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  • Herder's Philosophy

    by Michael N. Forster ...
    Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is a towering figure in modern thought, but one who has hitherto been severely underappreciated. Michael Forster seeks to rectify that situation He considers Herder's philosophy in the round and argues that it is both far more impressive in quality and far more influential in modern thought than has previously been realized. After an introduction on Herder's ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought

    Edited by Marina F. Bykova, Michael N. Forster, Lina Steiner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume is a comprehensive Handbook of Russian thought that provides an in-depth survey of major figures, currents, and developments in Russian intellectual history, spanning the period from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. Written by a group of distinguished scholars as well as some younger ones from Russia, Europe, the United States, and Canada, this Handbook ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Romanticism, Philosophy, and Literature

    Edited by Michael N. Forster, Lina Steiner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a broad re-evaluation of the key ideas developed by the German Romantics concerning philosophy and literature. It focuses not only on their own work, but also on that of their fellow travelers (such as Hölderlin) and their contemporary opponents (such as Hegel), as well as on various reactions to and transpositions of their ideas in later authors, including Coleridge, Byron, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics

    Edited by Michael N. Forster, Kristin Gjesdal ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Hermeneutics, the study of interpretation, is an essential and valuable branch of philosophy. Hermeneutics is also a central component of the methodology of the social sciences and the humanities, for example historiography, anthropology, art history, and literary criticism. In a sequence of accessible chapters, contributors across the human sciences explain the leading concepts and ideas of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Michael N. Forster, Kristin Gjesdal ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is the first collective critical study of this important period in intellectual history. The volume is divided into four parts. The first part explores individual philosophers, including Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, and Nietzsche, amongst other great thinkers of the period. The second addresses key philosophical movements: ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar

    by Michael N. Forster ...
    What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or correct than others? The later Wittgenstein already addresses these fundamental philosophical questions under the general rubric of "grammar" and the question of its "arbitrariness"--and does so with great subtlety. This book explores Wittgenstein's views on these questions.Part ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Kant and Skepticism

    by Michael N. Forster ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Critique of Pure Reason. It is widely recognized that Kant's theoretical philosophy aims to answer skepticism and reform metaphysics--Michael Forster makes the controversial argument that those aims are closely linked. He distinguishes among three types of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Responses to Anti-Semitism

    Edited by Andrew J. Mitchell, Peter Trawny ...
    From the 1930s through the 1970s, the philosopher Martin Heidegger kept a running series of private writings, the so-called Black Notebook**s. The recent publication of the Black Notebooks volumes from the war years have sparked international controversy. While Heidegger’s engagement with National Socialism was well known, the Black Notebooks showed for the first time that this anti-Semitism was ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Far Reaches

    Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe

    by Michael D. Gubser ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    When future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and explaining the status of values; it also called on philosophy to renew European societies facing crisis, an ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics

    Revised Edition

    by Mark Lilla ...
    “A skilled exploration” of why 6 notable 20th-century philosophers—from Martin Heidegger to Michel Foucault—succumbed to “a narcissistic embrace of totalitarian politics” (The Washington Post).European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Kant

    A Revolution in Thinking

    by Marcus Willaschek ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year“An expert and engaging new introduction to the philosopher.” —Adam Kirsch, New YorkerA foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason, “categorical imperative,” and conception of perpetual ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954

    Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of Arendt’s writings from the 1930s, 1940s, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD