Idealism Books
Imprint Academic Oakeshott on Rome and America
Book SynopsisThe political systems of the Roman Republic were based almost entirely on tradition, "the way of the ancestors", rather than on a written constitution. While the founders of the American Republic looked to ancient Rome as a primary model for their enterprise, nevertheless, in line with the rationalist spirit of their age, the American founders attempted to create a rational set of rules that would guide the conduct of American politics, namely, the US Constitution. These two examples offer a striking case of the ideal types, famously delineated by Michael Oakeshott in Rationalism in Politics and elsewhere, between politics as a practice grounded in tradition and politics as a system based on principles flowing from abstract reasoning. This book explores how the histories of the two republics can help us to understand Oakeshott''s claims about rational versus traditional politics. Through examining such issues we may come to understand better not only Oakeshott's critique of rationalism, but also modern constitutional theory, issues in the design of the European Union, and aspects of the revival of republicanism.
£19.95
HarperCollins Publishers How to Be
Book SynopsisA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWhat is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking began to change. Men (and some women) decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own worrying and thinking minds to the conundrums of life.These great innovators shaped the beginnings of philosophy. Through the questioning voyager Odysseus, Homer explored how we might navigate our way through the world. Heraclitus in Ephesus was the first to consider the interrelatedness of things. Xenophanes of Colophon was the first champion of civility. In Lesbos, the Aegean island of Sappho and Alcaeus, the early lyric poets asked themselves How can I be true to myself?' In Samos, Pythagoras Trade Review A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘What links all Nicolson’s writing, though, is a tireless and tigerish sense of wonder and curiosity; a bounding willingness to immerse himself and his reader deeply in his subject: life… I’m not sure I’ve ever read a book that marries such profundity with such a sense of fun. How to Be delivers wholeheartedly on the promise of its vaunting title. It is like a net strung between the deep past and the present, a blueprint for a life well lived’ OBSERVER ‘This eminently readable tour of Greek philosophy from approximately 650 to 450 B.C. brings the ‘sea-and-city world’ of Heraclitus and Homer to life . . . [He shows] the early Greeks developed intellectual habits, chief among them the use of questioning as the basis of knowing, which laid the groundwork for Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and for how we reason today’ NEW YORKER ‘Wise, elegant . . . richer and more unusual than [the self-help genre], an exploration of the origins of Western subjectivity’ WASHINGTON POST 'Seductive… a poetic tour of philosophical thought’ SPECTATOR ‘Passionate, poetic, and hauntingly beautiful, Adam Nicolson’s account of the west’s earliest philosophers brings vividly alive the mercantile hustle and bustle of ideas traded and transformed in a web of maritime Greek cities.. In this life-affirming, vital book, those ideas sing with the excitement of a new discovery’ David Stuttard ‘It’s hard not to be dazzled by this book … No one else writes with the originality, energy and persuasiveness of Adam Nicolson. It’s like encountering the Greek sea. It takes your breath away’ Laura Beatty, bestselling author of Lost Property
£10.44
The University of Chicago Press The Idea of Hegels Science of Logic
Book SynopsisAlthough Hegel consideredScience of Logicessential to his philosophy, it has received scant commentary compared with the other three books he published in his lifetime. Here philosopher Stanley Rosen rescues theScience of Logicfrom obscurity, arguing that its neglect is responsible for contemporary philosophy's fracture into many different and opposed schools of thought. Through deep and careful analysis, Rosen sheds new light on the precise problems that animate Hegel's overlooked book and their tremendous significance to philosophical conceptions of logic and reason. Rosen's overarching question is how, if at all, rationalism can overcome the split between monism and dualism. Monismwhich claims a singular essence for all thingsultimately leads to nihilism, while dualism, which claims multiple, irreducible essences, leads to what Rosen calls the endless chatter of the history of philosophy. TheScience of Logic, he argues, is the fundamental text to offer a new conception of rationaTrade Review“This volume will be of enduring interest to students and scholars seeking a lucid companion to Hegel’s most difficult work.” * Choice *“Combines comprehensive exegesis and philosophical penetration more successfully than any other study so far published on Hegel'sScience of Logic. No one who is seriously interested in Hegel can afford to neglect Rosen's book.” * Philosophical Review *“Combines comprehensive exegesis and philosophical penetration more successfully than any other study so far published on Hegel'sScience of Logic. No one who is seriously interested in Hegel can afford to neglect Rosen's book.” * Philosophical Reviews *“Stanley Rosen’s undertaking in The Idea of Hegel’s 'Science of Logic' is an important and unique contribution to philosophical literature. It closes an important circle to his earlier and much-remembered work, Nihilism, a book that analyzed the problem announced by its title but was not as ambitious as to suggest a solution—it is precisely this ambition to which this newest book returns.” -- Omri Boehm, New School“Reflection on Hegel as one of the supreme minds of the philosophic tradition has always been central to the work of Stanley Rosen, but with this study of Hegel’s Science of Logic he has produced his definitive account of this formidable treatise, which exhibits the categorical structure of all being as it develops the conceptual fractures of Western philosophy. Lucid, thorough, and historically informed, this study is not merely a commentary but an effort to understand Hegel by rethinking the problems that animate his speculative logic. In exemplary fashion it shows how one can think about philosophy with Hegel’s assistance, and it deserves to be considered Rosen’s magnum opus.” -- Richard Velkley, Tulane University“In this latest book, Stanley Rosen offers lucid commentary on the work that is at once the most abstruse and the most central to Hegel’s thought: the Science of Logic, in which Hegel wanted to build a coherent whole out of whatever was true in previous thought. Rosen, who has taught and written on almost every philosopher, can assess the value of Hegel’s claims with perfect competence. Beyond historical pursuits, however, he brings out the relevance of Hegel’s logics for our present-day problems by showing that most contemporary solutions correspond to moments that Hegel has shown to be merely provisional and which degenerate when isolated. Hegel’s full articulation of rationality is a powerful antidote to the rampant nihilism of our time.” -- Remi Brague, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and University of MunichTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction ONE / The Historical Context TWO / The Prefaces THREE / The Introduction FOUR / The Beginning of Logical Science FIVE / From Being to Existence SIX / Transitional Remarks SEVEN / Quantity EIGHT / Quantitative Relation NINE / Transition to Book Two TEN / The Fichtean Background ELEVEN / The Nature of Essence TWELVE / Contradiction THIRTEEN / Absolute Ground FOURTEEN / Foundationalism and Antifoundationalism FIFTEEN / Appearance SIXTEEN / Actuality SEVENTEEN / Introduction to Book Three EIGHTEEN / Subjectivity NINETEEN / Judgment TWENTY / Objectivity TWENTY-ONE / The Idea NotesIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Eriugena Berkeley and the Idealist Tradition
Book SynopsisEriugena, Berkeley and the Idealist Tradition is a collection of original essays presented at an international conference held in Dublin in 2002 and subsequently revised in light of discussions at the conference. As Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran explain in their introduction, this book asks the question: What do philosophers mean by idealism? According to Gersh and Moran, the question of idealism is a difficult one, not only because of the historical complexity of the term idealism as they have sketched it but also because understanding of the phenomenon is dependent upon the observer''s own philosophical persuasion. The essays in this volume take up the question of idealism in the history of philosophy from Plato, through late ancient and medieval thought, to Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel. Although there are obvious discontinuities among these versions of idealism, the degree of continuity is sufficient to justify a reexamination of the entire question.The contributors cTrade Review"This is a very rich volume and constitutes a good starting point for a discussion of the multiple meanings of 'idealism.' In particular, it teaches the lesson that broad 'philosophical' definitions should be held in deep suspicion unless tied to specific contexts of discussion and specific historical periods." —Journal of the History of Philosophy“Fourteen essays trace the concept of idealism from Plato, the Roman Stoics, Plotinus, and Augustine through to Berkeley and the age of Kant and Hegel. Three papers on the ninth-century Irish writer Johannes Scottus Eriugena and on the Liber de causis, from ninth-century Baghdad, inspired by a concern to understand the common ground between medieval Neoplatonism and nineteenth-century Hegelian idealism . . . are especially instructive for medievalists.” —Medium Aevum“All fourteen essays collected in this volume are solid pieces of scholarship, and the book as a whole is a welcome addition to the ongoing debate on the role that the history of philosophy can play in enriching our conceptual apparatus by reminding us of the complexity of our philosophical tradition. The book succeeds in reminding us that idealism is a constellation of different positions.” —The Review of Metaphysics"If it is true—as Hegel and his followers have claimed—that being and truth are indissociable from history, then philosophy cannot be successful if it limits itself exclusively to investigations of individual thinkers and periods. What is at stake, ultimately, is the development of Western thought as a whole. In this volume, a fine international group of scholars investigate the meaning of idealism across the ages. Without sacrificing nuance, their contributions show that a core of shared assumptions characterizes idealist philosophies. The historical dialogue which this volume advances emphasizes the relevance of ancient and medieval thinkers for the current debate, but it also challenges us to place modern representatives of idealism—such as Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel—in historical perspective." —Philipp W. Rosemann, University of Dallas"This is a rich, subtle, thought-provoking collection on central, though neglected topics in idealism and its history, offering fresh and important insights into both familiar and less familiar major figures, views, and issues. Most important, perhaps, are its presentation and assessment of non-subjective forms of idealism, as well as mind-dependence forms of idealism prior to Descartes. Contemporary philosophers have become sophisticated about various forms of realism, anti-realism and irrealism. Such discussions, among others, will benefit significantly by accepting this volume’s invitation to become more sophisticated about idealism as well. This very welcome contribution to the literature should find a broad readership." —Kenneth R. Westphal, University of East Anglia
£20.99
University of Notre Dame Press Eriugena Berkeley and the Idealist Tradition
