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A Catalogve and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of This Realme of England, Since the... A Catalogve and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of This Realme of England, Since the Norman Conquest, to This Present Yeere 1622. Together With Their Armes, Wiues, and Children; the Times of Their Deaths And... (Hardcover)
Ralph 1553-1625 Brooke
R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Third Eye - Simple Techniques to Awaken Your Third Eye Chakra With Guided Meditation, Kundalini, and Hypnosis (psychic... Third Eye - Simple Techniques to Awaken Your Third Eye Chakra With Guided Meditation, Kundalini, and Hypnosis (psychic abilities, spiritual enlightenment) (Hardcover)
Amy White
R621 R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
You Must Change Your Life (Hardcover): Thomas J Millay You Must Change Your Life (Hardcover)
Thomas J Millay
R886 R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Save R128 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Critique of Practical Reason (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Practical Reason (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism - Understanding Psychological Nominalism (Hardcover): Patrick Reider Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism - Understanding Psychological Nominalism (Hardcover)
Patrick Reider
R4,576 Discovery Miles 45 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism is the first study of its kind to address a range of realist and idealist views inspired by psychological nominalism. Bringing together premier analytic realists and distinguished defenders of German idealism, it reveals why psychological nominalism is one of the most important theories of the mind to come out the 20th century. The theory, first put forward by Wilfrid Sellars, argues that language is the only means by which humans can learn the types of socially shared practices that permit rationality. Although wedded to important aspects of German idealism, Sellars' theory is couched in bold realist terms of the analytic tradition. Those who are sympathetic to German idealism find this realist's appropriation of German idealism problematic. Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism and Realism thus creates a rare venue for realists and idealists to debate the epistemic outcome of the mental processes they both claim are essential to experience. Their resulting discussion bridges the gap between analytic and continental philosophy. In providing original and accessible chapters on psychological nominalism, this volume raises themes that intersect with numerous disciplines: the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. It also provides clarity on arguably the best available account of why humans can reason, be self-aware, know, and act as agents.

Reading Newspapers - Press and Public in Eighteenth-century Britain and America (Paperback): Uriel Heyd Reading Newspapers - Press and Public in Eighteenth-century Britain and America (Paperback)
Uriel Heyd
R3,016 Discovery Miles 30 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In their first century of uninterrupted publication, newspapers reached an all-embracing readership: male and female, noble and artisan, in both town and country. Such was its impact that this seemingly ephemeral product became a collector's object. In Reading newspapers Uriel Heyd examines this vibrant new print medium and investigates its political, social and cultural implications. Adopting a comparative approach, the author traces the culture of newspaper reading in Britain and America. Previously unexplored sources such as newspaper indexes and introductions, plays, auction catalogues and a unique newspaper collection assembled and annotated by a Bostonian shopkeeper, provide invaluable access to perceptions of the press, reading practices, and the ever-changing experience of consumers. While newspapers supplied news of immediacy and relevance, their effect transcended the here and now, influencing readers' perceptions of the age in which they lived and helping to shape historical memory. But the newly found power of this media also gave rise to a certain fear of its ability to exploit or manipulate public opinion. Perceived as vehicles of enlightenment, but also viewed with suspicion, the legacy of eighteenth-century newspapers is still felt today.

Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment - Marian Hobson (Paperback): Kate E. Tunstall, Caroline Warman Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment - Marian Hobson (Paperback)
Kate E. Tunstall, Caroline Warman
R3,694 Discovery Miles 36 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Marian Hobson's work has made a seminal contribution to our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and of Diderot and Rousseau in particular. This book presents her most important articles in a single volume, translated into English for the first time. Hobson's distinctive approach is to take a given text or problematique and position it within its intellectual, historical and polemical context. From close analysis of the underlying conceptual structures of literary texts, she offers a unique insight into the vibrant networks of people and ideas at work throughout Europe, and across disciplinary boundaries as diverse as literature and mathematics, medicine and music. In their translations of Hobson's essays, Kate Tunstall and Caroline Warman present the primary sources in both the original eighteenth-century French and modern English, making the detail of these debates accessible to everyone, from the specialist to the student, whatever their academic discipline or interest.

Beyond Good and Evil (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy (Hardcover): Jure Simoniti, Gregor Kroupa Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy (Hardcover)
Jure Simoniti, Gregor Kroupa
R4,016 Discovery Miles 40 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book intends to broaden the study of idealism beyond its simplistic characterizations in contemporary philosophy. After idealist stances have practically disappeared from the mental landscape in the last hundred years, and the term "idealism" has itself become a sort of philosophical anathema, continental philosophy was, first, plunged into one of its deepest crises of truth, culminating in postmodernism, and then, the 21st century ushered in a new era of realism. Against this background, the volume gathers a number of renowned philosophers, among them Slavoj Zizek, Robert B. Pippin, Mladen Dolar, Sebastian Roedl, Paul Redding, Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel, James I. Porter, and others, in order to address the issue as to what exactly has been lost with the retreat of idealism, and what kind of idealism could still be rehabilitated in the present day. The contributions will both provide historical studies on idealism, pointing out the little known, overlooked, and surprising instances of idealist impulses, and set out to develop new perspectives and possibilities for a contemporary idealism. The appeal of the book lies in the fact that it defends a philosophical concept that has been increasingly under attack and thus contributes to an ongoing debate in ontology.

L'Orient anglais - connaissances et fictions au XVIIIe siecle (English, French, Paperback, New ed.): Clare Gallien L'Orient anglais - connaissances et fictions au XVIIIe siecle (English, French, Paperback, New ed.)
Clare Gallien
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Source d'etude mais egalement d'inspiration, l'Orient a influence de nombreux penseurs, historiens et ecrivains anglais du XVIIIe siecle, dont les textes ont contribue au developpement d'une veritable mode orientale en Angleterre. Mais parmi ces representations de l'Orient se confondent ouvrages erudits et fictifs, connaissance et imagination. Relisant un corpus de romans dits pseudo-orientaux a partir de leur intertexte savant, Claire Gallien met en evidence la deconstruction des frontieres entre textes fictifs et non-fictifs. Si le roman s'inspire de l'erudition orientaliste, celle-ci emploie des techniques de vulgarisation propres a l'ecriture romanesque. Dans L'Orient anglais C. Gallien examine le lien qui unissait une mode a un systeme de connaissance, et permet de voir le role d'une culture etrangere dans la constitution d'une litterature nationale.

Space After Deleuze (Hardcover): Arun Saldanha Space After Deleuze (Hardcover)
Arun Saldanha
R4,574 Discovery Miles 45 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Deleuze's fondness for geography has long been recognised as central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce researchers to the breadth of his engagements with space, place and movement. Focusing on pressing global issues such as urbanization, war, migration, and climate change, Arun Saldanha presents a detailed Deleuzian rejoinder to a number of theoretical and political questions about globalization in a variety of disciplines. This systematic overview of moments in Deleuze's corpus where space is implicitly or explicitly theorized shows why he can be called the twentieth century's most interesting thinker of space. Anyone with an interest in refining such concepts as territory, assemblage, body, event and Anthropocene will learn much from the "geophilosophy" which Deleuze and Guattari proposed for our critical times.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hardcover): David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hardcover)
David Hume
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3 (Hardcover): Ian R. Christie The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3 (Hardcover)
Ian R. Christie
R1,845 Discovery Miles 18 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Case for Reduction (Hardcover): Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Jakob Schillinger The Case for Reduction (Hardcover)
Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Jakob Schillinger
R868 R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation - The Truth is Translated (Hardcover): Paul Standish, Naoko Saito Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation - The Truth is Translated (Hardcover)
Paul Standish, Naoko Saito
R3,523 Discovery Miles 35 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature was an early expression of a self-understanding of philosophy that has, in some quarters at least, survived the centuries. This book explores the idea of translation as a philosophical theme and as an important feature of philosophy and practical life, especially in relation to the work of Stanley Cavell. The essays in this volume explore philosophical questions about translation, especially in the light of the work of Stanley Cavell. They take the questions raised by translation to be of key importance not only for philosophical thinking but for our lives as a whole. Thoreau's enigmatic remark "The truth is translated" reveals that apparently technical matters of translation extend through human lives to remarkable effect, conditioning the ways in which the world comes to light. The experience of the translator exemplifies the challenge of judgement where governing rules and principles are incommensurable; and it shows something of the ways in which words come to us, opening new possibilities of thought. This book puts Cavell's rich exploration of these matters into conversation with traditions of pragmatism and European thought. Translation, then, far from a merely technical matter, is at work in human being, and it is the means of humanisation. The book brings together philosophers and translators with common interests in Cavell and in the questions of language at the heart of his work.

