Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the  European tradition of the twentieth century.

This text explores how self-consciousness and self-understanding differ phenomenologically from the experience and comprehension of others, and the extent to which such relations are constitutively interdependent.

This volume investigates Eric Weil's innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence's relationship to language and to discourse.

Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration of the novel aspects of perversion from the perspective of cruelty-a psychoanalytic study that has never been sufficiently undertaken in an English-speaking world.

This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant's philosophy not by means of new interpretations but by suggesting some variations on Kantian themes.

In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory.

This volume explores Max Scheler's role within the philosophical and sociological debates of his time into the 21st century.

How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat othersand ourselvesmore fairly and mercifully There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deservethat we've been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a raw deal.

This book presents both a historical overview of the absorption of Heidegger's thought into English-language philosophical schools as well as a philosophical discussion of his thought provided by contemporary scholars.

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature.

The Original Body addresses the physiological experience of yoga.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the relation between German Idealism and feminist philosophy has been explored.

A culturally sensitive and rewarding new understanding of the cross-cultural interaction between China and EuropeIn this important new work author Yu Liu argues that, confined by a narrow English and European conceptual framework, scholars have so far obscured the radical innovation and revolutionary implication of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's monistic philosophy.

This book challenges Voltaire's doctrine of toleration.

Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws?

A paradox lies at the heart of modernity: the simultaneous demand to create ideas to make us better humans and communities, along with the contrary imperative that we criticize all ideals, especially the ones we have created.

This book shows the importance of knowledge production using requisite terms and frameworks to the broader scheme of epistemic liberation in Africa.

This volume investigates the intersection of phenomenology and posthumanism by rethinking the human and nonhuman specifically with regard to boredom, isolation, loneliness, and solitude.

This book paints a brief picture of Karl Jaspers' unusual life and philosophy.

This book provides a philosophical account of the normative status of killing in Buddhism.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.

Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts in 140 characters or less.

This book is about the philosophical, historical, and interpretative aspects of Mencius.

'This sentence is false' - is that true?

This compilation of 365 daily lessons on Stoic philosophy is designed to be started at any point in the year.

This book provides an analysis of the complex philosophy of Liang Shuming.

This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn's work from where he left off at the time of his death.

This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology.

An epidemic such as COVID-19 challenges life's very order and meaning, interferes in our relations with others, and breaks apart our routine.

The publication aims to make suggestions for a 'decolonisation of aesthetics'  within an Afro-European framework.

In quest of identity and destiny man discovered philosophy and religion.

Die Frühromantik versuchte, auf ein umfassendes Gefühl der geistigen Krise zu reagieren, das das späte 18.

This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century.

This book offers a critical update of current Wittgenstein research on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP) and its relation to the Vienna Circle.

Die zwei verkannten Bände des Philologen und Pädagogen Lorenz Grasberger über Erziehung und Unterricht in der Antike dürften einen entscheidenden Impuls zu Nietzsches Überlegungen zur Bildung darstellen.

The Enchiridion, meaning "e;handbook"e; or "e;manual"e; in Greek, is a compendium of Epictetus' most essential teachings, distilled into a concise and accessible format.

The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC.

For courses in 20th-century Philosophy, recent Continental Philosophy, Anglo-American Philosophy; as part of courses in Contemporary Philosophy; or courses on Epistemology or Metaphysics that take a historical approach.

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to develop new and promising solutions to contemporary debates about perception.

This book collects 15 papers on the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (d.

Wilfrid Sellars tackled the difficult problems of reconciling Pittsburgh school-style analytic thought, Husserlian phenomenology, and the Myth of the Given.

Filósofo que supo criticar como nadie los fundamentos metafísicos de la cultura occidental, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) es una figura esencial para entender el cambio entre la moral tradicional y la filosofía que estaba por venir.

Von Pythagoras wird überliefert, dass er im Bewusstsein der Schwierigkeit, Weisheit zu erreichen, für sich auf den Namen eines Weisen (Sophos) verzichtet und sich einen "Weisheitsliebenden" (Philosophus) genannt habe.

This book collects 15 papers on the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (d.

Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek emigres to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done.