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Liberty Fund Inc Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in
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Liberty Fund Inc Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in
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Liberty Fund Inc Divine Feudal Law
Book SynopsisBased on his theory of natural law, Pufendorf denounces the Revocation [of the Edict of Nantes in 1685] as an illegitimate and tyrannical act and advocates toleration. The Divine Feudal Law'' can be seen as a complement to the treatise on toleration . Pufendorf attempts to demonstrate in The Divine Feudal Law'' that union of Lutherans and Calvinists is possible on the basis of a theological system containing the fundamental articles necessary for salvation. In contrast, reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics is declared to be impossible. Simone Zurburchen in the Introduction. Originally published posthumously in 1695, The Divine Feudal Law sets forth Pufendorf''s basis for the reunion of the Lutheran and Calvinist confessions. This attempt to seek a conciliation between the confessions complements the concept of toleration discussed in Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion. In both, Pufendorf examines how to secure the peaceful coexistence of different confessions in a
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Liberty Fund Inc Divine Feudal Law
Book SynopsisBased on his theory of natural law, Pufendorf denounces the Revocation [of the Edict of Nantes in 1685] as an illegitimate and tyrannical act and advocates toleration. The Divine Feudal Law'' can be seen as a complement to the treatise on toleration . Pufendorf attempts to demonstrate in The Divine Feudal Law'' that union of Lutherans and Calvinists is possible on the basis of a theological system containing the fundamental articles necessary for salvation. In contrast, reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics is declared to be impossible. Simone Zurburchen in the Introduction. Originally published posthumously in 1695, The Divine Feudal Law sets forth Pufendorf''s basis for the reunion of the Lutheran and Calvinist confessions. This attempt to seek a conciliation between the confessions complements the concept of toleration discussed in Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion. In both, Pufendorf examines how to secure the peaceful coexistence of different confessions in a
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Liberty Fund Inc The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of
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Liberty Fund Inc The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
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Liberty Fund Inc The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
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Liberty Fund Inc Essay on the Nature Conduct of the Passions
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Liberty Fund Inc Essay on the Nature Conduct of the Passions
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Liberty Fund Inc Elements of Moral Philosophy
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Liberty Fund Inc Elements of Moral Philosophy
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Liberty Fund Inc Observations Upon Liberal Education
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Liberty Fund Inc Elements of Criticism Volumes 1 2
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Liberty Fund Inc Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence with
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Liberty Fund Inc Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence with
Book SynopsisChristian Thomasius''s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke''s in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius''s Institutionum jurisprudentiae divinae (Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence) attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural and revealed law and to emphasize that human reason was able to know the precepts of natural law without the aid of Scripture. Thomasius also argued that his orthodox Lutheran opponents had failed to understand this distinction and thereby had confused reason and Scripture. In addition to the Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, this volume contains significant selections from his Fundamenta juris naturae et gentium (Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations), published in 1705. In Foundations Thomasius significantly revised the theory he had put forward in the Institutes, and much of the Foundations therefore is a paragraph-by-pa
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Liberty Fund Inc Principles of Equity
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Liberty Fund Inc Principles of Equity Natural Law Paper Natural
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Liberty Fund Inc The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill Essays on
Book SynopsisVolumes 4 and 5 bring together a rich collection of Mill''s writing on politics and the economy over the course of his intellectual career. Volume 4 includes, most significantly, ''Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy''. Here, Mill grapples with issues related to foreign trade and the balancing of government''s goal of promoting free trade with its interest in raising revenues from import duties and tariffs. Also included in these volumes are such early essays as ''The Silk Trade'' and ''The Nature, Origin, and Progress of Rent'' and such later works as Mill''s petition on free trade and ''Chapters on Socialism'' (posthumously published).
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Philosophy in Play Three Dialogues
Book SynopsisExploring the issues ranging from feminism to metaphysics, from the philosophy of science to aesthetics, as well as the intrinsically dialogic nature of philosophical activity itself, the author endeavors to be true to the nature of philosophical practice.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Philosophy in Play
Book SynopsisExploring the issues ranging from feminism to metaphysics, from the philosophy of science to aesthetics, as well as the intrinsically dialogic nature of philosophical activity itself, the author endeavors to be true to the nature of philosophical practice.
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Testimony for Earth
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Liberty Fund Inc Adam Smith
Book SynopsisE G West brings to life Adam Smith''s first years in the bustling Scottish seaport of Kirkcaldy (and recounts Smith''s brief kidnapping, as a baby, by gypsies). We follow young Smith as a student, watch his thought develop as Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, and enjoy with him the hospitality of David Hume, the Parisian literary salons, Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, and other giants of the era. West gives us a masterful summary of ''The Wealth of Nations''. Even more significant, West restores to eminence an earlier work of Smith''s, ''The Theory of Moral Sentiments''. If The Wealth of Nations had never been written, he asserts, this previous work would have earned for him a prominent place in intellectual history. West takes particular delight in using ''The Theory of Moral Sentiments'' to rebut Marx''s assumptions about laissez-faire capitalism.
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Liberty Fund Inc Wisdom of Adam Smith
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Liberty Fund Inc Right Wrong of Compulsion by the State other
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Liberty Fund Inc Fugitive Essays
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Liberty Fund Inc Fugitive Essays
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Larson Publications Perspectives The Timeless Way of Wisdom
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Larson Publications Emotions Ethics The Intellect
Book SynopsisOne of Paul Brunton''s truly significant contributions, this volume offers a mature spiritual perspective on the importance of character development, personality refinement, and proper use of the thinking faculty. Part 1, Emotions and Ethics explores two fundamental relationships. The first is that between character development and spiritual progress; the second is that between personality refinement and spiritual self-expression. Part 2, The Intellect explains the important role, and the limitations, of the thinking faculty as a transformative potency in spiritual practice.
