The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies)
by Ryan J Johnson
More than any other 20th-century philosopher, Deleuze considers himself an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Deleuze's encounter with Lucretius sparked a way of thinking that resonates throughout all his writings: from immanent ontology to affirmative ethics, from dynamic materialism to the generation of thought itself. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the s...
Kairos (Contemporary European Cultural Studies)
by Giacomo Marramao
Ricerche Sull'intelletto Umano, E Sui Principii Della Morale (Classic Reprint)
by David Hume
This book provides an encompassing and thorough study of Martin Heidegger's thought. It is not only a presentation but also a profound critique of the thinker's beliefs. In the context of Heidegger's cooperation with Nazism, the author reflects on the reasons behind his inability to confront the problem of evil and vulnerability to the threats of totalitarianism.
Metametaphysics
Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism t...
Rational Psychology, or the Subjective Idea and Objective Law of All Intelligence (Classic Reprint)
by Laurens Perseus Hickok
Bachelard Et La Poetique Du Temps (Miroir Et Image. Philosophische Abhandlungen, #5)
by Maryvonne Perrot
Bachelard, l'homme du poeme et du theoreme, a souvent pose a ses lecteurs le probleme d'une coexistence de son engagement rationaliste avec son penchant pour l'imaginaire. La question primordiale a resondre est celle de l'absence d'une Poetique du temps, pendant de la Poetique de l'espace, chez un philosophe ayant reflechi sur les notions d'instant et de duree des ses premieres oeuvres. L'ouvrage propose donc de partir a la recherche de la Poetique du temps afin de determiner comment a travers...
In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides affected the disciplined use of language when speaking of divinity and influenced his doctrine of God.
Evolution in Perspective
Companion to Intrinsic Properties
what makes a property intrinsic? What exactly does the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction rest upon, and how can we reasonably justify this distinction? These questions bear great importance on central debates in such diverse philosophical fields as ethics (What is the nature of intrinsic value?), philosophy of mind (Does mental content supervene on internal bodily features?), epistemology (Can intrinsic duplicates differ in the justification of their beliefs?) and philosophy of science (Do the cau...
Comment Se Font Les Miracles En Dehors de l'Eglise (Philosophie)
by de Fonvielle-W
Heidegger's critique of Western philosophy centers around his interpretation of Aristotle. Yet, hitherto, there has been no attempt to reconstruct the relation betwen these two thinkers, a major interpretative task for which Heidegger and Aristotle provides an initial orientation. Dr. Sadler focuses upon the 'question of being' and shows how their respective responses to this question ramify over the whole field of their philosophical thought.
This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a 'Platonism of the multiple' and that philosophy today requires a 'platonic gesture'. Examining the relationship between Badiou and Plato, Bartlett radically transforms our perception of Plato's philosophy and rethinks the central philosophical question: 'what is education?'
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Plato: Republic 1-2.368c4 (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
Republic, Plato's best known and most frequently read dialogue, although receiving a flood of translations and philosophical analysis over the last 100 years, has in recent times been quite short of detailed commentaries. In particular, a full edition of the introductory sections of the dialogue, representing, probably, a single papyrus roll in the original text (the division into our 'Books' came later), has not been attempted for more than fifty years. In that period scholarship has moved on,...
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations II & V (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
The Fifth Tusculan Disputation is the finest of the five books, its nearest rival being the First (also edited in this series). The middle three books, represented in this edition by the Second, are, as the author clearly intended, less elevated, though still showing Cicero's flair for elegant and lively exposition, and providing much valuable information about the teaching of the main Hellenistic philosophical schools, especially the Stoics. They argue that the perfect human life, or complete h...