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Book SynopsisIn Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers how ability and its correlative, disability, come into existence. Besides being articulated as physical, social, aesthetic, political, and specifically human, ability signifies and is signified such that signification itself is always in question. Thus the language of ability and the ability of language constitute discourse that undermines foundations, including any foundation for discourse or ability. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s theory of primary differentiation and Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of ethical relationality, Encountering Ability finds implications of music, theology, and cursing in the signification of ability, and also examines various literary texts, including works by Amiri Baraka and Marguerite Duras.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Signification of Ability 1. Metaphysics of Ability: The Nature of Performance 2. On the Origin of (Human) Ability: Language, Possibility, and Ethics 3. The Nightmare of Health: Approaching Disability 4. Dis/ability in Black and White: The Relationality of Political Ability 5. Ability as Response and Irresponsibility: Dialogue and Struggle 6. Denatured Criticism: Ethics, Violence, Improvisation between Levinas and Baraka 7. Encountering Dis/ability in the Work of Marguerite Duras Notes Works Cited About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThe problem of the limits of science is twofold. First, there is the problem of demarcation, i.e., the boundaries or “barriers” between what is science and what is not science. Second, there is the problem of the ceiling of scientific activity, which leads to the “confines” of this human enterprise. These two faces of the problem of the limits — the “barriers” and the “confines” of science — require a new analysis, which is the task of this book. The authors take into account the Kantian roots but they are focused on the current stage of the philosophical and methodological analyses of science. This vision looks to supersede the Kantian approach in order to reach a richer conception of science.Table of ContentsPreface The Problem of the Limits of Science in the Present Context Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (University of A Coruña) I) Limits as Frontiers and as Confines “Rethinking the Limits of Science: From the Difficulties Regarding the Frontiers to the Concern about the Confines,” Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (University of A Coruña) “The Uncertain Frontier between Scientific Theories and Metaphysical Research Programmes,” Juan Arana (University of Seville). “Cognitive Problems and Practical Limits: Can Computers Overcome our Limitations?,” Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh). II) Two Poles of Analysis: Language and Ethics “Language and the Limits of Science,” Ladislav Kvasz (University of Prague). “Ethical Limits of Science, Especially Economics,” Gereon Wolters (University of Konstanz). III) Epistemological Limits to Science “Predicting and Knowability: The Problem of Future Knowledge,” Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh). “The Limits of Future Knowledge: An Analysis of Nicholas Rescher's Epistemological Approach,” Amanda Guillan (University of A Coruña). “The Limits of Information Science,” Antonio Bereijo (University of A Coruña) IV) The Limits from Inside and the Limits from Outside “Rescher and Gadamer: Two Complementary Views of the Limits of Sciences,” Alfredo Marcos (University of Valladolid). “The Obstacles to Scientific Prediction: An Analysis of the Limits of Predictability from the Ontology of Science,” Amanda Guillan (University of A Coruña). Index of Names Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn Walter Chatton on Future Contingents, Jon Bornholdt presents the first full-length translation, commentary, and analysis of the various attempts by Chatton (14th century C.E.) to solve the ancient problem of the status and significance of statements about the future. At issue is the danger of so-called logical determinism: if it is true now that a human will perform a given action tomorrow, is that human truly free to perform or refrain from performing that action? Bornholdt shows that Chatton constructed an original (though problematic) formal analysis that enabled him to canvass various approaches to the problem at different stages of his career, at all times showing an unusual sensitivity to the tension between formalist and metaphysical types of solution.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix Explanation of Symbols x Citation Style xii List of Figures xiii 1 Introduction: History and Logical Analysis of the Problem 1 1 The Heart of the Problem: A Question of Truth-Makers and Truth-Bearers 1 2 Models of the World and Theories of Truth 6 2.1 Two Models of the World 8 2.2 Fitting Truth Operators to Ontology: The Correspondence Assumption 12 3 Either the Fallibility of God as Foreknower, or the Necessitation of Creaturely Action: Sophismata or Genuine Puzzles? 15 3.1 A “First Try”: The Appeal to Scope Disambiguation 16 3.2 The Inadequacy of the Sophismatic Solution 21 4 The Boethian Analysis and Its Influence 28 4.1 Boethius’ Slippery T2 Theory: “Broad Bivalence” and the Operators Definite and Indefinite 29 4.2 The Assertability Conditions of the Boethian Future Tense(s) 34 4.3 A Fruitful Ambiguity: Simple vs. Conditional Necessity 37 4.4 From the Commentary Theory to the Consolation Theory 43 4.5 The Boethian or Logical-Compatibilist Model 49 4.6 Historical Developments: Further Applications of the System 61 5 Overcoming the Limitations of Logical Compatibilism: The Need for Alternative Real Futures 81 5.1 Making Room for Divine (and More Room for Human) Freedom: God’s “Power over the Past” and the Divine Modal Pleroma 83 5.2 The System of Duns Scotus 97 6 The (Re)Turn to the Formal: Thomas Wylton, Peter Auriol, and the Rejection of the Correspondence Assumption 116 6.1 The Wylton Scope Analysis 116 6.2 The Position of Peter Auriol: A Closed-Future Model in Open-Future Guise 124 7 The System(s) of William Ockham 144 7.1 Determinate Truth and the Mystery of God’s Mysterious Foreknowledge 145 7.2 Ockham’s Open Future 148 7.3 Ockham’s Later Influence: The Communis Opinio 163 8 Ponere [in Esse]: Drifting between the Derivational, the Temporal, and the Ludic 165 8.1 Ponere [in Esse]: Initial Approaches 165 8.2 Arnold of Strelley and Obligational Theology 167 8.3 Ponere [in Esse] in Sense i: Assumptions and/or Actions 173 8.4 Ponere [in Esse] in Sense ii: The Real Occurrence of a Given Res / Proposition 174 8.5 Ponere [in Esse]: A Unifying Interpretation? 176 9 Recapitulation 177 10 Walter Chatton on Future Contingents 178 10.1 Chatton’s Reportatio super Sententias 179 10.2 Chatton’s Quodlibet 233 11 Concluding Remarks: Chatton in Historical Context 259 2 Translations of Chatton’s Reportatio super Sententias i, dd. 38–41 and Quodlibet, qq. 27–29 265 Reportatio super Sententias i 265 Distinction 38. Unique Question. Whether the Contingency of Futures is Consistent with God’s Knowledge of Future Contingents 265 Distinction 39. Unique Question. Whether God Could Know More Than He Knows 279 Distinctions 40–41. Question 1. Whether the Mystery of the Divine Incarnation was the Meriting Cause of Human Predestination 286 Distinctions 40–41. Question 2. Whether It Can be Consistently Maintained Both That God Wills That a Shall be Necessarily, and That a Will Nevertheless Happen Contingently 311 Quodlibet 318 Question 27. Whether Any Creature Could be Apprised of a Future Contingent 318 Question 28. Whether the Certainty of Revelation of Future Contingents is Compatible with Their Contingency 331 Question 29. Whether All Forms of the Arguments Which Normally Occur in This Matter Can be Resolved 342 3 Commentary 344 Reportatio super Sententias i 344 Distinction 38. Unique Question: Whether the Contingency of Futures is Consistent with God’s Knowledge of Future Contingents 344 Distinction 39. Unique Question: Whether God Could Know More Than He Knows 368 Distinctions 40–41 380 Question 1. Whether the Mystery of the Divine Incarnation was the Meriting Cause of Human Predestination. 381 Question 2. Whether It Can be Consistently Maintained Both That God Wills That a Shall be Necessarily, and That a Will Nevertheless Happen Contingently 411 Quodlibet 424 Question 27. Whether Any Creature Could be Apprised of a Future Contingent 425 Question 28. Whether the Certainty of Revelation of Future Contingents is Compatible with Their Contingency 445 Question 29. Whether All Forms of the Arguments Which Normally Occur in this Matter Can be Resolved 467 Appendix: Natural-Deduction Derivations of the Pattern Arguments 469 Bibliography 509 Index of Names 528 Subject Index 531

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Book SynopsisHaecceities: Essentialism, Identity, and Abstraction is both an artistic and philosophical examination of the limits of Abstraction in art and of kinds of radical identity that are determined in the identification of those limits. Building on his work Subjects and Objects, Strayer shows how the fundamental conditions of making and apprehending works of art can be used, in concert with language, thought, and perception, as ‘material’ for producing the more Abstract and radical artworks possible. Certain limits of Abstraction and possibilities of radical identity are then identified that are critically and philosophically considered. They prove to be so extreme that the concepts artwork, abstraction, identity, and object in art, philosophy, and philosophy of art, have to be reconsidered.Trade Review"Strayer, in Haecceities, gives us a fascinating, extended intellectual meditation on the limits of abstraction in art, and does so with such a breathtaking relentlessness, that it is unlikely that anyone could ever write a more definitive book on the subject." - Phil Jenkins, Marywood University, in: Philosophy in Review 39.2 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Haecceity Illustrations and Figures PART ONE Introduction 1. Theses of Abstraction. 2. The essential elements of an artistic complex and the idea of Essentialism or Essentialist Abstraction. 3. Radical identity. 4. Essence and Essentialism. 5. Consciousness. 6. Objects. 7. Summary and the goals and workings of Essentialism. PART TWO Space, Time, Language, and Objects and Particular Matters of General Relevance to Essentialism 8. The particularity of objects and the use of the term ‘haecceity’ in regard to Essentialist artworks. 9. Space, language, and the perceptual object. 10. Effects of the algorithm: visible and invisible, on and off the surface. 11. Time and the perceptual object. 12. Space, time, language, and the perceptual object. 13. Meaning, specification tokens, and matrices. 14. Time and the specified object. 15. Change and the perceptual object. 16. Interpretation. 17. The delimitation of logical space and a subject’s history of awareness. PART THREE Haecceities, Ideational Objects, and Identity 18. No artwork without an identity. 19. Traditional identity in the visual arts. 20. Essentialism and identity. 21. Haecceities and ideational objects. 22. Kinds of ideational identity. 23. Basic and sophisticated space, meaning, identity, and work. 24. Haecceity artwork identity: preliminary points. 25. Disseminated identity. 26. Distributed identity. 27. Disseminated and/or distributed identity. 28. Non-disseminated and non-distributed identity. 29. Aesthetic properties and basic and sophisticated space. 30. Homogeneous identity. 31. Heterogeneous identity. 32. Actuality and possibility and identity. 33. Possibilities of identity. 34. Identity and Abstraction. 35. Things that can complicate identity. 36. Thisness and Essentialism. 37. Egalitarian identity. 38. Summary of Essentialist identity. PART FOUR The Space of Apprehension and the Field of Understanding 39. Introduction. 40. Circles, matrices, and the space of apprehension. 41. Language and information in the Haecceities series. 42. Comprehending specifications. 43. The field of understanding. 44. The algorithm, matrices, parts and wholes, and relationships. 45. Ideational objects. PART FIVE Essentialist Determination of Some Limits of Abstraction and Kinds of Radical Identity: Selections from the Haecceities Series with Commentary 46. The language of Essentialism, identity, and the limits of Abstraction. 47. Haecceity 1.0.0. 48. Haecceity 1.1.0. 49. Haecceity 1.2.0. 50. Haecceity 2.0.3. 51. Haecceity 2.9.0. 52. Haecceity 2.10.1. 53. Haecceity 3.29.0. 54. Haecceity 4.7.0. 55. Haecceity 7.3.0. 56. Haecceity 12.0.0. PART SIX Appendices Appendix One: A Paradox of Identity? Appendix Two: Time and Understanding. Index

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Book SynopsisThe Universal Science (ʿIlm-i kullī) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the ‘living tradition’ of Shīʿī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.Table of ContentsForeword Editor’s Introduction 1 Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī: A Philosophical Life 2 John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge 3 The Translation 4 ʿIlm-i kullī: Historical Context and Content Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics Preface 1 Introduction 1 The Definition of Metaphysics 2 The Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics 3 The Divisions of Philosophy 4 Metaphysics in the General Sense 2 Existence (wujūd)–Being (hastī) 1 The Meaning of Existence 2 That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition nor a Descriptive Definition 3 Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity? 4 The Definition of Quiddity 5 Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence 6 The Concept of Existence 7 The Reality of Existence 8 Existence is in Addition to Quiddity 9 Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence 10 Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind) 3 Mental Existence 1 The Enigma of Mental Existence 2 The Solution to the Enigma 3 The View of Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī 4 Unity of the Intellector and that Which is Intellected 4 Further Issues Relating to Existence 1 Existence is Absolute Good 2 Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality 3 Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident 4 Existence is Not Compound 5 Absolute Existence and Determined Existence 6 The Secondary Intelligible 7 A Non-Existent is Not Anything 8 There is no Differentiation between Non-Existences, or any Causal Relationship 9 The Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent 10 History Does Not Repeat Itself 11 Making and Effecting 12 The Three Modes of Existence 5 Contingency (imkān) 1 General Contingency 2 Specific Contingency 3 Most Specific Contingency 4 Future Contingency 5 Pre-dispositional Contingency 6 Contingency of Occurrence 7 Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood 8 Indigent Contingency 9 Analogical Contingency 6 Priority and Posteriority 1 Coming-Into-Being and Eternity 2 The Divisions of Priority and Posteriority 7 Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication 1 Unity and Multiplicity 2 Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be ‘one’] 3 Predication 4 Division of Predication 5 Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition 8 Quiddity 1 Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts 2 Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent 3 Mental Conceptions of Quiddity 4 The Natural Universal 5 Existence of the Natural Universal 9 Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality ( fiʿl) 10 Cause (ʿillat) and Effect (maʿlūl) 1 Causality 2 The Divisions of the Efficient Cause 3 The Final Cause 4 Premature Death 5 The Formal Cause 6 The Material Cause 7 The Names for Matter 8 The Divisions of Matter 9 Things in Common between all the Causes 10 Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes 11 Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect 12 A Discussion between Men of Wisdom 13 Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Universal Science (ʿIlm-i kullī) by Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, is a concise, but authoritative, outline of the fundamental discussions in Islamic metaphysics. For many years used as a textbook in Iran, this short text offers English readers a readily accessible, lucid, and yet deeply learned, guide through the Sadrian, Avicennan, and Illuminationist schools of thought, whilst also demonstrating how the ‘living tradition’ of Shīʿī philosophy engages with central ontological, epistemological, aetiological, and psychological questions. Discussions include the primacy of existence; the proper classifications of quiddity; and the manifold properties of causality and causal explanation. This is the first of the various influential works authored by this leading Shīʿah intellectual to have been translated into English from the original Persian.Table of ContentsForeword Editor’s Introduction 1 Mahdī Ḥāʾirī Yazdī: A Philosophical Life 2 John Cooper: Oxford, Qum, and Cambridge 3 The Translation 4 ʿIlm-i kullī: Historical Context and Content Universal Science: An Introduction to Islamic Metaphysics Preface 1 Introduction 1 The Definition of Metaphysics 2 The Central Subject-Matter of Metaphysics 3 The Divisions of Philosophy 4 Metaphysics in the General Sense 2 Existence (wujūd)–Being (hastī) 1 The Meaning of Existence 2 That Which Makes Existence Known is Neither a Real Definition nor a Descriptive Definition 3 Which is Fundamentally Real: Existence or Quiddity? 4 The Definition of Quiddity 5 Arguments for the Fundamentality of Existence 6 The Concept of Existence 7 The Reality of Existence 8 Existence is in Addition to Quiddity 9 Truth (God, the Exalted) is Pure Existence 10 Mental Existence (or Existence in the Mind) 3 Mental Existence 1 The Enigma of Mental Existence 2 The Solution to the Enigma 3 The View of Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī 4 Unity of the Intellector and that Which is Intellected 4 Further Issues Relating to Existence 1 Existence is Absolute Good 2 Existence is a Singularly Unique Reality 3 Existence is Not Substance and is Not Accident 4 Existence is Not Compound 5 Absolute Existence and Determined Existence 6 The Secondary Intelligible 7 A Non-Existent is Not Anything 8 There is no Differentiation between Non-Existences, or any Causal Relationship 9 The Coming Back of What Has Become Non-Existent 10 History Does Not Repeat Itself 11 Making and Effecting 12 The Three Modes of Existence 5 Contingency (imkān) 1 General Contingency 2 Specific Contingency 3 Most Specific Contingency 4 Future Contingency 5 Pre-dispositional Contingency 6 Contingency of Occurrence 7 Contingency in the Sense of Likelihood 8 Indigent Contingency 9 Analogical Contingency 6 Priority and Posteriority 1 Coming-Into-Being and Eternity 2 The Divisions of Priority and Posteriority 7 Unity, Multiplicity, and Predication 1 Unity and Multiplicity 2 Divisions of the One [That is to say an investigation into how many ways things are said to be ‘one’] 3 Predication 4 Division of Predication 5 Multiplicity, Alterity, and Opposition 8 Quiddity 1 Quiddity and Its Necessary Parts 2 Quiddity in Itself is Neither Existent Nor Non-Existent 3 Mental Conceptions of Quiddity 4 The Natural Universal 5 Existence of the Natural Universal 9 Potentiality (quwwah) and Actuality ( fiʿl) 10 Cause (ʿillat) and Effect (maʿlūl) 1 Causality 2 The Divisions of the Efficient Cause 3 The Final Cause 4 Premature Death 5 The Formal Cause 6 The Material Cause 7 The Names for Matter 8 The Divisions of Matter 9 Things in Common between all the Causes 10 Some of the Properties of the Bodily Causes 11 Things in Common between the Cause and the Effect 12 A Discussion between Men of Wisdom 13 Vicious Circles and Infinite Regresses Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus’ legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Plotinus' Enneads, is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus’ Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries.Trade Review"One of the landslides in the historiography of ancient and medieval philosophy is the recognition of the import and role of the medieval reception and reworking of Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The volume here reviewed, the first of a triad of essay collections on this topic, will no doubt contribute greatly to that recognition. [...] This is a book for specialists, and a scholarly Fundgrube, as shown by the fact that Latin and occasionally Greek quotations are not translated, the high density of information, and the appendices [...]. The book contains a number of invaluable resources [...] I cannot but conclude that this is an important volume [...] and further avenues of research clearly open up in the wake of this volume." – Marije Martijn, in: The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 06 October 2021. "It must be clear by now that the collection under review constitutes a significant contribution to the exploration of how Proclus’ Elem. theol. and the Book of Causes were received in the Latin West and in Byzantium. This volume of contributions by an interdisciplinary group of experts covers centuries of Proclean influence and familiarizes the reader with a vast array of complex philological and philosophical issues, ranging from details about manuscripts to the most complicated doctrinal controversies." – Sokratis Athanasios Kiosoglou, in: Aestimatio ns 2.2, 31 July 2022.Table of Contents1 Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Notes on the Western Scholarly Networks and Debates  Dragos Calma Part 1 Liber de causis 2 Tradition exégétique: âges, styles et formes d’ une réception par le commentaire  Dominique Poirel 3 La première réception du Liber de causis en Occident (XIIe–XIIIe siècles)  Irene Caiazzo 4 Liber de causis in Thomas of York  Fiorella Retucci 5 Le Liber de causis et l’ Elementatio theologica dans deux bibliothèques anglaises: Merton College (Oxford) et Peterhouse (Cambridge)  Laure Miolo 6 Les gloses sur le Liber de causis dans les manuscrits parisiens  Olga Weijers 7 From Content to Method: the Liber de causis in Albert the Great  Henryk Anzulewicz and Katja Krause 8 Citing the Book of Causes, IV: Henry of Ghent and the His (?) Questions on the Metaphysics  Maria Evelina Malgieri 9 Duns Scot et le Liber de causis  Jean-Michel Counet 10 Sine secundaria: Thomas d’ Aquin, Siger de Brabant et les débats sur l’ occasionalisme  Dragos Calma 11 The Liber de causis in Some Central European Quodlibets  Iulia Székely Part 2 Proclus 12 Proclus, Eustrate de Nicée et leur réception aux XIIIe–XIVe siècles  Irene Zavattero 13 Bate et sa lecture ‘encyclopédiste’ de Proclus  Guy Guldentops 14 Au-delà de la métaphysique: Notule sur l’ importance du commentaire de Berthold de Moosburg OP sur les Eléments de théologie  Ruedi Imbach 15 Eriugenism in Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli  Evan King 16 Proclus dans la première quaestio collativa de Gilles Charlier  Zénon Kaluza 17 Plato’s Parmenides as Serious Game: Contarini and the Renaissance Reception of Proclus  Barbara Bartocci Index

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Book SynopsisIn Deciphering Reality: Simulations, Tests, and Designs, Benjamin B. Olshin takes a problem-based approach to the question of the nature of reality. In a series of essays, the book examines the detection of computer simulations from the inside, wrestles with the problem of visual models of reality, explores Daoist conceptions of reality, and offers possible future directions for deciphering reality. The ultimate goal of the book is to provide a more accessible approach, unlike highly complex philosophical works on metaphysics, which are inaccessible to non-academic readers, and overly abstract (and at times, highly speculative) popular works that offer a mélange of physics, philosophy, and consciousness.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Reality as a Problem 1 Reality as a Simulation 2 Reality to the Test 3 Reality by Design 4 Reality for the Daoists 5 Reality in Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGeorg Lukács was one of the most important intellectuals and philosophers of the 20th century. His last great work was an systematic social ontology that was an attempt to ground an ethical and critical form of Marxism. This work has only now begun to attract the interest of critical theorists and philosophers intent on reconstructing a critical theory of society as well as a more sophisticated framework for Marxian philosophy. This collection of essays explores the concept of critical social ontology as it was outlined by Georg Lukács and the ways that his ideas can help us construct a more grounded and socially relevant form of social critique.Trade Review“The concluding essay by the editor, Michael J. Thompson, is lucid and persuasive in praising the late Lukács’ contribution and fidelity to Marx’s ontology”. Sean Sheehan, in Marx & Philosophy Review of books, 2020.Table of Contents Contributors  Introduction Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being  1 Ontology and Labor in the Lukács’ Late Thought  Antonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda  2 Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann’s to Lukács’Ontology  Endre Kiss  3 Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of Intentionality  Matthew J. Smetona Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács’ Social Ontology  4 György Lukács’ Ontological Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value  Murillo van der Laan  5 The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács’ Normative Theory of History  Andreas Giesbert  6 Lukács’ Late Appropriation of Hegel’s Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological Positing  Michalis Skomvoulis Part 3: Lukács’ Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy  7 On the “Constitution of Human Society”: Lukács’ versus Searle’s Social Ontology  Claudius Vellay  8 Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social Ontology  Thomas Telios  9 Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological Critique  Mario Duayer  10 The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno Latour  Christoph Henning Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology  11 From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!  Michael Morris  12 Normativity and Totality: Lukács’ Contribution to a Critical Social Ontology  Titus Stahl  13 Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social Theory  Reha Kadakal  14 Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social Ontology  Michael J. Thompson  Index

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Book SynopsisMetaphysics or Ontology? treats the evolution of the object of metaphysics from being, to the concept of being, to, finally, the object (thought). Possible being must be non-contradictory, but an object of thought includes anything a human being can think, including contradictions and nothingness. When the concept of being, or object of thought, replaces existence as the object of metaphysics, it becomes something other than metaphysics—ontology, or something beyond ontology. However, ontology cannot examine existence because it only investigates concepts and possibility. Only classical metaphysics investigates reality qua reality. This book masterfully treats the history of this controversy and many other important metaphysical questions raised over the centuriesTrade Review"Metaphysics or Ontology? masterfully treats not only the history of the controversy, but also many important metaphysical questions that have been raised over the centuries. What is at stake are the most fundamental and important questions philosophers can ask such as (1) How should we understand being—as real or possible?, (2) How should we understand existence—as actuality or as a mode of essence?, and (3) What has priority, essence or existence? This is a book that will reward the reader with new insights each time it is read; it deserves the special attention of scholars and philosophers for decades to come." Robert Anthony Delfino, St. John’s University, New YorkTable of ContentsForeword  Robert Delfino Preface Introduction Part 1: On the Origin of Metaphysics 1 From Sophía to Philosophía 2 From Philosophy (φιλοσοφία) to Meta-physics (τὰ μeτà τὰ φυσικά) 3 From ta metá ta physiká to Metaphysics   Commentaries: The Assimilation and Continuity of Culture 4 The Autonomy of Metaphysics 5 Ontology in the Middle Ages? Part 1 Summary Part 2: The Rise of Ontology 6 Descartes and Malebranche—The Return of Augustinianism 7 British Philosophy: The Marginalization of Metaphysics 8 The Founders of Ontology: From Lorhard to Clauberg 9 Ontology before Metaphysics: From Wolff to Kant 10 Logic as Ontology: Hegel 11 The Apotheosis of Mathematics: Bolzano, Frege, and Meinong 12 Phenomenology apart from Metaphysics: Husserl, Ingarden, Heidegger 13 Metaphysics as Ontology: Nicolai Hartmann 14 Analytic Philosophy: A Metaphysics of Conceptual Schemata 15 Metaphysics or Ontology of Process? 16 Negative Ontology: Adorno 17 Postmoderism: The End of Metaphysics, or the End of Ontology? Part 2 Summary Part 3: Metaphysics or Ontology: Disputed Questions 18 Being or the Concept of Being?/b>   The Term ‘Being’ and Its Meaning   Being and the Apprehension of Being 19 Real Being or Possible Being?   On the Principle of Identity and Non-Contradiction   Possibility, Potency, and Real Essence: Aristotle   Toward Possible Essence   The Concept of Being and Possible Being: From Duns Scotus to Suárez   Possible Being and Theology 20 Existence: Act or Modus?   Existence: Etymology of the Term   Did Aristotle Know the Difference between Essence and Existence?   What Did Al-Farabi Discover?   Existence as the Act of Being—Thomas Aquinas   Existence is a Mode of Essence—Duns Scotus   Suárez, the Heir of Scotus   The Logical Transformation of Existence: Wolff 21 Essence Instead of Being   The Etymology of the Word ‘Essence’   Essence in Itself—Al Farabi and Avicenna   Essence Reinstated to Reality—Thomas Aquinas   Essence apart from Reality—Duns Scotus   Essence according to Suárez: The Return to Duns Scotus   Essence that is Real because It is Possible: Clauberg and Wolff   Kant: Separation from Essence   Hegel: The Absolutization of Essence   Essence in Phenomenology   Heidegger—Illusory Critique of Essence 22 Ontology: Unreal Reality 23 Ontology and the Object   Object: Etymology and Terminology   The Object and the Knowledge of Being in Metaphysics   The Object Instead of Being: Ontology   Kant—The Creation of the Object   Hegel—Objectivism without Realism   Meinong: The Theory of the Object Instead of Ontology 24 Intentionality: Outside of Reality   Intentionality: The Etymology of the Word   The Theological Context   The Philosophical Context 25 Ontology and the Subject   Subject: Etymology of the Word   The Subject in Metaphysics   From Descartes to Leibniz   Kant—Creator of the Philosophy of the Subject 26 Ontology and System   System: Etymology and Pre-Philosophical Meaning   System in Ancient Philosophy   System as Organized Knowledge   A System that Makes Reality: Hegel and Schelling   Whether Suárez was the Author of the First System of Metaphysics, and if so, in What Sense   What Sort of Realistic Metaphysics?   Critique of Philosophy as a System—But What Sort of System?   Ontology and Logical Systems 27 Univocity or Analogy? 28 Metaphysics, Ontology, Onto-Theology? Part 3 Summary Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe problem of universals is one of the main philosophical issues. In this book the author reconstructs the history of the problem considering a selection of medieval representative texts and authors. The source of medieval and postmedieval debate is identified in the Socratic-Platonic survey on the definition of concepts. In the Categories, Aristotle discusses important topics concerning the relations that exist between logical terms. In particular he establishes a kind of predication principle: categorial terms have a certain predication relation if (and only if) some facts expressed by ordinary sentences hold. The Categories also because of their particular disciplinary status, halfway between logic and metaphysics, leave a number of questions open. Among these questions, a particularly intriguing one is Porphyry’s riddle: are there genera and species? And, if there are such things, what are they like?Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Problem  1.1 Abstract Entities  1.2 Predicates  1.3 The Relation of Predication in Aristotle  1.4 How Many Questions? 2 Boethius on General Terms  2.1 Browsing through Logical Texts  2.2 Meaning and Truth  2.3 Genera and Species  2.4 The Problem of Universals (In Isag. I)  2.5 The Problem of Universals (In Isag. II) 3 The Metaphysical System of Scotus Eriugena  3.1 Preliminary Remarks  3.2 Nature  3.3 Objects of Thought  3.4 Essences and Forms  3.5 Universal Entities 4 Realist Theories in the 11th–12th Centuries  4.1 Justification and Realism  4.2 The First Realist Thesis (antiqua sententia)  4.3 A Variant of TR1?  4.4 Other Realist Theses  4.5 The Missing Thesis 5 The ‘Nominal’ Stance: Garland the Computist and Abelard’s Literal Glosses  5.1 The Heretics of Dialectics  5.2 Garland on the Five Predicables  5.3 The Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories  5.4 The Literal Glosses 6 Walter of Mortagne and the Identity Theory  6.1 The Text of BN 17813, 1–16  6.2 Walter’s Criticism of Realism  6.3 The Identity Theory  6.4 Objections and Answers 7 The De Generibus et Speciebus and the Theory of Collectio  7.1 Some Historical Questions  7.2 Criticism of Contemporary Theories of Universals  7.3 The Collectio Theory  7.4 On Meaning  7.5 Objections and Answers 8 The Position of Abelard on Porphyry  8.1 Texts and Contexts  8.2 The Problem of Universals in the Logica Ingredientibus  8.3 The Resumption of the Theme in the Logica Nostrorum  8.4 Universal Predicates 9 Gilbert of Poitiers  9.1 The Distinction between id quod est and esse  9.2 Matter, Form, Nature  9.3 Categorization  9.4 Particulars  9.5 Mathematical Entities and Universals 10 John of Salisbury on Universals  10.1 Background  10.2 Theses on Universals  10.3 John’s Point of View  10.4 The Value of Pronouns  10.5 The quale quid Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the importance of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and poetics in rethinking humanities. In particular, Ricoeur’s insights on reference as refiguration and his idea of interpretation as a triadic process (which consists of mimesis 1 – prefiguration, mimesis 2 – configuration, and mimesis 3 – refiguration) will be applied to philosophy of science and to literary and historical texts. It will be shown that Ricoeur’s idea of emplotment can be extended and applied to scientific, literary and historical texts. This multidisciplinary research will include philosophy of science, metaphysics, hermeneutics, and literary theory.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Ricœur’s Idea of Reference as Refiguration: the Non-Descriptive Reference of Literary Work  1  Introduction  2  Ricœur’s Idea of Reference as Refiguration  3  Ricœur’s Conception of Threefold Mimesis  4  The Concept of Null-Reference  5 Conclusion 2 The Truth as Non-Reference: the Realist and Anti-Realist Conception of Reference  1  Introduction  2  Reference as Refiguration in Science  3  The Success of Non-Referring Concepts: a Hermeneutic Aspect of Reference  4  Conclusion 3 Ricœur’s Concept of Reference Applied to Theories of Scientific Realism and to Historical Texts: Real versus Unreal  1Introduction  2The Question of Truth in the Theories of Scientific Realism and in the Historical and Fictional Narratives  3Realism and the Realm of Possibility  4Conclusion 4 The Universality of Hermeneutic and Narrative Experience: Ricœur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science  1  Introduction  2  Explanation and Understanding in the History of Science and Philosophy  3  Binary Oppositions in Science  4  Ricœur’s Dialectics between Explanation and Understanding  5  Ricœur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science  6  Narrative Understanding: Mediating between Fictional and Historical Texts  7  Conclusion 5 Ricœur’s Idea of Metamorphoses of Narrative Plots  1  Introduction  2  Ricœur’s Idea of Narrative Paradigm: A Question about the Limits of Plot  3  Transhistorical Schematism of Narration  4  Conclusion 6 The Idea of Truth as Non-Reference in Literature  1  Introduction  2  Art as the Personal Truth of the Author in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita  3  Artistic and Religious Conception of Truth  4  The Idea of Truth as Non-Reference in Borges’ “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”  5  Conclusion References Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a bilingual edition of the selected peer-reviewed papers that were submitted for the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies on the thought of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548–1617). The symposium was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.Trade Review“The volume especially shines by putting Suárez into fruitful and critical conversations with other well-known thinkers, mostly English, of the modern political canon like Machiavelli, Hobbes, James I, Bentham, and Locke. […] Overall, [it] offers the best recent treatment in English of Suárez’s political thought.” David Lantigua, University of Notre Dame. In: Theological Studies, Vol. 81, No. 1 (2020), pp. 244–255. “The articles give a remarkable overview of recent tendencies in the interpretation of this Jesuit thinker [and] offer valuable contributions to further illuminate the various traditions that shaped early modernity.” Bernhard Knorn, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 679–681.Table of ContentsPreface  Robert Aleksander Maryks Introducción  Juan Antonio Senent-De Frutos Part 1: Metaphysics  1 Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics of Cognitive Acts  Daniel Heider  2 Suárez on Substantial Forms: a Heroic Last Stand?  Sydney Penner  3 Intrinsic Being or the Formal Structures of Thought? The Grounding of Possibility in Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics  Matthew Z. Vale  4 En contra del esencialismo: ente real y existencia en Suárez  Ángel Poncela González Part 2: Religion, Law, Society  5 Francisco Suárez: Religious Freedom and International Law  Robert Fastiggi  6 Francisco Suárez on Religion and Religious Pluralism  S.J. Aaron Pidel  7 Encarnación y subsistencia en las Disputaciones metafísicas de Francisco Suárez: algunas cuestiones en torno a los fundamentos de la modernidad  Julio Söchting Herrera  8 Settling Law: Francisco Suárez's Theory of Custom for Contemporary Contexts  Elisabeth Kincaid Part 3: Political Theories  9 Francisco Suárez y la posibilidad de intervención pública en asuntos sociales  Luis-Carlos Amezúa Amezúa  10 Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Finding Resources in Francisco Suárez’s Political Theology  Liam de los Reyes  11 Entrega del poder al gobernante y esclavitud voluntaria de la comunidad política en Francisco Suárez: una interpretación desde los límites fácticos al poder  Pablo Font Oporto  12 Francisco Suárez y la propaganda político-apocalíptica en la Inglaterra de Jacobo I: el libro V de la Defensio fidei; El Anticristo  Pilar Pena Búa  13 Francisco Suárez: Absolutist or Constitutionalist?  Szilárd Tattay Part 4: Psychology  14 El sí mismo desde Suárez y el valor moral de los hábitos  Giannina Burlando  15 Separated Soul and Its Nature: Francisco Suárez in the Scholastic Debate  Simone Guidi  16 Doctrinal Divergences on the Nature of Human Composite in Two Commentaries on Aristotle’s De anima (Anonymous, Cod. 2399 BGUC and Francisco Suárez): New Material on the Jesuit School of Coimbra and the Cursus Conimbricensis  Paula Oliveira e Silva and João Rebalde  17 Suárez, Maquiavelo y una moderna noción de prudencia: derivaciones políticas en la obra de Diego de Saavedra Fajardo  Nicolás Vivalda Part 5: Legacy  18 Francisco Suárez and John Locke on Rights and Alienability: a Critical Conversation  Catherine Sims Kuiper  19 La imposible teología política: gobierno y justicia en Francisco Suárez  Lorenzo Rustighi  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThemistius’ (4th century CE) paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 is the earliest surviving complete account of this seminal work. Despite leaving no identifiable mark in Late Antiquity, Themistius’ paraphrase played a dramatic role in shaping the metaphysical landscape of Medieval Arabic and Hebrew philosophy and theology. Lost in Greek, and only partially surviving in Arabic, its earliest full version is in the form of a 13th century Hebrew translation. In this volume, Yoav Meyrav offers a new critical edition of the Hebrew translation and the Arabic fragments of Themistius’ paraphrase, accompanied by detailed philological and philosophical analyses. In doing so, he provides a solid foundation for the study of one of the most important texts in the history of Aristotelian metaphysics.Trade Review"Yoav Meyrav’s publication is a stunningly impressive work of scholarship. He has produced a meticulous edition of the text, scrutinizing the available Hebrew and Arabic sources, and sorting them out according to their distance from the original—translation, revised translation, abridgment. However, there is much more here than philology—Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek—as well as a significant contribution to translation studies. Meyrav takes responsibility for advancing the appreciation of the philosophical content of the paraphrase. Moreover, given that the Greek original is lost, he senses and meets an obligation to classicists to squeeze what he can from the text that is relevant to their discipline, notably regarding the genre of the paraphrase." - Tzvi Langermann, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020 “Yoav Meyrav’s publication is a stunningly impressive work of scholarship. He has produced a meticulous edition of the text, scrutinizing the available Hebrew and Arabic sources, and sorting them out according to their distance from the original—translation, revised translation, abridgment.[…] Meyrav has set an academic standard.” Y. Tzvi Langermann in Bryn Mawr Classical Review https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.06.19/[09/08/2021, 15:39:18]Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Introduction  1 Overview  2 Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 before Themistius  3 Themistius on Metaphysics 12: Context and Scholarship  4 Themistius’ Paraphrase of Metaphysics 12 in the Arabic and Hebrew Traditions  5 Looking Forward 1 The Textual Tradition  1 Overview  2 The Arabic Textual Tradition  3 The Hebrew Textual Tradition  4 Moshe Finzi’s Latin Translation  5 Principles of the Present Edition 2 Historical and Methodological Aspects of Themistius as Paraphrast of Metaphysics 12  1 Overview  2 The Aims and Methodologies of Themistius’ Paraphrases  3 Examples  4 Conclusion Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12: Parallel Hebrew/Arabic Edition Abbreviations  1 Hebrew Sources  2 Arabic Sources  3 Misc. Text and Translation Commentary Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Conclusion Appendix A: Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn’s Arabic Translation of Metaphysics 2 and Its Abridgment in MS Ḥikma 6: Text and Notes Appendix B: Two Versions of the Hebrew Translation of the Themistius Quotations in Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics—A Preliminary Edition Appendix C: Matter and Element—Case Study Hebrew–Arabic Lexicon Arabic–Hebrew Lexicon Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of Theology, for it seeks to present a coherent account of the Platonic tradition as such (unified through the concord of Proclus and Dionysius) and at the same time to consolidate and transform a legacy of metaphysics developed in the German-speaking lands by Peripatetic authors (like Albert the Great, Ulrich of Strassburg, and Dietrich of Freiberg). This volume aims to provide a basis for further research and discussion of this unduly overlooked commentary, whose historical-philosophical importance as an attempt to refound Western metaphysics is beginning to be recognized. The publication of this volume has received the generous support of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the ERC Consolidator Grant NeoplAT: A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries), grant agreement No 771640 (www.neoplat.eu). “[…] the volume displays various aspects of the richness hidden in this Commentary on Proclus: the contributions mentioned here are merely representative of such richness. Nonetheless, a desideratum of the research on Berthold remains a closer analysis of his polemical relations with his still unknown adversaries.” -Giuseppe Thomas Vitale, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 89.2Trade Review"...the volume displays various aspects of the richness hidden in this Commentary on Proclus: the contributions mentioned here are merely representative of such richness." - Giuseppe Thomas VitaleTable of Contents1 Introduction  Dragos Calma and Evan King part 1: Sources 2 The Meaning of the Biblical Citations in the Expositio of Berthold of Moosburg  Paul D. Hellmeier OP 3 Avicebron (Solomon Ibn Gabirol) and Berthold of Moosburg on Essential Causality  Alessandra Beccarisi 4 Between Cologne and Oxford: Berthold of Moosburg and Thomas of York’s Sapientiale  Fiorella Retucci 5 Die Kontinuität der intellektuellen Tradition des Albertus Magnus: Berthold von Moosburgs Theorie des Intellekts  Henryk Anzulewicz 6 The Gods and Causality. On Aquinas’ Presence in Berthold’s Expositio  Ezequiel Ludueña 7 Berthold of Moosburg, Reader of Ulrich of Strassburg. On Natural Providence  Tommaso Ferro 8 Sapiens modernus: The Reception of Dietrich of Freiberg in Berthold of Moosburg  Evan King part 2: Doctrines 9 Berthold of Moosburg, the unum animae, and Deification  Loris Sturlese 10 Metaphysical Freedom. From Albert the Great to Berthold of Moosburg  Wouter Goris 11 Doppelte Providenz. Die Rezeption einer neuplatonischen Tradition bei Berthold von Moosburg  Theo Kobusch 12 Regna duo duorum. Berthold of Moosburg’s Theory of Providence and Fate  Alessandro Palazzo 13 Founding a Metaphysics of Light in Proclus’ Universe: Berthold of Moosburg’s Theory of Forms  Sylvain Roudaut part 3: Comparisons 14 Peter of Ireland and Berthold of Moosburg on First Being, First Life, and First Mind  Michael W. Dunne 15 Berthold of Moosburg, Nicholas of Cusa, and Marsilio Ficino as Historians of Philosophy  Stephen Gersh

