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Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 25-26 (Hardcover): Anonymous Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 25-26 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hegel's Value (Hardcover): Dean Moyar Hegel's Value (Hardcover)
Dean Moyar
R2,807 R2,258 Discovery Miles 22 580 Save R549 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hegel's Philosophy of Right has long been recognized as the only systematic alternative to the dominant social contract tradition in modern political philosophy. Dean Moyar here takes on the difficult task of reading and representing Hegel's view of justice with the same kind of intuitive appeal that has made social contract theory, with its voluntary consent and assignment of rights and privileges, such an attractive model. Moyar argues that Hegelian justice depends on a proper understanding of Hegel's theory of value and on the model of life through which the overall conception of value, the Good, is operationalized. Closely examining key episodes in Phenomenology of Spirit and the entire Philosophy of Right, Moyar shows how Hegel develops his account of justice through an inferentialist method whereby the content of right unfolds into increasingly thick normative structures. He asserts that the theory of value that Hegel develops in tandem with the account of right relies on a productive unity of self-consciousness and life, of pure thinking and the natural drives. Moyar argues that Hegel's expressive account of the free will enables him to theorize rights not simply as abstract claims, but rather as realizations of value in social contexts of mutual recognition. Moyar shows that Hegel's account of justice is a living system of institutions centered on a close relation of the economic and political spheres and on an understanding of the law as developing through practices of public reason. Moyar defends Hegel's metaphysics of the State as an account of the sovereignty of the Good, and he shows why Hegel thought that philosophy needs to offer an account of world history and reformed religion to buttress the modern social order.

Phenomenology of Human Understanding (Hardcover): Brian Cronin Phenomenology of Human Understanding (Hardcover)
Brian Cronin
R1,510 R1,241 Discovery Miles 12 410 Save R269 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh - Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover): Patrick Fuery Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh - Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
Patrick Fuery
R3,201 Discovery Miles 32 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a "return" to Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud, Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh explores how we can engage these foundational thinkers of phenomenology and psychoanalysis in an original approach to film. The idea of the intimate spectator caught up in anxiety is developed to investigate a range of topics central to these critical approaches and cinema, including: flesh as a disruptive state formed in the relationships of intimacy and anxiety; time and the formation of cinema's enduring objects; space and things; the sensual, the "real" and the unconscious; wildness, disruption, and resistance; and the nightmare, reading "phantasy" across the critical fields. Along with Husserl and Freud, other key thinkers discussed include Edith Stein, Roman Ingarden, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikel Dufrenne in phenomenology; Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones, Julia Kristeva, and Rosine Lefort in psychoanalysis. Framing these issues and critical approaches is the question: how might Husserlian phenomenology and Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, so often seen as contradistinctive, be explored through their potential commonalities rather than differences? In addressing such a question, this book postulates a new approach to film through this phenomenological/psychoanalytic reconceptualization. A wide range of films are examined not simply as exemplars, but to test the idea that cinema itself can be a version of critical thinking.

Edward Gibbon, 'Essai Sur L'etude De La Litterature' - A Critical Edition (English, French, Paperback): Robert... Edward Gibbon, 'Essai Sur L'etude De La Litterature' - A Critical Edition (English, French, Paperback)
Robert Mankin
R3,021 Discovery Miles 30 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Before he had even conceived of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire there was another Edward Gibbon, a young expatriate living in Switzerland and writing in French. In the Essai, a work of remarkable erudition and energy completed by the age of twenty-one, Gibbon reflects on the present state of knowledge in post-Renaissance Europe - what he calls litterature. The first publication of the Essai since 1761, this critical edition sets Gibbon's work in its intellectual context. A detailed introduction examines the biographical, cultural and historical background to this text: the young writer's perception of European intellectual life as he observed it from Lausanne, his relation to the Encyclopedie and the French academies, the fate of erudition, and the modern organization of learning in books. An extensive commentary completes this edition, providing invaluable annotation of each chapter, including the important but little-known sections on religion that were replaced by Gibbon in the final text. As current debates revisit the meaning of Enlightenment, readers will find in this edition of Gibbon's Essai a new approach to the intellectual networks and tensions that lie at its heart.

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover): Maria Margaroni Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover)
Maria Margaroni
R3,394 Discovery Miles 33 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Julia Kristeva has revolutionized the study of modernism by developing a theoretical approach that is uniquely attuned to the dynamic interplay between, on the one hand, linguistic and formal experimentation, and, on the other hand, subjective crisis and socio-political upheaval. Inspired by the contestatory spirit of the late 1960s in which she emerged as a theorist, Kristeva has defended the project of the European avant-gardes and has systematically attempted to reclaim their legacy in the new societal structures produced by a global, spectacle-dominated capitalism. Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism brings together essays that take up the threads in Kristeva's analyses of the avant-garde, offering an appreciation of her overall contribution, the intellectual and political horizon within which she has produced her seminal works as well as of the blind spots that need to be acknowledged in any contemporary examination of her insights. As with other volumes in this series, this volume is structured in three parts. The first part provides new readings of key texts or central aspects in Kristeva's oeuvre. The second part takes up the task of showing the impact of Kristeva's thought on the appreciation of modernist concerns and strategies in a variety of fields: literature, philosophy, the visual arts, and dance. The third part is a glossary of some of Kristeva's key terms, with each entry written by an expert contributor.

A New and Accurate System of Natural History ..; 5 (Hardcover): R (Richard) Fl 1721-1763 Brookes A New and Accurate System of Natural History ..; 5 (Hardcover)
R (Richard) Fl 1721-1763 Brookes
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Errans - Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing (Hardcover): Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Arnd Wedemeyer Errans - Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing (Hardcover)
Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Arnd Wedemeyer
R808 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R94 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Felix Ravaisson - Selected Essays (Hardcover): Mark Sinclair Felix Ravaisson - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
Mark Sinclair
R4,258 Discovery Miles 42 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This reader makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher Felix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy. The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation Of Habit, studies of Pascal, Stoicism and the wider history of philosophy together with the Philosophical Testament that he left unfinished when he died in 1900. The volume also features Ravaisson's work in archaeology, the history of religions and art-theory, and his essay on the Venus de Milo, which occupied him over a period of twenty years after he noticed, when hiding the statue behind a false wall in a dingy Parisian basement during the Franco-Prussian war, that it had previously been presented in a way that deformed its original bearing and meaning. Felix Ravaisson: Selected Essays contains an introductory intellectual biography of Ravaisson, which contextualises each of the essays in the volume. It also features an annotated bibliography of suggested further reading. This book will grant scholars and students alike wider access to his distinctive contribution to the history of philosophy.

Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 7-8 (Hardcover): Anonymous Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 7-8 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Living Existentialism (Hardcover): Gregory Hoskins, J C Berendzen Living Existentialism (Hardcover)
Gregory Hoskins, J C Berendzen
R1,256 R1,046 Discovery Miles 10 460 Save R210 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
21st Century Philosophy (Hardcover): James Ward 21st Century Philosophy (Hardcover)
James Ward
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Feminist Theory After Deleuze (Hardcover): Hannah Stark Feminist Theory After Deleuze (Hardcover)
Hannah Stark
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Feminist Theory After Deleuze addresses the encounter between one of the 20th century's most important philosophers, Gilles Deleuze, and one of its most significant political and intellectual movements, feminism. Feminist theory is a broad, contradictory, and still evolving school of thought. This book introduces the key movements within feminist theory, engaging with both Anglo-American and French feminism, as well as important strains of feminist thought that have originated in Australia and other parts of Europe. Mapping both the feminist critique of Deleuze's work and the ways in which it has brought vitality to feminist theory, this book brings Deleuze into dialogue with significant thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz and Luce Irigaray. It takes key terms in feminist theory such as, 'difference', 'gender', 'bodies', 'desire' and 'politics' and approaches them from a Deleuzian perspective.

Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Love (Hardcover): Michael Strawser Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Love (Hardcover)
Michael Strawser
R2,610 Discovery Miles 26 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ironically, the philosophy of love has long been neglected by philosophers, so-called "lovers of wisdom," who would seemingly need to understand how one best becomes a lover. In Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Love, Michael Strawser shows that the philosophy of love lies at the heart of Kierkegaard's writings, as he argues that the central issue of Kierkegaard's authorship can and should be understood more broadly as the task of becoming a lover. Strawser starts by identifying the questions (How should I love the other? Is self-love possible? How can I love God?) and themes (love's immediacy, intentionality, unity, and eternity) that are central to the philosophy of love, and he develops a rich context that includes analyses of the conceptions of love found in Plato, Spinoza, and Hegel, as well as prominent contemporary thinkers. Strawser provides an original and wide-ranging analysis of Kierkegaard's writings-from the early The Concept of Irony and Edifying Discourses to the late The Moment, while maintaining the prominence of Works of Love- to demonstrate how Kierkegaard's writings on love are relevant to the emerging study of the philosophy of love today. The most unique perspective of this work, however, is Strawser's argument that Kierkegaard's writings on love are most fruitfully understood within the context of a phenomenology of love. In interpreting Kierkegaard as a phenomenologist of love, Strawser claims that it is not Husserl and Heidegger that we should look to for a connection in the first instance, but rather Max Scheler, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Emmanuel Levinas, and most importantly, Jean-Luc Marion, who for the most part center their thinking on the phenomenological nature of love. Based on an analysis of the works of these thinkers together with Kierkegaard's writings, Strawser argues that Kierkegaard presents readers with a first phenomenology of love, a point of view that serves as a unifying perspective throughout this work while also pointing to areas for future scholarship. Overall, this work brings seemingly divergent perspectives into a unity brought about through a focus on love-which is, after all, a unifying force.

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.

Traversals of Affect - On Jean-Francois Lyotard (Hardcover): Julie Gaillard, Claire Nouvet, Mark Stoholski Traversals of Affect - On Jean-Francois Lyotard (Hardcover)
Julie Gaillard, Claire Nouvet, Mark Stoholski
R4,588 Discovery Miles 45 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard. Affect indeed traverses Lyotard's philosophical corpus in various ways and under various names: "figure" or "the figural" in Discourse, Figure, "unbound intensities" in his "libidinal" writings, "the feeling of the differend" in The Differend, "affect" and "infantia" in his later writings. Across the span of his work, Lyotard insisted on the intractability of affect, on what he would later call the "differend" between affect and articulation. The singular awakening of sensibility, affect both traverses and escapes articulation, discourse, and representation. Lyotard devoted much of his attention to the analysis of this traversal of affect in and through articulation, its transpositions, translations, and transfers. This volume explores Lyotard's account of affect as it traverses the different fields encompassed by his writings (philosophy, the visual arts, the performing arts, literature, music, politics, psychoanalysis as well as technology and post-human studies).

Consciousness and Being - From Being to Truth in the Thomistic Tradition (Hardcover): Robert C. Trundle Consciousness and Being - From Being to Truth in the Thomistic Tradition (Hardcover)
Robert C. Trundle; Foreword by Peter A. Redpath
R1,304 R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Save R221 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Martin Heidegger and the Truth About the Black Notebooks (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Friedrich-Wilhelm Von Herrmann, Francesco... Martin Heidegger and the Truth About the Black Notebooks (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Friedrich-Wilhelm Von Herrmann, Francesco Alfieri
R2,678 Discovery Miles 26 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Toward the beginning of 2013, I received reports of passages in the Black Notebooks that offered observations on Jewry, or as the case may be, world Jewry. It immediately became clear to me that the publication of the Black Notebooks would call forth a wide-spread international debate. Already in the Spring of 2013, I had asked Professor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, last private assistant - and in the words of my grandfather, the "chief co-worker of the complete edition", - if he might review the Notebooks as a whole, based on his profound insight into the thought of Martin Heidegger, and in particular, review those Jewish-related passages that were the focus of the public eye. Publications about the Black Notebooks quickly came to propagate catchy expressions such as "being-historical anti-Semitism" and "metaphysical anti-Semitism". The first question that obviously arises is: Does the thought of Martin Heidegger exhibit any kind of anti-Semitism at all? In this book Professor von Herrmann now advances his hermeneutic explication. With Professor Francesco Alfieri of the Pontificia Universita Lateranense he has found a colleague who has drawn up a comprehensive philological analysis of volumes GA 94 through GA 97 of the Complete Edition. The fact that Heidegger designated the hitherto published "black notebooks" as Ponderings (UEberlegungen) and as Observations (Anmerkungen) has been given little consideration. He intentionally placed them at the conclusion of the Complete Edition because without acquaintance with the lectures, and above all, with the being-historical treatises that would come to be published in the framework of the Complete Edition, they would not be comprehensible. (Arnulf Heidegger)

Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 23-24 (Hardcover): Anonymous Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 23-24 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Konsult - Theopraxesis (Hardcover): Gregory L Ulmer Konsult - Theopraxesis (Hardcover)
Gregory L Ulmer
R1,730 Discovery Miles 17 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Meaning of Life and Death - Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question (Hardcover): Michael Hauskeller The Meaning of Life and Death - Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question (Hardcover)
Michael Hauskeller
R2,860 Discovery Miles 28 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we be mortal and still live a meaningful life? Questions such as these have been asked for a long time, but nobody has found a conclusive answer yet. The connection between death and meaning, however, has taken centre stage in the philosophical and literary work of some of the world's greatest writers: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Soren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, and Albert Camus. This book explores their ideas, weaving a rich tapestry of concepts, voices and images, helping the reader to understand the concerns at the heart of those writers' work and uncovering common themes and stark contrasts in their understanding of what kind of world we live in and what really matters in life.

Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze - The Art of Least Distances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Tim Flanagan Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze - The Art of Least Distances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Tim Flanagan
R3,141 Discovery Miles 31 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other argumentative. The first, enveloped in the second, holds that the significance of allegory Gilles Deleuze recognized in Walter Benjamin's 1928 monograph on seventeenth century drama is itself attested in key aspects of Kantian, Leibnizian, and Platonic philosophy (to wit, in the respective forms by which thought is phrased, predicated, and proposed).The second, enveloping the first, is a literalist claim about predication itself - namely, that the aesthetics of agitation and hallucination so emblematic of the Baroque sensibility (as attested in its emblem-books) adduces an avowedly metaphysical 'naturalism' in which thought is replete with predicates. Oriented by Barbara Cassin's development of the concerted sense in which homonyms are critically distinct from synonyms, the philosophical claim here is that 'the Baroque' names the intervallic [ ] relation that thought establishes between things. On this account, any subject finds its unity in a concerted state of disquiet - a state-rempli in which, phenomenologically speaking, experience comprises as much seeing as reading (as St Jerome encountering Origen's Hexapla).

The Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890-1913 (Hardcover): Stetson J Robinson The Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890-1913 (Hardcover)
Stetson J Robinson
R4,576 Discovery Miles 45 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edition includes the letters exchanged between Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company between 1890 and 1913. Open Court published more of Peirce's philosophical writings than any other publisher during his lifetime, and played a critical role in what little recognition and financial income he received during these difficult, yet philosophically rich, years. This correspondence is the basis for much of what is known surrounding Peirce's publications in The Monist and The Open Court-two of the publishers most popular forums for philosophical, scientific, and religious thought-and is therefore referenced heavily in Peirce editions dealing partly or wholly with his later work, including The Essential Peirce series and Writings of Charles S. Peirce. The edition provides for the first time a complete text of this oft-cited correspondence, with textual apparatus, contextual annotation, and careful replications of existential graphs and other complex illustrations. By so doing, this edition sheds critical light not only on Peirce and Open Court, but also on the context, relationships, and concepts that influenced the development of Progressive Era intellectual history and philosophy.

The Problem of Individuality; a Course of Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of London in October 1913 (Hardcover):... The Problem of Individuality; a Course of Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of London in October 1913 (Hardcover)
Hans Driesch
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 9-10 (Hardcover): Anonymous Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 9-10 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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