In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption.
This book offers an original phenomenological description of mindfulness and related phenomena, such as concentration (samadhi) and the practice of insight (vipassana).
In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin's concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin's approach to the topic over the course of his career.
A solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the seventeenth-century philosopher Ren Descartes is essential for understanding modern thought, and a necessary entre to the work of the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant.
This book applies the general theory of critical rationalism in order to develop a new sociology of the open society, in general, and a new analysis of the transition from a closed society to an open society in particular.
Die Studie zeichnet die Entwicklung des Verhältnisses zwischen Christen und Juden in Palästina in den vier Jahrhunderten nach der Christianisierung des Landes seit Konstantin nach.
The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism.
Ruthenberg highlights the unique aspects of chemistry, specifically its metachemical fundamentals, which have been largely overlooked in current philosophies of science.
In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner?
This book proposes an account of the place of the theory of race in Kant's thought as a central part of philosophical anthropology in his political system.
Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism is the first study of its kind to address a range of realist and idealist views inspired by psychological nominalism.
The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as inaugurated by Brentano and worked out in a very sophisticated way by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself.
A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books.
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's essays seek to cleanse comparative law of some of the epistemic detritus it has been collecting and that has been cluttering its theory and practice to the point where this flotsam has effectively stultified 'good' comparison.
Der Kant und Cohen verpflichtete Philosoph der symbolischen Formen widmet sich Ende der 20er Jahre scheinbar affirmativ der zeitgenössischen Philosophie des Lebens.
Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche’s reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman.
Dieser Band enthält zusammen mit einer systematischen Einführung die einzige bekannte Nachschrift der Vorlesung Hegels über Ästhetik oder Philosophie der Kunst aus dem Jahre 1823, in wesentlichen Grundzügen knapp und klar nachgeschrieben und mit gliedernden Randbemerkungen versehen von dem Studenten Heinrich Gustav Hotho, dem späteren Herausgeber der Hegelschen Ästhetik.
Beginning in 1949, the German novelist and essayist Ernst Junger began a correspondence with the philosopher Martin Heidegger that lasted until Heidegger's death in 1975.
