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Being and the Between
Häftad, 1995
528 kr
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The culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysicsAs Plato told us long ago, the human being is neither a god nor a beast, but someone in between. Philosophy too is in between. How do we philosophize in between? W …
Process Metaphysics
An Introduction to Process Philosophy
Häftad, 1996
463 kr
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Presents a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition of this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy.This is a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition for readers who want to inform themselves regarding this influential and interesting sector of …
Lacan and Theological Discourse
Av Edith Wyschogrod, David Crownfield m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
576 kr
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The authors examine implications of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory of discourse for the understanding of theological language. Topics include self, desire, post-structuralism, the unconscious, the father's rule, dwelling (in Heidegger's sense), Anselm, ontological argument, alterity, utopia, …
History of Ancient Philosophy IV
The Schools of the Imperial Age
Av Giovanni Reale, John R Catan
Häftad, 1989
528 kr
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This book covers the first 500 years of the common era. These years witnessed the revivals of Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism, Cynicism, and Pythagoreanism; but by far the most important movement was the revival of Platonism under Plotinus. Here, the historical context of Plotinus is …
Crisis of Philosophy
Häftad, 1989
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This book presents a sympathetic yet critical treatment of the major philosophical attempts to define a viable project for philosophy in the face of historical changes. McCarthy, then, proposes a comprehensive, critical, and methodological strategy of epistemic integration that fully respects the …
Philosophy of Science and the Occult
Second Edition
Av Patrick Grim
Häftad, 1990
504 kr
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This book both introduces the philosophy of science through examination of the occult and examines the occult rigorously enough to raise central issues in the philosophy of science. Placed in the context of the occult, philosophy of science issues become immediately understandable and forcefully …
Path into Metaphysics
Phenomenological, Hermeneutical, and Dialogical Studies
Häftad, 1990
504 kr
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History of Ancient Philosophy II
Plato and Aristotle
Häftad, 1990
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In this book Reale presents Plato and Aristotle.At the center of Reale's interpretation of Plato is the fulcrum of the supersensible, the metaphysical discovery that Plato presented as a result of the Second Voyage. This discovery of the supersensible is, in Reale's view, not only the fundamental …
Freedom and Modernity
Häftad, 1991
648 kr
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This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and masking a logocentric domination. The author shows how this dogma not only assails a false vision of self-determination, but also how it ignores the …
Other Nietzsche
Häftad, 1994
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This volume explores facets of Nietzsche relatively untouched by the majority of the vast literature on him. Stambaugh concentrates on his ideas on art and creativity in general, regarding these realms of human endeavor as not limited to aesthetics in the narrower sense, but as constitutive of life …
Individuation in Scholasticism
The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation, 1150-1650
Häftad, 1994
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The definitive exploration of how medieval and early modern thinkers answered philosophy's most fundamental question: what makes an individual truly individual?What makes an individual this particular being rather than another? This deceptively simple question—known as the problem of …
Embodied Self
Friedrich Schleiermacher's Solution to Kant's Problem of the Empirical Self
Av Thandeka
Häftad, 1995
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Schleiermacher presents a viable, systematic approach to self-consciousness that unifies thinking, feeling, and life itself—that reconfigures the whole of human experience. He presents a self capable of generating coherence amidst ethnic conflicts and the environmental crisis.This book investigates …
Texts
Ontological Status, Identity, Author, Audience
Inbunden, 1996
1479 kr
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Provides an ontological characterization of texts, explores the issues raised by the identity of various texts, and presents a view of the function of authors and audiences, and of their relations to texts.This book completes the theory of textuality whose logical and epistemological dimensions …
Figuring the Self
Subject, Absolute, and Others in Classical German Philosophy
Av David E. Klemm, Günter Zöller
Häftad, 1997
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Provides a systematic overview of the topic of self in classical German philosophy, focusing on the period around 1800 and covering Kant, Fichte, Holderlin, Novalis, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Hegel.Figuring the Self consists of twelve essays which present, discuss, and assess the principal …
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Häftad, 1999
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An imaginative and exciting exposition of major themes from Wittgenstein's mature philosophy.An imaginative and exciting exposition of themes from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, this book helps readers find their way around the "forest of remarks" that make up this classic. Chapters …
Unnecessary Evil
History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Häftad, 2000
