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Cambridge University Press Recognition
Book SynopsisThe idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country''s different cultural and political conditions. This stimulating study explores the complex history and multiple associations of the idea of ''Recognition'' in Britain, France and Germany. Demonstrating the role of ''recognition'' in the production of important political ideas, Axel Honneth explores how our dependence on the recognition of others is sometimes viewed as the source of all modern, egalitarian morality, sometimes as a means for fostering socially beneficial behavior, and sometimes as a threat to ''true'' individuality. By exploring this fundamental concept in our modern political and social self-understanding, Honneth thus offers an alternative view of the philosophical discourse of modernity.Table of Contents1. Methodological Remarks on the History of Ideas vs. The History of Concepts; 2. From Rousseau to Sartre: Recognition and the Loss of Self; 3. From Hume to Mill: Recognition and Self-Control; 4. From Kant to Hegel: Recognition and Self-Determination; 5. A Historical Comparison of Recognition: An Attempt at a Systematic Summary.
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Cambridge University Press Structure and Equivalence
Book SynopsisThis Element explores what it means for two theories in physics to be equivalent (or inequivalent), and what lessons can be drawn about their structure as a result. It does so through a twofold approach. On the one hand, it provides a synoptic overview of the logical tools that have been employed in recent philosophy of physics to explore these topics: definition, translation, Ramsey sentences, and category theory. On the other, it provides a detailed case study of how these ideas may be applied to understand the dynamical and spatiotemporal structure of Newtonian mechanics - in particular, in light of the symmetries of Newtonian theory. In so doing, it brings together a great deal of exciting recent work in the literature, and is sure to be a valuable companion for all those interested in these topics.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Definitions; 2. Translation; 3. Ramsey sentences; 4. Categories of theories; 5. Newtonian mechanics; 6. Symmetry; 7. Galilean spacetime; 8. Conclusion; References.
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Cambridge University Press Wittgenstein on Forms of Life
The question of what Wittgenstein meant by ''forms of life'' has attracted a great deal of attention in the literature, yet it is an expression that Wittgenstein himself employs on only a relatively small number of occasions, and that he does not explicitly define. This Element gives a description of this concept that also explains Wittgenstein''s reluctance to say much about it. A short historical introduction examines the origins and uses of the term in Wittgenstein''s time. The Element then presents a survey of Wittgenstein''s employment of it, and an overview of the literature. Finally, the Element offers a methodological reading of this notion, interpreting it as a conceptual tool in Wittgenstein''s wider inquiries into the workings of our language.
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Cambridge University Press Biblical Philosophy
Book SynopsisInBiblical Philosophy,Dru Johnson examines how the texts of Christian Scripture argue philosophically with ancient and modern readers alike. He demonstrates how biblical literature bears the distinct markers of a philosophical style in its use of literary and philosophical strategies to reason about the nature of reality and our place within it. Johnson questions traditional definitions of philosophy and compares the Hebraic style of philosophy with the intellectual projects of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Hellenism. Identifying the genetic features of the Hebraic philosophical style, Johnson traces its development from its hybridization in Hellenistic Judaism to its retrieval by the New Testament authors. He also shows how the Gospels and letters of Paul exhibit the same genetic markers, modes of argument, particular argumentforms, and philosophical convictions that define the Hebraic style, while they engaged with Hellenistic rhetoric.His volume offers a model for thinking about pTrade Review'Johnson tackles issues of composition, interpretation, and scriptural message for contemporary times ... The tightly argued chapters cover history, geography, culture, language, literature, personalities, philosophy, and religion ... Recommended.' Z. Garber, CHOICETable of ContentsPart I. Philosophical Styles: 1. What counts as philosophy; 2. Philosophy before the Greeks: the Ancient Near Eastern intellectual context; Part II. Hebraic Philosophy: The Hebraic Philosophical Style: 3. The Hebraic philosophical style; 4. Mapping philosophy in story, law, and poetry; Part III. Persistence in Hellenistic Judaism: 5. The philosophical styles of Hellenistic Judaism; 6. Hebraic philosophical style in the Gospels; 7. Paul in stoic garments; Part IV: Prototypes of Hebraic Philosophical Argument: 8. Hebraic and scientific epistemology; 9. Biblical truth and human logic; 10. Pictures of justification.
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Cambridge University Press Style Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein
This Element provides a comprehensive explanation of Wittgenstein's philosophy. It introduces distinctions that are essential for approaching the multilayered complex of Wittgenstein's oeuvre. One is the distinction between writing philosophical clarifications for himself and forming philosophical books for his reader.