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Book SynopsisThis study examines the motivations and doctrinal coherence of the Commentary on the Elements of Theology of Proclus written by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. († c. 1361/1363). It provides an overview of Berthold’s biography and intellectual contexts, his manuscript remains, and a partial edition of his annotations on Macrobius and Proclus. Through a close analysis of the three prefaces to the Commentary, giving special attention to Berthold’s sources, it traces the Dominican's elaboration of Platonism as a soteriological science. The content of this science is then presented in a systematic reconstruction of Berthold’s cosmology and anthropology. The volume includes an English translation of the three fundamental prefaces of the Commentary. The publication of this volume has received the generous support of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the ERC Consolidator Grant NeoplAT: A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries), grant agreement No 771640 (www.neoplat.eu). "This is, indeed, a precious insight into the spirit of Berthold’s philosophical thinking. Overall, the monograph’s ambition seems to be both to represent a starting point for new readers interested in Berthold, and to stress the philosophical value of the Commentary: both goals are most certainly reached." -Giuseppe Thomas Vitale, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 89.2Trade Review"Resulta sumamente importante [...] el extenso apéndice del libro, que ofrece la traducción (una versión brillante, que plásticamente sigue tanto la frecuente sequedad del original cuanto sus ocasionales efusiones) al inglés de los tres textos introductorios de la Expositio. Si exceptuamos la versión francesa realizada por Alain de Libera de solo uno de los tres prólogos, no existía hasta el momento traducción de estos textos a lenguas modernas." - Ezequiel Ludueña, in: Patristica et Mediævalia 44.1 (2023) "...the monograph's ambition seems to be both to represent a starting point for new readers interested in Berthold, and to stress the philosophical value of the Commentary: both goals are most certainly reached." - Giuseppe Thomas VitaleTable of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Introduction  1 Life and Contexts  2 Toward a Reconstruction of Berthold’s Library  3 The Commentary on Proclus: Background, Purpose, and Exegetical Methods PART 1 Non secundum nos. Platonism as Philosophical Revelation 1 Prologus  1 Hermes Trismegistus and Thomas of York  2 Hermes Trismegistus and Albert the Great  3 Approaching and Entering the House of God 2 Expositio tituli  1 Plato’s Theorems  2 The Three Motions of the Soul  3 The Two Orders of Providence 3 Praeambulum libri  1 Theology as a Science  2 “Our Divinising Theology” PART 2 Providere cum diis. The Philosophical Principles of the Expositio 4 Exstasis divini amoris  The Macrocosm  1 Plato and Aristotle on the One and the Good  2 Creation  3 The Trinity and the Gods  4 Limit and the Unlimited  5 Determination, Generation, and Light 5 Epulatio entis  The Microcosm  1 Human Nature and the Spiritual Body  2 Between Being and Becoming  3 The Goodness of Silence: Deification and Providential Cognition  Conclusion  1 Legacy  2 Lady Philosophy’s Vesture Translation  Prologue  Exposition of the Title  Preamble of the Book  Bibliography  Index of Manuscripts  Index of Authors (Ancient)  Index of Authors (Modern)

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Book SynopsisMystik und Romantik sind Gegenmodelle einer stets fremder werdenden Moderne. Die Romantik als eine Kulturepoche nimmt das überzeitliche religiöse Phänomen der Mystik in sich auf. Der vorliegende Band geht auf zahlreiche Beispiele ein, insbesondere auf die Rezeption Jacob Böhmes in der Romantik. Mysticism and Romanticism are counter-models of an ever stranger modernity. Romanticism as a cultural epoch absorbs the supra-temporal religious phenomenon of mysticism. This volume deals with numerous examples, specifically the reception of Jacob Böhme in Romanticism.Table of ContentsVorwort Abkürzungsverzeichnis Einleitung Teil 1 Mystik und Romantik 1 Wackenroder und die Mystik  Günther Bonheim 2 Friedrich Schlegels Beschäftigung mit der Mystik  Bärbel Frischmann 3 Friedrich Schlegels Mystik-Rezeption im Kontext seiner Idealismus-Kritik  Dorit Messlin 4 Friedrich Schlegel and the Mystical Kingdom of God  Asko Nivala 5 „ wie ein Kind, das heim will“: Clemens Brentano zwischen Erotik und Mystik  Peter Nickl 6 Von den Mythen Asiens zur christlichen Mystik: Der Weg des Joseph Görres  Monika Fink-Lang 7 Unheimliches: Satire und Mystik bei Joseph Görres  Thomas Isermann 8 “Never will I Forget Seeing Him” (Nie werde ich seinen Anblick vergessen): The Influence of Philipp Matthaeus Hahn on Schelling’s Philosophy  Andrés Quero-Sánchez 9 Mystik bei Franz von Baader (1765–1841)  Alberto Bonchino Teil 2 Jacob Böhme und die Romantik 10 Zur Typologie vorromantischer Böhme-Rezeption  Sibylle Rusterholz 11 Zitat und Inspiration: Böhme bei Tieck und Runge  Thomas Isermann 12 Die Aurora, die Europa: Novalis’ Böhme-Lektüre und seine religionsgeschichtliche Konstruktion  Günther Bonheim 13 Jacob Böhmes Aurora in der Morgenröte der Romantik  Steffen Dietzsch 14 „Ultra crepidam!“: Ein Schuster im Athenäum und frühromantische Nachtwachen in Erwartung der Morgenröte  Thomas Regehly 15 Über diejenigen, die eine Kerze ins Sonnenlicht halten: Böhmes Einfluss auf Blakes frühromantisches Werk The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)  Tobias Schlosser 16 Qualitative Dialektik: Hegels Differenzschrift und Jacob Böhme  Donata Schoeller 17 Hilflose Abstraktheit: Die Böhme-Rezeption Franz von Baaders und dessen Kritik an Schellings Idealismus  Andrés Quero-Sánchez Literatur Register

