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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.

Richard McKeon was a philosopher of extraordinary creativity who brought profoundly original ideas to bear on more standard ways of thinking and learning. A classicist, medievalist, and revolutionary intellectual, he fashioned an approach to philosophy as a plural conversation among varied traditions of thought, epochs, and civilizations. This second volume of McKeon's selected works demonstrates his approach to inquiry and practice in culture, education, and the arts. Together, the writings in...

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 this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth--century thought. The book displays once again his ability to capture the essence of a thinkera s work, his feeling for the texture of intellectual traditions and his outstanding powers of critical assessment. Habermas has described these essays as a fragments of a history of contemporary philosophya . The volume includes explorations of the work of Ernst Cassirer, Karl Jaspers and Ger...

Jacques Lacans Ruckkehr zu Freud ist auch im deutschsprachigen Raum wieder von grosser Aktualitat. Es handelt sich um eine 'philosophische' Ruckkehr. Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen zur Metapsychologie (Freud), Epistemologie (von Descartes bis Husserl und Heidegger), Logik (Hegel, Frege, Kripke) und Sozialphilosophie (Althusser) sind der Rekonstruktion der Lacanschen Psychoanalyse und des Verhaltnisses von Psychoanalyse und Philosophie gewidmet. In ihrem Zentrum steht eine logisch-philosophische...

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...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

A history of Western Philosophy that concentrates on major figures in each historical period, combining exposition with direct quotations from the philosophers themselves. The text places philosophers in appropriate cultural context and shows how their theories reflect the concerns of their times.

The eleven papers in this anthology, all by Africans, represent a variety of philosophical positions that are central to the debate in and on African philosophy as it has developed thus far. An introduction essay explores the historical, political, and existential context of the debate, and is followed by a presentation of the "documentary" orientation (ethnophilosophy). The five papers that follow articulate positions that reject ethnophilosophy and emphasize it "scientistic" approach to philos...

This title is a concise and accessible introduction to this key theorist.Alain Badiou is undoubtedly the most exciting and influential voice in contemporary French philosophy and one of the most important theorists at work today. His impact on continental philosophy and the wider philosophy community, politics and the arts in the last twenty years has been immense."Alain Badiou: Live Theory" offers a concise and accessible introduction to his work and thought, laying out the central themes of hi...

Nietzsche's relationship with Wagner has long been a source of controversy and has given rise to a number of important studies, including this major breakthrough in Nietzsche scholarship, first published in 1982. In this work Hollinrake contends that the nature and extent of the anti-Wagnerian pastiche and polemic in Thus Spake Zarathustra is arguably the most important factor in the association between the two. Thus Wagner, as the purveyor of a particular brand of Schopenhauerian pessimism, is...