Social and political philosophy

This synoptic survey examines critically the origins, development, decline, and historical significance of the European Enlightenment.

Never translated before, 'Thoughts on Death and Immortality' was the first published work of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872).

A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book.

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "e;long eighteenth century,"e; from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution.

Augustine, probably the single thinker who did the most to Christianize the classical learning of ancient Greece and Rome, exerted a remarkable influence on medieval and modern thought, and he speaks forcefully and directly to twentieth-century readers as well.

Der Band Cassirer in Contexts ist Bestandteil des wiederauflebenden Interesses an den philosophischen Errungenschaften Ernst Cassirers.

Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies.

Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory.

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We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness.

Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.

Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic.

Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature?

Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature?

This synoptic survey examines critically the origins, development, decline, and historical significance of the European Enlightenment.

Never translated before, 'Thoughts on Death and Immortality' was the first published work of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872).

A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book.

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "e;long eighteenth century,"e; from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution.

First published in 1990, Victorian Liberalism brings together leading political theorists and historians in order to examine the interplay of theory and ideology in nineteenth-century liberal thought and practice.

Augustine, probably the single thinker who did the most to Christianize the classical learning of ancient Greece and Rome, exerted a remarkable influence on medieval and modern thought, and he speaks forcefully and directly to twentieth-century readers as well.

These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy.

"e;I had read the book before in the shorter Harper Torchbook edition but read it again right through--and found it as interesting and exciting as before.

From the Introduction: The present essay provides an introduction to the treatment of human existence and individuality in Marxist thought.

First published in 1990, Victorian Liberalism brings together leading political theorists and historians in order to examine the interplay of theory and ideology in nineteenth-century liberal thought and practice.

These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy.

"e;I had read the book before in the shorter Harper Torchbook edition but read it again right through--and found it as interesting and exciting as before.

From the Introduction: The present essay provides an introduction to the treatment of human existence and individuality in Marxist thought.

Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in shaping the American intellectual climate of the 1920s and 1930s.

Using an Open Marxist theoretical framework, this book provides a critique of the neoliberal reforms made to higher education since the late 1970s and the impact this has had on the sector.

Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in shaping the American intellectual climate of the 1920s and 1930s.

Using an Open Marxist theoretical framework, this book provides a critique of the neoliberal reforms made to higher education since the late 1970s and the impact this has had on the sector.

Das Plädoyer des Bestseller-Autors und Philosophen Michael J.

Since the 1960s a resurgence of interest in the moral foundations of politics has fueled debates about the appropriate sources of our political judgments.

Since the 1960s a resurgence of interest in the moral foundations of politics has fueled debates about the appropriate sources of our political judgments.

The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century explores the symbolic, experiential, and associative side of contemporary political culture, arguing that phenomena such as 'post-truth', digitalization, mediatization, propaganda, illiberalism, or populism, far from being curiosities, have in fact come to represent a uniform aspect of political culture - a challenge to the 'enlightened', 'developed', and 'progressive' world that we believed ourselves to be inhabiting.

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.

Ideology and Interpellation examines the relation between ideology, the humanist subject, interpellation, and the role of theory.

Cruelty is such a ubiquitous and at the same time disturbing phenomenon that we take for granted that we understand what it is, and how it impacts the ways in which we think about our humanity as a moral condition-how we understand our moral significance.

This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health.

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».

Originally published in 1983 after the convictions of the Wilmington Ten were overturned, Psalms from Prison was updated and re-released in 1994.

The political theory of Richard Vernon has been a guiding light for students of politics for over five decades.

Rick Turner was a South African academic and activist who rebelled against apartheid at the height of its power and was assassinated in 1978 when he was 32 years old, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans everywhere.