455 kr
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Demonstrates the systematic connection between Kant's ethics and his philosophy of history.No philosopher has been more committed to the idea of the moral progress of humanity than Immanuel Kant. But is this idea of the moral advancement of the species compatible with the individualist basis of …
Unity of Knowledge and Action
Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of Knowledge
Häftad, 2002
399 kr
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Uses the thought of Wang Yang-ming, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead to explain a more coherent theory of knowledge.Building upon insights from the sixteenth century Neo-Confucian Wang Yang-ming, the American pragmatist John Dewey, and the process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, this book …
Process and Analysis
Whitehead, Hartshorne, and the Analytic Tradition
Häftad, 2002
371 kr
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Leading thinkers from both traditions explore common philosophical topics.Process and Analysis brings together an unprecedented collection of the world's leading contemporary process and analytic philosophers to explore philosophical topics of common interest. The contributors examine a wide …
Wittgenstein's Account of Truth
Häftad, 2003
455 kr
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Explores the complex nature of truth in Wittgenstein's philosophy.Wittgenstein's Account of Truth challenges the view that semantic antirealists attribute to Wittgenstein: that we cannot meaningfully call verification-transcendent statements "true." Ellenbogen argues that Wittgenstein would not …
Epistemology
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
Häftad, 2003
504 kr
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A comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge.Guided by the founding ideas of American pragmatism, Epistemology provides a clear example of the basic concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and explains the principles at work in the development of rational inquiry. It examines how …
Understanding Understanding
Häftad, 2003
521 kr
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A study of the scope and limits of understanding.How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about understanding? Richard Mason's argument is that …
C. I. Lewis
The Last Great Pragmatist
Häftad, 2019
528 kr
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An intellectual biography of the American philosopher C. I. Lewis.2006 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Noted scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey explores the life and intellectual work of C. I. Lewis (1883–1964), the central figure in American philosophy between the "golden age" of James and …
Oppenheimer's Choice
Reflections from Moral Philosophy
Inbunden, 2006
1286 kr
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Studies J. Robert Oppenheimer's choice to accept leadership of the Manhattan Project.In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted the leadership of the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, which produced the first atomic bomb three years later. This book examines the ethics of Oppenheimer's …
Oppenheimer's Choice
Reflections from Moral Philosophy
Häftad, 2007
357 kr
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Studies J. Robert Oppenheimer's choice to accept leadership of the Manhattan Project.In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted the leadership of the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, which produced the first atomic bomb three years later. This book examines the ethics of Oppenheimer's …
Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology
Its Origin, Meaning, and Critical Significance
Häftad, 2007
468 kr
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The first comprehensive examination in English of Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.This book offers the first account in English of the origin, meaning, and critical significance of Immanuel Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant's book is not empirical …
Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy
An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance
Inbunden, 2007
1286 kr
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Examines the postmodern implications of Whitehead's metaphysical system.Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the …
Eros and Irony
A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism
Häftad, 1983
453 kr
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"The conception of culture and philosophy's role within it developed in this work permits interesting formulations of a number of important issues and concepts: the relations between the utopian and utilitarian functions of philosophic theory; the character of the aesthetic and mystical …
Spirit of American Philosophy
Av John Smith
Häftad, 1983
463 kr
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This revised edition of John E. Smith's classic details the phenomenal growth in American philosophy in the years since the book first appeared. Through the addition of a new chapter and the readdressing of earlier material, Smith advances his reflections on the present decade. The book also …
Existential Technics
Av Don Ihde
Häftad, 1983
455 kr
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With Existential Technics, Don Ihde advances his reflections on the role technology plays in human life. Heretofore primarily the province of Continental thinkers, philosophy of technology is a growing preoccupation of North American philosophers. This collection of essays is a philosophical …
Experience as Art
Aesthetics in Everyday Life
Häftad, 1984
463 kr
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Joseph Kupfer removes aesthetics from the exclusive province of museums, concert halls, and the periphery of human interests to reveal the impact of aesthetic experience on daily living. He combines philosophical aesthetics and critical analysis to indicate the status of aesthetic values in …
