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This new, second edition of the popular college textbook offers the beginning philosophy student a comprehensive introduction to several aspects of one of the most influential schools of thought in the twentieth century. Professor Klemke begins by...

Anthropology's Interrogation of Philosophy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century presents and discusses key aspects of the German tradition of philosophical anthropology from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, centering on the concept of...

In Portraits of American Philosophy eight of America's leading philosophers offer autobiographical narratives, reminding us that the life of a scholar is both a personal struggle and an adventure in ideas. Selected from the prestigious John Dewey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788787564588Author Oleg KoefoedFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint NSU PressPublisher NSU Press

A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788787564991Author Ingerid S. StraumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint NSU PressPublisher NSU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975187Author Christian ThomasiusFormat HardbackPage Count 659Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1238g

An encounter between philosophy and journalism recurs across the modern philosophical tradition. Images of reporters and newspaper readers, messengers and town criers, announcements and rumors populate the work of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,...

Composed of ten original essays written with the goal of exploring the thought of one of the most significant German philosophers of the 20th century, namely, Josef Pieper (1904-1997), this book is the only systematic treatment of his expansive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857504278Author Mauro CarboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515094054Author Jan PalkoskaFormat HardbackPage Count 171Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Our world has evolved in such a way that we can no longer reduce it to just a market - it has also become an "agora", where philosophers exchange world-views in order to understand one another. Europe has lost its position at the centre of the world and...

"Levinas and the Greek Heritage" shows that throughout his career, Emmanuel Levinas always admired and recognized his profound debt to Plato and to the philosophical tradition he initiated, which have been largely transmitted to us by the Neoplatonists,...

Vladimir Solov'ev (1853-1900- is regarded as the most original and systematic of the Russian philosophers in the 19th century. He has once again become the subject of international scholarly attention both in Slavic countries and the West. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557785398Author Lowell KleimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Paragon House PublishersPublisher Paragon House PublishersWeight(grams) 1148g

Martin Heidegger's Being and Time can be broadly termed a transcendental inquiry into the structures that make human experience possible. Such an inquiry reveals the conditions that render human experience intelligible. Using Being and Time as a model, I...

This volume provides a highly needed, comprehensive analysis of Kant's views on proofs for God's existence and explains the radical turns of Kant's accounts. In the "Theory of Heavens" (1755), Kant intended to harmonize the Newtonian laws of motion with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857507613Author Mauro CarboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

From Italy to Mexico, and all the way to Japan, then returning to the United States. By spanning the annus mirabilis which has witnessed the centenary of Merleau-Ponty's birth celebrated everywhere, Chiasmi International has captured some of its most...

Spirit's Gift is the first book in English devoted to the philosophy of Claude Bruaire (1936-1982). Its focus is the notion of gift, a notion that has recently been the subject of lively debate involving Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, Marcel Mauss,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482030Author Norman RyderFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268204426Author Roberto AlejandroFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

These selections provide a brief but comprehensive introduction to Fichte's philosophical system and his place in the history of German Idealism. In addition to some of Fichte's most influential texts, such as the First and Second Introductions to the...

In The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs, and thirteen other contributors examine the role of God in the thought of major European philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976276Author Francis HutchesonFormat HardbackImprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund Inc

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis...

The material reprinted in this two-volume set, first published in 1989, covers the first eighty-five years in responses to George Berkeley's writings. David Berman identifies several key waves of eighteenth-century criticism surrounding Berkeley's...

In 1758, Rousseau announced that he had adopted "vitam impendere vero" (dedicate life to truth) as a personal pledge. Despite the dramatic nature of this declaration, no scholar has yet approached Rousseau's work through the lens of truth or...

While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines...

In these previously uncollected essays, Smith argues that American philosophers like Peirce, James, Royce, and Dewey have forged a unique philosophical tradition--one that is rich and complex enough to represent a genuine alternative to the analytic,...

Smith argues that, while much of postmodern thought is rooted in Nietzsche and Heidegger, it has ironically attempted, whether unwittingly or by design, to deflect their philosophy back onto a modern path. Other alternative paths emanating from both...

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. This work demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant's individual writings, but also...

The only collection of Mead's writings published during his lifetime, these essays have heretofore been virtually inaccessible. Reck has collected twenty-five essays representing the full range and depth of Mead's thought. This penetrating volume will be...

Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility picks up on recent revisionist readings of Hegel to offer a productive new interpretation of his notoriously difficult work, the Science of Logic. Rocio Zambrana transforms the revisionist tradition by distilling the...

In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant's philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy's larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of...

In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as "the 'cultural' element in...

In this classic work by one of America's most distinguished historians, Daniel Boorstin enters into Thomas Jefferson's world of ideas. By analysing writings of 'the Jeffersonian Circle,' Boorstin explores concepts of God, nature, equality, toleration,...

A survey of astonishing breadth and penetration. No cognitive neuroscientist should ever conduct an experiment in the domain of the emotions without reading this book, twice. Parashkev Nachev, Institute of Neurology, UCL There is not a slack moment in...

Drawn from the Prussian Academy edition of Kant's collected works, these letters make it possible to trace the development of Kant's thought from his earliest worries about the topics discussed in the Critique of Pure Reason to his attempts in later life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226741413Author Ofelia SchutteFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...