Book SynopsisEriugena, Berkeley and the Idealist Tradition is a collection of original essays presented at an international conference held in Dublin in 2002 and subsequently revised in light of discussions at the conference. As Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran explain in their introduction, this book asks the question: What do philosophers mean by idealism? According to Gersh and Moran, the question of idealism is a difficult one, not only because of the historical complexity of the term idealism as they have sketched it but also because understanding of the phenomenon is dependent upon the observer''s own philosophical persuasion. The essays in this volume take up the question of idealism in the history of philosophy from Plato, through late ancient and medieval thought, to Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel. Although there are obvious discontinuities among these versions of idealism, the degree of continuity is sufficient to justify a reexamination of the entire question.The contributors cTrade Review"This is a very rich volume and constitutes a good starting point for a discussion of the multiple meanings of 'idealism.' In particular, it teaches the lesson that broad 'philosophical' definitions should be held in deep suspicion unless tied to specific contexts of discussion and specific historical periods." —Journal of the History of Philosophy“Fourteen essays trace the concept of idealism from Plato, the Roman Stoics, Plotinus, and Augustine through to Berkeley and the age of Kant and Hegel. Three papers on the ninth-century Irish writer Johannes Scottus Eriugena and on the Liber de causis, from ninth-century Baghdad, inspired by a concern to understand the common ground between medieval Neoplatonism and nineteenth-century Hegelian idealism . . . are especially instructive for medievalists.” —Medium Aevum“All fourteen essays collected in this volume are solid pieces of scholarship, and the book as a whole is a welcome addition to the ongoing debate on the role that the history of philosophy can play in enriching our conceptual apparatus by reminding us of the complexity of our philosophical tradition. The book succeeds in reminding us that idealism is a constellation of different positions.” —The Review of Metaphysics"If it is true—as Hegel and his followers have claimed—that being and truth are indissociable from history, then philosophy cannot be successful if it limits itself exclusively to investigations of individual thinkers and periods. What is at stake, ultimately, is the development of Western thought as a whole. In this volume, a fine international group of scholars investigate the meaning of idealism across the ages. Without sacrificing nuance, their contributions show that a core of shared assumptions characterizes idealist philosophies. The historical dialogue which this volume advances emphasizes the relevance of ancient and medieval thinkers for the current debate, but it also challenges us to place modern representatives of idealism—such as Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel—in historical perspective." —Philipp W. Rosemann, University of Dallas"This is a rich, subtle, thought-provoking collection on central, though neglected topics in idealism and its history, offering fresh and important insights into both familiar and less familiar major figures, views, and issues. Most important, perhaps, are its presentation and assessment of non-subjective forms of idealism, as well as mind-dependence forms of idealism prior to Descartes. Contemporary philosophers have become sophisticated about various forms of realism, anti-realism and irrealism. Such discussions, among others, will benefit significantly by accepting this volume’s invitation to become more sophisticated about idealism as well. This very welcome contribution to the literature should find a broad readership." —Kenneth R. Westphal, University of East Anglia
£87.55
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Nietzsches Constructivism A Metaphysics of
Book SynopsisLike Kant, the German Idealists, and many neo-Kantian philosophers before him, Nietzsche was persistently concerned with metaphysical questions about the nature of objects. His texts often address questions concerning the existence and non-existence of objects, the relation of objects to human minds, and how different views of objects impact commitments in many areas of philosophyânot just metaphysics, but also language, epistemology, science, logic and mathematics, and even ethics. In this book, Remhof presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of Nietzscheâs material object metaphysics. He argues that Nietzsche embraces the controversial constructivist view that all concrete objects are socially constructed. Reading Nietzsche as a constructivist, Remhof contends, provides fresh insight into Nietzscheâs views on truth, science, naturalism, and nihilism. The book also investigates how Nietzscheâs view of objects compares with views offered by influential American pragmatists and explores the implications of Nietzscheâs constructivism for debates in contemporary material object metaphysics. Nietzscheâs Constructivism is a highly original and timely contribution to the steadily growing literature on Nietzscheâs thought.Trade Review"Remhof's work is an important contribution to Nietzsche studies. It is the first work that focuses exclusively on Nietzsche's understanding of material objects . . . Remhof has done an admirable job of laying out the scholarly terrain and offering a unique contribution that those working on Nietzsche should take seriously . . . He has shown that constructivism is a superior alternative to both the commonsense realist and unificationist readings." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"Many have long thought that there was something ‘constructivist’ about Nietzsche’s metaphysics, but Remhof shows precisely in what way this is so. The book is a vital contribution to Nietzsche studies, and, I suspect, essentially right." – R. Kevin Hill, Portland State University, USATable of Contents1. Interpreting Nietzsche on Objects2. Against Constructivism3. For Constructivism4. Objections to Constructivism5. Consequences of Constructivism6. Nihilism and Constructivism7. Nietzsche, Constructivism, and American Pragmatism8. Nietzsche’s Constructivism and Current Debates
£37.99
Lexington Books Hegel and Greek Tragedy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA concern with Greek tragedy saturates Hegel's thought from its youthful inception to its grand culminations. Quietly, yet relentlessly the themes, structures, and movements of this art form informs and shapes the heart of the Hegelian system. Martin Thibodeau's book ably traces the significance of tragedy for any understanding of Hegel. -- Dennis J. Schmidt, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate: Law, Love, and Tragic Fate 1.1: The Spirit of Judaism and the great tragedy of the Jewish People 1.2: Christianity and the Failure of the Theology of Love 1.3: Tragedy and the Reconciliation of Fate Chapter 2: The Essay on Natural Law: “Tragedy in Ethical Life” (Die Tragodie Im Sittlichen) 2.1: The Naturrechtsaufsatz and the Critique of Practical Understanding: The Empiricist and Formalist Theories of Natural Law 2.2: The Speculative Conception of Politics and the Tragic Process of Absolute Ethical Life Chapter 3: The Phenomenology of Spirit: The Science of the Experience of Consciousness and Greek Tragedy 3.1: Introduction: The Project of the Phenomenology of Spirit and Tragedy 3.2: The Ethical World (die sittliche Welt): Tragedy, Antigone and the Break-up of the Greek Polis 3.3: The “Religion of Art” (Die Kunstreligion): Tragic Poetry and the Fate of the Gods Chapter 4: The Lectures of Fine Art: The “Death of Art” and Greek Tragedy 4.1: The System of the Encyclopedia, Absolute Spirit and Art 4.2: Dramatic Poetry: Tragedy, Reconciliation and the Dissolution of Beautiful Art Conclusion
£82.80
Rlpg/Galleys Kant Fichte and the Legacy of Transcendental
Book SynopsisKant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy.Trade ReviewThis rich collection reflects both the broad range and the high quality of the best contemporary scholarship on the idealist tradition. The collection brings together a number of leading commentators and broaches issues in semantic theory, political philosophy and social theory, as well as moral philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology. It represents a welcome trend in the best recent scholarship to reach back to Kant’s predecessors and contemporaries (e.g., Rousseau, Pistorius) as well as to his immediate successors (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel) in coming to terms with the legacy of transcendental idealism. -- Wayne Martin, University of EssexThis volume is notable for its valuable essays by international experts who closely compare Kant not only with Fichte, but also with a range of other significant figures, including Hutcheson, Rousseau, Pistorius, Jacobi, Schelling, and Hegel. -- Karl Ameriks, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsChapter 1. Self-Love, Sociability, and Autonomy: Some Presuppositions of Kant’s Account of Practical Law, Jeffrey Edwards Chapter 2. The Virtuous Republic: Rousseau and Kant on the Relation between Civil and Moral Religion, Günter Zöller Chapter 3. Kant, Pistorius, and Accessing Reality, Halla Kim Chapter 4. Kant, Fichte, and Transcendental Idealism, Tom Rockmore Chapter 5. Fichte’s Project: The Jena Wissenschaftslehre, Daniel Breazeale Chapter 6. The Unity of Reason in Kant and Fichte, Steven Hoeltzel Chapter 7. Idealism and Nihilism, Benjamin D. Crowe Chapter 8. Fichte and Semantic Holism, Yukio Irie Chapter 9. “In and Of Itself Nothing is Finite”: Schelling’s Nature (or So-called Identity) Philosophy, Michael Vater Chapter 10. Conceptual Schemes, Realism, and Idealism: A Hegelian Approach to Concepts and Reality, Christian Tewes
£99.00
Hamilton Books Platos Logic
Book SynopsisPlatoâs Logic analyzes thirteen Platonic works, but it focuses on five of them because these instance the logic most completely. The logic is found to be uniform throughout Platoâs corpus, so it does not evolve after its genesis as a revision of Heraclitus.Table of Contents1.Introduction 1.1Thesis 1.2Versus Vlastos Etc. 1.3Versus Fine, Irwin, and Nehamas 1.4Versus Owen, Gallop, Castañeda, Etc. 1.5Plato, Anti-Plato, and Totalitarianism 2.The Hippias Major 2.1Definitions (287B-289D, 291D, 292C-E, 293C-294D, 299D-300B) 2.2Complexes (300E-303C) 2.3Self-Causation (297A-D, 303E-304A) 2.4Irony (281A, 286C-E, 287B-C, 288A-B, 292C-E, 298C, 304C-E) 2.5Dialogue About Dialogue (282E, 287E, 291D, 296B, 297D, 304D-E) 2.6Versus Woodruff (Definitions) 2.7Summary 3.The Phaedo 3.1 Pleasures (60B-69C) 3.2 Virtues (68D-69B) 3.3 Forms (73D-75A) 3.4 Psyches (73C-76A) 3.5 Mathematics (75C-D) 3.6 Method (63C-64A, 85C-D, 89D-91C) 3.7 Reincarnation (79E-84B) 3.8 Harmony (85E-88B, 92A-93D) 3.9 Opposites (70C-72E, 102A-E, 104B-107D) 3.10 Simplicity (78B-84D) 3.11 Causality (94A-95A, 96A-99D, 100B-102D, 105B-D) 3.12 Versus Bostock I (Forms) 3.13 Versus Bostock II (Virtues) 3.14 Summary 4.The Symposium 4.1Love (199C-212A) 4.2Creation (206B-207E, 208B-209E, 210C-D, 211C, 212A) 4.3Evolution (208E-209B, 210A-E, 211C-D) 4.4Lack (200C-204D, 206A, 207C-D, 212A) 4.5Opposites (199D-200A, 202C-D, 203E-204A, 206C-D, 207A-C) 4.6 Beauty (210E-211C, 211D-E, 212A) 4.7 Speeches upon Speeches (Entire Work) 4.8 Versus Nussbaum (Risk) 4.9 Summary 5.The Republic 5.1 Simonides (331C-332C) 5.2 Internal and External (357A-368C) 5.3 Justice (370A-B, 374A-D, 397E, 430E-431B, 441C-442E, 443B-444B) 5.4 Er (614B-621D) 5.5 God (377E-392C) 5.6 Relativity (472B-E, 475E-D, 476A-480A, 510B-511E, 522C-526A, 583B-588A) 5.7 Dialectic (510B-511C, 532A-537C) 5.8 Sun, Line, Cave (507B-509C, 509D-511E, 514A-520A) 5.9 Versus Reeve (Good) 5.10 Summary 6.The Laws 6.1 Self-Superiority (625E-628E) 6.2 Virtue (631B-D, 689D-E) 6.3 Pleasure (653A-654D, 659D-660A) 6.4 Gymnastics (653A-654A, Book 7) 6.5 Music (653E-656C, 667E-671A, 700A-701C) 6.6 Theater (657E-663D, 700A-701C) 6.7 Education (643A-645C, 653A-673D, 788A-822D) 6.8 Discourse (720A-724A, 880D-E, 885B-899D) 6.9 Crime (859D-864B) 6.10 Labor (704D-705B, 806D-E, 918C-919E) 6.11 Ancestor Worship (656D-657C, 715D-718D) 6.12 The Deluge (677A-682E) 6.13 God (893B-899E) 6.14 God’s Thoughts (895E-897B) 6.15 Versus Bobonich (Non-Philosophers) 6.16 Summary 7.The Lysis? 8.The Gorgias? 9.The Meno? 10.The Protagoras? 11.The Phaedrus? 12.The Timaeus? 13.The Theaetetus? Bibliography
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Cornell University Press Fichte
Book Synopsis"This work is a model of what a philosophical text should be."—Reinhard Lauth "Breazeale's translation is fluent, precise, and perhaps most important of all... it is readable.... This is an excellent translation by the ranking Fichte scholar...
