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Not-Man: Cioran, Extinction, and the Failure of the Human
Av Stefan Bolea
Inbunden, 2026
1652 kr
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This monograph takes a closer look at the work of Cioran in order to establish a new and revised definition of antihumanism. It has three objectives. Firstly, it establishes a new concept of antihumanism separate from that proposed by Michel Foucault. Secondly, it analyzes the mirroring of Cioran’s …
Time and Transcendence
Secular History, the Catholic Reaction and the Rediscovery of the Future
Inbunden, 1992
879 kr
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"Time and Transcendence" provides a new theory of secularization in the Catholic context, a new interpretation of the origins of modern historical science, and a new reading of Heidegger's theories of time and history. The author shows how a secular sense of the past evolved in early modern French …
Hegel Reconsidered
Beyond Metaphysics and the Authoritarian State
Av H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., T. Pinkard
Inbunden, 1994
1098 kr
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Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social thought has been shaped directly or indirectly by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, though there is considerable disagreement about how his work should be understood. He has been described both as a metaphysician and characterized as an …
Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation
The Persistence of Premodern Ideas in Modern Philosophy
Inbunden, 1996
1098 kr
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Leibniz's earliest philosophy and its importance for his mature philosophy have not been examined in detail, particularly in the level of detail that one can achieve by placing Leibniz's philosophy in the context of the sources for two of the most basic concerns of his philosophical career: his …
Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation
Av N. Capaldi
Inbunden, 1998
2188 kr
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Analytic philosophy has been a dominant intellectual movement in the 20th century and a reflection of the cultural pre-eminence of scientism. In response to analytic philosophy's peculiar reticence (and inability) to discuss itself, this book provides its first comprehensive history and critique. …
Solidarity
Av K. Bayertz
Inbunden, 1999
1643 kr
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Solidarity as a phenomenon lies like an erratic block in the midst of the moral landscape of our age. Until now, the geologists familiar with this landscape - ethicists and moral theorists - have taken it for granted, have circumnavigated it! in any case, they have been incapable of moving it. In …
(Coming) Age of Thresholding
Inbunden, 1999
1970 kr
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As a philosopher, Stephen Erickson considers himself a messenger of sorts and the message he is delivering is an important and groundbreaking one. He convincingly argues that we are entering into a new historical moment, a period which will only be properly defined and named by those who come after …
Art, Education, and the Democratic Commitment
A Defense of State Support for the Arts
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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This argument in favour of subsidizing the arts offers a distinctly political rationale for government support: engaging the arts helps develop the intellectual faculties of judgement. By appealing to art's instrumental ability to educate democratic citizens, the book avoids the most common …
Passionate Deliberation
Emotion, Temperance, and the Care Ethic in Clinical Moral Deliberation
Av M.F. Carr
Inbunden, 2001
1101 kr
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Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical philosophy and moving through early to medieval Christian conceptions. I …
Capital as Organic Unity
The Role of Hegel’s Science of Logic in Marx’s Grundrisse
Av M.E. Meaney
Inbunden, 2002
1101 kr
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This book is a work of historical critical exegesis. It aims to establish the influence ofG.W.F. Hegel's Science of Logic (SL) on the Grundrisse of Karl Marx. I demonstrate that the Hegelian logic guided Marx's doctrinal development, and that the ordering of economic categories in the Grundrisse …
Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk
A Survey and a Critique
Av T. Halper
Inbunden, 2003
554 kr
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Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk will appeal to philosophers and social scientists interested in issues of rights and social justice, and to graduate students and journalists seeking a critical survey of the field. Innumerable recent books have addressed the issues of rights and social …
Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics
Inbunden, 2004
1101 kr
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Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural …
Death of Metaphysics; The Death of Culture
Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality
Inbunden, 2006
1647 kr
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The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In each case, the focus is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume critically explores the nature …
Private Sphere
An Emotional Territory and Its Agent
Inbunden, 2007
1101 kr
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The present work has emerged as the result of several years' involvementin various multidisciplinary research projects which have been carried out within the - search Programme in Biomedical Ethics at Uppsala University, now the Centre for Bioethics at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University. …
Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege on Progress and Fidelity
Sinning Against Science and Religion
Av Teri Merrick
Inbunden, 2020
555 kr
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This book examines the views of Hermann Helmholtz, Hermann Cohen and Gottlob Frege in reaction to the epistemic crises induced by rapid changes in 19th century scientific practice. Besides addressing longstanding interpretive puzzles of interest to Frege scholars, the book extracts precepts for …
Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege on Progress and Fidelity
Sinning Against Science and Religion
Av Teri Merrick
Häftad, 2021
555 kr
