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

An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794... An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795 - (subsequent to That of the Earl of Macartney); Containing a Description of Several Parts of the Chinese Empire, ...; 1 (Hardcover)
André Everard 1 Van Braam Houckgeest, M L E (Me&#769de Moreau de Saint-Méry
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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
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
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
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 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
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.

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 Experience of Human Communication - Body, Flesh, and Relationship (Paperback): Frank J. Macke The Experience of Human Communication - Body, Flesh, and Relationship (Paperback)
Frank J. Macke
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book deals with matters of embodiment and meaning-in other words, the essential components of what Continental thought, since Heidegger, has come to consider as "communication." A critical theme of this book concerns the basic tenet that consciousness of one's Self and one's body is only possible through human relationship. This is, of course, the phenomenological concept of intersubjectivity. But rather than let this concept remain an abstraction by discussing it as merely a function of language and signs, this work attempts to explicate it empirically. That is, it discusses the manner in which-from infancy to childhood and adolescence (and the dawning of our sexual identities) through physical maturity and old age-we come to experience the ecstasy of what Merleau-Ponty has so poetically termed "flesh." It is rarely clear what someone means when she or he uses the word "communication." An important objective of this book is, thus, to advance understanding of what communication is. In academic discourse, "communication" has come to be understood in a number of contexts-some conflicting and overlapping-as a process, a strategy, an event, an ethic, a mode or instance of information, or even a technology. In virtually all of these discussions, the concept of communication is discussed as though the term's meaning is well known to the reader. When communication is described as a process, the meaning of the term is held at an operational level-that is, in the exchange of information between one person and another, what must unambiguously be inferred is that "communication" is taking place. In this context, information exchange and communication become functionally synonymous. But as a matter of embodied human psychological experience, there is a world of difference between them. As such, this book attempts to fully consider the question of how we experience the event of human communication. The author offers a pioneering study that advances the raison d'etre of the emergent field of "communicology," while at the same time offering scholars of the human sciences a new way of thinking about embodiment and relational experience.

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
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
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