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Book SynopsisThe Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles, which seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Editorial  Giuseppe Veltri and Ze’ev Strauss 1 A Maimonidean Life  Joseph ben Judah Ibn Shimʿon of Ceuta’s Biography Reconstructed  Reimund Leicht 2 Persecution and the Art of Commentary  Rabbi Moses Narboni’s Analysis of al-Ġazālī’s Maqāṣid al Falāsifah (Aims of the Philosophers)  Gitit Holzman 3 Doubt and Certainty in Late Modern Kabbalah  A Tale of Two Schools  Jonathan Garb 4 Where Is Sanctity to Be Found?  A Sceptical Approach to Jewish Tradition and Zionist Utopia in Agnon’s A Guest for the Night  Anna Lissa 5 Jean Bodin’s Universalism and the Twofold Foundations of Natural Religion  A New Reading of the Colloquium heptaplomeres  Gianni Paganini 6 Nancy’s Pleasure in Kant’s Agitation  Adi Louria Hayon 7 Not by Socrates, but by the Splendour of Israel  Philosophy and Kabbalah in Abraham Miguel Cardozo’s Early Thought  Mark Marion Gondelman 8 Looking for Signs  Criticism, Doubts, and Popular Belief in Fifteenth-Century Germany  Jürgen Sarnowsky

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Book SynopsisJohn Sallis has been at the cutting edge of the Continental philosophical tradition for almost half a century, and it is largely due to his contributions that we have come to understand “Continental” as designating an original philosophical, not a geographical, tradition. His work, with its uncommon scholarly rigor, has come to define the best of that tradition and to expand its horizons in creative ways through a genuine philosophical imagination. The essays gathered here are dedicated to assessing Sallis’ contribution and to indicating some of the ways in which his works might shape the future of philosophy.Table of ContentsForeword On Leaving Footprints: Some Remarks on the Legacy of John Sallis   Dennis J. Schmidt List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction   James Risser and Walter Brogan part 1 Directions within Greek Philosophy 1 “Beneath the Earth and in the Heavens” John Sallis in His Elements   Michael Naas 2 Philosophy and Monstrosity, an Ode to Artemis   Sara Brill 3 Boundless Images John Sallis and the Ancient Gods   Claudia Baracchi 4 “Shaggy, Lustful, Partly Animal” John Sallis on Plato’s Symposium   S. Montgomery Ewegen 5 The Stretch between Limitless Flow and Absolute Stasis Figuring the Flow of Nature and the Determinacy of Being   Walter Brogan part 2 On Art and Translation 6 Freeing the Eye   Alejandro A. Vallega 7 Interpreting the “Sense” of Art   James Risser 8 To Speak of Art … at the Limit   Jeffrey Powell 9 On Translating John Sallis   Drew A. Hyland part 3 Concerns of Philosophy 10 On the Way to the Sensible Disrupting Simple Directions   Peg Birmingham 11 John Sallis’ Liminal Phenomenology   Daniela Vallega-Neu 12 Elemental Ecology Reading John Sallis in an Age of Earth Crisis   Jason M. Wirth 13 Force of Imagination as Critical Turning Point Sallis and the Future of Philosophy   Bernard Freydberg   Response   John Sallis Index

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Book SynopsisThe Maimonides Review is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles, which seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors What Does the Messiah Know? A Prelude to Kabbalah’s Trinity Complex  Jeremy Phillip Brown “The Last German Jew” A Perspectival Reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s Dual Identity through His Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute  Libera Pisano “The Divine Philosopher” Rebbe Pinhas of Korets’s Kabbalah as Natural Philosophy  Jeffrey G. Amshalem Questioning Traditions Readings of Annius of Viterbo’s Antiquitates in the Cinquecento: The Case of Judah Abarbanel  Maria Vittoria Comacchi Bordering Two Worlds Hillel Zeitlin’s Spiritual Diary  Jonatan Meir Scepticism in Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Peruš Qohelet)  Rebecca Kneller-Rowe The Forgotten Branch Mediators of Philosophical Knowledge in Eastern European Jewish Thought  Isaac Slater Spinoza’s Moral Scepticism An Overview of Giuseppe Rensi’s Interpretation  Michela Torbidoni Mobility and Creativity David de’ Pomis and the Place of the Jews in Renaissance Italy  Guido Bartolucci The Language of Truth The Śefat Emet Association (Salonica 1890) and Its Taqqanot (Bylaws)  Tamir Karkason

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage propose une approche globale des reconstructions érudites et des utilisations polémiques de la philosophie de la Renaissance dans la France du XIXe siècle en centrant l’attention sur une relecture politique de la pratique historiographique à l’époque de Victor Cousin. This book offers a comprehensive approach to scholarly reconstructions and polemical uses of Renaissance philosophy in nineteenth-century France by focusing on the political implications of historiographical practice in Victor Cousin’s time.Table of ContentsNotices biographiques 1 Écrire l’histoire de la philosophie de la Renaissance à l’époque de Victor Cousin : acteurs intellectuels, enjeux idéologiques et institutionnels  Mario Meliadò Partie 1: Vues d’ensemble et perspectives transdisciplinaires 2 La Renaissance dans l’histoire. L’historiographie philosophique française du XIXe siècle  Catherine König-Pralong 3 Deux portraits de la Renaissance en compétition : l’Encyclopédie nouvelle (1836–1843) et le Dictionnaire des sciences philosophiques (1844–1852)  Gregorio Piaia Partie 2: Figures historiographiques, réseaux intellectuels et politiques 4 Charles Waddington : de la thèse sur Ramus aux discours sur la philosophie de la Renaissance  Dominique Couzinet 5 Négocier la coupure. La légende spiritualiste de Giordano Bruno au cœur de la transaction entre philosophie et théologie  Delphine Antoine-Mahut 6 Le cas Vanini et l’historiographie philosophique sur la Renaissance à l’école de Victor Cousin  Mario Meliadò 7 Donner et recevoir la modernité : Vico entre la France et l’Italie  Rocco Rubini 8 Glisson-Leibniz-Reid-Maine de Biran : la force de la vie et sa trajectoire dans l’Histoire de la philosophie de Victor Cousin  Guido Giglioni Partie 3: Documents 9 Les lettres de Christian Bartholmèss à Victor Cousin (1846–1856)  Mario Meliadò 10 Les lettres de Charles Waddington à Victor Cousin (1844–1863)  Dominique Couzinet 11 Victor Cousin et la Renaissance. Annexe photographique  Luc Courtaux, Dominique Couzinet and Mario Meliadò Bibliographie générale Index des noms

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Book SynopsisThe Lvov-Warsaw School was one of the most important currents in the 20th-century analytical movement. Kazimierz Twardowski, a student Franz Brentano and a professor of philosophy in Lvov, was the founder and at the same time an outstanding representative of the School. The papers included into the volume present comprehensively Twardowski’s views and indicate what his lasting contribution to philosophy consists of.Table of Contents Opening Word   Varieties of Scientific Philosophy From Modest Proposals to Implausible Conceptions   Tadeusz Szubka part 1 Philosophy and Humanities 1 Judgement and Inference The Relevance of Twardowski’s Distinction between Actions and Products for Philosophy   Maria van der Schaar 2 Twardowski’s Action/Product Distinction and Philosophy   Jan Woleński part 2 Anti-Psychologism 3 The Influence of Twardowski’s Distinction between Actions and Products on Ingarden’s Act-Based Conception of Meaning   Sébastien Richard 4 Twardowski’s Psychologism and the Ontology of Truth   Dariusz Łukasiewicz part 3 Intentionality and Persistence 5 Idiogenetic Theory of Emotions   Arkadiusz Chrudzimski 6 Czeżowski et al. on Persistence   Mariusz Grygianiec part 4 Truth and Usefulness 7 Absoluteness of Truth and the Lvov-Warsaw School Twardowski, Kotarbiński, Leśniewski, Łukasiewicz, Tarski, Kokoszyńska   Jan Woleński 8 Pragmatism and Pragmatic Motives in the Lvov-Warsaw School   Anna Brożek part 5 Anti-Irrationalism 9 Why Totally Unjustified Convictions Persist? Twardowski on the Nature of Prejudice   Johannes L. Brandl 10 Twardowski and the Rationality of Beliefs   Ryszard Kleszcz part 6 Logic and Education 11 Formal and Informal Logic in the Lvov-Warsaw School as a Heritage of Twardowski   Anna Brożek 12 For Logical Education The Resonance of Twardowski’s Ideas in the Views of Selected Members of the Lvov-Warsaw School   Marcin Będkowski Closing Word    Twardowski in Poland and in the World   Anna Brożek and Jacek Jadacki Index of Names

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Book SynopsisÉcrite entre 386 et 390 dans l’effervescence de la découverte du néoplatonisme, la correspondance avec Nebridius témoigne, bien avant les Confessions, des questions philosophiques et spirituelles qui passionnaient Augustin au moment de sa conversion à la philosophie et au christianisme. Written between 386 and 390 during the excitement of his discovery of Neoplatonism, Augustine’s correspondence with Nebridius bears witness, well before the Confessions, to the philosophical and spiritual questions that fascinated Augustine at the time of his conversion to philosophy and Christianity.Table of Contentsb>Remerciements Introduction  1 Néoplatonisme et christianisme  2 Aspects littéraires et philosophiques  3 La vie de Nebridius  4 État du corpus et chronologie  5 Le texte latin des Lettres 3-14 Epistulae 3-14 (texte latin) Lettres 3-14 (traduction française) La finitude du monde et l’immortalité de l’âme (Lettre 3)  1 Augustin est-il heureux (§1-2) ?  2 Trois connaissances élémentaires en physique (§2)  3 Pourquoi le monde a-t-il la taille qu’il a (§2) ?  4 Pourquoi le monde est-il là où il est (§2) ?  5 La comparaison des miroirs (§3)  6 Une démonstration de l’immortalité de l’âme (§4)  7 Ce qui doit « être désiré » : cupi ou cupiri ? (§5) Le progrès dans la distinction entre le sensible et l’intelligible (Lettre 4)  1 Le progrès (§1-2)  2 L’élévation vers Dieu (§2) L’hypothèse d’un quasi-corps qui serait le véhicule de l’âme (Lettre 13)  1 Un ancien sujet de conversation (§1-2)  2 Le πνεῦμα-ὄχημα  3 Le problème de l’existence du « véhicule » de l’âme (§2-4)  4 Le maintien du refus du « véhicule » de l’âme L’attachement à Dieu et l’engagement dans la vie publique (Lettre 5 de Nebridius)  1 La fondation à Thagaste d’une communauté religieuse  2 Une exhortation à revenir au loisir  3 La situation à Thagaste Deux questions sur la phantasia (Lettre 6 de Nebridius)  1 Le prologue (§1)  2 La mémoire peut-elle exister sans la phantasia ? (§1)  3 La phantasia tient-elle d’elle-même ses images ? (§2) L’imagination, la mémoire et l’intellection (Lettre 7)  1 « Il peut y avoir une mémoire de certaines choses sans aucune imagination » (§1-2)  2 L’âme ne peut pas former d’images avant d’avoir usé des sens (§3-7) Comment les « puissances supérieures » font-elles voir des images en rêves (Lettre 8 de Nebridius) ?  1 La suite des questions de Nebridius sur la phantasia  2 Une question suscitée par la Lettre à Anébon ?  3 Trois hypothèses sur le mode opératoire des « puissances supérieures » Une explication du mode d’action des « puissances supérieures » sur l’âme (Lettre 9)  1 La chronologie de l’échange sur les rêves (§1-2)  2 Une explication « probable » fondée sur l’interaction de l’âme et du corps (§3-5)  3 Un problème demeuré irrésolu L’individualité (Lettre 14)  1 Les questions les plus récentes de Nebridius (§1-2)  2 Des astres et des hommes (§2-3)  3 Dieu contient-il la forme des différents individus humains ou seulement celle de l’homme (§4) ? Pourquoi est-ce le Fils qui s’est incarné (I) (Lettre 12) ?  1 La gestion de la correspondance avec Nebridius  2 Une nouvelle question de Nebridius sur le Christ L’assimilation à Dieu dans le loisir (Lettre 10)  1 Comment vivre ensemble (§1) ?  2 Le loisir et l’assimilation à Dieu (§2)  3 Il est possible de connaître le bonheur dans cette vie (§3) Pourquoi est-ce le Fils qui s’est incarné (II) (Lettre 11) ?  1 Un nouveau point sur les échanges en cours (§1)  2 Reformulation de la question théologique de Nebridius (§2)  3 La formation de l’ontologie trinitaire  4 Comment est comprise l’inséparabilité de la Trinité (§3)  5 La « manence »  6 Le rôle du Fils (§4)  7 Développements ultérieurs du problème de Nebridius : l’inséparabilité de la Trinité et l’Incarnation du Fils Conclusion Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisIn 1906, Jan Łukasiewicz, a great logician, published his classic dissertation on the concept of cause, containing not only a thorough reconstruction of the title concept, but also a systematization of the analytical method. It sparked an extremely inspiring discussion among the other representatives of the Lvov-Warsaw School. The main voices of this discussion are supplemented here with texts of contemporary Polish philosophers. They show how the concept of cause is presently functioning in various disciplines and point to the topicality of Łukasiewicz’s method of analysis.

