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Book SynopsisThis monograph represents a rare, classical-philosophical approach to culture. It is grounded in philosophical realism and emphasizes personalism as a true achievement of philosophical anthropology. Employing the apparatus of the history of philosophy, science and religion, the author demonstrates the immense scope of the drama unfolding within human culture. In a classical approach, evaluation is inevitable—with regard to various theories of culture, human culture as such, and all its main actors. Jaroszyński’s work shows that realistic study of what it means to be a human person leads to the most comprehensive understanding of culture as it is and should be.Table of ContentsEditor’s Preface Introduction PART 1: Culture in Science 1 Sciences Concerning Culture  1 Particular Sciences Concerning Culture  2 Philosophy of Culture 2 Culture: A History of the Term and Concept  1 From the Cultivation of the Soil to the Cultivation of the Soul  2 Culture and Cultus  3 From the Culture of the Mind to the Culture of Mankind  4 From National Culture to Mass Culture  5 Civilization and Culture 3 Selected Definitions of Culture  1 Social Dimension of Culture  2 Transmission of Culture  3 Culture and Values  4 Culture and Symbol  5 Culture and Meaning  6 Culture and Behavioral Models  7 Culture and Cultural Fields  8 Culture and Person PART 2: Theories of Culture 4 From Mythology to Philosophy: Nature vs. Culture in Antiquity  1 Nature and Man  2 From Negation to Apotheosis of Nature (Empedocles and the Sophists)  3 Divine Origins of Culture (Plato)   3.1 Philosophical Variant   3.2 Mythological Variant  4 “With Reason and Téchne” (Aristotle)  5 The Soul Is God (Plotinus) 5 Between Philosophy and Theology: Christianity  1 In Search of Perfection  2 Natura Corrupta (Thomas Aquinas)  3 Towards Anti-Cosmism (Manichaeism and Gnosis)  4 Natura Totaliter Corrupta (Protestantism) 6 Between Philosophy and Ideology  1 Nature Worship: Nature Is Perfect  2 Apotheosis of Culture: Culture Produces Nature   2.1 Individualism (Sartre)   2.2 Further Perspectives of Positioning of the Concept of Culture  3 Recapitulation PART 3: Foundations of Culture: Truth, Goodness, Beauty   Introduction to Part 3 7 Truth 8 Goodness  1 Finalism  2 Emanationism  3 Creationism 9 Beauty PART 4: Cultural Fields   Introduction to Part 4 10 Science as a Cultural Field  1 Four Conceptions of Science   1.1 Science as Cognition by Causes   1.2 Science: From “How many?” to “How?”   1.3 Science: The Question of a Priori Conditions   1.4 Science: The Question “Why Not?”  2 Negation of Science: Postmodernism 11 Cultural Fields: Morality  1 Ethics: Goodness or Value?  2 Economy: For the Good of the Family  3 Economy: Family as the Subject  4 Relations within the Family  5 Public Life: Types of Political Systems  6 Dispute over the Common Good: Individualism, Collectivism, Personalism  7 Dispute over Democracy 12 Cultural Fields: Productive Action (Ποίησις)  1 Scope and Purposes of Productive Action  2 Tools and the Capacity for Rational Thinking  3 From Copying to Creating 13 Religion as a Cultural Field  1 What is Religion?   1.1 “Religion” and Related Words   1.2 Various Interpretations of the Word “Religion”  2 Religion: Constitutive Elements  3 Classical Definition of Religion  4 Reasons for Religiosity  5 Philosophy on Immortality  6 The End-Purpose of Religion  7 Against Religion  8 Religion and Culture  9 Existence of God: From Faith to Metaphysics  10 God and Sacrum  11 Religion and Holiness  12 Religion and Examples to Follow  13 Religion as a Virtue (from Cicero to St. Thomas)  14 Religion as the Focal Point of Culture  15 Religion and Other Cultural Fields   15.1 Science and Religion   15.2 Πρᾶξις and Religion   15.3 Ποίησις and Religion  16 Religion: Towards the Fulfillment of the Person 14 Culture: For the Person, but Person How Conceived?  1 The Person: From the Mask to Self   1.1 Theater   1.2 Privileges   1.3 In the Image of God  2 Selected Philosophical Conceptions of the Person   2.1 The Person Is Not a Part   2.2 The Person Is Not a Thing   2.3 The Person Is Not a Totality   2.4 The Person Is Not a Tool   2.5 The Person Has Its Dignity and Its End-Purpose   2.6 The Person Is a Self   2.7 The Person without Own Self?   2.8 The Self of a Rational Nature 15 In the Trap of Nihilism  1 Personalism Threatened  2 What Is Nihilism?   2.1 Etymology   2.2 Nothingness: From Metaphysics to Ontology  3 Philosophical Nihilism: From a Notion to a System   3.1 From Atheism to Nihilism   3.2 Nihilism and the Negation of Culture   3.3 Nihilism and Nietzsche Epilogue: A Theology of Culture: Towards Divinization of Nature Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEver since the publication of 'Truth' in 1959 Sir Michael Dummett has been acknowledged as one of the most profoundly creative and influential of contemporary philosophers. His contributions to the philosophy of thought and language, logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics have set the terms of some of most fruitful discussions in philosophy. His work on Frege stands unparalleled, both as landmark in the history of philosophy and as a deep reflection on the defining commitments of the analytic school. This volume of specially composed essays on Dummett's philosophy presents a new perspective on his achievements, and provides a focus for further research fully informed by the Dummett's most recent publications. Collectively the essays in philosophy of mathematics provide the most sustained discussion to date of the role of Dummett's diagnosis of the root of the logico-mathematical paradoxes in his case for an intuitionist revision of classical mathematics. The themes of other essays include a fundamental challenge to Dummett's Fregean understanding of predication, and a criticism of his case for logical revision outside of mathematics.Trade Review"rich in suggestions and details … should be recommended to the readers of Michael Dummett who are interested in obtaining a deeper understanding of some tensions in his philosophy of mathematics and his philosophy of language." - in: Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2001 "… eleven stimulating essays … they distinguish themselves by concentrating