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Open Sky Press Ltd Arunachala Shiva
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
Book SynopsisWith fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic thought, perfectionism, pragmatism, idealism and intuitionism are all explored, as are figures including Aristotle, Boethius, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Rawls, as well as numerous key ideas and schools of thought. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, drawing on the latest research to offer rigorous analysis of the canonical figures and movements of this branch of philosophy. The volume provides a comprehensive yet philosophically advanced resource for students and teachers alike as they approach, and refine their understanding of, the central issues in moral thought.Table of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Sacha Golob and Jens Timmermann; 1. Ethics before Socrates Catherine Rowett; 2. Socrates and Sophists A. G. Long; 3. Plato James Warren; 4. Aristotle Michael Pakaluk; 5. Epicureanism and hedonism Voula Tsouna; 6. Stoicism Brad Inwood; 7. Ancient skepticism Katja Vogt; 8. Neo-Platonism Alexandrine Schniewind; 9. Early Christian ethics: killing the innocent Sarah Byers; 10. Boethius, Abelard and Anselm John Marenbon; 11. Medieval Jewish ethics Tamar Rudavsky; 12. Moral philosophy in the medieval Islamicate world Anna Akasoy; 13. 'Christian Aristotelianism'? Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas Tobias Hoffmann and Jörn Müller; 14. Duns Scotus and William of Ockham Tobias Hoffmann; 15. Humanism Sabrina Ebbersmeyer; 16. The Protestant Reformation Jesse Couenhoven; 17. Descartes's provisional morality Lisa Shapiro; 18. Hobbes Sharon Lloyd; 19. The Cambridge Platonists Sarah Hutton; 20. Bayle Jean-Luc Solère; 21. Leibniz Gregory Brown; 22. Spinoza Stephen Nadler; 23. Pascal Desmond M. Clark; 24. Locke and Butler Stephen Darwall; 25. Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and the moral sense James A. Harris; 26. Hume Paul Guyer; 27. Smith and Bentham Craig Smith; 28. Rousseau Susan Meld Shell; 29. Rationalism and perfectionism Stefano Bacin; 30. Kant Jens Timmermann; 31. Fichte Allen Wood; 32. Hegel Dudley Knowles; 33. Mill Christopher MacLeod; 34. Schopenhauer Alistair Welchman; 35. Kierkegaard Zach Manis; 36. American transcendentalism Russell Goodman; 37. Nietzsche Lawrence Hatab; 38. Marxism Jeffrey Reiman; 39. Sidgwick Katarzyna de Lazari; 40. Pragmatism Cheryl Misak; 41. British idealism Robert Stern; 42. Ethical intuitionism Philip Stratton-Lake; 43. Husserl and phenomenological ethics Nicolas de Warren; 44. Ethics in Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis Edward Harcourt; 45. Noncognitivism: from the Vienna circle to the present day John Eriksson; 46. The Frankfurt school Fred Rush; 47. Heidegger Sacha Golob; 48. Sartre Sebastian Gardner; 49. French ethical philosophy since the 1960s Todd May; 50. Wittgenstein's ethics and Wittgensteinian moral philosophy David Levy; 51. Anti-theory Simon Robertson; 52. Discourse ethics Peter Niesen; 53. Decision theory Ben Eggleston; 54. Rawls Katrin Flikschuh.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought Volume 1 The Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This first volume surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment on European intellectual life. Spanning twenty chapters, it covers figures such as Kant, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, and Darwin, major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, Socialism, Liberalism and Feminism, and schools of thought such as Historicism, Philology, and Decadence. Renouncing a single ''master narrative'' of European thought across the period, Warren Breckman and PeterTrade Review'This is simply an incredible resource: essay after essay, written by leading intellectual historians that provide concise, lucid and engaging introductions to the main currents of European thought over the past two centuries. Everyone from students to seasoned scholars will want copies of these books on their shelves.' David A. Bell, Lapidus Professor, Princeton University'In these well-nigh encyclopedic volumes, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon engage in a daunting feat. They offer compact and informative introductions to essays on very many crucial dimensions of thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. And they furnish, along with their own substantive chapters, contributions from an array of prominent scholars of intellectual and cultural history, all of whom demonstrate impressive expertise in their varied areas of inquiry. The result is an important work of both scholarly and general interest.' Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon; 1. German idealism: the thought of modernity Terry Pinkard; 2. European romanticism: ambivalent responses to the sense of a new epoch Nicholas Halmi; 3. History, tradition and skepticism: the patterns of nineteenth-century theology David Fergusson; 4. The young Hegelians: philosophy as critical praxis Warren Breckman; 5. Utilitarianism, God, and moral obligation from Locke to Sidgwick Philip Schofield; 6. Capital, class, and empire: nineteenth-century political economy and its imaginary Francesco Boldizzoni; 7. Positivism in European intellectual, political, and religious life Mary Pickering; 8. European liberalism in the nineteenth century Jerrold Seigel; 9. European socialism from the 1790s to the 1890s Gareth Stedman Jones; 10. Conservatism: the utility of history and the case against rationalist radicalism Jerry Muller; 11. The woman question: liberal and socialist critiques of the status of women Naomi Andrews; 12. Darwinism and social Darwinism Gregory Radick; 13. Historicism from Ranke to Nietzsche John Toews; 14. Philology, language, and the constitution of meaning and human communities Tuska Benes; 15. Decadence and the 'second modernity' Mary Gluck; 16. Nihilism, pessimism, and the conditions of modernity Christian Emden; 17. Civilisation, culture and race: anthropology in the nineteenth century Adam Kuper; 18. The varieties of nationalist thought Erica Benner; 19. Ideas of empire: civilization, race, and global hierarchy Jennifer Pitts; 20. Rethinking revolution: radicalism at the end of the long nineteenth century Claudia Verhoeven.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This second volume surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. Comprised of twenty-one chapters, it focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Conservatism, and discusses critical movements such as Postcolonialism, , Structuralism, and Post-structuralism. Renouncing a single ''master narrative'' of European thought across the period, Peter E. Gordon and Warren Breckman establish a formidable new mTrade Review'This is simply an incredible resource: essay after essay, written by leading intellectual historians that provide concise, lucid and engaging introductions to the main currents of European thought over the past two centuries. Everyone from students to seasoned scholars will want copies of these books on their shelves.' David A. Bell, Lapidus Professor, Princeton University'In these well-nigh encyclopedic volumes, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon engage in a daunting feat. They offer compact and informative introductions to essays on very many crucial dimensions of thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. And they furnish, along with their own substantive chapters, contributions from an array of prominent scholars of intellectual and cultural history, all of whom demonstrate impressive expertise in their varied areas of inquiry. The result is an important work of both scholarly and general interest.' Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of Contents1. Sociology and the heroism of modern life Martin Jay; 2. Psychoanalysis: Freud and beyond Katja Guenther; 3. Modern physics: from crisis to crisis Jimena Canales; 4. Varieties of phenomenology Dan Zahavi; 5. Existentialism and the meanings of transcendence Edward Baring; 6. Philosophies of life Giuseppe Bianco; 7. The many faces of analytical philosophy Joel Isaac; 8. American ideas in the European imagination James T. Kloppenberg and Sam Klug; 9. Revolution from the right: against equality Udi Greenberg; 10. Western Marxism: revolutions in theory Max Pensky; 11. Anti-imperialism and interregnum Kris Manjapra; 12. Late modern feminist subversions: sex, subjectivity, and embodiment Sandrine Sanos; 13. Modernist theologies: the many paths between God and world Peter E. Gordon; 14. Modern economic thought and the 'good society' Hagen Schulz-Forberg; 15. Conservatism and its discontents Steven B. Smith; 16. Modernity and the specter of totalitarianism Samuel Moyn; 17. Decolonization terminable and interminable Judith Surkis; 18. Structuralism and the return of the symbolic Camille Robcis; 19. Poststructuralism: from deconstruction to the genealogy of power Julian Bourg and Ethan Kleinberg; 20. Contesting the public sphere: within and against critical theory David Ingram; 21. Restructuring democracy and the idea of Europe Seyla Benhabib and Stefan Eich.