£35.10
Fordham University Press Middling Romanticism Reading in the Gaps from
Book SynopsisExamines various forms of the middle (such as the medium, moderation, and mediocrity) that re-negotiated in the writings of British and German romanticism, along with a consideration of how our own relationship to romanticism is influenced by its medial thinking.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. Parenthyrsos: On the Medium of the Sublime | 17 2. The Medium Eats the Message: Mediatization and Force in Kleist’s “Michael Kohlhaas” | 38 3. Radically Neutral: Hegel, Haiti, Kleist | 71 4. Love Language: Plato, Shelley, Schlegel | 104 5. This Is (Not) a Joint: Two Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin | 127 6. Lyric Meditude: On Hölderlin and Ashbery | 154 After Words | 173 Acknowledgments | 187 Notes | 189 Works Cited | 217 Index | 233
£45.90
Imprint Academic Oakeshott on History British Idealist Studies
Book SynopsisThis book challenges the common view that Michael Oakeshott was mainly important as a political philosopher by offering the first comprehensive study of his ideas on history. It argues that Oakeshott''s writings on the philosophy of history mark him out as the most successful of the philosophers who attempted to establish historical study as an autonomous form of thought during the twentieth century. It also contends that his work on the history of political thought is best seen in the context of debates over the origins of the liberal state. For the first time, extensive use has been made of unpublished material in the collection of Oakeshott's papers at the LSE, resulting in an intellectual biography that should be of interest both to first-time students and those already familiar with his published works.
£30.00
Imprint Academic THGreen and the Development of Ethical Socialism
Book SynopsisThis book uncovers the philosophical foundations of a tradition of ethical socialism best represented in the work of R.H. Tawney, tracing its roots back to the work of T.H. Green. Green and his colleagues developed a philosophy that rejected the atomistic individualism and empiricist assumptions that underpinned classical liberalism and helped to found a new political ideology based around four notions: the common good; a positive view of freedom; equality of opportunity; and an expanded role for the state. The book shows how Tawney adopted the key features of the idealists'' philosophical settlement and used them to help shape his own notions of true freedom and equality, thereby establishing a tradition of thought which remains relevant in British politics today.
£30.00
Imprint Academic Greenian Moment
Book SynopsisThis study of T.H. Green views his philosophical opus through his public life and political commitments, and it uses biography as a lens through which to examine Victorian political culture and its moral climate. The book deals with the political and religious history of Victorian Britain in examining the basis of Green''s Liberal partisanship. It demonstrates how his main ethical and political conceptionshis idea of self-realisation and his theory of individuality within communitywere informed by evangelical theology, popular Protestantism and an idea of the English national consciousness as formed by religious conflict. While the significance of Kantian and Hegelian elements in Green''s thought is acknowledged, it is argued that indigenous qualities of Green's teachings resonated with values shared alike by elite and rank-and-file Liberals during the mid and late Victorian era. In examining Green's beliefs about the historical evolution of English liberty, his championing of (Libe
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Imprint Academic Action as History The Historical Thought of RG
Book SynopsisR G Collingwood''s philosophy of history reflected his historical practices and his moral philosophy. Reflection on historical practice provided him with a theory of knowledge; his moral philosophy provided him with a theory of the object of history. This study shows how Collingwood''s concepts of action and history developed together.
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Imprint Academic Religious and Poetic Experience in the Thought of
Book SynopsisMuch of the scholarly attention attracted by Michael Oakeshott''s writings has focused upon his philosophical characterisation of the relations that constitute moral association in the modern world. A less noticed, but equally significant, aspect of Oakeshott's moral philosophy is his account of the type of person (or persona) required to enter into and enjoy moral association. Oakeshott's best known characterisation of the persona best suited to moral association occurs in his identification of a ''morality of the individual'. The book argues that Oakeshott's characterisations of religious and poetic experience provide a more detailed account of the type of persona that emerged in response to what it perceived as an invitation to participate in moral association in the modern world.
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Imprint Academic Scottish Idealists
Book SynopsisThe extent to which British Idealism was heavily influenced by Scots has been little noticed, yet not only were they at the forefront of introducing Hegel into Britain in the work of Ferrier, Carlyle, Hutcheson, Stirling and Edward Caird, but they were also distinctive in locating themselves in relation to the Scottish philosophical tradition they sought to extend. The Scottish Idealists, among them Edward Caird, David George Ritchie, Andrew Seth Pringle Pattison, William Mitchell, John Watson, and the Welshman Henry Jones who found his spiritual home in Glasgow, comprised a formidable force and dominated the philosophical professoriate in Britain, Australia and Canada from the late nineteenth century to the years leading up to the First World War. Its main centres were St. Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland, Cardiff in Wales, and Oxford in England. This collection of readings, the first of its kind, has been chosen with a view to displaying the variety, richness and strengt
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Comparing Kant and Sartre
Book SynopsisFor a long time, commentators viewed Sartre as one of Kant's significant twentieth-century critics. Recent research of their philosophies has discovered that Sartre's relation to Kant's work manifests an 'anxiety of influence', which masks more profound similarities.Trade ReviewBy John Russon, Guelph In my judgment this is a very good proposal, and the project is worth pursuing. This volume intends to map out the relatively uncharted domain of the relationship between philosophies of Kant and Sartre. While Kant is widely recognized as the founding figure of the tradition of Continental philosophy to which Sartre himself belongs, more direct connections between the figures are not widely studied. This work promises to demonstrate a broadly grounded compatibility between the two thinkers, documenting important connections between their approaches to subjectivity, metaphysics, ethics, and more. I think this is quite a worthwhile project, and will be of interest to scholars in Continental philosophy (primarily graduate students and faculty). The sequence of proposed topics of study, as articulated through the abstracts, seems to me to be very well designed to draw important connections between these two thinkers both at a very fundamental, theoretical level, (addressing such topics as the transcendental unity of appreception/pre-reflective cogito, temporality and reflection), and at the level of their most developed reflections on the deepest existential and ethical issues of human life, (addressing such topics as bad faith, happiness and evil). I think the topics are appropriately fundamental and comprehensive. I do not know many of the individual contributors (most of whom are centred in the UK), but the abstracts are very good, and attest to the high quality of the proposed contributions. I also think this book is quite original and distinctive: I do not know of any other volume that covers this important ground. I am quite confident that this will be an excellent volume and a worthwhile contribution to contemporary philosophical research. Author's Response I have two comments with regard to the review: one concerns the area of interest - the volume is not only designed to readers of Continental philosophy; all contributors write in an accessible style, which is common to both good analytic and continental philosophy, and some of them would define themselves as primarily analytic, although they may also write on the work of philosophers usually placed in the continental tradition. The second comment is about the aim of the volume - the volume aims to present some of the similarities between Kant and Sartre, but does this without neglecting their differences.Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION Kant and Sartre: Existentialism and Critical Philosophy; Jonathan Head et. al.PART II: METAPHYSICS1. (Self-)Consciousness and Transcendental Apperception; Sorin Baiasu2. Kant, Sartre and Temporality; Daniel Herbert3. The Quiet Power of the Imaginary; Thomas Flynn4. Kant and Sartre on Freedom; Christian OnofPART III: METAETHICS5. Sartre and Kant on Reflection and Freedom; Leslie Stevenson6. Action, Value and Autonomy: A Quasi-Sartrean View; Peter Poellner7. Kantian Radical Evil and Sartrean Bad Faith; Justin Alam8. The Pursuit of Happiness; Michelle DarnellPART IV: METAPHILOSOPHY9. Sartre: Transcendental Philosopher or Philosophical Therapist?; Katherine Morris10. The Transcendental Idealisms of Kant and Sartre; Richard Aquila
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Palgrave Kant Handbook Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism
Trade ReviewSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018“A new generation of Kant scholars is on the rise, and this beautifully printed and consummately edited scholarly collection announces their ascendancy with distinctive fanfare. … The essays are extremely readable, impeccably annotated, and abundantly resourceful, so they will be useful both for novice readers finding their way through Kant’s notoriously difficult thicket of concepts and for established scholars seeking reference points sure to spark renewed debate. … Researchers in particular will find this book a critical touchstone.” (J. G. Moore, Choice, Vol. 55 (12), August, 2018)Table of ContentsContents Series Editor’s Preface Preface Notes on Contributors Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations Introduction: Kant the Revolutionary: Matthew C. Altman Part I. Biographical and Historical Background 1. Kant’s Life: Steve Naragon 2. Kant and His Philosophical Context: The Reception and Critical Transformation of the Leibnizian-Wolffian Philosophy: Manuel Sánchez-Rodríguez Part II. Metaphysics and Epistemology 3. Transcendental Idealism: What and Why?: Paul Guyer 4. Noumenal Ignorance: Why, for Kant, Can’t We Know Things in Themselves?: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval and Andrew Chignell 5. Kant’s Concept of Cognition and the Key to the Whole Secret of Metaphysics: Chong-Fuk Lau 6. Apperception, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge in Kant: Dennis Schulting Part III. Logic 7. The Place of Logic within Kant’s Philosophy: Clinton Tolley Part IV. Relation between Theoretical and Practical Reason 8. The Primacy of Practical Reason: Ralph C. S. Walker 9. A Practical Account of Kantian Freedom: Matthew C. Altman 10. Moral Skepticism and the Critique of Practical Reason: David Zapero Part V. Ethics 11. How a Kantian Decides What to Do: Allen W. Wood 12. Duties to Oneself: Oliver Sensen 13. Demandingness, Indebtedness, and Charity: Kant on Imperfect Duties to Others: Kate Moran 14. Kant and Sexuality: Helga Varden 15. Kant in Metaethics: The Paradox of Autonomy, Solved by Publicity: Carla Bagnoli Part VI. Aesthetics 16. Feeling the Life of the Mind: Mere Judging, Feeling, and Judgment: Fiona Hughes 17. On Common Sense, Communicability, and Community: Eli Friedlander 18. Immediate Judgment and Non-Cognitive Ideas: The Pervasive and Persistent in the Misreading of Kant’s Aesthetic Formalism: Jennifer A. McMahon 19. Sublimity and Joy: Kant on the Aesthetic Constitution of Virtue: Melissa McBay Merritt Part VII. Philosophy of Science 20. “Proper Science” and Empirical Laws: Kant’s Sense of Science in the Critical Philosophy: John H. Zammito 21. From General to Special Metaphysics of Nature: Michael Bennett McNulty (with Marius Stan) Part VIII. Philosophy of Religion 22. Kant on Faith: Religious Assent and the Limits to Knowledge: Lawrence Pasternack 23. The Fate of Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: Martin Moors Part IX. Political Philosophy 24. The Critical Legal and Political Philosophy of Immanuel Kant: 25. A Cosmopolitan Law Created by Cosmopolitan Citizens: The Kantian Project Today: Soraya Nour Sckell 26. Kant’s Mature Theory of Punishment, and a First Critique Ideal Abolitionist Alternative: Benjamin Vilhauer Part X. Anthropology, History, and Education 27. Denkungsart in Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View: Patrick R. Frierson 28. Kant on Emotions, Feelings, and Affectivity: Alix Cohen 29. The Philosopher as Legislator: Kant on History: Katerina Deligiorgi 30. Becoming Human: Kant’s Philosophy of Education and Human Nature: Robert B. Louden Part XI. The Kantian Aftermath, and Kant’s Contemporary Relevance 31. Kant after Kant: The Indispensable Philosopher: Michael Vater 32. Kant, the Copernican Devolution, and Real Metaphysics: Robert Hanna 33. Contemporary Kantian Moral Philosophy: Michael Rohlf Conclusion: Kant the Philosopher: Matthew C. Altman Index
