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Adorno and the Ban on Images (Hardcover): Sebastian Truskolaski Adorno and the Ban on Images (Hardcover)
Sebastian Truskolaski
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno - not least amongst them, his supposed fatalism. Sebastian Truskolaski argues that Adorno's writings allow us to address what is arguably the central challenge of modern philosophy: how to picture a world beyond suffering and injustice without, at the same time, betraying its vital impulse. By re-appraising Adorno's writings on politics, philosophy, and art, this book reconstructs this notoriously difficult author's overall project from a radically new perspective (Adorno's famous 'standpoint of redemption'), and brings his central concerns to bear on the problems of today. On the one hand, this means reading Adorno alongside his principal interlocutors (including Kant, Marx and Benjamin). On the other hand, it means asking how his secular brand of social criticism can serve to safeguard the image of a better world - above all, when the invocation of this image occurs alongside Adorno's recurrent reference to the Old Testament ban on making images of God. By reading Adorno in this iconoclastic way, Adorno and the Ban on Images contributes to current debates about Utopia that have come to define political visions across the political spectrum.

Gadamer on Tradition - Historical Context and the Limits of Reflection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Anders Odenstedt Gadamer on Tradition - Historical Context and the Limits of Reflection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Anders Odenstedt
R3,563 Discovery Miles 35 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence. Analytical and partly critical, the book also shows exegetical accuracy in the rendering of Gadamer's position. It explores the following questions that Gadamer's theory of context-dependence tries to answer: in what way is thought influenced by and thus dependent on its historical context? To what extent and in what way is the individual able to become reflectively aware of and emancipate himself from this dependence? The book takes Gadamer's wide interests into account, e.g. issues relating to the history of historiography and the nature of art and aesthetic experience. The problem of the context-dependence of thought is prominent in contemporary philosophy, including the fields of structuralism, post structuralism, deconstruction, certain forms of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of science. In this sense, the book discusses an issue with wide repercussions.

Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure (Hardcover, New): Nicole Anderson Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure (Hardcover, New)
Nicole Anderson
R4,919 Discovery Miles 49 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Derrida's work is controversial, its interpretation hotly contested. Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure offers a new way of thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on deconstruction and on justice and responsibility to representations of the practice of ethical paradoxes in everyday life. The book presents the development of Derrida's thinking on ethics by demonstrating that the ethical was a focus of Derrida's work at every stage of his career. In connecting Derrida's earlier work on language with the ethics implicated in his later work on justice and responsibility, Nicole Anderson traverses literary, linguistic, philosophical and ethical interpretative movements, thus recontextualising Derrida's entire oeuvre for a contemporary readership. She explores the positive ethical implications of Derrida's work for representation and practice and asks the reader to consider how this new ethical reading of Derrida's work might be applied to concrete instances of his or her own ethical experience.

Applying Wittgenstein (Hardcover): Laura Cook Applying Wittgenstein (Hardcover)
Laura Cook; Rupert Read
R5,251 Discovery Miles 52 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A key development in Wittgenstein Studies over recent years has been the advancement of a resolutely therapeutic reading of the Tractatus. Rupert Read offers the first extended application of this reading of Wittgenstein, encompassing Wittgenstein's later work too, to examine the implications of Wittgenstein's work as a whole upon the domains especially of literature, psychopathology, and time. Read begins by applying Wittgenstein's remarks on meaning to language, examining the consequences our conception of philosophy has for the ways in which we talk about meaning. He goes on to engage with literary texts as Wittgensteinian, where 'Wittgensteinian' does not mean expressive of a Wittgenstein philosophy, but involves the literature in question remaining enigmatic, and doing philosophical work of its own. He considers Faulkner's work as productive too of a broadly Wittgensteinian philosophy of psychopathology. Read then turns to philosophical accounts of time, finding a link between the division of time into discrete moments and solipsism of the present moment as depicted in philosophy on the one hand and psychopathological states on the other. This important book positions itself at the forefront of a revolutionary movement in Wittgenstein studies and philosophy in general and offers a new and dynamic way of using Wittgenstein's works.

Logical, Ontological, and Historical Contributions on the Philosophy of Alexius Meinong (Hardcover, Digital original): Mauro... Logical, Ontological, and Historical Contributions on the Philosophy of Alexius Meinong (Hardcover, Digital original)
Mauro Antonelli, Marian David
R3,269 Discovery Miles 32 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The volume collects papers on central aspects of Alexius Meinong's Gegenstandstheorie (Theory of Objects) and its transformation in contemporary logic, semantics and ontology covering the impact of his views on grasping and representation, the status of nonexistent or inconsistent objects and their incorporation in theories like Noneism and Possible-World-Semantics. In addition it presents studies on Meinong's notion of probability and on Auguste Fischer, a student and collaborator of Meinong.

