This volume demonstrates how Wittgenstein's philosophy can illuminate our understanding of politics and open new ways of conceptualizing democratic theory and practice.
'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent' Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English translation in 1922, is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the twentieth century.
La confrontación de la filosofía de Merleau-Ponty con la de Foucault, tal como nos sale al paso eminentemente -pero no solamente- en las críticas de este a aquel, sirve de excusa para abordar problemas centrales para la teoría del conocimiento contemporánea.
This study examines the theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography.
This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science.
This book contains a selection of papers from the workshop Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy held in October 2019 in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect-all varieties of pleasure and pain-and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an "e;enrichment approach"e; that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole.
Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "e;fusion"e; or "e;confluence philosophy"e;, a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.
This book is a phenomenological approach to film sound and film as a whole, bringing all sensory impressions together within the body as a sense of movement.
In a narrative that extends from fin de siecle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "e;pure sound.
Lo sagrado y lo profano, el proceso de subjetivación y desubjetivación o la percepción del capitalismo como religión de la modernidad son algunas de las sutiles indagaciones que se reúnen en estos diez ensayos breves.
The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and constituted experientially.
Drawing on the theories and philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari, this edited collection explores the concept of rhizomatic learning and consolidates recent explorations in theory building and multidisciplinary research to identify new directions in the field.
The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and constituted experientially.
Drawing on the theories and philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari, this edited collection explores the concept of rhizomatic learning and consolidates recent explorations in theory building and multidisciplinary research to identify new directions in the field.
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.
This book is an attempt to write about Kierkegaard's philosophy in the style of Kierkegaard's philosophy: energetic, playful, free spirited, surprising, and joyous.
René Descartes es sin duda uno de los pilares de la filosofía moderna y uno de aquellos filósofos cuyo pensamiento se halla plasmado en una gran obra: Meditaciones acerca de la Filosofía Primera.
Inhalt: Die Bedeutung des Sprachproblems für die Entstehung der neueren Philosophie (1927) · Erkenntnistheorie nebst den Grenzfragen der Logik und Denkpsychologie (1927) · Zur Theorie des Begriffs.
Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach.
Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach.
Levinas formuliert die strukturell einzig mögliche Kritik an Hegel, indem er eine Dimension menschlicher Subjektivität freilegt, die von der dialektischen Totalität vorausgesetzt werden muss, ohne in sie aufgehoben werden zu können.
Las filosofías que vivencian el mundo como un entramado complejo que se muestra inarmónico e inaprehensible han apelado desde los orígenes de la tradición hasta la actualidad a la "epoché" entendida como toma de distancia, como puesta entre paréntesis de las experiencias y creencias en conflicto.
In Existential Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions, the authors address those questions most frequently asked by potential clients of existential therapy or by people beginning their training or by those interested in counselling or psychotherapy.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life.
Das Thema des in englischer Sprache verfassten The Myth of the State - dem letzten Werk, das Cassirer vor seinem Tod im Manuskript zum Abschluss bringen konnte - ist die Wiederkehr des politischen Totalitarismus, dem er selbst nur durch Emigration entkam.
Angeregt von Freunden und Kollegen, legte Ernst Cassirer 1944 im amerikanischen Exil mit dem Essay on Man eine komprimierte und zugleich uberarbeitete Fassung seiner Kulturphilosophie vor, in der er die dreibandige Philosophie der symbolischen Formen in ihren Hauptgedanken fortfuhrt.
Parte importante de la filosofia contemporanea se ha centrado en una critica o revision de la vision filosofica moderna y su concepcion representacional del conocimiento.
