Between Two Worlds is an authoritative commentary on--and powerful reinterpretation of--the founding work of modern philosophy, Descartes's Meditations.
The question of the relation of Martin Heidegger's thought to politics has been a subject of controversy since the 1930s, when he became an advocate of the National Socialist regime in Germany.
How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of Rene DescartesIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher.
This book argues that global crises such as the present Covid-19 pandemic are correlates of the contemporary thought regime that it calls technohumanism.
Bestimmt man radikal phänomenologisch die Kultur als Subjekt wie Objekt ihrer selbst, dann beinhaltet dies eine jeweils gegebene Unmittelbarkeit des Lebens als Originarität aller subjektiv kulturellen Vollzüge.
The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought.
1728 in London anonym publiziert, behandelt die erste Monographie zu diesem Thema die Grundkonstitution des Bewutseins, das Verhaltnis des Bewutseins zum Selbstbewutsein und das Wissen a priori um die eigene Kausalitat bei Willenshandlungen.
This subtle and elegantly argued assessment of Hegel''s Phenomenology of Spirit is an important work of scholarship not previously published in English.
Hermeneutisches Verstehen unterscheidet sich darin grundsätzlich vom kognitiven Verhalten eines Realwissenschaftlers, dass es primär nicht darum geht, Gegenstände zu betrachten und Wissen über sie zu erwerben.
An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historical and social perspectives.
This book explores the phenomenology of learning with particular focus on the 'closeness' or 'proximity' of the knowledge that impacts on learners, young and old.
Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "e;naturalistic"e; style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant.
Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental.
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization.
First published in 1900, this philosophical essay on Evolution questions how the acceptance of Evolution as scientific should influence the thoughts and actions of humankind from the perspective of morality and moral conduct.
Diese Studie stellt Moses Mendelssohns (1729 - 1786) OEuvre als einen einzigartigen Denkansatz in der sich neu herausbildenden Disziplin einer »philosophischen Anthropologie« dar.
While Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and George Santayana (1863-1952) may never have met or even have studied one anothers work, they experienced similar cultural conditions and their thinking took similar shapes.
Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a literary-critical method as a component of either communicative reason or post-metaphysical thinking.
This book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies.
Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism illustrates the productive potential of critical arts pedagogies in the ongoing work of decolonization by engaging art, activism, and transnational feminisms.
This book, first published in 1974, studies the similarities between Rousseau's thought and that of the Stoics, examining Rousseau's ideas on man, society, the state and government.
This volume critically examines the work of three eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam, engaging with and developing their answers to key methodological questions.
This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartres ethical theory establishes its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and wins many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.
This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to debates in contemporary philosophy.
