Western philosophy from c 1800

The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo.

In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.

Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work played a crucial role in the history of contemporary French philosophy.

In Essays on the History of Ethics Michael Slote collects his essays that deal with aspects of both ancient and modern ethical thought and seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons and contrasts among different views.

Texte und Dokumente Walter Jaeschke: Eine neue Phase der Hegel-Edition Jørgen Huggler: Eine neue Vorlesungsnachschrift zu Hegels Berliner Vorlesungen zur Philosophie des Geistes von 1827/28 Abhandlungen Rüdiger Bubner: Überlegungen zur Situation der Hegelforschung Robert B.

Heidegger and the Emergence of the Question of Being offers a new, updated and comprehensive introduction to Heidegger's development and his early confrontation with philosophical tradition, theology, neo-Kantianism, vitalism, hermeneutics, and phenomenology, up to the publication of Being and Time in 1927.

Deleuze's concept of 'becoming' provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now.

The debate between moral realism and antirealism plays an important role in contemporary metaethics as well as in the interpretation of Kant's moral philosophy.

My Philosophical Development is Russell's intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosophical ambition that saw him write over 40 books.

The contributions, composed in this volume, are inspired not only by the necessity but also by the potentialities of a process which continues and deepens cross-cultural understanding, especially between Islamic and Western philosophy.

First published in 2012.

This textbook introduces you to existentialist philosophical theory and its cultural influence.

Immanuel Kant gehört zu den bedeutendsten Denkern der Aufklärung und prägte mit seinen revolutionären Ideen über Erkenntnis, Moral und Freiheit die Philosophie bis heute.

Philosophers approach the problem of possibility in two markedly different ways: with reference to worlds, whereby an event is possible if there is a world in which it occurs, and with reference to modal properties, whereby an event is a possible manifestation of a property of some substance or object.

This book, first published in 1931, provides a valuable account of Rousseau's early years, giving an insight into his later philosophies, as well as showing the development of his thought.

A number of well-developed theories shed light on the question, under what circumstances our beliefs enjoy epistemic justification.

Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers.

This book presents a unique real-world-centred approach to economic life from a phenomenological approach.

This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect-all varieties of pleasure and pain-and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an "e;enrichment approach"e; that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole.

Oxford University Press published eminent literary critic Leo Bersani's first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the work has long been out of print.

This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism.

This contributed volume aims to reconsider the concept of individuation, clarifying its articulation with respect to contemporary problems in perceptual, neural, developmental, semiotic and social morphogenesis.

Vorwort – Hegel in Bern — Eine Vorerinnerung Erster Teil.

The integrated theory of dynamic interpretation set out here will be a surprise to advanced researchers in linguistics.

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.

Bereits 1839 wurde das philosophische Hauptwerk Ludwig Feuerbachs in den "Hallischen Jahrbüchern" als ein Gegenstück zu Kant, als "Kritik der unreinen Vernunft" erstmals öffentlich angekündigt.

TEXTE UND DOKUMENTE Fragment aus einer Hegelschen Logik.

In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie - The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge - as '.

What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society?

This book presents a radical and intuitive argument against the notion that intentional action, agency and autonomy are features belonging only to humans.

This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamer's account of the nature of meaning.

Dem durch Kant verschütteten Verständnis der aristotelischen Kategorienlehre brach schon Brentanos erste Schrift Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles Bahn.

Over the past one and a half decades, the scope of experimental philosophy (x-phi) has expanded significantly.

This 2004 book is an accessible introduction to the full range of the philosophy of William James.

This text is the first comprehensive attempt in decades to integrate reading into the philosophical discussion of the synthesis of experience more generally.

Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankelevitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson.

This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language.

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