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Essays on Beauvoir's influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.
Despite a deep familiarity with the philosophical tradition and despite the groundbreaking influence of her own work, Simone de Beauvoir never embraced the idea of herself as a philosopher. Her legacy is similarly complicated. She is acclaimed as a revolutionary thinker on issues of gender, age, and oppression, but although much has been written...
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The iPod is transforming the lives of millions, changing their relationship to music and to each other. In iPod and Philosophy, 18 philosophers with diverse specialties and points of view bring their expertise to bear on this international cultural phenomenon. They explore such questions as how individuals become defined by their iPods, what the shuffle feature says about the role of randomness in people's lives, and much more.
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Collected critical essays analyzing Kierkegaard's work in regards to theology and social-moral thought.
Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life focuses on faith and love, two central topics in Kierkegaard's writings, to grapple with complex questions at the intersection of religion and ethics. Here, leading scholars reflect on Kierkegaard's understanding of God, the religious life, and what it means to exist ethically. The contributors then shift to...
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Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.
Critique has been a central theme in the German philosophical tradition since the eighteenth century. The main goal of this book is to provide a history of this concept from its Kantian inception to contemporary critical theory. Focusing on both canonical and previously overlooked texts and thinkers, the contributors bring to light alternative...
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La reflexión sobre la naturaleza del alma ha ocupado a la filosofía prácticamente desde su origen. Son bien conocidas las ideas de Platón y Aristóteles sobre la psique que, como se sabe, marcaron el desarrollo posterior del pensamiento occidental. No ocurre lo mismo, sin embargo, con las ideas de quienes continuaron reflexionando sobre ésta entre la Antigüedad tardía y el Renacimiento. En esos más de diez siglos de intensa actividad filosófica,...
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New perspectives on Fichte's best known and most popular work.
Written for a general audience during a period of intense controversy in the German philosophical community, J. G. Fichte's short book The Vocation of Man (1800) is both an introduction to and a defense of his philosophical system, and is one of the best-known contributions to German Idealism. This collection of new essays reflects a wide and instructive variety of philosophical and hermeneutic...
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This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes...
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Zwischen Rechtsverständnissen, nach denen es nur juridische, nicht aber moralische Rechte geben kann, und einem individualethischen Ansatz, nach dem Personen moralische Rechte haben, gibt es einen anhaltenden Streit. Im Kontext mit der Bestimmung des Verhältnisses von Recht und Moral gibt es darüber hinaus ein zweites Spannungsfeld: die Frage, ob das Recht einer Begründung durch Moral bedarf, wenn es nicht nur auf Legalität, sondern auch auf...
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¿Qué sentido tiene que un panadero haga pan solo para panaderos o un barbero que afeite solo a barberos? Lo mismo ocurre con la filosofía: los filósofos deberían escribir para todo el mundo y no solo para los iniciados. Los manuales de filosofía suelen centrarse en aquellas cuestiones de las que el filósofo se siente más orgulloso -el conocimiento, la política, la historia, la sociedad, la estética, la religión.
Sin embargo, hay otros temas...
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Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.
While the concept of secularization is traditionally used to define the nature of modern culture, and sometimes to uncover the theological origins of secular modernity, its validity is being questioned ever more radically today. Genealogies...
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Ethical Theory in Global Perspective provides an easy-to-teach introduction to ethical theory from a uniquely global perspective. In addition to key Western ethical theories-such as virtue ethics, consequentialism, various deontological theories, and care ethics-moral theories from a range of East Asian, South Asian, and African philosophical traditions and schools are also discussed, including Akan philosophy, Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and...
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En las sociedades capitalistas conviven ya, como en las sociedades feudales, formas que anticipan nuevas sociedades, nuevas formas de comunidad, pero que no vemos porque no son las dominantes ni pretenden ser homogéneas. Detenernos en estas formas de organización llevó a los autores a pensar en la necesidad de construir un nuevo vocabulario que no asumiera la sociedad como algo cerrado, sino como conjuntos de relaciones, tanto de dominación como...
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La ironía es mucho más que una figura literaria que trasciende lo literal para jugar con lo equívoco. Es un instrumento para superar, rebasar y desbordar lo que una sociedad entiende como límite. La ironía romántica nace de una actitud vital que busca subvertir el sentido común y cancelar la autoridad de lo normativo en un ejercicio de libertad subjetiva, en el que creación y aniquilación se confunden. Por ello, lo irónico se acerca a lo...
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Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.
Despite being contemporaries, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger never directly engaged with one another. Yet, Hannah Arendt, who knew both men, pointed out common ground between the two. Both were concerned with the destruction of metaphysics, the development of a new way of reading and understanding literature and art, and the formulation of...
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Célebre por su prosa, por su humor y por la lucidez implacable de su expresión, Gómez Dávila se presenta aquí como objeto e inspiración del trabajo filosófico de un seminario prolongado y profundo, realizado con la colaboración de estudiosos colombianos y extranjeros y con el apoyo del Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
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Eighteen essays reexamine Ficino's life and work focusing on three essential aspects: his significance in his own times, his spreading influence throughout Europe and over subsequent centuries in many areas of thought and creativity, and his enduring relevance today. Translation of his major works from Latin enables a new generation to rediscover and share Ficino's vision of human potential.
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Collected writings on Plato's unwritten teachings.
Offering a provocative alternative to the dominant approaches of Plato scholarship, the Tübingen School suggests that the dialogues do not tell the full story of Plato's philosophical teachings. Texts and fragments by his students and their followers-most famously Aristotle's Physics-point to an "unwritten doctrine" articulated by Plato at the Academy. These unwritten teachings had a more systematic...
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The topic chosen by Nietzsche for his Pforta dissertation was Theognis, his life in Megara, his lyrical production, and his views on the gods, morality and politics. Nietzsche saw Theognis as the intellectual champion of the defeated Megarian aristocracy, who sought to preserve the Dorian spirit and its noble virtues. The interests that guided Nietzsche transcended scientific philology and embraced a concern for the social and political context he...
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Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses.
The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato's dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essays in this collection consider these subjects and others, focusing in particular on the dramatic form of the dialogue. They take into account not only what...
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Otherwise Than the Binary approaches canonical texts and concepts in Ancient Greek philosophy and culture that have traditionally been understood, as examples of binary thinking, particularly concerning sexual difference. In contrast to such patriarchal logic, the essays within this volume explore how many of these seemingly strict binaries in ancient culture and thought were far more permeable and philosophically nuanced. Each contribution asks if...
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