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Wittgenstein - To Follow a Rule (Paperback): S Holtzman, C M Leich Wittgenstein - To Follow a Rule (Paperback)
S Holtzman, C M Leich
R1,624 Discovery Miles 16 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rousseau and Weber - Two Studies in the Theory of Legitimacy (Paperback): J.G. Merguior Rousseau and Weber - Two Studies in the Theory of Legitimacy (Paperback)
J.G. Merguior
R1,363 Discovery Miles 13 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Max Weber, central thinkers to the discussion of political legitimacy, represent two very different stages and forms of social theory: early modern political philosophy and classical sociology. In these studies, Dr Merquior describes and assesses their individual contributions to the understanding of the concept of political legitimacy. Dr Merquior compares Rousseau and Weber to a handful of other major theorists and highlights the contemporary prospects of the alternatives between democratic participation and bureaucratizm. This book was first published in 1980.

Plato's Cosmology - The Timaeus of Plato (Paperback): Francis Macdonald Cornford Plato's Cosmology - The Timaeus of Plato (Paperback)
Francis Macdonald Cornford
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1937. The commentary in this text is designed to guide the reader through a long and intricate argument and to explain what must remain obscure in the most faithful translation; for the Timaeus covers an immense field at the cost of compressing the thought into the smallest space. Only with some such aid can students of theology and philosophy have access to a document that has deeply influenced mediaeval and modern speculation. Contents: The Timaeus; The Discourse of Timaeus; What Comes About of Necessity; The Cooperation of Reason and Necessity.

Plato's Theory of Art (Paperback): Rupert C. Lodge Plato's Theory of Art (Paperback)
Rupert C. Lodge
R1,632 Discovery Miles 16 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2000. This is Volume VII of ten in the International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient Philosophy. Written around 1953, this book looks at Plato and his ideas on art based on his 'Dialogues'.

Plato's Theory of Knowledge (Paperback): Francis Macdonald Cornford Plato's Theory of Knowledge (Paperback)
Francis Macdonald Cornford
R1,636 Discovery Miles 16 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Philosophy of Plato (Paperback): Rupert C. Lodge The Philosophy of Plato (Paperback)
Rupert C. Lodge
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2000. This is Volume VI of ten in the International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient Philosophy. Written around 1956, this book looks at Plato and his works on the biological, social, physical and intellectual background as well as his ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of religion and education, in comparison to his predecessors.

Being and Time - A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation (Paperback, Revised ed.): Martin Heidegger Being and Time - A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Martin Heidegger; Translated by Joan Stambaugh; Revised by Dennis J Schmidt; Foreword by Dennis J Schmidt
R719 R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Save R105 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reclaiming Reality - A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover): Roy Bhaskar Reclaiming Reality - A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover)
Roy Bhaskar
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. It is designed to "underlabour" both for the sciences, especially the human sciences, and for the projects of human emancipation which such sciences may come to inform; and provides an enlightening intervention in current debates about realism and relativism, positivism and poststucturalism, modernism and postmodernism, etc.

Elaborating his critical realist perspective on society, nature, science and philosophy itself, Roy Bhaskar shows how this perspective can be used to undermine currently fashionable ideologies of the Right, and at the same time, to clear the ground for a reinvigorated Left. Reclaiming Reality contains powerful critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and thinkers of recent years?from Bachelard and Feyerabend to Rorty and Habermas; and it advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems.

Now with a new introduction from Mervyn Hartwig, this book continues to provide a straightforward and stimulating introduction to current debates in philosophy and social theory for the interested lay reader and student alike. Reclaiming Reality will be of particular value not only for critical realists but for all those concerned with the revitalization of the socialist emancipatory project and the renaissance of the Marxist theoretical tradition.

Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation and Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom. He is an editor of the recently published Critical Realism: Essential Readings and is currently chair of the Centre for Critical Realism.

Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) - A Study in Norms and Values (Hardcover): Colin Smith Contemporary French Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) - A Study in Norms and Values (Hardcover)
Colin Smith
R4,217 Discovery Miles 42 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1964, this is not just a chronicle or encyclopaedia, but deals thoroughly in turn with meaning, view about reason, and views about values, particularly moral values. The author's knowledge of French literature is extensive and thorough, and a feature of the book is his analysis of the philosophical implications of literary works by Sartre, Paul Valery, Camus and others.

Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Paperback): Irving M. Copi, Robert W Beard Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Paperback)
Irving M. Copi, Robert W Beard
R1,384 Discovery Miles 13 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Philosophy of Husserl (Hardcover): Burt Hopkins The Philosophy of Husserl (Hardcover)
Burt Hopkins
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl has been hugely influential in the development of contemporary continental philosophy. In The Philosophy of Husserl, Burt Hopkins shows that the unity of Husserl's philosophical enterprise is found in the investigation of the origins of cognition, being, meaning, and ultimately philosophy itself. Hopkins challenges the prevailing view that Husserl's late turn to history is inconsistent with his earlier attempts to establish phenomenology as a pure science and also the view of Heidegger and Derrida, that the limits of transcendental phenomenology are historically driven by ancient Greek philosophy. Part 1 presents Plato's written and unwritten theories of eide and Aristotle's criticism of both. Part 2 traces Husserl's early investigations into the formation of mathematical and logical concepts and charts the critical necessity that leads from descriptive psychology to transcendentally pure phenomenology. Part 3 investigates the movement of Husserl's phenomenology of transcendental consciousness to that of monadological intersubjectivity. Part 4 presents the final stage of the development of Husserl's thought, which situates monadological intersubjectivity within the context of the historical a priori constitutive of all meaning. Part 5 exposes the unwarranted historical presuppositions that guide Heidegger's fundamental ontological and Derrida's deconstructive criticisms of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology. The Philosophy of Husserl will be required reading for all students of phenomenology.

Niklas Luhmann (Hardcover): Christian Borch Niklas Luhmann (Hardcover)
Christian Borch
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Niklas Luhmann offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important sociologists of our time. It presents the key concepts within Luhmann's multifaceted theory of modern society, and compares them with the work of other key social theorists such as J?rgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, and Zygmunt Bauman.

The book pays particular attention to introducing and discussing Luhmann's original sociological systems theory. It presents a thorough investigation into the different phases of his oeuvre, through which both the shifting emphases as well as the continuities in his thinking are shown. The primary focus of this text is Luhmann's theory of modern society as being differentiated into a plethora of ?function systems? ? such as politics, law, and economy ? which operate according to their own distinct logics and which cannot interfere with one another. For Luhmann, this functional differentiation works as a bulwark against totalitarian rule, and as such is a key foundation of modern democracy. Furthermore, the book critically examines the implications of this functional differentiation for inclusion and exclusion dynamics, as well as for the understanding of power and politics.

This is a key text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of areas including contemporary social theory, political sociology, and sociology.

Thus Spake Zarathustra (Paperback): Frederich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra (Paperback)
Frederich Nietzsche; Translated by Thomas Common
R219 R171 Discovery Miles 1 710 Save R48 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Nietzsche is one of the most influential philosophers of the modern age.

Art, Animals, and Experience - Relationships to Canines and the Natural World (Paperback): Elizabeth Sutton Art, Animals, and Experience - Relationships to Canines and the Natural World (Paperback)
Elizabeth Sutton
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Elizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world. Using Rembrandt van Rijn's etching of The Presentation in the Temple (c. 1640), Joseph Beuys's social sculpture I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), archaic rock paintings at Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, and examples from contemporary art, this book demonstrates how artists across time and cultures employed animals to draw attention to the sensory experience of the composition and reflect upon the shared sensory awareness of the world.

The Proper Study of Mankind - An Anthology of Essays (Paperback, First): Roger Hausheer The Proper Study of Mankind - An Anthology of Essays (Paperback, First)
Roger Hausheer; Isaiah Berlin
R822 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R133 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now in one volume--"Berlin's most influential essays"
--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Washington Post Book World

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.

Giorgio Agamben (Hardcover): Alex Murray Giorgio Agamben (Hardcover)
Alex Murray; Series edited by Robert Eaglestone
R2,531 Discovery Miles 25 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo bay and the a ~war on terrora (TM).

Alex Murray explains Agambena (TM)s key ideas, including:

  • an overview of his work from first publication to the present
  • clear analysis of Agambena (TM)s philosophy of language and life
  • theories of ethics and a ~witnessinga (TM)
  • the relationship between Agambena (TM)s political writing and his work on aesthetics and poetics.

Investigating the relationship between politics, language, literature, aesthetics and ethics, this guide is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex nature of modern political and cultural formations.

Plato's Phaedo - A Translation of Plato's Phaedo (Paperback): R.S. Bluck Plato's Phaedo - A Translation of Plato's Phaedo (Paperback)
R.S. Bluck
R1,616 Discovery Miles 16 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Analytic Versus Continental - Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (Hardcover): James Chase, Jack Reynolds Analytic Versus Continental - Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (Hardcover)
James Chase, Jack Reynolds
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Throughout much of the twentieth century, the relationship between analytic and continental philosophy has been one of disinterest, caution or hostility. Recent debates in philosophy have highlighted some of the similarities between the two approaches and even envisaged a post-continental and post-analytic philosophy. Opening with a history of key encounters between philosophers of opposing camps since the late nineteenth century - from Frege and Husserl to Derrida and Searle - the book goes on to explore in detail the main methodological differences between the two approaches. This covers a very wide range of topics, from issues of style and clarity of exposition to formal methods arising from logic and probability theory. The final section of this book presents a balanced critique of the two schools' approaches to key issues such as time, truth, subjectivity, mind and body, language and meaning, and ethics. "Analytic versus Continental" is the first sustained analysis of both approaches to philosophy, examining the limits and possibilities of each. It provides a clear overview of a much-disputed history and, in highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of both traditions, also offers future directions for both continental and analytic philosophy.

The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze - Encounters and Influences (Paperback): Bill Ross The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze - Encounters and Influences (Paperback)
Bill Ross; James Williams
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offering a careful and incisive examination of Gilles Deleuze's engagement with his contemporaries in the continental and analytic traditions, this analysis focuses on the recasting of the Western philosophical tradition. Each chapter considers the relationship between Deleuze and other great philosophers, such as Immanuel Kant, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Francois Lyotard, on a range of topics the include science, ethics, and metaphysics.

The Concept of Anxiety - A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin... The Concept of Anxiety - A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin (Paperback)
Søren Kierkegaard; Translated by Alastair Hannay
R456 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R93 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although Soren Kierkegaard's death in the fall of 1855 foreshadowed a lasting split between conservative Christians and young contemporaries who saw him as a revolutionary thinker, it was not until the turn of the twentieth century and beyond the borders of his native Denmark that his lasting significance came to be felt. By transcending distinctions of genre, Kierkegaard brought traditionally separated disciplines to bear on deep human concerns and was able, through his profound self-insight, to uncover the strategies with which we try to deal with them. As a result, he is hailed today as no less than the father of modern psychology and existentialism.

While the majority of Kierkegaard's work leading up to The Concept of Anxiety dealt with the intersection of faith and knowledge, here the renowned Danish philosopher turns to the perennial question of sin and guilt. First published in 1844, this concise treatise identified long before Freud anxiety as a deep-seated human state, one that embodies the endless struggle with our own spiritual identities. Ably synthesizing human insights with Christian dogma, Kierkegaard's "psychological deliberation" suggests that our only hope in overcoming anxiety is not through powder and pills but by embracing it with open arms. Indeed, for Kierkegaard, it is only through our experiences with anxiety that we are able to become truly aware of ourselves and the freedoms and limitations of our own existence.

While Kierkegaard's Danish prose is surprisingly rich, previous translations the most recent in 1980 have tended either to deaden its impact by being excessively literal or to furnish it with a florid tone foreign to its original directness. In this new edition, Alastair Hannay re-creates its natural rhythm in a way that will finally allow this overlooked classic not only to become as celebrated as Fear and Trembling, The Sickness unto Death, and Either/Or but also to earn a place as the seminal work of existentialism and moral psychology that it is."

The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals) - Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy (Hardcover): Christopher Norris The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals) - Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy (Hardcover)
Christopher Norris
R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norrisa (TM) book was the first to explore such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy, opening up a new and challenging dimension of inter-disciplinary study and creating a fresh and productive dialogue between philosophy and literary theory.

The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica (Paperback): Susana Nuccetelli The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica (Paperback)
Susana Nuccetelli
R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The first introduction to the notoriously difficult Principia Ethica The text not only provides the reader with the historical background but comprehensively examines the arguments surrounding Moore's theories. Situates Moore and Principia Ethica in an historical context, especially important given that without a guidebook such as this students would have to learn about Moore through the writings of other philosophers Assesses the contribution of Moore to contemporary thought which is relevant because of the current revivial of nonnaturalism which has bought Moorean doctrines back to the centre of metaethical debates.

