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Voltaire's turbulent relationship with the courts of law of ancien
regime France reveals much about his social and political thought,
but its representation in many studies of the philosophe is often
simplistic and distorted. In the first in-depth study of Voltaire
and the parlements James Hanrahan looks afresh at this relationship
to offer a new and challenging analysis of Voltaire's political
thought and activity. Through examination of Voltaire's evolving
representation of the parlements in his writings from La Henriade
to the Histoire du parlement, Hanrahan calls into question the
dominant historiography of extremes that pits Voltaire 'defender of
the oppressed' against 'self-interested' magistrates. He presents a
much more nuanced view of the relationship, from which the
philosophe emerges as a highly pragmatic figure whose political
philosophy was inseparable from his business or humanitarian
interests. In Voltaire and the 'parlements' of France Hanrahan
opens up analysis of Voltaire's politics, and provides a new
context for future study of the writer as both historiographer and
campaigner for justice.
The 1760s was a pivotal decade for the philosophes. In the late
1750s their cause had been at a low ebb, but it was transformed in
the eyes of public opinion by such events as the Calas affair in
the early 1760s. By the end of the decade, the philosophes were
dominant in key literary institutions such as the Comedie-Francaise
and the Academie francaise, and their enlightened programme became
more widely accepted. Many of the essays in this volume focus on
Voltaire, revealing him as a writer of fiction and polemic who,
during this period, became increasingly interested in questions of
justice and jurisprudence. Other essays examine the literary
activities of Voltaire's contemporaries, including Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Chamfort, Retif, Sedaine and Marmontel. It is no
exaggeration to describe the 1760s as Voltaire's decade. It is he
more than any other author who set the agenda and held the public's
attention during this seminal period for the development of
Enlightenment ideas and values. Voltaire's dominance of the 1760s
can be summed up in a single phrase: it is in these years that he
became the 'patriarch of Ferney'.
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative
research approach committed to the examination of how people make
sense of their major life experiences. This text provides a
detailed guide to conducting IPA research, presenting the
theoretical underpinnings of the approach, a comprehensive overview
of the stages of an IPA research project, and examples of
high-quality IPA studies. Extended worked examples from the
authors' own studies in health, psychological distress, and
identity illustrate the breadth and depth of IPA research, making
this book the definitive guide to IPA for students and researchers
alike. New to this edition: - A thoroughly updated chapter
dedicated to analysis - An exemplary mini-study - Improved and
updated terminology - A chapter discussing innovations in design,
data collection, and collaboration 'It is not often I can use
"accessible" and "phenomenology" in the same sentence, but reading
the new book, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis...certainly
provides me the occasion to do so. I can say this because these
authors provide an engaging and clear introduction to a relatively
new analytical approach' - The Weekly Qualitative Report
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Beyond Good and Evil
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One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche
dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God.
Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in
false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and
subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the individual impose
their own 'will to power' upon the world.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and
profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have
searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the
historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff.
'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the need for
consolation is timeless, as are the inspiring words and examples of
those who walked this path before us.' Toronto Star When we lose
someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe
strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search of consolation.
Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of
consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and
the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often
empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity
since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in
science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each
other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of portraits
of writers, artists, and musicians searching for consolation - from
the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and
Primo Levi - writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men
and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to
recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great
figures found the courage to confront their fate and the
determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those
stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive
these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and
uncertainties of the twenty-first century.
Although Camus was called the "conscience of his age," no writer
has continued to be both more vilified and exalted in the West. His
writings are not only a devastating critique of Western philosophy,
but Camus' cultural horizons are infused with heartfel
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
This book explores the importance of the philosophical dimension of
emotions, turning the traditional relationship between emotions and
philosophy upside down: instead of being one of many objects of
philosophical thought, an emotion contains an inherent
philosophical truth. For this thesis, the author refers to
Kierkegaard's groundbreaking discovery of 'anxiety' as an emotional
experience that is totally different from fear. This allows a
deeper understanding of the emotions, and reveals the philosophical
primacy of emotions over thoughts, which always convey a meaning.
