasure taken by the patient in and from his symptom.
This edited collection responds to the contemporary need for deeper analysis and rethinking of the relation between education and emancipation in a world beset by social, digital, educational and ecological crises.
Challenging the common assumption that the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries was an essentially secular, irreligious and atheistic movement, this book critiques this standard interpretation as based on a narrow view of Enlightenment sources.