Self-control - a Novel; 1-2 (Hardcover): Mary 1778-1818 Brunton Self-control - a Novel; 1-2 (Hardcover)
Mary 1778-1818 Brunton
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Enlightenment Hospitality - Cannibals, Harems and Adoption (Paperback): Judith Still Enlightenment Hospitality - Cannibals, Harems and Adoption (Paperback)
Judith Still
R3,015 Discovery Miles 30 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hospitality, in particular hospitality to strangers, was promoted in the eighteenth century as a universal human virtue, but writing of the period reveals many telling examples of its abuse. Through analysis of encounters across cultural and sexual divides, Judith Still revisits the current debate about the social, moral and political values of the Enlightenment. Focussing on (in)hospitality in relation to two kinds of exotic Other, Judith Still examines representations of indigenous peoples of the New World, both as hosts and as cannibals, and of the Moslem 'Oriental' in Persia and Turkey, associated with both the caravanserai (where travellers rest) and the harem. She also explores very different examples of Europeans as hosts and the practice of 'adoption', particularly that of young girls. The position of women in hospitality, hitherto neglected in favour of questions of cultural difference, is central to these analyses, and Still considers the work of women writers alongside more canonical male-authored texts. In this thought-provoking study, Judith Still uncovers how the Enlightenment rhetoric of openness and hospitality is compromised by self-interest; the questions it raises about attitudes to difference and freedom are equally relevant today.

Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment (English, French, Paperback): Carolina Armenteros, Richard A. Lebrun Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment (English, French, Paperback)
Carolina Armenteros, Richard A. Lebrun
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although Joseph de Maistre has long been regarded as characterising the Counter-Enlightenment, his intellectual relationship to eighteenth-century philosophy remains unexplored. In this first comprehensive assessment of Joseph de Maistre's response to the Enlightenment, a team of renowned scholars uncover a writer who was both the foe and heir of the philosophes. While Maistre was deeply indebted to thinkers who helped to fashion the Enlightenment - Rousseau, the Cambridge Platonists - he also agreed with philosophers such as Schopenhauer who adopted an overtly critical stance. His idea of genius, his critique of America and his historical theory all used 'enlightened' language to contradict Enlightenment principles. Most intriguingly, and completely unsuspected until now, Maistre used the writings of the early Christian theologian Origen to develop a new, late, religious form of Enlightenment that shattered the logic of philosophie. The Joseph de Maistre revealed in this book calls into question any simple opposition of Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, and offers particular lessons for our own time, when religion is at the forefront of public debate and a powerful political tool.

The Tragedy of Philosophy (Philosophy and Dogma) (Hardcover): Sergij Bulgakov The Tragedy of Philosophy (Philosophy and Dogma) (Hardcover)
Sergij Bulgakov; Foreword by John Milbank; Translated by Stephen Churchyard
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Hardcover): Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Hardcover)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Marx's 'Grundrisse' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover): Simon Choat Marx's 'Grundrisse' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover)
Simon Choat
R2,858 Discovery Miles 28 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Grundrisse is widely regarded as one of Marx's most important texts, with many commentators claiming it is the centrepiece of his entire oeuvre. It is also, however, a notoriously difficult text to understand and interpret. In this - the first guide and introduction to reading the Grundrisse - Simon Choat helps us to make sense of a text that is both a first draft of Capital and a major work in its own right. As well as offering a detailed commentary on the entire text, this guide explains the Grundrisse's central themes and arguments and highlights its impact and influence. The Grundrisse's discussions of money, labour, nature, freedom, the role of machinery, and the development and dynamics of capitalism have influenced generations of thinkers, from Anglo-American historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and Robert Brenner to Continental philosophers like Antonio Negri and Gilles Deleuze, as well as offering vital insights into Marx's methodology and the trajectory of his thought. Contemporary examples are used throughout this guide both to illuminate Marx's terminology and concepts and to illustrate the continuing relevance of the Grundrisse. Readers will be offered guidance on: -Philosophical and Historical Context -Key Themes -Reading the Text -Reception and Influence

