In Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics, Michael Temelini outlines an innovative new approach to understanding the political implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy.
This anthology translates eighteen papers by Italian philosopher and experimental psychologist Paolo Bozzi (1930-2003), bringing his distinctive and influential ideas to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the 20th century.
The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980) was the major representative of the philosophical movement called existentialism, and he remains by far the most famous philosopher, worldwide, of the postWorld War Two era.
This book introduces and explores the relation between race and phenomenology through varied African American, Latina, Asian American, and White American perspectives.
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "e;ought really to be written only as a form of poetry,"e; and he even described the Tractatus as "e;philosophical and, at the same time, literary.
This is a thorough and balanced guide to modern French philosophical thought, providing lucid, authoritative accounts of famous philosophers whilst also highlighting lesser-known figures.
TO THE LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS A DRAFT OF A PREFACE TO THE LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ( 1913) Edited by EUGEN FINK Translated with Introductions by PHILIP J.
Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contribution to economics.
In recent years, the popularity of the inimitable Slavoj Žižek has perhaps cast a shadow over the collective influence exerted by Slovenian intellectuals on modern day philosophy.
Instinct and Revelation revolves around the hypothesis that ritual behavior and imaginative awareness in early hominids may have helped to spawn the evolution of the human brain and human consciousness.
This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature.
Die beiden epochemachenden Essays Aldous Huxleys berichten von Entdeckugsreisen zu den »Antipoden unseres Bewusstseins«, in Regionen des Seins, die nur im Zustand der Entrückung zu erreichen sind, In den »Pforten der Wahrnehmung« schildert Huxley seine Experimente mit Meskalin, die zu einer außerordentlichen visuellen Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit führten, zum Erlebins des »Wunders der reinen Existenz«.
This exciting new book makes a major contribution to Continental philosophy, bringing together for the first time the crucial work on politics by two giants of contemporary French philosophy, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.