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Cambridge University Press Feeling and Classical Philology
Book SynopsisNineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. This book shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity has lastingly shaped modern professional reading habits, notions of biography, and the self-image of scholars and teachers.Table of ContentsIntroduction: feeling and philology; 1. The potter's daughter: longing, Bildung, and the self; 2. From the symposium to the seminar: language of love and language of institutions; 3. 'So that he unknowingly and delicately mirrors himself in front of us, as the beautiful often do': Schleiermacher's Plato; 4. 'Enthusiasm dwells only in one-sidedness': knowledge of antiquity and professional philology; 5. 'The most instructive form in which we encounter an understanding of life': the age of biography; 6. The life of the Centaur: Wilamowitz, biography, Nietzsche; Epilogue: on keeping a distance.
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Cambridge University Press Thinking with Rousseau
Book SynopsisAlthough indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau''s actual place within that tradition, and the legacy of his thought, remains hotly disputed. Thinking with Rousseau reconsiders his contribution to this tradition through a series of essays exploring the relationship between Rousseau and other ''great thinkers''. Ranging from ''Rousseau and Machiavelli'' to ''Rousseau and Schmitt'', this volume focuses on the kind of intricate work that intellectuals do when they read each other and grapple with one another''s ideas. This approach is very helpful in explaining how old ideas are transformed and/or transmitted and new ones are generated. Rousseau himself was a master at appropriating the ideas of others, while simultaneously subverting them, and as the essays in this volume vividly demonstrate, the resulting ambivalences and paradoxes in his thought were creatively mined by others.Table of ContentsIntroduction Helena Rosenblatt and Paul Schweigert; 1. Rousseau and Machiavelli: two interpretations of Republicanism Maurizio Viroli; 2. Rousseau and Montaigne: from enthusiasm to equanimity James Miller; 3. Rousseau and Hobbes: the Hobbesianism of Rousseau Richard Tuck; 4. Rousseau and Montesquieu J. Kent Wright; 5. Rousseau and Mendelssohn: 'enraptured reason': Rousseau's presence in Moses Mendelssohn's thought David Sorkin; 6. Rousseau and Smith on sympathy as a first principle Pierre Force; 7. Rousseau and A. L. Thomas Anthony La Vopa; 8. Rousseau and d'Holbach: the revolutionary implications of la philosophie anti-Thérésienne Jonathan Israel; 9. Rousseau and Diderot Joanna Stalnaker; 10. Rousseau and Kant: Rousseau's Kantian legacy Susan Shell and Richard Velkley; 11. Rousseau and Wollstonecraft, solitary walkers Barbara Taylor; 12. Rousseau and Madame de Staël: a surprising dialogue Aurelian Craiutu; 13. Rousseau and Proudhon: human nature, property, and the social contract K. Steven Vincent; 14. Rousseau, Marx and human fulfillment Jerrold Siegel; 15. Rousseau and Schmitt: sovereigns and dictators David Bates.
