Western philosophy from c 1800

This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916.

Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century.

This book follows postwar Germany''s leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, through four decades of German political and constitutional struggles.

James Doull's remarkable legacy as a teacher, scholar, and thinker has left behind a profound and challenging examination of the philosophical and historical roots of contemporary thought and politics.

As a major member of the New York School, Barnett Newman is celebrated for his radical explorations of color and scale and, as a precursor to the Minimalist movement, for his significant contribution to the development of twentieth-century American art.

In »Freiheit und Form« von 1916 unternimmt Cassirer den Versuch, den Aufbau der deutschen Geistesgeschichte und das Verhältnis ihrer einzelnen bestimmenden Momente anhand der großen repräsentativen Entwicklungslinien zu erhellen und durchsichtig zu machen.

This collection of essays on Jacques Derrida, first published in 2004, spans nearly thirty years of critical thinking about Derrida's work.

The question of Nietzsche's use of political theory has a long and vexed history.

This volume develops the central (though neglected) Agambenian concept of nudity along with its crucial political implications.

A founder of modern analytic philosophy and one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell has influenced generations of philosophers.

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to develop new and promising solutions to contemporary debates about perception.

Der berühmte Vortrag Die Bedeutung des Protestantismus für die Entstehung der modernen Welt (1906/1911) sowie weitere Texte zur Kulturbedeutung von Luthertum und Calvinismus aus der gleichen Zeit werden hier in einer textkritischen Edition vorgelegt.

This book assembles leading legal, political, and moral philosophers to examine the legacy of the work of Ronald Dworkin.

Presenting a comprehensive portrayal of the reading of Chinese and Buddhist philosophy in early twentieth-century German thought, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought examines the implications of these readings for contemporary issues in comparative and intercultural philosophy.

Building on Monica Hanaway's previous publications, this timely volume considers the benefits of bringing an existential approach to psychotherapy, coaching, supervision and leadership, particularly in times of crisis.

Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox.

As the methodology for coaching supervision has grown and developed in recent years, so too has the need for comprehensive engagement with the needs of supervisees.

Taking its cue from contemporary western debates on presence in the social sciences and the humanities, this volume focuses on 'presence' both as everyday experience and as an experience of intense moments.

How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century?

Anliegen dieses Buches ist es, den Unterschied zwischen Verstehen und Erklären verständlich zu machen und in die Hermeneutik als Lehre des Verstehens einzuführen.

In der Entwicklungsgeschichte der Philosophie Hegels klafft zwischen den Jenaer Jahren der Grundlegung (1801-1806) und den Heidelberger und Berliner Jahren der Entfaltung (1816-1831) eine Lücke von einem Jahrzehnt: die beiden Bamberger Jahre (1807-1808), deren wenige Texte bereits in den Bänden 5 und 12 der »Gesammelten Werke« ediert sind, und vor allem die Nürnberger Jahre, in denen Hegel am Gymnasium Rektor und Professor der philosophischen Vorbereitungswissenschaften war (1808-1816).

This collection of fourteen original essays addresses the seminal contribution of Franz Brentano and his heirs, to philosophy of language.

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature.

Vier namhafte Philosophinnen und Philosophen (ergänzt durch zwei Beiträge der Herausgeber) erörtern in diesem Band eines der Leitprinzipien des philosophischen Diskurses der Moderne.

Kant's Critique of Judgment represents one of the most important texts in modern philosophy.

The Hungarian emigre Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper.

First published in 1981.

Why democracy is the best way of deciding how decisions should be madePragmatism and its consequences are central issues in American politics today, yet scholars rarely examine in detail the relationship between pragmatism and politics.

This innovative volume examines the phenomenological, existential and cultural dimensions of grief experiences.

Do we really need philosophy?

In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge.

Peter Sloterdijk s reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s.

In this book, the author shows that it is necessary to enrich the conceptual frame of the theory of rational choice beyond consequentialism.

Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience.

This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.

This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas''s work emerged.

Humor and cruelty can be the best of friends.

This important book offers a critical and timely reassessment of one of the cornerstones of analytical psychology, Jung's concept of archetypes.

Examines the notion of unconcealment in Heidegger''s works, a concept central to his philosophy of truth, language and history.

Alongside Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell is arguably one of the best-known philosophers in the world.

This book provides a critical introduction to Heidegger's impact on psychiatry and psychology, and has a focus on the application of his philosophy to psychiatry.

Angeregt von Freunden und Kollegen, legte Ernst Cassirer 1944 im amerikanischen Exil mit dem Essay on Man eine komprimierte und zugleich uberarbeitete Fassung seiner Kulturphilosophie vor, in der er die dreibandige Philosophie der symbolischen Formen in ihren Hauptgedanken fortfuhrt.