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De Gruyter Uncertain Values: An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty
Book SynopsisHow ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable? A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation (EVM)—the view that under axiological uncertainty, an option is better than another if and only if it has the greater expected value across axiologies. But the expected value of an option depends on quantitative probability and value facts, and in particular on value comparisons across axiologies. We need to explain what it is for such facts to hold. Also, EVM is by no means self-evident. We need an argument to defend that it’s true. This book introduces an axiomatic approach to answer these worries. It provides an explication of what EVM means by use of representation theorems: intertheoretic comparisons can be understood in terms of facts about which options are better than which, and mutatis mutandis for intratheoretic comparisons and axiological probabilities. And it provides a systematic argument to the effect that EVM is true: the theory can be vindicated through simple axioms. The result is a formally cogent and philosophically compelling extension of standard decision theory, and original take on the problem of axiological or normative uncertainty.
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De Gruyter Das Gelingen Der Künstlichen Natürlichkeit:
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De Gruyter Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran
Book SynopsisThe volume gathers together over twenty contributions that emerged from a conference held in in honour of Dermot Moran on the occasion of his retirement from University College Dublin. The book explores the contribution of phenomenology to empathy, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and the constitution of the cultural and social world, from both a historical and an applied philosophical perspective. Theoretical and methodological differences in approach notwithstanding, phenomenologists have converged in the recognition that self and others are fundamentally related, and have provided fine-grained accounts of the origin, forms, and implications of such relationship. The volume critically reconstructs and further develops central aspects of this body of research within a pluralistic framework. It offers a renewed investigation of the work of classical phenomenologists like Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as an original application of phenomenological concepts and theories to contemporary discussions on intentionality, culture, emotions, and morality. The book provides insights for scholars in phenomenological philosophy as well as in philosophy of mind and interpersonal and social experience.
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De Gruyter Kant and Artificial Intelligence
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De Gruyter Rationalistische Sinnlichkeit
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De Gruyter Kunst und Moral
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De Gruyter Der Rechtsgedanke bei Marx
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De Gruyter Russian Neo-Kantianism: Emergence, Dissemination, and Dissolution
Book SynopsisThis, the first in-depth and comprehensive book-length study of the Russian neo-Kantian movement in English language, challenges the assumption of the isolation of neo-Kantianism to Germany. The present investigation demonstrates that neo-Kantianism had an international dimension by showing the emergence of a parallel movement in Imperial Russia spanning its emergence in the late 19th century to its gradual dissolution in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. The author presents a systematic portrait of the development of Russian neo-Kantianism starting with its rise as a philosophy of science. However, it was with the stream of young students returning to Imperial Russia after a period of study at German universities that the movement accelerated. More often than not, these enthusiastic, young philosophers returned home imbued with the neo-Kantianism of their respective but divergent host institutions. As a result, clashes were inevitable concerning the proper approach to philosophical issues as well as the very understanding of Kant's philosophy and his legacy for contemporary thought. In the end, the broad promise of a Western-oriented neo-Kantianism could not withstand the pressures it confronted on all sides.
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VDM Verlag The Mathematical in Heidegger and Badiou
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VDM Verlag Site and Non-Site
£62.29
Grin Publishing Karl Marx: Die deutsche Ideologie
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Practice-Based Innovation: Insights, Applications and Policy Implications
Book SynopsisThe book describes and analyses the new environment for innovation, it does this with an emphasis on yet uncharted regions within the field of practice-based innovation, coming up with guidelines for innovation policy measures needed in order to realise this. While it focuses on these policies it also takes into account multi-actor innovation processes, user-driven innovation, "related variety" and many other aspects; aspects such as, just to name a few: communicating creative processes and distributing practice-based innovation; then there is creativity itself, encompassing new fields of knowledge and expertise. The authors go on to describe value networks, showing how to make practice-based innovations, explaining innovation diffusion and absorptive capacity. The book presents new insights as well as the latest research related to the frequently used term "innovation". Definitions are put forward, giving, by way of examples, a detailed description of concepts we draw upon when using these. Innovation as a concept is constantly being subdivided into increasingly finer distinctions, which, in turn, determine the discourse. The book takes a close look at these, further taking into account the challenges as well as the opportunities inherent in developing practice-based innovation procedures and policies of global importance, never losing sight of advancing long-term effectiveness.Table of ContentsInsights into Practice-Based Innovation and Innovation Strategies.- Micro-, Meso- and Regional Level Applications.- Case Studies and Policy Implications.
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Books on Demand Sartre in 60 Minuten
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Books on Demand Heidegger in 60 Minuten
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Books on Demand Psychologie der Massen
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Felix Meiner Der geschlossne Handelsstaat
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Felix Meiner Phantasie und Bildbewußtsein
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Felix Meiner Hegel - 200 Jahre Wissenschaft der Logik
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Tectum - Der Wissenschaftsverlag Seinsgeschichte und Technik bei Martin Heidegger
£26.59
Books on Demand Dimensionen des Denkens: Dreiwertige Logik erklärt auf der Basis von Gotthard Günther
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Books on Demand Schopenhauers Pudel: Warum unsere Liebesobjekte
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e-artnow Beyond Good and Evil
