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Fordham University Press The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For
In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas, Marion, and Henry in attempting to join philosophy and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.
£27.90
The University of Chicago Press Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History
In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and Heidegger but also draws on the pertinent thought of other philosophers whose contributions to the debate is crucial—particularly Rousseau, Kant, and Nietzsche.
£22.43
Indiana University Press In Defense of Kant's Religion
Chris L. Firestone and Nathan Jacobs integrate and interpret the work of leading Kant scholars to come to a new and deeper understanding of Kant's difficult book, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In this text, Kant's vocabulary and language are especially tortured and convoluted. Readers have often lost sight of the thinker's deep ties to Christianity and questioned the viability of the work as serious philosophy of religion. Firestone and Jacobs provide strong and cogent grounds for taking Kant's religion seriously and defend him against the charges of incoherence. In their reading, Christian essentials are incorporated into the confines of reason, and they argue that Kant establishes a rational religious faith in accord with religious conviction as it is elaborated in his mature philosophy. For readers at all levels, this book articulates a way to ground religion and theology in a fully fledged defense of Religion which is linked to the larger corpus of Kant's philosophical enterprise.
£21.99
Edinburgh University Press Continental Realism and its Discontents
Taking the challenge of speculative realism seriously, 'Continental Realism and Its Discontents' refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.
£22.99
Edinburgh University Press German Idealism: An Anthology and Guide
This book brings together and introduces selections from the main philosophical writings of the German Idealists: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. As well as being the most comprehensive anthology of this period of the history of philosophy it also provides scholarly guides to all of the selected material. Each of the selected texts comes with an editorial introduction to help the reader through the specific problems dealt with in the text as well as explaining its historical context. In addition there is an introductory essay which sets out the many challenges faced in any interpretation of the German Idealist period of philosophy. The material is arranged thematically into the following sections, Self and Knowledge, Freedom and Morality, Law and State, Art and Beauty, History and Reason, Nature and Science, God and Religion. This arrangement enables the reader to appreciate the differing positions of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel on the central questions of philosophy. This book is indispensable for those who want to understand the unique character, problems, and questions of German Idealism, and will also be useful to those who want to explore new areas of this influential and original epoch of philosophy. Features *Essential texts combined with a thorough guide to German Idealism *Concentrates on the four major figures of German Idealism - Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel *Thematic sections maximise the book's use for teaching purposes *Makes available material which is difficult to find
£105.00
University of Wales Press Kant's Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress
This book focuses on Kant’s analysis of three issues crucial for contemporary politics. Starting from a new reading of Kant’s account of our innate right to freedom, it highlights how a Kantian foundation of human rights, properly understood and modified where necessary, appears more promising than the foundational arguments currently offered by philosophers. It then compares Kant’s model for peace with the apparently similar model of democratic peace to show that the two are profoundly different in content and in quality. The book concludes in analysis of Kant’s controversial view of history to rescue it from the idea that his belief in progress is at best over-optimistic and at worst dogmatic. Congratulations to Professor Luigi Caranti and his book 'Kant's Political Legacy' which has been given a 'honorable mention' by the North American Kant Society in the competition for the best 2018 book on Kant!! http://northamericankantsociety.onefireplace.org/Announcements/6660588
£81.00
Duke University Press Black Enlightenment
In Black Enlightenment Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the works of such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams (1697–1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (1729?–1780), and Afro-American poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784), placing them alongside those of their white European contemporaries David Hume (1711-1776) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). By rethinking the Enlightenment and its canons, Parekh complicates common understandings of the Enlightenment wherein Black subjects could exist only in negation to white subjects. Black Enlightenment points to the anxiety of race in Hume, Kant, and others while showing the importance of Black Enlightenment thought. Parekh prompts us to consider the timeliness of reading Black Enlightenment authors who become “free” in a society hostile to that freedom.
£81.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd God and Morality: A Philosophical History
God and Morality evaluates the ethical theories of four principle philosophers, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R.M. Hare. Uses their thinking as the basis for telling the story of the history and development of ethical thought more broadly Focuses specifically on their writings on virtue, will, duty, and consequence Concentrates on the theistic beliefs to highlight continuity of philosophical thought
£82.95
Columbia University Press Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for peace.
