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Four Lectures on Relativity and Space (Hardcover): Charles Proteus Steinmetz Four Lectures on Relativity and Space (Hardcover)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Created by Inc McGraw-Hill Book Company
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Late Walter Benjamin (Hardcover, New): John Schad The Late Walter Benjamin (Hardcover, New)
John Schad
R4,228 Discovery Miles 42 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This fully-annotated documentary novel explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, "The Late Walter Benjamin" is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England. The novel centres on one particular tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and only ever uses words written by Benjamin, apparently oblivious that the real Benjamin committed suicide 20 years earlier whilst fleeing the Nazis. Initially set in the sixties, the text slips back to the early years of the estate and to Benjamin's last days, as he moves across Europe seeking ever-more desperately to escape the Third Reich. Through this fictional narrative, John Schad explores not only the emergence of Benjamin's thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism but also the implications of his utopian Marxism, forged in exile, for the very different context of a displaced working class community in post-war Britain. This series aims to showcase new work at the forefront of religion and literature through short studies written by leading and rising scholars in the field. Books will pursue a variety of theoretical approaches as they engage with writing from different religious and literary traditions. Collectively, the series will offer a timely critical intervention to the interdisciplinary crossover between religion and literature, speaking to wider contemporary interests and mapping out new directions for the field in the early twenty-first century.

The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Hardcover): Andy Amato The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Hardcover)
Andy Amato
R3,898 Discovery Miles 38 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and contemplative sense of ethics, or an 'ethical imagination'. Following the increased interest in reading Shakespeare philosophically, it seems only fitting that an encounter take place between the English language's most prominent poet and the philosopher widely considered to be central to continental philosophy. Interpreting the plays of Shakespeare through the writings of Heidegger and vice versa, each chapter pairs a select play with a select work of philosophy. In these pairings the themes, events, and arguments of each work are first carefully unpacked, and then key passages and concepts are taken up and read against and through one another. As these hermeneutic engagements and cross-readings unfold we find that the words and deeds of Shakespeare's characters uniquely illuminate, and are uniquely illuminated by, Heidegger's phenomenological analyses of being, language, and art.

The 5th Phenomenon - Awareness Field Theory and the Structured Orders Of Consciousness (Hardcover): Robert a Revel The 5th Phenomenon - Awareness Field Theory and the Structured Orders Of Consciousness (Hardcover)
Robert a Revel
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions (Hardcover): Oana Serban After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions (Hardcover)
Oana Serban
R4,012 Discovery Miles 40 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reflects the most recent research devoted to a systematized perspective and a critical (re)construction of previous theoretical attempts of explaining, justifying and continuing Kuhn's ingenious hypothesis in arts. Hofstadter, Clignet and Habermas revealed to be the most engaged scholars in solving this aesthetic "puzzled-problem". In this context, the structural similarities between science and arts are attentively evaluated, thus satisfying an older concern attributed to the historical Kuhn-Kubler dispute, extensively commented along the pages of this book. How can we track the matter of rationality and truth in art and aesthetics, inspired by scientific perspectives? Are artistic styles similar to scientific paradigms? Are we entitled to pursue paradigms and masterpieces as rational models in science, respectively in arts? On what possible grounds can we borrow from science notions such as progress and predictability, in the study of the evolution of art and its aesthetic backgrounds? Are the historical dynamics of science and art affected by political factors in the same manner? This book will be of interest to philosophers, but also to historians of science and historians of art alike in the reassessment it provides of recent debates on reshaping the art world using Kuhn's "paradigm shift".

The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover): Gabriele Galluzzo, Michael J. Loux The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover)
Gabriele Galluzzo, Michael J. Loux
R2,705 Discovery Miles 27 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Are there any universal entities? Or is the world populated only by particular things? The problem of universals is one of the most fascinating and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics, with roots in ancient and medieval philosophy. This collection of new essays provides an innovative overview of the contemporary debate on universals. Rather than focusing exclusively on the traditional opposition between realism and nominalism, the contributors explore the complexity of the debate and illustrate a broad range of positions within both the realist and the nominalist camps. Realism is viewed through the lens of the distinction between constituent and relational ontologies, while nominalism is reconstructed in light of the controversy over the notion of trope. The result is a fresh picture of contemporary metaphysics, in which traditional strategies of dealing with the problem of universals are both reaffirmed and called into question.

The Philosophy of the Mazdayasnian Religion Under the Sassanids - Translated From the French With Prefatory Remarks, Notes, and... The Philosophy of the Mazdayasnian Religion Under the Sassanids - Translated From the French With Prefatory Remarks, Notes, and a Brief Biographical Sketch of the Author (Hardcover)
Louis Charles 1852-1925 Casartelli; Created by Firoz Jamaspji Dastur Jamasp Asa
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Advances in Peircean Mathematics - The Colombian School (Hardcover): Fernando Zalamea Advances in Peircean Mathematics - The Colombian School (Hardcover)
Fernando Zalamea
R3,889 Discovery Miles 38 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book explores Peirce's non standard thoughts on a synthetic continuum, topological logics, existential graphs, and relational semiotics, offering full mathematical developments on these areas. More precisely, the following new advances are offered: (1) two extensions of Peirce's existential graphs, to intuitionistic logics (a new symbol for implication), and other non-classical logics (new actions on nonplanar surfaces); (2) a complete formalization of Peirce's continuum, capturing all Peirce's original demands (genericity, supermultitudeness, reflexivity, modality), thanks to an inverse ordinally iterated sheaf of real lines; (3) an array of subformalizations and proofs of Peirce's pragmaticist maxim, through methods in category theory, HoTT techniques, and modal logics. The book will be relevant to Peirce scholars, mathematicians, and philosophers alike, thanks to thorough assessments of Peirce's mathematical heritage, compact surveys of the literature, and new perspectives offered through formal and modern mathematizations of the topics studied.

Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover, New): Rex Butler Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover, New)
Rex Butler
R2,857 Discovery Miles 28 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is Philosophy? is the last instalment of a remarkable twenty-year collaboration between the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. This hugely important text attempts to explain the terms of their collaboration and to define the activity of philosophy in which they have been engaged. A major contribution to contemporary Continental philosophy, it nevertheless remains distinctly challenging for readers faced for the first time with Deleuze and Guattari's unusual and somewhat allusive style. Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?': A Reader's Guide offers a concise and accessible introduction to this hugely important and yet challenging work. Written specifically to meet the needs of students coming to Deleuze and Guattari for the first time, the book offers guidance on: - Philosophical and historical context - Key themes - Reading the text - Reception and influence - Further reading

Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment (Hardcover): Nicholas Maxwell Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment (Hardcover)
Nicholas Maxwell
R1,433 Discovery Miles 14 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover): Peter Mahon Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover)
Peter Mahon
R4,241 Discovery Miles 42 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Peter Mahon goes beyond recent theoretical approaches to 'the posthuman' to argue for a concrete posthumanism, which arises as humans, animals and technology become entangled, in science, society and culture. Concrete posthumanism is rooted in cutting-edge advances in techno-science, and this book offers readers an exciting, fresh and innovative exploration of this undulating, and often unstable, terrain. With wide-ranging coverage, of cybernetics, information theory, medicine, genetics, machine learning, politics, science fiction, philosophy and futurology, Mahon examines how posthumanism played-and continues to play-a crucial role in shaping how we understand our world. This analysis of posthumanism centers on human interactions with tools and technology, the centrality of science, as well as an understanding of techno-science as a pharmakon-an ancient Greek word for a substance that is both poison and cure. Mahon argues that posthumanism must be approached with an interdisciplinary attitude: a concrete posthumanism is only graspable through knowledge derived from science and the humanities. He concludes by sketching a 'post-humanities' to help us meet the challenges of posthumanism, challenges to which we all must rise. Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed provides a concise, detailed and coherent exploration of posthumanism, introducing key approaches, concepts and themes. It is ideal for readers of all stripes who are interested in a concrete posthumanism and require more than just a simple introduction.

Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover): Hermann Lotze Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover)
Hermann Lotze
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Prison notebooks - Selections (Paperback, New edition): Antonio Gramsci Prison notebooks - Selections (Paperback, New edition)
Antonio Gramsci; Edited by Quintin Hoare; Translated by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935, are the work of one of the most original thinkers in twentieth century Europe. Gramsci has had a profound influence on debates about the relationship between politics and culture. His complex and fruitful approach to questions of ideology, power and change remains crucial for critical theory. This volume was the first selection published from the Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains the most important of Gramsci's notebooks, including the texts of The Modern Prince, and Americanism and Fordism, and extensive notes on the state and civil society, Italian history and the role of intellectuals. 'Far the best informative apparatus available to any foreign language readership of Gramsci.' Perry Anderson, New Left Review 'A model of scholarship' New Statesman

Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover): Henry Calderwood Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover)
Henry Calderwood
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Saul and Samuel at Endor, or, The New Waies of Salvation and Service ... (Hardcover): Daniel 1616-1695 Brevint Saul and Samuel at Endor, or, The New Waies of Salvation and Service ... (Hardcover)
Daniel 1616-1695 Brevint; Created by Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest - Interpreting the Technicity of Action (Hardcover): Ernst Wolff Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest - Interpreting the Technicity of Action (Hardcover)
Ernst Wolff
R3,127 Discovery Miles 31 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which they act. Second, the deployment of capabilities and means is permeated by ethical aspirations and hesitancies. Third, all domains of action are affected by these ethical dilemmas. Fourth, the dimensions of the technicity of action are typical of human life in general, and not just a regional or culturally specific phenomenon. In this study, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted to encompass the broad anthropological scope of this study and combine this bigger picture with detailed attention to the socio-historical particularities of action as it plays out in different contexts. Hermeneutics (the philosophical inquiry into the human phenomena of meaning, understanding and interpretation) and social science (as the study of all human affairs) are the two main disciplinary orientations of this book. This study clarifies the technical dimension of the entire spectrum of human action ranging from daily routine to the extreme of violent protest.

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.

The Essentials of Habermas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Xunwu Chen The Essentials of Habermas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Xunwu Chen
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a conceptual map of Habermas' philosophy and a systematic introduction to his work. It does so by systematically examining six defining themes-modernity, discourse ethics, truth and justice, public law and constitutional democracy, cosmopolitanism, and toleration-of Habermas' philosophy as well as their inner logic. The text distinguishes itself in content and perspective by offering a very clear conceptual map and by providing a new interpretation of Habermas' views in light of his overarching system. In terms of scope, the book touches upon Habermas' broad range of works. As for method, the text illustrates key concepts in his philosophy making it a useful reference aid. It appeals to students and scholars in the field looking for a current introductory text or supplementary reading on Habermas.

concepts - a travelogue (Hardcover): Bernd Herzogenrath concepts - a travelogue (Hardcover)
Bernd Herzogenrath
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Concepts seem to work best when created in that interspace between theory and praxis, between philosophy, art, and science. Deleuze himself has generated many concepts in this encounter between philosophy and non-philosophy (art, literature, film, botany, etc): his ideas of affects and percepts, of becoming, the stutter, movement-image and time-image, the rhizome, to name but a few. In the case of this volume, the "other" is the "other" to English language/culture (and its philosophy): what happens, if instead of "other disciplines," we take other cultures, other languages, other philosophies? Does not the focus on English as a hegemonic language of academic discourse deny us a plethora of possibilities, of possible Denkfiguren, of possible concepts? This collection is a kind of travelogue. The journey does not follow a particular trajectory-some countries are not on the map; some are visited twice. So, there is no claim to completeness involved here-it is rather an invitation to answer to the call ... there is much to explore!

How to Sleep - The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Hardcover): Matthew Fuller How to Sleep - The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Hardcover)
Matthew Fuller
R3,197 Discovery Miles 31 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and biological consistency. Arguing through examples drawn from contemporary, modern and renaissance art; from literature; film and computational media, and bringing these into relation with the history and findings of sleep science, this book argues for a new interplay between biology and culture. Meditations on sex, exhaustion, drugs, hormones and scientific instruments all play their part in this wide-ranging exposition of sleep as an ecology of interacting processes. How to Sleep builds on the interlocking of theory, experience and experiment so that the text itself is a lively articulation of bodies, organs and the aesthetic systems that interact with them. This book won't enhance your sleeping skills, but will give you something surprising to think about whilst being ostensibly awake.

Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy (Hardcover): Helen De Cruz, Ryan Nichols Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy (Hardcover)
Helen De Cruz, Ryan Nichols
R4,580 Discovery Miles 45 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. But there has been very little experimental philosophical research in the domain of philosophy of religion. Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy demonstrates how cognitive science of religion has the methodological and conceptual resources to become a form of experimental philosophy of religion. Addressing a wide variety of empirical claims that are of interest to philosophers and psychologists of religion, a team of psychologists and philosophers apply data from the psychology of religion to important problems in the philosophy of religion including the psychology of religious diversity; the psychology of substance dualism; the problem of evil and the relation between religious belief and empathy; and the cognitive science explaining the formation of intuitions that unwittingly guide philosophers of religion when formulating arguments. Bringing together authors and researchers who have made important contributions to interdisciplinary research on religion in the last decade, Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy provides new ways of approaching core philosophical and psychological problems.

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.

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