Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview.

This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the modern environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of understanding Life, resulting from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a metaphysics that privileges ontological thinking on the "e;question of being"e; over the environmental question and the concern for the conditions of life.

For Kierkegaard the most important thing in life is to become a single individual or a true self.

Este nuevo volumen de los cuadernos de sistemática Peirceana (CSP) está dedicado a la relación y diálogo entre la filosofía antigua y el pensamiento de Charles Sanders Peirce.

In this book, Nadir Lahiji introduces Kojin Karatani's theoretical-philosophical project and demonstrates its affinity with Kant's critical philosophy founded on 'architectonic reason'.

In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature.

This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective.

Herder: His Life and Thought aims to offer a comprehensive biography of Johann Gottfried von Herder, a pivotal figure in the German Enlightenment and early Romanticism.

First published in English in 1966, Essays in Analysis addresses the problems in logic and foundations of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology.

Two scripts were created in 2017 from the same source materials: preserved song lyrics from a performance created in 1943 in the Terezin Ghetto called Prince Bettliegend (the Bedridden Prince), the popular 1930s jazz melodies to which those lyrics were set, and fragments of testimony by survivors who performed in or witnessed that production.

In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism.

Aristotle's work "e;On Generation of Animals"e; is fascinating.

In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined.

This book studies various perspectives in the history of European philosophy on the relationship between time and movement.

In 'Doctrine of the Mean (The Confucian Way to Achieve Equilibrium)', Confucius explores the principles of ethical behavior and social harmony essential for achieving balance and moderation in one's life.

A central practice of both premodern and modern yoga, pranayama ("e;breath control"e;) is practised in yoga classes worldwide.

This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the period in which he authored Dawn, the second book in the trilogy that began with Human, All Too Human and concluded with The Joyful Science.

A provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's foremost interpreters.

This book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect.

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview.

Der iconic turn verstand sich weitgehend als Antithese zu einer bildervergessenen philosophischen Tradition.

"e;The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power.

In the first English language translation of this classic late 20th-century text within French Catholic thought, Poetics of the Sensible brings together insights from Neoplatonism and phenomenology with a distinctive and innovative approach.

This edited volume presents 27 original essays by living composers from all around the globe, reflecting on the creation of their music.

This book is an exploration of Zizek's theory of freedom.

The book examines the meaning of justice in African political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical approach.

This book investigates a number of central problems in the philosophy of Charles Peirce grouped around the realism of his semiotics: the issue of how sign systems are developed and used in the investigation of reality.

Die Frage nach der moralischen Erlaubtheit des Lügens ist ein Dauerthema der praktischen Philosophie.

Things themselves touch not the soul, not in the least degree; nor have they admission to the soul, nor can they turn or move the soul: but the soul turns and moves itself alone, and whatever judgments it may think proper to make, such it makes for itself the things which present themselves to it.

Flora Tristan vivió mil vidas en una, habitó mil mundos sin pertenecer por completo a ninguno.

Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, between 1992 and 2021, this volume presents a general introduction to the commentary.

Martin Heidegger impartió el curso Fenomenología y filosofía trascendental de los valores durante el semestre de verano de 1919 en Friburgo.

With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below).

Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, between 1992 and 2021, this volume presents a general introduction to the commentary.

With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below).

Radikal, provokativ und erhellend zugleich: Nagels berühmter Essay von 1974 ist einer der am häufigsten zitierten philosophischen Aufsätze des 20.

Angenommen, ich stehe an einem Teich und muss mitansehen, wie ein Kind ertrinkt, würde mir bei der Rettungsaktion aber meinen teuren neuen Anzug ruinieren: Müsste ich das Kind nicht trotzdem retten?

Eine kleine moralische Unterstützung und Hilfestellung im nicht immer ausgeglichenen und normalen alltäglichen Leben und dem allgemeinen Alltagsgeschehen!

This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the period in which he authored Dawn, the second book in the trilogy that began with Human, All Too Human and concluded with The Joyful Science.

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.

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.

This volume focuses on Islamic philosophy of religion with a range of contributions from analytic perspectives.

This volume focuses on Islamic philosophy of religion with a range of contributions from analytic perspectives.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one.