Western philosophy from c 1800

The first of its kind, this project is a collection of critical and interpretive essays on George Santayana's seminal work in American philosophy, Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923), 100 years after its first edition.

Die Frühromantik versuchte, auf ein umfassendes Gefühl der geistigen Krise zu reagieren, das das späte 18.

Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century.

First Published in 2002.

In diesem erstmals 1911 veröffentlichten Buch behandelt Brentano die Hauptgedanken der Aristotelischen Philosophie und zeigt ihre Geschlossenheit auf.

Also published under the title of Principals of Social Reconstruction, and written in response to the devastation of World War I, Why Men Fight lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty.

As an introduction to his own notoriously complex and challenging philosophy, Hegel recommended the sections on phenomenology and psychology from The Philosophy of Spirit, the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences.

These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associations.

Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart.

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age.

Gemessen an Bedeutung, Rang und Wirkung steht die Rechtsphilosophie Hegels heute neben den Politiken von Platon und Aristoteles, dem Leviathan von Hobbes und dem Contrat social von Rousseau.

Eugen Fink's deep engagement with the phenomenon of play saw him transcend his two towering mentors, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, to become a crucial figure in early 20th-century phenomenology.

Edith Stein has become almost a legend in recent years largely because of her heroic personality and her death in Auschwitz at the hands of the Nazis.

Provides an accessible mathematical and philosophical account of Quine''s set theory, New Foundations.

This book offers a systematic and critical discussion of Peter Winch's writings on the philosophy of the social sciences.

The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "e;the Great Infidel"e; for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young.

This book draws upon the work of Habermas to suggest a model for public religious debate.

This volume of collected papers, with the accompanying essays by the editors, is the definitive source book for the work of this important experimental psychologist.

Millikan and Her Critics offers a unique critical discussion of Ruth Millikan's highly regarded, influential, and systematic contributions to philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of biology, epistemology, and metaphysics.

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory.

Die Logik des Seins umfaßt drei Abschnitte: Bestimmtheit (Qualität), Größe (Quantität) und Maß.

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.

Although this book is a study of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, it would be mistaken to refer to it as a comparison.

This book, first published in 1935, is an examination of Hume's theories of causal inference and belief in substance and his analysis of the understanding.

This book explores the threshold between phenomenology and lived religion in dialogue with three French luminaries: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jean-Yves Lacoste.

This volume collects together all of Russell's philosophical papers inspired by his work with Whitehead on 'Principia Mathematica'.

This core textbook provides a clear and accessible introduction to the key concepts of phenomenology in relation to theatre, showing how they shed light on the works of influential theatre-makers such as Brecht, Artaud, and Stanislavski.

Hegels Habilitationsschrift, die bis in die Gegenwart auf mannigfache Ressentiments gestoßen ist, beschäftigt sich vordergründig mit Astronomie.

This book explores a value-based research methodology, Living Educational Theory Research (LETR), which aligns a values-based approach with key tenets of professional development to inform and inspire future educators' practice.

Sebastian Rodl's Self-Consciousness and Objectivity is one of the most original and thought-provoking books in analytic philosophy for the last several years.

Kant's omnipresence in contemporary cosmopolitan discourses contrasts with the fact that little is known about the historical origins and the systematic status of his cosmopolitan theory.

This book, originally entitled Why Men Fight, is generally seen as the fullest expression of Russell's political philosophy.

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Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and might even be able to outlive the death of the body?

Civilization, Modernity, and Critique provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge engagement with the work of one of the most foundational figures in civilizational analysis: Johann P.

How can we invent new certain knowledge in a methodical manner?

In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought.

How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality?