Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
This is the first English-language book to examine Kant''s empirical psychology, applying it throughout Kant''s philosophy and to contemporary philosophical issues.
In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism.
Destutt de Tracys Ideenlehre entstand an einer historischen Schnittstelle: während der Zeit der französischen Revolution und in der postrevolutionären Ära Napoleons.
Based on the original handwritten manuscript, this book provides a new, accurate edition of Hume's important work, faithful to his original text, marginal notes, and changes.
Zu Beginn seiner Abhandlung »Über das einsame Leben« (De vita solitaria) schreibt Francesco Petrarca 1346: »Niemand schafft es, lange unter Wasser zu leben.
Un libro fundamental en la historia del pensamiento: la obra que dejó, para publicar después de su muerte, un cura del norte de Francia del siglo XVIII, Jean Meslier, al que leyeron todos los ilustrados radicales.
For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work.
Written by Robert Wicks, a recognised Kant specialist who teaches at the University of Auckland, Kant: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place.
This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond.
A new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thoughtJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics.
Through his clinical work and extensive engagement with major figures of the philosophical tradition, Jung developed an original and pluralistic psycho-ethical model based on the cooperation of consciousness with the unconscious mind.
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) gab in streitbarer Auseinandersetzung mit der Metaphysik Spinozas, der Transzendentalphilosophie Kants, dem Idealismus Fichtes und der Naturphilosophie Schellings entscheidende Anstöße zur Ausbildung der gesamten nachkantischen Philosophie.
Rousseau''s relation to the Western intellectual tradition is re-examined through a series of ''conversations'' between Rousseau and other ''great thinkers''.
