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This volume explores Max Scheler's role within the philosophical and sociological debates of his time into the 21st century.

Seit 1809 bis zu seinem Tode 1854 führte Schelling Tagebücher, die neben Biographischem Entwürfe und Reflexionen zu Philosophie, Wissenschaften und Zeitgeschichte enthalten, bislang aber praktisch unbekannt blieben.

The current rise in new religions and the growing popularity of New Ageism is concomitant with an increasingly anti-philosophical sentiment marking our contemporary situation.

In The Lost Thread, Ranci re debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature.

A threat to humanity portending the end of our species lurks in the cold recesses of space.

Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects.

The contemporary psychiatric approach to trauma, encapsulated in the diagnostic category of PTSD, has been criticized for its neglect of the political dimensions involved in the etiology and treatment of trauma.

"e;To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things - this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.

Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century.

This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical achievements of various female figures during the period 1870-1970.

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time.

Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law.

Communicology is Vilem Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination.

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c.

In Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, Marian Hobson gives us a thorough and elegant analysis of this controversial and seminal contemporary thinker.

Intercultural Phenomenology explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century.

Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G.

Seit dem Beginn der Publikation der "Nachgelassenen Manuskripte und Texte" Cassirers (ECN) sowie der "Gesammelten Werke" in der "Hamburger Ausgabe" (ECW) ist über die Jahre ein zunächst stetiges, dann exponentielles Ansteigen der Forschungsliteratur zu Cassirer zu verzeichnen.

In Classical American Philosophy: Poiesis in the Public Square, Rebecca Farinas takes seven major figures from the American philosophical canon and examines their relationship with an artistic or scientific interlocutor.

This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psyche and the human condition.

This book provides an insightful overview of what has made pragmatism such an attractive and exciting prospect to thinkers of different persuasions.

Eric Sons geht aus handlungs- und materialitätstheoretischer Perspektive der Frage nach, wie Menschen und Dinge im Feld der Bildhauerei zusammenwirken und wie diese Art der Interaktivität als relevantes Moment kultureller Bildung begründet und gefasst werden kann.

This volume offers a thorough description of anxiety from a phenomenological perspective.

In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life?

This collection offers a critical assessment of transcendentalism, the understanding of consciousness, absolutized as a system of a priori laws of the mind, that was advanced by Kant and Husserl.

Many contemporary philosophers assume that, before one can discuss prayer, the question of whether there is a God or not must be settled.

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c.

A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWhat does Heidegger mean by 'Dasein'?

This book presents a comprehensive study of the influence of Immanuel Kant's Critical Philosophy in the Russian Empire, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.

Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of Ren Girard's thought in a series of dialogues.

This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary phenomenologist James R.

Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.

This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II builds on Volume I, which established that no generic concept of action will suffice for understanding the character of divine actions explicit in the Christian faith.

First published in 1937, this book presents itself as a philosophic dialogue, starting with the diversity of men's ideas about Good.

A major goal for compatibilists is to avoid the luck problem and to include all the facts from neuroscience and natural science in general which purportedly show that the brain works in a law-governed and causal way like any other part of nature.

This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures.

Moral values are real-we don't just make them up.

Brentanos Schriften zur Ästhetik schließen eng an das Grundprinzip der Logik und Ethik, die unmittelbare Einsicht in die Richtigkeit eines Urteils bzw.