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Cambridge University Press John Selden and the Western Political Tradition
Book SynopsisLegal and political theorist, common lawyer and parliamentary leader, historian and polyglot, John Selden (15841654) was a formidable figure in Renaissance England, whose real importance and influence are now being recognized once again. John Selden and the Western Political Tradition highlights his important role in the development of such early modern political ideas as modern natural law and natural rights, national identity and tradition, the political integration of church and state, and the effect of Jewish ideas on Western political thought. Selden''s political ideas are analysed in the context of his contemporaries Grotius, Hobbes and Filmer. The book demonstrates how these ideas informed and influenced more familiar works of later thinkers like Burke.Trade Review'Ofir Haivry's book on John Selden is a work of stunning erudition and towering insight. Haivry's treatment of Selden's knowledge and use of the Jewish legal tradition in his jurisprudence, especially, revives Selden as a vital source for how political discourse in modern secular states can be nurtured, even inspired, by universally valid natural law principles that have been transmitted, developed, and applied by the Jewish tradition. Like Selden himself, Haivry appreciates that this great tradition both predates modern secular states and it has not been superseded by them.' David Novak, University of Toronto'John Selden was known to be the most learned person in England. His remarkably wide-ranging corpus of work should be of interest to historians and philosophers of law, constitutional theorists, biblical scholars and historians of religion, and political and social theorists. Many of the problems that Selden wrestled with remain our own. All of this calls out for an examination of the broader significance and coherence of Selden's work. Haivry's book is a noteworthy contribution in providing just that.' Steven Grosby, Clemson University, South Carolina'For the first time, thanks to Ofir Haivry's crisply written and lucid book, one can understand why John Selden was so respected in his own day, and one can fully appreciate the character and importance of his contribution to the development of political, social, and legal thought. This volume is a real eye-opener. It clarifies, as never before, why the common-law mindset remained dominant in England throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.' Paul Rahe, Hillsdale College, Michigan'Based upon a vast first-hand knowledge of both primary and secondary sources, Ofir Haivry's impressive inquiry into John Selden's life, works, thought, and fortune, has the rarest merit of combining two virtues: philological scrupulousness, and philosophical sensitiveness. Haivry's deep understanding of Selden's thought helps us see that he was not only a brilliant jurist and a learned antiquarian like so many scholars of his time, but also a genuine philosopher, with a peculiar gnoseology rooted in some aspects of Aristotle, as well as an original political theorist: maybe the only one who has seriously engaged in reconciling natural law, given to all men, and common law, historically emerging as national tradition. Particularly rewarding did I find Haivry's pages on the universal philosophy of morals Selden draws from the Hebrew tradition.' Professor Sergio Caruso, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy'This book offers a fresh reassessment of John Selden's position and role in the western political tradition. … Ofir Haivry's well-researched, convincing book has reconstructed John Selden's political theory in a coherent, comprehensive manner, accurately reassessed his contributions to the English constitutional tradition and, thus, appropriately repositioned his work within the western political tradition.' Diego Lucci, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'The book displays a complete mastery of the subject matter and historical context. It deserves a wide readership not only for anyone seeking to know more about Selden, but anyone interested in the seventeenth century.' Benjamin B. Saunders, Australian Journal of Politics and History'Haivry is a clear guide to their coherence and the creative and comprehensive quality of his political action, thinking, and writing. The conclusion of the book offers a concise summary of Selden's political thought and its relevance for today. Time spent considering Haivry's John Selden, will be amply rewarded.' Stephen Varvis, Fides et HistoriaTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: 'Glory of the English nation' – the life, works and ideas of John Selden; 2. Selden and the early modern crisis of knowledge and obligation; 3. Selden and the early modern dispute about the foundations of political order; 4. Law 'fitted to the genius of the nation': Selden's theory of national tradition in law and politics; 5. Selden and the 'universal philosophy of morals' drawn from the Hebrew tradition; 6. A 'single sword': Selden's theory of religion and state; 7. Conclusion: John Selden and the tradition of historical constitutionalism; Sources.
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Cambridge University Press Paraconsistency in Mathematics
Book SynopsisParaconsistent logic makes it possible to study inconsistent theories in a coherent way. From its modern start in the mid-20th century, paraconsistency was intended for use in mathematics, providing a rigorous framework for describing abstract objects and structures where some contradictions are allowed, without collapse into incoherence. Over the past decades, this initiative has evolved into an area of non-classical mathematics known as inconsistent or paraconsistent mathematics. This Element provides a selective introductory survey of this research program, distinguishing between `moderate'' and `radical'' approaches. The emphasis is on philosophical issues and future challenges.Table of Contents1. Invitation to Paraconsistency in Mathematics: Why and How?; 2. Set Theory; 3. Arithmetic; 4. Calculus, Topology, and Geometry; 5. Whither Paraconsistency in Mathematics?
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Cambridge University Press Kants Analytic
Book SynopsisThis engaging and instructive analysis of the first half of Kant''s Critique of Pure Reason continues to be valuable to both practiced Kant scholars and newcomers. Jonathan Bennett examines the arguments and themes of Kant''s work in relation to those of the works of philosophers old and new, including Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Wittgenstein, Ryle, Ayler, Quine, Warnock, and others. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by James Van Cleve, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is available for a new generation of readers.Table of ContentsFrontispiece Saul Steinberg; Preface to this edition James Van Cleve; Analytical table of contents; Part I. Aesthetic: 1. Synthetic a priori judgements; 2. The outer-sense theory; 3. Space and objects; 4. The inner-sense theory; 5. Intuitions of space and time; Part II. Analytic of Concepts: 6. The metaphysical deduction; 7. The categories considered; 8. Transcendental deduction: the main thread; 9. Transcendental deduction: further aspects; Part III. Analytic of Principles: 10. Schematism; 11. Causal necessity; 12. The axioms, anticipations, and postulates; 13. The first analogy; 14. The refutation of idealism; 15. The second analogy; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism
Book SynopsisRanging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book is the first integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy, one of the most significant developments of the period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Tables and Figures; Abbreviations; Note on Citations; Introduction; 1. The Rise of Experimental Philosophy; 2. The Heyday of Experimental Philosophy; 3. From Experimental Philosophy to Empiricism; Conclusion; List of Manuscripts; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Hegels Philosophy of Nature
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Cambridge University Press The Disabled Contract
Book SynopsisSocial contract theories generally predicate the authority of rules that govern society on the idea that these rules are the product of a contractual agreement struck between members of society. These theories embody values, such as equality, reciprocity and rationality, that are highly prized within our culture. Yet a closer inspection reveals that these features exclude other important values, relations and even persons from the realm of contractual morality and justice, especially people with severe intellectual disabilities. Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry explores the moral status of intellectually disabled people in social contract thought and argues that this tradition needs to be revisited to include the most vulnerable. Addressing this problem will have concrete repercussions in law and policy, because many issues that people with disabilities face are connected to deeply rooted assumptions about their status as full citizens or full members of our moral, political and legal communitiTable of Contents1. Intellectual disability and the social contract; 2. Inclusive contractarianism: persons with severe intellectual disabilities within a society of self-interested contractors; 3. The capacity to trust as a contractual basis for robust moral status; 4. People with severe intellectual disabilities as active citizens; 5. People with severe intellectual disabilities as passive citizens; 6. Other-regarding concern and exploitation; 7. Beyond contractual relations.
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Explanation and Scientific Knowledge
Book SynopsisExploring key epistemological topics such as explanation, causation, scientific reasoning, truth, knowledge, and the value of understanding, this book provides a new account of understanding situated in the context of current debates, and will appeal to philosophy students and scholars, especially epistemologists, as well as those interested in science methodologies.Trade Review'Kareem Khalifa's Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge is a splendid book, written in a beautiful and accessible style. It provides the ultimate articulation of his account of explanatory understanding that I am sure will be regarded as one of the landmark publications on the topic of scientific understanding.' Daniel Kostic, MetascienceTable of Contents1. The philosophy of understanding; 2. An illustration: Bjorken scaling; 3. Understanding and ability; 4. Objectual understanding; 5. Understanding without explanation?; 6. Understanding and true belief; 7. Lucky understanding; 8. The value of understanding.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Big Questions from Little People...
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Montaigne in Barn Boots
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Beyond Feelings A Guide to Critical Thinking
Book SynopsisThis succinct, interdisciplinary introduction to critical thinking successfully dares students to question their own assumptions and to enlarge their thinking through the analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The text offers a unique and effective organization: Part I explains the fundamental concepts; Part II describes the most common barriers to critical thinking; Part III offers strategies for overcoming those barriers.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART I. THE CONTEXT 1. Who Are You?The Influence of Time and PlaceThe Influence of IdeasThe Influence of Mass CultureThe "Science" of ManipulationThe Influence of PsychologyBecoming an Individual 2. What Is Critical Thinking?Mind, Brain, or Both?Critical Thinking DefinedCharacteristics of Critical ThinkersThe Role of IntuitionThe Basic Activities of Critical ThinkingCritical Thinking and WritingCritical Thinking and DiscussionAvoiding Plagiarism 3. What Is Truth?Where Does It All Begin?Imperfect PerceptionImperfect MemoryDeficient InformationEven the Wisest Can ErrTruth Is Discovered, Not Created 4. What Does It Mean to Know?Requirements of KnowingTesting Your Own KnowledgeHow We Come to KnowWhy Knowing is DifficultA Cautionary TailIs Faith a Form of KnowledgeObstacles to Knowledge 5. How Good Are Your Opinions?Opinions Can Be MistakenOpinions on Moral IssuesEven Experts Can Be WrongKinds of ErrorsInformed Versus Uninformed OpinionForming Opinions Responsibly 6. What Is Evidence?Kinds of EvidenceEvaluating EvidenceWhat Constitutes "Sufficient" Evidence? 7. What Is Argument?The Parts of an ArgumentEvaluating ArgumentsMore Difficult Arguments PART II. THE PITFALLS 8. The Basic Problem: "Mine Is Better"Egocentric PeopleEthnocentric PeopleControlling "Mine-Is-Better" Thinking 9. Errors of PerspectivePoverty of AspectUnwarranted AssumptionsThe Either/Or OutlookMindless ConformityAbsolutismRelativismBias For or Against Change 10. Errors of ProcedureBiased Consideration of EvidenceDouble StandardHasty ConclusionOvergeneralization and StereotypingOversimplificationThe Post Hoc Fallacy 11. Errors of ExpressionContradictionArguing in a CircleMeaningless StatementMistaken AuthorityFalse AnalogyIrrational Appeal 12. Errors of ReactionAutomatic RejectionChanging the SubjectShifting the Burden of Proof"Straw Man"Attacking the Critic 13. The Errors in CombinationErrors of PerspectiveErrors of ProcedureErrors of ExpressionErrors of ReactionSample Combinations of ErrorsA Sensible View of Terminology PART III. A STRATEGY 14. Knowing YourselfCritical Thinking InventoryUsing Your InventoryChallenge and Reward 15. Being ObservantObserving PeopleObservation in Science and MedicineThe Range of ApplicationBecoming More ObservantReflecting Your Observations 16. Selecting an IssueThe Basic Rule: Less Is MoreHow to Limit an IssueSample Issue: PornographySample Issue: BoxingSample Issue: Juvenile CrimeNarrowing the Issue Further 17. Conducting InquiryWorking with Inconclusive ResultsWhere to Look for InformationKeeping FocusedHow Much Inquiry is Enough?Managing Lengthy Material 18. Forming a JudgmentEvaluating EvidenceEvaluating Your Sources' ArgumentsMaking Important DistinctionsExpressing Judgments 19. Persuading OthersGuidelines for PersuasionAn Unpersuasive PresentationA Persuasive Presentation Notes Index
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Exploring the Bible
Book SynopsisDesigned for the introductory Biblical studies course, this text surveys both the Old and New Testaments. This book takes a clear and honest presentation of the passages in the Bible from the legacy of Genesis to the book of Revelation. Narratives include Jesusâs life and teachings and the promises of heaven and a new earth as they are outlined in the book of Revelation.Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following:â SmartBook - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content.Table of ContentsPreface vPart One An Introduction to the Bible and the Biblical World Chapter 1 The Bible: An OverviewChapter 2 How the Bible Was Created: Transmission, Canonization, and TranslationChapter 3 The Ancient Near East: The Environment That Produced the Bible Part Two The Torah (Divine Instruction) Chapter 4 The Five Books of Torah (the Pentateuch): Themes and Theories Chapter 5 In the Beginning: The Book of GenesisChapter 6 Freedom and Responsibility: The Book of ExodusChapter 7 Law, Holiness, and Rebellion: The Books of Leviticus and Numbers Chapter 8 A New Vision of Moses’ Teaching: The Book of Deuteronomy Part Three The Prophets I Chapter 9 The Story of Ancient Israel: How the Promised Land Was Gained and LostChapter 10 Faith and War: The Book of Joshua Chapter 11 Yahweh’s Warriors: The Book of JudgesChapter 12 The Rise of David and the Birth of a Kingdom: The Books of 1 and 2 SamuelChapter 13 From the Glory of Solomon to Exile in Babylon: The Books of 1 and 2 KingsPart Four The Prophets II Chapter 14Israel’s Spokespersons for GodChapter 15 Prophets to the Northern Kingdom: The Oracles of Amos and Hosea Chapter 16 Prophets of the Assyrian Threat: The Oracles of Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, and NahumChapter 17 Prophets of the Babylonian Crisis: The Oracles of Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and Obadiah Chapter 18 Prophets in Exile: The Oracles of Ezekiel and Second Isaiah Chapter 19 After the Exile—Israel’s Last Prophets: The Oracles of Haggai, Zechariah, Third Isaiah, Joel, Malachi, and JonahPart Five The Writings Chapter 20 After the Exile: Israel’s Changing Life with GodChapter 21 The Postexilic Readjustment: The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah Chapter 22 Worshiping at the Second Temple: Hebrew Poetry and the Book of PsalmsChapter 23Israel’s Wisdom Writers: The Books of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes Chapter 24 Festival Scrolls: The Books of Ruth, Song of Songs, Lamentations, and EstherChapter 25 Reinterpreting Israel’s History: The Books of 1 and 2 Chronicles Chapter 26 Keeping God’s Law in a Hostile World: Revolt of the Maccabees and the Book of DanielChapter 27 The Second Canon: Books of the ApocryphaPart Six The New TestamentChapter 28 The World in Which Christianity Originated: Roman Power, Greek Culture, and the Cult of Deified RulersChapter 29 First-Century Judaism: Diversity, Messianic Expectations, and the Birth of Christianity Chapter 30 Telling Jesus’ Story: The Gospel of MarkChapter 31 The Synoptic Problem: The Gospel of Matthew and Its Relationship to the Gospels of Mark and LukeChapter 32 Jesus as a Savior for “All Nations”: The Gospel of Luke Chapter 33 Another Way of Telling Jesus’ Story: The Gospel of John Chapter 34 An Account of Early Christianity: The Book of ActsChapter 35 Paul and the Gentile Mission: Letters to Churches at Thessalonica, Corinth, Galatia, Rome, Philippi, and ColossaeChapter 36 Continuing the Pauline Tradition: Second Thessalonians, Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastoral Epistles Chapter 37General Letters on Faith and Behavior: Hebrews and the Catholic EpistlesChapter 38 Continuing the Apocalyptic Hope: The Book of Revelation Chapter 39 Our Biblical Legacy: Evolving Concepts of GodGlossaryIndex
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The Logic Book
Book SynopsisThe Logic Book is a leading text for symbolic logic courses that presents all concepts and techniques with clear, comprehensive explanations. There is a wealth of carefully constructed examples throughout the text, and its flexible organization places materials within largely self-contained chapters that allow instructors the freedom to cover the topics they want, in the order they choose.Table of ContentsChapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO DEDUCTIVE LOGIC1.1 Introduction1.2 Core Concepts of Deductive Logic1.3 Special Cases of Logical Concepts1.4 Deductive Validity and Soundness1.5 Inductive Arguments1.6 Logical Consistency, Truth, Falsity, and Equivalence1.7 Special Cases of ValidityChapter 2: SYNTAX AND SYMBOLIZATION2.1 The Syntax of SL2.2 Introduction to Symbolization2.3 More Complex Symbolizations2.4 Non-Truth-Functional Uses of ConnectivesChapter 3: Sentential Logic: Semantics3.1 Truth-Value Assignments and Truth-Tables for Sentences3.2 Truth-Functional Truth, Falsity, and Indeterminacy3.3 Truth-Functional Equivalence3.4 Truth-Functional Consistency3.5 Truth-Functional Entailment and Truth-Functional Validity3.6 Truth-Functional Properties and Truth-Functional ConsistencyChapter 4: Sentential Logic: Truth-Trees4.1 The Truth-Tree Method4.2 Truth-Tree Rules 4.3 Using Truth-Trees to test for other TruthsChapter 5: Sentential Logic: Derivations5.1 The Derivation System SD5.2 Basic Concepts of SD5.3 Strategies for Constructing Derivations in SD5.4 The Derivation System SD+ Chapter 6: Sentential Logic: Metatheory6.1 Mathematical Induction6.2 Truth-Functional Completeness6.3 The Soundness of SD and SD+6.4 The Completeness of SD and SD+Chapter 7: Predicate Logic: Syntax and Symbolization7.1 Predicates, Singular Terms, and Quantity Expressions of English7.2 The Formal Syntax of PL7.3 Introduction to Symbolization7.4 Symbolization Fine-Tuned7.5 The Language PLE (Predicte Logic Extended)Chapter 8: Predicate Logic: Semantics8.1 Interpretations8.2 Quantificational Truth, Falsehood, and Indeterminacy8.3 Quantificational Equivalence and Consistency8.4 Quantification Entailment and Validity8.5 Truth-Functional Expansions8.6 Semantics for Predicate Logic with Identity and FunctorsChapter 9: Predicate Logic: Truth-Trees9.1 Truth-Tree RUles for PL9.2 Truth-Trees and Quantificational Consistency9.3 Truth-Trees and Other Semantic Properties9.4 Fine-Tuning the Tree Method9.5 Trees for PLEChapter 10: Predicate Logic: Derivations10.1 The Derivation System PD10.2 Using Derivations to Establish Syntactic Properties of PD10.3 The Derivation System PD+10.4 The Derivation System PDEChapter 11: Predicate Logic: Metatheory11.1 Semantic Preliminaries for PD11.2 Semantic Preliminaries for PLE11.3 The Soundness of PD, PD+, and PDE11.4 The Completeness of PD, PD+, and PDE11.5 The Soundness of the Tree Method11.6 The Completeness of the Tree MethodSelected BibliographyIndexIndex of Symbols
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Penguin Random House Australia Everyday Ethics Inspired Solutions to RealLife
Book Synopsis“The perfect handbook for understanding what constitutes moral relations with friends, enemies, and one’s own self.” —BooklistIn an age when most of us spend more time thinking about what movie we’ll see than about how we want to lead our lives, nothing could be more timely and helpful than Everyday Ethics. In this refreshingly original book, Joshua Halberstam shows us how to develop a moral imagination—and have fun while doing it.Halberstam demolishes the clichés of both religion and psychotherapy and entices us into looking at the small actions that make up the big picture of our character and values. Should we really refrain from making judgments? Should we let our conscience be our guide even if it urges us not to pay our taxes? Halberstam has something intriguing to say about these and many other issues. Witty and entertaining, Everyday Ethics is the moral equivalent of an aerobic dance session, as exhilarat
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Oxford University Press Inc What Does It All Mean
Book SynopsisThis introduction to philosophy argues that the best way to learn about the human condition is to tackle its problems head-on. The author demonstrates that philosophy is an indispensible key to understanding life and challenges readers to try out ideas and raise possible objections to them.Trade Review"A very well written book...great for introducing the topics to an intro-level class. It touches on key issues and brings up the relevant points, yet all in relatively short and easy-to-understand chapters. Would be a great supplement for a course in metaphysics."--Jack Bowen, DeAnza CollegeTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. How Do We Know Anything? 3. Other Minds 4. The Mind-Body Problem 5. The Meaning of Words 6. Free Will 7. Right and Wrong 8. Justice 9. Death 10. The Meaning of Life
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University of Chicago Press Pragmatic Liberalism Paper
Book SynopsisDrawing on the legacy of prominent pragmatic philosophers and political economists--C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, and John R. Commons--Charles W. Anderson brings pragmatism and liberalism together, striving to temper the excesses of both and to fashion a broader vision of the proper domain of political reason.
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University of Chicago Press Kants Organicism
Book SynopsisDistilling vast amounts of research on the scientific literature of the time, this title offers a look at Kant's famous first Critique and at the history of philosophy and the life sciences as well.Trade Review"Jennifer Mensch's account of how Kant came to understand the thinking of the naturalists over the course of the eighteenth century and relate it to his own quest for a transcendental ground of reason in self-generation is very well wrought. She has made sense of a number of elements that I knew separately but had not seen in this compelling conspectus." (John H. Zammito, Rice University)"
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University of Chicago Press Stay Out of Politics A Philosopher Views South
Book SynopsisAs a lifelong radical and political activist, Ronald Aronson accepted an invitation to lecture in South Africa only after two years of deliberation. Stay Out of Politics, which begins with the moral questions that Aronson confronted in his decision to go, is a reaffirmation of the necessity for majority rule and the abolition of apartheid. Amidst the pressure of widespread talk of an academic boycott of South Africa, Aronson decided to lecture there as a contribution to the struggle for majority rule. He decided to become mobilized as a philosopher and activist by engaging in the effort close at hand rather than settling for a distant and comfortable protest by avoidance. Along with his visa, Aronson was given the following warning by a consular officer: Stay out of politics! Believing that philosophy not only has a role to play but that it can, and must, involve itself in the vital social and political issues of our time, Aronson equally discovered that in South Africa politics is everywhere and inescapable. The lectures Aronson delivered focused on the meaning of progress and hope, on the threatand experienceof disaster today, and on our responsibility to join the struggle for a humane and rational world. Two of the most provocative lectures are included here, the first a discussion of the Holocaust that has direct and intentional applications to the current situation in South Africa. The second lecture, in memory of the assassinated political philosopher Richard Turner, is a sketch of Aronson's philosophy of hope as seen from within the South African context. Despite the limitations of teaching under possible surveillance in a revolutionary situation, Aronson witnessed the social reality of apartheid and heard the voices of its victims. Aronson's love for the South African people motivated him to write this powerful account. He presents a lecturer's tour of South Africa: the experiences that both confirmed his belief in the urgent need for majority rule but also revealed the complexities of the society that seeks to continue apartheid through all reforms; and his philosopher's reflections upon returning to the United States on the irrationality of apartheid and the ambiguities of the struggle to end it. Stay Out of Politics is not only a powerful encounter with South Africa today, it is a provocative statement about philosophyits nature, its tasks, its duty to understand and change the world in which we live.
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University of Chicago Press Perception Theory Commitment The New Philosophy
Book SynopsisBrown outlines first the logical empiricist tradition and then the more historical and process-oriented approach he calls the new philosophy of science. Examining the two together, he describes the transition between them as an example of the kind of change in historical tradition with which the new philosophy of science concerns itself.
