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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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