Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, though a strong supporting cast of Jan Assmann, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Taubes and Paul Ricoeur, among others, also play their respective roles throughout this study.
Two German philosophers working during the Weimar Republic in Germany, between the two World Wars, produced seminal texts that continue to resonate almost a hundred years later.
This book brings Aquinas and Heidegger into dialogue and offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry.
Combating the notion of a 'healthy' cynicism, Overcoming Cynicism demonstrates that the cynic engages not in genuine critique, but rather in a denial of the possibility of fruitful change.
Written by an experienced drummer and philosopher, Groove is a vivid and exciting study of one of music's most central and relatively unexplored aspects.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay "e;Nature"e; declared that understanding nature was the key to understanding God and reality, and laid the groundwork for transcendentalism.
This text is the first comprehensive attempt in decades to integrate reading into the philosophical discussion of the synthesis of experience more generally.
Aura und Eros markieren in Walter Benjamins Denken ein Spannungsfeld philosophischer Fragestellungen, anthropologischer Überlegungen und politischer Intervention.
The interpretive literature in the history of political thought is now vast, complex and esoteric, posing as much a barrier to the understanding of the undergraduate student as it offers assistance.
Levinas's ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible - that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own.
Die Frage der philosophischen Methodenbildung, wie sie bei Edmund Husserl im Rahmen seiner Phänomenologie gestellt und beantwortet wurde, wird in dieser Studie aus einem neuen Blickwinkel betrachtet.
The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become a prominent topic within the philosophical debates of the last two decades.
Education is the transmission of knowledge and skill from one generation to another, and is vitally significant for the growth and unfolding of the living individual.
From time immemorial, concern with timing of life has been crucial for the regulation of human praxis as well as for the philosophical quest to understand existence by seeking its meaning.
Cette étude tente de reconstruire la première phénoménologie de la religion du jeune Heidegger par l’examen du recueil de notes éparses rédigées entre 1916 et 1919 et intitulé rétrospectivement Les fondements philosophiques de la mystique médiévale.
This summons clearly resonates with the "e;archetypical image"e; associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one's horizon.
Beyond their remarkable technical accomplishments, the new directions taken by the sciences in recent decades call for renewal of their epistemological basis.
It is well known that the philosophy of religion has flourished in recent decades in Anglo-American philosophy, where philosophers are bringing new techniques to the study of many of the traditional problems.
According to the dominant theory of meaning, truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth.
Agrifood biotechnology - the genetic transformation of plants and animals through recombinant means - has created controversy in the food system for more than twenty years.
This short History of the Husserl-Archives offers a fascinating view on the foundation and development of this important research institute and of the Husserliana edition.
Can the straight line be analysed mathematically such that it does not fall apart into a set of discrete points, as is usually done but through which its fundamental continuity is lost?
