Philosophy And Revolution

Author : Stathis Kouvelakis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786635808

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Philosophy and Revolution by Stathis Kouvelakis Pdf

Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a “revolution without revolution.” Trapped in a politically ossified society, German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of the revolutionary experience. In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the progressive currents of German society. On the one side were those socialists—among them Moses Hess and the young Friedrich Engels—who sought to discover a principle of harmony in social relations, bypassing the question of revolutionary politics. On the other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture, proletarian hegemony and struggle for democracy, thereby redefining the very notion of politics itself.

Author : Raya Dunayevskaya
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739105590

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Philosophy and Revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya Pdf

Few thought systems have been as distorted and sometimes misconstrued as those of Marx and Hegel. Philosophy and Revolution, presented here in a new edition, attempts to save Marx from interpretations which restrict the revolutionary significance of the philosophy behind his theory. Developing her breakthrough on Hegel's Absolute Idea, Raya Dunayevskaya, who died in the June of 1987, aims at a total liberation of the human person--not only from the ills of a capitalist society, but also from the equally oppressive state capitalism of established communist governments. She assumes within her theory of class struggle issues as diverse as feminism, black liberation, and even the new nationalism of third world countries. Moreover, Dunayevskaya combines within herself an incorruptible objectivity with a passionate political attitude, making this work a vibrant and concrete discussion of the vicissitudes of society, justice, equality, and existence.

Author : H. Ben-Yami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137512024

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Descartes' Philosophical Revolution: A Reassessment by H. Ben-Yami Pdf

Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind–body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape his new and influential theory of perception.

Author : David Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139475204

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The Modern Philosophical Revolution by David Walsh Pdf

The Modern Philosophical Revolution breaks new ground by demonstrating the continuity of European philosophy from Kant to Derrida. Much of the literature on European philosophy has emphasised the breaks that have occurred in the course of two centuries of thinking. But as David Walsh argues, such a reading overlooks the extent to which Kant, Hegel, and Schelling were already engaged in the turn toward existence as the only viable mode of philosophising. Where many similar studies summarise individual thinkers, this book provides a framework for understanding the relationships between them. Walsh thus dispels much of the confusion that assails readers when they are only exposed to the bewildering range of positions taken by the philosophers he examines. His book serves as an indispensable guide to a philosophical tradition that continues to have resonance in the post-modern world.

Author : Shlomo Avineri
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300248777

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Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri Pdf

This new exploration of Marx as a Jewish thinker presents “a perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments” of his life and work (Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal). A philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor, Karl Marx was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history. But he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. Here, distinguished scholar Shlomo Avineri argues that Marx’s Jewish origins made a significant impression on his work. Marx was born in Trier, then part of Prussia, and his family had enjoyed full emancipation under earlier French control of the area. But then its annexation to Prussia deprived the Jewish population of its equal rights. These developments led to the reluctant conversion of Marx’s father, and similar tribulations radicalized many other Jewish intellectuals of that time. Avineri puts Marx’s Jewish background in its proper and balanced perspective, and traces Marx’s intellectual development in light of the historical, intellectual, and political contexts in which he lived.

Author : Richard Healey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191023446

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The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy by Richard Healey Pdf

Quantum theory launched a revolution in physics. But we have yet to understand the revolution's significance for philosophy. Richard Healey opens a path to such understanding. Most studies of the conceptual foundations of quantum theory first try to interpret the theory - to say how the world could possibly be the way the theory says it is. But, though fundamental, quantum theory is enormously successful without describing the world in its own terms. When properly applied, models of quantum theory offer good advice on the significance and credibility of claims about the world expressed in other terms. This first philosophical lesson of the quantum revolution dissolves the quantum measurement problem. Pragmatist treatments of probability and causation show how quantum theory may be used to explain the non-localized correlations that have been thought to involve "spooky" instantaneous action at a distance. Given environmental decoherence, a pragmatist inferentialist approach to content shows when talk of quantum probabilities is licensed, resolves any residual worries about whether a quantum measurement has a determinate outcome, and solves a dilemma about the ontology of a quantum field theory. This approach to meaning and reference also reveals the nature and limits of objective description in the light of quantum theory. While these pragmatist approaches to probability, causation, explanation and content may be independently motivated by philosophical argument, their successful application here illustrates their practical importance in helping philosophers come to terms with the quantum revolution.

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1083 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199668090

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Democratic Enlightenment by Jonathan Israel Pdf

That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does. In Democratic Enlightenment, Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. The American Revolution and its concerns certainly acted as a major factor in the intellectual ferment that shaped the wider upheaval that followed, but the radical philosophes were no less critical than enthusiastic about the American model. From 1789, the General Revolution's impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups represented in the French National assembly, they nonetheless forged "la philosophie moderne"-in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas-into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America, Canada and Eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. In addition, Israel argues that while all French revolutionary journals powerfully affirmed that la philosophie moderne was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste "Revolution of reason."

Author : Javier Sethness Castro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004308701

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Eros and Revolution by Javier Sethness Castro Pdf

In Eros and Revolution, Javier Sethness Castro presents a comprehensive intellectual and political biography of the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), investigating the Hegelian-Marxist, Romantic, existentialist, social-psychological, and anti-authoritarian dimensions of his thought, as well as his contemporary relevance.

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134971251

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Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse Pdf

This classic book is Marcuse's masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on European political thought from the French Revolution to the present day. Marcuse brilliantly illuminates the implications of Hegel's ideas with later developments in European thought, particularily with Marxist theory.

Author : Howard Selsam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Dialectical materialism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080540037

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Philosophy in Revolution by Howard Selsam Pdf

Author : Walter Roy Laird,Sophie Roux
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402059674

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Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution by Walter Roy Laird,Sophie Roux Pdf

This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.

Author : David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108420303

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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution by David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu Pdf

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Author : Yirmiyahu Yovel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691204574

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Kant's Philosophical Revolution by Yirmiyahu Yovel Pdf

A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophy Perhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult ideas, and tortuous sentences. In this short, accessible book, eminent philosopher and Kant expert Yirmiyahu Yovel helps readers find their way through the maze of Kant's classic by providing a clear and authoritative summary of the entire work. The distillation of decades of studying and teaching Kant, Yovel's "systematic explication" untangles the ideas and arguments of the Critique in the order in which Kant presents them. The result is an invaluable guide for philosophers and students.

Author : Raya Dunayevskaya,Adrienne Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Revolutions and socialism
ISBN : 9350023067

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Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya,Adrienne Rich Pdf

Author : Stathis Kouvelakis
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781859844717

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Philosophy and Revolution by Stathis Kouvelakis Pdf

Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a “revolution without revolution.” Trapped in a politically ossified society, German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of the revolutionary experience. In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the progressive currents of German society. On the one side were those socialists—among them Moses Hess and the young Friedrich Engels—who sought to discover a principle of harmony in social relations, bypassing the question of revolutionary politics. On the other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture, proletarian hegemony and struggle for democracy, thereby redefining the very notion of politics itself.