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University of Chicago Press Phenomenology Deconstruction V 2 Method and
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The University of Chicago Press On Descartes Passive Thought The Myth of
Book SynopsisOn Descartes' Passive Thought is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his previous books about Descartes, with a particular focus on Descartes's theory of morals and the passions. Descartes has long been associated with mind-body dualism, but Marion argues here that this is a historical misattribution, popularized by Malebranche and popular ever since both within the academy and with the general public. Actually, Marion shows, Descartes held a holistic conception of body and mind. He called it the meum corpus, a passive mode of thinking, which implies far more than just pure mindrather, it signifies a mind directly connected to the body: the human being that I am. Understood in this new light, the Descartes Marion uncovers through close readings of works such as Passions of the Soul resists prominent criticisms lev
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University of Chicago Press Why we are not Nietzscheans
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection question the viability of Nietzsche's thought in the modern world, critiquing his philosophy of history as obsessed with hierarchy, his views on religion and art as myopic and irrational, and his stance on science as hopelessly reactionary.Table of ContentsPreface to the 1991 French Edition 1: Hierarchy and Truth Alain Boyer 2: The Brute, the Sophist, and the Aesthete: "Art in the Service of Illusion" Andre Comte-Sponville 3: Nietzsche's French Moment Vincent Descombes 4: "What Must First Be Proved Is Worth Little" Luc Ferry, Alain Renaut. 5: The Nietzschean Metaphysics of Life Robert Legros 6: Nietzsche as Educator Philippe Raynaud 7: The Traditional Paradigm - Horror of Modernity and Antiliberalism: Nietzsche in Reactionary Rhetoric Pierre-Andre Taguieff Index
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University of Chicago Press Nietzsches Enlightenment
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the three works that make up the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's middle period: Human, All too Human; Daybreak; and, The Gay Science. This title argues that in their favorable attitude toward reason, science, and the Enlightenment, these works mark a sharp departure from Nietzsche's earlier, romantic writings.Trade Review"Post-structuralists have long mined the works of Nietzsche's middle period in their efforts to employ Nietzsche as an advocate of their deconstructionist enterprise. Paul Franco shows us in a wonderful fashion why their reading is mistaken and in doing so reveals a Nietzsche who is much more friendly to the Enlightenment and the humanist tradition than is generally imagined. It is the best book I know of on this period of Nietzsche's thought." (Michael Allen Gillespie, Duke University)"
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University of Chicago Press Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides
Book SynopsisIn uncovering the esoteric tradition employed in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, the author made the radical realization that other ancient and medieval philosophers might be concealing their true thoughts through literary artifice.Trade Review"Kenneth Hart Green rigorously retraces the stages by which Strauss came to see Maimonides and his teachings in a new light. Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides is an ambitious attempt to see Strauss's preoccupation with Maimonides as a manifestation of his overall philosophical concerns." (Ralph Lerner, University of Chicago)"
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University of Chicago Press Agewise
Book SynopsisDrawing on evidence from biomedicine, literature, economics, and personal stories, this title probes the ageism that drives discontent with our bodies, our selves, and our accomplishments - and makes us easy prey for marketers who want to sell us an illusory vision of youthful perfection.Trade Review"We haven't done justice to age in the popular press. Margaret Gullette may change that. It will be a more mature country that takes note of so important a voice, giving hope that our culture may yet value wrinkles-the face's road map of experience-accumulated from smiles, tears, and the hard-won wisdom of the body." -Bill Moyers "Eloquent and infuriating, packed with facts and bristling with ideas, Agewise is essential reading for anyone who is 'aging'-which is to say, everyone." -Katha Pollitt"
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University of Chicago Press Insights in Decision Making A Tribute to Hillel
Book SynopsisHow do people make decisions? How can we help people make better decisions? How can we best study the processes of decision making? The growing field of behavioral decision research, which seeks to link observed decision behavior to underlying psychological mechanisms, may provide the answers to these questions. The volume is based on a recent conference held to honor the work and memory of the late Hillel J. Einhorn, a pioneering scholar in behavioral decision research. Composed of contributions by leading researchers, Insights in Decision Making provides a state-of-the-art image of work in this field. The range of topics covered includes conceptual and technical issues the bridge the gap between theory and the practical concern of improving decision making, difficulties in statistical thinking, experimental studies of processes of judgment and choice, and the emergence of new paradigms for studying decision behavior. Providing many avenues for future research, Insights in Decision Making will be essential reading for students of the psychology of decision making and will prove valuable to readers in psychology, economics, statistics, and management.
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University of Chicago Press The Grace Severity of the Ideal John Dewey the
Book SynopsisIn this work Victor Kestenbaum questions the oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for the transcendent. He demonstrates that, far from ignoring the transcendent ideal, Dewey's works are in fact shaped by the tension between the natural and the transcendent.
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The University of Chicago Press New Television The Aesthetics and Politics of a
Book SynopsisEven though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as chewing gum for the mind really disappeared. Philosopher Martin Shuster argues that television is the modern art form, full of promise and urgency, and in New Television, he offers a strong philosophical justification for its importance. Through careful analysis of shows including The Wire, Justified, and Weeds, among others; and European and Anglophone philosophers, such as Stanley Cavell, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger; Shuster reveals how various contemporary television series engage deeply with aesthetic and philosophical issues in modernism and modernity. What unifies the aesthetic and philosophical ambitions of new television is a commitment to portraying and exploring the family as the last site of political possibility in a world otherwise bereft of any other sources
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University of Chicago Press On Descartes Metaphysical Prism The Constitution
Book SynopsisDoes Descartes belong to metaphysics? What does metaphysics mean? The questions form the point of departure for this study of Cartesian thought. Analyses of the notion of ego and his idea of God show that if he represents the fullest example of metaphysics, he nonetheless transgresses its limits.
