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

Unended Quest - An Intellectual Autobiography (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Karl Popper Unended Quest - An Intellectual Autobiography (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Karl Popper
R2,759 Discovery Miles 27 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Popper witnessed two World Wars and the collapse of Communism in the Eastern bloc, and provides here an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most, in particular his early fascination with science and philosophy. He talks about aspects of his life rarely discussed elsewhere, such as his love of music, the mixed feelings about his Jewish background, and his debate with Wittgenstein and the now legendary 'poker' incident. Popper also corresponded with a range of intellectual figures, including Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Einstein and Russell. Yet it is as an introduction to Popper's philosophy that Unended Quest shines. Popper lucidly explains some of the central ideas in his work, making this book ideal reading for anyone coming to Popper's life and work for the first time.

Evolution as a Religion - Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Mary Midgley Evolution as a Religion - Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Mary Midgley
R2,744 Discovery Miles 27 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


`A graceful, refreshing and enlightening book, applied philosophy that is relevant, timely and metaphysical in the best sense.' - New York Times Book Review

'Midgley is one of the most acute and penetrating voices in current moral philosophy. Her great gift is clarity, both of thought and, especially, of expression. To follow her reasoning is like watching a ballet dancer walking in the street: there is a litheness, a gracefulness, an ease of articulation, which attest to years of learning lightly worn.' - John Banville, Irish Times

Relativism (Hardcover): Paul O'Grady Relativism (Hardcover)
Paul O'Grady
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The issue of relativism looms large in many contemporary discussions of knowledge, reality, society, religion, culture and gender. Is truth relative? To what extent is knowledge dependent on context? Are there different logics? Do different cultures and societies see the world differently? And is reality itself something that is constructed? This book offers a path through these debates. O'Grady begins by clarifying what exactly relativism is and how it differs from scepticism and pluralism. He then examines five main types of cognitive relativism: alethic relativism, logical relativism, ontological relativism; epistemological relativism, and relativism about rationality. Each is clearly distinguised and the arguments for and against each are assessed. O'Grady offers a welcome survey of recent debates, engaging with the work of Davidson, Devitt, Kuhn, Putnam, Quine, Rorty, Searle, Winch and Wittgenstein, among others, and he offers a distinct position of his own on this hotly contested issue.

G E Moore - Essays in Retrospect (Hardcover): Ambrose Alice and Lazerowitz Morris G E Moore - Essays in Retrospect (Hardcover)
Ambrose Alice and Lazerowitz Morris
R5,976 R4,216 Discovery Miles 42 160 Save R1,760 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference (Hardcover): Kevin C. Klement Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference (Hardcover)
Kevin C. Klement
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The need for a logical calculus for the theory of SINN and BEDEUTUNG
2. The logic of GRUNDGESETZE
3. SINNE and GEDANKEN
4. Church's logic of sense and denotation 5. A logical calculus of the theory of SINN and BEDEUTUNG
6. Comparison with Russell and other thinkers
7. Possible revisions to Frege's philosophy
Appendix: Summary of definitions, axioms and inference rules
Bibliography

The Philosophy of Nature - A Guide to the New Essentialism (Hardcover): Brian Ellis The Philosophy of Nature - A Guide to the New Essentialism (Hardcover)
Brian Ellis
R3,620 Discovery Miles 36 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For many years essentialism - the view that some objects have essentially or necessarily certain properties without which they could not exist or be the things they are - was considered to be beyond the pale in philosophy, a relic of discredited Aristotelianism. This is no longer so. Kripke and Putnam have made belief in essential natures once more respectable. Harre and Madden have boldly argued against Hume's theory of causation, and developed an alternative theory based on the assumption that there are genuine causal powers in nature. Dretske, Tooley, Armstrong, Swoyer and Carroll have all developed strong alternatives to Hume's theory of the laws of nature. Shoemaker has developed a thoroughly non-Humean theory of properties. The new essentialism has evolved from these beginnings and can now reasonably claim to be a metaphysic for a modern scientific understanding of the world - one that challenges the conception of the world as comprising passive entities whose interactions are to be explained by appeal to contingent laws of nature externally imposed.