Originary Technicity: The Theory of Technology from Marx to Derrida (Hardcover): A Bradley Originary Technicity: The Theory of Technology from Marx to Derrida (Hardcover)
A Bradley
R3,367 Discovery Miles 33 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first critical genealogy of Jacques Derrida's philosophy of technology. It traces the evolution of what Derrida calls "originary technicit"' via an appraisal of his own philosophy of technology together with that of key interlocutors including Marx, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger and Bernard Stiegler.

Convictions (Hardcover, New): Sidney Hook Convictions (Hardcover, New)
Sidney Hook
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book challenges liberals and conservatives alike. Hook pierces to the heart of momentous issues: human rights, racial equality, cultural freedom, and the separation of ethical behaviour from religious belief.

Beyond Faith and Rationality - Essays on Logic, Religion and Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Ricardo Sousa Silvestre,... Beyond Faith and Rationality - Essays on Logic, Religion and Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Benedikt Paul Goecke, Jean-Yvez Beziau, Purushottama Bilimoria
R4,148 Discovery Miles 41 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume deals with the relation between faith and reason, and brings the latest developments of modern logic into the scene. Faith and rationality are two perennial key concepts in the history of ideas. Philosophers and theologians have struggled to bring into harmony these otherwise conflicting concepts. Despite the diversity of approaches about what rationality effectively means, logic remains the cannon of objective and rational thought. The chapters in this volume analyze several issues pertaining to the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology from the perspective of their relation to logic and the benefit they can derive from the use of modern logic tools. The book is divided into five parts: (I) Introduction, (II) Analytic Philosophy of Religion, (III) Logical Philosophy of Religion, (IV) Computational Philosophy and Religion and (V) Logic, Language and Religion. This text appeals to students and researchers in the field.

Philosophy and Oscar Wilde (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Michael Y Bennett Philosophy and Oscar Wilde (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Michael Y Bennett
R3,802 Discovery Miles 38 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is the first collection of essays to discuss Oscar Wilde's love and vast knowledge of philosophy. Over the past few decades, Oscar Wilde scholars have become increasingly aware of Wilde's love and intimate knowledge of philosophy. Wilde's "Oxford Notebooks" and his soon-to-be-published "Notebook on Philosophy" all point to Wilde not just as an aesthete, but also as a serious philosophical thinker. The aim of this collection is not to make the statement that Wilde was a philosopher, or that his works were philosophical tracts. Rather, it provides a space to explore any and all linkages between Wilde's works and philosophical thought. Addressing a broad spectrum of philosophical matter, from classical philology to Daoism, ethics to aestheticism, this collection enriches the literature on Wilde and philosophy alike.

Contradictions - Logic, History, Actuality (Hardcover, Digital original): Elena Ficara Contradictions - Logic, History, Actuality (Hardcover, Digital original)
Elena Ficara
R4,217 Discovery Miles 42 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The papers in this volume present some of the most recent results of the work about contradictions in philosophical logic and metaphysics; examine the history of contradiction in crucial phases of philosophical thought; consider the relevance of contradictions for political and philosophical actuality. From this consideration a common question emerges: the question of the irreducibility, reality and productive force of (some) contradictions.

Dummett on Analytical Philosophy (Hardcover): B. Weiss Dummett on Analytical Philosophy (Hardcover)
B. Weiss
R1,945 Discovery Miles 19 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume.

The Unconquered - With Another, Earlier Adaptation of We the Living (Hardcover): A Rand The Unconquered - With Another, Earlier Adaptation of We the Living (Hardcover)
A Rand; Edited by R Mayhew
R1,730 Discovery Miles 17 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ayn Rand was an American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system known as Objectivism.In the 1930s, Rand was asked to adapt her first novel, We the Living, for the theatre. We the Living is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and Rand's first statement against communism. It was not a commercial success when it was published, but has gone on to sell over 3 million copies. The first substantial fiction of Rand to appear in over twenty years, this important volume contains two never-before published versions of the play - the first and last versions (the latter entitled The Unconquered). With a preface that places the work in its historical and political context, an essay on the history of the theatrical adaptation by Jeff Britting, the curator of the Ayn Rand Archives, and two alternative endings, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in Rand's philosophy.

Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover, 2012 ed.): Diego E. Machuca Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Diego E. Machuca
R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first collection of original essays entirely devoted to a detailed study of the Pyrrhonian tradition. The twelve contributions collected in the present volume combine to offer a historical and systematic analysis of the form of skepticism known as "Pyrrhonism". They discuss whether the Pyrrhonist is an ethically engaged agent, whether he can claim to search for truth, and other thorny questions concerning ancient Pyrrhonism; explore its influence on certain modern thinkers such as Pierre Bayle and David Hume; and examine Pyrrhonian skepticism in relation to contemporary analytic philosophy.

