Periagoge Theory Of Singularity And Philosophy As An Exercise Of Transformation

Author : Guido Cusinato
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004520202

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Periagoge - Theory of Singularity and Philosophy as an Exercise of Transformation by Guido Cusinato Pdf

This book returns to the question at the center of our existence, a question that the narcissistic culture in which we are immersed systematically tends to remove: “Why?” The underlying thesis is that the answer must not be sought in success or social recognition, but in a “fragment of truth”, hidden somewhere inside each of us, which reveals itself only if we detach ourselves from our ego and its certainties. It is not, therefore, a matter of finding yet another philosophical theory of the meaning of existence, but rather of shedding light on the conditions under which such meaning can emerge. The author shows us that the ultimate source of our existential orientation lies in the affective sphere, and that the current crisis of orientation is derived from the atrophy of the process of affective maturation on a large scale, and from a lack of knowledge and experience about which techniques are best to reactivate it. We are like glowworms that had once unlearned how to illuminate and have since begun to hover around the magic lantern of the ascetic ideal, already criticized by Nietzsche, and then around neon advertising signs. We are glowworms that have forgotten that we have within our own affective structure a precious source of orientation. The basic thesis is that this source of orientation can be reactivated through the care of desire and practices of emotional sharing.

Author : Eli Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1272852834

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Intercultural Modes of Philosophy by Eli Kramer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004449244

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The Philosophy of Brentano by Anonim Pdf

The Philosophy of Brentano has as its goal to explore the significance and impact of Franz Brentano’s thought, to promote a deepening of the ongoing renaissance of interest in Brentano, and to advance the project of understanding Brentano’s actual philosophical positions and correcting entrenched misunderstandings.

Author : Samir Okasha
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198806998

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Philosophy of Biology by Samir Okasha Pdf

Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science's most divisive topics, such as philosophical issues in genetics, it also encompasses areas where modern biology has increasingly impinged on traditional philosophical questions, such as free will, essentialism, and nature vs nurture. In this Very Short Introduction Samir Okasha outlines the core issues with which contemporary philosophy of biology is engaged. Offering a whistle-stop tour of the history of biology, he explores key ideas and paradigm shifts throughout the centuries, including areas such as the theory of evolution by natural selection; the concepts of function and design; biological individuality; and the debate over adaptationism. Throughout Okasha makes clear the relevance of biology for understanding human beings, human society, and our place in the natural world, and the importance of engaging with these issues. 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 : David W. Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004459793

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The Enigma of Fichte’s First Principles by David W. Wood Pdf

This volume of articles in English by an international team of scholars presents new critical perspectives on the first principles of J.G. Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre and some of the key sub-disciplines of his philosophy.

Author : Otfried Höffe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048127221

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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Otfried Höffe Pdf

Kant’s "Critique of Pure Reason" is so outstanding among modern philosophical works, that it can be termed "the" foundation of modern philosophy. Schopenhauer termed it "the most important book ever to have been written in Europe." Otfried Höffe guides the reader through the "Critique" one step at a time, expounding Kant’s thoughts, submitting them to an interpretation and drawing a summary conclusion, placing the work and its topics within the context of its modern successors. A "critical" interpretation of Kant’s text reveals that he had something to say on many discussions that are said to have originated after his death. Reducing his argumentation to its central tenets, it can be made stronger and applicable to current problems. Kant’s eventual concern, however, even when writing theoretical philosophy, lay with the practical. Elaborating this concern and its connection to Kant’s theoretical philosophy is a prime tenet of this book.

Author : Guilherme Messas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3030627268

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The Existential Structure of Substance Misuse by Guilherme Messas Pdf

This book contributes to one of the most challenging areas of mental health: substance misuse. Its focus is on the psychopathological experiences associated with it: both the consequences of substance misuse and the existential vulnerabilities that lead to it, even if such a clear-cut distinction is rarely possible. The work brings an innovative perspective to the issue, as it draws on two scientific fields whose association has not yet been fully explored: phenomenological psychopathology and substance misuse studies. The association of these two perspectives could build a greater understanding of this important topic and be of practical help to a wide array of professionals in their clinical practice. The structure of the book is inspired by this overall perspective. Its division into three parts is designed to introduce the reader, in a stepwise manner, to the complexities of the theme, based on the latest advances in the specific literature. The broad objective of this work is therefore to offer a useful instrument for mental health clinicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, undergraduate students of these disciplines, and all substance abuse workers.

Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810114461

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Nature by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Pdf

Collected in this text are the written notes of courses on the concept of nature give by Merleau-Ponty at the College de France in the 1950s. The ideas that animated the philosopher's lectures emerge in an early, fluid form in the process of being elaborated, negotiated, critiqued and reconsidered.