The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback): Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
Albert Camus 2
R238 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R46 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.;Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.

Controversies - Politics and Philosophy in our Time (Paperback): A Badiou Controversies - Politics and Philosophy in our Time (Paperback)
A Badiou
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the "Red Years" at the end of the Sixties and both were Maoists, but while Badiou was focusing all his attention on China, Milner was already taking his distance from it. Over the years, that original dispute over the destiny of gauchisme was fueled by deep, new differences between them concerning the role of philosophy and politics. In this wide-ranging and compelling dialogue, these two great thinkers explore the role of politics in today's world and consider the need for a formal theory of communist political organization. Whether they are addressing the era of revolutions, and in particular the Paris Commune and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, or discussing the infinite, the universal, the name "Jew", violence, capitalism, the left, or Europe, Jean-Claude Milner's dyed-in-the-wool skepticism constantly runs up against Alain Badiou's doctrinal passion. This extraordinary debate ultimately leads to new areas of interrogation and shows that there is no better remedy for the crushing power of media-influenced thinking than the revival of the great disputes of the mind.

Truth Without Objectivity (Paperback): Max Koelbel Truth Without Objectivity (Paperback)
Max Koelbel
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Truth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'. Kölbel examines the standard solutions to the conflict implicit in this view, demonstrating their inadequacy and developing instead his own relativist theory of truth.
The mainstream view of meaning assumes that understanding a sentence's meaning implies knowledge of the conditions required for it to be true. This view is challenged by taste judgements, which have meaning, but seem to be neither true nor false.

The Politics of Postmodernism (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Linda Hutcheon The Politics of Postmodernism (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Linda Hutcheon
R4,049 Discovery Miles 40 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
General editor's preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Representing the postmodern: What is postmodernism? Representation and its politics, Whose postmodernism? Postmodernity, postmodernism, and modernism. 2. Postmodernist representation: De-naturalizing the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history. 3. Re-presenting the past: 'Total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text. 4. The politics of parody: Parodic postmodern representation, Double-coded politics, Postmodern film? 5. Text/image border tensions: The paradoxes of photography, The ideological arena of photo-graphy, The politics of address 6. Postmodernism and feminisms: Politicizing desire, Feminist postmodernist parody, The private and the public. Concluding note: some directed reading. Bibliography. Index.

Selections from Political Writings 1910-20 (Paperback): Antonio Gramsci Selections from Political Writings 1910-20 (Paperback)
Antonio Gramsci; Volume editing by Quintin Hoare; Introduction by Quintin Hoare; Translated by J Matthews
R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume is the first of two containing a selection of Antonio Gramsci's political writings from the time of his initial involvement in Italian politics to his imprisonment by Mussolini in 1926. This selection culminates in the 'Red Years' of 1910-20, and also features texts by Bordiga and Tasca from their debates with Gramsci. It traces Gramsci's development as a revolutionary socialist during the First World War, his thoughts on the Russian Revolution and his involvement in the general strike and factory occupations of 1920. Also included are his reactions to the emerging fascist movement, and contributions to the early stages of the debate about the establishment of the Communist Party of Italy

Applied Ethics - Critical Concepts in Philosophy (Hardcover): Ruth Chadwick, Doris Schroeder Applied Ethics - Critical Concepts in Philosophy (Hardcover)
Ruth Chadwick, Doris Schroeder
R31,211 Discovery Miles 312 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Applied ethics has become established as a distinct area of study, but its methodology and practicality are still matters of controversy.
This collection examines how the field has developed over the last fifty years, by bringing together those articles that have been seminal in the development of the subject. The focus of these volumes is on the different types of approach to the subject, the areas in which it has been most active, and ways in which the field has expanded.
Each of the six volumes carries an introduction to provide the reader with the historical context of the material, and a new index is provided to identify key philosophical themes and trends within the collection.

On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Hardcover, Enlarged): Jacques Derrida On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Hardcover, Enlarged)
Jacques Derrida
R4,031 Discovery Miles 40 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


In this book, Jacques Derrida confronts two pressing problems: the explosive tensions between refugee and asylum rights and the ethic of the hospitality; and the dilemma of reconciliation and amnesy where the bloody traumas of history demand forgiveness. Throughout the book, Derrida makes use of compelling examples to argue that true forgiveness consists in forgiving the unforgivable. These include the emotive issue of 'open cities' where migrants may seek sanctuary from persecution and exile, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa, and ethnic strife in France and Algeria. Derrida asks whether, in the face of these problems, cosmopolitanism and forgiveness are still possible.
The book includes a short preface by Simon Critchley and Richard Kearney, introducing the arguments of the two essays that make up this book.

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger (Hardcover): George Pattison Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger (Hardcover)
George Pattison
R3,186 Discovery Miles 31 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text aims to guide the reader through the complexities of Heidegger's later works. The book offers an introduction to the main themes that preoccupied Heidegger in the second part of his career: technology; Art; the history of philosophy; and the exploration of a new post-technological way of thinking. The author explores many aspects of Heidegger's later life and work, including the massive controversy surrounding his Nazism, as well as his readings of Neitzsche, the Presocratics and Holderlin. He also assesses the difficult nature of Heidegger's thought and its significance for philosophy today.

The Woods (Paperback): Bibikhin The Woods (Paperback)
Bibikhin
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from its prehistoric origins, when humans dwelt deep within the forests and depended on them for their survival. In this important book, Vladimir Bibikhin, one of Russia's most influential twentieth-century philosophers, argues that, although most humans now live far from woods and forests, our existence remains profoundly linked to them. It was Aristotle who first appreciated their primal role, even deriving his notion of 'matter'w from the Greek words for wood and forest. As timber, the woods may be seen as inanimate material, but at the same time they also constitute a living ecosystem and the source of energy and life. By opening up this duality, the woods are transformed from simple matter to a living environment, serving as a reminder that we belong to the world of biological life to a far greater extent than we usually think. The Woods will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy and the humanities generally and to anyone concerned with the environment and our relationship to the natural world.

Against the Idols of the Age (Hardcover): David Stove Against the Idols of the Age (Hardcover)
David Stove
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Darwinian theories of human behavior, and philosophical idealism. He was also an occasional essayist of considerable charm and polemical snap. Stove's writing is both rigorous and immensely readable. It is, in the words of Roger Kimball, "an invigorating blend of analytic lucidity, mordant humor, and an amount of common sense too great to be called 'common.'" Against the Idols of the Age brings together a representative selection of Stove's writing and is an ideal introduction to his work.

The book opens with some of Stove's most important attacks on irrationalism in the philosophy of science. He exposes the roots of this fashionable attitude, tracing it through writers like Paul Feyerabend and Thomas Kuhn to Karl Popper. Stove was a born controversialist, so it is not surprising that when he turned his attention to contemporary affairs he said things that are politically incorrect. The topical essays that make up the second part of the book show Stove at his most withering and combative. Whether the subject is race, feminism, the Enlightenment, or the demand for "non-coercive philosophy", Stove is on the mark with a battery of impressive arguments expressed in sharp, uncompromising prose. Against the Idols of the Age concludes with a generous sampling of his blistering attacks on Darwinism.

David Stove's writings are an undiscovered treasure. Although readers may disagree with some of his opinions, they will find itdifficult to dismiss his razor-sharp arguments. Against the Idols of the Age is the first book to make the full range of this important thinker available to the general reader.