on Dummett’s most recently published work. The result is a collection which is both sophisticated and up to date." - in: The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 201 (October 2000)Table of ContentsPreface. I. PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS. Timothy WILLIAMSON: Indefinite Extensibility. Alex OLIVER: Hazy Totalities and Indefinitely Extensible Concepts: An Exercise in the Interpretation of Dummett's Philosophy of Mathematics. Klaus PUHL and Sonja RINOFNER-KREIDL: Is Every Mentalism a Kind of Psychologism? Michael Dummett's Critique of Edmund Husserl and Gareth Evans. Crispin WRIGHT: Why Frege did not Deserve his Granum Salis. A Note on the Paradox of The Concept Horse and the Ascription of Bedeutungen to Predicates. Peter CLARK: Dummett's Argument for the Indefinite Extensibility of Set and Real Number. Alan WEIR: Dummett on Impredicativity. A.W. MOORE: More on 'The Philosophical Significance of Gödel's Theorem'. Michael POTTER: Classical Arithmetic is Part of Intuitionistic Arithmetic. Eric P. TSUI-JAMES: Dummett, Brouwer and the Metaphysics of Mathematics. II. PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE. Charles TRAVIS: Sublunary Intuitionism. John CAMPBELL: Sense and Consciousness.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a creative approach to the problem of individual authenticity. What is authenticity? What are its necessary conditions? How is an authentic self possible in society? What are the relationships of authenticity, morality, and happiness? The book examines a wide range of questions in Eastern and Western thought, to which it gives novel answers.Trade Review”The glorious radiance of existentialist thought in the mid-twentieth century illumined the dark days of European and Asian totalitarianism, only to be dampened all-too-quickly by the rise of many forms of communitarianism. Xunwu Chen has written a brilliant cross-cultural defense of the importance of existential authenticity. Countering the recent trend to see the Confucian tradition as defining the self by its social roles and as taking the community to be more important than the individual, Chen shows that the authentic inhabitation of those roles is prior in importance to the roles themselves, at least in principle. Chen treats the Western tradition in equal detail, arguing for the priority of authenticity to social participation, however necessary the latter is. Acknowledging the importance of social existence, Chen argues forcefully for a “new individualism” that properly criticizes the individualism of classical existentialism. Chen’s cross-cultural conversation between China and the West is the needed context for discussions of authenticity in the twenty-first century world.” – Robert Cummings Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, Boston UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements ONE To Be or Not to Be TWO The Traditional Chinese Conception of Authenticity THREE Being as Art, Poetry, and Novel FOUR Authentic Being and Broad Horizon FIVE The Self, the Role, and the World SIX Authenticity, Morality, and Happiness SEVEN The Conclusion: Authenticity and Value Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThis book makes compassionate caring and connectedness the central themes. Imbedded in the human psyche we find a deep yearning for connection. This book explores the many roadblocks that human beings put in the way of a healthy and respectful dialogue with each other, with nature, and with the universe. It also cites numerous examples from literature, philosophy, and society of a reawakening sense of connectedness.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Riane Eisler Guest Foreword by Sonja Servomaa Introduction PART I Transcendental Perspectivism: A New Enlightenment ONE The Voodoo Connection TWO The Sacred Wheel THREE Perspectives from the Edge of Chaos PART II The Human Perspective FOUR The Quest for Happiness: Perspectivist Ethics, A Way Out of the Confusion FIVE The Partnership Way SIX The Years of the Horses Came: The Roots of Domination SEVEN Chasing Amy: Our Sexual Selves EIGHT Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus NINE Healing the Body and the Mind TEN Mission or Mission Impossible: Rediscovering Community? PART III The Animal Perspective ELEVEN Animals: Our Teachers and Healers, Our Brothers and Sisters TWELVE Horse Whispering PART IV Inanimate Nature THIRTEEN Where Does Mind Originate? Plotting Out a New Science of Awareness FOURTEEN Panexperientialism, Panpsychism, and Quantum Animism PART V: Infinity: The Super Perspective of the Absolute FIFTEEN Numinous and Mystical Experiences SIXTEEN Holotropic States of Consciousness and Mystical Encounters: Two Case Histories SEVENTEEN Transcendental Meditation and Nowtime: The Experience of Emptiness PART VI Breaking New Ground: Principles and Trends of Transcendental Perspectivism EIGHTEEN Pleasure and Pain: Are We a Generation of Vampires? NINETEEN Travel in Safety: The Perspective of Evil TWENTY Sacred Pleasure: Re-Evaluating Cultural Priorities TWENTY-ONE Life Control and Self-Empowerment: Can Perspectivist Techniques Reverse the Course of Self-Destruction? TWENTY-TWO The E3 Revolution: Entertainment, Education, Empowerment TWENTY-THREE Emotional Intelligence: The Third Enlightenment TWENTY-FOUR Multiple Intelligences: The Perspectivist Brain TWENTY-FIVE Teaching Perspectives: The Partnership Way TWENTY-SIX In Memoriam Easter Island: Whither Humanity? TWENTY-SEVEN Talking to Heaven: The Communicating Universe TWENTY-EIGHT: Toward a Cosmic Consciousness Afterword Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisDie vorliegende Studie zeigt, inwieweit Kant in der Kritik der Urteilskraft versucht, die Prinzipien der theoretischen und der praktischen Philosophie durch das bloß subjektive transzendentale Prinzip der Urteilskraft zu einem System zu verbinden. Auf der Sachebene steht damit das Problem des Übergangs von der Natur zur Freiheit im Zentrum der Untersuchung. Viele Kantinterpretationen betrachten diesen Übergang entweder als unmöglich oder suchen die Möglichkeit einseitig unter der Perspektive der moralischen Freiheit zu klären. Dagegen setzt der Verfasser auf eine eingehende Analyse der Selbstgesetzlichkeit der Urteilskraft in ihrer