Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it s not worth an hour of trouble?
The phenomenological method in the study of religions has provided the linchpin supporting the argument that Religious Studies constitutes an academic discipline in its own right and thus that it is irreducible either to theology or to the social sciences.
Inhaltsverzeichnis: DIFFERENZ DES FICHTE'SCHEN UND SCHELLING'SCHEN SYSTEMS DER PHILOSOPHIE Vorerinnerung Mancherlei Formen, die bey dem jetzigen Philosophiren vorkommen Darstellung des Fichte'schen Systems Vergleichung des Schelling'schen Princips der Philosophie mit dem Fichte'schen Reinhold KRITIKEN UND ANZEIGEN AUS DER ERLANGER LITERATUR-ZEITUNG Bouterweks Anfangsgründe der spekulativen Philosophie Zwei Schriften Werneburgs Gerstäckers Deduktion des Rechtsbegriffs Krugs Entwurf eines neuen Organon's der Philosophie KRITISCHES JOURNAL DER PHILOSOPHIE Ersten Bandes erstes Stück Einleitung.
Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production.
This book investigates how Pragmatist philosophy as a philosophical method contributes to the understanding and practice of interdisciplinary dance research.
Rhythm: A Theological Category argues that, as a pervasive dimension of human existence with theological implications, rhythm ought to be considered a category of theological significance.
This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life presented in some 30 volumes of the Analecta Husserliana, and inaugurates a new phase in philosophy/phenomenology - a truly radical turn.
This book proposes an account of the place of the theory of race in Kant's thought as a central part of philosophical anthropology in his political system.
'No democracy without deconstruction': Deconstruction and Democracy evaluates and substantiates Derrida's provocative claim, assessing the importance of this influential and controversial contemporary philosopher's work for political thought.
In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger developed a way of considering human existence as 'being there', a process of interrelationships with aspects of the environment in which the very process itself constitutes the essence of human being.
This book reassesses the origins, development and legacy of the philosophy of the British idealists, demonstrating the enduring relevance of their thought for the modern discipline.
A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectualsPhilosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclopedie, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures of the Enlightenment.
A comparative investigation in the metaphysics of material objects in ancient philosophy, this book provides radically new insights into key themes and areas of ancient thought by drawing on Greek and Buddhist philosophies.
Oliver Precht zeichnet in seiner Studie nach, wie Heidegger das ebenso klassische wie unmögliche Projekt einer totalen Selbstbestimmung zu seinen letzten Konsequenzen treibt.
A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years.
Offering an in-depth analysis of the relationship between touch and language through the history of philosophy, this book revitalizes the field of haptic studies, providing new insights into the philosophy of language and ontological nature of touch.