Author : Philippe P. Haensler,Kristina Mendicino,Rochelle Tobias
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110652475

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Phenomenology to the Letter by Philippe P. Haensler,Kristina Mendicino,Rochelle Tobias Pdf

Regarding philosophical importance, Edmund Husserl is arguably "the" German export of the early twentieth century. In the wake of the linguistic turn(s) of the humanities, however, his claim to return to the "Sachen selbst" became metonymic for the neglect of language in Western philosophy. This view has been particularly influential in post-structural literary theory, which has never ceased to attack the supposed "logophobie" of phenomenology. "Phenomenology to the Letter. Husserl and Literature" challenges this verdict regarding the poetological and logical implications of Husserl’s work through a thorough re-examination of his writing in the context of literary theory, classical rhetoric, and modern art. At issue is an approach to phenomenology and literature that does not merely coordinate the two discourses but explores their mutual implication. Contributions to the volume attend to the interplay between phenomenology and literature (both fiction and poetry), experience and language, as well as images and embodiment. The volume is the first of its kind to chart a phenomenological approach to literature and literary approach to phenomenology. As such it stands poised to make a novel contribution to literary studies and philosophy.

Author : Felix O Murchadha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350245488

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The Formation of the Modern Self by Felix O Murchadha Pdf

Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix Ó Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume and Kant. The question of the self as we would discuss it today only came to the forefront of philosophical concern with Modernity, beginning with an appeal to the inherited models of the self found in Stoicism, Scepticism, Augustinianism and Pelagianism, before continuing to develop as a subject of philosophical debate. Exploring this trajectory, The Formation of the Modern Self pursues a number of themes central to the Early Modern development of selfhood, including, amongst others, grace and passion. It examines on the one hand the deep-rooted dependence on the divine and the longing for happiness and salvation and, on the other hand, the distancing from the Stoic ideal of apatheia, as philosophers from Descartes to Spinoza recognised the passions as essential to human agency. Fundamental to the new question of the self was the relation of faith and reason. Uncovering commonalities and differences amongst Early Modern philosophers, Ó Murchadha traces how the voluntarism of Modernity led to the sceptical approach to the self in Montaigne and Hume and how this sceptical strand, in turn, culminated in Kant's rational faith. More than a history of the self in philosophy, The Formation of the Modern Self inspires a fresh look at self-identity, uncovering not only how our modern idea of selfhood developed but just how embedded the concept of self is in external considerations: from ethics, to reason, to religion.

Author : Hans Maier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135754198

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Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1 by Hans Maier Pdf

We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate debate. This book documents the first international conference on this theme, a conference that took place in September of 1994 at the University of Munich. The book shows how new models for understanding political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes. Here, the most important concepts - totalitarianism and political religions - are discussed and tested in terms of their usefulness.

Author : Jeffrey A. Bernstein,Jade Larissa Schiff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438483962

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Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought by Jeffrey A. Bernstein,Jade Larissa Schiff Pdf

Leo Strauss's readings of historical figures in the philosophical tradition have been justly well explored; however, his relation to contemporary thinkers has not enjoyed the same coverage. In Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought, an international group of scholars examines the possible conversations between Strauss and figures such as Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, and Hans Blumenberg. The contributors examine topics including religious liberty, the political function of comedy, law, and the relation between the Ancients and the Moderns, and bring Strauss into many new and original discussions that will be of use to those interested in the thought of Strauss, the history of philosophy and political theory, and contemporary continental thought.

Author : Pierre Hadot
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631180338

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Philosophy as a Way of Life by Pierre Hadot Pdf

This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot's book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.

Author : Seth Benardete
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226042442

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Socrates' Second Sailing by Seth Benardete Pdf

In this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato's Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the good, and the just. This book provides a fresh interpretation of the Republic and a new understanding of philosophy as practiced by Plato and Socrates. "Cryptic allusions, startling paradoxes, new questions . . . all work to give brilliant new insights into the Platonic text."—Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Political Theory

Author : Wanda Torres Gregory
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793640048

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Speaking of Silence in Heidegger by Wanda Torres Gregory Pdf

In Speaking of Silence in Heidegger, Wanda Torres Gregory critically analyzes Heidegger’sthoughts on silence. Arguing that silence about silence is a guiding principle in his sparse and often reticent words, Torres Gregory sets out to decipher their elusive meanings. Charting the trajectory of Heidegger’s reflections, from Being and Time to On the Way to Language, she shows that he develops his ideas of silence in increasingly closer relations to his also evolving ideas of truth as the unconcealedness of being/beyng and language as disclosive sonorous saying. Torres Gregory distinguishes between human, primordial, and primeval forms of silence, and the linguistic, pre-linguistic, and proto-linguistic levels at which silence can occur in relation to sonorous speech. While the book focuses on these inner conceptual dynamics, the author remains mindful of Heidegger’s ties to National Socialism and clarifies how his theoretical assumptions allow for oppressive silencing. The book concludes with critical reflections on the later Heidegger’s thinking of silence and proposes alternatives to his claims concerning the sound beyond sounds, the metaphysics of mystical silence, the uniquely linguistic essence of the mortals, and the loud idle talk in the age of modern technology.