This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze. What unites these philosophers is a series of metaphysical concerns rooted in 17th-cent...Loe edasi...
This book presents a broad scope of global contemporary art projects, establishing a new philosophical framework to understand and evaluate the new art practice known as place-as-medium....Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel interpretation of Spinozas basic metaphysics of God, body, and mind. It considers the fundamental question of how finite things, especially human minds, are in God....Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel and comprehensive interpretation of Descartess moral philosophy. In contrast to other influential interpretations, the book argues that the central tenet of his ethical thought is that each person ought to live in the way th...Loe edasi...
In Creative Characters, originally published in 1991, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl reflects on the long search for an understanding of creativity and offers a novel approach. She notes that studies of creativity fall into types. She offers an original ana...Loe edasi...
Béatrice Longuenesse is one of the most important scholars of German philosophy in the past 50 years. This volume features original essays written by Longuenesses long-time interlocutors and former students that reflect on the breadth and influence...Loe edasi...
The book emphasises that the modern Japanese and Chinese use of Qimeng () to translate and interpret Enlightenment predominantly reflects the second interpretation of Enlightenment(i.e.Anti-Enlightenment), which betrays the spirit of equality the m...Loe edasi...
This book presents a novel interpretation of Hume as a proponent of sentimental virtue ethics. This interpretation sheds light on the nature of Humes ethics, as well as its relevance for contemporary debates in moral philosophy....Loe edasi...
Influenced by the groundbreaking work of Wilfred Bion, The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance sees 10 internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts explore the complex interrelationship between our psychic and somatic selves, and hi...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences. It considers not only what Kant has to say on systematicity in general, but also how the systematicity requirement for scie...Loe edasi...
An engaging introduction to one of the most significant works of philosophy. Written for readers approaching Humes work for the first time, it is essential reading for undergraduate students studying the history of modern philosophy, and all those w...Loe edasi...
This book is a collection of new essays on the topic of Kants account of citizenship, the first book-length text on this topic. It features leading scholars who specialize in Kants ethics, philosophy of religion and political philosophy. Their chapt...Loe edasi...
In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction, Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservatism is a coherent and compelling set of historically rooted ideas about conserving and promoting the human good....Loe edasi...
The Kantian Mind is an outstanding guide and reference source to Kants thought and essential reading for all students and scholars of Kant and contemporary Kantian thought....Loe edasi...
Provides fresh and even groundbreaking perspectives on Humes Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. It is essential reading for students and scholars of Hume, the history of modern philosophy, philosophy of religion and the history and philosophy of...Loe edasi...
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Humes Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. Poli...Loe edasi...
In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which for him meant knowledge of nature, including human nature. This was interrupted by his reading of Newton...Loe edasi...
Pierre Gassendi was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy whose philosophical and scientific works contributed to shaping Western intellectual identity. This collection of essays constitutes the first book on Gassendi in the English langu...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsches Thus Spoke Zarathustra is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century philosophy, German philosophy, and intellectual history, and suitable for anyone studying Nietzsches most famous text for the first...Loe edasi...