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University of Chicago Press Sharing Responsibility
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University of Chicago Press The Socially Responsive Self Social Theory
Book SynopsisThe author argues in this text that a person's integrity and moral responsibility are shaped and limited not just by conscience, but also by socialization and moral support from the communities to which he or she belongs.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Integrity, Self, and Value Plurality 2: Solidarity and Moral Support 3: Collective Consciousness and Moral Authority 4: Socialization and Institutional Evil 5: Social Responsibility 6: Professional Integrity 7: Conflict of Interest 8: Legal Advocacy 9: Challenging Medical Authority 10: Scientific Whistle-Blowing and Professional Solidarity Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press The Varnished Truth Truth Telling and Deceiving
Book SynopsisEveryone says that lying is wrong. But when we say that lying is bad and hurtful and that we would never intentionally tell a lie, are we really deceiving anyone? In this wise and insightful book, David Nyberg exposes the tacit truth underneath our collective pretense and reveals that an occasional lie can be helpful, healthy, creative, and, in some situations, even downright moral. The Varnished Truth takes us beyond philosophical speculation and clinical analysis to give us a sense of what it really means to tell the truth. As Nyberg lays out the complexities involved in leading a morally decent life, he compels us to see the spectrum of alternatives to telling the truth and telling a clear-cut lie.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Truth Telling Is Morally Overrated Pt. 1: What It Means to "Tell the Truth" 2: Varieties of Truth 3: The Reverse of Truth Has a Hundred Thousand Shapes 4: Showing and Hiding: The Logic of Deception 5: Self-Deception: Weakness or Wisdom? Pt. 2: What Deception Is For 6: Civility: Revealing and Concealing Our Thoughts 7: Friendship and Altruism: Be Untruthful to Others As You Would Have Others Be Untruthful to You 8: Raising Children: The Right Truth at the Right Time 9: Truth, Verdicts, and Justice Pt. 3: Deception and Moral Decency 10: Inventing Right and Wrong Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press Who Owns Religion Scholars and Their Publics in
Book SynopsisWho Owns Religion? focuses on a periodthe late 1980s through the 1990swhen scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves honoring through their work. While controversies involving scholarly claims about religion are nothing new, this period saw an increase in vitriol that remains with us today. Authors of seemingly arcane studies on subjects like the origins of the idea of Mother Earth or the sexual dynamics of mysticism have been targets of hate mail and book-banning campaigns. As a result, scholars of religion have struggled to describe their own work to their various publics, and even to themselves. Taking the reader through several compelling case studies, Patton identifies two trends of the '80s and '90s that fueled that rise: the growth of multicultural identity politics, which enabled a form of volatile public debate she terms eruptive public space, and the advent of the internet, which offered new ways for religious groups to read scholarship and respond publicly. These controversies, she shows, were also fundamentally about something new: the very rights of secular, Western scholarship to interpret religions at all. Patton's book holds out hope that scholars can find a space for their work between the university and the communities they study. Scholars of religion, she argues, have multiple masters and must move between them while writing histories and speaking about realities that not everyone may be interested in hearing.
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University of Chicago Press Richard McKeon A Study
Book SynopsisIn the contemporary atmosphere of concern with the problems of relativism, cultural pluralism, and textuality, the time is ripe for rediscovery of the thought of Richard McKeon, one of the most important but neglected American philosophers of this century. This study by George Kimball Plochmann, a former student of McKeon's, is the first book-length treatment of the ideas of this legendary teacher, scholar, and diplomat who outlined a profound and creative vision for the reorganization of all knowledge and discourse.
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University of Chicago Press Kant and Phenomenology
Book SynopsisPhenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century - and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. The author argues for a return to phenomenology's origins in epistemology and does so by locating its roots in the work of Immanuel Kant.Trade Review"This is a clear, concise, and enjoyable read by a senior scholar who is an expert on all aspects of German idealism. Tom Rockmore is uniquely qualified to establish clearly the phenomenological-epistemological narrative extending from Kant to Husserl, Heidegger, and beyond. His constructivist reading of Kant along with his contrast of Kant with Husserl makes his case convincingly in a work of exceptional clarity and rigorous documentation." - Alan Olson, Boston University"
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The University of Chicago Press The Verge of Philosophy
Book SynopsisPresents an examination of three sites in Derrida's thought: his interpretation of Heidegger regarding the privileging of the question; his account of the Platonic figure of the good; and his interpretation of Plato's discourse on the crucial notion of the chora, the originating space of the universe.Trade Review"All of John Sallis's work is essential, but this book in particular is remarkable.... Sallis shows better than anyone I have ever read what it means to practice philosophy on the verge." - Walter Brogan, Villanova University "Sallis has written a unique work that combines philosophical analysis with a heartfelt reflection on his friendship with Derrida." - Library Journal"
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University of Chicago Press Maimonides Ethics The Encounter of Philosophic
Book SynopsisIn this book Raymond L. Weiss examines how a seminal Jewish thinker negotiates the philosophical conflict between Athens and Jerusalem in the crucial area of ethics. Maimonides, a master of both the classical and the biblical-rabbinic traditions, reconciled their differing views of morality primarily in the context of Jewish jurisprudence. Taking into consideration the entire corpus of Maimonides' writings, Weiss focuses on the ethical sections of the Commentary on the Mishnah and the Mishneh Torah, but also discusses the Guide of the Perplexed, the letters of Maimonides, and his medical works. The gulf between classical philosophy and the Torah made the task of Maimonides extraordinarily difficult. Weiss shows that Maimonides subtly preserves the tension between those traditions while producing a practical accommodation between them. To explain how Maimonides was able to accomplish this twofold goal, Weiss takes seriously the multilevel character of Maimonides' works. Weiss interprets Maimonides as a heterodox thinker who, with utter integrity, faces the Law's encounter with philosophy and gives both the Torah and philosophy their due.
