Metaphysical Horror

Author : Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226450554

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'A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan,' writes Leszek Kolakowski at the start of this endlessly stimulating book, 'must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.' For over a century, philosophers have argued that philosophy is impossible or useless, or both. Although the basic agenda dates back tot he days of Socrates, there is still disagreement about the nature of truth, reality, knowledge, good and God. This may make little practical difference to our lives, but it leaves us with a feeling of radical uncertainty described by Kolakowski as 'metaphysical horror'. Is there any way out of this cul-de-sac? This trenchant analysis confronts these dilemmas head on. Philosophy may not provide definitive answers to the fundamental questions, yet the quest itself transforms our lives. It may undermine most of our certainties, yet it still leaves room for our spiritual yearnings and religious beliefs. Kolakowski has forged a dazzling demonstration of philosophy in action. It is up to readers to take up the challenge of his arguments.

Author : Leszek Kołakowski
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631159592

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Metaphysical Horror by Leszek Kołakowski Pdf

Argues that philosophical inquiries are valuable even though they may produce no absolute values and discusses knowledge, religion, and philosophers of the past

Author : Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:773213685

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Metaphysical Horror. (1. Publ.) - (Oxford, Ox.[usw.]): Blackwell (1988). 122 S. 8° by Leszek Kolakowski Pdf

Author : Rogue Planet Press
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326637712

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Lovecraftiana by Rogue Planet Press Pdf

Author : Winifred Bryan Horner,Michael Leff,Robert Gaines,Jean Dietz Moss,Beth S. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136688256

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Rhetoric and Pedagogy by Winifred Bryan Horner,Michael Leff,Robert Gaines,Jean Dietz Moss,Beth S. Bennett Pdf

To provide a view of the history of western rhetoric, this volume presents original articles by a number of world-renowned scholars representing different countries and varying viewpoints. In discussing the status of the historical perspectives on rhetoric, these international scholars also present a tribute to James J. Murphy, whose scholarship and service did much to shape the field. The book will introduce new insights into western European rhetoric and its connections with English rhetoric.

Author : O. Bradley Bassler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319772912

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Kant, Shelley and the Visionary Critique of Metaphysics by O. Bradley Bassler Pdf

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age. Fusing together critical philosophy and visionary poetry, Bassler develops the notion of visionary critique, or paraphysics, as a model for future philosophical endeavor. This philosophical practice is rooted in the concept of the indefinite power associated with the sublime in both Kant and Shelley’s work, to which the notion of the parafinite or indefinitely large is extended in this book.

Author : David Tracy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226567297

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Fragments by David Tracy Pdf

David Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy’s range and erudition, collecting essays from the 1980s to 2018 into a two-volume work that will be greeted with joy by his admirers and praise from new readers. In the first volume, Fragments, Tracy gathers his most important essays on broad theological questions, beginning with the problem of suffering across Greek tragedy, Christianity, and Buddhism. The volume goes on to address the Infinite, and the many attempts to categorize and name it by Plato, Aristotle, Rilke, Heidegger, and others. In the remaining essays, he reflects on questions of the invisible, contemplation, hermeneutics, and public theology. Throughout, Tracy evokes the potential of fragments (understood both as concepts and events) to shatter closed systems and open us to difference and Infinity. Covering science, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and non-Western religious traditions, Tracy provides in Fragments a guide for any open reader to rethink our fragmenting contemporary culture.

Author : Barry Sandywell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317151067

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Dictionary of Visual Discourse by Barry Sandywell Pdf

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for understanding the foundations and motivations of current theoretical and academic discourse, as well as the different forms of visual culture that have come to organize everyday life. The book is firmly placed in the context of the 'visual turn' in contemporary thought. It has been designed as an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary introduction to the vocabularies and grammars of visuality that inform thinking in the arts and humanities today. It also offers insight into the philosophical frameworks which underpin the field of visual culture. A central theme that runs throughout the entries is the task of moving away from a narrow understanding of visuality inherited from traditional philosophy toward a richer cultural and multi-sensorial philosophy of concrete experience. The dictionary incorporates intertextual links that encourage readers to explore connections between major themes, theories and key figures in the field. In addition the author's introduction provides a comprehensive and critical introduction which documents the significance of the visual turn in contemporary theory and culture. It is accompanied by an extensive bibliography and further reading list. As both a substantive academic contribution to this growing field and a useful reference tool, this book offers a theoretical introduction to the many languages of visual discourse. It will be essential reading for graduate students and scholars in visual studies, the sociology of visual culture, cultural and media studies, philosophy, art history and theory, design, film and communication studies.

