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This reader makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher
Felix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent
years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and
influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy.
The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation Of Habit, studies
of Pascal, Stoicism and the wider history of philosophy together
with the Philosophical Testament that he left unfinished when he
died in 1900. The volume also features Ravaisson's work in
archaeology, the history of religions and art-theory, and his essay
on the Venus de Milo, which occupied him over a period of twenty
years after he noticed, when hiding the statue behind a false wall
in a dingy Parisian basement during the Franco-Prussian war, that
it had previously been presented in a way that deformed its
original bearing and meaning. Felix Ravaisson: Selected Essays
contains an introductory intellectual biography of Ravaisson, which
contextualises each of the essays in the volume. It also features
an annotated bibliography of suggested further reading. This book
will grant scholars and students alike wider access to his
distinctive contribution to the history of philosophy.
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Of Habit (Hardcover, New)
Felix Ravaisson; Translated by Clare Carlisle, Mark Sinclair
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R4,027
Discovery Miles 40 270
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Flix Ravaissons seminal philosophical essay, Of Habit, was first
published in French in 1838. It traces the origins and development
of habit and proposes the principle of habit as the foundation of
human nature. This metaphysics of habit steers a path between
materialism and idealism in one of the best and most sophisticated
treatments of the topic. Ravaissons work was pivotal in the
development of European thought and has had a significant influence
on such key thinkers as Proust, Bergson, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty,
Derrida, and Deleuze. This edition makes this remarkable and hugely
important work available to an English-speaking audience for the
first time. Clare Carlisle and Mark Sinclair provide a
comprehensive introduction to Ravaissons life, works and enduring
influence that clearly situates Ravaissons text within the European
philosophical tradition. The translation also includes a thorough
commentary on the text that illuminates its arguments and its
context.
The book shows that Heidegger's Aristotle interpretation of the
1920s is integral to his thinking as an attempt to lead metaphysics
back to its own presuppositions, and that his reflection on art in
the 1930s necessitates a revision of this interpretation itself. It
argues that it is only in tracing this movement of Heidegger's
Aristotle interpretation that we can adequately engage with the
historical significance of his thinking, and with the fate of
metaphysics and aesthetics in the present age.
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The Bergsonian Mind
Mark Sinclair, Yaron Wolf
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R1,364
Discovery Miles 13 640
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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By far the biggest and most comprehensive volume on Bergson’s
contribution to philosophy published to date Covers all the major
aspects of Bergson’s work, with contributions by a high quality
international field Explores Bergson in relation to important
interdisciplinary topics, including modernism, Proust and
post-colonial studies Bergson’s star continues to rise due to
growing interst in the history of 20th century philosophy - we are
publishing a major new translation of his Creative Evolution in
2020 Part of an exciting new series that brings fresh perspectives
to bear on the work and arguments of the major philosophers.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and
influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded
in 1928 the Nobel prize for literature for his philosophical work,
and his controversial ideas about time, memory and life shaped
generations of thinkers, writers and artists. In this clear and
engaging introduction, Mark Sinclair examines the full range of
Bergson's work. The book sheds new light on familiar aspects of
Bergson's thought, but also examines often ignored aspects of his
work, such as his philosophy of art, his philosophy of technology
and the relation of his philosophical doctrines to his political
commitments. After an illuminating overview of his life and work,
chapters are devoted to the following topics: the experience of
time as duration the experience of freedom memory mind and body
laughter and humour knowledge art and creativity the elan vital as
a theory of biological life ethics, religion, war and modern
technology With a final chapter on his legacy, Bergson is an
outstanding guide to one of the great philosophers. Including
chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary, it is
essential reading for those interested in metaphysics, time, free
will, aesthetics, the philosophy of biology, continental philosophy
and the role of European intellectuals in World War I.
Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical
maturity, in 1807, 'Of Immediate Apperception' was the first
complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the
winning entry to a competition organised by the Berlin Academie des
Sciences et Belles-Lettres on the subject of self-awareness and of
the possibility of an 'immediate apperception' of the self. It
contains the core of Biran's philosophy of effort, as it is
developed in dialogue with the tradition of British empiricism in
particular. Notably, it is in this work that Biran first reflects
on the 'lived body' and it marks the moment in which he fully
accomplishes his break away from Condillac and the Ideological
school. With enlightening critical apparatus, including an editor's
introduction, glossary, and bibliography, the publication of this
edition shows how Biran's work is pivotal for the development of
French philosophy, and makes clear his influence on the later
writings of Ravaisson and Bergson.
By far the biggest and most comprehensive volume on Bergson's
contribution to philosophy published to date Covers all the major
aspects of Bergson's work, with contributions by a high quality
international field Explores Bergson in relation to important
interdisciplinary topics, including modernism, Proust and
post-colonial studies Bergson's star continues to rise due to
growing interst in the history of 20th century philosophy - we are
publishing a major new translation of his Creative Evolution in
2020 Part of an exciting new series that brings fresh perspectives
to bear on the work and arguments of the major philosophers.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and
influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded
in 1928 the Nobel prize for literature for his philosophical work,
and his controversial ideas about time, memory and life shaped
generations of thinkers, writers and artists. In this clear and
engaging introduction, Mark Sinclair examines the full range of
Bergson's work. The book sheds new light on familiar aspects of
Bergson's thought, but also examines often ignored aspects of his
work, such as his philosophy of art, his philosophy of technology
and the relation of his philosophical doctrines to his political
commitments. After an illuminating overview of his life and work,
chapters are devoted to the following topics: the experience of
time as duration the experience of freedom memory mind and body
laughter and humour knowledge art and creativity the elan vital as
a theory of biological life ethics, religion, war and modern
technology With a final chapter on his legacy, Bergson is an
outstanding guide to one of the great philosophers. Including
chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary, it is
essential reading for those interested in metaphysics, time, free
will, aesthetics, the philosophy of biology, continental philosophy
and the role of European intellectuals in World War I.
Martin Heidegger's Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation presents
crucial elements for understanding Heidegger's thinking from 1936
to 1940. Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text
that he had read decades earlier, showing how his relationship with
Nietzche's has changed, as well as how his understandings of the
differences between animals and humans, temporality and history,
and the Western philosophical tradition developed. With his new
reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history,
which should be understood as grounded in the structure of
temporality or historicity and also offers a metaphysical
determination of life and the essence of humankind. Ullrich Hasse
and Mark Sinclair offer a clear and accessible translation despite
the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture
notes that comprise this text.
This book finds Heidegger's Aristotle interpretation integral to
his idea of leading metaphysics back to its own presuppositions,
and his reflection on art as necessitating a revision of this
interpretation. It argues that this tracing is vital to engaging
with the historical significance of his thinking, and with modern
metaphysics and aesthetics.
Felix Ravaisson's French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is
one of the most influential and pivotal texts of modern French
thought. Commissioned by the Minister of Public Instruction as one
of a series of reports to record the progress of the French
sciences and humanities for Paris' second world fair, the 1867
Exposition universelle d'arts et d'industrie, it was published with
the others the following year. In the report Ravaisson argues, with
verve and generosity, and with an unparalleled command of the
century's intellectual developments, that the myriad voices in
nineteenth-century French thinking were beginning to form a chorus,
one that was advancing towards a new, more concrete form of
spiritualist philosophy able to resist materialist, mechanist and
sensualist doctrines while incorporating recent developments in the
life-sciences. As Henri Bergson noted, it effected a "profound
change of orientation in university philosophy" and for decades
afterwards students learnt its concluding sections by heart in
order to pass public examinations. Bergson's own Creative
Evolution, which made him the world's most celebrated living
philosopher at the end of the long nineteenth century, is, with its
psychological interpretation of biological evolution, a direct
expression of the new philosophical orientation that Ravaisson had
divined in the report.
Being Inclined is the first book-length study in English of the
work of Felix Ravaisson, France's most influential philosopher in
the second half of the nineteenth century. Mark Sinclair shows how
Ravaisson, in his great work Of Habit (1838), understands habit as
tendency and inclination in a way that provides the basis for a
philosophy of nature and a general metaphysics. In examining
Ravaisson's ideas against the background of the history of
philosophy, and in the light of later developments in French
thought, Sinclair shows how Ravaisson gives an original account of
the nature of habit as inclination, within a metaphysical framework
quite different to those of his predecessors in the philosophical
tradition. Being Inclined sheds new light on the history of modern
French philosophy and argues for the importance of the neglected
nineteenth-century French spiritualist tradition. It also shows
that Ravaisson's philosophy of inclination, of being-inclined, is
of great import for contemporary philosophy, and particularly for
the contemporary metaphysics of powers given that ideas about
tendency have recently come to prominence in discussions concerning
dispositions, laws, and the nature of causation. Being Inclined
therefore offers a detailed and faithful contextualist study of
Ravaisson's masterpiece, demonstrating its continued importance for
contemporary thought.
Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical
maturity, in 1807, 'Of Immediate Apperception' was the first
complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the
winning entry to a competition organised by the Berlin Academie des
Sciences et Belles-Lettres on the subject of self-awareness and of
the possibility of an 'immediate apperception' of the self. It
contains the core of Biran's philosophy of effort, as it is
developed in dialogue with the tradition of British empiricism in
particular. Notably, it is in this work that Biran first reflects
on the 'lived body' and it marks the moment in which he fully
accomplishes his break away from Condillac and the Ideological
school. With enlightening critical apparatus, including an editor's
introduction, glossary, and bibliography, the publication of this
edition shows how Biran's work is pivotal for the development of
French philosophy, and makes clear his influence on the later
writings of Ravaisson and Bergson.
The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading
specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the
history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth
centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal
doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history.
The ultimate purpose of this historical approach is to
contextualise and even to offer some alternatives to dominant
positions within the contemporary philosophy of modality. Hence the
volume contains not only new scholarship on the early-modern
doctrines of Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff and
Immanuel Kant, but also work relating to less familiar
nineteenth-century thinkers such as Alexius Meinong and Jan
Lukasiewicz, together with essays on celebrated nineteenth- and
twentieth-century thinkers such as G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger
and Bertrand Russell, whose modal doctrines have not previously
garnered the attention they deserve. The volume thus covers a
variety of traditions, and its historical range extends to the end
of the twentieth century, addressing the legacy of W. V. Quine's
critique of modality within recent analytic philosophy.
'I'd Sooner Starve ' is the engagingly true story of one man's
quest to escape his monotonous nine-to-five existence and open a
charming delicatessen and restaurant in a delightful market town.
With naked honesty and occasional breathtaking naivete, it records
his arduous journey and painful reappraisal that customers are
always right. Amidst tales of bulimia, public menstruation and
day-to-day abuse, this tragic story is an eye-opening account of
what happens after you say "I quit " A warning to some or
entertainment to others, 'I'd Sooner Starve ' is a shockingly
comical account of culinary highs, customer lows and one woman's
fixation with thigh-warmed Stilton.
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Of Habit (Paperback)
Felix Ravaisson; Translated by Clare Carlisle, Mark Sinclair
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R1,241
Discovery Miles 12 410
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Felix Ravaisson's seminal philosophical essay, "Of Habit," was
first published in French in 1838. It traces the origins and
development of habit and proposes the principle of habit as the
foundation of human nature. This metaphysics of habit steers a path
between materialism and idealism in one of the best and most
sophisticated treatments of the topic. Ravaisson's work was pivotal
in the development of European thought and has had a significant
influence on such key thinkers such as Proust, Bergson, Heidegger,
Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Deleuze. This edition makes this
important work available to an English-speaking audience for the
first time. Clare Carlisle and Mark Sinclair provide a
comprehensive introduction to Ravaisson's life, works, and enduring
influence that clearly situates Ravaisson's text within the
European philosophical tradition. The translation also includes a
thorough commentary on the text that illuminates its arguments and
its context. >
This reader makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher
Felix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent
years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and
influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy.
The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation Of Habit, studies
of Pascal, Stoicism and the wider history of philosophy together
with the Philosophical Testament that he left unfinished when he
died in 1900. The volume also features Ravaisson's work in
archaeology, the history of religions and art-theory, and his essay
on the Venus de Milo, which occupied him over a period of twenty
years after he noticed, when hiding the statue behind a false wall
in a dingy Parisian basement during the Franco-Prussian war, that
it had previously been presented in a way that deformed its
original bearing and meaning. Felix Ravaisson: Selected Essays
contains an introductory intellectual biography of Ravaisson, which
contextualises each of the essays in the volume. It also features
an annotated bibliography of suggested further reading. This book
will grant scholars and students alike wider access to his
distinctive contribution to the history of philosophy.
Jean Beaufret is perhaps best known for posing the questions to
which Martin Heidegger responded in his famous "Letter on
Humanism." These questions, hastily written in a Paris cafe,
constitute an early and improvised moment that was to form a
profound philosophical engagement and friendship between the two
thinkers. Mark Sinclair presents, for the first time in English
translation, the first of four volumes of Beaufret's essays. This
volume covers Beaufret's development of Heidegger's approach to
Greek thinking in six essays "The Birth of Philosophy," "Heraclitus
and Parmenides," "Reading Parmenides," "Zeno," "A Note on Plato and
Aristotle," and "Energeia and Actus." Dialogue with Heidegger is an
essential supplement to Heidegger's own work and a vital study of
philosophy in its own right."
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