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Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Sammelband analysiert die diversen Formen einer ideologisch motivierten Instrumentalisierung von Meister Eckharts Mystik in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus und bietet darüber hinaus auch ganz neues, bislang noch unveröffentlichtes Quellenmaterial zu den institutionellen Hintergründen der Eckhart-Rezeption im Dritten Reich. This volume analyses the various forms of ideological instrumentalization Meister Eckhart’s mysticism has been subject to during the era of National Socialism. Furthermore, the volume includes hitherto unpublished source material concerning the institutional background of Eckhart’s reception in the Third Reich.Table of ContentsVorwort 1 Vom ›deutschen Geist‹ zum ›deutschen Willen‹: Die genealogische Rekonstruktion von Mystik, Idealismus und Romantik als nationalsozialistisches Wissenschaftsprojekt  Martina Roesner 2 Das Eckhart-Bild des Tübinger Religionswissenschaftlers Jakob Wilhelm Hauer (1881–1962)  Martina Wehrli-Johns 3 »Halb so teuer und doppelt so deutsch« (Erich Seeberg): Der ›jüdische‹ und der ›deutsche‹ Meister Eckhart  Yossef Schwartz 4 ›Ekkehart der Deutsche‹: Die völkische Eckhart-Deutung von Hermann Schwarz  Christoph Henning 5 »Meister Eckhart – ein falscher Prophet?« Darstellung einer tragikomischen Auseinandersetzung um die nationalsozialistische Rechtgläubigkeit Meister Eckharts  Maxime Mauriège 6 Eine Relektüre von Heideggers Rezeption Meister Eckharts im Lichte der Schwarzen Hefte  Ricardo Baeza 7 Einleitung zum Faksimile-Nachdruck eines aufschlussreichen, jedoch bisher unbeachteten Dokuments: der Eintrag »Eckhart« im Handbuch der Romfrage (1940)  Maxime Mauriège 8 Register

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Book SynopsisA classicist, philosopher, and poet, Poul Martin Møller was an important figure in the Danish Golden Age. The traumatic event of the death of his wife led him to think more profoundly about the question of the immortality of the soul. In 1837 he published his most important philosophical treatise, “Thoughts on the Possibility of Proofs of Human Immortality,” presented here in English for the first time. It was read and commented upon by the leading figures of the Golden Age, such as Søren Kierkegaard. It proved to be the last important work that Møller wrote before his death in March of 1838 at the age of 43.

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Book SynopsisThe Nyāyasūtravivaraṇa, written in the first centuries of the 2nd millennium CE, provides the most accessible introduction to the core teachings of old Nyāya. Excerpting from the two earliest and most important treatises of this tradition—the Nyāyabhāṣya and Nyāyavārttika—Gambhīravaṃśaja created a comprehensive yet concise digest. The present work contains not only a critical edition of the first chapter based on all known textual sources but also a complete documentation of the variants, a comprehensive study of the parallel passages, a detailed discussion of the preparation and processing of the text-critical data, and a detailed documentation of the Grantha Tamil, Telugu and Kannada scripts.

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Book SynopsisThis book recovers Dionysus and Apollo as the twin conceptual personae of life’s dual rhythm in an attempt to redesign contemporary theory through the reciprocal affirmation of event and form, earth and world, dance and philosophy. It revisits Heidegger and Lévi-Strauss, and combines them with Roy Wagner, with the purpose of moving beyond Nietzsche’s manifold legacy, including post-structuralism, new materialism, and speculative realism. It asks whether merging philosophy and anthropology around issues of comparative ontologies may give us a chance to re-become earthbound dwellers on a re-worlded earth.Trade Review"This book reappraises the quality of Apollo as a conceptual and political necessity for a world whose nightmarish master signifier, and rule in the end, is one of instability, crisis, war, and – to use another important concept in this book – nihilism. Even chaos needs a form of meta-stability to display its beauty." – Frédéric Neyrat, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism is an ambitious and timely intervention in the contemporary philosophical scene. Rich with insight and erudition, this book is a significant contribution to recasting critical diagnoses of the present and explorations 'otherwise' within the differential terrain of ontological pluralism." – Jarrad Reddekop, Camosun CollegeTable of ContentsList of Figures 1 Introduction  1 The Idea behind This Book  2 Mapping the Issues  3 Brief Outline of the Book’s Chapters and Their Sources  4 A Note on Style, Translations, and Conventions 2 Dionysus in Greece  1 Untamed Life  2 An Olympian God?  3 The Unity of the Living  4 An Integrative God  5 Dionysus and Ontology 3 The Greek Apollo  1 Apollo’s Gaze  2 Apollo’s Distance  3 Apollo’s Arrows  4 Apollo and the Birth of Philosophy  5 Apollo, Dionysus, and the Earth 4 The Modern Misadventures of Apollo and Dionysus  1 Achilles and Odysseus  2 Nietzsche’s Dionysian Philosophy  3 Dionysus’s Maelstrom  4 Winckelmann’s Apollo  5 A Queer Ideal?  6 Dionysus’s Bequest 5 Thinking with Apollo  1 Apollo’s Marble  2 Apollo’s Stereogram  3 Apollo’s Screen  4 Apollo’s Blackout  5 Apollo’s Silence  6 Wordling(s): the Earth’s Reflexivity 6 Dancing with Dionysus  1 Our Living Body  2 The Purpose of Dancing  3 Artaud and Hijikata  4 Butō: Animism redux  5 Intersections  6 A Twofold Legacy 7 Back to Structuralism?  1 Structuralism as a Philosophy of Difference  2 The Post-structuralist Waterline  3 Ontological Pluralism and the Neo-structuralist Worlding Star 8 Conclusion: Post-metaphysics and Its Doubles  1 On Post-nihilism and the Subject/Object Divide  2 Destiny and the Otherwise  3 Dionysus and Apollo, Twins  4 À rebours Appendix 1: Development of the Ontological Pentagram Appendix 2: Development of the Modal Pentagram Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe articles in The Modern Experience of the Religious, edited by Nassim Bravo and Jon Stewart, explore the many ways in which religion was impacted by the emergence of modernity, particularly after the Enlightenment, which underscored the centrality of human reason and thus called into question traditional forms of religiosity. Modernity raised several questions that are studied by the authors of this volume: What should be the role of religion in a secular or pluralistic society? How does the human being relate to God? Can instituted religion be compatible with modern values such as civil liberties, pluralism or environmentalism?

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Book SynopsisNicolas d’Autrécourt (c. 1298-1369) est l’un des penseurs les plus audacieux de l’histoire de la philosophie, et Zénon Kaluza, qui lui a consacré près de trente ans d’études, nous le fait découvrir par ses sources, ses doctrines et ses manuscrits. Ce livre propose notamment des analyses sur des thèmes importants (tels que la perception, la causalité finale, les catégories ou l’éternité du monde) ainsi qu’une nouvelle édition des Prologues de l’Exigit ordo, enrichie d’un commentaire suivi. Les études—dont certaines sont parues mais difficiles d’accès et d’autres sont inédites—dévoilent la figure d’un philosophe désirant de libérer la philosophie des contraintes institutionnelles et de critiquer la métaphysique d’Aristote, au risque de bouleverser les traditions, de contredire les dogmes de la foi et se voir condamner par les autorités théologiques de son temps. Nicolas d'Autrécourt (c. 1298-1369) is one of the most daring thinkers in the history of philosophy, and Zénon Kaluza, who has devoted to him nearly thirty years of study, presents him to us through his sources, his doctrines and his manuscripts. The reader will find studies on some of the most relevant philosophical doctrines (such as perception, the final causality, the categories and the eternity of the world) as well as a new edition of the Prologues of the Exigit ordo, enriched with a running commentary. The texts gathered here—some of which have been published previously but are difficult to access and others which have been unpublished until now—reveal a philosopher who wished to free philosophy from institutional constraints and dared to criticize Aristotle's metaphysics, at the risk of upsetting traditions and contradicting the dogmas of the faith, and who was condemned by the theological authorities of his time.Table of ContentsPrologue Partie 1: Une métaphysique libre 1 Nicolas d’Autrécourt et la tradition 2 Nicolas d’Autrécourt critique d’Aristote 3 Nicolas d’Autrécourt interprète du réalisme de Platon 4 Roger Bacon inspirateur inconnu de Nicolas d’Autrécourt ? Le cas des Communia mathematica Partie 2: Penser le monde des atomes 5 Les catégories dans l’Exigit ordo. Étude de l’ontologie formelle de Nicolas d’Autrécourt 6 Voir : la clarté de la connaissance chez Nicolas d’Autrécourt 7 La convenance et son rôle dans la pensée de Nicolas d’Autrécourt 8 La finalité de la nature selon Nicolas d’Autrécourt 9 La récompense dans les cieux. Remarques sur l’eschatologie de Nicolas d’Autrécourt 10 Éternité du monde et incorruptibilité des choses dans l’Exigit ordo de Nicolas d’Autrécourt Partie 3: Édition partielle de l’Exigit ordo 11 Les Prologues de l’Exigit ordo : édition et commentaire Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores a radically integrative phenomenology of nature through the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By revisiting novel empirical findings in the sciences and advances in scientific methods and concepts, Merleau-Ponty leads us to rediscover a first nature right at the heart of the subject. Alessio Rotundo traces and documents the presence of a double meaning of nature affecting Merleau-Ponty’s analyses across foundational aspects of human experience: sense perception, organic development and behavior, cognition, language, and history. Physical, biological, and psychological processes in nature are not merely scientific data; they provide the evidence for another, more primordial sense of nature.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Stating the Problem  1 Preliminary Remarks  2 Historical Contextualization  3 Renewed Setting of the Problem 1 Natura Sub Specie Structurae  1 Science between Technocracy and Aesthetics  2 The Disinterested and the Interested Onlooker  3 Naturizing and Naturized Consciousness  4 Phenomenology between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty 2 Pathway to First Nature  Operative Intentionality from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty  1 Introduction  2 Phenomenology as Redoing of Transcendental Philosophy  3 Cartesian “Realism”  4 The Genetic Turn in Phenomenology  5 Operative Intentionality  6 Brief Methodic Reflection on the “Idea of Being” in Phenomenology  7 The Prejudice of the World  8 Operative Intentionality as Temporalizing  9 The Project of the Phenomenology of Perception as Enquiry into Operative Intentionality  10 The Discovery of Contingency and Transcendental Philosophy: Descartes and Kant  11 The Body Schema: Phenomenology of Perception I  12 The Notion of Spatial Level: Phenomenology of Perception II  13 Merleau-Ponty and Kant on Space 3 Orders of Experience  1 Introduction: The Eidetic of Experience and Language  2 Approaches to Language  3 The Act of Speech  4 Language as Ontological Experience  5 Speaking of Fundamentals: The Promise of Language  6 Language and the Lifeworld: General Points from Phenomenology  7 The Problem of Einströmen  8 The Modal Ontology of the World  9 History in Lifeworld Phenomenology 4 Mundus Sensibilis  Structural Ontology between Merleau-Ponty and the New Philosophy of Science  1 Introduction  2 Ontic Structural Realism  3 Syntactic and Semantic Views  4 Invariance between Physics and Phenomenology  5 Physics Deformalized  6 Observation and Objectivation  7 The Passage of Nature  8 Natural Dynamis between Physics and Perception  9 The Praxis of Nature, or What the Things Do 5 Nature and Logos  1 Introduction: Animal Nature  2 Biology and Ontology  3 Organic Totality  4 The Ontology of the Umwelt: Uexküll’s Notion of Umwelt  5 Behavior, Consciousness, and World  6 The Bivalent Ontology of the Umwelt  7 The Sphere of Life as Sphere of Intercorporeity  8 Towards a Philosophy in Double Dimensionality: Merleau-Ponty’s Esthesiology 6 The Institution of Nature  1 Introduction: Phenomenological Ontology and the Institution of Nature  2 Nature as Empirical and Transcendental Genesis  3 Towards Totality: Perceptual Faith and the Flesh  4 Tying It All Together: Nature as Leaf of Being Bibliographical References and Works Cited Index