Struktur und Funktion und legt damit eine Gesamtinterpretation der Kritik der Urteilskraft vor, die sich an alle wendet, die ein intensives Kantstudium anstreben. In der Bestimmung der Urteilskraft als Vermögen der „Darstellung“ und „Reflexion“, was mit der innerteleologischen Auffassung der Kantischen Vernunft übereinstimmt, welche die Vernunftkritik voraussetzt, tritt der Zusammenhang mit der ästhetischen Urteilskraft deutlich hervor. Als ausführende Instanz der Vernunftprinzipien bringt die Urteilskraft in ihrem reflektierenden Wirklichkeitsbezug das Zusammenwirken der Erkenntnisvermögen ans Licht. Die Einheit der drei Kritiken sowie die Einheit der beiden Hauptteile der Kritik der Urteilskraft selbst lassen sich nicht nur dadurch begreiflich machen, sondern der Übergang vom Sinnlichen zum Übersinnlichen gewinnt auch eine pragmatische Bedeutung im Kantischen Sinne.Table of ContentsEinleitung § 1 Bestimmende und reflektierende Urteilskraft § 2 Heautonomie und Vermittlung der Urteilskraft § 3 Reflexion und Darstellung der Urteilskraft § 4 Ästhetische Darstellung der Zweckmäßigkeit der Natur Bibliographie

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Table of ContentsLaudatio auf Wolfgang Janke Vorwort Manfred BAUM: Subjekt und Person bei Kant Edith DÜSING: Der Begriff der Angst bei Kierkegaard und Heidegger Margot FLEISCHER: Das ursprüngliche Verhältnis zum Anderen bei Sartre (»Der Blick«) und die unverzichtbare Gegenposition Fichtes Klaus Hammacher: Biographie als Problemgeschichte Marion Heinz: Schönheit als Bedingung der Menschheit: Ästhetik und Anthropologie in Schillers ästhetischen Briefen Klaus Held: Die elementare Funktion des Empfindens. Eine phänomenologische Interpretation von Kants zweitem mathematischen Grundsatz Jochem Hennigfeld: Kunst und Reflexion. Kriterien einer philosophischen Ästhetik Walter HIRSCH: Der Begriff der Transzendenz in der Neuzeit Wolfgang JANKE: Restitution der metaphysischen und transzendentalen Deduktion Hartmut PÄTZOLD: Die Mentalität der ›erschöpften‹ Moderne im Lichte der Geschichtsphilosophie Fichtes Wolfgang H. SCHRADER: Gewissen und Realität Georg SIEGMANN: Platonische Liebe

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces readers to the Buddhist-based philosophy of education of Daisaku Ikeda. Ikeda's philosophy of education offers human revolution, value creation, and dialogue as counterweights to the violence lurking in today's classrooms. Where education becomes wisdom-based, it transforms learners into keen assessors of their inner lives and establishes a foundation for global citizenship.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION 1. The Life Work of Daisaku Ikeda: Peace Through Education 2. The Burden of Introduction 3. Organization of the Book 4. The Search for Wisdom: Spirituality in Education 5. Soka Education PART ONE BLENDING BUDDHISM AND HUMANISM ONE The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin 1. Nichiren Daishonin and His Impact on Ikeda 2. The Buddhism Nichiren Daishonin Inherits 3. 1253: The Revolution Begins 4. The Egalitarian and Inclusive Nature of Enlightenment TWO The Humanism of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi 1. Challenging Authority 2. Humanist Manifesto I and Makiguchi’s Philosophy of Education A. Specific Needs, Specific Philosophies of Life B. Happiness as Individual Fulfillment and Shared Experience C. Value Creation D. The Reorientation of Responsibility 3. Makiguchi’s Philosophy of Education: A Brief Evaluation THREE Five Kinds of Eyes FOUR The Ten States of Being 1. From the Prison of Hell to the Eternity of Buddhahood A. Hell (The First Evil Path) B. Hungry Spirits (The Second Evil Path) C. Animals (The Third Evil Path) D. Asura or Warlike Demons (The Fourth Evil Path) E. Human Beings F. Heavenly Beings G. Voice-Hearers H. Cause-Awakened Ones I. Bodhisattva J. Buddhahood FIVE Three Thousand Realms in a Single Moment of Life 1. The 3,000 Possible Worlds or Ichinen Sanzen 2. The Three Realms 3. The Ten Factors 4. The 3,000 Worlds and the Holistic Person SIX The Causality of Karma SEVEN The Nine Consciousnesses and the Greater and Lesser Self EIGHT Kōsen-Rufu NINE Value Creation TEN Enlightenment PART TWO IKEDA’S MAJOR PRINCIPLES AND VIRTUES ELEVEN Compassionate Revolution TWELVE Cosmic Citizenship THIRTEEN Peaceful Competition FOURTEEN Completeness and Incompleteness 61 FIFTEEN Self-Mastery SIXTEEN Philosophically Based Education SEVENTEEN Hope as a Moral Virtue EIGHTEEN Trust and Harmony NINETEEN Faith and Ultimate Meaning TWENTY The Superrational PART THREE IMAGINARY DIALOGUES TWENTY-ONE Lao Tzu’s Hierarchy of Effective Leadership TWENTY-TWO Plato’s Notion of Mass Enlightenment TWENTY-THREE John Stuart Mill’s Higher and Lower Pleasures TWENTY-FOUR Alfred North Whitehead’s Inert Ideas TWENTY-FIVE John Dewey’s Participatory Education TWENTY-SIX Antonio Gramsci’s Organic Intellectual TWENTY-SEVEN Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Tough-Mindedness and Tender-Heartedness TWENTY-EIGHT Paulo Freire’s Circles of Certainty TWENTY-NINE Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences THIRTY George David Miller’s Revolutionary Breaks PART FOUR MEETING TODAY’S EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES ON IKEDA’S TERMS THIRTY-ONE Chalk, Erasers, and Violence in the Classroom THIRTY-TWO Self-Esteem and the Enduring Self THIRTY-THREE Reductionism and Compartmentalization THIRTY-FOUR Nihilism and Apathy THIRTY-FIVE Intolerance CONCLUSION 1. International Education 2. School Systems 3. The General Curriculum 4. Teachers and Students 5. Addendum Epilogue by Mark Roelof Eleveld Notes Bibliography 1. Writings of Daisaku Ikeda 2. Other Works Cited About the Author Appendix: Photographs Index 187

