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Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. ……続きを見る

Béatrice Longuenesse presents an original exploration of our understanding of ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves. In the first part of the book she discusses contemporary analyses of our ……続きを見る

Nietzsche has often been considered a thinker independent of the philosophy of his time and radically opposed to the concerns and concepts of modern and contemporary philosophy. But there is an incr……続きを見る

David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation. A less familiar side of his intellectual output is his work on legal and politi……続きを見る

Influenced by Kojève's interpretation of Hegel as well as his direct political experience of the second world war, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abandoned the religious and philosophical position he had ass……続きを見る

Native soil was a mid-nineteenth-century Russian reaction against materialism and positivism. It emphasized the need for people to live their lives and develop themselves naturally, so that class di……続きを見る

J.S. Mill's deep interest in French intellectual, political, and social affairs began in 1820 when, in his fourteenth year, he went to France to live for a year with the family of Sir Samuel Bentham……続きを見る

What is it to be modern? How does the world look through the eyes of a modern? Is it possible to bring the sensibility of the non-modern to bear on the world around one? If so, how? The essays in th……続きを見る

These volumes of Mill's letters have been awaited eagerly by all scholars in the field of nineteenth-century studies. They inaugurate most auspiciously the edition of the Collected Works of John Stu……続きを見る

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution ……続きを見る

Dignity is humanity�s most prized possession. We experience the loss of dignity as a terrible humiliation: when we lose our dignity we feel deprived of something without which life no longer seems w……続きを見る

'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of o……続きを見る

Also sprach Zarathustra ist das berühmteste und das rätselhafteste Werk Nietzsches. Der Philosoph nahm für sich in Anspruch, der Menschheit mit seiner Dichtung das tiefste Buch gegeben zu haben. Um ……続きを見る

Hegel's analysis of his culture identifies nihilistic tendencies in modernity i.e., the death of God and end of philosophy. Philosophy and religion have both become hollowed out to such an extent th……続きを見る

This book offers two novel claims about Wittgenstein’s views and methods on perception as explored in the Philosophical Investigations. The first is an interpretive claim about Wittgenstein: that hi……続きを見る

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into a……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, Note: 2,0, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Institut für Philosophie), Veranstalt……続きを見る

This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street. O……続きを見る

This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency……続きを見る

As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophyーacross the……続きを見る

In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for ……続きを見る

Waarom wordt er altijd weer teruggegrepen op de Verlichting wanneer we het hebben over de kernwaarden van onze cultuur? In De Verlichting als kraamkamer geeft Jabik Veenbaas een toegankelijk antwoor……続きを見る

Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons (1729) is a classic work of moral philosophy, which remains widely influential. The topics Butler discusses include the role of conscience in human nature, self-love ……続きを見る

Volume XXIX/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education……続きを見る

Extrait : Il paraît que l’opinion publique en Allemagne interdit de parler des conséquences néfastes et dangereuses d’une guerre, surtout s’il s’agit d’une guerre victorieuse. On écoute d’autant plu……続きを見る

This volume provides the key to a deepened discourse on philosophy in Africa. Available literature and academic practice in African philosophy since the 1960s have largely featured discourses in the……続きを見る

Een leven lang maakte de filosoof Samuel IJsseling de ontwikkelingen in de Europese filosofie van nabij mee. Hij las ieder boek van betekenis en kende bijna iedere denker die ertoe deed, van Heidegg……続きを見る

How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Note: 1,0, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zur Thematik der Geschic……続きを見る

Leo Strauss was a political philosopher who died in 1973 but came to came to prominent attention in the United States and also Britain around the beginning of the War in Iraq. Charges began emerging……続きを見る