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Book Synopsis“Our” world is vegetal. None of it would have been in existence were it not for the life activity of plants. Time, discernible in the rhythms, intervals, logics, articulations, and disarticulations of the world, is the time of plants. Starting from scientific, philosophical, and theological insights into the time of plants, Michael Marder’s new study gently steers readers toward the vegetality of time. Specters and spirits, cosmic trees and phytogenesis, the vegetal apriori and weird chronos, the seeds of events and the branches of divergent chronologies, diachronic phases and symbiotic assemblages join the rich tapestry of this work to proclaim, Time is a plant! "Michael Marder’s Time Is a Plant is philosophy at its most productive. As far as imaginable from the postmodern conundrum, it states its premise openly in its title and elaborates it in a clear way with impeccable logic. The life of a plant in all its alterations, its generation and decay, is treated as more than just a metaphor of time: it renders visible the innermost structure of the deployment of time. What makes Marder’s book unique is the very feature that makes it naïve in the best sense of the term: Marder ignores all the endless self-reflexive precautions that characterize much of contemporary thought and simply plunges into basic ontological considerations. Time Is a Plant is a breath of fresh air in our stale philosophical scene. It proves that a thing can be done by simply doing it." -Slavoj Žižek, author of Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed (2022) and Freedom: A Disease without Cure (2023)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Incipit: Adventures in the Vegetality of Time 1 In the Beginning: on Phytogenesis 2 The Vegetal Weirdness of Being in Time 3 Cosmic [Tree] Time 4 Diachrony, Sexual Difference, and Other Plant Matters 5 This Plant Who Is a Ghost: Vegetal Anachronies Excipit: Eleusinian Variations Index

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Book SynopsisStranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, and imaginative contribution of these metaphysical fundamentals form the background of Australia’s distinctive urban civilization with its bustling stranger populations, ocean-facing portal cities, revealing art and architecture, and cyclical worlds of markets and industries, war and peace. Murphy portrays a classic eudemonic society whose dominant ethos of phlegmatic happiness vies with a subsidiary current of melancholic and choleric romanticism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction: A Placid Society 1 Quantum Creation  1 Quantum Creation  2 Topological Imagination  3 Doubling  4 Color Music 2 Four Temperaments  1 A Relaxed Steeliness  2 Do Not Forget to Laugh  3 Classic and Romantic  4 The Four Temperaments  5 Grandiosity versus Limits 3 Creation Australis  1 The Australian Creation  2 A Modern Odysseus  3 Value, Shape and Beauty  4 Utility and Ornament  5 A Society of Cities 4 Australian Imaginaries  1 Ways of Seeing  2 The Beautiful and the Sublime  3 Antinomies  4 Introvert and Extrovert 5 Realists and Romantics  1 Political Romanticism  2 Cycles of Romance and Reality  3 History, Authenticity, Nature  4 Anti-politics  5 Movements and Moralists  6 From History to Geometry 6 Portal Metaphysics  1 Entry and Exit  2 Ancients and Moderns  3 Creating Worlds  4 Metaphysics of Creation  5 Truth, Truths and Ambidexterity  6 Where Is the Homeless Mind at Home?  7 Steel and Glass  8 Enigmatic Shadows 7 Stranger Architectonics  1 The Portal City  2 Strangers and Citizens  3 Cities, Nations and Empires  4 Structures and Proportions  5 True Lies  6 Nature and Convention 8 Epic Mythistory  1 Gallipoli  2 Epic Mythistory  3 Atrocity in Modernity  4 Enigma and Fortune  5 Character and Ideology  6 What Kind of People? 9 Modern Sacreds  1 Secular and Sacred  2 Cultural Modernization  3 The Envy of Creation  4 Portals and Paradoxes  5 Liquid Stone References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be human? We invite the reader to discuss this most fundamental issue in philosophy and to do so in an intercultural framework. The question of the human was the starting point for a legendary discussion between two German philosophers who met in Davos in 1929. We return to this historical event and re-imagine the debate between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer from a global perspective. Generating twenty papers from elaborate discussions, our authors contribute to the thought experiment by inviting the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō from Kyoto and other Japanese thinkers into the debate to overcome the challenge of Eurocentrism inherent to these historic days in Davos.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction  Ralf Müller Part 1 Recontextualizing the Davos Debate 1 Revisiting the Debate between Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: Imagination, Finiteness, and Morals  Michel Dalissier 2 The Davos Debate, Pure Philosophy and Normativity: Thinking from the Perspective of the History of Philosophy  Esther Oluffa Pedersen 3 Humans and Other Animals: The Forgotten Other Beyond Davos and Kyoto  John C. Maraldo 4 Anthropology as an Intercultural Philosophy of Culture  Tobias Endres 5 Heidegger and Cassirer on Schematism: Reflections on an Intercultural Philosophy  Domenico Schneider Part 2 Nishida Joining the Davos Debate 6 Absolute Self-Contradictory Human Existence: Nishida in Davos  Francesca Greco 7 Cassirer and Nishida: Mathematical Crosscurrents in Their Philosophical Paths  Rossella Lupacchini 8 Lask, Heidegger, and Nishida: From Meaning as Object to Horizon and Place  John W.M. Krummel 9 From Kyoto and Hong Kong to Davos: Nishida Kitaro and Mou Zongsan’s possible contributions to the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate  Tak-Lap Yeung 10 From the Problem of Meaning via Basic Phenomena to the Question of Philosophy after Metaphysics: Cassirer, Heidegger, and Nishida  Ingmar Meland 11 The Self-Aware Individual and the Kyoto School’s Quest for a Philosophical Anthropology  Dennis Stromback Part 3 German-Japanese Ramifications of the Davos Debate 12 The Davos Debate and Japanese Philosophy: Welt-Schema and Einbildungskraft in Tanabe and Miki  Tatsuya Higaki 13 From Despair to Authentic Existence: Kierkegaard’s Anthropology of Despair in the Light of Nishitani’s Thought  Sebastian Hüsch 14 Cassirer, Heidegger, and Miki: The Logic of the Dual Transcendence of the Imagination  Steve Lofts 15 Now, Ever or After: Contrasting the Pure Lands of D.T. Suzuki and Tanabe Hajime  Rossa Ó Muireartaigh 16 On Homo Faber: Nishida and Miki  Takushi Odagiri 17 Anti-Cartesianism East and West: Watsuji and Heidegger on the Possibility of Significant Dealing with Entities  Hans Peter Liederbach 18 Miki and the Myth of Humanism  Fernando Wirtz 19 Hineingehalten in das Nichts: Die Metaphysik und das Andere des Seins  Emanuel Seitz Index

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Book SynopsisPerspektiven der Philosophie. Neues Jahrbuch eröffnet Forschern, denen die philosophische Begründung des Denkens wichtig ist, eine Publikationsmöglichkeit. Wir verstehen uns nicht als Schulorgan einer philosophischen Lehrmeinung, sondern sehen unsere Aufgabe darin, an der Intensivierung des wissenschaftlichen Philosophierens mitzuwirken. Besonders fördern wir den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs und laden ihn zur Mitarbeit ein.Table of ContentsTeil 1 Leben perspektivisch gebrochen Weiterleben, Fortleben, Überleben ‚Familienähnlichkeiten‘ zwischen Ricœur, Derrida und Bataille oder: Abriss einer Überlebensphilosophie  Artur R. Boelderl Nietzsches Philosophie des Südens  Jutta Georg Die Mystik bei Henri Bergson als geschichtliche Dynamik  Rolf Kühn Metaphysische und postmetaphysische Positionen einer Philosophie der Geschichte  Heinz-Gerd Schmitz Teil 2 In Würde und Freiheit Würde als Freiheit des Geistes zum Guten: Pelagius als Quelle von Giovanni Pico della Mirandola?  Salvatore Lavecchia Subjektivität und Absolutheit: Wer wir sind und sein können  Harald Seubert Teil 3 Zurück zu den Anfängen Das Wesen der Seele zwischen Logos und Mythos Unsterblichkeit, Ideentheorie und Selbsterkenntnis im Licht des Schönen-Guten in Platons Phaidros 245b1–251b7  Claudia Luchetti Solon bei Platon  Beate Fränzle Táxis tou chrónou: Zu Eugen Finks Anaximanderauslegung  Damir Barbarić Teil 4 Buchbesprechungen Jutta Georg, Renate Reschke, Vivetta Vivarelli (Hrsg.), Nietzsche im Horizont der Literatur, Paderborn 2022, 197 Seiten  Renate Müller-Buck (Rez.) Bernhard Stricker, Die Literatur, der Skeptizismus und das gute Leben. Stanley Cavell als Leser (LiLi. Studien zur Literatur und Linguistik, Bd. 3), Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2021, 630 Seiten  Philipp Zimmermann (Rez.) Tina Röck, Dynamic Realism. Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy, Edinburgh 2022, 312 + vii Seiten  Ludwig Jaskolla (Rez.) Mitarbeiterliste 2023 Richtlinien für die Einreichung von Beiträgen