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This book examines the views of Hermann Helmholtz, Hermann Cohen and Gottlob Frege in reaction to the epistemic crises induced by rapid changes in 19th century scientific practice. Besides addressing longstanding interpretive puzzles of interest to Frege scholars, the book extracts precepts for …
Sex Robots
Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations
Av Ruiping Fan, Mark J. Cherry
Inbunden, 2021
1431 kr
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This book provides cross-cultural ethical exploration of sex robots and their social impact. What are the implications of sex robots and related technological innovations for society and culture? How should we evaluate the significance of sexual relations with robots that look like women, men or …
Sex Robots
Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations
Av Ruiping Fan, Mark J. Cherry
Häftad, 2022
1431 kr
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This book provides cross-cultural ethical exploration of sex robots and their social impact. What are the implications of sex robots and related technological innovations for society and culture? How should we evaluate the significance of sexual relations with robots that look like women, men or …
Organizational Ethics and Moral Integrity in Secular Societies
The Ethics of Bureaucracies
Inbunden, 2023
1212 kr
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This book explores an undeveloped area in postmodern thought: organizational ethics. Ethical debates and analyses usually focus on a particular act or action, an actor, and/or how a secular society should address any of those particular persons or events. In the Post Modern age, ethical decisions …
Organizational Ethics and Moral Integrity in Secular Societies
The Ethics of Bureaucracies
Häftad, 2024
1212 kr
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This book explores an undeveloped area in postmodern thought: organizational ethics. Ethical debates and analyses usually focus on a particular act or action, an actor, and/or how a secular society should address any of those particular persons or events. In the Post Modern age, ethical decisions …
Phenomenology & Posthumanism(s)
Av Allen Porter
Inbunden, 2026
1429 kr
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This book offers a timely intervention in the discourses around transhumanism, posthumanism, and phenomenology, aspiring to inaugurate a turning in Western thought in the direction of a more phenomenologically oriented consideration of what it means to be human and of what it might mean to be …
Critical Theory in the Twilight of Nature
Recognition, Aesthetics, and Nonhuman Expression
Av Umur Başdaş
Inbunden, 2026
1319 kr
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This book offers a new discourse-theoretical framework for understanding the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of our relationship to nature by drawing on the tradition of Critical Theory. It traces an overlooked thread in the works of Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Adorno—one that shows how nonhuman …
Reforming the Art of Living
Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology
Av Rico Vitz
Inbunden, 2014
555 kr
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Descartes’s concern with the proper method of belief formation is evident in the titles of his works—e.g., The Search after Truth, The Rules for the Direction of the Mind and The Discourse on Method of rightly conducting one’s reason and seeking the truth in the sciences. It is most apparent, …
Reforming the Art of Living
Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology
Av Rico Vitz
Häftad, 2016
555 kr
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Descartes’s concern with the proper method of belief formation is evident in the titles of his works—e.g., The Search after Truth, The Rules for the Direction of the Mind and The Discourse on Method of rightly conducting one’s reason and seeking the truth in the sciences. It is most apparent, …
100 years of European Philosophy Since the Great War
Crisis and Reconfigurations
Av Matthew Sharpe, Rory Jeffs m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1103 kr
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This book is a collection of specifically commissioned articles on the key continental European philosophical movements since 1914. It shows how each of these bodies of thought has been shaped by their responses to the horrors set in train by World War I, and considers whether we are yet …
Byzantine Incursions on the Borders of Philosophy
Contesting the Boundaries of Nature, Art, and Religion
Inbunden, 2019
989 kr
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This book represents a series of incursions or philosophical forays between realms of Byzantine and Russian thought and territory long claimed by Western philosophy and theology. Beginning with thoughts inevitably rooted in the West, it seeks to penetrate as deeply as possible into Byzantine and …
Normativity of the Natural
Human Goods, Human Virtues, and Human Flourishing
Inbunden, 2009
1098 kr
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Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope to resolve moral controversies through reason; thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent. The expectation is for a moral rationality that is universal and able adequately …
Reconstructionist Confucianism
Rethinking Morality after the West
Av Ruiping Fan
Inbunden, 2010
1098 kr
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Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges. Ruiping Fan argues that popular …
Idealism Without Limits
Hegel and the Problem of Objectivity
Inbunden, 2010
1098 kr
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In this study of Hegel's philosophy, Brinkmann undertakes to defend Hegel's claim to objective knowledge by bringing out the transcendental strategy underlying Hegel's argument in the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Logic. Hegel's metaphysical commitments are shown to become moot through this …
Imagination and Critique
Two Rival Versions of Historical Inquiry
Inbunden, 2010
1098 kr
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This book is most easily described as philosophy of history; however, this descr- tion may be a little misleading. Truly, this is a work of applied philosophy that was originally conceived not in a philosophy seminar but in a school of public policy. As a philosopher learning about the study of …