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Cosmotheism
Book SynopsisCosmotheism retrieves the importance of a cosmic approach to reality through its revival of the heliocentric creed championed by Copernicus, Bruno and Kepler, through its critiques of historical patterns of politics and technology, and through its sponsorship of emancipatory thinkers, artists, psychonauts, and cosmologists.Table of ContentsEnchantment – Enchantment of the World (Verzauberung) I: Copernicus and Bruno – Enchantment of the World (Verzauberung) II: Kepler – Disenchantment of the World (Entzauberung) I: Galileo and Descartes – Disenchantment of the World (Entzauberung) II: Newton – Commonwealth – From Toleration to Partition (I): The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – From Partition to Extermination (II): Post-Commonwealth – Technicity – Ge-stell I: The "History" of Technicity as Accelerative TechnoScience – Ge-stell II: The "History" of Technicity as Accelerative Political Economy – Seeking – Rousseau and Nietzsche as Seekers – A Yank at Oxford – Homer and Hardware – Spirit – Between Aistheterion and Artistdom ("Art") – From Castalia to Maui Wowie ("Religion") – From Hellenism to Cosmotheism ("Philosophy") - Appendix: Five Book Reviews – Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism (1982) – Anson Rabinbach, In the Shadow of Catastrophe (1997) – Suzanne Marchand, Down from Olympus (1996) – Jacques Derrida, Athens, Still Remains (2010) – Juliane Rebentisch, Aesthetics of Installation Art (2012) – Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Dialogues of Francois Hemsterhuis 17781787
Book SynopsisThis collection translates Hemsterhuis' Sophylus, Aristeaus, Simon and Alexis dialogues into English for the first time, with full scholarly apparatus and commentary. It includes two introductory essays: one by Daniel Whistler (on Hemsterhuis and Amelia Gallitzin) and Laure Cahen-Maurel (on the transmission and influence of these dialogues).
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University of Toronto Press Modernist Idealism
Book SynopsisOffering a new approach to the intersection of literature and philosophy, Modernist Idealism contends that certain models of idealist thought require artistic form for their full development and that modernism realizes philosophical idealism in aesthetic form. This comparative view of modernism employs tools from intellectual history, literary analysis, and philosophical critique, focusing on the Italian reception of German idealist thought from the mid-1800s to the Second World War. Modernist Idealism intervenes in ongoing debates about the nineteenth- and twentieth-century resurgence of materialism and spiritualism, as well as the relation of decadent, avant-garde, and modernist production. Michael J. Subialka aims to open new discursive space for the philosophical study of modernist literary and visual culture, considering not only philosophical and literary texts but also early cinema. The author’s main contention is that, in various media and with soTable of ContentsIntroduction Modernist Idealism Revitalizing Italy D'Annunzio and Shimoi, Italy and Japan: A Case of Modernist Idealism Modernism, Idealism, and Modernist Idealism The Artistic Fruition of Idealism: Vitalism, Spiritualism, and the New Materialism Italian Modernity and Modernist Idealism: A Transnational Paradigm Chapter One Italy at the Banquet of Nations: Hegel in Politics and Philosophy Philosophy, Nationality, and a New Italy: Hegel Comes to Naples Hegelian Idealism as a Response to Modern Crisis: History, Nationality, and the State Modernity and Spiritual Renewal: Italian Modernism and Hegelian Idealism Chapter Two Italy’s Modernist Idealism and the Artistic Reception of Schopenhauer Alternative Ideals: From Hegel to Schopenhauer Schopenhauer in Italy: De Sanctis and His Philosophical and Cultural Reception The Other Side of Modernist Idealism Chapter Three Aesthetic Decadence and Modernist Idealism: Schopenhauer’s Literary-Artistic Legacy Aestheticism and the Decadent Imagination: Art as an Alternative to Modern Deadness A Sublime Death: Suicide and Decadent Aestheticism Ambivalent Idealism: Ascetic Aestheticism and Modernist Renewal Chapter Four Avant-Garde Idealism: The Ambivalence of Futurist Vitalism Futurist Lebensphilosophie: Practical and Mystical Revitalization Modernist Mysticism: A Dangerous Ideal(ism) Futurist Ambivalence and Modernist Idealism: The Case of Bruno Corra Chapter Five Occult Spiritualism and Modernist Idealism: Reanimating the Dead World Occult Irrationality and Material Positivism: Spirits at the Juncture in Deledda, Capuana, and Pirandello Spiritual Creation and Modernist Idealism Modernist Idealism and the Long Durée Chapter Six Cinematic Idealism: Modernist Visions of Spiritual Vitality Mediated by the Machine Cinematic Idealism: Existential Thought Experiments and the Vision of Photogénie Seeing Vital Rhythm: An Irrational Ideal in the Cinema of Futurism and Pirandello Cinematic Idealism Re-purposing Mechanization: A Surreal Coda Appendix Schopenhauer and Leopardi: A Dialogue between A and D by Francesco De Sanctis Notes Works Cited
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Lexington Books Democracy and the Divine
Book SynopsisAdvancing the thesis that a contract between the political members of a community must lead to the highest form of social inclusion, Thomas Hobbes's 1651 Leviathan has provided the groundwork for democracies around the world. Yet, Hobbes also states that this contract can only be upheld by a strong sovereign whose authority is derived from God. How can a democracy be defined as truly inclusive when it essentially grows out of a theocracy that thinks about human beings in terms of reduction? In this study, Alexandra Aidler argues that despite modern democracy's problematic heritage, one should not abandon its claims to religion. Articulating a democracy that is based on the religious principle of giving oneself to another, Aidler develops a political theology of democracy that is built upon two traditions in political thought that have rarely been examined thus far in combination for their contributions to this field: the German Romanticism of the first half of the nineteenth century, aTable of ContentsPart I. Laws of Love and Laws of Giving: Franz von Baader’s and Friedrich Schlegel’s Political Philosophies Chapter 1. The Romantic Critique of Modern Political Theology Chapter 2. History without God’s Logos: On the Genesis of Ontological Power in Baader and Schlegel Chapter 3. Restituting the Divine Logos: Baader and Schlegel on the Notion of the Recognition of Exteriority Chapter 4. Politics of Consecration: The Path towards the Kingdom of God in Schlegel’s and Baader’s Late Writings “Unus pastor, una grex”: An Interim Appraisal of Baader’s and Schlegel’s Teleological Politics of Absolute Inclusion Part II. Philosophies of Forbearance: An Exploration of Present-day Democracies of Singularity Chapter 5. Jacques Rancière’s “Passion for Equality” Chapter 6. Democracy Beyond Politics in Derrida Conclusion: A Final Appraisal of the Romantic Democracy of Exteriority
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Rowman & Littlefield Hegel and the Problem of Beginning: Scepticism
Book SynopsisHegel opens the first book of his Science of Logic with the statement of a problem: “The beginning of philosophy must be either something mediated or something immediate, and it is easy to show that it can be neither the one nor the other, so either way of beginning runs into a rebuttal.” Despite its significant placement, exactly what Hegel means in his expression of this problem, and exactly what his solution to it is, remain unclear.In this book Robert Dunphy provides a detailed, critical engagement with Hegel’s problem of beginning, and with the various putative solutions that Hegel might be thought to put forward. The book also provides original interventions into discussions concerning Hegel’s wider logical project, the relationship between his Logic and his Phenomenology, and his engagement with the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: With What Must the Beginning of the Science be Made?0.0 Introduction0.1 Hegel’s Logic and its Beginning0.2 Hegel and Pyrrhonian Scepticism0.3 A Brief Précis of “With what must the beginning of the science be made?”0.4 ConclusionChapter 1: Hegel and Pyrrhonian Scepticism1.0 Introduction1.1 Sextus’ Account of Pyrrhonism1.2 Hegel and Pyrrhonism1.3 ConclusionChapter 2: A Short History of the Problem of Beginning2.0 Introduction2.1 The Objective and the Subjective Beginning2.2 The Methodological Beginning2.3 The Modern Problem of Beginning2.4 Hegel on First Principles and the Beginning2.5 ConclusionChapter 3: The Problem of Beginning3.0 Introduction3.1 The Problem of Beginning: Preliminary Investigation3.2 The Problem of Beginning as an Agrippan Problem3.3 The Solution to the Problem of Beginning3.4 Alternatives Criticised, Objections Anticipated3.5 ConclusionChapter 4: Mediation I: Phenomenology4.0 Introduction4.1 The Phenomenology and the Beginning of the Logic4.2 Some Problems4.3 ConclusionChapter 5: Mediation II: Completed Scepticism5.0 Introduction5.1 A Third Solution?5.2 Completed Scepticism5.3 ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Bucknell University Press Commonplace Commitments: Thinking through the
Book SynopsisJoseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet but radical reform in the philosophical tradition that speaks to perennial dilemmas of thought and pressing issues for action. Since Descartes, at least, we have been puzzled as to what we can know, how we should act, and what we should value. The skeptical influence of modern dualism—distilled in the mind-body problem at arose with the assertion “I think, therefore I am”—has shot through not just philosophy and psychology, but also society, politics, and culture. With dualism arose radical subjectivism and the concomitant problems of nihilism and alienation. The broad aim of phenomenology is to repair the rupture of self and world. Announced by Edmund Husserl and developed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, and John William Miller, who drew from the North American tradition, this is the project to which Fell has devoted more than a half century of reflection and technical elaboration. In this volume, an array of scholars consider, criticize, and cultivate Fell’s key contributions to the phenomenological project. Ranging from analyses of key texts in Fell’s phenomenology to probing examinations of his crucial philosophical presuppositions to the prospects for Fell’s call to find the solution to nihilism in everyday experience—these essays gather the work of the authors thinking with and through Fell’s key works on Sartre, Heidegger, and Miller. Also included are seminal statements from Fell on his pedagogical practice and his conception of philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface by Peter S. Fosl, Michael J. McGandy, and Mark D. Moorman Introduction: Joseph P. Fell and the Traditions of Phenomenological Existentialism in America by Michael J. McGandy Part 1. Orientations 1.What is Philosophy? by Joseph P. Fell 2.Joseph Fell as Teacher by Mark D. Moorman 3.Style in Teaching Philosophy by Peter S. Fosl 4.The Eclipse and Rebirth of American Philosophical Pluralism by Armen T. Marsoobian Part 2. The European Tradition 5.An Aristotelian Argument against the Inquiring of the Nicomachean Ethics by Jeffrey S. Turner 6.Why Heidegger? by David Weinberger 7.Placing Common Life: Fell and Skepticism by Peter S. Fosl 8.“Honoring one’s commitments….” by Dennis Schmidt Part 3. Joining the American Tradition 9.From Place to Midworld: A Key Development in the Philosophy of Joseph P. Fell by Mark D. Moorman 10.The Reclamation of History: Does Miller’s Philosophical Project Preclude a “Radical Will?” by Vincent M. Colapietro 11.Ordinary Studies: Conceptual Brackets—Textual Moments by Richard Fleming Part 4. Prospects 12.Re-Orienting Thinking: Philosophy in the Midst of the World by Jeffery Malpas 13.Heideggerian Pathways through Existential Crisis: A “Hermeneutics of Facticity” by Scott D. Churchill 14.The Humanity of the Severely Handicapped within Sartre’s Ethics by Kenneth L. Anderson 15.The Integrity of Finitude: Existential Reckoning in the Work of John William Miller by Katie Terezakis 16.Descartes, Nihilism, and Jonas's "Third Road" by Gary Steiner Coda: More I Cannot Wish You by Joseph P. Fell A Bibliography of Joseph Fell’s Work Contributors Endnotes Index
