Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing.
Exemplarity and Chosenness is a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and particular?
Die Verfasserin untersucht mit dem Verhältnis von Ethik und Ökonomie ein höchst aktuelles Thema und zeigt, wie Hegels Bestimmungen dieses Verhältnisses für heutige Bemühungen wegweisend sein können.
Human knowing is examined as it emerges from classical empirical psychology, with its ramifications into language, computing, science, and scholarship.
Die 1990 gegründete Reihe, die auf eine Anregung von Mazzino Montinari zurückgeht, publiziert Quellenmaterialien zu Nietzsches Leben, seinem Umkreis und seiner Wirkung.
Michel Foucault's account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a "e;subject of"e; and being "e;subject to"e; political forces.
Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life-the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others-he finds that they are all characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same eccentricity.
This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic, and ludic texts.
Drawing on the culture's history before and after the birth of rap music, this book argues that the values attributed to Hip Hop by 'postmodern' scholars stand in stark contrast with those that not only implicitly guided its aesthetic elements, but are explicitly voiced by Hip Hop's pioneers and rap music's most consequential artists.
This book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel.
Der in Leipzig lehrende Philosoph und Theologe Christian August Crusius (1715-1775) ist bisher vorwiegend im Rahmen der Kant-Forschung berucksichtigt worden.
This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper.
Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the "e;first"e; world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible representational models of language.
Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.
Originally published in 1942 this book brings together contribution from some of the finest thinkers and philosophers of the 20th century such as Boas, Croce, Einstein, Haldane, Mann, and Russell.
Aufsatze und AbhandlungenLogos, Dike, Kosmos in der Entwicklung der griechischen Philosophie Thorild und Herder Galileo: a New Science and a New Spirit Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
Principles of Non-Philosophy is a treatise on the method, axioms and objectives of non-philosophy and represents Fran ois Laruelle's mature philosophy.
Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James.
Aus der erlebten »Minderwertigkeit« des hilflosen Kindes entwickelt sich sein ganzes Leben bestimmender individueller »Lebensplan«, der im Wesentlichen darauf hinausläuft, diese Minderwertigkeit zu überwinden.
In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida's 'Toledo confession' - where he portrayed himself as 'sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture' - Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida's marranismo to be a literary experiment of auto-fiction.
Nach GW 26,2, der die erhaltenen Nachschriften der ersten beiden Kollegien (von 1821/22 und 1822/23) nach der Publikation der »Grundlinien« enthält, dokumentiert der vorliegende Band GW 26,3 nun das letzte vollständige Kolleg Hegels von 1824/25 (Nachschrift von Griesheim).
