Western philosophy from c 1800

Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life.

This impressive edited collection investigates the relationship between British Pop Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images.

Employing her original concept of the ontopoiesis of life, the author uncovers the intrinsic law of the primogenital logos - that which operates in the working of the indivisible dyad of impetus and equipoise.

Logical methods are used in all area of philosophy.

Schon Mitte des 19.

Für Hegel findet der durch die Konfessionsspaltung zerrissene moderne Staat, indem er Religion und Politik trennt, sein Gravitationszentrum in sich selbst.

Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades.

This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living.

Kaum ein Vorhaben hat die Hegel'sche Philosophie stärker und mit größerer Selbstverständlichkeit geprägt als eine therapeutische Auflösung starrer begrifflicher Dualismen.

This book, first published in 1936, divides into roughly two parts: a re-examination of historical material; and a positive theory of causation suggested by the results of this re-examination.

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

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Verhältnis Kierkegaards zu Schleiermacher ausgehend von einer detaillierten Studie von Kierkegaards frühen Journalen und Aufzeichnungen.

This book investigates Hermann Weyl's work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards.

In this first English translation of one of his most important works, Michel Serres presents the statue as more than a static entity: for Serres it is the basis for knowledge, society, the subject and object, the world and experience.

This volume is a collection of previously unpublished papers dealing with the neglected "e;phenomenological"e; dimension of the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which it compares and contrasts to the phenomenology of his contemporary Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and to those of Edmund Husserl and his 20th century followers.

Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices.

In The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic, Mario Perniola puts forth the radical argument that we are shifting away from organic sexuality, based on desire and pleasure, and moving towards a more neutral inorganic and artificial sexuality, a sexuality always available but indifferent to beauty, age or form.

Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida's book The Post Card.

In this book, Alberto Castelli, Giunia Gatta, Micaela Latini, and Francesco Raschi examine how four prominent intellectuals of the 20th century (Bertrand Russell, Karl Jaspers, Raymond Aron, and Gunther Anders) understood atomic warfare.

While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and contemplative sense of ethics, or an 'ethical imagination'.

Zu keiner Zeit hat Potsdam auf die europäische Kultur einen größeren Einfluss ausgeübt als im 18.

The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America.

This study examines the theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography.

One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida's ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies.

Bernard Lonergan (1904-84) is acknowledged as one of the most significant philosopher-theologians of the 20th century.

This volume brings together contributions that explore the philosophy of Franz Brentano.

Following up from the previous book, Human Emotions and the Origins of Bioethics, thisvolume focuses on four psychological problems, anxiety, narcissism, restlessness,and emotional numbness, and explores how these problems influence bioethical issues and what bioethics can do to fix them.

Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry.

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 is the first book focused on the logico-philosophical aspects of the lambda-calculus since the inception of the field in 1932 in the pioneering work of Alonzo Church.

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Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with conceptual questions about knowledge and ontology.

First published in 1942, Reflections documents the life of John Henry Muirhead and the philosophical age that he observed.

Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar.

The Husserl Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology.

This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to debates in contemporary philosophy.