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

Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover): Henry Calderwood Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover)
Henry Calderwood
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 18 - 22 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
R997 Discovery Miles 9 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Traversals of Affect - On Jean-Francois Lyotard (Hardcover): Julie Gaillard, Claire Nouvet, Mark Stoholski Traversals of Affect - On Jean-Francois Lyotard (Hardcover)
Julie Gaillard, Claire Nouvet, Mark Stoholski
R4,710 Discovery Miles 47 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard. Affect indeed traverses Lyotard's philosophical corpus in various ways and under various names: "figure" or "the figural" in Discourse, Figure, "unbound intensities" in his "libidinal" writings, "the feeling of the differend" in The Differend, "affect" and "infantia" in his later writings. Across the span of his work, Lyotard insisted on the intractability of affect, on what he would later call the "differend" between affect and articulation. The singular awakening of sensibility, affect both traverses and escapes articulation, discourse, and representation. Lyotard devoted much of his attention to the analysis of this traversal of affect in and through articulation, its transpositions, translations, and transfers. This volume explores Lyotard's account of affect as it traverses the different fields encompassed by his writings (philosophy, the visual arts, the performing arts, literature, music, politics, psychoanalysis as well as technology and post-human studies).

Reason, Truth, and Reality (Hardcover): D. Goldstick Reason, Truth, and Reality (Hardcover)
D. Goldstick
R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dan Goldstick's "Reason, Truth, and Reality" addresses two questions: what sort of world do we inhabit? and what moral obligations do we have? To answer the questions Goldstick mounts a bold contemporary defense of pre-Kantian rationalism. Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its deductive, inductive, and ethical functioning, he asks what must hold good for reason so characterized to be a dependable guide to truth.

The conclusions Goldstick draws are threefold. First of all, the argument points to continuous deterministic causality throughout space and time. In the second place, a case is made for universal impermanence. And thirdly, Goldstick claims to establish a basis for the right within a version of utilitarianism supporting the maximum long-term promotion of people's interests. The discussion takes in such traditional rationalist themes as aprioricity, conceivability, and antiscepticism, and such analytic topics as belief-and-desire, truthvaluelessness, and epistemic reliability.

Living Existentialism (Hardcover): Gregory Hoskins, J C Berendzen Living Existentialism (Hardcover)
Gregory Hoskins, J C Berendzen
R1,157 R989 Discovery Miles 9 890 Save R168 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 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
R1,023 Discovery Miles 10 230 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 25-26 (Hardcover): Anonymous Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 25-26 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Authentic Being - Dynamic Creativity (Hardcover): James R. McCartney Authentic Being - Dynamic Creativity (Hardcover)
James R. McCartney
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
On ne nait pas femme: on le devient - The Life of a Sentence (Hardcover): Bonnie Mann, Martina Ferrari On ne nait pas femme: on le devient - The Life of a Sentence (Hardcover)
Bonnie Mann, Martina Ferrari
R2,301 Discovery Miles 23 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne nait pas femme: on le devient," finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions. Since its publication, the sentence has inspired feminist thinking and action in many different cultural and linguistic contexts. Two entangled controversies emerge in the life of this sentence: a controversy over the practice of translation and a controversy over the nature and status of sexual difference. Variously translated into English as "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman" (Parshley, 1953), "one is not born but rather becomes woman" (Borde and Malovany-Chevallier, 2010), and "women are made, not born" (in popular parlance), the conflict over the translation crystallizes the feminist debate over the possibilities and limitations of social construction as a theory of sexual difference. When Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and Constance Borde (contributors to this volume), translated Le Deuxieme Sexe into English in 2010, their decision to alter the translation of the famous sentence by omitting the "a" ignited debate that has not yet exhausted itself. The controversy over the English translation has opened a conversation about translation practices and their relation to meaning more generally, and broadens, in this volume, into an examination of the life of Beauvoir's key sentence in other languages and political and cultural contexts as well. The philosophers, translators, literary scholars and historian who author these essays take decidedly different positions on the meaning of the sentence in French, and thus on its correct translation in a variety of languages-but also on the meaning and salience of the question of sexual difference as it travels between languages, cultures, and political worlds.

Spiritual Exercises for the Postmodern Christian (Hardcover): Matthew C Kruger Spiritual Exercises for the Postmodern Christian (Hardcover)
Matthew C Kruger
R916 R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Save R116 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Lacan and the Destiny of Literature - Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery (Hardcover,... Lacan and the Destiny of Literature - Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery (Hardcover, New)
Ehsan Azari
R4,703 Discovery Miles 47 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is an original study aiming to explain fully Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts.In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably obscure, due to the unavailability of his late works, insufficient articulation of his methodologies and sometimes stereotypical use of Lacanian concepts in literary theory.This study aims to integrate Lacan into contemporary literary study by engaging with a broad range of Lacanian theoretical concepts, often for the first time in English, and using them to analyse a range of key texts from different periods.Azari explores Lacan's theory of desire as well as his final theories of lituraterre, littoral, and the sinthome and interrogates a range of poststructuralist interpretive approaches. In the second part of the book, he outlines the variety of ways in which Lacanian theory can be applied to literary texts and offers detailed readings of texts by Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery. This ground-breaking study provides original insights into a number of the most influential intellectual discussions in relation to Lacan and will fill a recognised gap in understanding Lacan and his legacy for literary study and criticism.

Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 23-24 (Hardcover): Anonymous Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 23-24 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R934 Discovery Miles 9 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 7-8 (Hardcover): Anonymous Psychological Index; an Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects; 7-8 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Consciousness and Being - From Being to Truth in the Thomistic Tradition (Hardcover): Robert C. Trundle Consciousness and Being - From Being to Truth in the Thomistic Tradition (Hardcover)
Robert C. Trundle; Foreword by Peter A. Redpath
R1,201 R1,024 Discovery Miles 10 240 Save R177 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
R802 R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Save R83 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
R533 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R33 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Meaning of Life and Death - Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question (Hardcover): Michael Hauskeller The Meaning of Life and Death - Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question (Hardcover)
Michael Hauskeller
R2,897 Discovery Miles 28 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we be mortal and still live a meaningful life? Questions such as these have been asked for a long time, but nobody has found a conclusive answer yet. The connection between death and meaning, however, has taken centre stage in the philosophical and literary work of some of the world's greatest writers: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Soren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, and Albert Camus. This book explores their ideas, weaving a rich tapestry of concepts, voices and images, helping the reader to understand the concerns at the heart of those writers' work and uncovering common themes and stark contrasts in their understanding of what kind of world we live in and what really matters in life.

Konsult - Theopraxesis (Hardcover): Gregory L Ulmer Konsult - Theopraxesis (Hardcover)
Gregory L Ulmer
R1,634 Discovery Miles 16 340 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Self-Identity and Powerlessness (Hardcover): Alice Koubova Self-Identity and Powerlessness (Hardcover)
Alice Koubova
R4,625 Discovery Miles 46 250 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Self-Identity and Powerlessness, Alice Koubova proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. The author shows that the philosophical stress on human identity fails to grasp essential aspects of human existence. By emphasizing the moments of Dasein's powerlessness in Heidegger's fundamental ontology, she develops - in her analysis of various philosophers, literary examples, and social psychology -an original phenomenology of alternation of existence and affair. How necessary is identity for thinking? Are we capable of philosophical thought even when we have neither ourselves, nor the world under our full control? Is it possible to relax, become powerless, and yet think precisely? These questions are to be answered in this book.

The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Hardcover): Andy Amato The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Hardcover)
Andy Amato
R4,052 Discovery Miles 40 520 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

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
R2,895 Discovery Miles 28 950 Ships in 10 - 15 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

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3 (Hardcover): Ian R. Christie The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3 (Hardcover)
Ian R. Christie
R1,702 Discovery Miles 17 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Problem of Disenchantment - Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939 (Hardcover, XII, 631 Pp., Index ed.):... The Problem of Disenchantment - Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939 (Hardcover, XII, 631 Pp., Index ed.)
Egil Asprem
R7,871 Discovery Miles 78 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and "the occult" in the early 20th century. By developing a new approach to Max Weber's famous idea of a "disenchantment of the world", and drawing on an impressively diverse set of sources, Egil Asprem opens up a broad field of inquiry that connects the histories of science, religion, philosophy, and Western esotericism. Parapsychology, occultism, and the modern natural sciences are usually viewed as distinct cultural phenomena with highly variable intellectual credentials. In spite of this view, Asprem demonstrates that all three have met with similar intellectual problems related to the intelligibility of nature, the relation of facts to values, and the dynamic of immanence and transcendence, and solved them in comparable terms.

Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover): Hermann Lotze Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover)
Hermann Lotze
R995 Discovery Miles 9 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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