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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
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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
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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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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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The End of Literature, Hegel, and the Contemporary Novel
Book SynopsisThis book explores the concept of the end of literature through the lens of Hegel's philosophy of art. In his version of Hegel's 'end of art' thesis, Arthur Danto claimed that contemporary art has abandoned its distinctive sensitive and emotive features to become increasingly reflective. Contemporary art has become a question of philosophical reflection on itself and on the world, thus producing an epochal change in art history. The core idea of this book is that this thesis applies quite well to all forms of art except one, namely literature: literature resists its 'end'.Unlike other arts, which have experienced significant fractures in the contemporary world, Campana proposes that literature has always known how to renew itself in order to retain its distinguishing features, so much so that in a way it has always come to terms with its own end. Analysing the distinct character of literature, this book proposes a new and original interpretation of the 'end of art' thesis, showing how it can be used as a key conceptual framework to understand the contemporary novel. Table of ContentsChapter 1: The End of Art and the Resistance of Literature.- Chapter 2: Literature and the Other Arts.- Chapter 3: The End of Literature.- Chapter 4: Philosophisation and Ordinariness.- Chapter 5: The Contemporary Novel after the End of Literature.- Chapter 6: Conclusions.-
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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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De Gruyter Kierkegaard im Kontext des deutschen Idealismus
Book SynopsisDer Band verortet Kierkegaard im Kontext der klassischen deutschen Philosophie. Durch Aufweis vielfältiger Bezüge wird deutlich, dass Kierkegaard sich als Glied der an Kants "Revolution der Denkart" anschließenden Tradition versteht, mit der er auf streitbare Weise eine gemeinsame Orientierung des Denkens teilt. Der Band trägt dazu bei, Kierkegaards Verhältnis zu dieser Tradition differenzierter zu betrachten, als es gängige Meinungen nahe legen.
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De Gruyter Begehren / Desire
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De Gruyter Vorstellung, Denken, Sprache: Reinholds
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Hegel-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Schule
Book SynopsisHegels Denken ist auch heute noch umstritten: Er gilt als Verteidiger ebenso wie als Kritiker der Religion, als Philosoph der Restauration, als Wegbereiter des Marxismus und als Denker der Freiheit. Das Handbuch verbindet einen Überblick über Hegels Leben und den frühen Streit um seine Philosophie mit einer detaillierten Darstellung seiner Werke. Von den frühen Fragmenten über die Jenaer Kritischen Schriften und Systementwürfe bis zu den Hauptwerken und den Berliner Vorlesungen werden alle Einzeltexte ausführlich analysiert. Für die 3. Auflage wurde die Literatur ergänzt und der bisherige Text durch Einbeziehung der seit der 2. Auflage erschienenen wichtigen Quellen erweitert.
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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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Read Books The Idea of History
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De Gruyter Nietzsche, German Idealism and Its Critics
Book SynopsisNietzsche is known as a severe critic of German Idealism, but what exactly is the relation between his thought and theirs? And how does Nietzsche's stance differ from the critique of idealism in Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer?The papers from leading international specialists in German Idealism, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche address these questions. The aim of the volume is to introduce novel ways of addressing the complex relations between Nietzsche and his immediate philosophical predecessors: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte and Kant. The focus is on the profound interconnections and affinities between their ways of thinking. Each paper considers one particular aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy (such as his notion of "spirit", "law", "power", "will", his "physiology" or his critique of morality) in relation to the above-mentioned philosophers. This largely systematic approach reveals surprising affinities between Nietzsche and the German idealists, despite their patent differences and generates new perspectives from which to understand and reinterpret Nietzsche's thought. Contributors: Maria J. Branco; Danielle Cohen Levinas; Joao Constancio; Carlos J. Correia; Katia Hay; Lore Hühn; Jose Justo; Elisabetta Marques J.de Sousa; Frederick Neuhouser; Leonel R. dos Santos; Philipp Schwab; Herman Siemens.
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De Gruyter Bewusstsein/Consciousness
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De Gruyter Hegels Lehre vom Wesen
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De Gruyter Das Böse als Vollzug menschlicher Freiheit
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De Gruyter German Idealism Today
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays provides an exemplary overview of the diversity and relevance of current scholarship on German Idealism. The importance of German Idealism for contemporary philosophy has received growing attention and acknowledgment throughout competing fields of contemporary philosophy. Part of the growing interest rests on the claim that the works of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel remain of considerable interest for cultural studies, sociology, theology, aesthetics and other areas of interest. In the domain of philosophy, the renaissance of innovative readings of German Idealism has taken scholarly debates beyond merely antiquarian perspectives. This renaissance has been a major factor of current efforts to bridge the gap between so-called “analytic” and so-called “continental” philosophy. The volume provides a selection of well-chosen examples of readings that contribute to systematic treatments of philosophical problems. It contains (among others) contributions by Markus Gabriel, Robert Pippin, Anders Moe Rasmussen, Sebastian Rödl.
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De Gruyter Logik / Logic
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De Gruyter Hegel and Scepticism: On Klaus Vieweg's Interpretation
Book Synopsis“Hegel and scepticism” remains an intriguing topic directly concerning the logical and methodological core of Hegel’s system. A series of contributions is unfolding around a keynote paper by Klaus Vieweg, which tries to understand and restate the limits and the content of the relationship between Hegels philosophy and scepticism. Various Hegel readers with different concerns are dealing with Hegel’s strategy in a large range of theoretical areas.
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De Gruyter System und Systemkritik
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De Gruyter Die Konstitution Von Subjektivität ALS
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Tabah Research The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics
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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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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
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Imprint Academic T.H. Greens Theory of Positive Freedom
Book SynopsisIn this new and entirely revised edition of his study of Green''s theory of positive freedom, Ben Wempe argues that the far-reaching and beneficial influence of Green's political doctrine, on public policy as well as in the field of political theory, was founded on a misinterpretation of his philosophical stand, since the metaphysical basis on which Green argued for his political position was largely neglected. The book discusses Green's philosophical development and examines an important, hitherto underrated, influence that went into the formation of his philosophical opinions. It then considers Green's metaphysics and describes how some omissions from the concise version of his metaphysical doctrine, as it is found in his published works, may be remedied by reference to Green's unpublished material.
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de Gruyter Kant-Lexikon: Studienausgabe
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Hegels 'phanomenologie Des Geistes': Eine
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Das Wahre Selbst: Studien Zu Plotins Begriff Des
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Kants Opus Postumum
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Zeit, Einbildung, Ich: Phanomenologische
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