Western philosophy from c 1800

The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time.

This book illustrates the extent to which Kant's work has permeated wide areas of learing, across many disciplines, despite a general ignorance, especially in England, of the details of his highly technical philosophy.

Despite Heidegger's identifying his own thought with 'ethics' in the most original sense, his understanding of ethics has been criticised both for its supposed ignorance of the role of the other human being and for its relation to politics.

Willard Van Orman Quine was certainly the greatest analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century.

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930), Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, was one of the most brilliant people of his generation.

Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections.

This book offers a sustained engagement with the writings of the increasingly influential French philosopher and writer on literature, Gilles Deleuze, offering an introduction to his fascinating body of work and emphasizing its multiple possibilities for literary study.

Discussion of John Stuart Mill's ethics has been dominated by concern with right and wrong action as determined by the principle of utility.

In Russell's Theory of Perception, Sajahan Miah re-examines and evaluates the development of Russell's concept of perception and the relation of perception to our knowledge of the external world.

Wittgenstein once said, 'I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view'.

Heidegger's critique of Western philosophy centers around his interpretation of Aristotle.

The Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: What is Philosophy?

This is the first detailed assessment of the life and work of Felix Guattari--"Mr.

As a thinker, mystic and social critic, Simone Weil is one of the most extraordinary figures of the 20th century.

What is required of the idea of critique if it is to overcome indifference?

Gilles Deleuze has been labelled as the "post-x" thinker: post-structuralist, post-modern, post-Spinozist, post-Nietzschean, and even post-utopian.

Josh Cohen argues that Auschwitz is a key problem for how we think and therefore we cannot be assured that Auschwitz will not repeat itself.

Bertrand Russell was not only one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century; he was also a humanitarian and activist who fought for many moral, social, and political causes.

In 1995 John Searle published The Construction of Social Reality, a text which not only promises to disclose the institutional backdrop against which speech takes place, but initiate a new "e;philosophy of society.

One of the most eminent Heidegger scholars of our time, Theodore Kisiel has found worldwide critical acclaim, his particular strength being to set Heidegger's thinking in the context of his life, time and the history of ideas.

Many of the leading Freudian analysts, including in the early days, Jung, Adler, Reich and Rank, attempted to link the writings of Nietzsche with the clinical work of Freud.

Slavoj Š ZiŠzek is not alone in thinking that Alain Badiou's recent work is "the event of contemporary philosophy.

Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, has been hailed as a 'highly original and sensational' major philosophical work.

Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes.

This book surveys the main schools and theorists of deconstruction, establishing their philosophical roots and tracing their intellectual development.

The dream of world government is becoming a reality.

Since Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated.

'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation.

Comforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour.

Narrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Alexander R.

Criticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form.

A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Luk,cs's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism.

Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century.

How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connectedIn May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California.

In this book Jacques Ranci,re radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix.

The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own.

The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head.

The "e;structuralist"e; theories of power show that the subject is produced and reproduced by the investment of power: but how then can we think of the subject's resistance to power?

Is violent self-defense ethical?

Right now, someone in an artificial intelligence lab is fusing silicon circuitry in an attempt to engineer the human mind.

The representation of gender and sexuality is well-explored territory in film studies.

The representation of gender and sexuality is well-explored territory in film studies.

Dieses eBook: "Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his influence subsists in many of the concepts currently deployed in disciplines such as cultural studies, social theory and literary criticism.

Of all the concepts which have emerged to describe the effects of capitalism on the human world, none is more graphic or easily grasped than "e;reification"e;-the process by which men and women are turned into objects, things.

What are the sources of solidarity?

Leon Trotsky has become one of the twentieth century's most enduring political legends.