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An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as law, anthropology, literature and architecture. In Derrida's view, texts and contexts are woven with inconsistencies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865341920Author Myrtle StedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 191g

The author argues that Foucault's archaeology""is an attampt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar...

Hobart demonstrates how Malebranche's theories of truth, ideas, and intelligible extension were formulated under the influence of mathematics and how these theories conflicted with the assumptions and patterns of thought needed for traditional substance...

Driven by a dual analysis, Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain looks at French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) in Spain--his more or less direct influence on Spanish letters--and also at Bergsonism in Spain--the more indirect resonance with his...

Paul Archambault explores the evolution of Camus' attitude toward Hellenism and Christianity as seen through his writing. The author considers problems as disparate as Camus' use and misuse of Aeschylus and the Presocratics, his ambivalent appraisal of...

Walters provides commentary on Diderot's translation of Shaftesbury's An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and notes, Walters demonstrates the evolution of Diderot's thought and artistic skill. Walters discusses the...

David Pike traces the evolution of interrelated political and literary theoretical currents in the Soviet Union from the early 1930s to the late 1940s and places the writings of Georg Lukacs and Bertolt Brecht within that context. Lukacs' ideas are...

These fifteen essays deal with Nietzsche's view of various aspects of classical antiquity as compared to those of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Voltaire, Winkelmann, Hamann, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Byron, the fin de siecle Decadents and others. An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826511317Author George SantayanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Based upon recently found manuscripts and correspondence, The Young Lukacs is the first comprehensive and fully researched portrait of Georg Lukacs to appear in any language. Lee Congdon finds in the young Lukacs's estrangement from his family and from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983805151Author Glenn SunshineFormat PaperbackImprint Every Square Inch PublishingPublisher Every Square Inch PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875484419Author III BartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812691429Author Aileen E. PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595194186Author John A WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595146314Author TraskFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035844524Author Farid ChehabFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964459601Author Chukwudi Okeke MadunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ekumeku Communication SystemsPublisher Ekumeku Communication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588853Author Frithjof SchuonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917930065Author Jeffrey F SichaFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Ridgeview Publishing CompanyPublisher Ridgeview Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595196333Author Greg S NyquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 599g

Teaching philosophy to retired people should be a path to wisdom, Ron Manheimer thought. He was right, but in an unexpected fashion. His lively Socratic "dialogues" with older people led him into hilarious and provocative conversations with a colorful...

One of the most important works of the Enlightenment—in the first new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuriesPublished in four volumes between 1784 and 1791, Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is one of the...

Completely revised throughout, Culture and Value is a selection from Wittgensteina s notebooks ---- on the nature of art, religion, culture, and the nature of philosophical activity.Book InformationISBN 9780631205708Author L WittgensteinFormat...

An entertaining guide to history’s most fascinating philosophers – from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir – which seeks to help us answer life’s big questions. In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought –...

While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a...

Now is a time of tremendous anxiety about the present and future state of the world. As the second law of thermodynamics states, entropy never decreases, time marches relentlessly forward, and closed systems inevitably break down. Entropy serves as a...

This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)-and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be...

This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)-and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be...

When George Grant delivered Philosophy in the Mass Age over the CBC radio network early in 1958, it was an immediate hit. He criticized the Western notion of progress and affirmed the role of philosophy in teaching and assisting people in understanding...

What are the stories that we tell about ourselves and others, and how do those stories contribute to the construction of a collective memory and national identity? The Black Legend—the representation of Spaniards and the Spanish Empire as cruel and...

This anthology offers the key works of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz in their entirety or in substantial selections, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period.Book InformationISBN 9780872205345Author Roger...

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Though Kant never used the word 'emotion' in his writings, it is of vital significance to understanding his philosophy. This book offers a...

Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the nineteenth century's most important German natural scientists. Among his most well-known contributions to science are the invention of the ophthalmoscope and grou- breaking work towards...

In many respects, Brentano conducted pioneering analyses of problems that are currently in the focus of cognitive science and artificial intelligence: from the problem of reference to that of representation, from the problem of categorial classification...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857518633Author CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

The Danish Yearbook of Philosophy is a peer reviewed journal committed to publishing high quality articles from Danish and international scholars, and encourages papers across a wide range of philosophical issues. Volume 44 includes the following:...

Carl Nielsen's Voice is the first study to present an in-depth analysis of the work of the Danish composer and conductor Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), which comprises nearly 300 songs.The volume offers a comprehensive account of Carl Nielsen as a composer...

This book examines the notion of an African philosophy, beginning with a critique of the assumptions behind this phrase and of the existing debate about African philosophy. This leads to enquiry about the rise, establishment and maintenance of philosophy...

An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy, with a new Preface and updated Bibliography of Scruton's many literary works over the years. Roger Scruton was one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then was he...