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Cambridge University Press Herders Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisThrough a detailed study of Herder''s Enlightenment thought, especially his philosophy of literature, Kristin Gjesdal offers a new and sometimes provocative reading of the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics. She shows that hermeneutic philosophy grew out of a historical, anthropological, and poetic discourse in the mid-eighteenth century and argues that, as such, it represents a rich, stimulating, and relevant engagement with the potentials and limits of human meaning and understanding. Gjesdal''s study broadens our conception of hermeneutic philosophy - the issues it raises and the answers it offers - and underlines the importance of Herder''s contribution to the development of this discipline. Her book will be highly valuable for students and scholars of eighteenth-century thought, especially those working in the fields of hermeneutics, aesthetics, and European philosophy.Trade Review'Herder's hermeneutic philosophy is an important contribution to our understanding of hermeneutics as a peculiarly historical mode of philosophical practice. Gjesdal lucidly demonstrates the implications that Herder's focus on the historical dimension of language and culture has for philosophy itself, with hermeneutics emerging as a way of philosophising with particular relevance for today.' Paul Redding, University of Sydney'What distinguishes Gjesdal's approach from the existing body of scholarship is the meticulous attention she pays to the origins, transdisciplinary directions, and educational objectives of Herder's hermeneutics … It makes a major contribution to our improved understanding of a key eighteenth-century figure whose wide-ranging intellectual output and contemporary relevance deserve a much broader English-speaking audience.' Ulrike Wagner, Monatshefte'Herder's Hermeneutics is a rich and rewarding work that makes an invaluable contribution to both Herder scholarship and philosophical hermeneutics. As such, it is essential reading for scholars and students of hermeneutics, aesthetics, and European philosophy.' Kurt C. M. Mertel, Journal of the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The future of philosophy; 2. Poetry, history, aesthetics; 3. Aesthetic value and historical understanding; 4. Human nature and human science; 5. Prejudice and interpretation; 6. Critique and Bildung; 7. Self and other; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Dilthey
Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging and authoritative volume, leading scholars engage with the philosophy and writings of Wilhelm Dilthey, a key figure in nineteenth-century thought. Their chapters cover his innovative philosophical strategies and explore how they can be understood in relation to their historical situation, as well as presenting incisive interpretations of Dilthey''s arguments, including their development, their content, and their influence on later thought. A key focus is on how Dilthey''s work remains relevant to current debates around art and literature, the biographical and autobiographical self, knowledge, language, science, culture, history, society, and psychology and the embodied mind. The volume will be important for researchers in hermeneutics, aesthetics, practical philosophy, and the history of German philosophy, providing a valuable introduction to Dilthey''s work as well as detailed critical analysis of its ongoing significance.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Wilhelm Dilthey in context Eric S. Nelson; Part I. Life, Hermeneutics, and Science: 1. Dilthey's conception of purposiveness: its Kantian basis and hermeneutical function Rudolf A. Makkreel; 2. Leben erfaßt hier Leben: Dilthey as a philosopher of (the) life (sciences) Jos de Mul; 3. Dilthey's importance for hermeneutics Michael N. Forster; 4. Hermeneutics and historicity: Dilthey's critique of historical reason Charles Bambach; 5. Dilthey's defense of historicism Frederick C. Beiser; 6. More than one 'kind' of science? Implications of Dilthey's hermeneutics for science studies Robert C. Scharff; Part II. Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Interpretation: 7. Dilthey and empathy Shaun Gallagher; 8. Dilthey's ethical theory Benjamin Crowe; 9. Dilthey's dream and the struggle of world-views Nicolas de Warren; 10. A task most pressing: Dilthey's philosophy of the novel and his rewriting of modern aesthetics Kristin Gjesdal; 11. Experience and metaphysics: the anti-Hegelian aesthetics of Dilthey and Santayana Paul Guyer; 12. Dilthey and Wittgenstein: understanding understanding Lee Braver; 13. Dilthey's hermeneutics and philosophical hermeneutics Jean Grondin.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of French Thought
Book SynopsisFrench thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought across the centuries. It provides readers with studies of both systematic thinkers and those who operate less systematically, through essays or fragments, and places them all in their many contexts. Informed by up-to-date research, these accessible chapters are written by prominent experts in their fields who investigate key concepts in non-technical language. Chapters feature treatments of specific thinkers as individuals including Voltaire, Rousseau, Descartes and Derrida, but also more general movements and schools of thought from humanism to liberalism, via the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Marxism, and feminism. Furthermore, the influence of gender, race, empire and slavery are investigated to offer a broad and fulfilling account of FrencTrade Review'The Cambridge History of French Thought is much more than an overview of philosophy during the period since the Middle Ages … this is a useful work that would make a valuable addition to any serious university library.' R. W. Lemmons, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Michael Moriarty; Part I. The Middle Ages to 1789: 1. Medieval French thought David Luscombe; 2. Humanist culture in Renaissance France Ingrid De Smet; 3. Reformers and dissidents Neil Kenny; 4. Rabelais John O'Brien; 5. Moral theories: Aristotelianism and Neostoicism Ullrich Langer; 6. Pyrrhonism John O'Brien; 7. Ramus Raphaële Garrod; 8. Montaigne John O'Brien; 9. Demonology Timothy Chesters; 10. Political and legal thought Sophie E. B. Nichols; 11. Linguistic and literary thought: mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries John D. Lyons; 12. French scholastics in the seventeenth century Roger Ariew; 13. Sceptics and freethinkers Isabelle Moreau; 14. Descartes Gary Hatfield; 15. Augustinianism Michael Moriarty; 16. Spirituality Richard Parish; 17. Pascal Emma Gilby; 18. Cartesianism Steven Nadler; 19. Bayle Ruth Whelan; 20. Ethical, political, and social thought Michael Moriarty; 21. Aesthetics: ancients and moderns Richard Scholar; 22. The querelle des femmes Rebecca Wilkin; 23. The Enlightenment Jenny Mander; 24. Voltaire John Leigh; 25. Diderot Marian Hobson; 26. Rousseau Michael Moriarty; 27. Philosophy and religion: deism, atheism, materialism Caroline Warman; 28. Enlightenment political and social thought A. M. R. De Dijn; 29. The continent of history David McCallam; 30. Enlightenment aesthetic thought Kate E. Tunstall; 31. The Enlightenment and gender Judith Still; 32. Colonialism and slavery Jenny Mander; Part II. From 1789 to the Present Day: 33. French thought on the eve of the Revolution and after Jeremy Jennings; 34. Political thought in the nineteenth century Jeremy Jennings; 35. The Paris School of liberal political economy David Hart; 36. Romanticism Alison Finch; 37. Victor Cousin and eclecticism Benjamin Bacle; 38. Nineteenth-century religious thought Robert Priest; 39. Auguste Comte and positivism Mary Pickering; 40. Race and empire in ninteenth-century France Emmanuelle Saada; 41. Philosophy: epistemological debates and Bergson Daniela S. Barberis; 42. Nation and nationalism Michael Sutton; 43. Twentieth-century French Catholic thought Michael Sutton; 44. Writing modern French history Philip Whalen; 45. Sartre and the art of living with paradox Thomas R. Flynn; 46. Marxism versus humanism Knox Peden; 47. French feminist thought in the twentieth century Diana Holmes; 48. Anticolonialism Emile Chabal; 49. The new liberalism Daniel J. Mahoney; 50. Michel Foucault Michael C. Behrent; 51. Jacques Derrida and deconstruction Paul Rekret; 52. Sociology Daniela S. Barberis; 53. Literary theory Patrick French; Conclusion: the end of French thought? Jeremy Jennings.