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Brill The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán: From Communism to the New Social Movements
Book SynopsisThe Marxism of Manuel Sacristán: From Communism to the New Social Movements offers a substantial selection of some the most significant writings on Marx, Marxism, and radical social theory by Manuel Sacristán, Spain’s most important Marxist philosopher. Whether discussing Marx’s intellectual development and philosophical views, exploring central issues in Marxist theory or analysing the challenge to contemporary Marxism from feminism, pacifism and environmentalism, Sacristán emerges in these pages as both a major Marx scholar and a formidable social theorist in his own right. The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán makes available in English for the first time many of the key texts by a brilliant, yet neglected, Marxist thinker.Trade Review"The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán, una magnífica edición de Renzo Llorente. Una Introducción documentada e impecable (pp. 1-22); unas notas informadas y rigurosas, y una traducción excelente (y sin duda nada fácil) son algunos de los atributos que acompañan al excelente y casi insuperable trabajo de este profesor de Filosofía, vivamente interesado por la tradición y filosofía marxistas. El ensayo también incorpora unas cuidadas referencias bibliográficas. [un] magnífico e imprescindible trabajo [...]" – Salvador López Arnal, in: Rebelión, 15-10-2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii Introduction ... 1 A Note on This Edition ... 23 PART 1 On Marx and Engels 1 Marx’s Scientific Work and His Notion of Science ... 29 2 Karl Marx as a Sociologist of Science ... 67 3 Engels’s Task in Anti-Dühring ... 121 4 Marx on Spain ... 141 5 What is Dialectic? ... 154 6 One Hundred Years On: To What ‘Literary Genre’ Does Marx’s Capital Belong? ... 163 7 On the Centenary of Karl Marx’s Death ... 167 8 Which Marx Will Be Read in the Twenty-First Century? ... 170 PART 2 On Political Ecology, Communist Politics, and the New Social Movements 9 Political Ecological Considerations in Marx ... 179 10 Paper for the Conference on Politics and Ecology ... 189 11 The Political and Ecological Situation in Spain and the Way to Approach This Situation Critically from a Position on the Left ... 196 12 Three Notes on the Clash of Cultures and Genocide ... 201 13 On the Subject of ‘Eurocommunism’ ... 212 14 On Stalinism ... 220 15 Marxist Parties and the Peace Movement ... 230 16 The Marxist Tradition and New Problems ... 234 PART 3 Interviews 17 ‘Gramsci is a classic, he is not a fad’: Interview with the Diario de Barcelona ... 255 18 Manuel Sacristán Speaks with Dialéctica ... 259 19 Interview with Naturaleza ... 278 20 Interview with Mundo Obrero ... 285 Further Reading ... 293 References ... 295 Index .. 308
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Brill Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics
Book SynopsisIn Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. The reception of Bloch’s work has seen him variously painted as a naïve realist, a romantic nature philosopher, a totalitarian thinker, and an irrationalist whose obscure literary style stands in for a lack of systematic rigour. Moir challenges these conceptions of Bloch by reconstructing the ontological, epistemological, and political dimensions of his speculative materialism. Through a close, historically contextualised reading of Bloch’s major work of ontology, Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (The Materialism Problem, its History and Substance), Moir presents Bloch as one of the twentieth century’s most significant critical thinkers.Trade Review"Overall, readers from a range of background and interests will find much in this broad, varied and eminently readable study of an underappreciated thinker likely to become a first port of call for much future philosophical engagement with Bloch." - Jack Kellam, in Marx & Philosophy Review of Books [Full review]Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The materialism problem 2. Ontology Nature contra mechanism Matter as the subject of nature The logic of matter Real possibility Teleology without a telos 3. Epistemology The structure of the concept The influence of neo-Kantianism The role of irony Rationalism, empiricism, and practice 4. Politics The German Philosopher of the October Revolution? For Stalin, against Hitler The Politics of Speculative Materialism Speculation, totality, and immanent critique Chapter 5: Relevance and critique The speculative turn: Bloch and Meillassoux New materialism: Bloch and Bennett Ecological materialisms: Bloch, Foster, and Moore Epilogue: The speculative expanse Bibliography
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Brill Confines of Democracy: Essays on the Philosophy of Richard J. Bernstein
Book SynopsisThe topics addressed by Richard J. Bernstein in his extensive and illuminating work span the stream of contemporary thought in several directions: ethics, politics, epistemology, philosophy of history, and social theory. In reflecting on them Bernstein has played an intermediary role between the most recognizable product of American philosophical tradition, i.e. Pragmatism, and such central trends in European 20th century thought as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and Hermeneutics. In this volume a host of prominent scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America pays tribute to Bernstein’s lifelong reflection on such present human problems as: the achievements and the dilemmas of modern societies, the legitimation crisis of democracy, the uses and abuses of public space, the role of scientific knowledge and technology in shaping the modern life, the ethical and political interplay between identity and community, and the preconditions and limits of understanding in multicultural contexts. The fifteen essays in this book, accompanied by separate replies by Bernstein, are organized in four sections: “Bernstein, Rorty and American Pragmatism,” “Epistemology and Hermeneutics,” “Good, Evil and Judgment,” and “Democratic Vistas.” As Prof. Bernstein declares in his Preface, these “contributions are expressions of my own commitment to engaged fallibilistic pluralism.”Table of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION Ramón del Castillo, Ángel M. Faerna and Larry A. Hickman PREFACE Richard J. Bernstein Part One: BERNSTEIN, RORTY AND AMERICAN PRAGMATISM ONE A Tale of Two Dicks Robert Westbrook TWO A Conversation between Friends: The Ironist and the Pragmatic Fallibilist Santiago Rey A Reply to Robert Westbrook and Santiago Rey Richard J. Bernstein THREE Two Tales about Pragmatism and European Philosophy (With an Introductory Family Tale) Carlos Thiebaut A Reply to Carlos Thiebaut Richard J. Bernstein FOUR Bernstein on the Narrative and Identity of Pragmatism in America Gregory Fernando Pappas A Reply to Gregory Fernando Pappas Richard J. Bernstein Part Two: EPISTEMOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS FIVE Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (Again) John Ryder A Reply to John Ryder Richard J. Bernstein SIX Relativism, Good and Bad. Bernstein on the Pragmatic Conception of Objectivity Ángel M. Faerna A Reply to Ángel M. Faerna Richard J. Bernstein SEVEN An “Engaged Fallibilistic Pluralism” Juan Carlos Mougán EIGHT Hermeneutics, Practical Philosophy and the Ontology of Community: Witt¬genstein, Gadamer and Bernstein Núria Sara Miras Boronat A Reply to Juan Carlos Mougán and Núria Saras Miras Boronat Richard J. Bernstein Part Three: GOOD, EVIL AND JUDGMENT NINE Pragmatism, Westerns and Evil. Remarks on Richard J. Bernstein and Forgiveness Federico Penelas A Reply to Federico Penelas Richard J. Bernstein TEN Critical Common Sense, Exemplary Doubting, and Reflective Judgment Heidi Salaverría A Reply to Heidi Salaverría Richard J. Bernstein ELEVEN Enlightenment, Utility and Terror Antonio Gómez Ramos A Reply to Antonio Gómez Ramos Richard J. Bernstein Part Four DEMOCRATIC VISTAS TWELVE Bernstein on Deweyan Democracy James Campbell A Reply to James Campbell Richard J. Bernstein THIRTEEN Reconstruction of Democratic Experience Alicia García Ruiz A Reply to Alicia García Ruiz Richard J. Bernstein FOURTEEN Bernstein between Habermas and Rorty: A Deweyan Reconstruction Larry A. Hickman A Reply to Larry A. Hickman Richard J. Bernstein FIFTEEN Listening Without Banisters. Bernstein and Habermas on Democratic Ethos Ramón Del Castillo A Reply to Ramón del Castillo Richard J. Bernstein