RLE: Michel Foucault (5 Vols) (Hardcover): Various RLE: Michel Foucault (5 Vols) (Hardcover)
Various
R13,416 Discovery Miles 134 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Providing a detailed and in depth analysis of one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century, this Routledge Library Edition brings together some of the most significant and insightful scholarship on Michel Foucault published in the past quarter of a century. These five volumes, first published between 1984 and 1991, offer an extremely valuable study of this influential figure, covering a wide variety of themes, which range from Foucault's views on education and society through to his thoughts on ethics sexuality, Marxism and power. Not only does the collection offer a detailed analysis of Foucault's social and philosophical theories, it also seeks to assess the continuing influence and significance of Foucault in the decade immediately following his death in 1984.

Richard Rorty (Hardcover): James Tartaglia Richard Rorty (Hardcover)
James Tartaglia
R31,072 Discovery Miles 310 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Richard Rorty (1931 2007) remains one of the contemporary world s most influential thinkers. He has been a major figure in philosophy ever since the publication of his first important paper, Mind-Body Identity, Privacy, and Categories in 1965, but it was the release of his seminal Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) that caused the literature on his work to expand exponentially, a process which has accelerated since his death in 2007; scores of new articles and books about Rorty appear every year, and even his biography has proved to be an academic bestseller. Rorty s enduring appeal has a number of sources. One is the scope and urgency of his views, for he was never shy about presenting his call for the abandonment of objective truth against the grand backdrop of the cultural progress of the West. Another is that his views were highly controversial, and yet could not be easily dismissed, since Rorty was able to claim with some plausibility that he was simply drawing out the consequences of positions developed by his more conventionally respectable peers. And another is that Rorty applied his views to a wide range of topical concerns outside of academic philosophy. For these and many other reasons, philosophers to this day line up to refute him, students read Rorty before the philosophers he discusses, and non-philosophy academics produce a continuous stream of articles applying his views to their own interests.

The daunting quantity (and variable quality) of literature available on Rorty makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new title in the highly regarded Routledge series, Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, is so urgently needed. Edited by James Tartaglia, the author of Rorty and the Mirror of Nature (Routledge, 2007), one of the most popular and straightforward books available on Rorty, this new Routledge Major Work is a four-volume collection of the best scholarship from the 1960s to the present day; the collected materials have been carefully selected from a wide range of academic journals, edited collections, and research monographs, many of which are hard to obtain in their original source.

The first of the four volumes ( Mind, Language, and Truth ) covers Rorty s eliminative materialism in the philosophy of mind, his Davidsonian rejection of conceptual schemes in the philosophy of language, and his rejection of objective truth. Volume II ( Metaphilosophy and Pragmatism ), meanwhile, assembles the best assessments of his pessimistic metaphilosophy, and his distinctive conception of pragmatism. The third volume ( Philosophers ) brings together the key scholarly work on Rorty s highly original but endlessly disputed interpretations of other philosophers, while the final volume in the collection (Volume IV: Themes ) explores Rorty s views as applied to a diverse range of topics, from feminism to environmentalism and bioethics.

The tightly focused organization of this collection will allow scholars quickly and easily to access both established and up-to-date assessments of Rorty s central positions, and will also make for irresistible browsing. With comprehensive introductions to each volume, providing essential background information and relating the various articles to each other, Richard Rorty is destined to be an indispensable resource for research and study.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception (Hardcover): Komarine Romdenh-Romluc Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception (Hardcover)
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
R3,337 Discovery Miles 33 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 ? 1961) is hailed as one of the key philosophers of the twentieth century. Phenomenology of Perception is his most famous and influential work, and an essential text for anyone seeking to understand phenomenology. In this GuideBook Komarine Romdenh-Romluc introduces and assesses:

  • Merleau-Ponty's life and the background to his philosophy
  • the key themes and arguments of Phenomenology of Perception
  • the continuing importance of Merleau-Ponty's work to philosophy.

Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception is an ideal starting point for anyone coming to his great work for the first time. It is essential reading for students of Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology and related subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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