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Book SynopsisThis book evaluates the claims of scientific creationism versus materialistic evolution, while examining other scenarios. Consistently philosophical in methodology and perspective, the book is radically interdisciplinary in content, examining data and arguments drawn from natural science, philosophy, and theology. This work challenges the limits of human knowledge regarding every major question touching on human origins.Trade Review"At a time when scientism is the ruling attitude of most of the media, when solid scientific answers to questions about human origins are missing and materialistic philosophical speculations are dressed up in scientific garb, Origin of the Human Species cuts through much fog to address itself to basic philosophical questions. It will be an effective tool in teaching students about the follies of scientism." – Michael J. Behe, in: Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer 2001) "This very thoroughly argued book is certainly a must for all libraries maintained by educational institutions." - in: Social Justice Review 29 (January/February 2002) "This interdisciplinary examination of human evolution incorporates philosophical, theological, and scientific perspectives." - in: Choice, Vol. 39, No. 3 (November ’01) "Dennis Bonnette’s radically interdisciplinary book breaks new ground … It offers a rigorously scholarly, scientifically accurate, philosophically and theologically sound response to all the major questions which evolutionary theory poses to traditional biblical interpretation. …a broad spectrum of major issues touching human uniqueness and human origins are explored with a completeness never before undertaken. …" - in: The Wanderer, Vol. 134, No. 31 (August 2, 2001) "Using the tools of philosophy, Professor Bonnette investigates the origin of true humanity. Along the way, he considers the questions of animal intelligence, the philosophical meaning of the species concept, Adam and Eve, and more. His demonstration that the standard human evolution story is compatible with Christianity makes his conclusion that the story itself may be shaky all the more impressive." – Michael J. Behe, author of Darwin’s Black BoxTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments ONE Darwinian Evolution Versus Scientific Creationism TWO The Concept of Natural Species THREE Philosophical Possibility of Inter-Specific Evolution FOUR Distinctions of Natural Species FIVE Significance of Recent Ape-Language Studies SIX The Human Soul’s Spiritual Character and Divine Origin SEVEN The Question of Extraterrestrial Life EIGHT The Metaphysical Structure of Natural Species NINE Natural Science and Theology TEN The Truths of Revelation ELEVEN Locating the First True Humans: “Current Theory” TWELVE Adam and Eve’s Origin THIRTEEN Genesis: 4,000 B.C. or 1,000,000 B.C.? FOURTEEN Human Evolution’s Extinction? Epilogue Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an original philosophic exploration of the meaning of Kierkegaard’s life, his thought, and his works. It makes a bold case for Kierkegaard’s recognition of the concrete existence of the individual, including Kierkegaard himself, as crucial to the spiritual life. Written with delicate insight, and beautifully translated from Hebrew, this work offers valuable new turns to understanding the puzzling life-work of a modern giant of spiritual reflection.Trade Review”very sound …Kierkegaard’s philosophy, he argues convincingly, sways between the hope of overcoming alienation (despair, anxiety, self-denial) by creating unity and harmony (marriage, repetition, faith), and readopting the experience of alienation as the ultimate meaning of existence, as an unbridgeable gap.” in: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 67/2005Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction PART I: FROM EXISTENCE TO RELIGION ONE First Steps 1. The Voyage To The Self 2. The Development of the Existential Element in Kierkegaard's Thought 3. “What God Wills That I Shall Do TWO The Meaning of Personal Alienation 1. The Experience of Alienation 2. Alienation and Marriage THREE From Existence to Religion 1. Failure as a Turning Point 2. Religion as Escape? 3. Religion as the New Metaphysical Horizon 4. From Existence to Religion FOUR Interlude: The Literary Medium and the Relationship between Existence and Religion 1. Introduction 2. Kierkegaard Living and the Problem of Literary Philosophical Writing 3. The Pseudonymous Writing 4. The Literary Failure and the Implications of a Growing Alienation: The Turn to Religion 5. Methodological Conclusions FIVE Faith as a Contest with Alienation 1. Immediacy: Reflection and Unity 2. The Dialectic of Faith: Unity and Contradiction 3. The Ontological Meaning of Faith 4. Faith and Alienation SIX The Voyage toward Fate 1. Models of Self-Affirmation 2. Endorsing the Biography: Accepting Destiny 3. Freedom and Fate 4.Fate and Destiny: The Voyage toward Fate PART II: FROM RELIGION TO EXISTENCE SEVEN Existence or Religion 1. The Problem 2. Christianity and Existence 3. Obedience and Existence EIGHT From Religion to Existence: The Theological Foundation 1.The Perception of God 2.God and the Relationship with God 3. Decoding God’s Will: “What God Wills That I Shall Do?” 4. The Perception of God and the Religious Demand: A Reconsideration 5. From Religion to Existence: Religious Life NINE Affirming and Denying the World: The Problematic 1. Introductory Remarks: On “Double Reading” 2. The Problematic of Affirming and Denying the World TEN Religious and Existence in Kierkegaard’s Thought: A Summary Works Cited 1. Works by Kierkegaard (with Abbreviations Used in This Book) 2. Secondary Sources About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisSartre et Beauvoir constituent un des couples littéraires les plus célèbres du XXe siècle, même, s’ils n’ont jamais collaboré à un projet littéraire. Pourtant leur relation est fondée sur l’écriture et c’est l’écriture de leur lien qui en assure en grande partie la postérité. Sartre et Beauvoir ont en effet mis en scène leur rapport : transposé dans la fiction, théorisé dans le journal ou exposé dans la lettre ou l’entretien, ce qu’on appellera ici le nous autobiographique de Sartre et Beauvoir peut être considéré comme leur œuvre commune, menée en contiguïté avec leur œuvre personnelle. Puisant dans de nombreux écrits, Sartre et Beauvoir : Du « je » au « nous » a pour objectif de présenter une vue globale de cette entreprise d’auto-représentation, marquée tout ensemble par l’exhibition et le secret, l’authenticité et l’affabulation. La variété de textes et de questions traités dans Sartre et Beauvoir : Du « je » au « nous » contribue à l’investigation du champ autobiographique tout en proposant une lecture personnelle du couple littéraire.

