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Volume Eight of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 591 documents dated from 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815. Jefferson is overjoyed by American victories late in the War……続きを見る

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers……続きを見る

From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with usーand always will be In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity ……続きを見る

Das Buch bietet eine eingehende Untersuchung der grundlegenden Gesichtspunkte der marxistischen Philosophie, die in den traditionellen Lehrbüchern der marxistischen Philosophie ignoriert und vergess……続きを見る

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the philosophical dimensions of German Romanticism, a movement that challenged traditional borders between philosophy, poetry, an……続きを見る

Im ersten Teil der Abhandlung soll mit P.F. Strawson (und über ihn hinaus) der These das Wort geredet werden, dass unsere freiheitsimplizierende moralische Praxis, anders als z.B. der freiheitsskept……続きを見る

This volume focuses on philosophical problems concerning sense perception in the history of philosophy. It consists of thirteen essays that analyse the philosophical tradition originating in Aristot……続きを見る

Group polarizationーthe tendency of groups to incline toward more extreme positions than initially held by their individual membersーhas been rigorously studied by social psychologists, though in a ……続きを見る

This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today.……続きを見る

Stephen Charnock's 'The Existence and Attributes of God' is a profound exploration of the nature and characteristics of the divine being. Written in a highly analytical and theological style, this w……続きを見る

Mag sein, dass der "real existierende Sozialismus" tot ist, aber es lohnt, aus seinen Trümmern das zu bergen, worum es ihm ging: eine bestimmte Form des Miteinander-Seins oder – in der Begrifflichke……続きを見る

In Philosophies of Gratitude, Ashraf H. A. Rushdy explores gratitude as a philosophical concept. The first half of the book traces its significance in fundamental Western moral philosophy and notion……続きを見る

The Wissenschaftslehre or "doctrine of science" was the great achievement of the German idealist philosopher J. G. Fichte. Daniel Breazeale presents accessible new translation of three works in whic……続きを見る

This book develops an argument for a historicist and non-foundationalist notion of rationality based on an interpretation of Wittgenstein of the Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty. The bo……続きを見る

This book seeks to show how Karl Marx’s vision of communism was a continuation of Aristotle’s classical humanist philosophy. Challenging the Engelsian distortion of Marx, it presents a negation of p……続きを見る

This collection brings together in translation the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Nietzsche's philosophy, ranging over his concept of irony, his thoughts on music, his relation to the……続きを見る

In 1994, Debora K. Shuger published her field-changing study, The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity. Shuger’s book offers a wide-reaching and intellectually ambitious explor……続きを見る

In een ver verleden bedacht de mens goden, godinnen, halfgoden, engelen, duivels, demonen, djinns en andere virtuele wezens, in een poging om de wereld te begrijpen, te verklaren en te ordenen. Veel……続きを見る

Over de ganse wereld bedachten mensen talloze godheden en andere virtuele wezens Nog steeds weerspiegelen zij de kennis van de mensen in de streek waar zij ontstonden. Godheden gedroegen zich als me……続きを見る

This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the philosophy and theory of history. This is a field of lively interdisciplinary discussion and research, to which historians, philosoph……続きを見る

O introducere prin noțiuni de bază în lumea filosofiei, cu răspunsuri la cele mai profunde întrebări pe care ni le punem cu toții, prin prisma celor mai mari filozofi din lume, de la Platon și Confu……続きを見る

The Categories is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. The work is brief enough to be divided, ……続きを見る

This volume is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Mohammad Ardeshir. It examines topics which, in one way or another, are connected to the various aspects of his multidisciplinary researc……続きを見る

Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during t……続きを見る

Kant's arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. Many prominent ethicists invoke Kant, directly or in……続きを見る

Wer Hobbes‘ Leviathan in Händen hält und findet das Titelblatt nicht, ist mit recht enttäuscht. Henning Ottmann widmet sich in diesem Buch den Frontispizen und Titelblättern, die über mehrere Jahrhu……続きを見る

Ob Impfdebatte, Corona- oder Klimakrise – viele politische Streitfragen werden heute als Wissenskonflikte verhandelt. Man beschäftigt sich immer weniger mit normativen Aspekten und individuellen Han……続きを見る

Alles auf der Welt – auch was wir nicht sehen – besteht aus Atomen. Und alles zerfällt irgendwann wieder in Atome. Auch wir, unser Körper und unsere Seele. Es kann nach dem Tod also gar nichts ander……続きを見る

In this post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride, philosopher Srećko Horvat invites us to explore the Apocalypse in terms of ‘revelation’ (rather than as the ‘end’ itself). He argues that the only way to……続きを見る

Si dice: la verità trionfa sempre; ma sappiamo bene che non è vero. È vero però che la verità ha un solo modo di essere tale, mentre, al contrario, la menzogna è suscettibile di un’infinità di combi……続きを見る