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Cambridge University Press Model Theory and the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice
Book SynopsisMajor shifts in the field of model theory in the twentieth century have seen the development of new tools, methods, and motivations for mathematicians and philosophers. In this book, John T. Baldwin places the revolution in its historical context from the ancient Greeks to the last century, argues for local rather than global foundations for mathematics, and provides philosophical viewpoints on the importance of modern model theory for both understanding and undertaking mathematical practice. The volume also addresses the impact of model theory on contemporary algebraic geometry, number theory, combinatorics, and differential equations. This comprehensive and detailed book will interest logicians and mathematicians as well as those working on the history and philosophy of mathematics.Trade Review'The book under review has a lot to offer at many levels. First of all, it may serve as a guide to recent advances in pure and applied model theory. Such a guide may be useful not only to novices, but also to old hands. Secondly, Baldwin summarizes several trends in contemporary philosophy of mathematics, and his insights should be of interest to philosophers as well as to mathematicians.' Roman Kossak, The Mathematical IntelligencerTable of ContentsPart I. Refining the Notion of Categoricity: 1. Formalization; 2. The context of formalization; 3. Categoricity; Part II. The Paradigm Shift: 4. What was model theory about?; 5. What is contemporary model theory about?; 6. Isolating tame mathematics; 7. Infinitary logic; 8. Model theory and set theory; Part III. Geometry: 9. Axiomatization of geometry; 10. π, area, and circumference of circles; 11. Complete: the word for all seasons; Part IV. Methodology: 12. Formalization and purity in geometry; 13. On the nature of definition: model theory; 14. Formalism-freeness; 15. Summation.
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Cambridge University Press Kantian Ethics Dignity and Perfection
Book SynopsisIn this volume Paul Formosa sets out a novel approach to Kantian ethics as an ethics of dignity by focusing on the Formula of Humanity as a normative principle distinct from the Formula of Universal Law. By situating the Kantian conception of dignity within the wider literature on dignity, he develops an important distinction between status dignity, which all rational agents have, and achievement dignity, which all rational agents should aspire to. He then explores constructivist and realist views on the foundation of the dignity of rational agents, before developing a compelling account of who does and does not have status dignity and of what kind of achievement dignity or virtue we, as vulnerable rational agents, can and should strive for. His study will be highly valuable for those interested in Kant''s ethical, moral and political philosophies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Kantian ethics as an ethics of dignity; 1. The categorical imperative and the formula of humanity; 2. Grounding dignity: a constructivist foundation for the formula of humanity; 3. Treating people with dignity and respect: how to apply the formula of humanity to vulnerable humans; 4. Who has dignity? Rational agency and the limits of the formula of humanity; 5. Achievement dignity, virtue and autonomy: how to live up to your status dignity.
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Cambridge University Press Analogical Investigations
Book SynopsisWestern philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures, showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results conclusively. By contrast reasoning that depends on analogies has often been viewed with suspicion. Professor Lloyd first explores the origins of those Western ideals, criticises some of their excesses and redresses the balance in favour of looser, admittedly non-demonstrative analogical reasoning. For this he takes examples both from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and from the materials of recent ethnography to show how different ancient and modern cultures have developed different styles of reasoning. He also develops two original but controversial ideas, that of semantic stretch (to cast doubt on the literal/metaphorical dichotomy) and the multidimensionality of reality (to bypass the realism versus relativism and nature versus nurture controversies).Trade Review'… a challenging book which constitutes an intellectually condensed and pleasurable read.' Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On the very possibility of mutual intelligibility; 2. The multiple valences of comparativism; 3. Analogies, images and models in ethics: some first-order and second-order observations on their use and evaluation in ancient Greece and China; 4. Analogies as heuristic; 5. Ontologies revisited; 6. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Peirce on Realism and Idealism
Book SynopsisThis book presents an original interpretation of the American philosopher Charles Peirce's views on reality, truth, and the relationship between the mind and the external world. It explores topics including pragmatism, scholastic realism, and generality, and will be important for students and scholars of American philosophy and metaphysics.Trade Review'With impressive clarity and careful attention to the manuscripts, Robert Lane shows us how Peirce could consistently endorse both realism and idealism throughout his life. This book elucidates key conceptions and important distinctions at the heart of Peirce's metaphysics. It is essential reading for anyone trying to reconcile the comprehensibility of reality, on the one hand, with its mind-independence, on the other.' Richard Kenneth Atkins, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: basic realism; 1. The dual-aspect account of truth; 2. The pragmatic clarification of the idea of reality; 3. Basic idealism and objective idealism; 4. The idealistic theory of reality: idealism in the cognition series; 5. Generals: early scholastic realism; 6. Generals and vagues: late scholastic realism; 7. 'A lacuna in the completeness of reality': deficit indeterminacy.
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Cambridge University Press Melissus and Eleatic Monism
Book SynopsisIn the fifth century BCE, Melissus of Samos developed wildly counterintuitive claims against plurality, change, and the reliability of the senses. This book provides a reconstruction of the preserved textual evidence for his philosophy, along with an interpretation of the form and content of each of his arguments. A close examination of his thought reveals an extraordinary clarity and unity in his method and gives us a unique perspective on how philosophy developed in the fifth century, and how Melissus came to be the most prominent representative of what we now call Eleaticism, the monistic philosophy inaugurated by Parmenides. The rich intellectual climate of Ionian enquiry in which Melissus worked is explored and brought to bear on central questions of the interpretation of his fragments. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of early Greek philosophy, and also those working on historical and medical texts.Table of ContentsPrefatory material; B1: what-is did not come to be; B2 and B3: spatial infinity; B4, B5, B6: what-is is one; B9 and B10: bodilessness and indivisibility; B7: change, pain, and motion; B8: sense experience and plurality.
