Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

This book presents a reading of Martin Heidegger's philosophy as an effort to strike a middle position between the philosophies of Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche.

This book uses Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical methodology to solve a problem that has perplexed thinkers for thousands of years: 'how come (abstract) mathematics applies so wonderfully well to the (concrete, physical) world?

Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today.

In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics.

This book introduces the special dynamics of women and their close relationships with the gift in both past and contemporary religious settings.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

This book examines the concepts of subjectivity and selfhood developed in the oeuvre of Jean-Paul Sartre.

This book provides an account of the unity of Immanuel Kant's early metaphysics, including the moment he invents transcendental idealism.

This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts.

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This book presents Latin American Perspectives on women philosophers, comprising selected articles from the First International Conference of Women in Modern Philosophy that took place in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, Latin America, in June of 2019.

It is not far-fetched to say that much of what is termed "e;African metaphysics"e; remains a traditional affair, without the sort of critical analysis that sheds away the burden of myths and ethnocentric rigidity.

This book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika).

In each connection with new cultural contexts a new hybrid state of cultural adaptation is constructed enabling people to adjust to new conditions by creating innovative solutions for the self.

This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric.

This book presents a conceptual mapping of supererogation in the analytic moral philosophical tradition.

This volume focuses on controversial issues that stem from Philippa Foot's later writings on natural goodness which are at the center of contemporary discussions of virtue ethics.

This book explores the complexity of two philosophical traditions, extending from their origins to the current developments in neopragmatism.

This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science.

This collection is the first book-length study to re-evaluate all of James Joyce's major fictional works through the lens of cognitive studies.

This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence.

Joseph ShatzmillersCollected Studies (Volume 3): Maimonidean Argument in Franceis a comprehensive compilation of his research on the intellectual and mental history of the Jews in Provence.

This volume is a result of the international symposium "e;The Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School in European Culture,"e; which took place in Warsaw, Poland, September 2015.

This contributed volume explores the ways logical skills have been perceived over the course of history.

This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual.

This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel's concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.

This book addresses several dimensions of religious revelation.

This book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by providing an extended comparison between his work and the phenomenological theory of Edmund Husserl.

This book sheds light on the purpose of Hindu dance as devotional.

This volume explores the challenges that humanists face from hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on its left flank.

This book reviews Iris Murdoch's thought as a whole.

This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of "e;Enlightenment rationalism.

German Idealism was one of the most fertile and important movements in the history of Western philosophy.

This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers.

This book examines the work of psychological illusionist Derren Brown to understand the significance of storytelling and ancient philosophy in our society.

The Death of Transcendence presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Amery's At the Mind's Limits, describing them as one continuous and progressing argument on the possibility of human society in the wake of the Holocaust.

This text illuminates the relevance and importance of Heidegger's thought today.

This book provides a collection of essays representing the state of the art in the research into argumentation in classical antiquity.

This volume presents eco-phenomenology's role in pandemics and post-pandemics and takes up the task of eco-phenomenology as a unified project by not focusing on naturalizing phenomenology but rather exploring the full range of possibilities - such as creative acts and self-individualization - in dealing with ecological threats.

This is the fourth volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.

This book shows that Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophical methods can be fruitfully applied to several problems in contemporary moral philosophy.

This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger.

This book is a psychological exploration of unusual minds, a religious exploration of demonological myth, and a philosophical exploration of the reaches of pragmatism.

This book examines the psychological dimensions of emotions and humour in Buddhism.

Dieses Buch trägt die Nietzsche-Rezeption im deutschsprachigen Raum anhand der bedeutendsten Autorinnen und Autoren zusammen, wobei neben der philosophischen auch die soziologische Rezeption berücksichtigt wird.

Fichte ist – trotz fabelhafter Gesamtausgabe – der am meisten interpretationsbedürftige Kopf der nachkantischen Philosophie.

Wer Hobbes‘ Leviathan in Händen hält und findet das Titelblatt nicht, ist mit recht enttäuscht.

This collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance.

The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality.

This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade-one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European thought-with the broader themes of the Enlightenment.