Adorno and Literature (Hardcover, New): David Cunningham, Nigel Mapp Adorno and Literature (Hardcover, New)
David Cunningham, Nigel Mapp
R5,594 Discovery Miles 55 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite the recent upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings remain generally neglected. Yet literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Building on the current emergent interest in modern philosophical aesthetics, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking. Bringing together original essays from a distinguished international group of contributors, it offers the reader a user-friendly path through the major areas of Adorno's work in this area. It is divided into three sections, dealing with the concept of literature, with poetry and poetics, and with modernity, drama and the novel respectively. At the same time, the book provides a clear sense of the unique qualities of Adorno's philosophy of literature by critically relating his work to a number of other influential theorists and theories including contemporary postmodernist thought and cultural studies.

Deleuze and the Non/Human (Hardcover): H. Stark, J. Roffe Deleuze and the Non/Human (Hardcover)
H. Stark, J. Roffe
R2,986 Discovery Miles 29 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection interrogates the significance of Deleuze's work in the recent and dramatic nonhuman turn. It confronts questions about environmental futures, animals and plants, nonhuman structures and systems, and the place of objects in a more-than-human world.

Course of the History of Modern Philosophy; 1 (Hardcover): Victor 1792-1867 Cousin, Orlando Williams 1824-1888 Wight Course of the History of Modern Philosophy; 1 (Hardcover)
Victor 1792-1867 Cousin, Orlando Williams 1824-1888 Wight
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Tarjuman Alashwaq (Hardcover): Muhyiddin Ibn Al-Arabi, Reynold A. Nicholson The Tarjuman Alashwaq (Hardcover)
Muhyiddin Ibn Al-Arabi, Reynold A. Nicholson
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Typic in Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" - Moral Judgment and Symbolic Representation (Hardcover, Digital... The Typic in Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" - Moral Judgment and Symbolic Representation (Hardcover, Digital original)
Adam Westra
R4,222 Discovery Miles 42 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a short chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason entitled "On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment," Kant addresses a crucial problem facing his theory of moral judgment: How can we represent the supersensible moral law so as to apply it to actions in the sensible world? Despite its importance to Kant's project, previous studies of the Typic have been fragmentary, disparate, and contradictory. This book provides a detailed commentary on the Typic, elucidating how it enables moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the 'type', or analogue, of the moral law. In addition, the book situates the Typic, both historically and conceptually, within Kant's theory of symbolic representation. While many commentators have assimilated the Typic to the aesthetic notion of 'symbolic hypotyposis' in the third Critique, the author contends that it has greater continuities with the theoretical notion of 'symbolic anthropomorphism' in the Prolegomena. As the first comprehensive, book-length study of the Typic that critically engages with the secondary literature, this monograph fills an important gap in the research on Kant's ethics and aesthetics and provides a starting point for further inquiry and debate.

The  Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World - A Confrontation Between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger... The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World - A Confrontation Between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger (Hardcover)
Caitlin Smith Gilson
R4,580 Discovery Miles 45 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, it offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry. The book is a careful treatment of the inception and deterioration of the four-fold presuppositions of Thomistic metaphysics: intentionality, causality, finitude, ananke stenai. The analysis of the four-fold has never before been done and it is a central and original contribution of Gilson's book. The four-fold penetrates the issues between the phenomenological approach and the metaphysical vision to arrive at their core and irreconcilable difference. Heidegger's attempt to utilize the fourfold to extrude theology from ontology provides the necessary interpretive impetus to revisit the radical and often misunderstood metaphysics of St. Thomas, through such problems as aeviternity, non-being and tragedy.

Postmodernism, Unraveling Racism, and Democratic Institutions (Hardcover, New): John W. Murphy, Jung Min Choi Postmodernism, Unraveling Racism, and Democratic Institutions (Hardcover, New)
John W. Murphy, Jung Min Choi
R2,204 Discovery Miles 22 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Professors Murphy and Choi use postmodern philosophy to expose an important source of racism and cultural domination. They examine foundationalism, which they see at the core of the Western intellectual tradition and which is shown to foster a metaphysics of domination. By contrast, postmodernism undermines this root of racism.

They demonstrate that foundationalism is not needed to support identity, institutions, or political order. Indeed, they assert that true pluralism is possible once foundationalist approaches to knowledge and order are set aside. Special attention is directed to two current modes of discrimination: institutional racism and symbolic violence. Murphy and Choi provide an intriguing look at ways to undercut the justification for racism and other threats to cultural difference. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars and other researchers in the areas of race relations, cultural studies, and political theory.

Full History - On the Meaningfulness of Shared Action (Hardcover): Steven G. Smith Full History - On the Meaningfulness of Shared Action (Hardcover)
Steven G. Smith
R4,582 Discovery Miles 45 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How can we take history seriously as real and relevant? Despite the hazards of politically dangerous or misleading accounts of the past, we live our lives in a great network of cooperation with other actors; past, present, and future. We study and reflect on the past as a way of exercising a responsibility for shared action. In each of the chapters of Full History Smith poses a key question about history as a concern for conscious participants in the sharing of action, starting with "What Is Historical Meaningfulness?" and ending with "How Can History Have an Aim?" Constructing new models of historical meaning while engaging critically with perspectives offered by Ranke, Dilthey, Rickert, Heidegger, Eliade, Sartre, Foucault, and Arendt, Smith develops a philosophical account of thinking about history that moves beyond postmodernist skepticism. Full History seeks to expand the cast of significant actors, establishing an inclusive version of the historical that recognizes large-scale cumulative actions but also encourages critical revision and expansion of any paradigm of shared action.

Politics, Order and History - Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin (Hardcover): Glenn Hughes, Stephen McKnight, Geoffrey Price Politics, Order and History - Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin (Hardcover)
Glenn Hughes, Stephen McKnight, Geoffrey Price
R6,300 Discovery Miles 63 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together critical review papers, many specially commissioned, on key themes and questions in the work of the political scientist, philosopher and religious thinker Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). Areas covered include: (1) Political science: 'Political Religions': manifestations in Nazi Germany and in contemporary European and North American nationalism; (2) International relations: the 'Cold War' in critical perspective; (3) Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle in the reading of Eric Voegelin: contemporary assessments; (4) Sociology: Correspondence of Voegelin and Alfred Sch++tz; (5) New Testament studies and Christology: questions and developments for Voegelin's interpretations; (6) Old Testament studies: questions and developments from Voegelin's Israel and Revelation; (7) Historical sociology: Revelation and order in axial-age societies; (8) Philosophy of history: Voegelin and Toynbee in contrast; (9) Literary studies: Voegelin in contrast with contemporary literary theory; critical readings of Milton, Greek tragedy.

G.F. Stout and the Psychological Origins of Analytic Philosophy (Hardcover): Maria Van Der Schaar G.F. Stout and the Psychological Origins of Analytic Philosophy (Hardcover)
Maria Van Der Schaar
R2,421 R1,888 Discovery Miles 18 880 Save R533 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The philosopher and psychologist G.F. Stout was the teacher of Moore and Russell around 1894. This book shows that Stout's ideas have played a role in Moore and Russell's development from their early idealism towards analytic realism, where Stout's ideas often find their origin in early phenomenology.
The theory of judgement and proposition that Moore and Russell defended around 1900 has to be understood against the background of a one-dimensional semantics, and the question what guarantees the objectivity of thought and judgement. Both aspects have their origin in Stout's psychological account of judgement and the way he distinguishes between act, content and object. Stout is also of interest for his critique of Russell's theory of descriptions and the multiple relation theory of judgement. The book deals with topics relevant for philosophy today, such as tropes and predication, the problem of error, psychologism, and the relation between question and judgement.

Deleuze: A Critical Reader (Hardcover): P. Patton Deleuze: A Critical Reader (Hardcover)
P. Patton
R4,311 Discovery Miles 43 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Paul Patton brings together an outstanding collection of appraisals by French-- and English--speaking scholars of Gilles Deleuze (1925--1995), one of the most important post--war French philosophers. A number of these pieces address Deleuzea s original interpretations of key figures in the history of philosophy, including Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and Bergson. Others discuss his work on mathematics, and the relevance of his conceptual creativity for art criticism, feminist, literary, and cultural studies. Several of the contributors here have not been previously published.

Values and Ontology - Problems and Perspectives (Hardcover): Beatrice Centi, Wolfgang Huemer Values and Ontology - Problems and Perspectives (Hardcover)
Beatrice Centi, Wolfgang Huemer
R5,130 Discovery Miles 51 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The articles in this volume discuss the relation between values and ontology, focusing on the significance of ontology for ethics and aesthetics, i.e., themes which due to the raising interest in ontology come to play a central role in contemporary philosophical debate. The contributors address the questions of whether and in which sense values can be considered to be real, whether it is possible to experience them, and in which sense we can speak about their objective validity. These topics - which were also discussed by early phenomenologists like Brentano, Meinong, Ehrenfels, proponents of Gestalt psychology like Koehler, by Husserl, and by French phenomenologists like Merleau-Ponty - are approached by both historical and systematic analysis.

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