Nietzsche - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Hardcover): Richard Schacht Nietzsche - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Hardcover)
Richard Schacht
R8,657 Discovery Miles 86 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Bergson-Arg Philosophers (Hardcover): A.R. Lacey Bergson-Arg Philosophers (Hardcover)
A.R. Lacey
R5,381 Discovery Miles 53 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Popper - Arg Philosophers (Hardcover): Anthony O'Hear Popper - Arg Philosophers (Hardcover)
Anthony O'Hear
R5,377 Discovery Miles 53 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Sartre - Arg Philosophers (Hardcover): Peter Caws Sartre - Arg Philosophers (Hardcover)
Peter Caws
R5,963 Discovery Miles 59 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Archetypal Ontology - New Directions in Analytical Psychology (Paperback): Jon Mills, Erik Goodwyn Archetypal Ontology - New Directions in Analytical Psychology (Paperback)
Jon Mills, Erik Goodwyn
R964 Discovery Miles 9 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this novel re-examination of the archetype construct, philosopher Jon Mills and psychiatrist Erik Goodwyn engage in spirited dialogue on the origins, nature, and scope of what archetypes actually constitute, their relation to the greater questions of psyche and worldhood, and their relevance for Jungian studies and analytical psychology today. Arguably the most definitive feature of Jung's metapsychology is his theory of archetypes. It is the fulcrum on which his analytical depth psychology rests. With recent trends in post-Jungian and neo-Jungian perspectives that have embraced developmental, relational, social justice, and postmodern paradigms, classical archetype theory has largely become a drowning genre. Despite the archetypal school of James Hillman and his contemporaries and the archetype debates that captured our attention over two decades ago, contemporary Jungians are preoccupied with the lived reality of the existential subject and the personal unconscious over the collective transpersonal forces derived from archaic ontology. Archetypal Ontology will be of interest to psychoanalysts, philosophers, transpersonal psychologists, cultural theorists, anthropologists, religious scholars, and many disciplines in the arts and humanities, analytical psychology, and post-Jungian studies.

Peter Winch (Paperback): Colin Lyas Peter Winch (Paperback)
Colin Lyas
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first introduction to the ideas of the British philosopher, Peter Winch (1926-97). Although author of the hugely influential "The Idea of a Social Science" (1958) much of Winch's other work has been neglected as philosophical fashions have changed. Recently, however, philosophers are again seeing the importance of Winch's ideas and their relevance to current philosophical concerns. In charting the development of Winch's ideas, Lyas engages with many of the major preoccupations of philosophy of the past forty years. The range of Winch's ideas becomes apparent and his importance clearly underlined. Lyas offers more than an assessment of the work of one man: it introduces in a sympathetic and judicious way a powerful representative of an important and demanding conception of philosophy.

Literature, Media, Information Systems - Information systems (Hardcover, Reissue): Friedrich Kittler Literature, Media, Information Systems - Information systems (Hardcover, Reissue)
Friedrich Kittler
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume is a collection of public writings and insights of the German poststructuralist, Friedrich A. Kittler. It merges the discourse of literature, war and technology into a unified theme. His research results in a vision of the future in which the distinction between mediums is erased. The introduction by John Johnston explicates the theoretical and practical consequences of Kittler's insights into the social and psychological effects of the processes by which metaphor in one medium is made real by another.

The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Bertrand Russell The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Bertrand Russell; Introduction by The Right Honourable Michael Foot
R4,140 Discovery Miles 41 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


' one of the truly great autobiographies in our language'

The Story of Analytic Philosophy - Plot and Heroes (Hardcover): Anat Biletzki, Anat Matar The Story of Analytic Philosophy - Plot and Heroes (Hardcover)
Anat Biletzki, Anat Matar
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays looks at analytic philosophy in its historical context. It argues that analytic philosophy is in a state of crisis - having to deal with its self-image, its relationship with philosophical alternatives, its fruitfulness and even legitimacy in the general philosophical community. This crisis manifests itself both within analytic philosophy, as we can see with the discussions and debates concerning the interpretation of its origins and key players (such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein), as well as in its evaluation by philosophers of different bents (such as postmodernists and Continental philosophers). This book examines the the crisis with a view to interpreting it. It tells the story of analytic philosophy, presenting its "raison d'etre" and the motivations, methods, and results of its eminent figures.

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