Western philosophy from c 1800

First published in 1940, Sartre's The Imaginary is a cornerstone of his philosophy.

Die Pflanze Ayahuasca gilt den Indianern im Amazonasgebiet als Göttergewächs.

The sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict.

Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological notion of motivation advances a compelling alternative to the empiricist and rationalist assumptions that underpin modern epistemology.

Bertrand Russell's professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge.

Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic: Twin Histories presents an entirely new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the "e;Spirit"e; of Capitalism, as its central point of reference.

Studies on different aspects of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy have been published during the last thirty years.

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Korper), tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz.

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?

Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought.

The figure of Richard Rorty stands in complex relation to the tradition of American pragmatism.

Christian philosophy and philosophy of religion tend to be dominated by analytic approaches, which have brought a valuable logical rigor to the discussion of matters of belief.

During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen (1882-1974) incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life.

After Husserl, the study of phenomenology took off in different directions.

Nichols examines the major writings of Alexandre Kojeve, and clarifies the character and brings to light the importance of his political philosophy.

Bringing together thinkers from philosophy of religion, religious studies, music, art, and film, while drawing on a wealth of phenomenological resources and methods, a team of renowned scholars provide new vantages on the question of how art is an expression of the human desire for God.

At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy.

This collection features eleven original essays, divided into three thematic sections, which explore the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to other twentieth-century thinkers.

Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of Post-Structuralism and New Materialism.

This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality.

Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Biotechnologische Eingriffe in den menschlichen Organismus (genetisch, psychopharmazeutisch oder technisch) können die körperliche oder geistige Leistungsfähigkeit von Menschen steigern und das menschliche Erleben gezielt verändern, auch über ein "normales" oder "natürliches" Maß hinaus.

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference on Collective Intentionality held at the University of Helsinki August 31 to September 2, 2006 and two additional contributions.

This book contains a series of essays that explore the concept of unconsciousness as it is situated between phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

Drawing upon the work of Quine, Rawls, Rorty and others, Gutting challenges the standard view about what philosophers have achieved.

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick's work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema.

This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant's conception of anthropology.

A Critical Introduction to Philosophy of Language is a historically oriented introduction to the central themes in philosophy of language.

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called 'prion diseases', this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, two of the most important and influential thinkers in twentieth-century European philosophy.

An in-depth comparison of Wittgenstein and Heidegger shows how the views of both philosophers emerge from a fundamental attempt to dispense with the transcendent.

A study of how forced exile from 1930s Germany informed the scholarship of four German-speaking, Jewish intellectuals.

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 book critically examines the debate on Martin Heidegger's concept of Entscheidung ("e;decision"e;) and his engagement and confrontation with Nazism in terms of his broader philosophical thought.

In this ambitious work, Giacomo Marramao proposes a radical reconceptualization of the world system in our era of declining state sovereignty.