Part I explores the three aspects of anxiety (anxiety about
'nothing', guilt-anxiety, shame-anxiety) that are distinguished by
their capacity to disclose the human condition in its naked
thatness, which is generally for most of us too hard to bear. Parts
II and III then discuss the basic human need for protection from
being overwhelmed by the ontological-emotional experience of
anxiety. Part II examines the protection given by negation of this
intolerable truth in its direct emotional repudiation in nausea,
envy and despair. Part III addresses the protection by the two
positive feelings of love and trust, which claim to be stronger
than anxiety and therefore to be able to overcome it. Only sympathy
cannot be categorised here. It belongs in a psychoanalytic therapy
guided by existential perspectives, where the analyst listens with
a philosophical ear and recognises his patients as 'reluctant
philosophers' who are especially sensitive to the ontological truth
disclosed in anxiety and therefore suffer not only 'from
reminiscences' (Freud), but also from their own being.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
Understanding the motivations behind those who partake in extreme
sports can be difficult for some. If the popular conception holds
that the incentive behind extreme sports participation is entirely
to do with risking one's life, then this confusion will continue to
exist. However, an in-depth examination of the phenomenology of the
extreme sport experience yields a much more complex picture. This
book revisits the definition of extreme sports as those activities
where a mismanaged mistake or accident would most likely result in
death. Extreme sports are not necessarily synonymous with risk and
participation may not be about risk-taking. Participants report
deep inner transformations that influence world views and
meaningfulness, feelings of coming home and authentic integration
as well as a freedom beyond the everyday. Phenomenologically, these
experiences have been interpreted as transcendent of time, other,
space and body. Extreme sport participation therefore points to a
more potent, life-enhancing endeavour worthy of further
investigation. This book adopts a broad hermeneutic
phenomenological approach to critique the assumed relationship to
risk-taking, the death wish and the concept of "No Fear" in extreme
sports, and repositions the experience in a previously unexplored
manner. This is valuable reading for students and academics
interested in Sports Psychology, Social Psychology, Health
Psychology, Tourism, Leisure Studies and the practical applications
of phenomenology.
In an enlightening dialogue with Descartes, Kant, Husserl and
Gadamer, Professor Seifert argues that the original inspiration of
phenomenology was nothing other than the primordial insight of
philosophy itself, the foundation of philosophia perennis. His
radical rethinking of the phenomenological method results in a
universal, objectivist philosophy in direct continuity with Plato,
Aristotle and Augustine. In order to validate the classical claim
to know autonomous being, the author defends Husserl's
methodological principle "Back to things themselves" from
empiricist and idealist critics, including the later Husserl, and
replies to the arguments of Kant which attempt to discredit the
knowability of things in themselves. Originally published in 1982,
this book culminates in a phenomenological and critical unfolding
of the Augustinian cogito, as giving access to immutable truth
about necessary essences and the real existence of personal being.
Professor Grossman's introduction to the revolutionary work of
Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre studies the ideas of their
predecessors too, explaining in detail Descartes's conception of
the mind, Brentano's theory of intentionality, and Kierkegaard's
emphasis on dread, while tracing the debate over existence and
essence as far back as Aquinas and Aristotle. For a full
understanding of the existentialists and phenomenologists, we must
also understand the problems that they were trying to solve. This
book, originally published in 1984, presents clearly how the main
concerns of phenomenology and existentialism grew out of tradition.
This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by
Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and
1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our
knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz's
phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published
in 1987. The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a
phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson's conceptions
of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the
meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in
general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents
and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic
presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in
the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art
forms.
This volume of collected papers, with the accompanying essays by
the editors, is the definitive source book for the work of this
important experimental psychologist. Originally published in 1991,
it offered previously inaccessible essays by Albert Michotte on
phenomenal causality, phenomenal permanence, phenomenal reality,
and perception and cognition. Within these four sections are the
most significant and representative of the Belgian psychologist's
research in the area of experimental phenomenology. Extremely
insightful introductions by the editors are included that place the
essays in context. Michotte's ideas have played an important role
in much research on the development of perception, and his work on
social perception continues to be influential in social psychology.
The book also includes some lesser-known aspects of his work that
are equally important; for example, a remarkable set of articles on
pictorial analysis.
Originally published in English in 1984, this collection of essays
documents a dialogue between phenomenology and Marxism, with the
contributors representing a cross-section from the two traditions.
The theoretical and historical presuppositions of the phenomenology
inaugurated by Husserl are very different from those of the much
older Marxist tradition, yet, as these essays show, there are
definite points of contact, communication and exchange between the
two traditions.
This book looks at two 'revolutions' in philosophy - phenomenology
and conceptual analysis which have been influential in sociology
and psychology. It discusses humanistic psychiatry and sociological
approaches to the specific area of mental illness, which counter
the ultimately reductionist implications of Freudian
psycho-analytic theory. The book, originally published in 1973,
concludes by stating the broad underlying themes of the two forms
of humanistic philosophy and indicating how they relate to the
problems of theory and method in sociology.
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