Western philosophy from c 1800

This book advances a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus that moves beyond the main interpretative options of the New Wittgenstein debate.

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.

Dürfen wir, was wir können?

This collection examines the instrumental role of intersubjectivity in Husserl's philosophy and explores the potential for developing novel ways of addressing and resolving contemporary philosophical issues on that basis.

Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.

This book examines Bertrand Russell's complicated relationships to the women around him, and to feminism more generally.

The tendency to reciprocate - to return good for good and evil for evil - is a potent force in human life, and the concept of reciprocity is closely connected to fundamental notions of 'justice', 'obligation' or 'duty', 'gratitude' and 'equality'.

Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition.

In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks.

Severo Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque.

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature.

This book offers insight into the nature of meaningful discourse.

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.

Martin Heidegger impartió el curso Fenomenología y filosofía trascendental de los valores durante el semestre de verano de 1919 en Friburgo.

Popper's theory of science has been widely misunderstood and poorly represented in the literature on philosophy of science, over the last three decades.

The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln against disunion at a moment when the Northern situation appeared untenable.

Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging.

AbstractsBecker, Ralf, Bermes, Christian, Westerkamp, Dirk: Editorial.

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.

In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger''s ''Being and Time'', seventeen leading scholars explore the central themes of Heidegger''s revolutionary work.

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?

This volume investigates the intersection of phenomenology and posthumanism by rethinking the human and nonhuman specifically with regard to boredom, isolation, loneliness, and solitude.

The nine contributors to this collection examine rhetorician Kenneth Burke's understanding of transcendence, applying it to a wide range of social and political issues, including racial and presidential politics.

In this important study, Michael Luntley offers a compelling reading of Wittgenstein s account of meaning and intentionality, based upon a unifying theme in the early and later philosophies.

Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form.

An introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, through accessible, everyday examples.

This book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics.

Creating Democracy brings into dialogue for the first time two important theorists of democracy: Hannah Arendt (1906-75) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-975).

This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Jacques Taminiaux and examines the primacy of the political within phenomenology.

"e;The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions,"e; said Albert Camus.

AbstractsSchmücker, Reinhold, Theisohn, Philipp: Noch einmal: zur Einführung.

Philosoph der Restauration und Vater der Soziologie; gläubiger Christ und Ahnherr eines atheistischen Positivismus - diese Ambivalenz kennzeichnet die ebenso entscheidende wie wenig bekannte Rolle des Vicomte de Bonald in der Geschichte der Gesellschaftslehre.

Bridging cultural and experimental existential psychology, this book offers a synthetic understanding of how culture shapes psychological threat.

Die Auflösung der Blöcke im Jahre 1990 hat eine grundlegende Veränderung der internationalen Sicherheitssituation hervorgerufen: Es entstanden neue Arten von Bedrohungen und neue Wege, diesen zu begegnen.

The first book in English to offer an extended comparative analysis of Heidegger and Deleuze.

Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson were two of the most influential American philosophers of the 20th century.

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The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno's philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy.

Trust is an essential component of social life and yet political polarization and social tensions can easily lead to its erosion.

Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe.