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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General

Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics - Nietzsche's Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy: Volume I... Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics - Nietzsche's Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy: Volume I (Hardcover)
John Richardson; Edited by Marco Brusotti, Herman Siemens
R3,046 Discovery Miles 30 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics explores how Nietzsche criticizes, adopts, and reformulates Kant's critique of metaphysics and his transcendental idealism. Thing in itself and phenomenon, space and time, intuition and thought, the I and self-consciousness, concepts and judgments, categories and schemata, teleological judgement: building on established and recent literature on these topics in both thinkers, this volume asks whether Nietzsche can - malgr lui - be considered a Kantian of sorts. Nietzsche's intensive engagement with early Neo-Kantians (Lange, Liebmann, Fischer, von Helmholtz) and other contemporaries of his, largely ignored in the Anglophone literature, is also addressed, raising the question whether Nietzsche's positions on Kant's theoretical philosophy are best understood as historically embedded in the often rather loose relation they had to the first Critique. These and other questions are taken up in Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, which in different ways tackles the complexities of Nietzsche's relation to Kant's theoretical philosophy and its reception in nineteenth Century philosophy.

Death - An Essay on Finitude (Hardcover): Francoise Dastur Death - An Essay on Finitude (Hardcover)
Francoise Dastur; Translated by John Llewelyn
R5,936 Discovery Miles 59 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Plato's "Phaedo", Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" and Heidegger's "Being and Time" are three of the most profound meditations on variations of the ideas that to practice philosophy is to practice how to die. This study traces how these variations are connected with each other and with the reflections of this idea to be found in the works of other ancient and modern philosophers - including Neitzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and levinas. The book also shows how this philosophical thanatology motivates or is motivated by experiences documented in psychoanalysis and in the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths.

In the Time of the Nations (Hardcover): Emmanuel Levinas In the Time of the Nations (Hardcover)
Emmanuel Levinas; Edited by Michael B. Smith
R6,975 Discovery Miles 69 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The "Nations" are the "seventy nations": a metaphor which, in the Talmudic idiom, designates the whole of humanity surrounding Israel. In this major collection of essays, Levinas considers Judaism's uncertain relationship to European culture since the Enlightenment, problems of distance and integration. It also includes essays on Franz Rosenzweig and Moses Mendelssohn, and a discussion of central importance to Jewish philosophy in the context of general philosophy. This work brings to the fore the vital encounter between philosophy and Judaism, a hallmark of Levinas's thought.

From Metaphysics to Ethics - A Defence of Conceptual Analysis (Hardcover): Frank Jackson From Metaphysics to Ethics - A Defence of Conceptual Analysis (Hardcover)
Frank Jackson
R3,466 Discovery Miles 34 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as central to philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and, Jackson suggests, widely misunderstood; he argues that there is nothing especially mysterious about it and a whole range of important questions cannot be productively addressed without it. He anchors his argument in discussion of specific philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal identity, motion and change, to the philosophy of colour and to ethics. The significance of different kinds of supervenience theses, Kripke and Putnam's work in the philosophy of modality and language, and the role of intuitions about possible cases receive detailed attention. Jackson concludes with a defence of a version of analytical descriptivism in ethics. In this way the book not only offers a methodological programme for philosophy, but also throws fascinating new light on some much-debated problems and their interrelations. puffs which may be quoted (please do not edit without consulting OUP editor): 'This is an outstanding book. It covers a vast amount of philosophy in a very short space, advances a number of original and striking positions, and manages to be both clear and concise in its expositions of other views and forceful in its criticisms of them. The book offers something new for those interested in the various individual problems it discusses-conceptual analysis, the mind-body relation, secondary qualities, modality, and ethical realism. But unifying these individual discussions is an ambitious structure which amounts to an outline of a complete metaphysical system, and an outline of an epistemology for this metaphysics. It is hard to think of a central area of analytic philosophy which will not be touched by Jackson's conclusions.' Tim Crane, Reader in Philosophy, University College London 'The writing is clear, straightforward, and down to earth-the usual virtues one expects from Jackson . . . what he has to say is innovative and valuable . . . the book deals with a large number of apparently diverse philosophical issues, but it is also an elegantly unified work. What gives it unity is the metaphilosophical framework that Jackson works out with great care and persuasiveness. This is the first serious and sustained work on the methodology of metaphysics in recent memory. What he says about the role of conceptual analysis in metaphysics is an important and timely contribution. . . . It is refreshing and heartening to see a first-class analytic philosopher doing some serious metaphilosophical work . . . I think that the book will be greeted as an important event in philosophical publishing.' Jaegwon Kim, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University

Georg Lukacs Reconsidered - Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Hardcover, New): Michael J. Thompson Georg Lukacs Reconsidered - Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Hardcover, New)
Michael J. Thompson
R5,270 Discovery Miles 52 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Georg Lukcs stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences are marked by neglect. What has been lost is a crucial thinker in the tradition of critical theory, but also, by extension, a crucial set of ideas that can be used to shed new light on the major problems of contemporary society. This book reconsiders Lukcs intellectual contributions in the light of recent intellectual developments in political theory, aesthetics, ethical theory, and social and cultural theory. An international team of contributors contend that Luk ideas and theoretical contributions have much to offer the theoretical paucity of the present. Ultimately the book reintegrates Lukcs as a central thinker, not only in the tradition of critical theory, but also as a major theorist and critic of modernity, of capitalism, and of new trends in political theory, cultural criticism and legal theory.

The Works of George Berkeley - Philosophical Works (Paperback): George Berkeley The Works of George Berkeley - Philosophical Works (Paperback)
George Berkeley
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jacques Ranciere and the Contemporary Scene - The Philosophy of Radical Equality (Hardcover, New): Jean-Philippe Deranty,... Jacques Ranciere and the Contemporary Scene - The Philosophy of Radical Equality (Hardcover, New)
Jean-Philippe Deranty, Alison Ross
R4,926 Discovery Miles 49 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of essays aims to investigate the unique place of Jacques Ranciere in the contemporary intellectual scene. This book forms the first critical study of Jacques Ranciere's impact and contribution to contemporary theoretical and interdisciplinary studies. It showcases the work of leading scholars in fields such as political theory, history, cinema studies and literary theory; each of whom are uniquely situated to engage with the novelty of Ranciere's thinking within their respective fields. Each of the thirteen essays provides an investigation into the critical stance Ranciere takes towards his contemporaries, concentrating on the versatile application of his thought to diverse fields of study (including, cinema studies, literary studies and the 'history as fiction' and 'history from below' movements). The aim of this collection is to use the critical interventions Ranciere's writing makes on current topics and themes as a way of offering new critical perspectives on his thought. Wielding their individual expertise, each contributor assesses his perspectives and positions on thinkers and topics of contemporary importance.

Spinoza's Dream - On Nature and Meaning (Hardcover): David Weissman Spinoza's Dream - On Nature and Meaning (Hardcover)
David Weissman
R3,483 Discovery Miles 34 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Meaning (significance) and nature are this book's principal topics. They seem an odd couple, like raisins and numbers, though they elide when meanings of a global sort-ideologies and religions, for example-promote ontologies that subordinate nature. Setting one against the other makes reality contentious. It signifies workmates and a coal face to miners, gluons to physicists, prayer and redemption to priests. Are there many realities, or many perspectives on one? The answer I prefer is the comprehensive naturalism anticipated by Aristotle and Spinoza: "natura naturans, natura naturata." Nature naturing is an array of mutually conditioning material processes in spacetime. Each structure or event-storm clouds forming, nature natured-is self-differentiating, self-stabilizing, and sometimes self-disassembling; each alters or transforms a pre-existing state of affairs. This surmise anticipated discoveries and analyses to which neither thinker had access, though physics and biology confirm their hypothesis beyond reasonable doubt. Hence the question this book considers: Is reality divided:nature vrs. lived experience? Or is experience, with all its meanings and values, the complex expression of natural processes?

The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its... The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. a Treatise on Immutable Morality; With a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Ser (Paperback)
Ralph Cudworth
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its... The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated: With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (Paperback)
Ralph Cudworth
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Essays on the Spirit of the Inductive Philosophy - the Unity of Worlds and the Philosophy of Creation (Paperback): Baden Powell Essays on the Spirit of the Inductive Philosophy - the Unity of Worlds and the Philosophy of Creation (Paperback)
Baden Powell
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Illustrations of Universal Progress - a Series of Discussions (Paperback): Herbert Spencer Illustrations of Universal Progress - a Series of Discussions (Paperback)
Herbert Spencer
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - Wherein the Chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences,... A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - Wherein the Chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, With the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, Are Inquired Into. First Printed in the Year 1710. to Which Are Added Three (Paperback)
George Berkeley
R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Paperback): George Berkeley A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Paperback)
George Berkeley
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Illustrations of Universal Progress - a Series of Discussions (Paperback): Herbert Spencer Illustrations of Universal Progress - a Series of Discussions (Paperback)
Herbert Spencer
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Works of George Berkeley (Paperback): George Berkeley The Works of George Berkeley (Paperback)
George Berkeley
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy - and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His... An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy - and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings (Paperback)
John Stuart Mill
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its... The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated: With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (Paperback)
Ralph Cudworth
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its... The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated: With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (Paperback)
Ralph Cudworth
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its... The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated: With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (Paperback)
Ralph Cudworth
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Collected Essays and Reviews (Paperback): William James Collected Essays and Reviews (Paperback)
William James
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A System of Intellectual Philosophy (Paperback): Asa Mahan A System of Intellectual Philosophy (Paperback)
Asa Mahan
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Auguste Comte and Positivism (Paperback): John Stuart Mill Auguste Comte and Positivism (Paperback)
John Stuart Mill
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Novum Organon, - or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature (Paperback): Francis Bacon The Novum Organon, - or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature (Paperback)
Francis Bacon
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy - and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His... An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy - and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings (Paperback)
John Stuart Mill
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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