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Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts (Hardcover): Ronald Bogue Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts (Hardcover)
Ronald Bogue
R4,145 Discovery Miles 41 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on Deleuze's aesthetics, while providing a clear and accessible guide to his often overlooked writings in the fields of music and painting.

Michel Foucault (Paperback, New): Sara Mills Michel Foucault (Paperback, New)
Sara Mills
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
Routledge Critical Thinkers

Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts (Paperback): Ronald Bogue Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts (Paperback)
Ronald Bogue
R1,231 Discovery Miles 12 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on Deleuze's aesthetics, while providing a clear and accessible guide to his often overlooked writings in the fields of music and painting.

The Devil in Modern Philosophy - The Devil in Modern Philosophy (Hardcover, New Ed): Ernest Gellner The Devil in Modern Philosophy - The Devil in Modern Philosophy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Ernest Gellner
R7,589 Discovery Miles 75 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America.

Philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the 20th Century - Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 9 (Paperback): Stuart... Philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the 20th Century - Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 9 (Paperback)
Stuart G. Shanker
R1,271 Discovery Miles 12 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Introduction. 1. Philosophy of logic 2. Philosophy of mathematics in the 20th century. 3. Frege 4. Wittgenstein's Tractatus 5. Logical postivism 6. The philosophy of physics 7. The philosophy of science 8. Chance, cause and conduct: probability theory and the explanation of human action 9. Cybernetics 10. Descartes' legacy: the mechanist/vitalist debates.

French Hegel - From Surrealism to Postmodernism (Hardcover): Bruce Baugh French Hegel - From Surrealism to Postmodernism (Hardcover)
Bruce Baugh
R4,148 Discovery Miles 41 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This highly original history of ideas considers the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present. As Baugh's lucid narrative makes clear, Hegel's influence on French philosophy has been profound, and can be traced through all the major intellectual movements and thinkers in France throughout the 20th century from Jean Wahl, Sartre, and Bataille to Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida. Baugh focuses on Hegel's idea of the 'unhappy consciousness', and provides a bold new account of Hegel's early reception in French intellectual history.

George Santayana - A Biography (Paperback, New Ed): John McCormick George Santayana - A Biography (Paperback, New Ed)
John McCormick
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, "The Last Puritan." After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed scholarly activity. Contributing significantly to the renewal was John McCormick's 1987 biography, the first full-scale volume to treat an elusive figure's life and thought in the detail they deserve. Santayana's life was rich in its interior and outer associations. There was his birth and early childhood in Spain followed by a move to Boston, where he came under the influence of William James at Harvard. This led to his career at Harvard as a professor, where Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Walter Lippmann were among his devoted students. We see Santayana in correspondence and conversation with Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell. Predominant in Santayana's life was his philosophical work. Hostile to the dominant empiricism of Anglo-American philosophy, he left the academy and remained detached from both the political and ideological movements of early decades of the twentieth century. McCormick relates his skepticism and materialism to a form of idealism deriving from his classical education in Plato and Aristotle, together with his readings in Descartes and Spinoza. He presents Santayana as a supreme stylist in English, who lived a long life always consistent with his stoic epicureanism.

French Hegel - From Surrealism to Postmodernism (Paperback): Bruce Baugh French Hegel - From Surrealism to Postmodernism (Paperback)
Bruce Baugh
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This highly original history of ideas considers the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present. As Baugh's lucid narrative makes clear, Hegel's influence on French philosophy has been profound, and can be traced through all the major intellectual movements and thinkers in France throughout the 20th century from Jean Wahl, Sartre, and Bataille to Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida. Baugh focuses on Hegel's idea of the 'unhappy consciousness', and provides a bold new account of Hegel's early reception in French intellectual history.

Naked Liberty and the World of Desire - Elements of Anarchism in the Work of D.H. Lawrence (Hardcover): Simon Casey Naked Liberty and the World of Desire - Elements of Anarchism in the Work of D.H. Lawrence (Hardcover)
Simon Casey
R4,134 Discovery Miles 41 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


In this new and original study, the author explores the long-neglected link between D.H. Lawrence and philosophical anarchism. Focusing on the writings of some of the major anarchists - with particular emphasis on Stirner, Godwin, Bakunin and Thoreau - this book convincingly argues that the conceptual parallels between Lawrence and anarchism are strong and extensive and that reading Lawrence within the context of this tradition significantly enhances our understanding of his work as a whole.