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Brill Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism
Book SynopsisPracticing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism is a collection of texts written by top international experts on American philosophy. They consider various strands of American pragmatism from the viewpoint of practical philosophy, and provide the historical background and an outline of the international encounter with other philosophical traditions. Many key figures of American thought and pragmatist philosophy are discussed. The volume combines a panorama of approaches and gives a wide scope of problems: ethical, religious, social, political, cultural, ontological, cognitive, anthropological, and others, so as to show that pragmatism can be seen as a philosophy of life and as such it focuses on the life problems of contemporary humans in particular and of humanity in general. Contributors are: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, John Lachs, Sami Pihlström , Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński, Kenneth W. Stikkers, and Emil VišňovskýTable of ContentsAKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE by Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński John Lachs: The Obligations of Philosophers Emil Višňovský: Prolegomena to Pragmatist Conception of the Good Life Kenneth W. Stikkers: Practicing Philosophy in the Experience of Living: Philosophy as a Way of Life in the American Philosophical Tradition Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley: Classical American Pragmatism: Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing and Improving Life Sami Pihlström: Problem of Evil and Pragmatic Recognition Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński: Richard Rorty's Neopragmatist Philosophy as a Kind of Humanism INDEX ABOUT CONTRIBUTORS
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Brill Themes from Ontology, Mind, and Logic: Present and Past. Essays in Honour of Peter Simons
Book SynopsisThemes from Ontology, Mind and Logic celebrates Peter Simons’s admirable career. The book contains seventeen essays with themes ranging from metaphysics to phenomenology. The contributions by Fabrice Correia, Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, Ingvar Johansson, Kathrin Koslicki, Uriah Kriegel, Wolfgang Künne, Edgar Morscher, Kevin Mulligan, Maria Elisabeth Reicher, Maria van der Schaar, Benjamin Schnieder, Johanna Seibt, Ted Sider, David Woodruff Smith, Mark Textor and Jan Woleński, tackle the problems that defined Simons’s work and insights into some of today’s most interesting and significant philosophical questions.Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Ontology Fabrice CORREIA: Logical Grounding and First-Degree Entailments Ingvar JOHANSSON: Collections as One-and-Many—On the Nature of Numbers Kathrin KOSLICKI: In Defense of Substance Uriah KRIEGEL: How to Speak of Existence: A Brentanian Approach to (Linguistic and Mental) Ontological Commitment Maria Elisabeth REICHER: Computer-generated Music, Authorship, and Work Identity Benjamin SCHNIEDER: The Asymmetry of ‘Because’ Johanna SEIBT: Non-Transitive Parthood, Leveled Mereology, and the Representation of Emergent Parts of Processes Ted SIDER: Nothing Over and Above David WOODRUFF SMITH: On Basic Modes of Being: Metametaphysical Refl ections in Light of Whitehead, Husserl, Ingarden, Hintikka Part II: Mind Kevin MULLIGAN,: Annehmen, Phantasieren und Entertaining. Husserl und Meinong Mark TEXTOR: Meaning, Entertaining, and Phantasy Judgement Maria VAN DER SCHAAR: Th e Th ings We Call True Part III: Logic Bob HALE & Crispin WRIGHT: Bolzano’s Defi nition of Analytic Propositions Wolfgang KÜNNE: On Having a Property. Corrigenda in Bolzano’s Wissenschaftslehre Edgar MORSCHER: Th e Logic of Truth Jan WOLEŃSKI: An Analysis of Logical Determinism
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Brill Kazimierz Twardowski: A Grammar for Philosophy
Book SynopsisKazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) is the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School with its strong tradition in logic and its scientific approach to philosophy. Twardowski’s unique way of doing philosophy, his method, is of central importance for understanding his impact as a teacher. This method can be understood as a philosophical grammar, which is also how Leibniz conceived his universal language of thought. Analytic philosophy in the twentieth century can be characterized by its opposition to psychologism, on the one hand, and its opposition to metaphysics, on the other. This is changing now, as questions within the philosophy of mind and metaphysics are raised by analytic philosophers today. Maria van der Schaar shows in her book that we can improve our analytic methods by making use of Twardowski’s philosophical grammar. Twardowski’s positive attitude to psychology and metaphysics may also help us to develop an analytic metaphysics and to get a better understanding of the relation between psychology and philosophy.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Twardowski as A Pupil and A Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. Questions of Method. From Descriptive Psychology to Philosophical Grammar . 16 1. Descriptive Psychology . 16 2. A Philosophical Grammar . 24 3. The Grammatical Distinction Between Internal and External Object . 32 4. Modifying Terms . 35 3. Content and Object. From Psychology to Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . 50 1. The Distinction between Content and Object . 50 2. The Content of the Act . 55 3. The Object of the Act . 59 From Psychology to Metaphysics . 59 Husserl’s Reaction to Twardowski’s Account of Intentionality . 61 Metaphysics and Mereology . 68 General Objects . 74 4. Images and Concepts . 80 4. Judgement and Meaning. ON Actions and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 1. The Historical Background of Twardowski’s Theory of Judgement . 84 2. Some Conceptual Distinctions . 91 3. A Development in Twardowski’s Early Account of Judgement . 97 4. Actions and Products . 103 5. Twardowski’s Critique of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement . 113 5. Knowing and Prejudice. An Educational Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 1. Some Conceptual Distinctions . 117 2. Brentano and Bolzano on Knowledge . 119 3. Knowledge, Science and the Cognitive Act . 122 4. Prejudice and the Critical Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 6. Truth and Time. Twardowski’s Impact on his Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 1. The Correspondence Definition of Truth . 129 2. The Absoluteness of Truth and the Logical Principles . 135 3. Determinism and the Relativity of Truth to Time . 150 Truth and Time . 150 Jan Łukasiewicz . 152 Tadeusz Kotarbiński . 154 Leśniewski’s and Twardowski’s Reaction to Kotarbiński . 157 Conclusion . 160 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Name Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
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Brill Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization: Contemporary Philosophical Problems
Book SynopsisFor over a quarter century Russian scholars have operated apart from past ideological constraints and have been discussing in new ways the most acute problems of Russia and of the world community as a whole. Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization makes available in English current research by leading thinkers in Russia in philosophy, political theory, and related fields. At the international level, one group of essays articulates Russian perspectives on key global issues. At the national level, another group of essays delivers analyses of the global dimensions in a variety of current issues in Russia. Taken together, the fourteen chapters of this book demonstrate the relevance and vitality of contemporary Russian philosophy to the study of globalization. Contributors are: Akop P. Nazaretyan, Alexander N. Chumakov, Alexander V. Katsura, Anastasia V. Mitrofanova, Ilia V. Ilyin, Ivan A. Aleshkovskiy, Leonid E. Grinin, Olga G. Leonova, Pavel S. Seleznev, Sergey A. Nikolsky, Tatiana A. Alekseeva, Valentina G. Fedotova, Vladimir N. Porus, Vladimir V. Mironov, William C. Gay, Yakov A. PlyaisTable of ContentsPreface ALEXANDER N. CHUMAKOV Introduction CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION WILLIAM C. GAY PART ONE THE GLOBAL WORLD AS SEEN FROM RUSSIA ONE GLOBALIZATION FROM A PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF VIEW: RUSSIAN VISION ALEXANDER N. CHUMAKOV TWO RUSSIAN CULTURE AND CHALLENGES OF SOCIO-CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION 21 ILIA V. ILYIN AND OLGA G. LEONOVA THREE THE TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND LAW IN GLOBALIZATION VLADIMIR V. MIRONOV FOUR THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF RUSSIA AND GLOBALIZATION SERGEY A. NIKOLSKY FIVE GLOBALIZATION AND CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA: THE NEED FOR INNOVATION PAVEL S. SELEZNEV PART TWO THE GLOBAL DIMENSION OF CURRENT ISSUES IN RUSSIA SIX INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND DEVELOPMENT IVAN A. ALESHKOVSKI SEVEN INTERNAL ANARCHY IN RUSSIA AS AN OBSTACLE FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY VALENTINA G. FEDOTOVA EIGHT THE NEW ELITE CLASS FORMATION AS THE TOP PRIORITY FOR RUSSIAN MODERNIZATION YAKOV A. PLYAIS NINE AMERICA AND RUSSIA: A MULTIPOLAR WORLD AS AN ECHO OF FEAR BEFORE FUTURE UNIFICATION ALEXANDER V. KATSURA PART THREE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVES ON VARIOUS ISSUES TEN THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND PHILOSOPHY LEONID E. GRININ ELEVEN THE PROSPECT FOR POLITICIZATION OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY ANASTASIA V. MITROFANOVA TWELVE NON-LINEAR FUTURES: THE “MYSTERIOUS SINGULARITY” IN VIEW OF MEGA-HISTORY AKOP P. NAZARETYAN THIRTEEN THE TRAGEDY OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRAGEDY (SERGEY N. BULGAKOV AND LEV I. SCHESTOV) VLADIMIR N. PORUS FOURTEEN LIBERALISM IN A NON-IDEAL WORLD TATIANA A. ALEKSEEVA BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX
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Brill Philosophy of Religion and the African American Experience: Conversations with My Christian Friends
Book SynopsisMost white philosophers of religion generally presume that philosophy of religion is based on what is a false universality; whereby the white/Western experience is paradigmatic of humanity at-large. The fact remains that Howard Thurman, James H. Cone and William R. Jones, among others, have produced a substantial amount of theological work quite worthy of consideration by philosophers of religion. Yet this corpus of thought is not reflected in the scholarly literature that constitutes the main body of philosophy of religion. Neglect and ignorance of African American Studies is widespread in the academy. By including chapters on Thurman, Cone and Jones, the present book functions as a corrective to this scholarly lacuna.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Conversation on African Americans and Christianity 1 Can a Philosopher Spoil a Good Christian? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion and the African American Experience 2 Philosophy of Religion: The Social Basis of Theology and the Secular Character of Philosophy 3 Howard Thurman as Historical Investigator: On Jesus—The Man—As Jew and the Meaning of Christianity 4 James Cone and the Old Testament as History Book: A Philosophical Assessment 5 Biblical Scripture is a History Book: An African American Tradition 6 Constructing Noah as Black: A Contemporary Myth about ‘Historical’ Origins of a Biblical Character 7 William R. Jones and Philosophical Theology: Transgressing and Transforming Conventional Boundaries of Black Liberation Theology 8 Divine Racism and the Matter of Internal Criticism: Theology, Theodicy, and Ideology Conclusion: Social Outlook and Sacred Text Bibliography Index
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Brill In Search of Transcendence: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Kazantzakis
Book SynopsisThis book explores the philosophical/religious thought of Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Nikos Kazantzakis in relation to the concept of transcendence. Each of these thinkers has made a strong impact on Western religious and philosophical thought, but each from a nearly completely different angle as well as from a different national background. This comparative study therefore crosses both national and perspectival boundaries. Each of the three thinkers struggled with the notion of transcendence but in uniquely distinct fashion. The conclusion offers yet a third model, the author’s, for understanding transcendence focusing on the concept of “mediation”.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Three Diverse Personas 1 Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane 2 Wittgenstein, the Austrian Expatriate 3 Kazantzakis, the Greek Iconoclast 2 Three Differing Philosophies 1 Kierkegaard’s Ironic Existentialism 2 Wittgenstein’s Linguistic Analysis 3 Kazantzakis’ Cosmic Dualism 3 Three Divergent “Theologies” 1 Kierkegaard’s “Knight of Faith” 2 Wittgenstein and “God-Talk” 3 Kazantzakis’ Emerging Deity Conclusion Mediated Transcendence Bibliography Index
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Brill Adorno and the Concept of Genocide
Book SynopsisAdorno and the Concept of Genocide examines the legacy of Critical Theory’s foremost authority on life ‘after Auschwitz.’ As a leading member of the Frankfurt School and one of post-war Europe’s most important public intellectuals, Adorno’s reflections on genocide and its relation to contemporary society achieved a level of urgency and insight that remains unparalleled to this day. Assembled here for the first time in English is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the seminal significance of the concept of genocide for Adorno’s thought, as well as the enduring relevance of that thought for our own time. Contributors include: Babette Babich, Ryan Crawford, Tom Huhn, Osman Nemli, Ulrich Plass, Erik M. Vogt, James R. Watson, Markus ZöchmeisterTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION BABETTE BABICH Adorno’s “The Answer is False”: Archaeologies of Genocide MARKUS ZÖCHMEISTER Shoah, Critique and the Real: Reading Adorno with Freud and Lacan ERIK M. VOGT The “Useless Residue of the Western Idea of Art”: Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe Concerning Art “After” Auschwitz OSMAN NEMLI Adorno, History “After Auschwitz” RYAN CRAWFORD Words and Organs TOM HUHN Adorno and the Big Chill: The Cold Intimacy of Genocide and Culture Industry ULRICH PLASS Expropriated Death: Alienation and Nullification in Adorno’s Minima Moralia JAMES R. WATSON Negligible Quantities in the Wrong State of Things Matter
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Brill The Political Thought of Václav Havel: Philosophical Influences and Contemporary Applications
Book SynopsisThe book considers Václav Havel’s body of writing as a cohesive whole offering a consistent political philosophy. This bold claim is backed up through a close examination of Havel’s plays, letters, essays and aphorisms. The political philosophy that a close reading of Havel reveals is a liberal one. However, Havel is not the run-of the-mill liberal having influences from the field of phenomenology, Masaryk, Husserl, Levinas Patočka and Heidegger which give him a nuanced view of the self. Havel sees the self as something always being formed. Hence for Havel man has an ability to ‘shake’ his current state and invite transcendence into his life. This agonistic process reveals our responsibility and liberates the self from forces which coerce behaviour.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Themes in Havel’s Thought Chapter 2. The Influence of Jan Patočka Chapter 3. Further Patočkean Ideas in Havel’s Thought Chapter 4. Living in Truth as an Existential Concept Chapter 5. Havel’s Concern for Meaningful Political Discourse Chapter 6. Václav Havel’s Political Thought as a Liberal Philosophy. Chapter 7. Havel’s Liberal Agonism Chapter 8. Conclusion: Havel and the Neoliberal State Bibliography Index
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Brill The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939
Book SynopsisThe Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and “the occult” in the early 20th century. By developing a new approach to Max Weber’s famous idea of a “disenchantment of the world”, and drawing on an impressively diverse set of sources, Egil Asprem opens up a broad field of inquiry that connects the histories of science, religion, philosophy, and Western esotericism. Parapsychology, occultism, and the modern natural sciences are usually viewed as distinct cultural phenomena with highly variable intellectual credentials. In spite of this view, Asprem demonstrates that all three have met with similar intellectual problems related to the intelligibility of nature, the relation of facts to values, and the dynamic of immanence and transcendence, and solved them in comparable terms.Trade ReviewThis is a path-breaking book! It not only opens up an interdisciplinary space in which to analyze a range of responses to disenchantment within and between the history of religion, the history of science, and the history of esotericism, but it articulates a method – Problemgeschichte – for doing so. The method allows Asprem to surface many contending views on the place of mysterious incalculable powers in the modern world, which cut across disciplines in surprising ways, and to demonstrate the value of a critical constructivism build on naturalistic grounds for scholarly work. - Ann Taves, University of California at Santa Barbara. The complex interface between the sciences, religion, and esoteric forms of thought and experience is one of those "elephants in the living room" that many know about but almost no one knows how to talk about. Egil Asprem knows how to talk about it, and very well indeed: through a historical genealogy of the interface, through a careful tracing of the debates around the limits of reason and science, and through an astute rethinking of Weber's seminal notion of disenchantment. The result is extremely satisfying and rich beyond measure. - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. Egil Asprem’s study has the potential of causing a Copernican revolution in our understanding of the “disenchantment of the world”. Grounded in meticulous textual analysis of a large sample of representative sources – from the “hard” natural sciences via psychical research to the “soft” domain of religion and esotericism – it combines sensitive historical research with sharp theoretical reflection and should lead us to question some of our most deeply ingrained assumptions about the nature of modernity. - Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam.
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Brill Perspektiven der Philosophie: Neues Jahrbuch. Band 43 – 2017
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 ContentsLeben und Geist Lebensform ‚Mensch‘. Fundamentalanthropologische Reflexionen Thorsten Streubel Tier und Mensch bei Darwin und im Neodarwinismus Karl-Heinz Nusser Schöpfung dualistisch. Zu Henri Bergsons Metaphysik Georges Goedert Strategien der Kontingenzbewältigung Nietzsche und Freud: „Grosse Gesundheit“ und „thaumaturgische Kräfte“ Jutta Georg Die Rezeption des Buddhismus durch Schopenhauer und Nietzsche. Versuch einer Neuinterpretation des Lehrstücks vom Übermenschen im Lichte der Kontingenzproblematik Heinz-Gerd Schmitz Das Sein zum Tode als Weg aus der Seinsvergessenheit? Johannes Achill Niederhauser Suche und Orientierung Warum Werte? Über ein Gefühl im westlichen Denken Jürgen Große Emotionales Neuro-Enhancement als Weg zum Glück? Individualethische Reflexionen zur biochemischen Induzierbarkeit menschlichen Glücks Dagmar Fenner Konzept und Bedeutung des Daimonions in Xenophons Apologie des Sokrates – zwischen platonischer εἰρωνεία und xenophontischer μεγαληγορία Boris Hogenmüller Nachlese Ὀψοποιος καὶ θηρευτής: Jäger und Koch Jörg Willer Buchbesprechungen Leonhard G. Richter, Dürer-Code. Albrecht Dürers entschlüsselte Meisterstiche, Dettelbach: J.H. Röll-Verlag 2014, 304 Seiten, zahlr. farb. Abb. Enträtselte Meisterwerke Yannic Weber (Rez.) Arbogast Schmitt, Wie aufgeklärt ist die Vernunft der Aufklärung? Eine Kritik aus aristotelischer Sicht, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2016, 472 Seiten Rudi Ott (Rez.) Mitarbeiterliste 2017 Richtlinien für die Einreichung von Manuskripten
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Brill Care of the Self: Ancient Problematizations of Life and Contemporary Thought
Book SynopsisThe studies included in the Care of the Self: Ancient Problematizations of Life and Contemporary Thought focus on different manifestations of “taking care of the self” present in ancient and contemporary thought. Each of these studies approaches the issue of taking care of the self from a different perspective: Part I by Vladislav Suvák focuses on Socrates’ therapeutic education; Part II by Lívia Flachbartová centres on Diogenes’ ascetic practices; and Part III by Pavol Sucharek concentrates on Henri Maldiney’s existential phenomenology. Taking care of the self (epimeleia heautou) is not just one of a great many topics associated with ancient ethics. Echoing Michel Foucault, we could say that the care of the self applies to all problematizations of life.Table of ContentsPreface 1 Socratic Therapy as Taking Care of the Self and Others Vladislav Suvák 2 The Care of the Self and Diogenes’ Ascetic Practices Lívia Flachbartová 3 The Care of the Self and Its Phenomenological Constitution: Henri Maldiney Pavol Sucharek Index
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Brill From Ego to Eco: Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism
Book SynopsisFrom Ego to Eco – Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism investigates philosophical, political and aesthetic formations of ecocentrism. Representing a variety of disciplines and testing a broad scope of critical approaches, the contributors of this volume argue that anthropocentrism is not - as often claimed - a predominant world view but, rather, a widely contested concept. Within various historical and national contexts, the individual contributors of this book discuss the significance and relevance of ecocentrism and offer new avenues to emerging discourses in the humanities. Contributors are: Darrell Arnold, Roman Bartosch, Aengus Daly, Gearoid Denvir, Elisabeth Jütten, Karla McManus, Sabine Lenore Müller, Maureen O’ Connor, Lillis Ó Laoire, Helen Phelan, Tina-Karen Pusse, and Christian Schmitt-Kilb.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Sabine Lenore Müller and Tina-Karen Pusse Part 1: Ecocentric Ways of Being: Human-Nature Continuities in Philosophy and Poetry 1 The Language of Nature: Non-differentiation and Concept Formation in Early Modern Empiricisms Aengus Daly 2 Environmental Modernism: Ecocentric Conceptions of the Self and the Emotions in the Works of R.M. Rilke and W.B. Yeats Sabine Lenore Müller 3 Hortus Deliciarum/Garden of Delights: A Somatic Interpretation Helen Phelan 4 From Dead Letters to Living Writing: The Aesthetic of Life in Novalis Elisabeth Jütten Part 2: Ecocentric Dwelling: The Global and the Local 5 A Voice from the Land: The Ecopoetics of a Gaeltacht Oral Poet Gearóid Denvir 6 Murder in a Meadow: Environmental and Cultural Extinction in Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s “Scrúdú Coinsiasa Roimh Dhul Chun Suain” Lillis Ó Laoire 7 “Poetry’s a Line of Defence”: Ecopoetry and Politics in the 21st Century Christian Schmitt-Kilb 8 Greening Democracy: A Defence of Critical Political Theory Darrell Arnold Part 3: Ecocentric Vision: Zoomorphism and Animal Perspectives 9 Dark Ecology and Black Comedy in Patrick McGinley’s Foggage Maureen O’Connor 10 Above, Below and Behind the Camera: The Perspective of Animals Karla McManus Part 4: Ecocentrism at the Limits: Animal Encounters 11 Against Exuberant Ecocentrism: Kafka, Coetzee and Transformative Mimesis Roman Bartosch Index
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Brill Continental Philosophy and Theology
Book SynopsisContinental Philosophy and Theology illustrates the perceived tension between these fields: one is seemingly concerned with destroying normative, metaphysical order and the other with preserving religious identity in the face of secularism. He calls for a nondualistic theology concerned with complexity and comparative inquiry in order to realign their relationship.Table of ContentsContinental Philosophy and Theology Colby Dickinson Abstract Keywords Introduction Part 1: The Political-Theological Stakes of Continental Thought Part 2: Reassessing the Dualisms within Political Theology Part 3: Continental Thought beyond Dualistic Thinking Conclusion Bibliography
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Brill John Lachs's Practical Philosophy: Critical Essays on His Thought with Replies and Bibliography
Book SynopsisJohn Lachs (1934-) has been one of the most interesting American philosophers for nearly sixty years. His philosophical, educational, and public activity has been an attempt to show the relevance of philosophy to life. This is the first book dedicated to his thought. International scholars have proposed different themes in Lachs’ philosophy, so as to present its enormous potential. Lachs’ responses to his critics shows that dialogue with his critics is an inspirational activity for both sides. Lachs’ way of philosophizing can be seen as exemplary for those who want to unify and present a clear and understandable articulation of moral and philosophical messages to everyone.Table of ContentsPreface Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction Herman Saatkamp Jr. Prologue John Lachs Part 1: The Practice of Philosophizing 1 Lachs on Transcendence: Art’s Relation to the Life of Reason Michael Hodges Reply to Michael Hodges 2 Thinking in the World: Expanding the Practical Uses of Philosophy Kelly A. Parker Reply to Kelly Parker 3 Practical Posthumanism in the Philosophy of John Lachs Phillip McReynolds Reply to Phillip McReynolds 4 John Lachs’s Relativism in Philosophical Education as Seen from a Practical Perspective Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński Reply to Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński 5 John Lachs, Meaningful Effort, and the Broken World Charles Padrón Reply to Charles Padrón Part 2: Philosophical Relationships 6 Lachs, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness Andrew Fiala Reply to Andrew Fiala 7 Lachs vs. Santayana Richard Rubin Reply to Richard Rubin 8 The Unadulterated Joy and the Pressure of Obligations in John Lachs’s Philosophy Nóra Horváth Reply to Nóra Horváth Part 3: Stoic Pragmatism 9 How Stoic is Lachs’ Pentapharmakos? Daniel Pinkas Reply to Daniel Pinkas 10 Toward an Ontology for Stoic Pragmatism Griffin Trotter Reply to Griffin Trotter 11 Self-Respect, Positive Power, and Stoic Pragmatism: Rawls, Dewey, and Lachs on Justice and Happiness Eric Thomas Weber Reply to Eric Thomas Weber 12 ‘Raisins in the Bread of Life’: On the Practical Joys of Lachs’s Stoic Pragmatism Shannon Sullivan Reply to Shannon Sullivan Part 4: Anthropology, Social Ethics, and Bioethics 13 The Unlived Life: The Main Nemesis of the Examined Life Vincent Colapietro Reply to Vincent Colapietro 14 Are Acts of Institutions Really Fully Analyzable into the Constituent Actions of Human Beings? Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley Reply to Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley 15 Mediation and Its Discontents Michael Brodrick Reply to Michael Brodrick 16 Facing Death: Preparing for Dying as a Social Process Patrick Shade Reply to Patrick Shade 17 John Lachs on Happiness and Individuality Matthew Caleb Flamm Reply to Matthew C. Flamm Part 5: Addendum 18 Immediacy and the Future Phil Oliver Reply to Phil Oliver 19 Death and Self-Importance John Lachs Part 6: Comprehensive Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources Articles and Shorter Pieces Books Secondary Bibliography Directed Dissertations at Vanderbilt University Index
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Brill Nietzsche and the Dionysian: A Compulsion to Ethics
