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Nature, the Soul, and God, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Jean W. Rioux Nature, the Soul, and God, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Jean W. Rioux
R1,225 R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Save R198 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L'Orient anglais - connaissances et fictions au XVIIIe siecle (English, French, Paperback, New ed.): Clare Gallien L'Orient anglais - connaissances et fictions au XVIIIe siecle (English, French, Paperback, New ed.)
Clare Gallien
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Source d'etude mais egalement d'inspiration, l'Orient a influence de nombreux penseurs, historiens et ecrivains anglais du XVIIIe siecle, dont les textes ont contribue au developpement d'une veritable mode orientale en Angleterre. Mais parmi ces representations de l'Orient se confondent ouvrages erudits et fictifs, connaissance et imagination. Relisant un corpus de romans dits pseudo-orientaux a partir de leur intertexte savant, Claire Gallien met en evidence la deconstruction des frontieres entre textes fictifs et non-fictifs. Si le roman s'inspire de l'erudition orientaliste, celle-ci emploie des techniques de vulgarisation propres a l'ecriture romanesque. Dans L'Orient anglais C. Gallien examine le lien qui unissait une mode a un systeme de connaissance, et permet de voir le role d'une culture etrangere dans la constitution d'une litterature nationale.

A History and Philosophy of Expertise - The Nature and Limits of Authority (Hardcover): Jamie Carlin Watson A History and Philosophy of Expertise - The Nature and Limits of Authority (Hardcover)
Jamie Carlin Watson
R3,214 Discovery Miles 32 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this comprehensive tour of the long history and philosophy of expertise, from ancient Greece to the 20th century, Jamie Carlin Watson tackles the question of expertise and why we can be skeptical of what experts say, making a valuable contribution to contemporary philosophical debates on authority, testimony, disagreement and trust. His review sketches out the ancient origins of the concept, discussing its early association with cunning, skill and authority and covering the sort of training that ancient thinkers believed was required for expertise. Watson looks at the evolution of the expert in the middle ages into a type of "genius" or "innate talent" , moving to the role of psychological research in 16th-century Germany, the influence of Darwin, the impact of behaviorism and its interest to computer scientists, and its transformation into the largely cognitive concept psychologists study today.

Slow Philosophy - Reading against the Institution (Hardcover): Michelle Boulous Walker Slow Philosophy - Reading against the Institution (Hardcover)
Michelle Boulous Walker
R3,210 Discovery Miles 32 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for thinking about reading in philosophical terms. Boulous Walker argues that philosophy involves the patient work of thought; in this it resembles the work of art, which invites and implores us to take our time and to engage with the world. At its best, philosophy teaches us to read slowly; in fact, philosophy is the art of reading slowly - and this inevitably clashes with many of our current institutional practices and demands. Slow reading shares something in common with contemporary social movements, such as that devoted to slow food; it offers us ways to engage the complexity of the world. With the help of writers as diverse as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Woolf, Adorno, Levinas, Critchley, Beauvoir, Le Doeuff, Irigaray, Cixous, Weil, and others, Boulous Walker offers a foundational text in the emerging field of slow philosophy, one that explores the importance of unhurried time in establishing our institutional encounters with complex and demanding works.

Advice from Aristotle (Hardcover): Andrew Younan Advice from Aristotle (Hardcover)
Andrew Younan
R886 R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Save R123 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Space After Deleuze (Hardcover): Arun Saldanha Space After Deleuze (Hardcover)
Arun Saldanha
R4,574 Discovery Miles 45 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Deleuze's fondness for geography has long been recognised as central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce researchers to the breadth of his engagements with space, place and movement. Focusing on pressing global issues such as urbanization, war, migration, and climate change, Arun Saldanha presents a detailed Deleuzian rejoinder to a number of theoretical and political questions about globalization in a variety of disciplines. This systematic overview of moments in Deleuze's corpus where space is implicitly or explicitly theorized shows why he can be called the twentieth century's most interesting thinker of space. Anyone with an interest in refining such concepts as territory, assemblage, body, event and Anthropocene will learn much from the "geophilosophy" which Deleuze and Guattari proposed for our critical times.

