Freedom Truth And History

Author : Stephen Houlgate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415013321

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Freedom, Truth and History by Stephen Houlgate Pdf

The philosopher G.W.F. Hegel (1771-1831) is now recognized to be one of the most important modern thinkers. His influence is to be found in Marx's conception of historical dialectic, Kierkegaard's existentialism, Dewey's pragmatism and Gadamer's hermeneutics and Derrida's deconstruction. Until now, however, it has been difficult for the non-specialist to find a reasonably comprehensive introduction to this important, yet at times almost impenetrable philosopher. With this book Stephen Houlgate offers just such an introduction. His book is written in an accessible style and covers a range of topics: the philosophy of history, logic and phenomenology, political philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. In the course of the book the author relates Hegel's ideas to those of many other thinkers, including Luther, Descartes, Kant and Thomas Kuhn.

Author : Stephen Houlgate
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631230629

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An Introduction to Hegel by Stephen Houlgate Pdf

This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) has been made even more comprehensive through the addition of four new chapters. New edition of a classic introduction to Hegel. Enables students to engage with many aspects of Hegel’s philosophy. Covers the whole range of Hegel’s mature thought. Relates Hegel’s ideas to other thinkers, such as Luther, Descartes and Kant. Offers a distinctive and challenging interpretation of Hegel’s work.

Author : Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467790451

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The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Pdf

In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far as Lewis Michaux Jr. could tell, his father's bookstore was one of a kind. People from all over came to visit the store, even famous people—Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. In his father's bookstore people bought and read books, and they also learned from each other. People swapped and traded ideas and talked about how things could change. They came together here all because of his father's book itch. Read the story of how Lewis Michaux Sr. and his bookstore fostered new ideas and helped people stand up for what they believed in.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Polity
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745630120

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History and Freedom by Theodor W. Adorno Pdf

"Early in the 1960s Adorno gave four courses of lectures on the road leading to Negative Dialectics, his magnum opus of 1966. The second of these was concerned with the topics of history and freedom. In terms of content, these lectures represented an early version of the chapters in Negative Dialectics devoted to Kant and Hegel. In formal terms, these were improvised lectures that permit us to glimpse a philosophical work in progress." -- Cover, p. [4].

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465592736

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The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Annelien De Dijn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674245594

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Freedom by Annelien De Dijn Pdf

Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.

Author : Dietmar Rothe
Publisher : Avila Books / Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0967745322

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In Search of Truth and Freedom by Dietmar Rothe Pdf

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745694504

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History and Freedom by Theodor W. Adorno Pdf

Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for the future course of history was his feelings of solidarity with the victims and losers. As for the future, the course of events was to remain open-ended; instead of finality, he remained committed to a Hölderlin-like openness. This trace of the messianic has what he called the colour of the concrete as opposed to mere abstract possibility. Early in the 1960s Adorno gave four courses of lectures on the road leading to Negative Dialectics, his magnum opus of 1966. The second of these was concerned with the topics of history and freedom. In terms of content, these lectures represented an early version of the chapters in Negative Dialectics devoted to Kant and Hegel. In formal terms, these were improvised lectures that permit us to glimpse a philosophical work in progress. The text published here gives us an overview of all the themes and motifs of Adorno's philosophy of history: the key notion of the domination of nature, his criticism of the existentialist concept of a historicity without history and, finally, his opposition to the traditional idea of truth as something permanent, unchanging and ahistorical.

Author : Richard Rorty,Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804746184

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Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself by Richard Rorty,Eduardo Mendieta Pdf

This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and nonrelevance of philosophy to American political and public life. The collection also provides a candid set of insights into Rorty's political beliefs and his commitment to the labor and union traditions in this country. Finally, the interviews reveal Rorty to be a deeply engaged social thinker and observer.

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791410153

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Hegel, Freedom, and Modernity by Merold Westphal Pdf

This book studies the intersection of Hegel's political theory as developed in the Philosophy of Right with his philosophy of religion and his dialectical, holistic theory of knowledge. It explores both the methodological and theological dimensions of Hegel's politics by placing him in dialogue with such traditions as Hinduism, the Protestant Reformation, and the contemporary Religious Right, and with such individual thinkers as Husserl, Gadamer, Pannenberg, and Tillich. The author shows that Hegel's philosophy outlines the dilemma of religion and society perhaps more clearly than any other modern thinker's perspective. Namely that a religiously based society tends to be sectarian, exclusive, and intolerant, while a fully secular society tends to lose the conditions which make community in any meaningful sense possible. Hegel's search for a nonsectarian spirituality of community poses the problem the contemporary world must solve if we are to uncover a humane society.

Author : Jeri Cipriano
Publisher : Beginner Biography (Look! Book
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634409933

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Sojourner Truth by Jeri Cipriano Pdf

Sojourner Truth was born to slaves. She had no choice. But when she grew to be a young mother herself, she ran away with her child looking for freedom. She used her voice to speak for all slaves wanting to be free.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191604416

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Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer Pdf

Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Walter A. McDougall
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1187 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061899843

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Freedom Just Around the Corner by Walter A. McDougall Pdf

This powerful reinterpretation of United States history is remarkable not only for its scholarship and historical breadth, but also in its assertion that the success of the country depends in a large part on the unique American character, which has shaped so many historic events. In the first of a projected three-volume series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter A. McDougall argues that the creation of the United States is the central event in the last four hundred years of world history. Freedom Just Around the Corner masterfully chronicles the earliest years of this nation, revealing that the genius behind the success of the United States is not based on the works and ideas of one person, but rather on the complex, irrepressible American spirit. A professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Walter A. McDougall is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heavens and the Earth and Let the Sea Make a Noise..., Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877, and Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage children. “The chapter on the framing of the Constitution should be required reading ... Walter McDougall is a historian with a masterful grasp of his subject.” — Claude Crowley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Author : Edward Doyle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547362883

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Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Edward Doyle Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Freedom, Truth and Beauty" (Sonnets) by Edward Doyle. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : David James
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198847885

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Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History by David James Pdf

By means of careful analysis of relevant writings by Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, David James argues that the concept of practical necessity is key to understanding the nature and extent of human freedom. Practical necessity means being, or believing oneself to be, constrained to perform certain actions in the absence (whether real or imagined) of other, more attractive options, or by the high costs involved in pursuing other options. Agents become subject to practical necessity as a result of economic, social, and historical forces over which they have, or appear to have, no effective control, and the extent to which they are subject to it varies according to the amount of economic and social power that one agent possesses relative to other agents. The concept of practical necessity is also shown to take into account how the beliefs and attitudes of social agents are in large part determined by social and historical processes in which they are caught up, and that the type of motivation that we attribute to agents must recognize this. Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx shows how Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, in contrast to Hobbes, explain the emergence of the conditions of a free society in terms of a historical process that is initially governed by practical necessity. The role that this form of necessity plays in explaining history necessity invites the following question: to what extent are historical agents genuinely subject to both practical and historical necessity?