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The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza (Hardcover): Michael Della Rocca The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza (Hardcover)
Michael Della Rocca
R4,425 Discovery Miles 44 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. This resurgence is due in no small part to the recent revival of metaphysics in contemporary philosophy and to the increased appreciation of Spinoza's role as an unorthodox, pivotal figure - indeed, perhaps the pivotal figure - in the development of Enlightenment thinking. Spinoza's penetrating articulation of his extreme rationalism makes him a demanding philosopher who offers deep and prescient challenges to all subsequent, inevitably less radical approaches to philosophy. While the twenty-six essays in this volume - by many of the world's leading Spinoza specialists - grapple directly with Spinoza's most important arguments, these essays also seek to identify and explain Spinoza's debts to previous philosophy, his influence on later philosophers, and his significance for contemporary philosophy and for us.

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.

Berkeley's Idealism - A Critical Examination (Hardcover): Georges Dicker Berkeley's Idealism - A Critical Examination (Hardcover)
Georges Dicker
R2,034 Discovery Miles 20 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In George Berkeley's two most important works, the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Bewtween Hylas and Philonous, he argued that there is no such thing as matter: only minds and ideas exist, and physical things are nothing but collections of ideas. In defense of this idealism, he advanced a battery of challenging arguments purporting to show that the very notion of matter is self-contradictory or meaningless, and that even if it were possible for matter to exist, we could not know that it does; and he then put forward an alternative world-view that purported to refute both skepticism and atheism.
Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, Georges Dicker here examines both the destructive and the constructive sides of Berkeley's thought, against the background of the mainstream views that he rejected. Dicker's accessible and text-based analysis of Berkeley's arguments shows that the Priniciples and the Dialogues dovetail and complement each other in a seamless way, rather than being self-contained. Dicker's book avoids the incompleteness that results from studying just one of his two main works; instead, he treats the whole as a visionary response to the issues of modern philosophy- such as primary and secondary qualities, external-world skepticism, the substance-property relation, the causal roles of human agents and of God. In addition to relating Berkeley's work to his contemporaries, Dicker discusses work by today's top Berkeley scholars, and uses notions and distinctions forged by recent and contemporary analytic philosophers of perception. Berkeley's Idealism both advances Berkeley scholarship and serves as a useful guide for teachers and students.

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life (Hardcover, New): Mark Francis Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life (Hardcover, New)
Mark Francis
R4,508 Discovery Miles 45 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was a colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and psychology. In this acclaimed study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years and now available in paperback, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man that dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer and shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. In this major study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man. Using archival material and contemporary printed sources, Francis creates a fascinating portrait of a human being whose philosophical and scientific system was a unique attempt to explain modern life in all its biological, psychological and sociological forms. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life fills what is perhaps the last big biographical gap in Victorian history. An exceptional work of scholarship it not only dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer but shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. Elegantly written, provocative and rich in insight it will be required reading for all students of the period.

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.

Conversations With My Dog - About our journeys and finding the way home (Hardcover): Hannah Gold Conversations With My Dog - About our journeys and finding the way home (Hardcover)
Hannah Gold
R455 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R42 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Conversations with My Dog by Hannah Gold is a tale for those who love to seek new adventures and the promise of following their dreams, or nose, into the unknown. In a fast-paced world, driven by material achievement and the fear of loss; clarity can seem hard to find. Sometimes answers can come from the most surprising sources. When the author found herself confronted with challenges, she discovered, to her surprise, that wisdom came not from a philosophical master or spiritual guide, but her puppy named Monty. On the road with him, she learns to stop and ask him questions. He answers her through demonstrating the values of simplicity, fun and love of exploration. This description of the conversations that developed between them is a tale about rediscovering direction in life. It gives a light-hearted, gently thought-provoking account of the bigger journey of working out how to live. The search for the way ahead is the metaphor that illustrates the eternal bond of loyalty between a dog and its humanand makes this tale transcend normal conversation. 'Even when we are in small bodies, we have big spirits.' Writes Hannah Gold, relaying the replies of her wise four-legged friend, to her questions about life. 'The very young always know why they are here. Because they haven't forgotten. Sometimes life muddles things up with too many thoughts. But the heart is ageless.' Hannah's illustrations were created from sketches she made of Monty on their travels. These drawings provide a visual tapestry, depicting their journey together to inspire readers in finding their own path. Conversations with My Dog is an ideal companion for people considering significant change or embarking on a new direction, however uncertain, or even just searching for a little extra companionship and inspiration.

The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley (Hardcover): David Berman The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley (Hardcover)
David Berman
R2,331 Discovery Miles 23 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley is an introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant thinkers in the history of philosophy and a penetrating philosophical assessment of his lasting legacy. Written in clear and user-friendly style, Berman provides: * A concise summary of George Berkeley (1685-1753)'s life and writings * An accessible introduction to the structure of Berkeley's most authoritative work, The Principles of Human Knowledge * An overview of common misunderstandings of Berkeley's philosophy, and how to avoid them Beyond solely an introduction, Berman also gives us a broader and deeper appreciation of Berkeley as a philosopher. He argues for Berkeley's work as a philosophical system with coherence and important key themes hitherto unexplored and provides an analysis of why he thinks Berkeley's work has had such lasting significance. With a particular focus on Berkeley's dualist thinking and theories of 'mental types', Berman provides students and scholars with a key to unlocking the significance of this work. This introductory text will provide an insight into Berkeley's full body of work, the distinctiveness of his thinking and how deeply relevant this key thinker is to contemporary philosophy.

Hegel's Philosophy of right (Hardcover): G.W.F. Hegel Hegel's Philosophy of right (Hardcover)
G.W.F. Hegel; Translated by T.M. Knox
R995 Discovery Miles 9 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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.

Spinoza - The Ethics of an Outlaw (Hardcover): Ivan Segre Spinoza - The Ethics of an Outlaw (Hardcover)
Ivan Segre; Translated by David Broder
R4,223 Discovery Miles 42 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since the 17th century, his work has aroused some of the fiercest and most intense polemics in the discipline. From his expulsion from the synagogue and onwards, Spinoza has never ceased to embody the secular, heretical and self-loathing Jew. Ivan Segre, a philosopher and celebrated scholar of the Talmud, discloses the conservative underpinnings that have animated Spinoza's numerable critics and antagonists. Through a close reading of Leo Strauss and several contemporary Jewish thinkers, such as Jean-Claude Milner and Benny Levy (Sartre's last secretary), Spinoza: the Ethics of an Outlaw aptly delineates the common cause of Spinoza's contemporary censors: an explicit hatred of reason and its emancipatory potential. Spinoza's radical heresy lies in his rejection of any and all blind adherence to Biblical Law, and in his plea for the freedom and autonomy of thought. Segre reclaims Spinoza as a faithful interpreter of the revolutionary potential contained within the Old Testament.

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
Leaves of Grass (Paperback): Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
Walt Whitman
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 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: With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (Paperback)
Ralph Cudworth
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Fragment on Government - or a Comment on the Commentaries Being an Examination of What Is Delivered on the Subject of... A Fragment on Government - or a Comment on the Commentaries Being an Examination of What Is Delivered on the Subject of Government in General, in the Introduction to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries (Paperback)
Jeremy Bentham
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 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
Elements of Criticism,2 (Paperback): Henry Home Kames Elements of Criticism,2 (Paperback)
Henry Home Kames
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 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
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Paperback): Jeremy Bentham An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Paperback)
Jeremy Bentham
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 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
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Paperback): Jeremy Bentham An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Paperback)
Jeremy Bentham
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 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
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