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Lexington Books Hegel and Heidegger on Nature and World
Book SynopsisThe philosophical concepts of “nature” and “world” have overlapped one another in a myriad of ways throughout the history of Western philosophy. Nevertheless, modernity has constructed a decisive philosophical dichotomy between the domain of nature and the domain of the human world as a response to the revolutions of the natural sciences in the seventeenth century. In Hegel and Heidegger on Nature and World, Raoni Padui investigates the responses to this distinction between nature and world in the works of Hegel and Heidegger. Both philosophers attempt to heal the wounds of modernity and to reconcile the human historical world to the domain of nature, and both refuse to accept the dichotomy between nature and world, seeking to offer a way in which humans can inhabit a meaningful world without being alienated from the nature that conditions it. However, the difference in their modes of reconciliation illustrates the options opened up by modern philosophy: either a Hegelian path of self-determination that traces our historical emancipation from the natural domain, or a Heideggerian rethinking of nature that seeks a renewed proximity to the domain of things.Trade ReviewPhilosophy once aspired to understand the whole of existence, but the development of modern science has saddled it with seemingly impossible task of integrating an increasingly disenchanted realm of nature with the world of human meaning. In this book, Raoni Padui offers an elegant, historically rich assessment of the power, and the limitations, of the two greatest attempts to overcome the divide between nature and world without reducing one to the other—Hegel’s systematic reconciliation of nature and spirit, and Heidegger’s overcoming of metaphysics. -- Mark Vinzenz Alznauer, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Our Amphibian ConditionHistorical Interlude 1: The Modern Dichotomy between Nature and WorldChapter 1: Hegel on the Reconciliation of Nature and SpiritHistorical Interlude 2: The Modern Dichotomy Transformed and RepeatedChapter 2: Heidegger on World and Nature: The Withdrawal of BeingChapter 3: Hegel or Heidegger Conclusion: The Step Back from the Step Back
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Lexington Books Schelling on Truth and Person: The Meaning of
Book SynopsisPositive philosophy is the name that Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) gave to a new type of philosophizing that stands in contrast to the so-called negative philosophy that is predominant in modern rationalism. But what exactly is positive philosophy? Schelling on Truth and Person: The Meaning of Positive Philosophy argues that its meaning lies in a distinctive view of the human person as a seeker of truth. Truth is presented as historically woven in the movement of life with the phenomena of mythology and religion that reveal the human being's falling away from and return to the truth. Nikolaj Zunic demonstrates that this novel understanding of truth accompanies the development and expression of positive philosophy itself. The anthropological dimension of truth relates to self-knowledge, the soul, spirit, and personality, and Schelling’s positive philosophy sheds light on the grand themes of the meaning of life, the ontological question (why is there something rather than nothing?), the enigma of knowledge and reason, and the affirmation of the existence of God. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in Schelling's late philosophy as well as broader questions in philosophy concerning meaning, truth, human nature, and rationality.Trade ReviewThis is a critical contribution to the reception of Schelling’s late philosophy, especially the positive philosophy, both in itself and as it relates to the negative philosophy. Zunic thoughtfully organizes his analysis around the problem of a philosophical anthropology and includes a refreshingly lucid account of the philosophy of mythology and revelation. Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University -- Jason Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: Truth in the Movement of LifeChapter One: The Crisis of PhilosophyChapter Two: The Presupposition of Positive PhilosophyChapter Three: The Foundation of TruthChapter Four: Truth and FaithChapter Five: Truth in Philosophy: The Greek Nous and the Christian LogosPart Two: The Revelation of the PersonChapter Six: The Task of Self-KnowledgeChapter Seven: SoulChapter Eight: SpiritChapter Nine: PersonalityEpilogue: The Contradiction and Struggle of LifeBibliographyAbout the Author
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Lexington Books Kant in Context: The Historical Primacy of the
Book SynopsisKant in Context: The Historical Primacy of the Transcendental Dialectic examines the introduction of Kant’s critical philosophy through the lens of historical contextualization. Daniel Patrick Kelly argues that Kant’s seismic Copernican epistemic turn must be adequately positioned and understood within the German philosophical landscape that developed in Spinoza’s wake. This necessary historical analysis illuminates the development and comparative strength of Kant’s emergent transcendental idealism. However, in order to render the introduction of Kant’s critical system sufficient to this historical task, this book heuristically organizes the contents of the Critique of Pure Reason to highlight the work’s meta-philosophical historical conclusions. In this revised take on Kant’s Critique, Kelly argues that the "Transcendental Aesthetic" and subsequent "Transcendental Dialectic" emerge as foundational in understanding Kant’s Critique as a profound historical-methodological development, as they justify and ground the call for his new and supporting science of cognition, placing the "Transcendental Analytic" as inherently secondary in this heuristic reading of the Critique. The author’s overarching contention is that Kant’s identification of the dialectical limitations of metaphysical reasoning provides a more solid justification for Kant’s transcendental idealism than that of the novel postulates of the "Analytic."Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Orthodox German RationalismChapter 2: The Rise of Contra-RationalismChapter 3: The Transcendental Aesthetic and Kant’s Skepticism in RepresentationChapter 4: Roadmap to the Historical Primacy of the DialecticChapter 5: The Supporting and Enduring Role of the AnalyticConclusion
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Rowman & Littlefield International Continental Anti-Realism: A Critique
Book SynopsisThere has been a resurgence of interest in the problem of realism, the idea that the world exists in the way it does independently of the mind, within contemporary Continental philosophy. Many, if not most, of those writing on the topic demonstrates attitudes that range from mild skepticism to outright hostility. Richard Sebold argues that the problem with this is that realism is correct and that the question should then become: what happens to Continental philosophy if it is committed to the denial of a true doctrine? Sebold outlines the reasons why realism is superior to anti-realism and shows how Continental philosophical arguments against realism fail. Focusing on the work of four important philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl, all of who have had a profound influence on more recent thinkers, he provides alternative ways of interpreting their apparently anti-realist sentiments and demonstrates that the insights of these Continental philosophers are nevertheless valuable, despite their problematic metaphysical beliefs.Trade ReviewSebold puts a strong case for philosophical realism via some acute and highly critical though not ungenerous readings of the anti-realist (mainly 'continental') opposition. While focusing on Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Husserl his account is also shrewdly angled toward a swathe of present-day thinkers and movements. His basic line of argument - that anti-realists are often (thankfully) to be found making covert realist commitments - is well taken and merits close attention from those of that persuasion. Sebold's book should indeed, as he hopes, help to move things along and reframe the very terms of current debate on this topic. -- Christopher Norris, distinguished research professor at Cardiff University, WalesSebold's book perceptively explores the fertile ambiguity of some famous continental philosophers on the question of realism. Controversial but compelling, it is a must read, especially in concert with emerging trends in speculative realism. -- Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, MelbourneTable of ContentsAcknowledgments / 1. Are Continental Philosophers Anti-Realists? / 2. Metaphysical Realism and its Discontents / 3. Kant's Ambiguous Realism / 4. Hegel and Idealism Made Absolute / 5. Nietzsche's Realism in Perspective / 6. On the Varieties and Vagaries of Husserl's Transcendental Idealism / 7. The Confusions of Continental Anti-Realism and Shifting the Debate / Bibliography / index
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Rowman & Littlefield International Continental Anti-Realism: A Critique
Book SynopsisThere has been a resurgence of interest in the problem of realism, the idea that the world exists in the way it does independently of the mind, within contemporary Continental philosophy. Many, if not most, of those writing on the topic demonstrates attitudes that range from mild skepticism to outright hostility. Richard Sebold argues that the problem with this is that realism is correct and that the question should then become: what happens to Continental philosophy if it is committed to the denial of a true doctrine? Sebold outlines the reasons why realism is superior to anti-realism and shows how Continental philosophical arguments against realism fail. Focusing on the work of four important philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl, all of who have had a profound influence on more recent thinkers, he provides alternative ways of interpreting their apparently anti-realist sentiments and demonstrates that the insights of these Continental philosophers are nevertheless valuable, despite their problematic metaphysical beliefs.Trade ReviewSebold puts a strong case for philosophical realism via some acute and highly critical though not ungenerous readings of the anti-realist (mainly 'continental') opposition. While focusing on Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Husserl his account is also shrewdly angled toward a swathe of present-day thinkers and movements. His basic line of argument - that anti-realists are often (thankfully) to be found making covert realist commitments - is well taken and merits close attention from those of that persuasion. Sebold's book should indeed, as he hopes, help to move things along and reframe the very terms of current debate on this topic. -- Christopher Norris, distinguished research professor at Cardiff University, WalesSebold's book perceptively explores the fertile ambiguity of some famous continental philosophers on the question of realism. Controversial but compelling, it is a must read, especially in concert with emerging trends in speculative realism. -- Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, MelbourneTable of ContentsAcknowledgments / 1. Are Continental Philosophers Anti-Realists? / 2. Metaphysical Realism and its Discontents / 3. Kant's Ambiguous Realism / 4. Hegel and Idealism Made Absolute / 5. Nietzsche's Realism in Perspective / 6. On the Varieties and Vagaries of Husserl's Transcendental Idealism / 7. The Confusions of Continental Anti-Realism and Shifting the Debate / Bibliography / index
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Rowman & Littlefield International Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy: A
