Western philosophy from c 1800

This book compares three approaches to public reason and to the public space accorded to religions: the liberal platform of an overlapping consensus proposed by John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas's discourse ethical reformulation of Kant's universalism and its realization in the public sphere, and the co-founding role which Paul Ricoeur attributes to the particular traditions that have shaped their cultures and the convictions of citizens.

Als praktische Philosophie ist der Pragmatismus an Prinzipien und Mechanismen von Gesellschaft interessiert.

This book purports to devise a pattern of the self that accounts for the role that change and identity play in self-shaping.

Hegel's critique of Early German Romanticism and its theory of irony resonates to the core of his own philosophy in the same way that Plato's polemics with the Sophists have repercussions that go to the centre of his thought.

This book presents a new take on the evolution of digital design theories in architecture from modernity to today, as they have been inspired both by contemporary philosophy and the emergence and access to advanced computation.

Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years.

Our era is profoundly marked by the phenomenon of exile and it is has become increasingly urgent to rethink the concept of exile and our stance towards it.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space.

This book questions the de facto dominance of narrative when watching films.

Why are we here?

Written by one of the twentieth century's most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bertrand Russell's major work on political history.

From Ricoeur to Action engages with the thinking of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) in order to propose innovative responses to 21st-century problems actively contributing to global conflict.

Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of language and subsequently a vision of ethics, showing how the two are integrated in his philosophical method, and allowing us to reframe traditional problems in moral philosophy considered as external to questions of meaning.

This book introduces the reader to the political theories of the American philosopher John Rawls.

Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI is a valuable contribution to the study of Wittgenstein's theories and his controversial attack on artifical intelligence, which successfully crosses a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, logic, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, to provide a stimulating and searching analysis.

Die Hegel-Studien wurden 1961 in Verbindung mit der Hegel-Kommission der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft begründet und entstanden im engen Zusammenhang mit der Arbeit an der historisch-kritischen Gesamtausgabe Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gesammelte Werke.

Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic Francois Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all of whom were amateur piano players and acute lovers of the medium.

This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics.

This book presents the case that there are forms of human interaction which should be understood as properly second-person plural.

Este tratado analiza la violencia religiosa, terrorista, nacionalista y amoro- sa, así como la carga agresiva latente en el amor por la divinidad, la nación, la pareja o la humanidad.

Fasse ich die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Analyse zusammen, so halte ich fest, dass das Phänomen der Zeit und ihrer Flussrichtung - dem Zeitpfeil (Arrow of Time) - aufs engste verbunden ist mit Feststellungen über die Abschnitte der Zeit.

Arguments that ordinary inanimate objects such as tables and chairs, sticks and stones, simply do not exist have become increasingly common and increasingly prominent.

The book addresses two main areas of Kant's theoretical philosophy: the doctrine of transcendental idealism and various central aspects of the arguments from the Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions, as well as the relation between the deduction argument and idealism.

Eight Domains of Phenomenology and Research Methods is a unique text that explains how the foundational literature representing our lifeworld experience aligns theory with research methods.

Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics.

This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time.

Die analytische Philosophie hat sich stets an der Logik und Mathematik orientiert, also an Wissenschaften, die als Paradigmata des Formalen und Subjektfreien gelten.

Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008.

The writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari offer the most enduring and controversial contributions to the theory and practice of art in post-war Continental thought.

Philosophy means 'love of wisdom,' but author Edmond Holmes fears the encroaching dominance of intellect over feeling.