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The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
Av Brad Inwood
Häftad, 2003
496 kr
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This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, …
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
Häftad, 1993
601 kr
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Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in philosophy can afford to ignore him. This volume considers all the major …
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
Av Bernd Magnus, Kathleen Higgins
Häftad, 1996
536 kr
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The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's …
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Häftad, 2022
450 kr
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The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen …
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy
Häftad, 2007
525 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy …
The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Av Peter Adamson, Richard C. Taylor
Häftad, 2004
536 kr
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Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and …
The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer
Häftad, 1999
601 kr
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is something of a maverick figure in the history of philosophy. He produced a unique theory of the world and human existence based upon his notion of will. This collection analyses the related but distinct components of will from the point of view of epistemology, …
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics
Inbunden, 2018
1351 kr
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Ethics was a central preoccupation of medieval philosophers, and medieval ethical thought is rich, diverse, and inventive. Yet standard histories of ethics often skip quickly over the medievals, and histories of medieval philosophy often fail to do justice to the centrality of ethical concerns in …
The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
Av Michael N. Forster, Kristin Gjesdal
Inbunden, 2019
1465 kr
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Hermeneutics, the study of interpretation, is an essential and valuable branch of philosophy. Hermeneutics is also a central component of the methodology of the social sciences and the humanities, for example historiography, anthropology, art history, and literary criticism. In a sequence of …
The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics
Av Tom Angier
Inbunden, 2019
1514 kr
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Natural law ethics centres on the idea that ethical norms derive from human nature. The field has seen a remarkable revival since the millennium, with new work in Aristotelian metaphysics complementing innovative applied work in bioethics, economics and political theory. Starting with three …
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Inbunden, 2022
1432 kr
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The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen …
The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
Av Eleonore Stump, Thomas Joseph White
Inbunden, 2022
1351 kr
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This new Companion to Aquinas features entirely new chapters written by internationally recognized experts in the field. It shows the power of Aquinas's philosophical thought and transmits the worldview which he inherited, developed, altered, and argued for, while at the same time revealing to …
The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
Av Tom Stern
Häftad, 2019
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536 kr
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) remains one of the most challenging, influential and controversial figures in the history of philosophy. The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to his most difficult ideas, including the will to power and the …
The Cambridge Companion to Brentano
Häftad, 2004
391 kr
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Franz Brentano (1838-1917) led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. His philosophy laid the groundwork for philosophy of science as it came to fruition in the Vienna Circle, and for phenomenology in the work of …
The Cambridge Companion to Kant
Av Paul Guyer
Häftad, 1992
422 kr
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The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of …
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy
Häftad, 2003
536 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, first published in 2003, takes its readers into one of the most exciting periods in the history of philosophy. It spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It includes not only the thinkers of the Latin West …
The Cambridge Companion to Anselm
Häftad, 2004
487 kr
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Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), Benedictine monk and the second Norman archbishop of Canterbury, is regarded as one of the most important philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages. The essays in this volume explore all of his major ideas both philosophical and theological, including his …
The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
Häftad, 2003
487 kr
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Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the …
The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty
Av Taylor Carman, Mark B. N. Hansen
Häftad, 2004
536 kr
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61) was described by Paul Ricoeur as 'the greatest of the French phenomenologists'. The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, from his central and abiding concern with the nature of perception and the bodily constitution of …
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid
Av Terence Cuneo, Rene Van Woudenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
536 kr
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Widely acknowledged as the principal architect of Scottish common sense philosophy, Thomas Reid is increasingly recognized today as one of the finest philosophers of the eighteenth century. Combining a sophisticated response to the skeptical and idealist views of his day, Reid's thought stands as …
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory
Av Fred Rush
Häftad, 2004
477 kr
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Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural …
The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism
Inbunden, 2013
1514 kr
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Pragmatism established a philosophical presence over a century ago through the work of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, and has enjoyed an unprecedented revival in recent years owing to the pioneering efforts of Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. The essays in this volume explore the …
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Av Ralf M. Bader, John Meadowcroft
Häftad, 2011
487 kr
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Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a …
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Häftad, 2014
536 kr
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays …
The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism
Häftad, 2013
536 kr
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Pragmatism established a philosophical presence over a century ago through the work of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, and has enjoyed an unprecedented revival in recent years owing to the pioneering efforts of Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. The essays in this volume explore the …
The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott
Häftad, 2012
536 kr
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Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) was one of the leading British philosophers of the twentieth century. He has been influential particularly as a political philosopher, but his work reflects a range of philosophical interests that have more gradually come to be appreciated. In this volume a broad group …
The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics
Häftad, 2013
536 kr
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Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue …
The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze
Av Daniel W. Smith, Henry Somers-Hall
Häftad, 2012
487 kr
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Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) was an influential and provocative twentieth-century thinker who developed and presented an alternative to the image of thought found in traditional philosophy. This volume offers an extensive survey of Deleuze's philosophy by some of his most influential interpreters. The …
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics
Av Marguerite Deslauriers, Pierre Destrée
Häftad, 2013
487 kr
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One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's Politics is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this Companion, distinguished scholars …
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Inbunden, 2014
1710 kr
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays …
