Western philosophy from c 1800

Several debates of the last years within the research field of contemporary realism - known under titles such as "e;New Realism,"e; "e;Continental Realism,"e; or "e;Speculative Materialism"e; - have shown that science is not systematically the ultimate measure of truth and reality.

Michel Henry (1922-2002) was a French philosopher and novelist whose work spanned decades and genres while remaining united by a singular vision.

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference outlines how to understand the inner and behavioral lives of children with intellectual disability through the psychology and phenomenology of "e;stories"e; derived from the experiences of living with these children.

The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers includes both academic and non-academic philosophers, and
a large number of female and minority thinkers whose work has been neglected.

This volume addresses key aspects of the philosophical psychology elaborated by Alexius Meinong and some of his students.

At the apex of his influence, from about 1860 up to the start of World War I, Schopenhauer was known first and foremost as a philosopher of pessimism.

Many artists and scientists - including Buffon, Goethe, and Philipp Otto Runge - who observed the vividly coloured shadows that appear outdoors around dawn and dusk, or indoors when a candle burns under waning daylight, chose to describe their colours as 'beautiful'.

This book offers a unique account of the role imagination plays in advancing the course of freedom's actualization.

Vernünftigerweise tut man das, was die besten Folgen hat.

In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "e;self-consciousness is desire itself"e; and that it attains its "e;satisfaction"e; only in another self-consciousness.

Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both philosophical naturalism and explanatory rationalism.

Are we living in a 'post-secular age', and can phenomenology help us better understand the discontents of secularism?

Right now, someone in an artificial intelligence lab is fusing silicon circuitry in an attempt to engineer the human mind.

This work is a historical study of the philosophical writings emerging from Imperial Russia's theological "e;academies"e; - Orthodoxy's higher educational institutions that ran parallel to the secular universities - from their inception to the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution.

This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time.

Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "e;distributions of the sensible,"e; which configure the limits of what can be seen and said.

This volume is the first English resource to shed light on the philosophy of Joseph Petzoldt (1862-1929), the main pupil of Ernst Mach and founder of the Gesellschaft f r wissenschaftliche Philosophie, later the association of Berlin logical positivists.

This influential book was the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche''s earliest work, The Birth of Tragedy (1872).

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

This book presents the relation between the subject and the other in the work of Jacques Derrida as one of 'surviving translating'.

The philosophy of the humanistic sciences has been a blind-spot in analytic philosophy.

wittgenstein Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with an often original and always profound understanding of Wittgenstein s work, yielding an accessible and illuminating account of his thought.

TEXTE UND DOKUMENTE Ein unbekannter Brief Hegels an Friedrich Ludwig Göritz.

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What is the 'philosophy of sport'?

Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, Liberating Judgment offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government.

This book investigates the writings of German intellectual historian and philosopher Hans Blumenberg.

In Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Nicholas Smith develops a new theory of vagueness: fuzzy plurivaluationism.

A contemporary appraisal of the breadth, significance, and legacy of the work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried, this book brings together writings focused on pragmatist feminism/feminist pragmatism, contemporary pragmatism, William James and the reconstruction of philosophy, education and American philosophy in the 21st century.

This book is a collection of essays motivated by a "e;cultural"e; and biographical reading of Wittgenstein.

Many of the social, cultural, and even economic problems now faced by American society are direct results of excessive emphasis on material consumption, which in turn reflects spiritual poverty.

This book concerns clinical psychology, but it is most concerned with the world outside the clinic.

Levinas, Subjectivity, Education explores how the philosophical writings of Emmanuel Levinas lead us to reassess education and reveals the possibilities of a radical new understanding of ethical and political responsibility.

A discussion of the rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of technology and the humanities, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary developments in Continental philosophy and philosophy of technology.

How are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being?

The importance of Stoicism for Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense and Michel Foucault's Hermeneutics of the Subject and The Care of the Self is well known.

This volume examines the complex dialogue between German Idealism and phenomenology, two of the most important movements in Western philosophy.

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The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head.

As a genre that confounds the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, fictocriticism continues to gain currency.

Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are arguably the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

Ziel dieser grundlegenden Untersuchung ist eine Bestimmung dessen, was Logik ist und prinzipiell zu leisten vermag.