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Toward Metaphysics
New Tendencies in French Philosophy in the Middle of the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2014
880 kr
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This book presents and analyzes specific metaphysical tendencies that were revived within particular branches of French philosophy from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using the examples of the five philosophers active in this period (Louis Lavelle, Ferdinand Alquié, Jean Wahl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and …
Farewell to Postmodernism
Social Theories of the Late Left
Inbunden, 2014
954 kr
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In the late 1960s, a whole pantheon of thinkers regarding themselves as radicals stole a part of the anarchic praxis of late capitalism, turned it into philosophy, and with the resulting set of views turned against the foundations of the system in a purportedly radical gesture. Postmodernism was …
Dialectics Beyond Dialectics
Translated by Cain Elliott and Jan Burzyński
Inbunden, 2015
853 kr
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Dialectics beyond Dialectics is a study of contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida. It analyses, on the first level of generalization, the decomposition of Hegelianism understood as philosophy of totality. Many French philosophers of the 20th century deconstruct Hegelian dialectics …
Remnants of Modernity
Two Essays on Sarmatism and Utopia in Polish Contemporary Literature
Inbunden, 2014
782 kr
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Polish culture after 1989 has been defined by conflicts surrounding the remnants of modernity, phenomena marginalised during communism. The book considers two such phenomena: the search for a common tradition and the disappearance of utopia. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, romanticism …
Changing Guise of Myths
Philosophical Essays
Inbunden, 2013
467 kr
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Each of us, waking in the morning, has to open the world we have woken into. We have to endow meaning to people, objects and tasks, have to secure a place in the chaos of time passing. When opening their eyes during the palpable reality of a dream, a person will dream beyond the dream, will carry …
Strangers by Choice
An Asocial Philosophy of Life.- Translated by Tul'si Bhambry and Agnieszka Waśkiewicz. Editorial work by Tul'si Bhambry.
Inbunden, 2014
917 kr
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Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Building on Simmel’s notion of the stranger, the …
Illusion in Painting
An Attempt at Philosophical Interpretation
Inbunden, 2014
788 kr
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This book aims to present trompe-l’œil painting, which epitomizes the myth of the illusionistic image – an early modern way of thinking about pictures, according to which it is possible to create an image identical to what it represents that at the same time preserves its own pictorial identity. …
Between an Animal and a Machine
Stanisław Lem’s Technological Utopia
Av Paweł Majewski, Malgorzata Kowalska
Inbunden, 2018
929 kr
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The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanisław Lem. The first part contains an analysis and interpretation of one of his early works, The Dialogues. The author tries to show how Lem used the terminology of cybernetics to create a project of sociology and anthropology. The second part …
Deconstruction, Politics, Performatics
Av Anna R. Burzyńska, Malgorzata Kowalska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
884 kr
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In recent years, the terms "ethics," "politics," "performativity," and "experience" have proliferated throughout the discourse of the humanities. However, it is rarely noted that their contemporary understanding has been shaped by the works of Jacques Derrida, who has employed all these concepts …
Rise and Fall of Modern Man
Av Jacek Dobrowolski, Malgorzata Kowalska
Inbunden, 2017
455 kr
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Award-winning essay in philosophical anthropology meditating on who, in terms of history of ideas, modern western man was, is, and will perhaps become. The author focuses on developments of modern man’s self-knowledge, understood both as concept of his own human nature and as individual …
Semantic Theory of Knowledge
Av Adam Olech, Malgorzata Kowalska
Inbunden, 2020
638 kr
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The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementations to solve certain traditional epistemological problems and their metaphysical consequences. This project claims that cognitive problems need to be …
Insane Run
Railroad and Dark Modernity
Av Wojciech Tomasik, Malgorzata Kowalska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
814 kr
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This is a book about impending catastrophe. The metaphorical insane “run“ ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The book focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the Polish contribution to it. The word “dark“ used to describe modernity is understood as a metaphor of …
Magic in Popular Narratives
Av Jan Kajfosz
Inbunden, 2021
633 kr
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The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Těšín Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The author follows the cognitive dimensions of …
Aesthetics and Modernity
Toward a New Philosophical Functionalization of Art
Av Iwona Lorenc, Malgorzata Kowalska
Inbunden, 2021
618 kr
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The contents of this book deliberate on the questions related to the function of art and to aesthetics as they exist in the context of the most salient philosophical and cultural late modernist tendencies. The book extracts cornerstone elements of the ever-changing ways people of the 20th and 21st …
Agency at Work
Ethnographies in/of Late Industrialism
Av Monika Baer
Inbunden, 2021
507 kr
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Rooted in anthropological and ethnological traditions, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism revealed in interactions between a coal power plant and a local community in Opole Silesia, in southwestern Poland. In this context, the authors show by …
Time and Alterity in South African Writing
André Brink, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda Revisited
Inbunden, 2021
816 kr
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The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed ‘coronatime,’ which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this book provides a chance to reevaluate neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of growth, decline, deceleration …
Culture as Verb
Probes into the New Humanities
Av Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2023
610 kr
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The book deals with what the author calls the new humanities: a broad and diversified front of orientations, directions, and turns grouped around five major currents: the digital humanities, engaged humanities, cognitive humanities, art-based research, and posthumanities. What links these …
Relaciones intelectuales entre Nicolai Hartmann y José Ortega y Gasset en los años 1906-1914
Inbunden, 2023
650 kr
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„En este libro, Dorota Leszczyna llena un hueco profundo en nuestros conocimientos de la evolución de la historia de la filosofía de Ortega y Gasset. Existe en el orteguismo la tendencia a saltar a la absorción por Ortega de la fenomenología de Husserl, cuando este salto está mediatizado por la …
Ortega Y La Escuela de Marburgo
Av Dorota Leszczyna, Malgorzata Kowalska
Inbunden, 2020
603 kr
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El libro analiza los orígenes kantianos de la filosofía de Ortega desde su etapa inicial hasta las más tardías. Ortega descubre la filosofía de Kant cuando era un estudiante universitario, en Bilbao y Madrid, a través de los pocos trabajos sobre Kant y las traducciones de sus obras que entonces …
