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Authentic Being - Dynamic Creativity (Hardcover): James R. McCartney Authentic Being - Dynamic Creativity (Hardcover)
James R. McCartney
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pseudodoxia Epidemica - or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths (Hardcover): Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica - or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths (Hardcover)
Thomas Browne
R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Anti-Pragmatism (Paperback): Albert Schinz Anti-Pragmatism (Paperback)
Albert Schinz
R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beckett's Words - The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (Hardcover): David Kleinberg-Levin Beckett's Words - The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (Hardcover)
David Kleinberg-Levin
R4,590 Discovery Miles 45 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.

Digital Self Mastery - Conquer Your Digital Habits to Boost Your Relationships and Business Growth (Hardcover): Heidi Forbes... Digital Self Mastery - Conquer Your Digital Habits to Boost Your Relationships and Business Growth (Hardcover)
Heidi Forbes Oste
R415 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R22 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Four Views on the Axiology of Theism - What Difference Does God Make? (Hardcover): Kirk Lougheed Four Views on the Axiology of Theism - What Difference Does God Make? (Hardcover)
Kirk Lougheed
R3,546 Discovery Miles 35 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For centuries, philosophers have addressed the ontological question of whether God exists. Most recently, philosophers have begun to explore the axiological question of what value impact, if any, God's existence has (or would have) on our world. This book brings together four prestigious philosophers, Michael Almeida, Travis Dumsday, Perry Hendricks and Graham Oppy, to present different views on the axiological question about God. Each contributor expresses a position on axiology, which is then met with responses from the remaining contributors. This structure makes for genuine discussion and developed exploration of the key issues at stake, and shows that the axiological question is more complicated than it first appears. Chapters explore a range of relevant issues, including the relationship between Judeo-Christian theism and non-naturalist alternatives such as pantheism, polytheism, and animism/panpsychism. Further chapters consider the attitudes and emotions of atheists within the theism conversation, and develop and evaluate the best arguments for doxastic pro-theism and doxastic anti-theism. Of interest to those working on philosophy of religion, theism and ethics, this book presents lively accounts of an important topic in an exciting and collaborative way, offered by renowned experts in this area.

Krausism and the Spanish Avant-Garde - The Impact of Philosophy on National Culture (Hardcover): Christian Rubio Krausism and the Spanish Avant-Garde - The Impact of Philosophy on National Culture (Hardcover)
Christian Rubio
R2,584 Discovery Miles 25 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Theses Towards A Trinitarian Ontology (Hardcover): Klaus Hemmerle Theses Towards A Trinitarian Ontology (Hardcover)
Klaus Hemmerle; Foreword by Rowan Williams; Translated by Stephen Churchyard
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy - On the Middle Writings (Hardcover, HPOD): Keith Ansell-Pearson Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy - On the Middle Writings (Hardcover, HPOD)
Keith Ansell-Pearson
R3,204 Discovery Miles 32 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings Keith Ansell-Pearson makes a novel and thought-provoking contribution to our appreciation of Nietzsche's neglected middle writings. These are the texts Human, All Too Human (1878-80), Dawn (1881), and The Gay Science (1882). There is a truth in the observation of Havelock Ellis that the works Nietzsche produced between 1878 and 1882 represent the maturity of his genius. In this study he explores key aspects of Nietzsche's philosophical activity in his middle writings, including his conceptions of philosophy, his commitment to various enlightenments, his critique of fanaticism, his search for the heroic-idyllic, his philosophy of modesty and his conception of ethics, and his search for joy and happiness. The book will appeal to readers across philosophy and the humanities, especially to those with an interest in Nietzsche and anyone who has a concern with the fate of philosophy in the modern world.

Deleuze and Futurism - A Manifesto for Nonsense (Hardcover): Helen Palmer Deleuze and Futurism - A Manifesto for Nonsense (Hardcover)
Helen Palmer
R3,377 Discovery Miles 33 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is an original exploration of Deleuze's dynamic philosophies of space, time and language, bringing Deleuze and futurism together for the first time. Helen Palmer investigates both the potential for creative novelty and the pitfalls of formalism within both futurist and Deleuzian linguistic practices. Through creative and rigorous analyses of Russian and Italian futurist manifestos, the 'futurist' aspects of Deleuze's language and thought are drawn out. The genre of the futurist manifesto is a literary and linguistic model which can be applied to Deleuze's work, not only at times when he writes explicitly in the style of a manifesto but also in his earlier writings such as "Difference and Repetition" (1968) and "The Logic of Sense" (1969). The way in which avant-garde manifestos often attempt to perform and demand their aims simultaneously, and the problems which arise due to this, is an operation which can be perceived in Deleuze's writing. With a particular focus on Russian zaum, the book negotiates the philosophy behind futurist 'nonsense' language and how Deleuze propounds analogous goals in The Logic of Sense. This book critically engages with Deleuze's poetics, ultimately suggesting that multiple linguistic models operate synecdochically within his philosophy.

The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader (Hardcover): Joseph Westfall The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader (Hardcover)
Joseph Westfall
R6,012 Discovery Miles 60 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first collection of its kind, The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader is the essential anthology of writings by continental philosophers on cinema, representing the last century of film-making and thinking about film, as well as all of the major schools of Continental thought: phenomenology and existentialism, Marxism and critical theory, semiotics and hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. Included here are not only the classic texts in continental philosophy of film, from Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" to extracts of Deleuze's Cinema and Barthes's Mythologies, but also the earliest works of Continental philosophy of film, from thinkers such as Georg Lukacs, and little-read gems by philosophical giants such as Sartre and Beauvoir. The book demonstrates both the philosophical significance of these thinkers' ideas about film, as well their influence on filmmakers in Europe and across the globe. In addition, however, this wide-ranging collection also teaches us how important film is to the last century of European philosophical thought. Almost every major continental European thinker of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had something to say-sometimes, quite a lot to say-about cinema: as an art form, as a social or political phenomenon, as a linguistic device and conveyor of information, as a projection of our fears and desires, as a site for oppression and resistance, or as a model on the basis of which some of us, at least, learn how to live. Purpose built for classroom use, with pedagogical features introducing and contextualizing the extracts, this reader is an indispensable tool for students and researchers in philosophy of film, film studies and the history of cinema.

Nothing Important - Allegorical Poems in the Pursuit of Meaning (a collection of poems from 2017 to 2019) (Hardcover): Alex K... Nothing Important - Allegorical Poems in the Pursuit of Meaning (a collection of poems from 2017 to 2019) (Hardcover)
Alex K Bishop
R578 R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mary Midgley - An Introduction (Hardcover): Gregory McElwain Mary Midgley - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Gregory McElwain
R2,858 Discovery Miles 28 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mary Midgley is one of the most influential moral philosophers of the twentieth century. Over the last 40 years, Midgley's writings on such central yet controversial topics as human nature, morality, science, animals, the environment, religion, and gender have shaped the landscape of contemporary philosophy. She is celebrated for the complexity, nuance, and sensibility with which she approaches some of the most challenging issues in philosophy without falling into the pitfalls of close-minded extremism. In turn, Midgley's sophisticated treatment of the interconnected and often muddled issues related to human nature has drawn interest from outside the philosophical world, stretching from scientists, artists, theologians, anthropologists, and journalists to the public more broadly. Mary Midgley: An Introduction systematically introduces readers to Midgley's collected thought on the most central and influential areas of her corpus. Through clear and lively engagement with Midgley's work, this volume offers readers accessible explanation, interpretation, and analysis of the concepts and perspectives for which she is best known, most notably her integrated understanding of human nature, her opposition to reductionism and scientism, and her influential conception of our relationship to animals and the wider world. These insights, supplemented by excerpts from original interviews with Midgley herself, provide readers of all backgrounds with an informed understanding and appreciation of Mary Midgley and the philosophical problems to which she has devoted her life's work.