Book SynopsisNietzsche and the Dionysian argues that the shuddering mania of the affect associated with Dionysus in Nietzsche’s early work runs as a thread through his thought and is linked to an originary interruption of self-consciousness articulated by the philosophical companion. In this capacity, the companion can be considered a ‘mask of Dionysus’, or one who assumes the singular role of the transmitter of the most valuable affirmative affect and initiates a compulsion to respond which incorporates the otherness of the companion. In the context of such engagements, Nietzsche envisages ‘Dionysian’ or divine ‘madness’ within an optics of life, through which an affirmative ethics can be thought. The ethical response to the philosophical companion requires an affirmation of the plurality of life, formulated in the imperatives to be ‘true to the earth’ and ‘become who you are’. Such an ethics, compelled by the Dionysian affect, grounds any future for humanity in the affirmation of the earth and life.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Dionysian as an Ethical Sense 1 Shuddering and Ethics 2 The Dionysian Mania 3 Pessimism and Consolation 2 Creature and Creator 1 Satyr and Chorus 2 The Dionysian Companion as Compulsion 3 The Look of Eternity 4 The Dithyrambic Dramatist and Transmissibility 3 The Way of the Wanderers 1 Leaving Bayreuth, Finding Bayreuth 2 The Great Separation 3 Similes of Time and Becoming 4 The Dance with Life 5 The Shadow of Ambivalence 4 The Weight of Affirmation 1 The Twofold Will 2 The Thread of the Body 3 Soul, Self, Spirit 4 The Eternal Recurrence Test 5 Redeeming the Past 6 The Spiritualization of the Passions 7 The Spiritualization of Justice 5 The Possibility of Self-Overcoming 1 Practical Spiritualized Values 2 Evaluation and the Order of Rank 3 Will to Power and Passivity 4 Will to Power Engaging Resistance 5 The Value of Resistance 6 Irresistible Resistance 6 Towards a Practical Ethics of the Earth and Life 1 The Blessed Isles 2 The Gift-Giving Virtues 3 The New Laws 4 Learning to Laugh 5 Nightwandering 6 Advocates of the Future 7 Working for the Future 1 We Hyperboreans 2 An Allegory of Eternity 3 The Human Sublime 4 The Dionysian (Once More) 5 Conversations on Naxos 6 The Satyr Chorus of Humanity Epilogue Bibliography Name Index Subject Index
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Brill Russian Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: An Anthology
Book SynopsisRussian Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: An Anthology provides the English-speaking world with access to post-Soviet philosophic thought in Russia for the first time. The Anthology presents the fundamental range of contemporary philosophical problems in the works of prominent Russian thinkers. In contrast to the “single-mindedness” of Soviet-era philosophers and the bias toward Orthodox Christianity of émigré philosophers, it offers to its readers the authors’ plurality of different positions in widely diverse texts. Here one finds strictly academic philosophical works and those in an applied, pragmatic format—secular and religious—that are dedicated to complex social and political matters, to pressing cultural topics or insights into international terrorism, as well as to contemporary science and global challenges.Table of Contents From the Editors Foreword: Russian Philosophy as Anthology Alyssa DeBlasio Anatolii Akhutin Homo Europaeus Anatolii Akhutin Alexander Chumakov Historical and Philosophical Aspects of Global Studies in the Modern Scientific System Alexander Chumakov David Dubrovskii Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Thomas Nagel’s Article, “Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem,” Revisited David Dubrovskii Mikhail Epstein From Analysis to Synthesis: conceiving a Transformative Metaphysics for the Twenty-first Century Mikhail Epstein Valentina Fedotova Terrorism: an Attempt at Conceptualization Valentina Fedotova Fedor Girenok On Culture’s Turn to Nonconceptual Thinking Fedor Girenok Aleksei Griakalov Philosophy of the Event and Hermeneutics of Memory: evidence of Assertion Aleksei Griakalov Boris Groys Becoming Cosmic Boris Groys Pavel Gurevich The Theme of Man in Russian Philosophy Pavel Gurevich Sergey Horujy Synergic Anthropology: foundations, Goals, Results Sergey Horujy Vladimir Kantor The Problem of Posthumous Existence from Plato to Dostoyevsky: “Bobok,” a Short Story by Dostoyevsky Vladimir Kantor Igor’ Kliamkin Demilitarization as a Historical and Cultural Issue Igor’ Kliamkin Vladimir Kutyrev Philosophy for and by Humans Vladimir Kutyrev Boris Markov The Image of “The Other”: xenophobia and Xenophilia Boris Markov Vadim Mezhuev Russia in Search of Its Civilizational Identity Vadim Mezhuev Alexander Nikiforov The Value of Science Alexander Nikiforov Valery Podoroga What Does One Really Mean by Asking: “What Is Philosophy?” Valery Podoroga Nikolai Rozov The Cyclical Dynamics in Russian History Nikolai Rozov Mikhail Sergeev The Enlightenment Project: reflections on the National Identity of US Americans Mikhail Sergeev Natalya Shelkovaia Friedrich Nietzsche on the Way of Recurrence to Oneself Natalya Shelkovaia Karen Swassjan Theologia Heterodoxa Karen Swassjan Index
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Brill Is Human Life Absurd? A Philosophical Inquiry into Finitude, Value, and Meaning
Book SynopsisIn this work, Belliotti unravels the paradoxes of human existence. The purpose of this philosophical journey is to reveal paths for forging meaningful, significant, valuable, even important lives. By examining notions of The Absurd expressed within Search for the Holy Grail, The Seventh Seal, and The Big Lebowski, the author crafts a working definition of “absurdity.” He then investigates the contributions of classical thinkers such as Shakespeare, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Sartre, Camus, as well as philosophers such as Nagel, Feinberg, and Taylor. After arguing that human life is not inherently absurd, Belliotti examines the implications of mortality for human existence, the relationship between subjective and objective meaning, and the persuasiveness of several challenging contemporary renderings of meaningful human lives.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Defining the Absurd 1 Absurdity Within Classical Cinema 1.1 Search for the Holy Grail (1975) 1.2 The Seventh Seal (1957) 1.3 The Big Lebowski (1998) 2 Absurdity in Human Life 3 Feinberg’s Analysis of Absurdity 4 A Working Definition of Absurdity 2 Relational Absurdity 1 Tolstoy’s Psychological Collapse and Redemption 2 Camus and the Absurd 2.1 A Stoic Precursor: Marcus Aurelius 2.2 Sisyphus the Defiant Hero 2.3 Sisyphus as Prince of Propinquity 2.4 Has Camus Demonstrated that Human Life is Absurd? 3 Kierkegaard, Religion, and the Absurd 4 Sartre and the Absurd 4.1 Defining Who We Are 4.2 Are We Free? 4.3 Emotions 4.4 Has Sartre Demonstrated that Human Life is Absurd? 5 The Relationship between the Absurd and the Meaningful 6 The Contingent Nature of Absurdity 3 Internal Absurdity 1 Shakespeare and the Absurd 2 The Cosmic Perspective and the Personal Perspective 3 Schopenhauer’s Derivation of Absurdity from the Nature of Desire 4 Nietzsche: Will to Power and Process Values 4.1 Nihilism and Will to Power 4.2 Grand Strivers and Pogo Sticks 4.3 Suffering, Happiness, and Power 4.4 Denying Pessimism, Striving Grandly, and Lingering Doubts 5 Nagel and the Absurd Within 5.1 The Absurd as an Objective Condition and as a Subjective Experience 5.2 Is Nagel’s Absurd an Inevitable Part of the Human Condition? 5.3 Everyday Absurdity and the Absurdity of an Entire Human Life 5.4 What is the Proper Human Response to the Absurd? 6 Combatting the Absurd 6.1 Process and Inherent Values 6.2 Can We Turn “Absurdity” into Practical Advantage? 7 The Contingency of Absurdity 4 Taylor’s Romance with Meaningful Living 1 Taylor and the Absurd 1.1 “The Meaning of Life” (1970) 1.2 “The Meaning of Human Existence” (1981) 1.3 “Time and Life’s Meaning” (1987) 1.4 “The Meaning of Life” (1999) 2 Reconstructing Taylor on Meaning in Life 3 The Cosmic and Personal Perspectives, Again 5 Interpreting a Meaningful Human Life 1 Full and Attenuated Meaning 2 The Fundamentality Theory 2.1 The Intuitions in Play 2.2 Reason and Meaning 2.3 Posthumous Significance and Meaning in Life 2.4 Purposive Theories of Meaning 3 Why a Positive Visceral Response is Necessary for Meaning in Life 4 Subjective Attraction Meets Objective Value 5 An Analysis of a Minimally Meaningful Human Life Bibliography About the Author Index
