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Symposium (Hardcover): Plato Symposium (Hardcover)
Plato; Translated by Benjamin Jowett
R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Symposium (Paperback): Plato Symposium (Paperback)
Plato; Translated by Benjamin Jowett
R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Guide to Stoicism Hardcover (Hardcover): St George William Joseph Stock Guide to Stoicism Hardcover (Hardcover)
St George William Joseph Stock
R637 R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Leaves of the Tree - Studies in Biography (Hardcover): Arthur Christopher 1862-1925 Benson The Leaves of the Tree - Studies in Biography (Hardcover)
Arthur Christopher 1862-1925 Benson
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse; 1 (Hardcover): Thomas 1716-1771 Gray The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse; 1 (Hardcover)
Thomas 1716-1771 Gray; Created by Edmund Gosse
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Anatomy of Melancholy - (Unabridged) (Hardcover): Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy - (Unabridged) (Hardcover)
Robert Burton
R1,265 Discovery Miles 12 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Coins of the Sultans of Dehli? in the British Museum (Hardcover): British Museum Dept of Coins and Me, Stanley 1854-1931... The Coins of the Sultans of Dehlí in the British Museum (Hardcover)
British Museum Dept of Coins and Me, Stanley 1854-1931 Lane-Poole; Reginald Stuart 1832-1895 Poole
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Theogony and Works and Days (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover):... Theogony and Works and Days (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Hesiod
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Symposium (Hardcover): Plato Symposium (Hardcover)
Plato; Translated by Benjamin Jowett
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Spectricity of Humanness - Spectral Ontology and Being-in-the-World (Hardcover): Zachary Isrow The Spectricity of Humanness - Spectral Ontology and Being-in-the-World (Hardcover)
Zachary Isrow
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The question of humanness requires a philosophical anthropology and we need a revision of what philosophical anthropology means in light of contemporary efforts in speculative realism and object-oriented ontology. This is the main claim of the book which expands into the smaller supporting claims that 1) contemporary work in speculative realism indicates that Heidegger's analytic of Dasein needs to be rethought in consideration of certain Kantian values 2) recent philosophical anthropology offers an incomplete look at the central concern of philosophical anthropology, namely, the question of humanness 3) current ontological models do not account adequately for humanness, because they do not begin with humanness. From these considerations, a new ontological model better suited to account for humanness is proposed, spectral ontology. Under spectral ontology, Being is treated as a spectrum consisting of beings, nonbeings, and hyperbeings. Nonbeings, or nonrelational entities, and hyper-beings, are spectral insofar as they are like a specter which haunts the being that manifests in the world. Thus, spectral in this sense refers to both the nonrelational status of nonbeings and to an ontology which reflects such a spectrum of Being.

The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Five Dialogues - Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Paperback, 2nd edition): Plato Five Dialogues - Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Plato; Translated by G.M.A. Grube
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works . A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Hardcover): George Berkeley Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Hardcover)
George Berkeley
R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment (English, French, Paperback): Paschalis M. Kitromilides Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment (English, French, Paperback)
Paschalis M. Kitromilides
R3,012 Discovery Miles 30 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An iconic figure in the movement for Greek independence, Adamantios Korais (1748-1833) also played a major role in the development and transmission of Enlightenment ideals. From his early education in Amsterdam and medical studies in Montpellier, he moved to Paris where he developed distinctive ideas of political liberalism and cultural change against the backdrop of the French Revolution. In Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment a team of specialists explore the multiple facets of Korais' life and thought. Following a detailed examination of his formative years and pan-European education, contributors analyse his: translations and editions of the classics, through which his own early political ideas took shape views on linguistic reform and its importance for a sense of national identity liberal critique of the French Revolution and his evolving conception of political liberty In Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment contributors present a timely reevaluation of a major figure in the foundation of modern Greece, and provide a fresh perspective on the interaction of cultures in the European Enlightenment.

Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics (Hardcover): Immanuel 1724-1804 Kant, Thomas... Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics (Hardcover)
Immanuel 1724-1804 Kant, Thomas Kingsmill 1829-1913 Abbott
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Treatise of Human Nature (Hardcover): David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (Hardcover)
David Hume
R1,015 Discovery Miles 10 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (Hardcover): Joseph Brooker Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (Hardcover)
Joseph Brooker
R3,893 Discovery Miles 38 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem is one of the most celebrated and significant American writers working today. This new scholarly study draws on a deep knowledge of all Lethem's work to explore the range of his writing, from his award-winning fiction to his work in comics and criticism. Reading Lethem in relation to five themes crucial to his work, Joseph Brooker considers influence and intertextuality; the role of genres such as crime, science fiction and the Western; the imaginative production of worlds; superheroes and comic book traditions; and the representation of New York City. Close readings of Lethem's fiction are contextualized by reference to broader conceptual and comparative frames, as well as to Lethem's own voluminous non-fictional writing and his adaptation of precursors from Franz Kafka to Raymond Chandler. Rich in critical insight, Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing demonstrates how an understanding of this author illuminates contemporary literature and culture at large.

Enactive Cognition in Place - Sense-Making as the Development of Ecological Norms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Miguel A.... Enactive Cognition in Place - Sense-Making as the Development of Ecological Norms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Miguel A. Sepulveda-Pedro
R3,363 Discovery Miles 33 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A. Sepulveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint, Sepulveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development; the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and sense-making occurs in a domain consisting of multiple normative dimensions that the author names enactive place.

Existentialism Now - Realizing the Dream of a Whole Self (Hardcover): Christopher Bek Existentialism Now - Realizing the Dream of a Whole Self (Hardcover)
Christopher Bek
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intellectual Journeys - The Translation of Ideas in Enlightenment England, France and Ireland (English, French, Paperback):... Intellectual Journeys - The Translation of Ideas in Enlightenment England, France and Ireland (English, French, Paperback)
Lise Andries, Frederic Ogee, John Dunkley, Darach Sanfey
R3,092 Discovery Miles 30 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The exchange of ideas between nations during the Enlightenment was greatly facilitated by cultural ventures, commercial enterprise and scientific collaboration. But how were they exchanged? What were the effects of these exchanges on the idea or artefact being transferred? Focussing on contact between England, France and Ireland, a team of specialists explores the translation, appropriation and circulation of cultural products and scientific ideas during the Enlightenment. Through analysis of literary and artistic works, periodicals and official writings contributors uncover: the key role played by literary translators and how they adapted, naturalized and sometimes distorted plays and novels to conform to new cultural norms; the effects of eighteenth-century anglomania, and how this was manifested in French art; how the vagaries of international politics and conflict affected both the cultural products themselves and the modes of dissemination; how religious censorship engendered new Irish Catholic and French Huguenot diasporas, with their particular intellectual pursuits and networks of exchange; the significance of newspapers and periodicals in disseminating new knowledge and often radical philosophical ideas. By exploring both broad areas of cultural activity and precise examples of cultural transfer, contributors to Intellectual journeys reveal the range and complexity of intellectual exchange and its role in the formation of a truly transnational Enlightenment.

The Antichrist (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Antichrist (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Annihilation Songs - Three Shakespeare Reintegrations (Hardcover): Jason De Boer Annihilation Songs - Three Shakespeare Reintegrations (Hardcover)
Jason De Boer; Introduction by Tosh Berman
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The True History of Councils Enlarged and Defended, Against the Deceits of a Pretended Vindicator of the Primitive Church, but... The True History of Councils Enlarged and Defended, Against the Deceits of a Pretended Vindicator of the Primitive Church, but Indeed of the Tympanite & Tyranny of Some Prelates Many Hundred Years After Christ. With a Detection of the False History Of... (Hardcover)
Richard 1615-1691 Baxter; Created by David 1622-1686 Diocesan Clarkson
R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Violence and Nihilism (Hardcover): Luis Aguiar de Sousa, Paolo Stellino Violence and Nihilism (Hardcover)
Luis Aguiar de Sousa, Paolo Stellino
R4,227 Discovery Miles 42 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nihilism seems to be per definition linked to violence. Indeed, if the nihilist is a person who acknowledges no moral or religious authority, then what does stop him from committing any kind of crime? Dostoevsky precisely called attention to this danger: if there is no God and no immortality of the soul, then everything is permitted, even anthropophagy. Nietzsche, too, emphasised, although in different terms, the consequences deriving from the death of God and the collapse of Judeo-Christian morality. This context shaped the way in which philosophers, writers and artists thought about violence, in its different manifestations, during the 20th century. The goal of this interdisciplinary volume is to explore the various modern and contemporary configurations of the link between violence and nihilism as understood by philosophers and artists (in both literature and film).

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