Book SynopsisSøren Kierkegaard is often cast as the forefather of existentialism and an anti-Hegelian proponent of the single individual. Yet this book calls these traditional characterizations into question by arguing that Kierkegaard offers not only a systematic critique of idealist philosophy, but more surprisingly, a political ontology that is paradoxically at home in the context of twenty-first-century philosophical and political thought. Through a close consideration of his authorship in the context of nineteenth-century German idealism, Michael O'Neill Burns argues that Kierkegaard develops an ontology, anthropology and theory of the political that are outcomes of his critical appropriation of the philosophical projects of Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte. While starting out in the philosophical concerns of the nineteenth century, the book offers an interpretation of Kierkegaard that shows his relevance to philosophers and political theorists in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewBurns presents us with a radical, political, materialist Kierkegaard. His argument is bold, counter-intuitive - and utterly persuasive. This book deserves to set the agenda for Kierkegaard studies for years to come. -- Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope UniversityMichael Burns, in his magisterial Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy, achieves nothing less than doing for Kierkegaard what Slavoj Žižek has done for Hegel. While remaining faithful to core components of Kierkegaard’s philosophy, Burns sweeps aside accumulated received readings of him and constructs in their place the figure of a Kierkegaard deeply and undeniably relevant to today’s philosophical landscape as colored by innovative revivals of the legacies of German idealism and Marxism. Burns's transcendental materialist Kierkegaard promises fundamentally to transform our understandings both of the past two centuries of European philosophy as well as of contemporary Continental metaphysics. -- Adrian Johnston, Professor of Philosophy, University of New MexicoBurns’ book is a seminal contribution to Kierkegaard scholarship. He convincingly shows against some widespread misconceptions that Kierkegaard’s thought implies a powerful contribution to ontology and to social and political thought. In addition to this novel approach to Kierkegaard, Burns defends the most relevant aspects of Kierkegaard in the context of contemporary philosophy. A very good book! -- Markus Gabriel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bonn“[I]t is excellently written, well sculpted, and […] makes Kierkegaard relevant in today’s philosophical landscape by offering contemporary philosophers a “materialist Kierkegaard” that goes beyond our traditional readings of one of the pillars of existentialism. [T]his book is a must read” * APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / Notes on Sources / Introduction / 1. Idealism Before Kierkegaard / 2. Anxiety and Ontology / 3. Spirit and Society / 4. Anxious Politics / 5. The Fractured Dialectic in Recent European Materialism / Conclusion: Kierkegaard and 21st Century Philosophy / Bibliography / Index
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Rowman & Littlefield International Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy: A
Book SynopsisSøren Kierkegaard is often cast as the forefather of existentialism and an anti-Hegelian proponent of the single individual. Yet this book calls these traditional characterizations into question by arguing that Kierkegaard offers not only a systematic critique of idealist philosophy, but more surprisingly, a political ontology that is paradoxically at home in the context of twenty-first-century philosophical and political thought. Through a close consideration of his authorship in the context of nineteenth-century German idealism, Michael O'Neill Burns argues that Kierkegaard develops an ontology, anthropology and theory of the political that are outcomes of his critical appropriation of the philosophical projects of Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte. While starting out in the philosophical concerns of the nineteenth century, the book offers an interpretation of Kierkegaard that shows his relevance to philosophers and political theorists in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewBurns presents us with a radical, political, materialist Kierkegaard. His argument is bold, counter-intuitive - and utterly persuasive. This book deserves to set the agenda for Kierkegaard studies for years to come. -- Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope UniversityMichael Burns, in his magisterial Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy, achieves nothing less than doing for Kierkegaard what Slavoj Žižek has done for Hegel. While remaining faithful to core components of Kierkegaard’s philosophy, Burns sweeps aside accumulated received readings of him and constructs in their place the figure of a Kierkegaard deeply and undeniably relevant to today’s philosophical landscape as colored by innovative revivals of the legacies of German idealism and Marxism. Burns's transcendental materialist Kierkegaard promises fundamentally to transform our understandings both of the past two centuries of European philosophy as well as of contemporary Continental metaphysics. -- Adrian Johnston, Professor of Philosophy, University of New MexicoBurns’ book is a seminal contribution to Kierkegaard scholarship. He convincingly shows against some widespread misconceptions that Kierkegaard’s thought implies a powerful contribution to ontology and to social and political thought. In addition to this novel approach to Kierkegaard, Burns defends the most relevant aspects of Kierkegaard in the context of contemporary philosophy. A very good book! -- Markus Gabriel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bonn“[I]t is excellently written, well sculpted, and […] makes Kierkegaard relevant in today’s philosophical landscape by offering contemporary philosophers a “materialist Kierkegaard” that goes beyond our traditional readings of one of the pillars of existentialism. [T]his book is a must read” * APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / Notes on Sources / Introduction / 1. Idealism Before Kierkegaard / 2. Anxiety and Ontology / 3. Spirit and Society / 4. Anxious Politics / 5. The Fractured Dialectic in Recent European Materialism / Conclusion: Kierkegaard and 21st Century Philosophy / Bibliography / Index
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Rowman & Littlefield International Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism
Book SynopsisThis book provides an account of the development of ideas about nature from the Early German Romantics into the philosophies of nature of Schelling and Hegel. In clear and accessible language, Alison Stone explains how the project of philosophy of nature took shape and made sense in the post-Kantian context. She also shows how ideas of nature were central to the philosophical and literary projects of the Early German Romantics, with attention to Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis and Hölderlin. Stone advances a distinctive, original perspective on Romantic and Idealist accounts of nature and their ethical implications regarding human-nature relations and intra-human political relations, especially but not only around gender and race. The book demonstrates how these approaches to nature have contemporary relevance to a range of current debates such as those over naturalism, the environmental crisis, and the politics of gender, race and colonialism.Trade ReviewThis book deals with the fascinating but neglected topic of views of nature in post-Kantian German Romanticism and idealism. With impressive clarity and erudition, Alison Stone brings this tradition to life, while also subjecting it to critical analysis. She shows why it deserves our attention, and how key figures such as Schelling, Hegel and Hölderlin should be understood in this context. -- Robert A. Stern, Professor of Philosophy, University of SheffieldUnlike many specialists on Hegel or the early German Romantics who articulate their positions each by criticizing the other, Alison Stone's important and timely work considers the two traditions in implicit conversation with each other. Stone's essays present the full range of this rich period, with its attentiveness to the philosophically underrepresented themes of nature and gender, while also exposing its blind spots. -- Elaine P. Miller, Department of Philosophy, Miami UniversityNature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism uncovers issues at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy. Stone breathes new life into figures such as Schlegel, Novalis, Hölderlin, and Hegel, placing their thought into dialogue with contemporary environmental and social justice issues. Stone’s work tells the story of our alienation from and our reconciliation with nature in bold, beautiful detail. -- Elizabeth Millán Brusslan, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul UniversityTable of Contents1. German Romantic and Idealist Accounts of Nature and their Legacy / Part I: Romantic Nature / 2. The Romantic Absolute / 3. Schlegel, Romanticism and the Re-Enchantment of Nature / 4. Being, Knowledge and Nature in Novalis / 5. Alienation from Nature in Early German Romanticism / 6. Hölderlin on Nature / Part II: Hegel and Philosophy of Nature / 7. Philosophy of Nature / 8. Hegel, Naturalism and the Philosophy of Nature / 9. Hegel, Nature and Ethics / Part III: Hegel, Gender and Race / 10. Sexual Polarization in Schelling and Hegel / 11. Matter and Form: Hegel, Organicism, and the Difference Between Women and Men / 12. Gender, the Family, and the Organic State in Hegel's Political Thought / 13. Hegel and Colonialism / 14. Hegel and Twentieth-Century French Philosophy / Bibliography / Index
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Rowman & Littlefield International Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism
Book SynopsisThis book provides an account of the development of ideas about nature from the Early German Romantics into the philosophies of nature of Schelling and Hegel. In clear and accessible language, Alison Stone explains how the project of philosophy of nature took shape and made sense in the post-Kantian context. She also shows how ideas of nature were central to the philosophical and literary projects of the Early German Romantics, with attention to Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis and Hölderlin. Stone advances a distinctive, original perspective on Romantic and Idealist accounts of nature and their ethical implications regarding human-nature relations and intra-human political relations, especially but not only around gender and race. The book demonstrates how these approaches to nature have contemporary relevance to a range of current debates such as those over naturalism, the environmental crisis, and the politics of gender, race and colonialism.Trade ReviewThis book deals with the fascinating but neglected topic of views of nature in post-Kantian German Romanticism and idealism. With impressive clarity and erudition, Alison Stone brings this tradition to life, while also subjecting it to critical analysis. She shows why it deserves our attention, and how key figures such as Schelling, Hegel and Hölderlin should be understood in this context. -- Robert A. Stern, Professor of Philosophy, University of SheffieldUnlike many specialists on Hegel or the early German Romantics who articulate their positions each by criticizing the other, Alison Stone's important and timely work considers the two traditions in implicit conversation with each other. Stone's essays present the full range of this rich period, with its attentiveness to the philosophically underrepresented themes of nature and gender, while also exposing its blind spots. -- Elaine P. Miller, Department of Philosophy, Miami UniversityNature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism uncovers issues at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy. Stone breathes new life into figures such as Schlegel, Novalis, Hölderlin, and Hegel, placing their thought into dialogue with contemporary environmental and social justice issues. Stone’s work tells the story of our alienation from and our reconciliation with nature in bold, beautiful detail. -- Elizabeth Millán Brusslan, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul UniversityTable of Contents1. German Romantic and Idealist Accounts of Nature and their Legacy / Part I: Romantic Nature / 2. The Romantic Absolute / 3. Schlegel, Romanticism and the Re-Enchantment of Nature / 4. Being, Knowledge and Nature in Novalis / 5. Alienation from Nature in Early German Romanticism / 6. Hölderlin on Nature / Part II: Hegel and Philosophy of Nature / 7. Philosophy of Nature / 8. Hegel, Naturalism and the Philosophy of Nature / 9. Hegel, Nature and Ethics / Part III: Hegel, Gender and Race / 10. Sexual Polarization in Schelling and Hegel / 11. Matter and Form: Hegel, Organicism, and the Difference Between Women and Men / 12. Gender, the Family, and the Organic State in Hegel's Political Thought / 13. Hegel and Colonialism / 14. Hegel and Twentieth-Century French Philosophy / Bibliography / Index
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Imprint Academic Idealism & Experience: The Philosophy of Guido de
Book SynopsisGuido de Ruggiero (18881948) was perhaps the greatest Italian intellectual historian in the twentieth century. He was a fierce champion of liberalism, an ardent opponent of Fascism, an insightful critic and interpreter of his contemporaries, and a formidable philosopher in his own right. Idealism & Experience: The Philosophy of Guido de Ruggiero comprises eight new critical essays, as well as English translations of five of de Ruggiero''s most important shorter writings, which chart the development of his thought between 1914 and 1946. Taken together, these essays reveal the range, richness and philosophical sophistication of de Ruggiero's ideas, enabling Anglophone readers to appreciate their enduring relevance in our own troubled times.
