Western philosophy from c 1800

The Ethics of Community initiates a conversation between continental philosophy and cultural/literary studies that is long overdue.

What is philosophy about and what are its methods?

Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy.

Diese Ausgabe beinhaltet alle Einleitungen Schleiermachers zu seinen Übersetzungen der Dialoge Platons, außerdem Auszüge aus den Nachschriften der Vorlesungen Schleiermachers über Platon und Sokrates von 1819-1823.

Judith Butlers Aussagen polarisieren.

George Berkeley notoriously claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense.

In her new book, Corine Pelluchon argues that the dichotomy between nature and culture privileges the latter.

This book collects a variety of short essays on Stephen Gaukroger's thought, by leading scholars, both senior and junior.

In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy.

Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel's 'phenomenology' and Foucault's 'genealogy', contending that in spite of their differences, these approaches share important commonalities, most notably in the manner in which they dispense with distinctions between subject and object, theory and praxis, mind and body, and reason and nature, thus pointing the way to a form of social and political theorizing without presuppositions.

The very first thing one does in all situations of life is orient oneself.

Tristram Shandy's World: Sterne's Philosophical Rhetoric by John Traugott offers a major reappraisal of Laurence Sterne's most provocative work, arguing that Tristram Shandy is less a ';novel' than a sustained rhetorical performance.

Encounters of Consequence provides an introduction to and deeper analysis of the situation of Jewish philosophy beginning in the last century.

Husserl himself considered Logical Investigations (1900-1901) to constitute his `breakthrough' to phenomenology, and it stands out not only as one of Husserl's most important works, but as a key text in twentieth century philosophy.

For several years after 1968, Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers in the world.

In recent years numerous attempts have been made by analytic philosophers to naturalize various different domains of philosophical inquiry.

The last two decades have seen a massive increase in the scholarly interest in technology, and have provoked new lines of thought in philosophy, sociology and cultural studies.

This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin's first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and mind, and the limits of human knowledge.

Mills »Autobiographie« ist ein hervorragendes Zeitzeugnis aus dem spätviktorianischen England.

First published in 1903, Principles of Mathematics was Bertrand Russell's first major work in print.

Hans Jonas (1903–1993) was one of the most important German-Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.

Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology analyzes the history of decolonial existentialist and phenomenological theory in the work of figures such as Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Wright, Franz Fanon, Lewis Gordon, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, and Jamaica Kincaid in order to reimagine and rewrite the philosophical canon.

Logical empiricism is a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 30s in Central Europe and in the 1940s and 50s in the United States.

In Gestalt therapy, sociological, political, and economic research is often neglected or ignored.

In Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Peter Mahon goes beyond recent theoretical approaches to 'the posthuman' to argue for a concrete posthumanism, which arises as humans, animals and technology become entangled, in science, society and culture.

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) preached a message of reverence for life - all life - that touched the hearts of a generation.

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored.

The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "e;only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of spirit.

Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time.

Proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein.

As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the "e;new maladies"e; of today's neurotic.

This collection of essays, addresses, and one interview come from the years 1966-73, a period during most of which Bernard Lonergan was at work completing his Method in Theology.

Jean-Michel Rabate uses Nietzsche's image of a "e;pathos of distance,"e; the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns.

This book, first published in 1989, presents sixteen articles on Kant and Berkeley, examining their attitude to the physical world.

This book contains a rich selection of the philosophical papers which Rorty has written over the past decade.

A complete new English translation of Hegel''s major work, one of the most important texts in the history of philosophy.

The Continuum Companion to Pragmatism offers the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy.

Heidegger in America is an intellectual and cultural reception study of one of the twentieth century''s most controversial philosophers.

How does the theme of the other--as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme-allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts?

This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.

This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century.