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered, Volume XXXV
Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Paul Hoffman is an international collection of essays from both well-established and younger scholars. In keeping with the example of Hoffman’s own work, the essays are written in the spirit of promoting serious philosophical engagement with the historical figures they discuss. Among the philosophers whose views are explored in the collection are Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Kant.
£48.72
University of Illinois Press Stupidity
In Stupidity Avital Ronell explores the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Drawing on a range of writers including Dostoevsky, Schlegel, Musil, and Wordsworth, Stupidity investigates ignorance, dumbfounded-ness, and the limits of reason.
£19.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Arguments and Fists: Political Agency and Justification in Liberal Theory
Many theorists have addressed a central concern of current political theory by contending that the dithering intellectualism of left politics prevents genuine political action. Arguments and Fists confronts this concern by refuting these arguments, and reconciling philosophical debates with the realities of current activism. By looking at theorists such as Montesquieu, Kant, Rousseau, the book contradicts current academic debates and also goes against contemporary theory's image of the liberal political agent as a narrowly rational abstraction. Mika LaVaque-Manty also argues that progressive political philosophy and political action go hand in hand. He then ventures past Kant and Rousseau to talk about specific environmental activism, finding middle ground between the two while asserting that the liberal urge for political reform stems from sound philosophical considerations about the nature of politics and isn't the cowardly afterthoughts some theorists have called it. Arguments and Fists then puts these theoretical insights to use, examining environmental justice movements and varieties of environmental radicalism, showing how liberal theory illuminates concrete contemporary political practices.
£170.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Continental Aesthetics: Romanticism to Postmodernism: An Anthology
This comprehensive anthology provides a collection of classic and contemporary readings in continental aesthetics. Spanning Romanticism through Modernism to Postmodernism, the volume includes landmark texts that have sparked renewed interest in aesthetics, including works by Schiller, Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Luk?cs, Habermas, Foucault, Kristeva, and Derrida.
£38.95
Sobre el fracaso de todo ensayo filosfico en la Teodicea
Es este uno de los ensayos de Kant mejor construidos. Pertenece al periodo de madurez de su pensamiento, pues apareció una vez publicada la tercera de las Críticas. En él, con ocasión del problema de la justificación de la sabiduría divina frente a lo que en el mundo nos parece indigno de ella, Kant proporciona una muestra del curso que ha recorrido su entera filosofía crítica. Defiende así que la llamada teodicea doctrinal, construida merced al uso teórico de la razón, fracasa en sus intentos de defender al Creador ante el mal de diverso género. No obstante, el recurso a las fuentes prácticas del conocimiento permite al filósofo proponer una novedosa teodicea, que denomina auténtica. Esta teodicea no amplía el saber, pero conduce inexorablemente a admitir por fe racional moral que Dios, en tanto que bien supremo, está en nexo moral con su creación, a pesar de las apariencias en contra. Un ejemplo de esta peculiar defensa de la sabiduría divina, expresado alegóricamente, lo encuentra K
£11.13
Cuerpo de Profesores de Enseanza Secundaria Filosofa. Vol. V Temario.
FECHA DE PUBLICACIÓNjueves, 29 de julio de 2010CONTENIDOEl arco histórico que va de Kant a Habermas, de la Ilustración a la Postmodernidad, del Idealismo alemán la era de internet, es, sin duda alguna, la época más apasionante del pensamiento filosófico. La Ilustración nace en las Islas Británicas, se ejecuta políticamente en Francia y es pensada en Alemania. Los tres primeros temas de este volumen, dedicados a Kant y Hegel, tienen a aquella como el contexto creativo en el que surgen las grandes ideas que definen la Modernidad: subjetividad, ciencia positiva, diferenciación de las esferas de valor y teoría del estado moderno. El s.XIX supone el gran avance de las ciencias y el impacto de éstas en la experiencia filosófica: positivismo, marxismo y todo tipo de irracionalismos (primacía de la voluntad de vivir, de la voluntad de poder, del individuo, de lo inconsciente, de la existencia, etc.) convergen entre si para luchar contra
£33.65
Pennsylvania State University Press Kant's Theory of A Priori Knowledge
The prevailing interpretation of Kant’s First Critique in Anglo-American philosophy views his theory of a priori knowledge as basically a theory about the possibility of empirical knowledge (or experience), or the a priori conditions for that possibility (the representations of space and time and the categories). Instead, Robert Greenberg argues that Kant is more fundamentally concerned with the possibility of a priori knowledge—the very possibility of the possibility of empirical knowledge in the first place.Greenberg advances four central theses:(1) the Critique is primarily concerned about the possibility, or relation to objects, of a priori, not empirical knowledge, and Kant’s theory of that possibility is defensible; (2) Kant’s transcendental ontology must be distinct from the conditions of the possibility of a priori knowledge; (3) the functions of judgment, in Kant’s discussion of the Table of Judgments, should be seen according to his transcendental logic as having content, not as being just logical forms of judgment making; (4) Kant’s distinction between and connection of ordering relations (Verhaltnisse) and reference relations (Beziehungen) have to be kept in mind to avoid misunderstanding the Critique. At every step of the way Greenberg contrasts his view with the major interpretations of Kant by commentators like Henry Allison, Jonathan Bennett, Paul Guyer, and Peter Strawson. Not only does this new approach to Kant present a strong challenge to these dominant interpretations, but by being more true to Kant’s own intent it holds promise for making better sense out of what have been seen as the First Critique’s discordant themes.
£29.95
The University of Chicago Press German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
In "German Idealism and the Jew", Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irrational, oriental Others forms the very cornerstone of German idealism, including Kant's conception of universal reason. Offering the first analytical account of the connection between anti-Semitism and philosophy, Mack begins his exploration by showing how the fundamental thinkers in the German idealist tradition - Kant, Hegel, and, through them, Feuerbach and Wagner - argued that the human world should perform and enact the promises held out by a conception of an otherworldly heaven. But their respective philosophies all ran aground on the belief that the worldly proved incapable of transforming itself into this otherworldly ideal. To reconcile this incommensurability, Mack argues, philosophers created a construction of Jews as symbolic of the "worldliness" that hindered the development of a body politic and that served as a foil to Kantian autonomy and rationality. In the second part, Mack examines how Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Franz Rosenzweig and Freud, among others, grappled with being both German and Jewish. Each thinker accepted the philosophies of Kant and Hegel, in varying degrees, while simultaneously critiquing anti-Semitism in order to develop the modern Jewish notion of what it meant to be enlightened - a concept that differed substantially from that of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach and Wagner. By speaking the unspoken in German philosophy, this book profoundly reshapes our understanding of it.
£80.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd God and Morality: A Philosophical History
God and Morality evaluates the ethical theories of four principle philosophers, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R.M. Hare. Uses their thinking as the basis for telling the story of the history and development of ethical thought more broadly Focuses specifically on their writings on virtue, will, duty, and consequence Concentrates on the theistic beliefs to highlight continuity of philosophical thought
£29.95
The University of Chicago Press Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction
Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth, a musicologist, here fill this important gap for musical scholars and students alike with this compelling guide to the musical discourse of ten of the most important German philosophers, from Kant to Adorno. "Music in German Philosophy" includes contributions from a renowned group of ten scholars, including some of today's most prominent German thinkers, all of whom are specialists in the writers they treat. Each chapter consists of a short biographical sketch of the philosopher concerned, a summary of his writings on aesthetics, and finally a detailed exploration of his thoughts on music. The book is prefaced by the editors' original introduction, presenting music philosophy in Germany before and after Kant, as well as a new introduction and foreword to this English-language edition, which places contemplations on music by these German philosophers within a broader intellectual climate.
£40.00
University of Wales Press Kant's Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress
This book focuses on Kant's analysis of three issues crucial for contemporary politics. Starting from a new reading of Kant's account of our innate right to freedom, it highlights how a Kantian foundation of human rights, properly understood and modified where necessary, appears more promising than the foundational arguments currently offered by philosophers. It then compares Kant's model for peace with the apparently similar model of democratic peace to show that the two are profoundly different in content and in quality. The book concludes in analysis of Kant's controversial view of history to rescue it from the idea that his belief in progress is at best over-optimistic and at worst dogmatic. Congratulations to Professor Luigi Caranti and his book 'Kant's Political Legacy' which has been given a 'honorable mention' by the North American Kant Society in the competition for the best 2018 book on Kant!! http://northamericankantsociety.onefireplace.org/Announcements/6660588
£39.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History
This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) has been made even more comprehensive through the addition of four new chapters. New edition of a classic introduction to Hegel. Enables students to engage with many aspects of Hegel's philosophy. Covers the whole range of Hegel's mature thought. Relates Hegel's ideas to other thinkers, such as Luther, Descartes and Kant. Offers a distinctive and challenging interpretation of Hegel's work.
£108.95
John Wiley and Sons Ltd An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History
This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) has been made even more comprehensive through the addition of four new chapters. New edition of a classic introduction to Hegel. Enables students to engage with many aspects of Hegel's philosophy. Covers the whole range of Hegel's mature thought. Relates Hegel's ideas to other thinkers, such as Luther, Descartes and Kant. Offers a distinctive and challenging interpretation of Hegel's work.
£31.95
Yale University Press Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki
Exploring the writings of major thinkers (among them Montesquieu, Burke, Kant, Marx, and Freud), and leading art historians (including Pliny, Winckelmann, Ruskin, Pater, Gombrich, and Baxandall), as well as artists such as Alberti and Leonardo and scientists from Aristotle to Zeki, John Onians shows how an understanding of the neural basis of the mind contributes to an understanding of all human behaviors—including art.
£19.10
Abada Editores Cartas filosóficas sobre dogmatismo y criticismo
Estas Cartas filosóficas (1795-1796) fueron compuestas el año en que concluyó sus estudios de filosofía y teología en Tubinga y contienen un ajuste de cuentas con la recepción de Kant y el dogmatismo heterodoxo de Spinoza. Sitúan con razonable precisión a Schelling en el panorama filosófico de esta formidable década y merecen un lugar noble entre las obras filosóficas sobre la filosofía misma.
£17.58
University College Dublin Press Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W.B.Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime: The Poetry of W.B.Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime
A study of Yeats's aesthetics, in which the writing is profoundly engaged with the inner world of Yeats's poetry. The author's familiarity with the internal stresses of Yeats's vision is grounded in serious and painstaking work in philosophy and literary theory from Kant to Kristeva. The significance and human importance of Yeats's poetry and thought are linked to contemporary issues of morality, politics and sexuality.
£42.50
Edinburgh University Press Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
Everything you need to know about Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in one volume. The Critique is one of the most written-about texts in the history of philosophy, however, it is also notoriously difficult to read. Burnham and Young unravel Kant's text passage-by-passage, making the reading and appreciation of the primary work achievable. Designed to be read alongside Kant, this approach will be helpful for students and lecturers alike.
£19.99
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the beneficial effects of inter state competition have been confined to European history. By contrast, China, India and the Islamic Middle East are regarded as inherently imperial and overcentralised. However, these civilisations have not always been unified politically. In their history, there have been long spells of decentralised rule or inter state competition. The same is true for Japan. If the Hume-Kant hypothesis is correct, it should also apply to those periods. This volume analyses the qualitative and quantitative evidence. The authors comprise eminent historians, sociologists, economists and socio-psychologists and the resulting book is a truly interdisciplinary enterprise. Addressing a wide readership, this book will hold strong appeal for scholars and researchers of general, Asian and economic history, political economy, political science and sociology.
£96.00
El Criticón sabiduría práctica
En esta obra maestra de la literatura universal, Baltasar Gracián expresa el desengaño del mundo mientras intenta dar una lección moral. Entre los grandes admiradores del pensador se encuentran Schopenhauer, Goethe, Kant, Nietzsche o Azorín. Schopenhauer dijo de Gracián que nos había dado uno de los mejores libros del mundo. La presente selección privilegia todos aquellos fragmentos que pueden iluminar a los lectores actuales, porque los problemas humanos parecen ser los mismos a lo largo de los siglos.
£13.78
Edinburgh University Press Gilles Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism: From Tradition to Difference
Deleuze's readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However, Deleuze's arguments against those critiques--by Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger--consolidate the philosophy of immanence that can be called 'transcendental empiricism'. Marc Rolli offers us a detailed examination of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism. He demonstrates that Deleuze takes up and radicalises the empiricist school of thought developing a systematic alternative to the mainstreams of modern continental philosophy."
£100.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Modern Philosophy - From Descartes to Nietzsche: An Anthology
Modern Philosophy: An Anthology features a broad range of selections from important but seldom anthologized works in the philosophy of psychology, natural science, morality, politics and religion. Features a broad range of selections from works in the philosophy of psychology, natural science, morality, politics and religion. Places the modern thinkers in conversation with each other, including Leibniz on Descartes and Spinoza, Reid on Locke and Hume, and Kant on Hobbes. Offers important, but seldom anthologized primary works.
£42.95
Hacia la paz perpetua
En 'Hacia la paz perpetua' (1795) Kant hace suyos los ideales republicanos de la Revolución francesa, cuya célebre tríada de libertad, igualdad e independencia o autonomía personal cobran una triple dimensión jurídica, política y moral como derechos de la humanidad. Al firmarse la Paz de Basilea en 1795, Kant decide parodiar el alambicado formato que se despliega en los tratados de paz, añadiendo en la segunda edición un curioso protocolo secreto donde se pide no hacer callar a los filósofos, dado que la publicidad se presenta como una piedra de toque para compulsar las normas injustas. También se aboga por una nobleza del funcionariado a la cual se debe acceder por méritos propios y no por abolengo, al entender que un cargo no confiere ninguna dignidad especial a quien lo asume temporalmente y bien al contrario le confiere una enorme responsabilidad para con sus conciudadanos, lo que testimonia su desprecio hacia la nobleza hereditaria del Antiguo Régimen. Finalmente asistimos a un su
£12.83
Harvard University Press The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction
Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Förster examines the reasons behind these claims and assesses the steps that led in such a short time from Kant’s “beginning” to Hegel’s “end.” He concludes that, in an unexpected yet significant sense, both Kant and Hegel were indeed right.“Presents a novel interpretation of the development of German idealism that is rich in both historical depth and philosophical insight…Förster sets forth a historically nuanced and philosophically discerning interpretation of the central debates of the era.”—Peter Yong, Philosophy in Review“[Förster’s] book does not disappoint…The amount of material covered by Förster is impressive…Förster’s book is rich in specificity…Wherever the discussion goes, it is going to have to go on by taking Förster’s big picture and all his detailed accounts into account.”—Terry Pinkard, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews“Förster’s command of the historical sources is most impressive. Moreover, this book is clearly written, and Bowman’s translation is commendable. Scholars and graduate students will welcome this masterpiece.”—J. M. Fritzman, Choice
£24.95
Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy
‘A definitive work…explains clearly and succinctly concepts and theories at the heart of European and American philosophy.’ - Brenda AlmondWhat do philosophers mean by 'absolute' and 'akrasia'? What are 'Polish notation' and 'prime matter'? What contributions to human thought were made by Plato, Machiavelli, Kant and Derrida? These questions and many more are answered by this illuminating dictionary, which draws on contributions from over 100 leading philosophers.
£16.99
Peeters Publishers L'appel de la loi
La phénoménologie n’a pas à inventer les phénomènes – sinon comme on dit inventer un trésor – mais à les faire voir, ou entendre. Kant s’y emploie à sa manière lorsqu’il fait entendre le ton de voix lié à l’impératif catégorique, celui d’une voix d’airain. C’est là reconduire la pensée à l’éclat d’un fait premier où puiser ensuite ses ressources: il y a la loi. Kant le décrit comme un appel, à défaut de tout à fait le nommer ainsi, l’interprétant ensuite tout à la fois comme ce qui vient de nous (comme si le sujet éthique se donnait à lui-même la loi) et ce qui vient à nous (comme si ce même sujet répondait à la loi venue de Dieu). Prendre au sérieux cette dualité suppose que le chantier kantien de l’éthique ouvre alors sur un horizon théologique. Kant ouvre un chantier que la phénoménologie historique, celle qui naît avec Husserl et Heidegger, répète. Comme toute vraie répétition, celle-ci ne va pas sans critique ni déplacement (Merleau-Ponty, Scheler, Jonas), mais le motif de l’appel est bel et bien là. «Nous avons été appelés» - la trace laissée en nous par cet appel est trop forte pour que le moindre doute puisse encore s’élever à son propos, mais la question vient aussitôt: quelle voix s’est fait entendre? Quel appel nous surprend et nous soulève? Appel de l’être (Martin Heidegger), appel de l’Autre (Emmanuel Levinas) ou appel de la vie (Michel Henry)? Nous avons été appelés, affectés, blessés – ce qui brise la vie lui appartient encore, mais qu’est-ce donc qui la brise et la relève? Multiples sont les figures de l’appel, mais à chaque fois il y a la loi et cette injonction d’être – cette injonction silencieuse à laquelle le poète aura donné son exacte formule: «Tu dois changer ta vie» (Rilke). Comme il y a peut-être Dieu.
£89.45
Johns Hopkins University Press Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859
Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species", this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant, Herder, Lamarck, and Schopenhauer by such leading scholars as Arthur O. Lovejoy, Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, C. C. Gillispie, Francis C. Haber, and Jane Oppenheimer.
£33.00
Station Hill Press,U.S. GREAT DIME STORE CENTENNIAL
This book is a guide book to the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, seven long solos in a jam session with the dead, an answer to the four great philosophic questions of Immanuel Kant, the song of a barbaric horde, an eavesdropping at the borders of contemporary history, an account of an apocalyptic disco….And the presiding beings are Beethoven, Napoleon, Sousa, Frank Woolworth, Buddy Bolden, Charlie Parker, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. You are invited to participate. R.S.V.P.
£13.95
Edinburgh University Press Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
Everything you need to know about Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in one volume. The Critique is one of the most written-about texts in the history of philosophy, however, it is also notoriously difficult to read. Burnham and Young unravel Kant's text passage-by-passage, making the reading and appreciation of the primary work achievable. Designed to be read alongside Kant, this approach will be helpful for students and lecturers alike.
£99.75
Columbia University Press Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions
Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that embraces otherness without exploiting difference. Rooted firmly in human beings' relationship to the planet and to each other, Oliver shows peace is possible only if we maintain our ties to earth and world. Oliver begins with Immanuel Kant and his vision of politics grounded on earth as a finite surface shared by humans. She then incorporates Hannah Arendt's belief in plural worlds constituted through human relationships; Martin Heidegger's warning that alienation from the Earth endangers not only politics but also the very essence of being human; and Jacques Derrida's meditations on the singular worlds individuals, human and otherwise, create and how they inform the reality we inhabit. Each of these theorists, Oliver argues, resists the easy idealism of world citizenship and globalism, yet they all think about the earth against the globe to advance a grounded ethics. They contribute to a philosophy that avoids globalization's totalizing and homogenizing impulses and instead help build a framework for living within and among the world's rich biodiversity.
£79.20
Macat International Limited An Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy – not to mention one of the most challenging. Its topic is the nature of human knowledge, and the question of whether or not it is possible to have knowledge of the world at all. Over two centuries later, Kant’s treatise remains a subject of fierce debate among philosophers, who continue to offer new interpretations of his meaning. What is not in doubt is the work’s originality and brilliance – nor its mastery of creative thinking. Creative thinkers are able to bring a new perspective to questions and problems, look at things from a different angle, and show them in a fresh light. Kant achieved this by mediating between the two major schools of philosophical thought concerning knowledge – empiricism and rationalism – to create a complex third way. Where empiricists believed all knowledge is founded on experience, and rationalists believed true knowledge is founded on reason alone, Kant evaluated their arguments and proposed a third position – one incorporating elements of both, but within specific limits. As infamously dense as it is profound, Kant’s Critique shows creative thinking operating at a level few can aspire to reach.
£8.70
Editorial Trotta, S.A. Concepciones de la ética
Esta obra plantea un recorrido por la filosofía moral, asunto tan vital como controvertido. Están, en primer lugar, las dos "auctoritates" que cualquier ética moderna tiene que tomar en consideración: Kant y Hegel. Para continuar con Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Apel y Habermas, sin dejar de mencionar a Maclntyre y su reivindiación del aristotelismo y nostalgia comunitarista, claro síntoma de la insatisfacción y perplejidades que acompañan a las filosofías morales contemporáneas.
£19.36
WW Norton & Co Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract: A Norton Critical Edition
Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseau’s life, selections from his Confessions, and comments on Rousseau’s work and character from such illustrious contemporaries and early critics as Voltaire, Hume, Boswell and Johnson, Paine, Kant, and Proudhon. Commentaries includes assessments of Rousseau’s political thought by a wide variety of scholars and critics including Judith Shklar, Robert Nisbet, Simone Weil, and Benjamin R. Barber.
£15.65
Oneworld Publications I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons
In this joyous introduction to the major debates in Western philosophy, we see how cartoons can shed light and humour on life’s Big Questions. Topics such as gender, morality and the meaning of life are examined here with a razor wit and eye. Open this book (if it actually exists) and meet philosophers interrogating the world: De Beauvoir on a building site. Kant in a snowglobe. Machiavelli on a tennis court. This is philosophy as you’ve never seen it before.
£9.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Deleuze: A Critical Reader
Paul Patton brings together an outstanding collection of appraisals by French- and English-speaking scholars of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the most important post-war French philosophers. A number of these pieces address Deleuze's original interpretations of key figures in the history of philosophy, including Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and Bergson. Others discuss his work on mathematics, and the relevance of his conceptual creativity for art criticism, feminist, literary, and cultural studies. Several of the contributors here have not been previously published.
£118.95
Edinburgh University Press On the Idea of Potency: Juridical and Theological Roots of the Western Cultural Tradition
Sweeping through the history of Western philosophy of law, Emanuele Castrucci deals with the metaphysical idea of potency as defined by Spinoza and Nietzsche, upsetting entrenched theories of jurisprudence. From classical Greek philosophy to Jewish biblical exegesis, via Christianity; from Aristotle's Metaphysics to its Arabic interpretations; from the genesis of natural law theory (Augustine, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Ockham), to Kant and Enlightenment natural law theory, to Carl Schmitt, Castrucci shows how philosophical rationalism has failed to contain absolute power in a juridical sense.
£22.99
Edinburgh University Press Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
This is a step-by-step guide to Kant's first work on moral philosophy. "Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" is considered a standard text in the history of moral philosophy as well as a classic work of moral philosophy in its own right. This guide provides a paragraph-by-paragraph account of the main themes of Kant's moral philosophy and a clear statement of his overall philosophical aims and arguments. It is an essential toolkit for anyone approaching Kant for the first time.
£100.00
The University of Chicago Press The Picture in Question: Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation
An exploration of the possibilities of representation after modernism, this study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Mark Taylor examines how Tansey uses structuralist and poststructuralist thought as well as catastrophe, chaos, and complexity theory to create paintings that please the eye while provoking the mind. Taylor's accounts of thinkers ranging from Plato, Kant, and Hegel to Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and de Man should be a useful contribution to students and teachers of art.
£24.24
The University of Chicago Press The Truth in Painting
The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesthetics. Alexander Gelley, Library Journal
£35.00
Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon
Although Kant considered him the greatest critic of his work, and Fichte thought him the most impressive mind of the generation, Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) has fallen into relative obscurity. Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon draws attention to works written during the final years of Maimon's life. These essays are of particular interest: they show that even though Maimon was a self-proclaimed apiqoros grappling with the implications of Kantian philosophy, his thinking remained deeply influenced by his Jewish intellectual inheritance, especially by Maimonides, the medieval Sephardic philosopher. The volume is divided into two parts. The first is a general account of Maimon's intellectual biography, along with commentary on his final essays. The second part provides translations of those essays, the principal themes of which concern moral psychology. The reader is thus able to see the degree to which Maimon, at the end of his life, became sceptical of his effort to unite Kant and Maimonides, and remained a thinker caught "between two worlds." The book concludes with a translation of an account of Maimon's final hours, penned by one of his friends.
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