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The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Hardcover): Andy Amato The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Hardcover)
Andy Amato
R3,898 Discovery Miles 38 980 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

What's Wrong with the World (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Gilbert K.... What's Wrong with the World (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Gilbert K. Chesterton
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Un-Veiling Dichotomies - European Secularism and Women's Veiling (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Giorgia Baldi Un-Veiling Dichotomies - European Secularism and Women's Veiling (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Giorgia Baldi
R2,863 Discovery Miles 28 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyzes the implication of secular/liberal values in Western and human rights law and its impact on Muslim women. It offers an innovative reading of the tension between the religious and secular spheres. The author does not view the two as binary opposites. Rather, she believes they are twin categories that define specific forms of lives as well as a specific notion of womanhood. This divergence from the usual dichotomy opens the doors for a reinterpretation of secularism in contemporary Europe. This method also helps readers to view the study of religion vs. secularism in a new light. It allows for a better understanding of the challenges that contemporary Europe now faces regarding the accommodation of different religious identities. For instance, one entire section of the book concerns the practice of veiling and explores the contentious headscarf debate. It features case studies from Germany, France, and the UK. In addition, the analysis combines a wide range of disciplines and employs an integrated, comparative, and inter-disciplinary approach. The author successfully brings together arguments from different fields with a comparative legal and political analysis of Western and Islamic law and politics. This innovative study appeals to students and researchers while offering an important contribution to the debate over the role of religion in contemporary secular Europe and its impact on women's rights and gender equality.

The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover):... The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Michel Montaigne
R1,578 Discovery Miles 15 780 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions (Hardcover): Oana Serban After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions (Hardcover)
Oana Serban
R4,012 Discovery Miles 40 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reflects the most recent research devoted to a systematized perspective and a critical (re)construction of previous theoretical attempts of explaining, justifying and continuing Kuhn's ingenious hypothesis in arts. Hofstadter, Clignet and Habermas revealed to be the most engaged scholars in solving this aesthetic "puzzled-problem". In this context, the structural similarities between science and arts are attentively evaluated, thus satisfying an older concern attributed to the historical Kuhn-Kubler dispute, extensively commented along the pages of this book. How can we track the matter of rationality and truth in art and aesthetics, inspired by scientific perspectives? Are artistic styles similar to scientific paradigms? Are we entitled to pursue paradigms and masterpieces as rational models in science, respectively in arts? On what possible grounds can we borrow from science notions such as progress and predictability, in the study of the evolution of art and its aesthetic backgrounds? Are the historical dynamics of science and art affected by political factors in the same manner? This book will be of interest to philosophers, but also to historians of science and historians of art alike in the reassessment it provides of recent debates on reshaping the art world using Kuhn's "paradigm shift".

What Is Man? - And Other Essays (Hardcover): Mark Twain What Is Man? - And Other Essays (Hardcover)
Mark Twain
R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Index to Printed Pedigrees, Contained in County and Local Histories, the Herald's Visitations, and in the More... An Index to Printed Pedigrees, Contained in County and Local Histories, the Herald's Visitations, and in the More Important Genealogical Collections (Hardcover)
Charles 1825 or 6-1879 Bridger
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Schleiermacher's Plato (Hardcover): Julia A Lamm Schleiermacher's Plato (Hardcover)
Julia A Lamm
R2,969 Discovery Miles 29 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Friedrich Schleiermacher's Platons Werke (1804-28) changed how we understand Plato. His translation of Plato's dialogues remained the authoritative one in the German-speaking world for two hundred years, but it was his interpretation of Plato and the Platonic corpus, set forth in his Introductions to the dialogues, that proved so revolutionary for classicists and philosophers worldwide. Schleiermacher created a Platonic question for the modern world. Yet, in Schleiermacher studies, surprisingly little is known about Schleiermacher's deep engagement with Plato. Schleiermacher's Plato is the first book-length study of the topic. It addresses two basic questions: How did Schleiermacher understand Plato? In what ways was Schleiermacher's own thought influenced by Plato? Lamm argues that Schleiermacher's thought was profoundly influenced by Plato, or rather by his rather distinctive understanding of Plato. This is true not only of Schleiermacher's philosophy (Hermeneutics, Dialectics) but also of his thinking about religion and Christian faith during the first decade of the nineteenth century (Christmas Dialogue, Speeches on Religion). Schleiermacher's Plato should be of interest to classicists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars of religion.

The Consciousness of the Atom (Hardcover): Alice A. Bailey The Consciousness of the Atom (Hardcover)
Alice A. Bailey
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Philosophy of the Mazdayasnian Religion Under the Sassanids - Translated From the French With Prefatory Remarks, Notes, and... The Philosophy of the Mazdayasnian Religion Under the Sassanids - Translated From the French With Prefatory Remarks, Notes, and a Brief Biographical Sketch of the Author (Hardcover)
Louis Charles 1852-1925 Casartelli; Created by Firoz Jamaspji Dastur Jamasp Asa
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Advances in Peircean Mathematics - The Colombian School (Hardcover): Fernando Zalamea Advances in Peircean Mathematics - The Colombian School (Hardcover)
Fernando Zalamea
R3,889 Discovery Miles 38 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book explores Peirce's non standard thoughts on a synthetic continuum, topological logics, existential graphs, and relational semiotics, offering full mathematical developments on these areas. More precisely, the following new advances are offered: (1) two extensions of Peirce's existential graphs, to intuitionistic logics (a new symbol for implication), and other non-classical logics (new actions on nonplanar surfaces); (2) a complete formalization of Peirce's continuum, capturing all Peirce's original demands (genericity, supermultitudeness, reflexivity, modality), thanks to an inverse ordinally iterated sheaf of real lines; (3) an array of subformalizations and proofs of Peirce's pragmaticist maxim, through methods in category theory, HoTT techniques, and modal logics. The book will be relevant to Peirce scholars, mathematicians, and philosophers alike, thanks to thorough assessments of Peirce's mathematical heritage, compact surveys of the literature, and new perspectives offered through formal and modern mathematizations of the topics studied.

The History and Philosophy of Science:  A Reader (Hardcover, HPOD): Daniel McKaughan, Holly Vande Wall The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader (Hardcover, HPOD)
Daniel McKaughan, Holly Vande Wall
R5,034 Discovery Miles 50 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for further reading and end-of-section discussion questions, allowing students to develop the skills needed to: read, interpret, and critically engage with central problems and ideas from the history and philosophy of science understand and evaluate scientific material found in a wide variety of professional and popular settings appreciate the social and cultural context in which scientific ideas emerge identify the roles that mathematics plays in scientific inquiry Featuring primary sources in all the core scientific fields - astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the life sciences - The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader is ideal for students looking to better understand the origins of natural science and the questions asked throughout its history. By taking a thematic approach to introduce influential assumptions, methods and answers, this reader illustrates the implications of an impressive range of values and ideas across the history and philosophy of Western science.

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
R2,857 Discovery Miles 28 570 Ships in 12 - 19 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

Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment (Hardcover): Nicholas Maxwell Karl Popper, Science and Enightenment (Hardcover)
Nicholas Maxwell
R1,433 Discovery Miles 14 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover): Hermann Lotze Metaphysic In Three Books Vol I (Hardcover)
Hermann Lotze
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): J. Noel Hubler Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
J. Noel Hubler
R3,134 Discovery Miles 31 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy makes an historical and theoretical contribution by explaining the role of opinion in ancient Greek political philosophy, showing its importance for Aristotle's theory of deliberation, and indicating a new model for a deliberative republic. Currently, there are no studies of opinion in ancient Greek political theory and so the book breaks new historical ground. The book establishes that opinion is key for the political theories of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics because each sees uncertainty as a problem that needs to be overcome if one is to establish a virtuous polity. Since they have different notions of the nature of the uncertainty of opinion, they develop very different political strategies to overcome it. The book explains that Plato's and the Stoics' analyses of uncertainty support oligarchy and monarchy, respectively, and that theoretical support for deliberate politics requires a more nuanced understanding of uncertainty that only Aristotle provides.

Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover): Peter Mahon Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover)
Peter Mahon
R4,241 Discovery Miles 42 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Peter Mahon goes beyond recent theoretical approaches to 'the posthuman' to argue for a concrete posthumanism, which arises as humans, animals and technology become entangled, in science, society and culture. Concrete posthumanism is rooted in cutting-edge advances in techno-science, and this book offers readers an exciting, fresh and innovative exploration of this undulating, and often unstable, terrain. With wide-ranging coverage, of cybernetics, information theory, medicine, genetics, machine learning, politics, science fiction, philosophy and futurology, Mahon examines how posthumanism played-and continues to play-a crucial role in shaping how we understand our world. This analysis of posthumanism centers on human interactions with tools and technology, the centrality of science, as well as an understanding of techno-science as a pharmakon-an ancient Greek word for a substance that is both poison and cure. Mahon argues that posthumanism must be approached with an interdisciplinary attitude: a concrete posthumanism is only graspable through knowledge derived from science and the humanities. He concludes by sketching a 'post-humanities' to help us meet the challenges of posthumanism, challenges to which we all must rise. Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed provides a concise, detailed and coherent exploration of posthumanism, introducing key approaches, concepts and themes. It is ideal for readers of all stripes who are interested in a concrete posthumanism and require more than just a simple introduction.

Catalogue of Engravings. (Hardcover): J C Buttre (Firm) Catalogue of Engravings. (Hardcover)
J C Buttre (Firm)
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover): Henry Calderwood Evolution And Mans Place In Nature (Hardcover)
Henry Calderwood
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest - Interpreting the Technicity of Action (Hardcover): Ernst Wolff Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest - Interpreting the Technicity of Action (Hardcover)
Ernst Wolff
R3,127 Discovery Miles 31 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which they act. Second, the deployment of capabilities and means is permeated by ethical aspirations and hesitancies. Third, all domains of action are affected by these ethical dilemmas. Fourth, the dimensions of the technicity of action are typical of human life in general, and not just a regional or culturally specific phenomenon. In this study, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted to encompass the broad anthropological scope of this study and combine this bigger picture with detailed attention to the socio-historical particularities of action as it plays out in different contexts. Hermeneutics (the philosophical inquiry into the human phenomena of meaning, understanding and interpretation) and social science (as the study of all human affairs) are the two main disciplinary orientations of this book. This study clarifies the technical dimension of the entire spectrum of human action ranging from daily routine to the extreme of violent protest.

The Philosophy of Anne Conway - God, Creation and the Nature of Time (Hardcover): Jonathan Head The Philosophy of Anne Conway - God, Creation and the Nature of Time (Hardcover)
Jonathan Head
R3,549 Discovery Miles 35 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The early modern philosopher Anne Conway offers a remarkable synthesis of ideas from differing philosophical traditions that deserve our attention today. Exploring all of the major aspects of Conway’s thought, this book presents a valuable guide to her contribution to the history of philosophy. Through a close reading of her central text, Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690), it considers her intellectual context and addresses some of the outstanding interpretive issues concerning her philosophy. Contrasting her position with that of contemporaries such as Henry More, Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont and George Keith, it examines her critique of the prominent philosophical schools of the time, including Cartesian dualism and Hobbesian materialism. From her accounts of dualism, time and God to the often overlooked elements of her work such as her theory of freedom and salvation, The Philosophy of Anne Conway illuminates the ideas and legacy of an important early-modern woman philosopher.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Hardcover): Aurelius Marcus Antoninus Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Hardcover)
Aurelius Marcus Antoninus
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Essentials of Habermas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Xunwu Chen The Essentials of Habermas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Xunwu Chen
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a conceptual map of Habermas' philosophy and a systematic introduction to his work. It does so by systematically examining six defining themes-modernity, discourse ethics, truth and justice, public law and constitutional democracy, cosmopolitanism, and toleration-of Habermas' philosophy as well as their inner logic. The text distinguishes itself in content and perspective by offering a very clear conceptual map and by providing a new interpretation of Habermas' views in light of his overarching system. In terms of scope, the book touches upon Habermas' broad range of works. As for method, the text illustrates key concepts in his philosophy making it a useful reference aid. It appeals to students and scholars in the field looking for a current introductory text or supplementary reading on Habermas.

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