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Author : José Ortega y Gasset
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0252070453
Bears the mark of Ortega's fine intelligence and his abiding faith in the redemptive power of engaged living and original thinking
Author : José Ortega y Gasset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641033557
Author : Jill Gordon
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271039779
Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, Jill Gordon shows how the literary techniques Plato used function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life. The picture of philosophical activity emerging from the dialogues, as thus interpreted, is a complex process involving vision, insight, and emotion basic to the human condition rather than a resort to pure reason as an escape from it. Since the literary features of Plato's writing are what draw the reader into philosophy, the book becomes an argument for the union of philosophy and literature--and against their disciplinary bifurcation--in the dialogues. Gordon construes the relationship of Plato's text to its audience as an analogue of Socrates' relationship with his interlocutors in the dialogues, seeing both as fundamentally dialectic. On this insight she builds her detailed analysis of specific literary devices in chapters on dramatic form, character development, irony, and image-making (which includes myth, metaphor, and analogy). In this way Gordon views Plato as not at all the enemy of the poets and image-makers that previous interpreters have depicted. Rather, Gordon concludes that Plato understands the power of words and images quite well. Since they, and not logico-deductive argumentation, are the appropriate means for engaging human beings, he uses them to great effect and with a sensitive understanding of human psychology, wary of their possible corrupting influences but ultimately willing to harness their power for philosophical ends.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537061062
On The Concept of History is a politics & social sciences essay written by German philosopher and social science critic Walter Benjamin. On The Concept of History is one of Walter Benjamin's best known, and most controversial works. The politics & social sciences essay is composed of twenty numbered paragraphs in which Benjamin uses poetic and scientific analogies to present a critique of historicism. Walter Benjamin wrote the brief essay shortly before attempting to escape from Vichy France, where French collaborationist government officials were handing over Jewish refugees like Walter Benjamin to the Nazi Gestapo. Walter Benjamin completed On The Concept of History before fleeing to Spain where he unfortunately committed suicide. Benjamin's work is often required textbook reading in various subjects such as humanities, philosophy, and politics & social sciences.
Author : Bernard P. Dauenhauer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780820338095
The relationship between philosophy and history has long been a matter of contention. Philosophers have claimed that their pursuit of universal law and eternal verities elevated them beyond historians, who merely dabbled with the vagaries of the particular and the contingent. Historians responded with the argument that philosophy was important only in relation to its contribution to concrete, historical truth. A greater challenge for both philosophers and historians than the defense of either of these positions has been to understand the convoluted issues surrounding the intersection of their respective disciplines. In At the Nexus of Philosophy and History, Bernard P. Dauenhauer has collected eleven essays that explore the relationship between the two disciplines and provide a significant, innovative response to the problems created by such exploration. The original essays collected in this volume challenge the artificial distinctions and disciplinary parochialism that have too often characterized traditional academic debate. Instead of advancing any one elaborate theory, At the Nexus of Philosophy and History seeks to encourage a balanced approach toward the exploration of the two fields by demonstrating that a full understanding of the one is impossible without knowledge of the other.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1766
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0017681072
Author : Robert C. Scharff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134626731
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy’s past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history actually matters for even Plato’s Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, in spite of their apparent promotion of conspicuously ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part Two, Scharff argues that the real issue is not whether history matters; rather it is that we already have a history, a very distinctive and unavoidable inheritance, which paradoxically teaches us that history’s mattering is merely optional. Through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, he describes what thinking in a historically determinate way actually involves, and he considers how to avoid the denial of this condition that our own philosophical inheritance still seems to expect of us. In a brief conclusion, Scharff explains how this book should be read as part of his own effort to acknowledge this condition rather than deny it.
Author : Dmitri Nikulin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474269131
The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although few contemporary philosophers and historians maintain the view that there is strict universality and teleology in history, the remnants of these positions still affect our understanding of history. But if history is not universal and singular, evolving toward an objective universal end, it should be possible to admit of multiple histories, some of which we appropriate as our own. An another important aspect of this book is that if provides an account of history that is itself both historical and rooted in attempts to narrate and explain history from its inception in antiquity. The book seeks to establish features or constituents of history that might be found in any historical account and might themselves be considered historical invariants in history.
Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : History
ISBN : 9781465592736
Author : Seymour Mauskopf,Tad Schmaltz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400717458
Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently, however, there has been a series of workshops on both sides of the Atlantic (called '&HPS') intended to bring historians and philosophers of science together to discuss new integrative approaches. This is therefore an especially appropriate time to explore the problems with and prospects for integrating history and philosophy of science. The original essays in this volume, all from specialists in the history of science or philosophy of science, offer such an exploration from a wide variety of perspectives. The volume combines general reflections on the current state of history and philosophy of science with studies of the relation between the two disciplines in specific historical and scientific cases.
Author : José Ortega y Gasset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019174930
Author : Jose Ortega y Gasset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 075817554X
Author : Harry Halpin,Alexandre Monnin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118700167
This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains. Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenology Tackles questions such as the impact of Google on intelligence and epistemology, the philosophical status of digital objects, ethics on the Web, semantic and ontological changes caused by the Web, and the potential of the Web to serve as a genuine cognitive extension Brings together insightful new scholarship from well-known analytic and continental philosophers, such as Andy Clark and Bernard Stiegler, as well as rising scholars in “digital native” philosophy and engineering Includes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web
Author : Catalin Partenie,Tom Rockmore
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810122338
For Martin Heidegger the "fall" of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is crucial to an understanding of Heidegger--and, perhaps, even to the whole plausibility of postmodern critiques of metaphysics. It is also, as the essays in this volume attest, highly complex, and possibly founded on a questionable understanding of Plato. As editors Catalin Partenie and Tom Rockmore remark, a simple way to describe Heidegger's reading of Plato might be to say that what began as an attempt to appropriate Plato (and through him a large portion of Western philosophy) finally ended in an estrangement from both Plato and Western philosophy. The authors of this volume consider Heidegger's thought in relation to Plato before and after the "Kehre" or turn. In doing so, they take up various central issues in Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) and thereafter, and the questions of hermeneutics, truth, and language. The result is a subtle and multifaceted reinterpretation of Heidegger's position in the tradition of philosophy, and of Plato's role in determining that position.
Author : Mikko Immanen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Frankfurt school of sociology
ISBN : 1501752499
"In the wake of Martin Heidegger's 1933 Nazi turn, the German Jewish Frankfurt School thinkers Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse understandably saw him as their enemy. This book explores the generative influence that Heidegger's thinking had on the Frankfurt theorists in the Weimar era. As detailed here, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse saw Heidegger's 1927 magnum opus, Being and Time, as a serious effort to make philosophy relevant for life again and as the most provocative challenge to their nascent materialist diagnoses of discontents of German and European modernity. Drawing on previously unexamined autobiographical testimony, lectures, and discussion notes, as well as Heidegger's 1929 Frankfurt lecture and Black Notebooks, the book reconstructs these overlooked debates, finding in them fruitful intellectual encounters rather than hostile confrontations"--