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.
Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly interest in a variety of fields, such as history of philosophy, literature, film and media studies, political science, religion, architecture, art and history.
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization.
Das vorliegende Werk ist ein weiteres Zeugnis von Brentanos lebenslanger Auseinandersetzung mit Aristoteles, seinem philosophischen Lehrer par excellence.
Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others.
This book argues that Western philosophy's traditional understanding of Being as substance is incorrect, and demonstrates that Being is fundamentally Relationality.
In »Materie und Gedächtnis« (1896), seinem Hauptwerk, erörtert der französische Philosoph und Nobelpreisträger Henri Bergson das Zusammenwirken von Körper und Geist in der freien Handlung.
A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "e;conquer,"e; "e;displace"e; or "e;moralize"e; politics.
psychiatric treatment approaches there are opportunities for trial and error, exploration and reconsideration, revision of treatment approach, and correc- tion of errors.
Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgenössischen Strömungen der Philosophie nahm in Nelsons Lehrtätigkeit und Veröffentlichungen breiten Raum ein.
Este libro nos acerca al misterioso silencio de Heidegger durante el decenio de 1936 a 1946, mientras Europa debatía su destino en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A.
There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his influence subsists in many of the concepts currently deployed in disciplines such as cultural studies, social theory and literary criticism.
Happiness, Justice, and Freedom: The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill delves deeply into Mills ethical and political theories, arguing that his ideas form a cohesive and robust philosophical framework.
In the 18th century, the pre-modern Judeo-Greco-Christian problem of freedom and determinism is transformed by Kant into the modern problem of the freedom of human agency in the natural and cultural worlds of deterministic structures; it is this version of the freedom and determinism issue which centres the Science and Humanism debates, and thus marks the history of the social sciences.
Ranging over 2,500 years of philosophical writing, this five-volume collection of essays is an unrivalled companion for studying and reading philosophy.
This volume-the second in Max Van Manen's Phenomenology of Practice series-brings together personal narrative, human research methodology, and an extensive knowledge of aesthetic discourse to redefine the sublime in terms of direct and immediate experience.
Winner of the Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize as announced at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Meeting on September 27, 2024 The book offers a systematic reconstruction of the disagreement between Husserl and Heidegger from the former's point of view, but without falling into any form of Husserlian apologetics.
The first major biography in English of Surrealism's founder traces his participation in the Paris Dada group in the 1920s, his seminal experiments with automatic writing, his role in the development of Surrealism, and his encounters with Duchamp, Freud, and Sartre.
Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought.
This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny s classic work on Wittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developments in Wittgenstein scholarship since the book was first published.
A comprehensive look at the intellectual and cultural innovations of the Weimar periodDuring its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts.
Contemporary philosopher-analytic as well as continental tend to feel uneasy about Ernst Tugendhat, who, though he positions himself in the analytic field, poses questions in the Heideggerian style.
Aus der Beschäftigung mit der Philosophie der Mathematik erwächst für Cassirer die Notwendigkeit einer grundlegenden Revision der Lehre von den Begriffen, denn die herkömmliche, an metaphysischen Denkschemata orientierte Logik ist nicht mehr in der Lage, die Probleme, mit denen sich Mathematik und exakte Wissenschaften beschäftigen auch nur zu bezeichnen.
The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time.
Dieses Buch enthält zehn fiktive Gespräche, in denen maßgebliche Begriffe der Erkenntnistheorie, Ethik und Ästhetik wie Denken, Charakter oder Schönheit dialogisch entwickelt werden.
