By exploring the life and work of the influential feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir, this book shows how each of us lives within political and social structures that we can--and must--play a part in transforming.
La presente «Contribución a la genealogía del pensamiento posmetafísico» es también «una historia de la filosofía siguiendo el hilo conductor del discurso sobre fe y saber».
In seinem Werk 'Geschichte der neuern Philosophie: Von Bacon bis Spinoza' nimmt Ludwig Feuerbach die Leser mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Entwicklung der Philosophie von Francis Bacon bis Baruch Spinoza.
This book departs from existing accounts of Alan Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical, social, and cultural context.
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.
Epikurs Lehre steht für eine Lebensform, die auf der Fähigkeit basiert, in jeder Situation nüchtern-rational zu prüfen, ob und wie diese lebensweltlichen Herausforderungen zum eigenen Glück zuträglich sein können.
Erhard Weigel (1625–1699), Mathematiker, Astronom, Physiker, Pädagoge, Philosoph und Erfinder, steht seit mehreren Jahren wieder zunehmend im Blickpunkt wissenschaftshistorischer Forschung.
Obwohl es in der bisherigen Nietzscheforschung detaillierte Untersuchungen separater Aspekte von Nietzsches Homerdeutung während der Leipziger und Baseler Periode gibt, fehlt ein Überblick über die gesamte Perspektive von Nietzsches philologischen und philosophischen Beschäftigungen mit Homer.
Immerse yourself in the revolutionary ideas of one of the most influential philosophers of the early 20th century with Herbert Wildon Carr's Henri Bergson: The Philosophy of Change.
This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era.
Drawing from diverse multilingual sources, Krzemie delves into Solomon Dubno's life (17381813), unraveling complexities of the Haskalah movement's ties to Eastern European Jewish culture.
This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body.
Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea that focusing on narratives of responsibility and care influences better relations with both non-human animals and across settler-Indigenous boundaries.
Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea that focusing on narratives of responsibility and care influences better relations with both non-human animals and across settler-Indigenous boundaries.
This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective.
Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher's most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg's Rhetoric proffers a decidedly diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled 'Anthropological Approach to the Topicality (or Currency, Relevance, even actualitas) of Rhetoric' ("e;Anthropologische Annaherung an die Aktualitat der Rhetorik"e;), first published in 1971.
Als Romancier und Publizist als auch Philosoph und Wissenschaftspolitiker hat Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi in der Zeit um 1800 eine bedeutende Wirkung entfaltet.
This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments.
This second volume builds upon the core themes explored in volume one, which focused on 'Managing Responsibly for Sustainable Business Development in the VUCA World'.