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Book SynopsisWith figures such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche, the nineteenth century was a dynamic time of philosophical development. The period made lasting contributions to several fields of philosophy. Moreover, it paved the way for the development of the social sciences at the turn of the twentieth century. This volume is dedicated to exploring the rich tradition of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy in its different areas with the main purpose of highlighting the importance of this tradition in the development of the leading streams of thought of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisEvent and Subjectivity presents a rich phenomenological analysis of the event in contemporary phenomenology by focussing on the work of Claude Romano and Jean-Luc Marion. Although the event is a major topic of contemporary philosophy, its centrality has not been acknowledged enough in the phenomenological movement. The book starts with the idea that the event cannot find a proper place in Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Heidegger’s existential phenomenology. It proposes a phenomenological version of the event that transforms the definition of phenomenon, subjectivity and phenomenology itself in order to do justice to the phenomenality of the event. At the same time, Event and Subjectivity is the first book on Claude Romano’s understanding of phenomenology in English. It also offers a fresh reading of the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion by highlighting the phenomenon of the event.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Series Editor’s Foreword Introduction  1 The Event in Contemporary Phenomenology  2 Some Methodological and Hermeneutical Issues Part 1: What is the Event? Introduction to Part 1 1 The Event in the Phenomenology of Givenness  1.1 The Phenomenology of Givenness   1.1.1 The Phenomenological Reduction   1.1.2 The Determinations of Givenness: Given Phenomena   1.1.3 The Gift   1.1.4 The Saturated Phenomenon  1.2 Phenomenality: Objectness and Eventness   1.2.1 Two Uses of the Event: The Determination of a Given and a Saturated Phenomenon   1.2.2 The Event as a Pole of Phenomenality   1.2.3 Eventness or Objectness: The Role of Hermeneutics  1.3 Conclusion 2 The Phenomenality of the Event in Evential Hermeneutics  2.1 The Heideggerian Shadow   2.1.1 The Methodological Paths of Heidegger and Romano   2.1.2 Romano’s Account of the Heideggerian Ereignis  2.2 The Four Distinctive Characteristics of Events  2.3 The Transformation of Phenomenological Notions by the Phenomenality of the Event   2.3.1 Possibility and the Problem of the World   2.3.2 Time and Temporality   2.3.3 The Experience of the Event  2.4 Conclusion PART 2: Who Experiences the Event? Introduction to Part 2 3 The Adonné  3.1 Aporias of the Subject   3.1.1 The Four Aporias of Subjectivity   3.1.2 Dasein as an Heir of the Subject  3.2 The Replacement of the Subject by the Adonné   3.2.1 The Analytic of the Adonné   3.2.2 The Temporality of the Adonné   3.2.3 The Call and Response   3.2.4 Ego and Reduction  3.3 Conclusion 4 The Advenant  4.1 Before the Subject   4.1.1 Birth   4.1.2 The Subject and the Advenant   4.1.3 Dasein and the Advenant   4.1.4 The Selfhood of the Advenant   4.1.5 How does the Advenant Respond to Events?   4.1.6 The Temporality of the Adventure  4.2 Transcendentalism and the Advenant   4.2.1 The Transcendentalism of Dasein   4.2.2 Reduction as the Sceptical Problem   4.2.3 The Advenant in the “Real” World  4.3 Conclusion Conclusion  1 Some General Remarks about the Event in Phenomenology  2 What do the Event and Its “Subjectivities” Bring Forth?   2.1 A Realistic Conception of Phenomenality   2.2 A New Way of Phenomenological Rationality Bibliography Index

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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 SynopsisWritten across the disciplines of law, literature, philosophy, and theology, Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach represents wide-ranging approaches to and understandings of “evil” and “wickedness.” Consisting of three sections – “Grappling with Evil”, “Justice, Responsibility, and War” and “Blame, Murder, and Retributivism” –, all the essays are inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary in focus. Common themes emerge around the dominant narrative movements of grieving, loss, powerlessness, and retribution that have shaped so many political and cultural issues around the world since the fall of 2001. At the same time, the interdisciplinary nature of this collection, together with the divergent views of its chapters, reminds one that, in the end, an inquiry into “evil” and “wickedness” is at its best when it promotes intelligence and compassion, creativity and cooperation. The thirteen essays are originally presented at and then developed in light of dialogues held at the Third Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, held in March 2002 in Prague.Trade Review"[an] ambitious book … there are so many memorable statements, comments and argument that I recommend it with the caveat, to quote Murley in the book, “There has never been a ‘need’ for evil; there has always been a need to account for it.”" - in: Metapsychology (2003)Table of ContentsIntroduction. PART I Grappling with Evil. Neil FORSYTH: Evil and Literature: Grandeur and Nothingness. Theodore SETO: Reframing Evil in Evolutionary and Game Theoretic Terms. Robert N. FISHER: The Catheter of Bilious Hatred. Margaret SÖNSER BREEN: Reading for Constructions of the Unspeakable in Kafka’s Metamorphosis. PART II Justice, Responsibility and War. Peter DAY: Never Just, Always Evil: The View of Warfare in the Writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. Bill WRINGE: International Justice, Intervention, and the Prevention of Evil. Scott LOWE: Terrorism and Just War Theory. John T. PARRY: Collective and Individual Responsibility for Acts of Terrorism. PART III Blame, Murder, and Retributivism. Maria Michela MARZANO: Moral Responsibility, Liability, and Perversion: A New Understanding of Wickedness. John A. HUMBACH: The Humane Principle and the Biology of Blame (Evolutionary Origins of the Imperative to Inflict). Ramzi NASSER: Rescuing Kant’s Retributivism. Jean MURLEY: Ordinary Sinners and Moral Aliens: The Murder Narratives of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe. Karen-Margrethe SIMONSEN: Evilness and Law in Heinrich von Kleist’s Story “Michael Kohlhaas”. Notes Contributors.

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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 philosophically explores a wide range of subjects relating to evil and human wickedness, including the nature of evil, explaining evil, evil and moral responsibility, and responding to evil.Table of ContentsForeword ONE Daniel M. HAYBRON: Introduction: Evil as a Philosophical Concern TWO Brian SCHAEFER: The Disvalue of Pain and Pain-Infliction THREE L. A. ZAIBERT: Intentionality and Wickedness FOUR Todd CALDER: Toward a Theory of Evil Acts: A Critique of Laurence Thomas’s Theory of Evil Acts FIVE Daniel M. HAYBRON: Consistency of Character and the Character of Evil SIX Stephen REBER: Evolution, Altruism, and Intergroup Aggression SEVEN S. R. CHARLES: Plato’s Devil EIGHT Stephen MORRIS: “Clothed in Scarlet, Clothed with the Sun”: Thoughts on the Women of Apocalypse 12 and 17 NINE Nafsika ATHANASSOULIS: Moral Luck and the Sources of Evil TEN Michael BAVIDGE: Responsibility, Punishment, and Wickedness ELEVEN Susan ROBBINS: Theodicy and Lament: Grappling with the Problem of Evil, Using Psalm 88 About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a series of challenges to Jorge J. E. Gracia’s views on metaphysics and categories made by realist philosophers in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. Inclusion of Gracia’s responses to his critics makes this book a useful companion to Gracia’s Metaphysics and its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge.Trade Review“A valuable contribution to current metaphysics. The studies of Gracia’s important book Metaphysics and its Task are insightful, and his replies to them are meticulous. One of the many merits of the book is the respect evident throughout for the essential place of Aristotle and Aquinas in serious metaphysical inquiry.” – Panayot ButchvarovTable of ContentsForeword by Ralph M. McInerny Editor’s Introduction Acknowledgments One: Thomas D. SULLIVAN and Russell PANNIER: The Bounds of Metaphysics Two: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Being as Being, the Transcendentals, the Divine, and Metaphysics: Response to Sullivan and Pannier Three: Josef SEIFERT: What is Metaphysics and What are its Tasks?: An Attempt to Answer this Question with Critical Reflections on Gracia’s Book Four: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Being as Being and the Tasks of Metaphysics: Response to Seifert Five: Jonathan J. SANFORD: An Aristotelian Critique of Gracia’s Metaphysics Six: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Metaphysics and Meta-Metaphysics: Response to Sanford Seven: Robert A. DELFINO: Neo-Thomism and Gracia’s Metaphysics Eight: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Thomas, Thomists, and the Nature of Metaphysics: Response to Delfino Nine: Peter A. REDPATH: Gracia and His Task Ten: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: The Nature of Philosophy: Response to Redpath Eleven: John D. KRONEN: Spirits and “Things”: Ritschl’s Critique of Metaphysics in Light of Gracia’s Definition of Metaphysics Twelve: Daniel D. NOVOTNY: Is Hume A Metaphysician?: Aristotle vs. Gracia. Thirteen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Making Sense of the History of Metaphysics: Response to Kronen and Novotny Fourteen: Russell PANNIER and Thomas D. SULLIVAN: Gracia on the Ontological Status of Categories Fifteen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Categorial Neutralism: Response To Pannier, Sullivan, Seifert, and Ingala Afterword by Jorge J. E. GRACIA About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to present essays centered upon the subjects of Formal Ontology and Logical Philosophy. The idea of investigating philosophical problems by means of logical methods was intensively promoted in Torun by the Department of Logic of Nicolaus Copernicus University during last decade. Another aim of this book is to present to the philosophical and logical audience the activities of the Torunian Department of Logic during this decade. The papers in this volume contain the results concerning Logic and Logical Philosophy, obtained within the confines of the projects initiated by the Department of Logic and other research projects in which the Torunian Department of Logic took part.Table of ContentsJacek MALINOWSKI, Andrzej PIETRUSZCZAK: Editorial Introduction. Logic in Toruń: 1992–2003 Dale JACQUETTE: Crossroads of Logic and Ontology: A Modal-Combinatorial Analysis of Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing Uwe MEIXNER: An Onto-Nomological Theory of Modality Roberto POLI: The Ontology of What is Not There Heinrich WANSING: Contradiction and Contrariety. Priest on Negation Krister SEGERBERG: Moore Problems in Full Dynamic Doxastic Logic Jacek MALINOWSKI: On the Formalization of Strawson’s Presupposition Janusz MUCHA: The Concept of “Social Relations” in Classic Analytical Interpretative Sociology: Weber and Znaniecki Andrzej PIETRUSZCZAK: On Applications of Truth-Value Connectives for Testing Arguments with Natural Connectives Itala M. Loffredo D’OTTAVIANO, Hércules Araujo FEITOSA : Translating from Łukasiewicz’s Logics into Classical Logic: Is it Possible? Luis Fariñas del CERRO, Olivier GASQUET: Modal Tableaux for Reasoning About Diagrams Diderik BATENS: Narrowing Down Suspicion in Inconsistent Premise Sets Joke MEHEUS: Discussive Adaptive Logics: Handling Internal and External Inconsistencies Sergei P. ODINTSOV: Absurdity as Unary Operator Guido VANACKERE: A World of Experiences, an Adequate Language, and Self-Reference Revised Sonja SMETS: From Intuitionistic Logic to Dynamic Operational Quantum Logic Erik WEBER: Are There Ontological Explanations? Marek ROSIAK: Formal and Existential Analysis of Subject and Properties Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Metaphysical Realism Debate: What is at Stake? Tomasz JARMUŻEK, Maciej NOWICKI, Andrzej PIETRUSZCZAK: An Outline of the Anselmian Theory of God Roman MURAWSKI: Philosophy of Mathematics in the 20th Century: Main Trends and Doctrines Krzysztof WÓJTOWICZ: Independence and Justification in Mathematics Tomasz BIGAJ: Do Quantum-Mechanical Systems Always Possess Definite Properties Dictated by Their States? Renata ZIEMIŃSKA: Two Notions of the Internal and Goldman’s Epistemic Externalism

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Book SynopsisThis book examines new concept of evolutionary ontology based on the idea of radically different “ontic orders” – natural and cultural being. It explains how culture evolved out of nature and how it became “anti-natural”. The remedy is seen in the global biophilous reconstruction of culture. The value of the “live planet” Earth and the “subject” capable of creative activity and evolution are given fundamental philosophical interpretation.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Emil VIŠŇOVSKÝ Acknowledgements Introduction From Intellectual Consolation to the Concept of Biophilous Culture PART I: Traditional and Evolutionary Ontology Problems of Traditional Ontology Evolutionary Ontology PART II: Ontology of Nature Terrestrial Nature PART III: Ontology of Culture Anti-Natural Culture Search for the Concept of Biophilous Culture Appendix: A Lease on Planet Earth Works Cited About the author Index

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