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Book SynopsisMartin Heidegger hat sich in seinem Denken immer wieder mit Fragen der Logik auseinandergesetzt. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen dem Verhältnis Heideggers zur Logik nach und zeigen, inwiefern es möglich ist, Heideggers gesamten Denkweg als den Denkweg eines Logikers zu bezeichnen.Table of ContentsVorwort 1. Alfred DENKER: Der frühe Heidegger und die Logik der Philosophie – zwischen Neuscholastik und Neukantianismus 2. Eric Sean NELSON: Die formale Anzeige der Faktizität als Frage der Logik 3. Theodore KISIEL: Die formale Anzeige als Schlüssel zu Heideggers Logik der philosophischen Begriffsbildung 4. Günther NEUMANN: Sein und Logos – Heideggers frühe Auseinandersetzung mit Parmenides 5. Daniel Fidel FERRER: Martin Heidegger und die Logik der Philosophiegeschichte am Beispiel seiner Auseinandersetzung mit Hegel 6. Harald van VEGHEL: Heidegger und das Rationalitätsprinzip 7. Constance KOLKA: Heidegger und die Logik – Offenheit als Ort der Wandlung 8. Peter TRAWNY: Sprache als Ab-Grund. Zu Heideggers „Erschütterung der Logik“ 9. Holger ZABOROWSKI: Wahrheit, Sein und Zeit. Zu Heideggers Vorlesung aus dem Winter semester 1925/26 Logik. Die Frage nach der Wahrheit (GA 21) 10. Herman PHILIPSE: Das phänomenologische Leitmotiv in Heideggers Seinsfrage

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Book SynopsisIn his writings on the foundations of logic, Gottlob Frege, the father of modern logic, sketched a conception of truth that focuses on the following questions: What is the sense of the word “true”? Is truth a definable concept or a primitive one? What are the kinds of things of which truth is predicated? What is the role of the concept of truth in judgment, assertion and recognition? What is the logical category of truth? What is the significance of the concept of truth for science in general and for logic in particular? The present volume is dedicated to the interpretation, reconstruction and critical assessment of Frege’s conception of truth. It is of interest to all those working on Frege, the history of logic and semantics, or theories of truth. The volume brings together nine original papers whose authors are all widely known to Frege scholars. The main topics are: the role of the concept of truth in Frege’s system, the nature of the truth-values, the logical category of truth, the relationship between truth and judgment, and the conception of the truth-bearers.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Truth in Frege’s Formal System Hans SLUGA: Truth and the Imperfection of Language Richard G. HECK, Jr.: Frege and Semantics Danielle MACBETH: Striving for Truth in the Practice of Mathematics: Kant and Frege Part II. Truth and the Truth-Values Michael BEANEY: Frege’s Use of Function-Argument Analysis and his Introduction of Truth-Values as Objects Dirk GREIMANN: Did Frege Really Consider Truth as an Object? Part III. Truth and Judgment Erich H. RECK: Frege on Truth, Judgment, and Objectivity Verena MAYER: Evidence, Judgment and Truth Part IV. The Nature of the Truth-Bearers Oswaldo CHATEAUBRIAND: The Truth of Thoughts: Variations on Fregean Themes Marco RUFFINO: Fregean Propositions, Belief Preservation and Cognitive Value

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Book SynopsisWhat can philosophy bring to the reading of Beckett? Combining intertextual analysis with a ‘schizoanalytic genealogy’ derived from the authors of L’Anti-Œdipe, Garin Dowd’s Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari offers an innovative response to this much debated question. The author focuses on zones of encounter and thresholds of engagement between Beckett’s writing and a range of philosophers (among them Spinoza, Leibniz and Kant) and philosophical concepts. Beckett’s writing impacts in a variety of ways on Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, and, in particular, resonates with Deleuze’s contributions to the history of philosophy (in books such as Le Pli: Leibniz et le baroque), and his ‘critical and clinical’ approach to literature. Furthermore, the books co-written with Guattari, concerned as they are with the ‘molecularization’ of the discipline of philosophy in the name of ‘thinking otherwise’, reveal themselves in a new light when explored in conjunction with Beckett’s œuvre. With its arresting perspectives on a wide range of Beckett’s works, Abstract Machines will appeal to academics and postgraduate students interested in the philosophical aspects of his writing. Its engagement with alternative contributions to the question of Beckett and philosophy, including that of Alain Badiou, renders it a timely and provocative intervention in contemporary debates on the relationship between literature and philosophy, both within the field of Beckett studies and beyond.Table of ContentsNote on references Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Shadow Hospitality: Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze & Guattari 2. Beckett’s Abstract Machines: from Murphy to The Lost Ones 3. From Monadology to Nomadology: Leibniz, Deleuze, Beckett 4. Matter, Judgement and Immanence in How It Is 5. “Vasts apart”: Deleuze, Phenomenology and Worstward Ho 6. Beckett’s ‘Dislocations’ Conclusion: “l’insurrection des molécules” Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAt the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, a large and varied group of the Russian intelligentsia became fascinated by Friedrich Nietzsche, whose provocative ideas inspired many of them to overcome obsolete traditions and to create