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Cambridge University Press Kant on Reality Cause and Force
Book SynopsisKant''s category of reality is an often overlooked element of his Critique of Pure Reason. Tal Glezer shows that it nevertheless belongs at the core of Kant''s mature critical philosophy: it captures an issue that motivated his critical turn, shaped his theory of causation, and established the role of his philosophy of science. Glezer''s study traces the roots of Kant''s category of reality to early modern debates over the intelligibility of substantial forms, fueled by the tension between the idea of non-extended substances and that of extended objects. This tension influenced Kant''s pre-critical work, and eventually inspired his radical break towards transcendental idealism. Glezer explores the importance of reality for Kant''s conceptions of cause and force, and sheds new light on his philosophy of physical science, including gravity. His book will interest scholars of Kant and of early modern philosophy, as well as historians of scientific ideas.Trade Review'Kant on Reality, Cause, and Force is the first study to give a coherent account of the complex relationship between qualities, causes, and forces in Kant's philosophy by drawing on important strands in early modern philosophy and science. It is a compelling reconstruction of Kant's critical concept of reality, and, with its distinctively non-psychological viewpoint, it makes an original contribution both to Kant scholarship and to the development of early modern metaphysics and philosophy of nature more broadly.' Konstantin Pollok, University of South CarolinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: 'what corresponds to sensation'; Part I. Substantial Forms and Reality: 1. Reality and substantial forms in Descartes and Suárez; 1.1. Reality-containment and substantial forms in Descartes and Suárez; 1.2. Causation and substantial forms in Descartes and Suárez; 1.3. Descartes on the intelligibility of substantial forms; 2. Vis Viva and the essence of matter; 2.1. Vis Viva and quantity of motion; 2.2. Vis Viva and 'quantity of progress'; 2.3. Vis Viva and potential energy; 2.4. Potential energy and substantial forms; 2.5. Living and dead forces, primitive and derivative forces in Leibniz's Specimen Dynamicum; 2.6. The principle of sufficient reason and the intelligibility of substantial forms; 3. Leibniz on the law of continuity; 3.1. Leibniz on the law of continuity in mathematics; 3.2. Leibniz on the law of continuity in physics; 3.3. Leibniz's law of continuity and genus-species subordination; Part II. The Magnitude of Reality: 4. Reality and magnitude in Kant's Negative Magnitudes; 4.1. The validity of mathematical concepts in philosophy; 4.2. Negative magnitudes and real opposition; 4.3. Kant's main argument in Negative Magnitudes Section III; 4.4. Ground and consequence, and the law of continuity in Negative Magnitudes; 5. The category of reality and the law of continuity; 5.1. Kant's classification of laws of continuity; 5.2. Laws of continuity in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation; 5.3. The law of continuity's place in the table of categories; 5.4. The ground of sensation in the Inaugural Dissertation and in the CPR; 6. Objectivity and the quantification of reality; 6.1. Objectivity and the concepts of quality; 6.2. Why qualities should have quantities; 6.3. Intensive magnitudes and the anticipations of perception; 7. Reality, causation, and motion; 7.1. Reality and causation; 7.2. Simultaneous and instantaneous causation; 7.3. Reality and motion; 7.4. Reality, motion, and the moment of change; Part III. The All of Reality: 8. Metaphysical and mechanical laws of the continuity of alteration; 8.1. The continuity of alteration in the CPR; 8.2. The continuity of alteration in the MFNS; 9. The second analogy and the uniformity of nature; 9.1. The second analogy and the existence of empirical laws; 9.2. 'An unbounded diversity of empirical laws'; 9.3. The applicability of transcendental principles in experience; 10. Reality and the system of all possible empirical concepts; 10.1. Kant and Leibniz on the idea of a system of all possible empirical concepts; 10.2. Transcendental ideas and the concept of realitas noumenon; 10.3. Transcendental ideas and the pure use of reason; 10.4. Transcendental ideas and the property of continuity; 10.5. The transcendental ideas and the regulative principles of science; 11. Reality and the derivation of rgavitation; 11.1. Kant's example of genus-species subordination in the appendix to the dialectic; 11.2. Kant's example and the continuity of conic sections; 11.3. Kant's example and Newton's derivation of gravitation; 11.4. Kant on Newton and the objective validity of motion; 11.5. Kant on genus-species subordination and Newton's derivation of gravitation; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Moral Philosophy in EighteenthCentury Britain
Book SynopsisThe long eighteenth century is a crucial period in the history of ethics, when our moral relations to God, ourselves and others were minutely examined and our duties, rights and virtues systematically and powerfully presented. Colin Heydt charts the history of practical morality - what we ought to do and to be - from the 1670s, when practical ethics arising from Protestant natural law gained an institutional foothold in England, to early British responses to the French Revolution around 1790. He examines the conventional philosophical positions concerning the content of morality, and utilizes those conventions to reinterpret the work of key figures including Locke, Hume, and Smith. Situating these positions in their thematic and historical contexts, he shows how studying them challenges our assumptions about the originality, intended audience, and aims of philosophical argument during this period. His rich and readable book will appeal to a range of scholars and students.Trade Review'… the development of British moral philosophy in this period is irreducibly complex; Heydt's book is an immensely valuable contribution to our understanding of it.' Tim Stuart-Buttle, Journal of Scottish Philosophy'Heydt explains clearly - with reference to a very wide variety of primary sources, some well-known, most unfamiliar - how teachers of moral philosophy in Britain in the eighteenth century presented their students with their duties to God, to themselves, and to others. All in all, this is a marvellous book … what especially struck me was the light it sheds on what the majority of moral philosophers in this place and time thought was the real point of their work.' James A. Harris, Journal of the History of Philosophy'Heydt's scholarship is formidable. For those immersed in the literature of the period, this book will further their researches. For those, like this reviewer, who lack background knowledge in which to place the great figures, Heydt supplies a huge amount of information that could not otherwise be obtained except by great (and even tedious) labour. All those interested in [eighteenth-century] ethics are in his debt.' David McNaughton, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPart I. Foundations: 1. 'Morality not in accordance with virtues but in accordance with duties': the Pufendorfian shift in moral philosophy; 2. The structure of practical ethics: duty and virtue; 3. The structure of practical ethics: duty and right; Part II. Relations to God: 4. Duties to God, revelation, and morality's history; 5. Breaking with convention: Hume, Smith, moral philosophy, and the God of natural religion; Part III. Relations to Self: 6. Moral relations to self and the significance of self-harm; 7. Anthropological optimism, pessimism, and the scope of self-cultivation; Part IV. Relations to Others: 8. Relating to others: natural rights and community; 9. Why not polygamy? Natural law and the family; 10. Political jurisprudence and its limits.