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Lexington Books Kant and Mysticism: Critique as the Experience of
Book SynopsisWhat is happening when someone has a mystical experience, such as “feeling at one with the universe” or “hearing God’s voice?” Does philosophy provide tools for assessing such claims? Which claims can be dismissed as delusions and which ones convey genuine truths that might be universally meaningful? Valuable insights into such pressing questions can be found in the writings of Immanuel Kant, though few philosophical commentators have appreciated the implications beyond his famous “Copernican hypothesis.” In Kant and Mysticism, Stephen R. Palmquist corrects this skewed view of Kant once and for all. Beginning with a detailed analysis of Kant’s 1766 work Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Palmquist demonstrates that in Dreams Kant first discovers and explains his plan to write a new, “critical” philosophy that will revolutionize metaphysics by laying bare the limits of human reason. Palmquist shows how the same metaphorical relationship—between reason’s dreams (metaphysics) and sensibility’s dreams (mysticism)—permeates Kant’s mature writings. After clarifying how Kant’s final (unfinished) book, Opus Postumum, completes this dual project, Palmquist explains how the “critical mysticism” entailed by Kant’s position has profound implications for contemporary understandings of religious and mystical experience, both by religious individuals and by philosophers seeking to understand such experiences.Trade ReviewKant’s Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, his early sardonic critique of the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, is often taken as an odd and unimportant episode in the development of Kant’s Critical philosophy. But Stephen Palmquist convincingly shows that Kant was significantly influenced by Swedenborg’s writings, borrowing elements of epistemology, ethics, and religious thinking from Swedenborg. Palmquist’s work also profoundly deepens our understanding of the extent to which a mysticism of reason lies at the heart of Kant’s whole Critical philosophy. -- Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth CollegeTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Problem of Mystical Experience in Kant Part I Swedenborg’s Influence on Kant’s Critical Awakening Chapter 1 — The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Kant’s Awakening from Dogmatic Slumber Chapter 2 — The Impact of Swedenborg’s Mysticism on Kant’s Metaphysical Dreams Chapter 3 — Kant’s Awakening: The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Critical Mysticism Chapter 4 — Kant’s Metaphysical Dream: A System of Critical Philosophy Part II Kant’s Critical Philosophy as a Critique of Mysticism Chapter 5 — Does Mystical Experience Always Prompt Delirium? Chapter 6 — Kant’s Critique of Delirious Mysticism Chapter 7 — Critical Mysticism as Immediate Experience of the Moral Chapter 8 — Key Metaphors Guiding Kant’s Critical Mysticism Part III The Opus Postumum as an Experiment in Critical Mysticism Chapter 9 — Can the Original (Threefold) Synthesis Be Consciously Experienced? Chapter 10 — The Categorical Imperative as the Voice of God Chapter 11 — Matter’s Living Force as Immediate Experience of the World Chapter 12 — The Highest Purpose of Philosophy as Exhibiting the God–Man Conclusion — Kantian Mysticism for the Twenty-First Century
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Lexington Books Kant and Mysticism: Critique as the Experience of
Book SynopsisWhat is happening when someone has a mystical experience, such as “feeling at one with the universe” or “hearing God’s voice?” Does philosophy provide tools for assessing such claims? Which claims can be dismissed as delusions and which ones convey genuine truths that might be universally meaningful? Valuable insights into such pressing questions can be found in the writings of Immanuel Kant, though few philosophical commentators have appreciated the implications beyond his famous “Copernican hypothesis.” In Kant and Mysticism, Stephen R. Palmquist corrects this skewed view of Kant once and for all. Beginning with a detailed analysis of Kant’s 1766 work Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Palmquist demonstrates that in Dreams Kant first discovers and explains his plan to write a new, “critical” philosophy that will revolutionize metaphysics by laying bare the limits of human reason. Palmquist shows how the same metaphorical relationship—between reason’s dreams (metaphysics) and sensibility’s dreams (mysticism)—permeates Kant’s mature writings. Clarifying how Kant’s final (unfinished) book, Opus Postumum, completes this dual project, Palmquist explains how the “critical mysticism” entailed by Kant’s position has profound implications for contemporary understandings of religious and mystical experience, both by religious individuals and by philosophers seeking to understand such experiences.Trade Review“Palmquist … is to be applauded for his willingness to challenge conventional accounts of the development of Kant’s Critical philosophy and broaden the scope of Kant interpretation in this and other works.” - J. Colin McQuillan, St. Mary’s University“Kant and Mysticism lucidly unfolds a significant alternative to the standard interpretations of Dreams [of a Spirit-Seer] and, more generally, mysticism in Kant’s philosophy. It is an eloquent and nuanced reading of the conceptual development of Kant’s Critical philosophy in its historical context and Kant’s thinking of problems of experience, intuition and the religious that will become an essential reference for future scholarship.” - Eric S. Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology“The whole book is a bold attempt to overturn and dismantle the standard interpretation (namely, that Kant is primarily an empirical philosopher, the all-destroyer of metaphysics and a reducer of religion to morality) and its frown on any form of mysticism in Kant whatsoever.” - Prof. Chris L. Firestone, Trinity International University * Kantian Review *Kant and Mysticismdoes a good job of capturing what is mystical in Kant, pushing some key Kantian themes toward the mystical while seemingly preserving their spirit. . . . Palmquist thus helps us to see a Kant whose concern with the limits of knowledge goes beyond developing a metaphysics, and whose concern with religion goes beyond grafting doctrines onto morality. . . . Palmquist’s work deserves praise and attention for drawing together underutilized parts of Kant’s work in an illuminating way. * Review of Metaphysics *Kant’s Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, his early sardonic critique of the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, is often taken as an odd and unimportant episode in the development of Kant’s critical philosophy. But Stephen R. Palmquist convincingly shows that Kant was significantly influenced by Swedenborg’s writings, borrowing elements of epistemology, ethics, and religious thinking from Swedenborg. Palmquist’s work also profoundly deepens our understanding of the extent to which a mysticism of reason lies at the heart of Kant’s whole critical philosophy. -- Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth CollegeThe term "mysticism" is generally regarded as having negative connotations for Kant. Thus, for example, references to Kant’s interest in K.A. Wilmans’ dissertation on this topic are often one-sided. Consequently, works clarifying Kant’s actual relation to mysticism are most welcome. In view of the widespread disregard for Kant’s central questions, this new book is of the highest importance, especially its last chapter, on the mystical implications of Kant’s Opus Postumum. -- Norbert Fischer, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-IngolstadtPalmquist's holistic and perspectival interpretation offers a provocative way to rethink Kant's arguments and their implications. -- Eric S. Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Problem of Mystical Experience in KantPart ISwedenborg’s Influence on Kant’s Critical AwakeningChapter 1 — The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Kant’s Awakening from Dogmatic SlumberChapter 2 — The Impact of Swedenborg’s Mysticism on Kant’s Metaphysical DreamsChapter 3 — Kant’s Awakening: The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Critical MysticismChapter 4 — Kant’s Metaphysical Dream: A System of Critical PhilosophyPart IIKant’s Critical Philosophy as a Critique of MysticismChapter 5 — Does Mystical Experience Always Prompt Delirium?Chapter 6 — Kant’s Critique of Delirious MysticismChapter 7 — Critical Mysticism as Immediate Experience of the MoralChapter 8 — Key Metaphors Guiding Kant’s Critical MysticismPart IIIThe Opus Postumum as an Experiment in Critical MysticismChapter 9 — Can the Original (Threefold) Synthesis Be Consciously Experienced?Chapter 10 — The Categorical Imperative as the Voice of GodChapter 11 — Matter’s Living Force as Immediate Experience of the WorldChapter 12 — The Highest Purpose of Philosophy as Exhibiting the God–ManConclusion — Kantian Mysticism for the Twenty-First Century
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Lexington Books Nietzsche and Adorno on Philosophical Praxis,
Book SynopsisNietzsche and Adorno on Philosophical Praxis, Language, and Reconciliation: Towards an Ethics of Thinking offers a philosophical notion of an “ethics of thinking,” a kind of thinking that is receptive to the non-identical character of the world of human and non-human objects. Paolo A. Bolaños experiments with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Theodor W. Adorno, who are presented as contemporary proponents of the Frühromantik tradition. Bolaños offers a reconstruction of the respective philosophies of language of Nietzsche and Adorno, as well as a rehearsal of their critique of metaphysics and identity thinking, in order to develop a notion of philosophical praxis that is grounded in the ethical dimension of thinking. Via Nietzsche and Adorno, Bolaños argues that thinking’s performative participation in uncertainty broadens the domain of reason, thereby also broadening our conceptual capacities and our receptivity to new possibilities of thinking. As an ethical praxis, thinking guards itself from the error of solidification, thereby opening philosophy to a reconciliatory, as opposed to domineering, reception of the world.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction From Early German Romanticism to Philosophical Praxis Reinscribing Metaphor: Nietzsche’s Theory of Language Adorno and the Revaluation of the Language of Philosophy Reconciliation and the Non-Identical ConclusionBibliographyAppendix: Further ReadingAbout the AuthorIndex
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Lexington Books Happiness in Kant’s Practical Philosophy:
Book SynopsisHappiness in Kant’s Practical Philosophy: Morality, Indirect Duties, and Welfare Rights examines the role and normative implications of Kant's understanding of happiness for his moral, political, and legal philosophy. Kant’s underlying assumptions about happiness are rarely overtly discussed or given much detail in his works. By bringing these assumptions to the fore, Alice Pinheiro Walla sheds light on some puzzling claims and on the scattered, sometimes contradictory remarks Kant makes about happiness. The book shows that happiness shapes or indirectly influences Kant’s methodology and many of his conclusions, including his views on the nature of practical rationality, meta-ethics, the role of the state, and of political justification. The challenge with happiness is that it is impossible to know for certain what will make us happy, and what we take to be happiness changes over our lifetime. The book argues that Kant offers a distinctive strategy for dealing with this indeterminacy of happiness, one rooted in understanding our duties to ourselves and others. Happiness in Kant’s Practical Philosophy provides a map of the areas in which the concept of happiness or considerations about the happiness of individuals appear in Kant’s practical works and analyses the way they relate to central themes of his practical theory.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter One: Kant's Concept of HappinessChapter Two: Kant’s Anti-eudaimonism in Moral TheoryChapter Three: One’s Own Happiness and Indirect DutyChapter Four: Happiness and the Duty of BeneficenceChapter Five: Excursus: Kant’s Moral Theory and Demandingness.Chapter Six: Happiness in Kant’s Political and Legal PhilosophyConclusion
