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: 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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  Details: This assessment of the life and work of Felix Guattari, one of the 20th century's last great activist-intellectuals, introduces the reader to the diversity and range of Guattari's interests, from anti-psychiatry to Japanese culture, political activism and his theorizing of subjectification.  

  Details: Product Description Both Anglo-American and Continental thinkers have long denied that there can be a coherent moral defense of the poststructuralist politics of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard. For many Anglo-American thinkers, as well as for Critical Theorists such as Habermas, poststructuralism is not coherent enough...

  Details: Critical Theory and Philosophy illuminates one of the most complex and influential philosophical movements of this century. After tracking Critical Theory to its source in the works of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Weber, David Ingram examines the four major figures of the Frankfurt School: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer,...

    Details: This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for environmental management. The author, trained as a philosopher of science and language, explores ways to break down the disciplinary barriers to...

  Brand: The New Press Color: Pink Binding: hardcover Format: Import Number Of Pages: 481 Release Date: 01-05-2001 Details: Offers thrity-nine articles, chapters, or prefaces by noted figures in French Greco-Roman studies. EAN: 9781565843769 Package Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches Languages: English

"Why Nietzsche still?" These essays by a distinguished group of contributors suggest a number of answers. They show that Nietzsche still has a great deal to say to those who read him with an eye toward developing critical responses to our present and the future that will follow. Alan D....

  Details: God and the Problem of Evil brings together influential essays on the question of whether the amount of seemingly pointless malice and suffering in our world counts against the rationality of belief in God, a being who is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly good.  

    Details: Product Description The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy brings together a collection of newly commissioned essays which examine fundamental issues in social and political theory. Written by leading social and political philosophers, each essay provides a map to the history of the issue at hand...

  Details: In After Nihilism, Wilfried Dickhoff examines the art work of Neo Avant-Garde European and American artists, including Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, and Philip Taaffe. Applying Adorno's concept of negative freedom in the autonomous work of art, he demonstrates how the works of these artists,...

   

   

  Details: From the big bang to the present and into the next millenium, The Universe Story unites science and the humanities in a dramatic exploration of the unfolding of the universe, humanity's evolving place in the cosmos, and the boundless possibilities for our future.  

  This startling new interpretation of Jung's life and psychology is based on the insight that he was essentially a Taoist. Drawing on Jung's own letters, aphorisms, and other writings,David Rosen examines six crises in Jung's personal development, from childhood revelations and youthful rebellions to his break with Freud and...

  Details: A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Socie'te' Francaise de Psychanalyse. The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.

   

  Details: The liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city depended on the “rule of freedom”. As a form of rule it relied on the production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns of social life, which in turn depended on transforming both the material form of the city...

   

  Details: In recent years scientific research and popular opinion have favored the idea that sexual orientations are determined at birth. In this book, philosopher and legal theorist Edward Stein investigates scientific research on sexual orientation and shows that it is deeply flawed. He argues that this research assumes a...

  Details: Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners Scott D. Anthony and...

  Brand: Verso Color: White   Features: Used Book in Good Condition Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 224 Release Date: 17-07-2000 Details: There has been, over the last decades, a deep crisis in the models which, for a long time, have been central metaphors governing thought and research in the...

  Brand: University of Toronto Press Binding: paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 306 Release Date: 16-04-1998 Part Number: black & white illustrations Details: Product Description Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, philosophers throughout history have built their theories around the problem of reconciling a fundamental distinction, as for example, Plato's...

  Details: Philosophy is the mother of all knowledge. It comprehends knowledge about the secrets of life, The universe, and beyond. It includes all the categories of social, religious, artistic, scientific, mathematical and logical thought. It relies on empirical as well as transecendental sources of knowledge. Scientific knowledge is not...

  Brand: PEARSON EDUCATION Edition: 4 Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 160 Release Date: 01-01-2015 Details: Printed Books EAN: 9789332550179 Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches Languages: English

   

    Details: This classic work covers the broad range of Althusser’s interests and contributions in philosophy, economics, pyschology, aesthetics, and politics. It includes his major essay on “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” This path-breaking analysis of ideology has inspired a range of recent approaches to this field, which remains...

  Details: Book Summary of Postmodernism Or The Cultural Logic Of Late Capitalism Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism." Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from "high" art to "low," from market ideology to architecture, from painting...

      Details: Eastern Religions and Western Thought (Oxford India Paperbacks) Book Description This challenging and beautifully written book describes the leading ideas of Indian philosophy and religion. It traces the probable influence of Indian mysticism on Greek thought and Christian development, through Alexandrian Judaism, Christian Gnosticism, and Neo-Platonism....

    Details: Anitha Devasia's translation is alive to the nuances...without eroding the narrative smoothness. [There is] helpful additional material in the form of appendices...Susie Tharu, in the succinct foreword put[s] the reader "on the scent of the momentous issues that are at stake". -- The Hindu 'The most charming...