Individual Philosophers

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Studies the modern and contemporary French reception of Spinoza’s philosophy.

An extensive and substantial guide to the life and work of Žižek by the leading experts on his oeuvre.

Explores the impact of Enlightenment philosophers in Scotland on the development of sociology.

This second volume in the critical edition reproduces more than 170 lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard during his second and third years.

F. H. Bradley, an exemplar of British Idealism, offered a rich strain of idealism that has been unduly neglected for almost a century. Beyond idealism's reputation as mere fanciful speculation, Bradley's work plumbs the everyday difficulties of thinking...

This book examines the turning point in modern philosophy in which Kant overcomes previous philosophical systems through his theory of imagination. Cody Staton claims that Kant's decision to describe the imagination as mediating between the self and...

This book will confirm, once and for all, what many will have long suspected: that Pooh is a Bear of Enormous Brain.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) are two of the most interesting and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and their lives intersected in various ways. Anscombe was Wittgenstein's friend and student, chosen...

Presents Wagner as a serious philosopher and offers a fresh perspective on the Ring and its unique fusion of myth, human drama, and philosophical insight. Few figures of the nineteenth century were more influential than Richard Wagner, and few...

Offers an original analysis of the pivotal relationship between Althusser and Spinoza.

Brings Spinoza's philosophy into engagement with contemporary debates on climate change.

Relates the work of Gilles Deleuze to contemporary science.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476691794Author Ronald R GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

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The book begins from the insight that very few seventeenth-century philosophers have received more antithetical interpretations than Baruch de Spinoza. He has been regarded as an atheist and a rationalist, as a pantheist and a vitalist, as a Jewish...

The first English-language translation of Vilem Flusser's final series of lectures: the definitive introduction to his methods and ideas in new media theoryIn summer 1991, shortly before his death, Vilem Flusser gave a series of lectures as guest...

Now available in English-one of the twentieth century's most important works on the philosophy of technology With this first English translation of influential German philosopher GUEnther Anders's 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of...

Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology With this first English translation of influential German philosopher GÜnther Anders’s 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of...

Collected writings from a visionary thinker about the perilous edge between patriotism and fascism How do nationalism and patriotism shape our understanding of identity, and when do they drift into dangerous territory? Marta Figlerowicz gathers a...

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An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher. Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must not overlook the visionary dimension of his thinking...

State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel explores the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and postcolonial thought through the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In the last decade, thinkers have criticized Levinas for his Eurocentrism; however,...

State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel explores the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and postcolonial thought through the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In the last decade, thinkers have criticized Levinas for his Eurocentrism; however,...

The work of Michele Le Doeuff creatively disrupts established notions of what philosophy might be. Far from being a discipline about the leader and the disciple, a hierarchy of knowledge and paternalism, Le Doeuff proposes a philosophy of dialogue and...

The philosophical activity of modern Germany represents a peak in the history of philosophy beginning from Thales in ancient Greece. This book attempts to reconsider the conventional image of 19th-century German philosophy. To this end, it illuminates a...

Political Ontology, Community, and Institutions offers a broad view of the current philosophical dialogue in Italy, both in relation to Robert Esposito's own thought and with respect to major issues and authors of crucial philosophical relevance. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438496405Author Lambert ZuidervaartFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory introduces the major themes of French theory, including existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this...