Philosophy

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  Brand: Oxford University Press, USA Edition: Reprint Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 194 Release Date: 01-05-1997 Part Number: NAI128 Details: This is an internationally acclaimed translation of a classic Buddhist text, presented in both Pali and English by one of India's foremost philosophers and religious authorities. S. Radhakrishan provides...

    Details: Asanga: You Are Never Not Free is a mysterious and metaphorical story, exploring the deepest personal and philosophical questions of freedom and identity. Through reflective storytelling, the author delves into life's entanglements—from childhood attachments to possessions, to relationships, beliefs, and the self itself. Engaging with themes of...

    Details: This bestselling dictionary is written by one of the leading philosophers of our time, and is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen. With clear and concise definitions, it provides lively and...

    Details: The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations. Comprehensive and balanced, A Brief History of...

  Details: Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we say. Clear and concise throughout, Language in Context will be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists...

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  Details: A practical, hands-on introduction to philosophy written in jargon-free language, this book introduces philosophy using a step-by-step approach. It both engages the reader in philosophical activity and explains the subject matter of philosophy without diluting it.  

  Details: No major figure of the English Augustan period has generated stronger and more contradictory views than Jonathan Swift. Scourge of the Whig ascendancy in his own day, vilified by the Victorians, celebrated by Yeats, he has in recent years become a significant bone of contention for prominent figures...

   

  Details: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) is remembered today only as an alleged Social Darwinist who applied the theory of the survival of the fittest to society. Yet he was among the most influential and widely-read philosophers of the nineteenth century. There were few Victorian thinkers and scientists who did not...

   

  Brand: Routledge Edition: 1 Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 232 Release Date: 01-08-1997 Part Number: black & white illustrations Details: Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with masculinity and subsequent debates have been framed by this assumption. Yet recent debates in deconstruction...

  Details: The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains forty new translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written during the Renaissance and hitherto unavailable in English. The anthology is...

    Details: In 1980 Alvin Gouldner identified two traditions of Marxist thought-Marxism as science and Marxism as critique. This book is concerned with the first and by far the most politically influential of those traditions-Marxism as science. It analyzes the claim, first made by Marx and Engels themselves, that...

    Details: The most influential philosopher in the analytic tradition of his time, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) changed the way we think about language and its relation to the world. His rejection of the analytic/synthetic distinction, his scepticism about modal logic and essentialism, his celebrated theme of the...

  Details: Establishing a rigorous program of “symptomatic reading” that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx’s structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break—the basis of a completely new science. Building on a series of Althussers’s conceptual innovations that...

  ''The author's blend of German and Anglo-American Kant Scholarship is impressive, as is also his mastery of different areas of the Kantian corpus (e.g.aesthetics, religion,ethics, Politics, history) which-in an age of increasing specialization-are often artificially separated..

This is the first English-language book dedicated to the Continental tradition in the philosophy of social science. It seeks to demonstrate the unique nature of the continental approach to the philosophy of social science and contrast this with the Anglo-American rubric. The subject matter spans the traditions of hermeneutics genealogy...

  Details: Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated his audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the...

  Brand: DSR Book Distributors Binding: hardcover Release Date: 01-12-2018 Details: Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In...

    Details: Deepening and developing the seminal vision of Habits of the Heart (California, 1985), this volume presents original essays by leading thinkers in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion.  

  Details: 'Thought always exaggerates' Hannah Arendt writes. The question of exaggeration becomes a philosophical question when thought endeavours to clarify the ways in which it relates to limits. If its disclosing force depends on exaggeration, so does the confusion to which it can fall prey. This book analyses concepts such as...

   

  ブランド: Polity 版: 1 バインディング: hardcover ページ数: 304 : 06-05-1996 詳細: 内容紹介This book addresses a central theme in social and political theory: what is the motivation behind the theory of ideology, and can such a theory be defended?レビュー"Ever since &Eacutetienne de la Bo&icirctie posed the vexing question, 'why do...

    Details: The Enlightenment of the 18th century was not only a crucial epoch, a sea-change in human history - it was also a vast moral, scientific and political movement. Intellectuals across Europe and the New World linked up in networks of friendship, projects and debates, and began to...

  Details: 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, "The Prince", published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, a cynical philosophy of...

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      Details: Product Description Rene Descartes is the father of modern philosophy. Famously, he is the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything - even his own physical existence. Most people also know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not sure what...

     

  Details: Ethics has become the burning issue of current moral philosophical thought, raising the spectre of responsibility at a time when responsibility seems entirely replaced by uncertainty and relativism. What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is 'identity'...

   

    Details: Brilliantly explains how Jung broke away from Freud, and describes his own near-psychotic breakdown, a night-sea voyage from which he emerged with new insights into the unconscious mind. EAN: 9781840465792 Package Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches Languages: English

  Details: This book will guide you through the thinking of the great philosophers of the Western world. This witty, accessible guide follows the progress of ideas from Heraclitus to Derrida, and is the perfect introduction to philosophy for anyone approaching the discipline for the first time.  

  Details: Eastern philosophy is the most ancient form of thought known to man. This work focuses on India and China, the two oldest origins of Eastern thought. It also explains the complex branches of Indian Buddhism, the traditions of Confucius and the Tao in China, and demonstrates their fundamental...

  Details: Empiricist philosophers accept a 'commonsense' view of fact and yet conclude that physical reality may not exist at all. This book outlines the arguments of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell and A.J. Ayer as well as critics of this tradition, Kant, Wittgenstein, Popper and others.  

 

    Details: There is an important family of semantic notions that we apply to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts - as when we say that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Thought and World presents a theory of the content of such notions....

   

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