new values. Paradoxically, the German philosopher, who vigorously challenged the established Christian worldview, invigorated the rich ferment of religious philosophy in the Russian Silver Age: his ideas served as a fruitful source of inspiration for the philosophers of the Russian religious renaissance, the so-called God-seekers, in their quest for a new religious consciousness. Especially Nietzsche’s anthropology of the Übermensch was instrumental in their reformulation of Christianity. This book explores how three pivotal figures in the Russian religious reception of Nietzsche, i.e. Vladimir Solov’ëv, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Nikolai Berdiaev, engaged in a vacillating yet highly prolific debate with Nietzsche and how each of them appropriated his anthropology of the Übermensch in their religious philosophy. In order to explain Merezhkovskii’s and Berdiaev’s assessment of Nietzsche, the author highlights the significance of Dostoevskii: only by reading Nietzsche through the prism of Dostoevskii could both God-seekers pin down the religious ramifications of Nietzsche’s thought. This book will be of interest to anyone fascinated by Nietzsche, Dostoevskii, Russian religious philosophy, Russian history of ideas and reception studies.Trade Review”… a very useful contribution to Russian intellectual history.” in: Slavic and East European Journal 54.1, Spring 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Russian discovery of Nietzsche Chapter 3: Dostoevskii’s philosophical anthropology Chapter 4: “Isn’t the unfortunate Nietzsche right?”: Vladimir Solov’ëv’s response to Nietzsche Chapter 5: “Only the word order has changed”: Bogochelovek and chelovekobog Chapter 6: Supplementing Christ: Dmitrii Merezhkovskii’s use of Nietzsche’s Übermensch Chapter 7: Free from God, free within God: Nikolai Berdiaev’s use of Nietzsche’s Übermensch Chapter 8: Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Trade Review"In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narratives of Dostoevsky, which engage the problem of evil and the claims of human community. She not only produces a novel reading of Dostoevsky, but also guides us to later, often neglected Kantian texts. This study is written with scholarly care, penetrating analysis, elegance of style, and moral urgency: Cherkasova writes with both mind and heart." – Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University "Evgenia Cherkasova’s reverence for her subject and detailed analysis will make this book of great interest to scholars of both philosophy and Russian literature." – in: Slavic and East European Journal 54/2 (Summer 2010)Table of ContentsAndrew Fitz-Gibbon: Editorial Foreword George L. Kline: Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction The Deontology of the Heart 1. Introduction 2. The Heart: Mythology, History, Philosophy 3. The Ways of the “Living Life”: Dostoevsky’s Rhetoric of the Heart 4. The Commandment of the Heart 5. The Commandment of Practical Reason 6. Can Reason Understand the Reasons of the Heart? Freedom: Adventures of the Will 1. Introduction 2. Kant on Free Will and Arbitrariness 3. The Underground World as Will 4. The Specter of Kant in the Underground 5. Good Will, Rude Will, or Both? 6. Losing Oneself: Arbitrariness and Corruption of the Heart 7. On Human Nature 8. Following the Heart: Is There a Way Out of the Underground? 9. The Unwritten Message Evil: Adventures of Seductive Spirit 1. Introduction 2. Kant’s Conception of Radical Evil 3. On the Boundary of Intelligibility: Evil and the Limits of Ethical Discourse 4. Dostoevsky’s “Demonology” 5. The Grand Inquisitor Dons the Mask 6. Temptation by Good and Paradoxes of Freedom 7. Evil by Nature? Community 1. Introduction 2. The Unbearable Other 3. Love, Sympathy, and Respectful Distancing: Kant’s Stoic Response to a Misanthropist 4. Suffering and Responsibility 5. Joining of Hearts: Alyosha’s Speech at the Stone 6. “A Bit of Melodrama” Epilogue Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated with German Idealism and the early Romantic movement. Several papers explore the broader question of Fichte’s relationship and contribution to “German idealism” and “German romanticism” in general, while others offer comparative studies of the relationship between Fichte’s writings and those of Leibniz, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Schleiermacher, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Taken collectively, this set of essays provides anglophone readers with a new and historically accurate understanding of the origin, development, and reception of Fichte’s philosophy in the context of its own era and in relationship to the most important intellectual movements of the time. The authors include both well established and internationally recognized experts in their fields as well as younger scholars with fresh and challenging perspectives to offer. This volume proposes a new interpretation of the history of German idealism in general and of the place therein of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre. It emphasizes the intimate connection between “transcendental idealism” and “German romanticism” and shows how developments within each of these intellectual movements reflected and in turn influenced developments within the other. Finally, it sheds new light on Fichte’s own philosophical development and does so by relating the various stages of his writings to other contemporary movements and authors.Table of ContentsDaniel Breazeale: Introduction In the Wake of Kant Tom Rockmore: Fichte, German Idealism and the Thing in Itself Nectarios Limnatis: Fichte and the Problem of Logic: Positioning the Wissenschaftslehre in the Development of German Idealism Daniel Breazeale: Doing Philosophy: Fichte vs. Kant on Transcendental Method Giorgia Cecchinato: Form and Colour in Kant’s and Fichte’s Theory of Beauty Wissenschaftslehre in Context Steven Hoeltzel: Critical Epistemology and Idealist Metaphysics in Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre (1794–1800) Ulrich Schlösser: Presuppositions of Knowledge versus Immediate Certainty of Being: Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre as a Critique of Knowledge and a Program of Philosophical Foundation F. Scott Scribner: Falsification: On the Role of the Empirical in J. G. Fichte’s Transcendental Method Marina Bykova: The Self as the World Into Itself. Towards Fichte’s Conception of Subjectivity Fichte and Schelling Richard Fincham: Schelling’s Subversion of Fichtean Monism, 1794–1796 Yolanda Estes: Intellectual Intuition: Reconsidering Continuity in Kant, Fichte, and Schelling George Seidel: From Idealism to Romanticism and Leibniz’ Logic Fichte and Hegel Angelica Nuzzo: Fichte’s Transcendental Logic of 1812 – Between Kant and Hegel C. Jeffery Kinlaw: Practical Rationality and Natural Right: Fichte and Hegel on Self-Conception within a Relation of Natural Right Virginia López-Domínguez: Political Realism in Idealism: Fichte versus Hegel and their Different Versions of the Foundation of Right Arnold Farr: Fichte’s Master/Slave Dialectic: The Untold Story Anthony N. Perovich Jr.: Fichte, Hegel, and the Senses of »Revelation« Matthew C. Altman: Fichte’s Anti-Hegelian Legacy Fichte and Early Romanticism Michael G. Vater: »Philosophy on the Track of Freedom« or »Systematizing Systemlessness«: Novalis’s Reflections on the Wissenschaftslehre, 1795–1796 Violetta L. Waibel: »With Respect to the Antinomies, Fichte has a Remarkable Idea.« Three Answers to Kant and Fichte – Hardenberg, Hölderlin, Hegel Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert: Forgetfulness and Foundationalism: Schlegel’s Critique of Fichte’s Idealism Bärbel Frischmann: Friedrich Schlegel’s Transformation of Fichte’s Transcendental into an Early Romantic Idealism David Kenosian: Sound Reasoning: Fichtean Elements in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Philosophy of Language Claude Piché: Fichte, Schleiermacher and W. von Humboldt on the Foundation of the University of Berlin

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Book SynopsisInsofern Erziehung auf die Zukunft gerichtet ist, bedarf sie der Hoffnung. Und wer nicht hofft, kann auch nicht erziehen. Doch die nicht selten euphorisch zu nennende Erwartung, dass man von einer wissenschaftlich begründeten Erziehung auch eine entscheidende Weltverbesserung erhoffen könne, dürfte wesentlich eine Erfindung der anhebenden Neuzeit gewesen sein. Die übliche pädagogische Ideengeschichte sieht in Comenius zumeist einen vormodernen Gegenpol zum technisch-zivilisatorischen Denken der Neuzeit – und übersah damit notwendig wesentliche Kontinuitäten. Denn es war Comenius, der mit seiner pansophischen Systematik zuerst die Hoffnung verband, eine solcherart durchkonstruierte Erziehungsmaschine begründet zu haben, dass eine wahrhaft pansophisch ausgerichtete Erziehung auch einen unfehlbaren Erziehungserfolg verbürgen müsse. Ein mentalitätsgeschichtlicher Zugang vermag dabei zu zeigen, wie sich die pädagogischen Hoffnungen des Comenius entwickelt und zeitgleich mit der pansophischen Systematik ausgeprägt haben. Je durchdachter die Systematik wurde, desto unfehlbarer sollte auch die Erziehung werden. Mit einer vollkommen realisierten pansophischen Erziehung würden sich also alle Hoffnungen auf eine Weltverbesserung erfüllen; alles, was bis dahin zukunftsgerichtete Hoffnung war, würde also mit der Pampaedia zur erfüllten Gegenwart werden. Von der menschlichen resignation der Frühschriften über die gott-menschliche cooperatio der pansophischen Programmschriften führt solcherart der Weg zur intendierten omnipotentia des Menschen, an welcher schließlich auch die Erziehung teilhaben soll. Unter der Rücksicht der longue durée ist Comenius damit nicht nur ein, sondern letztlich der Begründer der pädagogischen Moderne. Seit Comenius produziert wissenschaftlich-systematisches Denken immer neue Erziehungshoffnungen, die sich sodann durch gesellschaftliche Erwartungshaltungen selbstlaufend re-produzieren und die Nachfrage nach pädagogischer Wissenschaftlichkeit wiederum steigern. Doch die Welt hat sich bis heute bekanntlich nicht verbessern lassen – trotz einer über 350 Jahre alten Tradition wissenschaftlich begründeter Pädagogik.Table of ContentsVom Anlass der Nachdenklichkeit Das pädagogische Hoffnungsprogramm der Moderne: Zur Problematik einer Mentalität Die comenianischen Erziehungshoffnungen: Exposition der Thematik Mentalität und Mentalitätengeschichte: Methodische Hinweise Aufriss der mentalitätengeschichtlichen Untersuchung: Inhaltliche Erläuterungen Ausblick Anhang