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University of Chicago Press Essays on Kants Political Philosophy
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The University of Chicago Press Animal Rites American Culture the Discourse of
Book SynopsisIn 'Animal rites', Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal.Trade Review"Animal Rites offers exciting new readings of a rich variety of texts. This is an original and provocative work that will open up important new arenas of discussion in literary and cultural studies, as well as the discourse of animal rights." - N. Katherine Hayles, author of How We Became Posthuman
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University of Illinois Press New Philosophy of Human Nature
Book SynopsisPuzzled by medicine's abject failure to find a cure for the plague, the author developed a theory of human nature as the foundation for her modern holistic philosophy of medicine. She posited a dualism that accounted for mind/body interaction. She argues that the brain controls the body.Trade Review"Explores a diverse range of moral, ethical, philosophical, medical, and sociopolitical concerns. . . . With this English translation, Mary Ellen Waithe, Maria C. Vintro, and C. Angel Zorita have brought new life to this richly detailed and complex medico-philosophical treatise."--Isis “I cannot imagine an English translation more carefully prepared than this one, which fully anticipates the difficulties and estrangement faced by a contemporary readership.”--Bulletin of Spanish Studies
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MO - University of Illinois Press Diary of a Philosophy Student Volume 1 192627
Book SynopsisFor the first time in translation and fully annotated, this is the revelatory diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist.Trade Review"Both volumes are strong and important contributions to feminist philosophy, not only in their themes but in significantly addressing these themes with reference to gendered human existence. I recommend them to anyone who is interested in understanding the making of a feminist philosopher, especially to early researchers working on Beauvoir, to undergraduates trying to understand philosophy, as well as to scholars seeking to understand Beauvoir and her philosophical themes." --Hypatia"This diary increases our admiration for Beauvoir's heroic determination to make something of herself. A precious document."--Bookforum"This is a groundbreaking and extremely important work for feminists, philosophers, and scholars of autobiography, and a welcome academic corrective to the edited, abridged, and simplified commercial representations of this important and complex twentieth-century French feminist, philosopher, and writer."--Kentucky Philological Review"Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Margaret Simons and Marybeth Timmerman have given the world a remarkable gift. . . . This volume is organized, annotated, and contextualized superbly. . . . How much richer and more profound [Beauvoir's] corpus becomes with the addition of these priceless writings. . . . The publication of her diaries will only further elevate her philosophical and literal legacy."--H-France Review"This indispensable volume offers a panorama of Beauvoir's intellectual preoccupations. . . . The translators and editors are to be applauded for . . . producing such a valuable contribution to Beauvoir studies."--French Studies"An admirable example of careful translating and editing. The diary presents an opportunity for opening an avenue of Beauvorian scholarship in aesthetics."--APA Newsletter“This is a magnificent piece of work. It is an engaging read and lets English readers to whom French is not accessible have first-hand access to some now much-discussed evidence regarding the independence of Beauvoir’s thought. The translation is beautiful, smooth, and true. A real coup!”--Claudia Card, author of The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir“This book is an enormously significant event which scholars have been eagerly awaiting for quite some time. Study of Beauvoir’s diaries not only alerts us to fascinating and unknown influences on her intellectual and personal development, but it could also form the basis for an amazing study of how the raw material of adolescent emotion, all its masochism and its narcissism, became transmuted into the readable and beautiful texts from which we can all learn so much.”--Meryl Altman, DePauw University
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University of Illinois Press Nietzsche
Book SynopsisThe only English translation of a crucial interpretation of Nietzsche First published in 1918, Ernst Bertram''s Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology substantially shaped the image of Nietzsche for the generation between the wars. It won the Nietzsche Society''s first prize and was admired by luminous contemporaries including André Gide, Hermann Hesse, Gottfried Benn, and Thomas Mann. Although translated into French in 1932, the book was never translated into English following the decline of Nietzsche''s and Bertram''s reputations after 1945. Now, with Nietzsche''s importance for twentieth-century thought undisputed, the work by one of his most influential interpreters can at last be read in English. Employing a perspectival technique inspired by Nietzsche himself, Bertram constructs a densely layered portrait of the thinker that shows him riven by deep and ultimately irresolvable cultural, historical, and psychological conflicts. At once lyrical and intenseTrade ReviewWinner of the American Translators Association's Ungar German Translation Award, 2011. “Ernst Bertram’s seminal work ... not only highlighted Nietzsche’s own revival of the mythical dimension as essential to creative human activity but also sought, in the heroizing of spirit of the Stephan George circle (with which Bertram was associated) to render Nietzsche himself into a latter-day prophet—a dynamic, living national myth.”--Times Literary Supplement"A major contribution to Nietzsche-research and scholarship."--Journal of Nietzsche Studies "An important book and a masterful translation."--German Quarterly“An imaginative and robust reading of Nietzsche; the great value of this English translation is the book’s historical role in consequential cultural developments provoked by figurations of Nietzsche. A significant contribution to Anglophone readers who are interested in Nietzsche’s philosophy generally, and particularly in the historical reception of his writings.”--Lawrence J. Hatab, author of Nietzsche’s Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence“Robert E. Norton has done an admirable job in preparing this English translation of a provocative critical study of Nietzsche. An important link between Nietzsche’s reception in the Weimar Period and the philosopher’s cooptation by the Nazis in the 1930s. This translation is simply splendid--flowing, precise, and sensitive to nuance.”--Marion Faber, translator of Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and EvilTable of ContentsTranslator's Introduction: Attempt at a Demythologization xi A Comment on the Notes xxxvii Acknowledgments xxxix Introduction: Legend 1 1. Ancestry 11 2. Knight, Death, and Devil 37 3. The German Becoming 56 4. Justice 79 5. Arion 88 6. Illness 107 7. Judas 121 8. Mask 134 9. Weimar 154 10. Napoleon 171 11. Jest, Cunning, and Vengeance 183 12. Anecdote 194 13. Indian Summer 203 14. Claude Lorrain 213 15. Venice 223 16. Portofino 231 17. Prophecy 231 18. Socrates 262 19. Eleusis 289 Notes 309 Chronology 365 Index 369
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MIT Press Ltd Year 1 A Philosophical Recounting
Book SynopsisReclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way.Conventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for reason and Jerusalem for faith. And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century as a zero point--year one--that divides time into before and after is equally arbirtrary, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. In YEAR 1, Buck-Morss liberates the first century so it can speak to us in another way, reclaiming it as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences.Buck-Morss aims to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme and led us into some unhelpful postmodern impasses. She approaches the first century through the writings of three thinkers often marginalized in current
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MIT Press Ltd Elbow Room The Varieties of Free Will Worth
Book SynopsisA landmark book in the debate over free will that makes the case for compatibilism.In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, “saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments.” In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting—those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility—are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail.Dennett tackles the question of free will in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of fields that range from physics and evolutionary biology to engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence. He shows how the classical formulations of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the
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