British Idealism - Language, Aesthetics and Emotions (Hardcover): Colin Tyler, James Connelly British Idealism - Language, Aesthetics and Emotions (Hardcover)
Colin Tyler, James Connelly
R4,136 Discovery Miles 41 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and other analytic philosophers of the early 20th century claimed to depart from the British idealists who dominated philosophical debate from the 1870s onwards. The nature and extent of this departure is now widely questioned as philosophers return to the writings of Bernard Bosanquet, F. H. Bradley, R. G. Collingwood, T. H. Green, J. M. E. McTaggart, and others. Nowadays, the British idealist movement is mostly remembered for its seminal contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. The contributors to this volume explore some of the movement's other, equally-insightful, contributions to the philosophies of language, aesthetics and emotions. These chapters cover core philosophical issues including the relationship between the speech communities and the general will; the role of emotions in the Absolute; key differences between leading British idealists on the relationships between emotions and relations; the nature of love; the historical re-enactment of imagination and creativity; expressivism in art; and the actual idealism of the British idealists' Italian counterparts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal of the History of Philosophy.

Philosophic Classics, Volume V - 20th-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Forrest Baird Philosophic Classics, Volume V - 20th-Century Philosophy (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Forrest Baird
R6,421 Discovery Miles 64 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For courses in 20th-century Philosophy, recent Continental Philosophy, Anglo-American Philosophy; as part of courses in Contemporary Philosophy; or courses on Epistemology or Metaphysics that take a historical approach. This anthology in 20th-century philosophical classics includes recent European and American philosophers, and contains texts that are presently seen as classics or as emerging classics. It features complete works or complete sections of works. Includes introductions to each philosopher, an abundance of drawings, diagrams, photographs, and a timeline.

The Life of the Mind - An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism (Hardcover): Tim Crane The Life of the Mind - An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism (Hardcover)
Tim Crane; Gregory McCulloch
R4,136 Discovery Miles 41 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Life of the Mind - An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism (Paperback): Tim Crane The Life of the Mind - An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism (Paperback)
Tim Crane; Gregory McCulloch
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


On Enlightenment (Hardcover): David Stove On Enlightenment (Hardcover)
David Stove
R4,143 Discovery Miles 41 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and human well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, political mass murder, and two world wars, the spread of enlightenment values has become the yardstick by which moral, political, and even scientific advances are measured. Indeed, most critiques of the enlightenment ideal point to failure in implementation rather than principle. By contrast, David Stove, in On Enlightenment, attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought, to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures.

Stove is not insensitive to the many valuable aspects of enlightenment thought. He champions the use of reason and rationality, and recognizes the falsity of religious claims as well as the importance of individual liberty. What he rejects is the enlightenment's uncritical optimism regarding social progress and its willingness to embrace revolutionary change. What evidence is there that the elimination of superstition will lead to happiness? Or that it is possible to accept Darwinism without Social Darwinism? Or that the enlightenment's liberal, rationalistic outlook will ever lead to the kind of social progress envisioned by its advocates.

Despite their best intentions, social reformers who attempt to improve the world as a whole inevitably make things worse. He advocates a conservative "go slow" approach to change, pointing out that today's social structures are so large and complex that any widespread social reform will have innumerable unforeseen consequences. For example, the welfare state may diminish individual initiative, the use ofpesticides may increase the food supply while polluting the water supply, the popularizing of university education may lead to a decline in academic standards. Since government has a virtual monopoly on large-scale change, it follows, in Stove's view, that its powers must be limited in order to prevent large-scale damage. Instead, he argues that reforms, when they are to be made at all, must be realistic, local, necessary and never coercive.

Writing in the conservative tradition of Edmund Burke with the same passion for clarity and intellectual honesty as George Orwell, David Stove was one of the most precise, articulate, and insightful philosophers of his day.

Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists - Word Flesh and Revolution (Hardcover): Anne Norton Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists - Word Flesh and Revolution (Hardcover)
Anne Norton
R4,591 Discovery Miles 45 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Introduction: A Shape of Life Grown Old Part I. 1. Power in the Blood 2. Closed Body, Open Mind 3. The Word, the Flesh, the colonized 4. Hand and Eye 5. Open Bodies, Closed Minds Part II. 6. Writing Over Blood 7. The Man of Blood and the Army of Scripture 8. The Jews of Change Alley 9. Dutch Williams Part III. 10. Revolutionary Memory 11. The Death of Marat 12. The Perverse Authority of Writing Part IV. 13. The Sacrifice 14. The Fire Next Time 15. Semele, or The Enlightenment in Flames Part V. 16. The Laughter of Demeter 17. The Laughter of Sarah 18. The Annunciation, or the Text in the Womb 19. The Circumcised

2000 Years and Beyond - Faith, Identity and the 'Commmon Era' (Hardcover): David Archard, Trevor A. Hart, Nigel... 2000 Years and Beyond - Faith, Identity and the 'Commmon Era' (Hardcover)
David Archard, Trevor A. Hart, Nigel Rapport, Paul Gifford
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


'This is a fascinating series of lectures given at St Andrews University, circling around the theme of whether the Christian era is over, and what might happen next ... Each lecture is short and readabe, and provides an excellent example of the author's thought.' - Keith Ward, Church Times

2000 Years and Beyond - Faith, Identity and the 'Commmon Era' (Paperback): David Archard, Trevor A. Hart, Nigel... 2000 Years and Beyond - Faith, Identity and the 'Commmon Era' (Paperback)
David Archard, Trevor A. Hart, Nigel Rapport, Paul Gifford
R757 R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Save R138 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


'This is a fascinating series of lectures given at St Andrews University, circling around the theme of whether the Christian era is over, and what might happen next ... Each lecture is short and readabe, and provides an excellent example of the author's thought.' - Keith Ward, Church Times

Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, And Philosophy - The Iridescent Thing (Hardcover): Alan Bass Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, And Philosophy - The Iridescent Thing (Hardcover)
Alan Bass
R3,987 Discovery Miles 39 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy explores how and why Freud's late work on fetishism led to the beginnings of a re-formulation of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Freud himself, however, was unaware of the long history of the concept of fetishism, a history crucial to understanding the concept. This book contains three main thrusts. One is historical, tracing the development of the concept of fetishism from the 16th century onwards. The focus here is on two important thinkers: Charles de Brosses from the 18th century, and Auguste Comte from the 19th. The second thrust is philosophical. Fetishism is always about the relation between the mind and things. Martin Heidegger, Jaques Derrida, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty have made essential contributions in this area, contributions which have important scientific relevance. The third thrust integrate the historical, philosophical, and psychoanalytic investigations of fetishism. It also looks at Wallace Stevens' poetic meditation on mind and thing, which helps to illuminate everything that precedes. This comprehensive book features careful integration of the historical, philosophical, and psychoanalytic investigations of fetishism. It will contribute to opening new ways of thinking about the mind and how it is structured, so that fetishism is possible. Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as philosophy scholars.

Martin Buber - The Life of Dialogue (Hardcover, 4th edition): Maurice S. Friedman Martin Buber - The Life of Dialogue (Hardcover, 4th edition)
Maurice S. Friedman
R4,174 Discovery Miles 41 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue, the first study in any language to provide a complete overview of Buber's thought, remains the definitive guide to the full range of his work and the starting point for all modern Buber scholarship. Maurice S. Friedman reveals the implications of Buber's thought for theory of knowledge, education, philosophy, myth, history and Judaic and Christian belief.
This fully revised and expanded fourth edition includes a new preface from the author, an expanded bibliography incorporating new Buber scholarship, and two new appendices in the form of essays on Buber's influence on Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin.

eBook available with sample pages: 020339819X

Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts (Hardcover): Sophia Wellbeloved Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts (Hardcover)
Sophia Wellbeloved; Foreword by Paul Beekman Taylor
R3,251 Discovery Miles 32 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


'For both seekers and academics, Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts is a valuable, even-handed, organized and thorough guide to the considerable and ever growing Gurdjieffian corpus.' - Lynn Quirolo, Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal For Our TIme