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsches Metaphilosophy
Book SynopsisRecent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that Nietzsche''s thought makes important contributions to a wide range of contemporary philosophical debates. In so doing, however, scholarship has lost sight of another important feature of Nietzsche''s project, namely his desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy that has been used to assess his merits as a philosopher. In other words, contemporary scholarship has overlooked Nietzsche''s contributions to metaphilosophy, i.e. debates around the nature, methods, and aims of philosophy. This important new collection of essays brings together an international group of distinguished scholars to explore and discuss these contributions and debates. It will appeal to anyone interested in metaphilosophy, Nietzsche studies, German studies, or intellectual history.Trade Review'Loeb and Meyer have assembled a well-rounded cast of internationally recognized scholars to address the long-unanswered question: 'What exactly is philosophy for Nietzsche?' The resulting volume presents many sides to this crucial problem in a judicious and highly learned fashion.' Anthony K. Jensen, Providence College, Rhode Island'The editors of this volume, Paul S. Loeb and Matthew Meyer, have gathered a number of exciting essays on the general topic of Nietzsche's metaphilosophy - a topic which has not enjoyed such detailed and close treatment in Anglo-American scholarship as is provided here.' Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction Paul S. Loeb and Matthew Meyer; Part I. Evolving Metaphilosophies: 1. Metaphilosophy and 'natural history' Marco Brusotti; 2. The dialectics of Nietzsche's metaphilosophies Matthew Meyer; 3. Nietzsche as metaphilosopher Antoine Panaïoti; Part II. The Nature of Philosophy: 4. The relationship between science and philosophy as a key feature of Nietzsche's metaphilosophy Rebecca Bamford; 5. Genuine philosophers, value-creation, and will to power: an exegesis of Beyond Good and Evil §211 Paul S. Loeb; 6. Nietzsche's masks: philosophy and religion in Beyond Good and Evil Robert B. Pippin; Part III. The Method of Philosophy: 7. Nietzsche's affective perspectivism as a philosophical methodology Mark Alfano; 8. Nietzsche's philosophical naturalism Tsarina Doyle; 9. Nietzsche's moral methodology Paul Katsafanas; Part IV. The Aims of Philosophy: 10. Nietzsche's aesthetic conception of philosophy: a (post-Kantian) interpretation of The Gay Science João Constâncio; 11. Metaphilosophy and metapolitics in Nietzsche and Heidegger Beatrix Himmelmann; 12. Nietzsche's psychology of metaphysics (or, metaphysics as revenge) Scott Jenkins; 13. 'The great seriousness begins': Nietzsche's tragic philosophy and philosophy's role in creating healthier racialized identities Jacqueline Scott.
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and the ReInvention of Modern Religion
Book SynopsisEarly German Romanticism sought to respond to a comprehensive sense of spiritual crisis that characterised the late eighteenth century. The study demonstrates how the Romantics sought to bring together the new post-Kantian idealist philosophy with the inheritance of the realist Platonic-Christian tradition. With idealism they continued to champion the individual, while from Platonism they took the notion that all reality, including the self, participated in absolute being. This insight was expressed, not in the language of theology or philosophy, but through aesthetics, which recognised the potentiality of all creation, including artistic creation, to disclose the divine. In explicating the religious vision of Romanticism, this study offers a new historical appreciation of the movement, and furthermore demonstrates its importance for our understanding of religion today.Trade Review'Hampton's book is very bold but very needed. It is an attempt at a comprehensive interpretation of early German romanticism, one that strives to recreate its central concerns and ideals and to do justice to them. Hampton's interpretation is a timely attempt to find the via media between the one-sided idealist and realist, transcendent and secular, interpretations of early romanticism. It is one of the strengths of his interpretation that it puts Platonism in the very heart of Early German Romanticism, which is exactly where it belongs. This is a very valuable contribution to the growing literature on the subject, one that avoids and corrects the trendy reductivist interpretations current today.' Frederick Beiser, University of Syracuse'Deftly argued and wide-ranging, Hampton's new book is a breakthrough in our understanding of what may well have been the most exciting fifteen years in German literary and intellectual history. The compelling readings of Herder, Moritz, Jacobi, Fichte, Schiller, Novalis, Schlegel, and Hölderlin, offered here are further enriched by the author's impressive grasp of Romanticism's philosophical and theological backstory. Hampton makes a compelling case for a Romantic dialectic circumscribed less by Spinoza and Fichte than by the participatory ontology of a Christian realism whose deep Platonic roots have long been under-appreciated. In tracing early Romanticism's development of 'a new language of transcendence in an age that had come to think in terms of immanence', Hampton has given us a startlingly original appraisal of a period when questions of transcendence were shaping, perhaps for the last time in European thought, the project of cultural and social self-understanding.' Thomas Pfau, Duke University, North Carolina'In this superb study, Alexander J. B. Hampton develops much further the radically new scholarly understanding of German Romanticism as a critically realist qualification of idealist concerns. He shows that it was nothing less than a novel, aesthetic and anti-totalising recovery of the Platonic Christian tradition. He has hereby transcended both post-Kantian and postmodern readings of this remarkable body of thought, whose relevance for today cannot be exaggerated.' Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge'Proceeding from the provocative claim that early German Romanticism was impelled by a 'need to create a new language for religion', Hampton's new study offers an original, erudite, and closely argued alternative to the established (and opposed) accounts of the movement in terms of Fichtean subjectivism or Spinozist monism. In Hampton's interpretation, Romanticism sought neither to secularise religion in an immanent form nor to reassert old theological orthodoxies but rather to reconceive transcendence in the language of aesthetics and with the assistance of concepts from the Christian Platonist tradition. Not the least of the book's virtues is its placement of Jacobi, Herder, and Karl Philipp Moritz - who, like the Romantics Friedrich Schlegel, Hölderlin, and Novalis, resist easy classification as philosophical or literary figures - firmly in the genealogy of early German Romanticism.' Nicholas Halmi, University of Oxford, author of The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol'This is an impressive achievement, which anchors its claims in a wealth of resources from and about early German Romanticism. Hampton's re-evaluation of the significance of the Romantic movement goes beyond the conflicting ideas of it as either a form of Fichtean idealism or of Spinozist pantheism. Instead, the movement is seen as engaged in a re-articulation of metaphysical and religious concerns through a synthesis of post-Kantian idealism and Platonic realism that gives a decisive role to art. The book offers a persuasively unorthodox presentation of one of the most remarkable moments of modern philosophical history, linking it to new ways of understanding religion in contemporary thought.' Andrew Bowie, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German, Royal Holloway, University of London, author of Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche, Introduction to German Philosophy: From Kant to Habermas'The persisting power and relevance of the Romantic vision in contemporary thought and culture should not be ignored. In this remarkable book, Hampton is able to draw upon some of the lesser known figures of German Romanticism to great effect. Adroit and accomplished, it is a far sighted and discerning work.' Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge'This splendid book brings together what belongs together. The early Romantic tradition cannot be understood without its Platonic roots. Hampton's study takes up what German-language scholarship on the tradition has tended to neglect. The result is a book that is an eye-opening achievement which will become an essential resource for the study of religion and modernity.' Jörg Lauster, Chair of Dogmatics, Philosophy of Religion, and Ecumenism, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany'The main thesis of Hampton's book is compelling … Hampton does a great service to the history of this period by explaining exactly how disputes over Spinoza and Fichte indelibly shaped a new generation of philosophers, artists, and poets in their mission to rearticulate the terms of a viable modern religiosity.' Evan Kuehn, Reading ReligionTable of ContentsPart I. Romantic Religion: Transcendence for an Age of Immanence: 1. The romantic vocation; 2. Realism, idealism and the transcendentals; 3. Re-contextualising romanticism: the problem of subjectivity; 4. Re-contextualising romanticism: the question of Religion; Part II. Give Me a Place to Stand: The Absolute at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: 5. The immanent absolute: Spinoza and Fichte; 6. Jacobi and the transcendence of the absolute; 7. Herder and the immanent presence of the transcendent absolute; 8. Moritz and the aesthetics of the absolute; Part III. Romantic Religion: The Transcendent Absolute: 9. Platonism and the transcendent absolute; 10. Schlegel: the poetic search for an unknown God; 11. Holderlin: becoming and dissolution in the absolute; 12. Novalis: the desire to be at home in the world; Part IV. Our Romantic Future.
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Cambridge University Press Kant and Religion
Book SynopsisThis masterful work on Kant''s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant''s treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil, and the moral grounds for faith in God. Kant and Religion works to deepen our understanding of religion''s place and meaning within the history of human culture, touching on Kant''s philosophical stance regarding theoretical, moral, political, and religious matters. Wood''s breadth of knowledge of Kant''s corpus, philosophical sharpness, and depth of reflection sheds light not only on Kant, but also on the fate of religion and its relation to philosophy in the modern world.Trade Review'In this penetrating study, Wood argues that Kant affirms neither traditional theism nor atheism. Rather, Kant interprets the central ideas of Christianity as invaluable symbols of the foundation of morality: that human beings are radically free, that because of their freedom they are capable of evil, but are equally free to undertake a lifelong 'change of heart,' working unremittingly to put morality ahead of self-love. Wood has written a masterpiece.' Paul Guyer, Brown University'Very few scholars are able to write the definitive work in a subject area when they are in their 20's. Even fewer have the chance to do it again 50 years later. This book shows us where the author's views have changed and evolved since Kant's Moral Religion (1970), and also – as importantly – where they have stayed the same. Like their namesake, Kantians tend to age well; this book is vintage Allen Wood.' Andrew Chignell, Princeton University'Kant and Religion, by its topic's foremost living scholar, presents the upshot of Wood's half a century of ground-breaking research on Kant's engagement with religion, not merely as a topic in metaphysics, but as a major factor in the social and individual dimensions of a moral life. Organized around Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, this book deals insightfully with all three of Kant's Critiques and the major ethical works of his final years. This lively, accessible book combines Wood's engaging passion for his subject with carefully balanced judgment.' Robert Merrihew Adams, Rutgers University'… an original and exciting contribution to the literature on Kant's understanding of religion.' Jacqueline Mariña, Journal of the History of Philosophy'Wood's writing is … snappy, self-assured, and entertainingly bold …' Jessica Tizzard, Journal of the American Academy of ReligionTable of Contents1. Religion and reason; 2. Moral faith in God; 3. The radical evil in human nature; 4. The change of heart; 5. The son of God; 6. Grace and salvation; 7. The ethical community and the Church; 8. Freedom of conscience; Concluding remarks.
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsches Free Spirit Works
Book SynopsisOften considered mere assemblages of aphorisms, the free spirit works - Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science - are here presented as a coherent narrative of Nietzsche's self-education. The book explores these works' role in Nietzsche's wider philosophy.Trade Review'This is a superb intellectual history of Nietzsche's philosophical quest to emancipate his self-legislating spirit from the debilitating influences of metaphysics, religion, morality, and the scientific desire for truth at all costs.' Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound, Washington'Matthew Meyer's ambitious and exciting new book … is not only the most illuminating study we now have of Nietzsche's middle period, but an important call to a very different way of approaching Nietzsche's whole oeuvre.' Agonist'… genuinely thought-provoking … will stimulate productive discussions about the meaning and significance of Nietzsche's middle works for many years to come.' Journal of Nietzsche StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Interpreting Nietzsche's free spirit works; 2. A defense of the dialectical reading; Part I. The Ascetic Camel: 3. For the love of truth: Human, All Too Human; 4. An Epicurean in exile: Assorted Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and His Shadow; Part II. The Dragon-Slaying Lion: 5. Undermining the prejudices of morality: Daybreak; 6. The Selbstaufhebung of the will to truth: The Gay Science I–III; Part III. The Dionysian Child: 7. Incipit Tragoedia: from The Gay Science IV to Thus Spoke Zarathustra; 8. Incipit Parodia: from the free spirit to the philosophy of the future?
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