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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

Gadamer and the Question of Understanding - Between Heidegger and Derrida (Paperback): Adrian Costache Gadamer and the Question of Understanding - Between Heidegger and Derrida (Paperback)
Adrian Costache
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hans-Georg Gadamer is depicted as a paradoxical figure in the literature. When Gadamer's work is approached by itself, outside the history of hermeneutics, he is generally presented as the disciple of Martin Heidegger, whose main theoretical contribution lies in having transposed his ontological hermeneutics into the sphere of the human sciences. Usually the master-student relation ends with a break between the two brought about by the student's desire to become herself a master. In Gadamer and Heidegger's case, scholarship has always excluded the possibility of such a symbolic parricide. However, when Gadamer's work is approached from the history of hermeneutics, he, not Heidegger, is revered as the central figure of hermeneutic theory in the twentieth century, and scholars perceive the works of the latter-together with those of his immediate forerunners Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey-as mere preambles to the great hermeneutic theory proposed by Truth and Method, and the works of those following him as footnotes to it. Gadamer and the Question of Understanding: Between Heidegger and Derrida dismantles this paradox by showing, on the one hand, that Gadamer's translation of Heidegger involved, as he himself says, a series of "essential alterations" to the original which make philosophical hermeneutics a more coherent and better articulated hermeneutic theory, one offering a more faithful description of the phenomenon of understanding than Heidegger's. And, on the other hand, by taking the dossier of the famous encounter between Gadamer and Derrida as its cue, Adrian Costache demonstrates that in light of Derrida's deconstruction, every step Gadamer takes forward from Heidegger as well as from Schleiermacher and Dilthey-however necessary--is problematic in itself. The insights in this book will be valuable to students and scholars interested in modern and contemporary European philosophy, especially those focusing on philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction, as well as those working in social sciences that have incorporated a hermeneutic approach to their investigations, such as pedagogy, sociology, psychotherapy, law, and nursing.

Humour and Cruelty. Volume 1, A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hardcover): Giorgio... Humour and Cruelty. Volume 1, A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Giorgio Baruchello, Arsaell Mar Arnarsson
R4,406 Discovery Miles 44 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Humor has been praised by philosophers and poets as a balm to soothe the sorrows that outrageous fortune's slings and arrows cause inevitably, if not incessantly, to each and every one of us. In mundane life, having a sense of humor is seen not only as a positive trait of character, but as a social prerequisite, without which a person's career and mating prospects are severely diminished, if not annihilated. However, humor is much more than this, and so much else. In particular, humor can accompany cruelty, inform it, sustain it, and exemplify it. Therefore, in this book, we provide a comprehensive, reasoned exploration of the vast literature on the concepts of humor and cruelty, as these have been tackled in Western philosophy, humanities, and social sciences, especially psychology. Also, the apparent cacophony of extant interpretations of these two concepts is explained as the inevitable and even useful result of the polysemy inherent to all common-sense concepts, in line with the understanding of concepts developed by M. Polanyi in the 20th century. Thus, a thorough, nuanced grasp of their complex mutual relationship is established, and many platitudes affecting today's received views, and scholarship, are cast aside.

Essays and Notices [microform], Philosophical and Psychological (Hardcover): Thomas 1856-1935 Whittaker Essays and Notices [microform], Philosophical and Psychological (Hardcover)
Thomas 1856-1935 Whittaker
R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Text-book to Kant - The Critique of Pure Reason: AEsthetic, Categories, Schematism (Hardcover): Kant Immanuel Text-book to Kant - The Critique of Pure Reason: AEsthetic, Categories, Schematism (Hardcover)
Kant Immanuel
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Postmodern Theology (Hardcover): Carl A Raschke Postmodern Theology (Hardcover)
Carl A Raschke
R1,139 R951 Discovery Miles 9 510 Save R188 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Monster as War Machine (Hardcover): Mabel Mora na The Monster as War Machine (Hardcover)
Mabel Mora na
R3,332 Discovery Miles 33 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4 (Hardcover): Alexander Taylor Milne The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4 (Hardcover)
Alexander Taylor Milne
R1,701 Discovery Miles 17 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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.

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.

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.

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
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Hardcover): Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Hardcover)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 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
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.

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
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
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
Bare Architecture - A Schizoanalysis (Hardcover): Chris L. Smith Bare Architecture - A Schizoanalysis (Hardcover)
Chris L. Smith
R4,236 Discovery Miles 42 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the body. Chris L. Smith skilfully introduces and explains numerous concepts drawn from poststructural philosophy to explore the manner by which the architecture/body relation may be rethought in the 21st century. Multiple well-known figures in the discourses of poststructuralism are invoked: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jorges Luis Borges and Michel Serres. These figures bring into view the philosophical frame in which the body is formulated. Alongside the philosophy, the architecture that Smith comes to refer to as 'bare architecture' is explored. Smith considers architecture as a complex construction and the book draws upon literature, art and music, to provide a critique of the limits, extents and opportunities for architecture itself. The book considers key works from the architects Douglas Darden, Georges Pingusson, Lacatan and Vassal, Carlo Scarpa, Peter Zumthor, Marco Casagrande and Sami Rintala and Raumlabor. Such works are engaged for their capacities to foster a rethinking of the relation between architecture and the body.

The English Works Of Thomas Hobbes Vol XI (Hardcover): William Molesworth The English Works Of Thomas Hobbes Vol XI (Hardcover)
William Molesworth
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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