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Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General

Scepticism and Literature - An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson (Hardcover, New): Fred Parker Scepticism and Literature - An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson (Hardcover, New)
Fred Parker
R5,521 Discovery Miles 55 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this first study of the role of scepticism in literature, Fred Parker offers a lively and stimulating introduction to key issues in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy. Parker traces the presence of sceptical thinking in works by Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, relates it more broadly to the social self-consciousness of eighteenth-century culture, and discusses its source in Locke and its inspiration in Montaigne.

Fiction and Economy (Hardcover): S Bruce, V Wagner Fiction and Economy (Hardcover)
S Bruce, V Wagner
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume brings together new essays on the relations between fiction and the economy by eleven academics, all established or emergent scholars from different fields of expertise. The essays range widely in their respective foci, extending beyond purely literary studies to encompass history, the history of language, studies in the visual arts, and philosophy. Including essays from leading (and in some cases multilingual) academics in Europe as well as the UK, Fiction and Economy is genuinely international, distinctive, and broad in its scope.

Eighteenth-Century Vitalism - Bodies, Culture, Politics (Hardcover, New): C. Packham Eighteenth-Century Vitalism - Bodies, Culture, Politics (Hardcover, New)
C. Packham
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Vitalism is usually associated with Romantic theories of nature, but the supposition of a 'vital principle' or life-force recurred throughout eighteenth-century natural philosophy, to counter the inadequacy of mechanism to understand the operation of natural life. This book traces the persistent presence of a language of vital nature not only in eighteenth-century science, but in literary and philosophical writing too: in moral philosophy, theories of sensibility and political economy, and in the radical journalism and women's writing of the 1790s. It explores the influence of the Scottish vitalist physiology of Robert Whytt and others on writers and thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, John Hunter, John Thelwall and Mary Wollstonecraft. In doing so, it shows the centrality of vitalism to eighteenth-century accounts of the body, nature, matter and life, and offers a new way of understanding the relationship between eighteenth-century science and culture and that of the Romantic period.

Deleuze and Guattari - Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Hardcover): Gary Genosko Deleuze and Guattari - Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Hardcover)
Gary Genosko
R34,719 Discovery Miles 347 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


The ideas of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and activist analyst Felix Guattari are transforming disciplinary practices across the humanities and social sciences.
These three volumes gather together classic essays that demonstrate the richness of these fascinating and important thinkers influence.
The set incorporates:
* key essays by an international selection of theorists and practitioners
* the development of implications for the built environment
* the first ever collection of critical material on Guattari
* long out-of-print and hard to find materials

Charles Peirce's Empiricism (Hardcover): Justus Buchler Charles Peirce's Empiricism (Hardcover)
Justus Buchler
R7,023 Discovery Miles 70 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chance, Love, and Logic - Philosophical Essays (Hardcover): Charles S. Peirce Chance, Love, and Logic - Philosophical Essays (Hardcover)
Charles S. Peirce
R7,932 Discovery Miles 79 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bentham's Theory of Fictions (Hardcover): C. K Ogden Bentham's Theory of Fictions (Hardcover)
C. K Ogden
R7,630 Discovery Miles 76 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Philosophy of Robert Boyle (Hardcover): Peter R. Anstey The Philosophy of Robert Boyle (Hardcover)
Peter R. Anstey
R4,482 Discovery Miles 44 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


This book presents the first integrated treatment of the philosophy of Robert Boyle, one of the leading English natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution. It examines the central concepts of philosophy, including the theory of matter, causation and the laws of nature.

eBook available with sample pages: 020346477X

Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Hardcover, 1989 ed.): G. Scarre Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
G. Scarre
R5,722 Discovery Miles 57 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Nobody reads Mill today, ' wrote a reviewer in Time magazine a few years ago. One could scarcely praise Mr Melvin Maddocks, who penned that remark, for his awareness of the present state of Mill studies, for of all nineteenth century philosophers who wrote in English, it is 1. S. Mill who remains the most read today. Yet it would not be so far from the truth to say that very few people pay much serious attention nowadays to Mill's writings about logic and metaphysics (as distinct from those on ethical and social issues), despite the fact that Mill put enormous effort into their composition and through them exerted a considerable influen ce on the course of European philosophy for the rest of his century. But the only sections of A System of Logic (1843) and An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865) to which much reference is now made comprise only a small proportion of those very large books, and the prevailing assumption is that Mill's theories about logical and meta physical questions are, with few exceptions, of merely antiquarian in terest. Bertrand Russell once said that Mill's misfortune was to be born at the wrong time (Russell (1951), p. 2). It can certainly appear that Mill chose an inauspicious time to attempt a major work on logic."

Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love - Divine Commands and Moral Obligations (Hardcover, New): C. Stephen Evans Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love - Divine Commands and Moral Obligations (Hardcover, New)
C. Stephen Evans
R5,819 Discovery Miles 58 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

C. Stephen Evans explains and defends Kierkegaard's account of moral obligations as rooted in God's commands, the fundamental command being You shall love your neighbour as yourself'. The work will be of interest not only to those interested in Kierkegaard, but also to those interested in the relation between ethics and religion, especially questions about whether morality can or must have a religious foundation. As well as providing a comprehensive reading of Kierkegaard as an ethical thinker, Evans puts him into conversation with contemporary moral theorists. Kierkegaard's divine command theory is shown to be an account that safeguards human flourishing, as well as protecting the proper relations between religion and state in a pluralistic society.

Mill (Hardcover): Professor John M. Skorupski Mill (Hardcover)
Professor John M. Skorupski
R12,917 Discovery Miles 129 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Kant-Arg Philosophers - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Hardcover): Ralph C.S. Walker Kant-Arg Philosophers - The Arguments of the Philosophers (Hardcover)
Ralph C.S. Walker
R9,873 Discovery Miles 98 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Butler - Arg Phil (Hardcover): Terence Penelhum Butler - Arg Phil (Hardcover)
Terence Penelhum
R11,222 Discovery Miles 112 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Austin-Arg Philosophers (Hardcover): G.J. Warnock Austin-Arg Philosophers (Hardcover)
G.J. Warnock
R9,876 Discovery Miles 98 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Meinong - Arg Philosophers (Hardcover): Reinhardt Grossmann Meinong - Arg Philosophers (Hardcover)
Reinhardt Grossmann
R9,889 Discovery Miles 98 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

James - Arguments of the Philosophers (Hardcover): Graham Bird James - Arguments of the Philosophers (Hardcover)
Graham Bird
R9,884 Discovery Miles 98 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Berkeley-Arg Philosophers (Hardcover): George Pitcher Berkeley-Arg Philosophers (Hardcover)
George Pitcher
R9,873 Discovery Miles 98 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Kant and Theology (Hardcover): Pamela Sue Anderson, Jordan Bell Kant and Theology (Hardcover)
Pamela Sue Anderson, Jordan Bell
R3,363 Discovery Miles 33 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title presents an introduction to the influence of Kant's though on theology and the response from theology. The philosophy of Kant is widely acknowledged to have had a major impact on theology. However, due to the vastness and complexity of Kant's philosophical system, contemporary theologians and ethicists tend to steer clear of his actual writings and often exhibit a misunderstanding of his central ideas on reason, morality and religion. Anderson and Bell aim to make Kant accessible again to new generations of students and to challenge twenty-first century academics to return to Enlightenment rationality. "Kant and Theology" takes a fresh look at freedom, evil and human autonomy in Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason", as well as his "Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason" and "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?", demonstrating how these core texts can inform debates about a range of topics including salvation, purgatory, ritual practice and the role of reason for religious people today. "The Philosophy and Theology" series looks at major philosophers and explores their relevance to theological thought as well as the response of theology.

Self and Substance in Leibniz (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): Marc Elliott Bobro Self and Substance in Leibniz (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Marc Elliott Bobro
R1,605 Discovery Miles 16 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, in his classic 1948 text, Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, writes that "the monad ... is nothing but a 1 representation (in both senses of the French word) of Leibniz's personality in metaphysical symbols; and there was, under contemporary circumstances, no need 2 to 'introduce' this concept apart from 'propounding' it. " It is not clear what Meyer means here except that from the consideration of his own self, in some way Leibniz comes to his concept of simple substance, or monad. Herbert Carr, in an even earlier work, notes that Leibniz held that "the only real unities in nature are formal, not material. ... [and] [f]or a long time Leibniz was content to call the formal unities or substantial forms he was speaking about, souls. This had the advantage that it referred at once to the fact of experience which supplies the very 3 type of a substantial form, the self or ego. " Finally, Nicholas Rescher, in his usual forthright manner, states that "[i]n all of Leibniz's expositions of his philosophy, 4 the human person is the paradigm of a substance.

Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity (Hardcover, Digital original): Joao Constancio, Maria Joao Mayer Branco, Bartholomew... Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity (Hardcover, Digital original)
Joao Constancio, Maria Joao Mayer Branco, Bartholomew Ryan
R5,027 Discovery Miles 50 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nietzsche's critique of the modern subject is often presented as a radical break with modern philosophy and associated with the so-called 'death of the subject' in 20th century philosophy. But Nietzsche claimed to be a 'psychologist' who was trying to open up the path for 'new versions and sophistications of the soul hypothesis.' Although there is no doubt that Nietzsche gave expression to a fundamental crisis of the modern conception of subjectivity (both from a theoretical and from a practical-existential perspective), it is open to debate whether he wanted to abandon the very idea of subjectivity or only to pose the problem of subjectivity in new terms. The volume includes 26 articles by top Nietzsche scholars. The chapters in Part I, "Tradition and Context", deal with the relationship between Nietzsche's views on subjectivity and modern philosophy, as well as with the late 19th century context in which his thought emerged; Part II, "The Crisis of the Subject", examines the impact of Nietzsche's critique of the subject on 20th century philosophy, from Freud to Heidegger to Dennett, but also in such authors as Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, or Luhmann; Part III, "Current Debates - From Embodiment and Consciousness to Agency", shows that the way in which Nietzsche engaged with such themes as the self, agency, consciousness, embodiment and self-knowledge makes his thought highly relevant for philosophy today, especially for philosophy of mind and ethics.

The Philosophy of the Young Kant - The Precritical Project (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Martin Schoenfeld The Philosophy of the Young Kant - The Precritical Project (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Martin Schoenfeld
R6,024 Discovery Miles 60 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an intellectual biography covering Kant's early years, from 1747 (when he published his first book) to 1770, just before he published his most influential work, The Critique of Pure Reason. Schonfeld meticulously examines almost all of Kant's early works, summarizing their content, exhibiting their shortcomings, and most important, arguing that they are all aspects of a single project that Kant progressively carried out over the course of his early years -namely, the effort to reconcile metaphysical and scientific perspectives and combine them into a coherent model of nature. He reveals the continuity in Kant's entire oevre and shows that 'the pre-critical project', despite Kant's later repudiation, pushed philosophy forward.

Hegel's Discovery of the Philosophy of Spirit - Autonomy, Alienation, and the Ethical Life: The Jena Lectures 1802-1806... Hegel's Discovery of the Philosophy of Spirit - Autonomy, Alienation, and the Ethical Life: The Jena Lectures 1802-1806 (Hardcover)
P. Ifergan
R3,162 Discovery Miles 31 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This exploration of Hegel's critique of the individualistic ethos of modernity and the genesis of his alternative vision traces the conceptual schemes Hegel experimented with to show how he settled on the concepts of 'ethical life' (Sittlichkeit) and Spirit as the means for overcoming subjectivity and domination.

The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill - On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism & Socialism (Hardcover): John... The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill - On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism & Socialism (Hardcover)
John Stuart Mill
R882 Discovery Miles 8 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
David Hume - Critical Assessments (Hardcover): Stanley Tweyman David Hume - Critical Assessments (Hardcover)
Stanley Tweyman
R33,588 Discovery Miles 335 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy (Hardcover): Julia Watkin Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy (Hardcover)
Julia Watkin
R4,369 Discovery Miles 43 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Watkin provides a contextual introduction to Kierkegaard's 19th century world of Copenhagen, a chronology of events and key figures in his life, as well as definitions of the key systems of his thought_theology, existentialism, literature, and psychology. The extensive bibliographical section covers secondary literature and electronic materials of help to researchers. The appendix includes detailed information on his writings, along with a list of his pseudonyms. This book is useful not only as a guide for experienced scholars, but also as an introduction to new students of Kierkegaard's Philosophy.

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