The Ethics - Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata (Hardcover): Benedict de Spinoza The Ethics - Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata (Hardcover)
Benedict de Spinoza; Translated by R.H.M. Elwes
R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hardcover): David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hardcover)
David Hume
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Index to the Publications of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843-1891 .. (Hardcover): George W... Index to the Publications of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843-1891 .. (Hardcover)
George W Bioxam; Created by Royal Anthropological Institute of Gr
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3 (Hardcover): Ian R. Christie The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3 (Hardcover)
Ian R. Christie
R1,845 Discovery Miles 18 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition - A Hermeneutic of Cultural Subjectivity (Hardcover): Timo Helenius Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition - A Hermeneutic of Cultural Subjectivity (Hardcover)
Timo Helenius
R2,534 Discovery Miles 25 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition: A Hermeneutic of Cultural Subjectivity presents Paul Ricoeur's work-from its beginning to its end-as a form of a cultural theory. Timo Helenius proposes a cultural hermeneutic that clarifies the cultural facilitation in a person's process of attaining a sense of being a human. Incorporating insights from Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, this exploration of human beings as being profoundly formed and influenced by the cultural condition also enables a new understanding of intercultural questions by revealing the common human condition that the various cultures manifest. Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition will be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to scholars in theology, linguistics, cultural studies, and the social sciences.

The Case for Reduction (Hardcover): Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Jakob Schillinger The Case for Reduction (Hardcover)
Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Jakob Schillinger
R868 R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On the Art of Poetry (Hardcover): Aristotle On the Art of Poetry (Hardcover)
Aristotle; Translated by Ingram Bywater
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Human, All Too Human - A Book for Free Spirits (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Human, All Too Human - A Book for Free Spirits (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nature's Finer Forces (Hardcover): Annie Wood 1847-1933 Besant Nature's Finer Forces (Hardcover)
Annie Wood 1847-1933 Besant
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation - The Truth is Translated (Hardcover): Paul Standish, Naoko Saito Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation - The Truth is Translated (Hardcover)
Paul Standish, Naoko Saito
R3,523 Discovery Miles 35 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature was an early expression of a self-understanding of philosophy that has, in some quarters at least, survived the centuries. This book explores the idea of translation as a philosophical theme and as an important feature of philosophy and practical life, especially in relation to the work of Stanley Cavell. The essays in this volume explore philosophical questions about translation, especially in the light of the work of Stanley Cavell. They take the questions raised by translation to be of key importance not only for philosophical thinking but for our lives as a whole. Thoreau's enigmatic remark "The truth is translated" reveals that apparently technical matters of translation extend through human lives to remarkable effect, conditioning the ways in which the world comes to light. The experience of the translator exemplifies the challenge of judgement where governing rules and principles are incommensurable; and it shows something of the ways in which words come to us, opening new possibilities of thought. This book puts Cavell's rich exploration of these matters into conversation with traditions of pragmatism and European thought. Translation, then, far from a merely technical matter, is at work in human being, and it is the means of humanisation. The book brings together philosophers and translators with common interests in Cavell and in the questions of language at the heart of his work.

The Religious Philosopher - Or, the Right use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator. Designed for the Conviction of... The Religious Philosopher - Or, the Right use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator. Designed for the Conviction of Atheists and Infidels. all the Late Discoveries in Anatomy, Philosophy, and Astronomy of 3; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Bernard Nieuwentyt
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment - Marian Hobson (Paperback): Kate E. Tunstall, Caroline Warman Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment - Marian Hobson (Paperback)
Kate E. Tunstall, Caroline Warman
R3,694 Discovery Miles 36 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Marian Hobson's work has made a seminal contribution to our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and of Diderot and Rousseau in particular. This book presents her most important articles in a single volume, translated into English for the first time. Hobson's distinctive approach is to take a given text or problematique and position it within its intellectual, historical and polemical context. From close analysis of the underlying conceptual structures of literary texts, she offers a unique insight into the vibrant networks of people and ideas at work throughout Europe, and across disciplinary boundaries as diverse as literature and mathematics, medicine and music. In their translations of Hobson's essays, Kate Tunstall and Caroline Warman present the primary sources in both the original eighteenth-century French and modern English, making the detail of these debates accessible to everyone, from the specialist to the student, whatever their academic discipline or interest.

Self-control - a Novel; 1-2 (Hardcover): Mary 1778-1818 Brunton Self-control - a Novel; 1-2 (Hardcover)
Mary 1778-1818 Brunton
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato (Hardcover): Thomas Taylor Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato (Hardcover)
Thomas Taylor
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Enlightenment Hospitality - Cannibals, Harems and Adoption (Paperback): Judith Still Enlightenment Hospitality - Cannibals, Harems and Adoption (Paperback)
Judith Still
R3,015 Discovery Miles 30 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hospitality, in particular hospitality to strangers, was promoted in the eighteenth century as a universal human virtue, but writing of the period reveals many telling examples of its abuse. Through analysis of encounters across cultural and sexual divides, Judith Still revisits the current debate about the social, moral and political values of the Enlightenment. Focussing on (in)hospitality in relation to two kinds of exotic Other, Judith Still examines representations of indigenous peoples of the New World, both as hosts and as cannibals, and of the Moslem 'Oriental' in Persia and Turkey, associated with both the caravanserai (where travellers rest) and the harem. She also explores very different examples of Europeans as hosts and the practice of 'adoption', particularly that of young girls. The position of women in hospitality, hitherto neglected in favour of questions of cultural difference, is central to these analyses, and Still considers the work of women writers alongside more canonical male-authored texts. In this thought-provoking study, Judith Still uncovers how the Enlightenment rhetoric of openness and hospitality is compromised by self-interest; the questions it raises about attitudes to difference and freedom are equally relevant today.

Balfe - His Life and Work (Hardcover): William Alexander 1836-1891 Barrett Balfe - His Life and Work (Hardcover)
William Alexander 1836-1891 Barrett
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition - Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Perspectives (Hardcover): John... Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition - Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Perspectives (Hardcover)
John Loughlin
R3,900 Discovery Miles 39 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dignity is a fundamental aspect of our lives, yet one we rarely pause to consider; our understandings of dignity, on individual, collective and philosophical perspectives, shape how we think, act and relate to others. This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood and explores the concept in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. World-renowned contributors examine the roots of human dignity in classical Greece and Rome and the Scriptures, as well as in the work of theologians, such as St Thomas Aquinas and St John Paul II. Further chapters consider dignity within Renaissance art and sacred music. The volume shows that dignity is also a contemporary issue by analysing situations where the traditional understanding has been challenged by philosophical and policy developments. To this end, further essays look at the role of dignity in discussions about transhumanism, religious freedom, robotics and medicine. Grounded in the principal Christian traditions of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and Protestantism, this book offers an interdisciplinary and cross-period approach to a timely topic. It validates the notion of human dignity and offers an introduction to the field, while also challenging it.

Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment (English, French, Paperback): Carolina Armenteros, Richard A. Lebrun Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment (English, French, Paperback)
Carolina Armenteros, Richard A. Lebrun
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although Joseph de Maistre has long been regarded as characterising the Counter-Enlightenment, his intellectual relationship to eighteenth-century philosophy remains unexplored. In this first comprehensive assessment of Joseph de Maistre's response to the Enlightenment, a team of renowned scholars uncover a writer who was both the foe and heir of the philosophes. While Maistre was deeply indebted to thinkers who helped to fashion the Enlightenment - Rousseau, the Cambridge Platonists - he also agreed with philosophers such as Schopenhauer who adopted an overtly critical stance. His idea of genius, his critique of America and his historical theory all used 'enlightened' language to contradict Enlightenment principles. Most intriguingly, and completely unsuspected until now, Maistre used the writings of the early Christian theologian Origen to develop a new, late, religious form of Enlightenment that shattered the logic of philosophie. The Joseph de Maistre revealed in this book calls into question any simple opposition of Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, and offers particular lessons for our own time, when religion is at the forefront of public debate and a powerful political tool.

The Tragedy of Philosophy (Philosophy and Dogma) (Hardcover): Sergij Bulgakov The Tragedy of Philosophy (Philosophy and Dogma) (Hardcover)
Sergij Bulgakov; Foreword by John Milbank; Translated by Stephen Churchyard
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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