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Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy (Hardcover): Jure Simoniti, Gregor Kroupa Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy (Hardcover)
Jure Simoniti, Gregor Kroupa
R3,859 Discovery Miles 38 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book intends to broaden the study of idealism beyond its simplistic characterizations in contemporary philosophy. After idealist stances have practically disappeared from the mental landscape in the last hundred years, and the term "idealism" has itself become a sort of philosophical anathema, continental philosophy was, first, plunged into one of its deepest crises of truth, culminating in postmodernism, and then, the 21st century ushered in a new era of realism. Against this background, the volume gathers a number of renowned philosophers, among them Slavoj Zizek, Robert B. Pippin, Mladen Dolar, Sebastian Roedl, Paul Redding, Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel, James I. Porter, and others, in order to address the issue as to what exactly has been lost with the retreat of idealism, and what kind of idealism could still be rehabilitated in the present day. The contributions will both provide historical studies on idealism, pointing out the little known, overlooked, and surprising instances of idealist impulses, and set out to develop new perspectives and possibilities for a contemporary idealism. The appeal of the book lies in the fact that it defends a philosophical concept that has been increasingly under attack and thus contributes to an ongoing debate in ontology.

The Harmony of the Divine Attributes, in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of Man's Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ.... The Harmony of the Divine Attributes, in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of Man's Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ. Or, Discourses, Wherein is Shewed, How the Wisdom, Mercy, Justice, Holiness, Power and Truth of God Are Glorified in That Great... (Hardcover)
William 1625-1699 Bates, W Farmer
R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Commentary on Aristotle, >Nicomachean Ethics< - Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Hardcover): Georgios... Commentary on Aristotle, >Nicomachean Ethics< - Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Hardcover)
Georgios Pachymeres; Edited by Sophia Xenophontos; Translated by Sophia Xenophontos, Crystal Addey
R4,372 Discovery Miles 43 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with Aspasius and reached a point of immense sophistication in the twelfth century with the commentaries of Eustratius of Nicaea and Michael of Ephesus, which primarily served educational purposes. The use of Aristotle's ethics in the classroom continued into the late Byzantine period, but until recently scholastic use of the NE was known mostly through George Pachymeres' epitome of the NE (Book 11 of his Philosophia). This volume radically changes the landscape by providing the editio princeps of the last surviving exegetical commentary on the NE stricto sensu, also penned by Pachymeres. This represents a new witness to the importance of Aristotelian studies in the cultural revival of late Byzantium. The editio princeps is accompanied by an English translation and a thorough introduction, which offers an informed reading of the commentary's genre and layout, relationship to its sources, exegetical strategies, and philosophical originality. This book also includes the edition of diagrams and scholia accompanying Pachymeres' exegesis, whose paratextual function is key to a full understanding of the work.

13th Annual Illustrated Catalog, 1889 ... Containing Illustrations and Prices of a Few Leading and Staple Styles of Diamonds,... 13th Annual Illustrated Catalog, 1889 ... Containing Illustrations and Prices of a Few Leading and Staple Styles of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Canes, Umbrellas, Opera Glasses, Gold Spectacles, Eye Glasses, Etc. (Hardcover)
Busiest House in America
R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Way of Philosophy (Hardcover): Chad Engelland The Way of Philosophy (Hardcover)
Chad Engelland
R825 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
Postmodern Theology (Hardcover): Carl A Raschke Postmodern Theology (Hardcover)
Carl A Raschke
R1,139 R951 Discovery Miles 9 510 Save R188 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Humour and Cruelty. Volume 1, A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hardcover): Giorgio... Humour and Cruelty. Volume 1, A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Giorgio Baruchello, Arsaell Mar Arnarsson
R4,233 Discovery Miles 42 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Humor has been praised by philosophers and poets as a balm to soothe the sorrows that outrageous fortune's slings and arrows cause inevitably, if not incessantly, to each and every one of us. In mundane life, having a sense of humor is seen not only as a positive trait of character, but as a social prerequisite, without which a person's career and mating prospects are severely diminished, if not annihilated. However, humor is much more than this, and so much else. In particular, humor can accompany cruelty, inform it, sustain it, and exemplify it. Therefore, in this book, we provide a comprehensive, reasoned exploration of the vast literature on the concepts of humor and cruelty, as these have been tackled in Western philosophy, humanities, and social sciences, especially psychology. Also, the apparent cacophony of extant interpretations of these two concepts is explained as the inevitable and even useful result of the polysemy inherent to all common-sense concepts, in line with the understanding of concepts developed by M. Polanyi in the 20th century. Thus, a thorough, nuanced grasp of their complex mutual relationship is established, and many platitudes affecting today's received views, and scholarship, are cast aside.

Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition (Hardcover): Christina Hoenig Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition (Hardcover)
Christina Hoenig
R2,591 Discovery Miles 25 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on the development of Platonic philosophy at the hands of Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. It discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how these authors created new contexts and settings for the intellectual heritage they received and thereby contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism. It takes advantage of the authors' treatment of Plato's Timaeus as a continuous point of reference to illustrate the individuality and originality of each writer in his engagement with this Greek philosophical text; each chooses a specific vocabulary, methodology, and literary setting for his appropriation of Timaean doctrine. The authors' contributions to the dialogue's history of transmission are shown to have enriched and prolonged the enduring significance of Plato's cosmology.

Dramatic Battles in Eighteenth-Century France - Philosophes, Anti-Philosophes and Polemical Theatre (Paperback, New ed.): Logan... Dramatic Battles in Eighteenth-Century France - Philosophes, Anti-Philosophes and Polemical Theatre (Paperback, New ed.)
Logan J. Connors
R2,895 Discovery Miles 28 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The mid-eighteenth century witnessed a particularly intense conflict between the Enlightenment philosophes and their enemies, when intellectual and political confrontation became inseparable from a battle for public opinion. Logan J. Connors underscores the essential role that theatre played in these disputes. This is a fascinating and detailed study of the dramatic arm of France's war of ideas in which the author examines how playwrights sought to win public support by controlling every aspect of theatrical production - from advertisements, to performances, to criticism. An expanding theatre-going public was recognised as both a force of influence and a force worth influencing. By analysing the most indicative examples of France's polemical theatre of the period, Les Philosophes by Charles Palissot (1760) and Voltaire's Le Cafe ou L'Ecossaise (1760), Connors explores the emergence of spectators as active agents in French society, and shows how theatre achieved an unrivalled status as a cultural weapon on the eve of the French Revolution. Adopting a holistic approach, Connors provides an original view of how theatre productions 'worked' under the ancien regime, and discusses how a specific polemical atmosphere in the eighteenth century gave rise to modern notions of reception and spectatorship.

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
R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God - More Particularly in Answer to Mr. Hobbs, Spinoza, and Their Followers.... A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God - More Particularly in Answer to Mr. Hobbs, Spinoza, and Their Followers. ... Being the Substance of Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Cathedral-church of St. Paul, in the Year 1704 (Hardcover)
Samuel Clarke
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity - Theory, Practice, Suffering. Ancient Emotions III (Hardcover): George... Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity - Theory, Practice, Suffering. Ancient Emotions III (Hardcover)
George Kazantzidis, Dimos Spatharas
R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient philosophical thinking, especially ethics, it also pays due attention to the representation of patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including Hippocrates and the Hippocratics, and Galen, while comparative approaches to medical writings and philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, dwell on the notion of wonder/admiration (thauma), conceptualizations of the body and the soul, and the category pathos itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.

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
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Story of Philosophy (Hardcover): Will Durant The Story of Philosophy (Hardcover)
Will Durant; Edited by Andrew Kraiss
R967 Discovery Miles 9 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Ethics of Theory - Philosophy, History, Literature (Hardcover): Robert Doran The Ethics of Theory - Philosophy, History, Literature (Hardcover)
Robert Doran
R4,072 Discovery Miles 40 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichotomy typically drawn between the theoretical and the ethical, the analytical and the prescriptive. In a series of discrete but interrelated interventions, Doran exposes the ethical underpinnings of theoretical discourses that are often perceived as either oblivious to or highly skeptical of any attempt to define ethics or politics. Doran thus discusses a variety of themes related to the problematic status of ethics or the ethico-political in Theory: the persistence of existentialist ethics in structuralist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial writing; the ethical imperative of the return of the subject (self-creation versus social conformism); the intimate relation between the ethico-political and the aesthetic (including the role of literary history in Erich Auerbach and Edward Said); the political implications of a "philosophy of the present" for Continental thought (including Heidegger's Nazism); the ethical dimension of the debate between history and theory (including Hayden White's idea of the "practical past" and the question of Holocaust representation); the "ethical turn" in Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty; the post-1987 "political turn" in literary and cultural studies (especially as influenced by Said). Drawing from a broad range of Continental philosophers and cultural theorists, including many texts that have only recently become available, Doran charts a new path that recognizes the often complex motivations that underlie the critical impulse, motivations that are not always apparent or avowed.

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
On the Art of Poetry (Hardcover): Aristotle On the Art of Poetry (Hardcover)
Aristotle; Translated by Ingram Bywater
R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Self-control - a Novel; 1-2 (Hardcover): Mary 1778-1818 Brunton Self-control - a Novel; 1-2 (Hardcover)
Mary 1778-1818 Brunton
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Balfe - His Life and Work (Hardcover): William Alexander 1836-1891 Barrett Balfe - His Life and Work (Hardcover)
William Alexander 1836-1891 Barrett
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4 (Hardcover): Alexander Taylor Milne The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4 (Hardcover)
Alexander Taylor Milne
R1,637 Discovery Miles 16 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Slow Philosophy - Reading against the Institution (Hardcover): Michelle Boulous Walker Slow Philosophy - Reading against the Institution (Hardcover)
Michelle Boulous Walker
R3,085 Discovery Miles 30 850 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

The Critique of Practical Reason (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Practical Reason (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Space After Deleuze (Hardcover): Arun Saldanha Space After Deleuze (Hardcover)
Arun Saldanha
R4,394 Discovery Miles 43 940 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

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