Author : Hugh C. Dyer,Leon Mangasarian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349202751

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The Study of International Relations by Hugh C. Dyer,Leon Mangasarian Pdf

This wide-ranging study surveys the present state of international relations as an academic field. It locates and assesses recent developments in the field - in short, what is being done where, by whom, and why. The editors have focused on some central and controversial theoretical issues, and included surveys of principal sub-fields, as well as the various approaches to the study of international relations in different countries. The book provides a comprehensive overview of an important and fast-growing area of academic endeavour, and is essential reading for teachers and students of international politics and the social sciences at large.

Author : Luke Hankins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781625643605

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The Work of Creation by Luke Hankins Pdf

In The Work of Creation, poet, editor, and translator Luke Hankins explores literature, art, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and the life of the spirit in a number of genres, including literary criticism, meditations on art and aesthetics, personal essays, and interviews. Collected in this volume are pieces that have appeared in such places as Books & Culture, Contemporary Poetry Review, Image, The Writer's Chronicle, and the American Public Media national radio program "On Being."

Author : Peter Anthony Bertocci
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415296234

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The Person God Is by Peter Anthony Bertocci Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Balázs Trencsényi,Michal Kopeček,Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič,Maria Falina,Mónika Baár,Maciej Janowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191056963

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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe by Balázs Trencsényi,Michal Kopeček,Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič,Maria Falina,Mónika Baár,Maciej Janowski Pdf

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and revisit some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought, and modernity as such. The present volume is a sequel to Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'. It begins with the end of the Great War, depicting the colorful intellectual landscape of the interwar period and the increasing political and ideological radicalization culminating in the Second World War. Taking the war experience both as a breaking point but in many ways also a transmitter of previous intellectual traditions, it maps the intellectual paradigms and debates of the immediate postwar years, marked by a negotiation between the democratic and communist agendas, as well as the subsequent processes of political and cultural Stalinization. Subsequently, the post-Stalinist period is analyzed with a special focus on the various attempts of de-Stalinization and the rise of revisionist Marxism and other critical projects culminating in the carnivalesque but also extremely dramatic year of 1968. This volume is followed by Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018.

Author : Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141389578

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Is God Happy? by Leszek Kolakowski Pdf

'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. Accessible and absorbing, the essays in Is God Happy? deal with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age. Leszek Kolakowski has also written on religion, Spinoza, Bergson, Pascal and seventeenth-century thought. He left communist Poland after his expulsion from Warsaw University for anti-communist activities. From 1970 he was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. 'His distinctive mix of irony and moral seriousness, religious sensibility and epistemological scepticism, social engagement and political doubt was truly rare ... a true Central European intellectual-perhaps the last' Tony Judt, The New York Times Review of Books

Author : Stefan Morawski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134869794

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The Troubles With Postmodernism by Stefan Morawski Pdf

In this original and eye-opening study, Stefan Morawski sheds light on the often confused debate about postmodernism, postmodernity and human values. Drawing upon a wide range of evidence from the experience of everyday life in the sciences, religion, visual arts, literature, film, television and contemporary music, The Troubles with Postmodernism is an indispensable guide to our understanding and evaluation of contemporary literature.

Author : Fernando Pessoa
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0143039555

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A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa Pdf

The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from “the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of” (Los Angeles Times) Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A Biography A Penguin Classic Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three “heteronyms”―Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos―alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his most famous voices, this collection features Pessoa’s major, best-known works and several stunning poems that have come to light only in this century, including his long, highly autobiographical swan song. Featuring a rich body of work that has never before been translated into English, this is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa’s genius.