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  • Philosophy of Life

    German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920

    Philosophy of Life explores the intellectual movement called Lebensphilosophie, which flourished in Germany from 1870 until 1920. Author Frederick C. Beiser focuses on its most prominent members: Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Georg Simmel. Lebensphilosophie appeared at a critical movement in Western culture; it was a response to several important cultural developments of the late 19th ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: "Probing and lucid" (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of ... Read more

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  • Martin Heidegger

    A rich and evocative study of one of modern history's most compelling and controversial philosophers by a literary and critical grand masterIn Martin Heidegger, George Steiner delves into the life and work of the prolific German philosopher. His deft analysis lays bare the intricacies of Heidegger's work and his influence on modern society, offering a clear and accessible analysis of the ... Read more

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  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

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  • Ernst Cassirer

    The Last Philosopher of Culture

    This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The ... Read more

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  • The Martin Heidegger Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Martin Heidegger

    by David Perkins ...
    This book is your ultimate Martin Heidegger resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Martin Heidegger's whole picture right away. Get countless Martin Heidegger facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Martin Heidegger ... Read more

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  • Kant: A Biography

    by Manfred Kuehn ...
    This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated part of Prussia living the life of a typical university professor. This has given rise to the view ... Read more

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  • Goethe, Kant, and Hegel

    Discovering the Mind

    Series series Discovering the Mind Series
    This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings. Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped by their own distinctive mentalities.Kaufmann's version of psychohistory ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    By the time Martin Heidegger passed away on May 26th, 1976, he had become the most important and controversial philosopher of his age. While many of his former students had become important philosophers and thinkers in their own right, Heidegger also inspired countless others, like Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Paul Sartre.The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's ... Read more

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  • Afterness

    Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics

    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable indebtedness ... Read more

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  • Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition

    Explorations in Modern Political Thought

    Series Book 1 - The Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy
    Twentieth-century political philosopher Eric Voegelin is best known as a severe critic of modernity. Much of his work argues that modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of reality. For Voegelin, “Gnosticism” is the belief that human beings can transform the nature of reality through secret knowledge and social action, and he considered it the crux of the crisis of ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Dialectics

    This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing connections with Plato and Kant, Adorno concentrates on the most systematic development of the dialectic in Hegel's philosophy, and its relationship to Marx, as well as elaborating his own conception of ... Read more

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