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16 produkter
Between Philosophy and Religion, Vol. I
Spinoza, the Bible, and Modernity
Inbunden, 2006
1415 kr
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In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works—on religion, politics, and ethics—in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. Indeed, Polka argues that Spinoza is biblical only insofar as he is understood to be one of the …
Between Philosophy and Religion, Vol. I
Spinoza, the Bible, and Modernity
Häftad, 2010
711 kr
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In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works—on religion, politics, and ethics—in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. Indeed, Polka argues that Spinoza is biblical only insofar as he is understood to be one of the …
Between Philosophy and Religion, Vol. II
Spinoza, the Bible, and Modernity
Häftad, 2010
711 kr
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In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works--on religion, politics, and ethics--in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. Polka argues that Spinoza is biblical only insofar as he is understood to be one of the great …
Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible
An Ontological Essay on Freud
E-bok, 2001
1041 kr
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Polka also raises the larger issue of the relationship between modernity, hermeneutics, and biblical ontology. He argues that the origins and structure of modern values can be understood only through a theory of hermeneutics whose ontology overcomes the dualism between the secular and the …
In the Beginning Is Philosophy
On Desire and the Good
Inbunden, 2016
1066 kr
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Philosophy, when understood to embody the values that are fundamental to modernity, is biblical in origin, both historically and ontologically. Central to this idea is the question famously posed by Tertullian: What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? The answer – as based on a comprehensive and …
Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible
From Kant to Schopenhauer
Häftad, 2017
627 kr
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Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard in order to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically and historically. Brayton Polka argues that Schopenhauer has an altogether false conception of the …
Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche
Häftad, 2019
570 kr
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Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche analyzes the operas and writings of Wagner in order to prove that the ideas on which they are based contradict and falsify the values that are fundamental to modernity. This book also analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Nietzsche, …
Shakespeare and Interpretation, or What You Will
Häftad, 2011
672 kr
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Brayton Polka takes both a textual and theoretical approach to seven plays of Shakespeare: Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. He calls upon the Bible and the ideas of major European thinkers, above all, Kierkegaard and …
On Poetry and Philosophy
Thinking Metaphorically with Wordsworth and Kant
Häftad, 2021
444 kr
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On Poetry and Philosophy
Thinking Metaphorically with Wordsworth and Kant
Inbunden, 2021
658 kr
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On Poetry and Philosophy
Thinking Metaphorically with Wordsworth and Kant
E-bok, 2021
717 kr
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Brayton Polka's book, On Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking Metaphorically with Wordsworth and Kant, is unique in bringing poetry and philosophy together in a single study. The poet and the philosopher whom he makes central to his project are both revolutionary founders of modernity, Wordsworth of …
Paradox and Contradiction in the Biblical Traditions
The Two Ways of the World
Inbunden, 2021
1345 kr
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The principal thesis that the author advances in this book is that paradox and contradiction constitute the two ways of the world. Paradox represents the way of the people of the Bible, and contradiction represents the way of all peoples who, having lived without knowledge of the Bible, have …
Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible
An Ontological Essay on Freud
Inbunden, 2001
1402 kr
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Polka also raises the larger issue of the relationship between modernity, hermeneutics, and biblical ontology. He argues that the origins and structure of modern values can be understood only through a theory of hermeneutics whose ontology overcomes the dualism between the secular and the …
Understanding Death as Life’s Paradox
Inbunden, 2019
1613 kr
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This book focuses on death as life's paradox in order to test, to put on trial, what it means for us human beings to exist. No one of us chooses to be born. Yet, having been born, we must choose to have been born, to live, to exist. To exist is to choose to exist. To choose to exist is to live with …
Shakespeare and Interpretation, or What You Will
Inbunden, 2011
1324 kr
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Brayton Polka takes both a textual and theoretical approach to seven plays of Shakespeare: Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. He calls upon the Bible and the ideas of major European thinkers, above all, Kierkegaard and …