'Sophia Wellbeloved's Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for students of Gurdjieff. It will also be of serious interest to students and scholars of all the Western transformational traditions. This book breaks new ground and further serious analysis of Gurdjieff's contribution to the Western cultural trajectory cannot be far in the future.' - Lynn Quirolo, Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal For Our TIme

'This book would be an essential addition to any library maintaining an intrest in esoteric traditions or contemporary alternative spirituality.' - Kevin Tingay, Journal of Theosophical History

'It is well referenced and places Gurdieff in the context of other esoteric teachers and groups of the 20th century.' - Kevin Tingay, The Christian Parapsychologist

Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists - Word Flesh and Revolution (Paperback): Anne Norton Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists - Word Flesh and Revolution (Paperback)
Anne Norton
R1,735 R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Save R323 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days


In Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists provocative theorist Anne Norton presents an alternative narrative of the history of the world. She starts by reminding us of the real interplay between words (laws, scriptures, myths, and history) and the world of flesh (of blood ties and bloodshed, skin colour and sexuality). The seemingly precious and all too literary constructs of the poststructuralists really do act on the body politic. The book is written on three historical sites: the revolutions in England and France, the struggle against colonialism, and the modern liberal order. In this telling, we see liberal constitutions born in Terror and regicide, we see a word, a text, a document, write "slave" on the darkness of the body, we see the guillotine release the power in the blood, and we hear the words that declare a people free. Norton re-reads and re-writes foundational myths from Abraham and Isaac on the mountain top in the Bible to legends of the American Revolution. This lyrical and mesmerizing book serves, in its way, as a catalogue of oppressions, and a history of the justifications oppressors have made for injustices. It also makes clear that that these oppressions and justifications continue on today, as certainly as they did in any point in history. Defying easy categorization, Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists is the ultimate challenge to all those who claim that history has come to end, or that life is classifiable or un-complex, or that we understand all we need to understand about the story of Western History.

Enjoyment Right & Left (Paperback): Todd McGowan Enjoyment Right & Left (Paperback)
Todd McGowan
R473 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Relativism (Paperback): Paul O'Grady Relativism (Paperback)
Paul O'Grady
R1,227 Discovery Miles 12 270 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.

Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time - I. Los, A Chapter (Paperback): H. Cixous Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time - I. Los, A Chapter (Paperback)
H. Cixous 1
R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Helene Cixous has dreamed for years of "The Book-I-Don't-Write," but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. When Jacques Derrida told her the Book would get written one day, but differently, Cixous tells us she would see it "shining behind a veil, its indecipherable back, upright on heaven's bookshelf, its elegant silhouette, utterly foreign, utterly familiar, of future revenant. I've always thought it would come, naturally. When? After all my deaths? Just before, or just after, the last of my deaths." One day, when she is no longer expecting it, the Book turns up: "Quickly, without taking my eyes off it, I copied it down, staying scrupulously close to its notations, its rhythms, its moments of silence. I found it. Just as you see it." She calls it Los, meaning "loose, detached" in German, her mother's tongue. Or Los like Carlos, the Latin American friend whose unexpected death in May 2014 takes her back to a life they shared and a time the Book will reconstitute in the present, abolishing time: "Suddenly, that morning, I saw the universe of The-Book-I-Don't-Write: it is an infinity of presents." Los, A Chapter is a marvelous exploration of time and relationships. It reimagines scenes from Paris in the late sixties: its cafes, its debates, its political turmoil. Both playful and serious, it is a book in a long line of novels from Balzac to Proust that create worlds both philosophical and concrete. In Los a lost time is regained.

Email and Ethics - Style and Ethical Relations in Computer-Mediated Communications (Hardcover): Emma Rooksby Email and Ethics - Style and Ethical Relations in Computer-Mediated Communications (Hardcover)
Emma Rooksby
R4,449 Discovery Miles 44 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


E-mail and Ethics explores the ways in which interpersonal relations are affected by being conducted via computer-mediated communication.
The advent of this channel of communication has prompted a renewed investigation into the nature and value of forms of human association. Rooksby addresses these concerns in her rigorous investigation of the benefits, limitations and implications of computer-mediated communication.
With its depth of research and clarity of style, this book will be of essential interest to philosophers, scholars of communication, cultural and media studies, and all those interested in the importance and implications of computer-mediated communication.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203217179

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