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Lexington Books Kant's Struggle for Autonomy: On the Structure of
Book SynopsisIn Kant’s Struggle for Autonomy: On the Structure of Practical Reason, Raef Zreik presents an original synoptic view of Kant’s practical philosophy, uncovering the relatively hidden architectonics of Kant’s system and critically engaging with its broad implications. He begins by investigating the implicit strategy that guides Kant in making the distinctions that establish the autonomous spheres: happiness, morality, justice, public order-legitimacy. The organizing principle of autonomy sets these spheres apart, assuming there is self-sufficiency for each sphere. Zreik then develops a critique of this strategy, showing its limits, its costs, and its inherent instability. He questions self-sufficiency and argues that autonomy is a matter of ongoing struggle between the forces of separation and unification. Zreik proceeds to suggest that we “read Kant backward,” reading early Kant in light of late Kant. This reading reveals Kant's strategy of both taking things apart and putting them together, focusing on the joints, transitions, and metastructures of the system. The image emanating from this account of Kant’s legal and moral philosophy is of an intimate yet tragic conflict within Kant’s thought—one that leaves us to our own judgment as to where to draw the boundaries between spheres, opening the door for politicizing Kant's practical philosophy.Trade ReviewRaef Zreik shows that Kant’s use of the concept of autonomy as the underlying principle of both theoretical and practical philosophy has to be distinguished from the idea of autonomous domains of virtue, happiness, and law within practical philosophy. He argues carefully and convincingly that the idea of autonomy is crucial to Kant’s approach to each of these domains but that to think of them as completely separate from each other is a mistake that undermines the unity of Kant’s own philosophy and a coherent approach to practical philosophy in general. This is the most extensive and thorough interpretation and critique of Kant’s use of the concept of autonomy that I know. -- Paul Guyer, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionAbbreviationsPart 1: Kant’s Strategy of RetreatChapter 1: Autonomy in Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasonChapter 2: The Autonomy of MoralityChapter 3: The Autonomy of Justice (Law)Chapter 4: The Autonomy of Public Order (Legitimacy): Kant on RevolutionPart 2: Critique of Kant's Strategy of RetreatChapter 5: The Autonomy of Public Order (Legitimacy) RevisitedChapter 6: The Autonomy of Justice (Law) RevisitedChapter 7: The Autonomy of Morality RevisitedPart 3: Beyond Kant. Engagements with Current DebatesChapter 8: Wood and Willaschek: Between Law and Morality Again Chapter 9: Korsgaard on Lexical Priority, Rigorism, and the Double-level TheoryChapter 10: Herman and the Sensitivity to the ParticularConclusion
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Lexington Books Schopenhauer and the Nature of Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhat is philosophy? What can philosophy offer us? What brings us to think philosophically? Arthur Schopenhauer’s writings offer fascinating answers to these questions that have largely been overlooked until now. In Schopenhauer and the Nature of Philosophy, Jonathan Head explores the surprisingly rich and compelling metaphilosophy that underlies Schopenhauer’s work and argues that it offers a vital key to unlocking many of the mysteries that surround his ideas. Schopenhauer understands philosophy as grounded in a deep wonder about life and the world that is universal to the human experience, as well as meeting a fundamental need for both explanation and consolation. This account of the nature of philosophy leads to further important discussions concerning the relationship between philosophy and religion, the value of mysticism, and the possibility of social progress. Through examining Schopenhauer’s account of how and why philosophy is done, this book sheds crucial new light on a thinker whose ideas continue to both provoke and inspire.Trade Review“This is a fine and absorbing study that brings to life the power of Arthur Schopenhauer’s thoughts on the value, scope, and limits of philosophy. The author’s clear style complements his daring effort to reveal intriguing aspects of the meta-philosophical concerns of this much neglected thinker. He artfully engages Schopenhauer’s writings in a philosophically rich and evocative way.” -- Bart Vandenabeele, Ghent University"Schopenhauer and the Nature of Philosophy breaks new ground with its dedicated study of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of philosophy. Jonathan Head elicits answers from Schopenhauer on questions concerning the motivations and methods for doing philosophy and the modes of its communication; in the process it throws light on almost every area of Schopenhauer’s own philosophy. The threads of previous, passing discussions of Schopenhauer’s metaphilosophy are gathered together here for the first time and subjected to a concentrated and thorough critical analysis. Through this a new and original interpretation is proposed and defended, which is sure to be an essential touchstone for any future discussions of Schopenhauer’s thoughts about the nature of philosophy itself." -- David Bather Woods, University of WarwickTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Abbreviations and ReferencingIntroduction1. The Need for Metaphysics2. Nature and Subjectivity3. Communicating Philosophy4. Seeking Better Consciousness5. Philosophy, Metaphor, and SpeculationConclusionBibliography
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Imprint Academic Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives reflecting the international appeal and multi-disciplinary interest that Oakeshott now attracts. The essays offer a variety of approaches to Oakeshott''s thought testament to the abiding depth, originality, suggestiveness and complexity of his writings. The essays include contributions from well-known Oakeshott scholars along with ample representation from a new generation. As a collection these essays challenge Oakeshott's reputation as merely a ''critic of social planning'. Contributors include Josiah Lee Auspitz, Debra Candreva, Wendell John Coats Jr., Douglas DenUyl, George Feaver, Paul Franco, Richard Friedman, Timothy Fuller, Robert Grant, Eric S. Kos, Leslie Marsh, Kenneth Minogue, Terry Nardin, Keith Sutherland, Martyn Thompson and Gerhard Wolmarans.
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Imprint Academic Vocabulary of a Modern European State: Essays and
Book SynopsisThe Vocabulary of a Modern European State is the companion volume to The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence and completes the enterprise of gathering together Oakeshott''s previously scattered essays and reviews. As with all the other volumes in the series it contains an entirely new editorial introduction explaining how the writings it contains find their place in his work as a whole. It covers the years 1952 to 1988, the period during which Oakeshott wrote his definitive work, On Human Conduct. The essay from which the volume takes its title was intended as a companion piece to the third part of the latter work, and is just one of over sixty pieces that it includes. The volume draws together critical responses to works by major philosophers, historians, and political theorists of his own generation such as Bertrand de Jouvenel, Herbert Marcuse, and Michael Polanyi as well as to some major figures of current scholarship such as Quentin Skinner and Roger Scruton.
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Imprint Academic Michael Oakeshott, the Ancient Greeks, and the
Book SynopsisThis book addresses a question fundamental for Oakeshott throughout his life, which is what we are doing when we read and discuss some memorable work in the history of political thought. The approach the book takes to Oakeshott''s response to this question is of particular interest in that it explores in detail extensive notes he made on the beginnings of political philosophy in ancient Greece in an unpublished set of notebooks in which he recorded his thoughts on many different subjects throughout his life. In addition, the book gives contemporary significance to Oakeshott's interpretation of the history of political thought by using it to confront a series of contemporary challenges to the study of the history of political thought and to the study of the ''great books.' In particular, Oakeshott's distinction between various kinds or levels of political thought' is carefully analyzed, as is also the extent of his agreement and disagreement with Quentin Skinner. In the concluding chapter, the author relates Oakeshott's view of the nature of the history of political thought to his well-known description of philosophy as conversation', describing it as an introduction to that conversation.
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Imprint Academic Unpublished Manuscripts in British Idealism:
Book SynopsisThe British Idealist movement flourished between the 1860s and 1920s and exerted a very significant influence in the USA, India and Canada, most notably on John Dewey and Josiah Royce. The movement also laid the groundwork for the thought of Oakeshott and Collingwood. Its leading figures particularly Green and Caird have left a number of complete or near complete manuscripts in various British university archives, many of which remain unpublished. This important collection widens access to this unpublished material by transcribing, editing and then publishing the most significant pieces. The project focuses on the moral, political, and religious writings the areas of most interest to scholars. This annotated, critical edition opens them up to the academic community.
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Imprint Academic The Foundations of History: Collingwood's
Book SynopsisThis book provides an exposition and critical examination of Collingwood''s philosophy of history, in which Collingwood''s views are read in the light of his metaphilosophy. Collingwood''s philosophy of history is also located in relation to recent and current philosophy. Although the author argues that Collingwood''s conception of the subject matter of history may require some revision, he is generally sympathetic to the aims and methods of Collingwood''s project. Indeed, the author hopes to demonstrate that these aims and methods are still of great value.
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Imprint Academic Oakeshott on Rome and America
Book SynopsisThe political systems of the Roman Republic were based almost entirely on tradition, "the way of the ancestors", rather than on a written constitution. While the founders of the American Republic looked to ancient Rome as a primary model for their enterprise, nevertheless, in line with the rationalist spirit of their age, the American founders attempted to create a rational set of rules that would guide the conduct of American politics, namely, the US Constitution. These two examples offer a striking case of the ideal types, famously delineated by Michael Oakeshott in Rationalism in Politics and elsewhere, between politics as a practice grounded in tradition and politics as a system based on principles flowing from abstract reasoning. This book explores how the histories of the two republics can help us to understand Oakeshott''s claims about rational versus traditional politics. Through examining such issues we may come to understand better not only Oakeshott's critique of rationalism, but also modern constitutional theory, issues in the design of the European Union, and aspects of the revival of republicanism.
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Imprint Academic The Legendary Past: Michael Oakeshott on
Book SynopsisThe book explores Oakeshott''s thought on the key role human imagination plays in relation to the political. It addresses four main themes: imagination, foundational narratives, the question of political societies' identities as well as that of human living-together, to use Hannah Arendt's expression. The book's main objective is to show that Oakeshott may be rightfully understood to be a philosopher of the imagination as well as a foundationalist thinker in the Arendtian narrative constructivist tradition.
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