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains new and original papers on Martin Heidegger’s complex relation to Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. The authors not only critically discuss the many aspects of Heidegger’s reading of Nietzsche, they also interpret Heidegger’s thought from a Nietzschean perspective. Here is presented for the first time an overview of not only Heidegger’s and Nietzsche’s philosophy but also an overview of what is alive – and dead – in their thinking. Many authors through a reading of Heidegger and Nietzsche deal with current issues such as technology, ecology, and politics. This volume is of interest for everyone interested in Heidegger’s and Nietzsche’s thought. Contributors include: Babette Babich, Charles Bambach, Robert Bernasconi, Virgilio Cesarone, Stuart Elden, Michael Eldred, Markus Enders, Charles Feitosa, Véronique Fóti, Luanne T. Frank, Jeffery Kinlaw, Theodore Kisiel, William D. Melaney, Eric Sean Nelson, Abraham Olivier, Friederike Rese, Karlheinz Ruhstorfer, Harald Seubert, Robert Sinnerbrink, Robert Switzer, Jorge Uscatescu Barrón, Nancy A. Weston, Dale Wilkerson, Angel Xolocotzi, Jens ZimmermannTable of ContentsVorwort Nach dem Tod Gottes? Fragen der Religionsphilosophie und Theologie Karlheinz Ruhstorfer: “Der Gottmensch in Knechtsgestalt”. Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger – drei maßgebliche Negationen metaphysischer Christologie Virgilio Cesarone: Paulus von Tarsus und die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Nietzsche und dem jungen Heidegger Jeffery Kinlaw: Heidegger on Nietzsche’s Word and Overcoming Ontotheology Harald Seubert: Kommender und letzter Gott zwischen Heidegger und Nietzsche Markus Enders: Heideggers Deutung von Nietzsches Proklamation des Todes Gottes Dale Wilkerson: Preservation-Enhancement as Value-Positing Metaphysics in Heidegger’s Essay “The Word of Nietzsche: ‘God is Dead’” Jenseits von Gut und Böse? Fragen der Ethik und Moral-philosophie Abraham Olivier: Nietzsche and Heidegger on Pain Robert Bernasconi: Heidegger, Rickert, Nietzsche, and the Critique of Biologism Jens Zimmermann: The Inhumanity of Being: Subjectivity in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Levinas Theodore Kisiel: Measuring the Greatness of the Great Men of Grand Politics: How Nietzsche’s “Dynamite” Rendered Heidegger “kaputt” Nietzsche und Heidegger in Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte der Philosophie William D. Melaney: Heidegger’s Allegory of Reading: On Nietzsche and the Tradition Charles Bambach: Heraclitean Justice Between Heidegger and Nietzsche Luanne T. Frank: Nietzsche is Said in Many Ways: Nietzsche’s Presences in Heidegger’s Parmenides Véronique Fóti: From an Agonistic of Powers to Deferred Homecoming: Heidegger, Sophocles, and Hölderlin Am Ende der Moderne? Macht, Technik und die Verwindung der Metaphysik Babette Babich: Heidegger’s Wille zur Macht. Nietzsche – Technik – Machenschaft Angel Xolocotzi: Das dionysische Ja-Sagen zur Welt. Die Auslegung des stimmungsmäßigen Charakters des Willens zur Macht und dessen zeitlichen Sinnes Jorge Uscatescu Barrón: Nietzsches Umdeutung des Begriffs des Guten im Rahmen seiner Metaphysik des Willens zur Macht und Heideggers Kritik an seinem Wertgedanken Stuart Elden: A Thousand Year Conclusion? Machination and Calculation in the Nietzsche Lectures Michael Eldred: Assessing How Heidegger Thinks Power Through the History of Being Charles Feitosa: Das Schweigen der Tiere bei Nietzsche und Heidegger Eric Sean Nelson: Traumatic Origins: History, Genealogy, and Violence in Heidegger and Nietzsche Welt, Wahrheit, Sprache, Kunst Friederike Rese: Horizontbildung und Weltbildung. Zur Mensch-Tier-Differenz in Heideggers Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik-Vorlesung Robert Sinnerbrink: Heidegger and Nietzsche on the End of Art Robert Switzer: “Raging Discordance.” Heidegger and Nietzsche on Truth and Art Nancy A. Weston: On Truth as Justice

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Book SynopsisThe volume contains almost thirty papers by Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938), the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School. The papers are published in English for the first time. The papers concern fundamental problems of philosophy: the methods of philosophizing, the boundary of psychology and semiotics, the conceptual apparatus of metaphysics, ethical skepticism, the question of free will and ethical obligation, the aesthetics of music and so on. The systematic considerations are complemented by concise but excellent sketches of the philosophical views of Socrates, Aquinas, Leibniz, Spencer, Nietzsche, and Bergson.Table of ContentsI. Methods II. Psychology and Semiotics III. Metaphysics IV. Ethics and Aesthetics V. Coryphaei Bibliography Name Index

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Table of ContentsI. Brennpunkte der Metaphysik Salvatore Lavecchia: Das Ich und das Gute. Ansätze einer Licht-Philosophie in Anknüpfung an Novalis und Platon Dagmar Fenner: Ist der religiöse Glaube irrational? Versuch einer Systematisierung verschiedener Vernunftbegriffe und Rationalitätsstandards Dietmar Willoweit: Personale und normative Elemente der Rechtsbegründung. Kelsens Kritik des subjektiven Rechts und die Rechtslogik Gerhart Husserls II. Medien des Geistes Marie-Dominique Richard: Ein unrealistischer Traum: Die Beendigung der Diskussion um die ungeschriebene Lehre Platons Georges Goedert: Kunst als Bildung neuer Spiritualität. Metaphysische Aspekte der ästhetischen Moderne Thomas Dorn: Ist das Naturschöne von objektiver Qualität? Heideggers Deutung des Kunstwerks im Erscheinungscharakter von φύσις und τέχνη Jutta Georg: Sichtbares und Sagbares. Anmerkungen zu einer Philosophie des Films Thorsten Sindermann: Fünf Sinne des Lesens – oder ein sechster Sinn III. Aspekte des Weltbegriffs Giovanni Tidona: Die Frage der humanitas bei Karl Löwith und Martin Heidegger. Eine Ortsmetapher Gerd Pohlenz: Die zwei polar-komplementären Weltaspekte. Elemente zu einer transzendental-analytischen Zieltheorie Anita Galuschek: Selbst-Verstehen in der Welt. Zur Pluralität der Lebenswelt

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