Rousseau et les philosophes (English, French, Paperback): Michael O'Dea Rousseau et les philosophes (English, French, Paperback)
Michael O'Dea
R3,012 Discovery Miles 30 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

On ne peut penser les Lumieres sans l'auteur du Contrat social et l'Emile, mais on ne saurait cependant nier que Rousseau denonce les 'philosophes modernes' dans les termes les plus forts. Comment donc penser les rapports entre Rousseau et les philosophes? Dans ce volume les specialistes de Rousseau vont au-dela des oppositions figees. Ils montrent comment le 'citoyen de Geneve', a partir de sources philosophiques partagees avec ses contemporains, delimite le champ de la raison et construit une pensee politique rigoureuse, s'imposant ainsi a ceux qui souvent rejettent ses idees religieuses ou sa denonciation des sciences et des arts. Confrontant la richesse irreductible de ses ecrits, les auteurs proposent le portrait intellectuel d'un homme qui construit sa pensee a la fois avec et contre les philosophes, les obligeant a justifier ou a modifier leurs propres convictions face au defi que represente son oeuvre. Figure emblematique de son siecle, Rousseau suscite l'indignation mais oblige aussi a des reexamens difficiles. C'est par l'etude de cette position a la fois centrale et marginale que l'on peut saisir la force de sa pensee et discerner ce qu'elle signifie pour nous.

The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Epicurus in the Enlightenment (Paperback): Neven Leddy, Avi S. Lifschitz Epicurus in the Enlightenment (Paperback)
Neven Leddy, Avi S. Lifschitz
R3,010 Discovery Miles 30 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eighteenth-century Epicureanism is often viewed as radical, anti-religious and politically dangerous. But to what extent does this simplify the ancient philosophy and underestimate its significance in Enlightenment writing? Through a pan-European analysis of Enlightenment centres from Scotland to Russia via the Netherlands, France and Germany, contributors argue that elements of classical Epicureanism were appropriated by radical and conservative writers alike. They move beyond literature and political theory to examine the application of Epicurean ideas in domains as diverse as physics, natural law, and the philosophy of language, drawing on the work of both major figures (Diderot, Helvetius, Smith and Hume) and of lesser-known but equally influential thinkers (Johann Jacob Schmauss and Dmitrii Anichkov). This unique collaboration, bringing together historians, philosophers, political scientists and literary scholars, provides rich and varied insights into the different strategic uses of Epicureanism in the eighteenth century.

Representing Private Lives of the Enlightenment (Paperback): Andrew Kahn Representing Private Lives of the Enlightenment (Paperback)
Andrew Kahn
R3,021 Discovery Miles 30 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What constituted the 'private' in the eighteenth-century? In Representing private lives of the Enlightenment authors look beyond a simple equation of the private and the domestic to explore the significance of the individual and its constructions of identity and environment. Taking case studies from Russia, France, Italy and England, specialists from a range of disciplines analyse descriptions of the private situated largely outside the familial context: the nobleman at the theatre or in his study, the woman in her boudoir, portraitists and their subject, the solitary wanderer in the public garden, the penitent at confession. This critical approach provides a comparative framework that simultaneously confirms the Enlightenment as a pan-European movement, both intellectually and socially, whilst uncovering striking counterpoints. What emerges is a unique sense of how individuals from different classes and cultures sought to map their social and domestic sphere, and an understanding of the permeable boundaries separating private and public.

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