George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover): F. Thomas Burke, Krzysztof Skowronski George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
F. Thomas Burke, Krzysztof Skowronski; Contributions by Mitchell Aboulafia, Guido Baggio, Joseph Betz, …
R3,056 R2,160 Discovery Miles 21 600 Save R896 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole University-the seventh in a series of annual American and European Values conferences organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. The papers were written independently with no prior guidelines other than the obvious need to address some aspect of George Herbert Mead's work. While rooted in careful study of Mead's original writings and transcribed lectures and the historical context in which that work was carried out, these papers have brought that work to bear on contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive science, and social and political philosophy. There is good reason to classify Mead as one of the original classical American pragmatists (along with Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey) and consequently as a major figure in American philosophy. Nevertheless his thought has been marginalized for the most part, at least in academic philosophy. It is our intention to help recuperate Mead's reputation among a broader audience by providing a small corpus of significant contemporary scholarship on some key aspects of his thought.

Towards a Phenomenological Axiology - Discovering What Matters (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Roberta De Monticelli Towards a Phenomenological Axiology - Discovering What Matters (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Roberta De Monticelli
R3,143 Discovery Miles 31 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology). By drawing on everyday experience, and dissociating the notion of value from that of tradition, it shows how emotional sensibility can be integrated to practical reason. This project was prompted by the persuasion that the fragility of democracy, and the current public irrelevance of the ideal principles which support it, largely depend on the inability of modern philosophy to overcome the well-entrenched skepticism about the power of practical reason. The book begins with a phenomenology of cynical consciousness, continues with a survey of still influential theories of value rooted in 20th century philosophy, and finally offers an outline of a bottom-up axiology that revives the anti-skeptical legacy of phenomenology, without ignoring the standards set by contemporary metaethics.

The Pantheon, or, Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, &c. - Explained in a Manner Entirely New ... Adorned... The Pantheon, or, Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, &c. - Explained in a Manner Entirely New ... Adorned With Figures From Ancient Paintings, Medals, and Gems ... With a Dissertation on the Theology and Mythology of the Heathens ... (Hardcover)
Samuel 1708-1749 Boyse; Created by William D 1780 Cooke
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Gravitaneer. Book One. Final Baptizo (Hardcover): Master Hora Gravitaneer. Book One. Final Baptizo (Hardcover)
Master Hora
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Speculative Realism - Problems and Prospects (Hardcover): Peter Gratton Speculative Realism - Problems and Prospects (Hardcover)
Peter Gratton
R3,890 Discovery Miles 38 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Speculative realism is one of the most talked-about movements in recent Continental philosophy. It has been discussed widely amongst the younger generation of Continental philosophers seeking new philosophical approaches and promises to form the cornerstone of future debates in the field. This book introduces the contexts out of which speculative realism has emerged and provides an overview of the major contributors and latest developments. It guides the reader through the important questions asked by realism (what can I know? what is reality?), examining philosophy's perennial questions in new ways. The book begins with the speculative realist's critique of 'correlationism', the view that we can never reach what is real beneath our language systems, our means for perception, or our finite manner of being-in-the-world. It goes on to critically review the work of the movement's most important thinkers, including Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, and Graham Harman, but also other important writers such as Jane Bennett and Catherine Malabou whose writings delineate alternative approaches to the real. It interrogates the crucial questions these thinkers have raised and concludes with a look toward the future of speculative realism, especially as it relates to the reality of time.

Mission Among the Cherokees - Tour of Rev. Mr. Butrick (Hardcover): D S (Daniel Sabin) 1789-1 Butrick Mission Among the Cherokees - Tour of Rev. Mr. Butrick (Hardcover)
D S (Daniel Sabin) 1789-1 Butrick
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought (Hardcover): Will Stronge Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought (Hardcover)
Will Stronge
R4,245 Discovery Miles 42 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Georges Bataille's influence upon 20th-century philosophy is hard to overstate. His writing has transfixed his readers for decades - exerting a powerful influence upon Foucault, Blanchot and Derrida amongst many others. Today, Bataille continues to be an important reference for many of today's leading theorists such as Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy and Adrianna Caverero. His work is a unique and enigmatic combination of mystical phenomenology, politics, anthropology and economic theory - sometimes adopting the form of literature, sometimes that of ontology. This is the first book to take Bataille's ambitious and unfinished Accursed Share project as its thematic guide, with individual contributors isolating themes, concepts or sections from within the three volumes and taking them in different directions. Therefore, as well as providing readings of Bataille's key concepts, such as animality, sovereignty, catastrophe and the sacred, this collection aims to explore new terrain and new theoretical problems.Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought acts simultaneously as a companion to Bataille's three-volume secular theodicy and as a laboratory for new syntheses within his thought.

Science as Social Existence - Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Hardcover): Jeff Kochan Science as Social Existence - Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Hardcover)
Jeff Kochan
R1,502 Discovery Miles 15 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce (Hardcover): Frederik Stjernfelt Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce (Hardcover)
Frederik Stjernfelt
R4,394 Discovery Miles 43 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates a number of central problems in the philosophy of Charles Peirce grouped around the realism of his semiotics: the issue of how sign systems are developed and used in the investigation of reality. Thus, it deals with the precise character of Peirce's realism; with Peirce's special notion of propositions as signs which, at the same time, denote and describe the same object. It deals with diagrams as signs which depict more or less abstract states-of-affairs, facilitating reasoning about them; with assertions as public claims about the truth of propositions. It deals with iconicity in logic, the issue of self-control in reasoning, dependences between phenomena in their realist descriptions. A number of chapters deal with applied semiotics: with biosemiotic sign use among pre-human organisms: the multimedia combination of pictorial and linguistic information in human semiotic genres like cartoons, posters, poetry, monuments. All in all, the book makes a strong case for the actual relevance of Peirce's realist semiotics.

Modernity and the Ideals of Arab-Islamic and Western-Scientific Philosophy - The Worldviews of Mario Bunge and Taha Abd... Modernity and the Ideals of Arab-Islamic and Western-Scientific Philosophy - The Worldviews of Mario Bunge and Taha Abd al-Rahman (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
A. Z. Obiedat
R3,657 Discovery Miles 36 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first study to compare the philosophical systems of secular scientific philosopher Mario Bunge (1919-2020), and Moroccan Islamic philosopher Taha Abd al-Rahman (b.1945). In their efforts to establish the philosophical underpinnings of an ideal modernity these two great thinkers speak to the same elements of the human condition, despite their opposing secular and religious worldviews. While the differences between Bunge's critical-realist epistemology and materialist ontology on the one hand, and Taha's spiritualist ontology and revelational-mystical epistemology on the other, are fundamental, there is remarkable common ground between their scientific and Islamic versions of humanism. Both call for an ethics of prosperity combined with social justice, and both criticize postmodernism and religious conservatism. The aspiration of this book is to serve as a model for future dialogue between holders of Western and Islamic worldviews, in mutual pursuit of modernity's best-case scenario.

Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception - New Interpretations (Hardcover): Giuseppe Motta, Dennis... Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception - New Interpretations (Hardcover)
Giuseppe Motta, Dennis Schulting, Udo Thiel
R4,266 Discovery Miles 42 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume examines (1) the philosophical sources of the Kantian concepts "apperception" and "self-consciousness", (2) the historical development of the theories of apperception and deduction of categories within the pre-critical period, (3) the structure and content of A- as well as B-deduction of categories, and finally (4) the Kantian (and non-Kantian) meaning of "apperception" and "self-consciousness".

Deconstruction without Derrida (Hardcover, New): Martin McQuillan Deconstruction without Derrida (Hardcover, New)
Martin McQuillan
R4,922 Discovery Miles 49 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's texts into new spaces and creative readings. In Deconstruction without Derrida, Martin McQuillan sets out to do just that, to continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without Derrida. The book's principal theme is an attention to instances of deconstruction other than or beyond Derrida and thus imagining a future for deconstruction after Derrida. This future is both the present of deconstruction and its past. The readings presented in this book address the expanded field of deconstruction in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Helene Cixous, Paul de Man, Harold Bloom, J. Hillis Miller, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak and Catherine Malabou. They also, necessarily, address Derrida's own readings of this work. McQuillan accounts for an experience of otherness in deconstruction that is, has been and always will be beyond Derrida, just as deconstruction remains forever tied to Derrida by an invisible, indestructible thread.

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