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Brill Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature
Book SynopsisGreen Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. Based on recent developments in ecocriticism, the book demonstrates how the aesthetic dimension of literary texts makes them a vital force in the struggle for sustainable futures. Applying this understanding to individual works from a number of different thematic fields, cultural contexts and literary genres, Green Matters presents novel approaches to the manifold ways in which literature can make a difference. While the first sections of the book highlight the transnational, the focus on Canada in the last section allows a more specific exploration of how themes, genres and literary forms develop their own manifestations within a national context. Through its unifying ecocultural focus and its variegated approaches, the volume is an essential contribution to contemporary environmental humanities.Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction and Theoretical Frame 1Introduction to the Volume Melanie Braunecker and Maria Löschnigg 2The Function of Literature in Environmental Discourses Maria Löschnigg 3Literature and/as Cultural Ecology Hubert Zapf Part 2: Literature and the Environment: Past and Present 4Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian Novels David Creelman 5‘On the Edge of Humanism’: Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental Concerns Halia Koo 6James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News’, and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis Bonnie Roos Part 3: New Approaches to Climate Fiction 7Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film Axel Goodbody 8Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of Ecophrasis Alex Hunt 9Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan’s Solar Johannes Wally 10Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’ Iva Polak 11Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of Persistence Heather Duncan and Eleanor Gold Part 4: Creative Criticism 12Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction) Julia Martin 13‘When we walked on the backs of fish’: A Writer’s Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional Narratives Marilyn Bowering 14The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: ‘New Epic’ Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental Writing Di Brandt Part 5: Special Focus: Canadian Contexts 15Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of Literature Maria Löschnigg 16Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau’s Forward (2016) Nassim Winnie Balestrini 17The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurray Melanie Braunecker 18carried away on the crest of a wave – A Play of Hope by David Yee Albert Rau 19Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian Schoolbooks Claire E. Smerdon 20Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts’ The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet’s L’Oursiade Konrad Gro Index
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Brill Words, Deeds, Bodies: L. Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, M. Merleau-Ponty and M. Polanyi
Book SynopsisWords, Deeds, Bodies by Jerry H. Gill concentrates on the interrelationships between speech, accomplishing tasks, and human embodiment. Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Michael Polanyi have all highlighted these relationships. This book examines the, as yet, unexplored connections between these authors’ philosophies of language. It focuses on the relationships between their respective key ideas: Wittgenstein’s notion of “language game,” Austin’s concept of “performative utterances,” Merleau-Ponty’s idea of “slackening the threads,” and Polanyi's understanding of “tacit knowing,” noting the similarities and differences between and amongst them.Trade Review"In this admirably clear, concise, and eminently readable book, Gill explores many of the ways our language arises within our profoundly embodied and socially embedded practices of meaning-making. He artfully weaves together Wittgenstein’s conception of language games, Austin’s focus on the social conditions for speech acts, Merleau-Ponty’s emphasis on language as embodied, and Polanyi’s articulation of the tacit bodily dimensions of human knowing. The result is a rich appreciation of the embodied, enactive, and socially mediated processes of meaning and thought." - Mark Johnson, Philip H. Knight Professor Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon "In Words, Deeds, and Bodies, Professor Gill summons four of the profoundest thinkers of the last century. Guiding us through the application of their insights, he brings into focus key connections among language, social behavior, and embodiment. Gill illuminatingly explains that it is part of the nature of things that meaning, arising through the activity of embodied, linguistic agents, will always be grounded in an unarticulated and unexplained residuum." - Dr. Brendan Lalor, Professor of Philosophy, Castleton State College, VermontTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1Wittgenstein’s “Language-Games” 2J.L. Austin’s “Performative Utterances” 3Merleau-Ponty’s “Intentional Threads” Conclusion: Michael Polanyi’s “Tacit Knowing” Bibliography Index
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Brill Leo Kofler’s Philosophy of Praxis: Western Marxism and Socialist Humanism: With Six Essays by Leo Kofler Published in English for the First Time
Book SynopsisThe German-Austrian social theorist and philosopher Leo Kofler (1907–1995) represents what Oskar Negt once called ‘unmutilated, living Marxism’. Throughout his life he dealt with issues of history and modernity, Marxist philosophy and the critique of ideology, philosophical anthropology and aesthetics. In this volume, author and Kofler biographer Christoph Jünke elucidates the contours of his philosophy of praxis, traces an arc from the socialist classics to postmodernism, and outlines the socialist humanist thinker’s enduring relevance. The book also includes six essays by Leo Kofler published in English for the first time. The main work was first published in German as Leo Koflers Philosophie der Praxis: Eine Einführung in sein Denken by Laika Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-944233-33-8. Copyright by Laika Verlag.Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition List of Illustrations 1 A Border Crosser of the Twentieth Century 2 From Classical Socialism to the Critique of Neoliberal Globalisation: Leo Kofler’s Marxism as Theory Intended for Practice 3 Kofler’s Critique of Stalinism 4 Socialist Humanism, Human Nature and Marxist Anthropology 5 The Debate over a Marxist Aesthetics: Going beyond Adorno and Lukács with Kofler and Lefebvre 6 Pseudo-Nature and Pseudo-Critique: Krahl, Kofler, and the Critique of the Frankfurt School with the Intention of Practice Timetable of the Life and Work of Leo Kofler Illustrations Appendix: Six Essays by Kofler On Freedom [1951] Liberalism and Democracy [1959/1972] The Progressive Elite [1959] The Concept of Society in Historical Materialism [1956] The Three Main Stages of Dialectical Social Philosophy [1966] The Anthropology of Consciousness in the Materialism of Karl Marx [1983] Bibliography Index
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