Western philosophy from c 1800

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historical and social perspectives.

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historical and social perspectives.

In Problems of Philosophy Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy.

Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher.

Collected here are five short essays, Human Nature, Government, Free-will and Fatalism, Character, Moral Instinct, and, Ethical Reflections, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, and using Philonous, he argues his own metaphysical views.

'Meditations on First Philosophy' is a philosophical treatise written by Rene Descartes first published in Latin in 1641.

Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.

The Law and the Word explores the connection between thought energy, scientific reasoning, and creative power.

William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher.

Thomas Troward was an early New Thought writer who had an immense impact on those who would follow.

In this masterpiece of philosophical literature Friedrich Nietzsche utters the famous phrase "e;God is dead!

Collected here in this omnibus edition are three of Nietzsche's three most important books: The Anti-Christ, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spake Zarathustra, as well as The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken.

Collected here are nine short essays, On the Sufferings of the World, The Vanity of Existence, On Suicide, Immortality: A Dialogue, Psychological Observations, On Education, Of Women, On Noise, and, A Few Parables, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

Franois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.

'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke.

Nietzsche left no systematic exposition of his philosophy, and so it remains the subject of intense scholarly dispute and interpretation.

Principles of Philosophy was written in Latin by Ren Descartes.

'De Rerum Natura' ('On the Nature of Things') is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.

The Meaning of Truth is one of William James' most important books.

In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further.

OUR next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away.

Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the world's most influential philosophers.

An exploration and defense of immaterialism, Principles of Human Knowledge, details George Berkley's views on reality and perception.

Pablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America.

Existentialism: An Introduction has established itself as the most comprehensive and accessible book on the subject available.

Writings on History brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a lecture, notes to his collaborators, and the transcript of an informal 1963 discussion of literary history.

The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are?

Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris.

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today.

On April 27, 2007, the first Speculative Realism (SR) workshop was held at Goldsmiths, University of London, featuring four young philosophers whose ideas were loosely allied.

Georges Canguilhem (1904 95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings.

All discourses aimed at asserting the value of human life as such whether philosophical, ethical, or political assume the notion of personhood as their indispensable point of departure.

This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societies.

Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned contemporary American philosophers, discussed widely in analytic as well as continental philosophical communities on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science.

Who hasn't had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark?

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it s not worth an hour of trouble?

This book is a foundational text for our understanding of Fran ois Laruelle, one of France's leading thinkers, whose ideas have emerged as an important touchstone for contemporary theoretical discussions across multiple disciplines.

Fran ois Laruelle's 'non-philosophy' or 'non-standard philosophy' represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge.

Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975.

This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual.

Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period.

This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy.

This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.

Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a central figure in the thought of his time, but he was also something of an outsider.

Este libro trata de los fines de toda universidad que deben estar de acuerdo con el movimiento democrtico de los pueblos.

Estas conferencias presentadas en la ciudad de Monterrey durante el invierno de 1933 en la Universidad de Nuevo Len, se nutren de la lgica de Garca de Mendoza que fue obra de texto en la preparatoria y en la facultad de filosofa y letras de la Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico y de los cursos de fenomenologa impartidos en la UNAM durante los aos de 1929 a 1935, siendo el primero en traer de Alemania, las primeras nociones de la fenomenologa a Mxico.

David E.