Western philosophy from c 1800

"e;Intuition"e; has perhaps been the least understood and the most abused term in philosophy.

The first volume of new work dedicated specifically to ageing ethics – wide-ranging, clear, and accessible.

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Perspectives in Criticism offers a comprehensive exploration of the philosophy of literary criticism, providing a framework for understanding the relationship between critical analysis and value evaluation.

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism.

Die zwei verkannten Bände des Philologen und Pädagogen Lorenz Grasberger über Erziehung und Unterricht in der Antike dürften einen entscheidenden Impuls zu Nietzsches Überlegungen zur Bildung darstellen.

This book is about the pragmatics of language and it illustrates how pragmatics transcends the boundaries of linguistics.

The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), a contemporary of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, remains in every way a thinker for our times.

The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor.

What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida to Roland Barthes?

One of the most original thinkers of the century, Karl Popper has inspired generations of philosophers, historians, and politicians.

What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "e;clean coal"e;-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change.

This book explores an overlooked area in Hegel studies: his use of 'individuality' (Individualitat).

This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments related to the legacy and legitimacy of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) today.

This volume is the first handbook to explore existentialism as epistemology and method.

This book, first published in 1968, examines the complicated issues which surround the problem of freewill.

David Miller elegantly and provocatively reformulates critical rationalismthe revolutionary approach to epistemology advocated by Karl Popperby answering its most important critics.

Unless considered on a practical level, where a precise distribution of social goods is chosen, John Rawls's and Gerald Cohen's approaches to social justice cannot be complementary.

Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, though a strong supporting cast of Jan Assmann, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Taubes and Paul Ricoeur, among others, also play their respective roles throughout this study.

Philosophizing is an activity-a process carries on by mind-endeavored creatures.

Challenges the contemporary materialist and post-truth world view and provides a challenging alternative.

A paradigm-shifting, original examination of Rousseau's final work, Reveries.

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Defends a unified conception of human nature and a view of what is natural that can cover both the physical and the psychological worlds.

In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of certainty in the human worldview, as quantum uncertainty and linguistic ambiguity destroyed the comfortable certitudes of the past.

Die fünf Bände enthalten die Hauptvorträge und eingeladene Beiträge der panels des X.

This intriguing book is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking.

The significant changes that have dominated the social and the scientific world over the last thirty years have brought about upheavals and critical re-appraisals that have proved quite positive in fostering 21st century thought.

This volume examines the question "e;Do abstract objects exist?

First systematic presentation and assessment of the groundbreaking journal Cahiers pour l'Analyse.

The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of 'inhumanism' as a paradox of the Anthropocene.

Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe.

Heidegger holds that our age is dominated by the ambition of reason to possess the world.

A collection of new essays that develop themes from the work of the philosopher Jaegwon Kim.

With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail.

This book examines the significance and meaning of undergraduate online learning using a hermeneutic phenomenological study, asking what is lost when there is no face-to-face contact and exploring the essence of technology itself.

In this fascinating book, Michel Thys explores the limitations of human imagination and symbolization, showing the potentially destructive result of a mind that cannot confront reality.

This collection is intercultural philosophy at its best.

Once a prophet of critical, "e;other"e; thought, Heidegger has now for many become the epitome of the unthinkable, in the light of the Black Notebooks controversy.

"e;According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone.

Thanks to their heterogeneity, the nine essays in this volume offer a clear testimony of Donald Davidson's authority, and they undoubtedly show how much his work - even if it has raised many doubts and criticisms - has been, and still is, highly influential and significant in contemporary analytical philosophy for a wide range of subjects.

Medicine's crucial concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts, means change with the advance of science and social life.

Age and aging are pressing social-political issues.

'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness…or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness?