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This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism. This leads to...
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Springer
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2022-01-01
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What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? How can it be explained or justified? Being Guilty seeks to answer these questions through an examination of the views of Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul Rée,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-30
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La Colombiade war bis zur französischen Revolution ein in Frankreich und in den westeuropäischen Ländern vielbeachtetes Epos. Aus heutiger Sicht ist das gut lesbare Gedicht erneut von Interesse: es wägt Segnungen und Schäden der Kolonialisierung gegeneinander ab,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-09-08
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Diese literaturwissenschaftliche Studie beschäftigt sich mit Rückkehrerzählungen, denen eine gewaltvolle Vertreibung vorausliegt. Erfahrungen der erzwungenen Entortung und der anschließenden Rückkehr prägen nicht nur die Handlung von Texten, sondern wirken sich auch auf...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-08-26
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In this collection of essays, philosopher Paul Russell addresses major figures and central topics of the history of early modern philosophy. Most of these essays are studies on the philosophy of David Hume, one of the great figures in the history of philosophy. One...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-07-13
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At first glance, Theodor W. Adorno’s critical social theory and Gershom Scholem’s scholarship of Jewish mysticism could not seem farther removed from one another. To begin with, they also harbored a mutual hostility. But their first conversations in 1938 New York were...
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Polity
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2021-05-06
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Immanuel Kants three critiques the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment are among the pinnacles of Western Philosophy. This accessible study grounds Kants philosophical position in the context of his intellectual...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-04-14
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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Die zunehmende Ausdifferenzierung der Humanwissenschaften stellt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts das bisherige Bild des Menschen in Frage, ohne dabei ein konsistentes Folgekonzept liefern zu können. Als Reaktion auf diese unbestimmte Positionierung des Menschen entwerfen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-03-09
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In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from its prehistoric origins, when humans dwelt deep within the forests and depended on them for their survival.In this important...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-02-12
Collection :
New Russian Thought
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Von den Theorien und Institutionen des Strafens über die psychiatrische
Macht bis zum modernen Staatsrassismus und der (neo)liberalen
Gouvernementalität, von den Selbstbildungspraktiken der griechischen
Antike über die Notwendigkeit des freimütigen Sprechens in...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-01-04
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Der "Macht - Knoten - Fleisch. Topographien des Körpers bei Foucault, Lacan und Merleau Ponty" greift eine Reihe von Begriffen und Konzepten der drei Referenzautoren heraus, die für ein zeitgemäßes Verständnis des Körpers entscheidend sind. Bei Foucault wird der Körper...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This book is mainly concerned with elaborating an account of the unique theoretical essence and activities of philosophy. What manner of civilization should modern humans forge? On what developmental path should a nation embark? What lifestyle should each individual...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-02
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David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to almost every area of analytic philosophy including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-29
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David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to almost every area of analytic philosophy including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-29
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David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to almost every area of analytic philosophy including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-29
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David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to almost every area of analytic philosophy including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-29
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In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil, ethical and political...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-10-28
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Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century. While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt School, Kracauer’s writings on film, photography, literature and the...
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Polity
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2020-10-06
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Owen Ware here develops and defends a novel interpretation of Fichte's moral philosophy as an ethics of wholeness. While virtually forgotten for most of the twentieth century, Fichte's System of Ethics (1798) is now recognized by scholars as a masterpiece in the history...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-18
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This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society. From celestial mechanics to microscopy, from optics to geology and biology, Hooke’s contributions to the Scientific...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-29
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