Search Results

ENGLISH

Turning Toward Philosophy - Literary Device And Dramatic Structure In Platoâ€™S Dialogues

by Jill (Colby College) Gordon

37,84€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, this text aims to show how the literary techniques Plato used, function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life.
ENGLISH

The Narrative Shape Of Truth - Veridiction In Modern European Literature

by Ilya (Assistant Professor, New York University) Kliger

41,90€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel.
ENGLISH

Freud And The Passions

43,20€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Shelley And The Chaos Of History - A New Politics Of Poetry

by Hugh (Univ. Of California) Roberts

51,31€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Transformations In Personhood And Culture After Theory - The Languages Of History, Aesthetics, And Ethics

43,20€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Living Poetically - Kierkegaard'S Existential Aesthetics

by Sylvia (Stetson University) Walsh

51,36€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Reality And Mystical Experience

by Samuel F. Brainard

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 A philosophical inquiry which explores the role and limitations of discursive reason in understanding ultimate reality. It provides case studies of mysticism within Advaita-Vedanta Hinduism, Madhyamika Buddhism and Nicene Christianity to demonstrate the value of the approach.
ENGLISH

Truth And Consequences - Intentions, Conventions, And The New Thematics

by Reed Way (New Mexico State) Dasenbrock

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This work draws on current analytic philosophy to resuscitate the notion of objective truth and intentionalist models of meaning and interpretation, thereby moving beyond the antifoundationalism of postmodern theory. It demonstrates how damaging anti-objectivism has been for literary studies.
ENGLISH

Philosophy And The Passions - Toward A History Of Human Nature

by Michel Meyer

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 A wide-ranging exegesis that systematically traces the history of philosophical conceptions of the passions in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant and Freud. It asks whether passion tortures people because it blinds them.
ENGLISH

The Smile Of Tragedy - Nietzsche And The Art Of Virtue

by Daniel R. Ahern

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Examines Nietzsche's approach to what he called "the tragic age of the Greeks" as the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the "Socratic era," but also for his overall critique of Western culture.
ENGLISH

The Smile Of Tragedy - Nietzsche And The Art Of Virtue

by Daniel R. Ahern

37,84€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Examines Nietzsche's approach to what he called "the tragic age of the Greeks" as the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the "Socratic era," but also for his overall critique of Western culture.
ENGLISH

The Authority Of Experience - Sensationist Theory In The French Enlightenment

by John C. O'Neal

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

Imitation And Society - The Persistence Of Mimesis In The Aesthetics Of Burke, Hogarth, And Kant

by Tom (School Of Visual Arts) Huhn

93,27€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. This book argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgement and taste.
ENGLISH

Turning Toward Philosophy - Literary Device And Dramatic Structure In Platoâ€™S Dialogues

by Jill (Colby College) Gordon

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, this text aims to show how the literary techniques Plato used, function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life.
ENGLISH

Imitation And Society - The Persistence Of Mimesis In The Aesthetics Of Burke, Hogarth, And Kant

by Tom (School Of Visual Arts) Huhn

43,25€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. This book argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgement and taste.
ENGLISH

The Narrative Shape Of Truth - Veridiction In Modern European Literature

by Ilya (Assistant Professor, New York University) Kliger

100,03€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel.
ENGLISH

What'S Hecuba To Him? - Fictional Events And Actual Emotions

by Eva M. Dadlez

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This work discusses the seeming irrationality or inauthenticity of our emotional response to fiction. Using Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as an example, the book argues that we can understand the relation between cognition and emotion without devaluing our emotional responses to fiction.
ENGLISH

Becoming Human - Romantic Anthropology And The Embodiment Of Freedom

by Chad (Assistant Professor Of German, University Of Virginia) Wellmon

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself.
ENGLISH

Becoming Human - Romantic Anthropology And The Embodiment Of Freedom

by Chad (Assistant Professor Of German, University Of Virginia) Wellmon

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself.
ENGLISH

Philosophy And The Passions - Toward A History Of Human Nature

by Michel Meyer

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 A wide-ranging exegesis that systematically traces the history of philosophical conceptions of the passions in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant and Freud. It asks whether passion tortures people because it blinds them.
ENGLISH

The Self-Deceiving Muse - Notice And Knowledge In The Work Of Art

by Alan (Director Of Graduate Studies, Temple University) Singer

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of it as a token of irrationality. Argues that self-deception can illuminate the rationalistic functions of character.
ENGLISH

The Self-Deceiving Muse - Notice And Knowledge In The Work Of Art

by Alan (Director Of Graduate Studies, Temple University) Singer

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of it as a token of irrationality. Argues that self-deception can illuminate the rationalistic functions of character.
ENGLISH

The Ecstatic Quotidian - Phenomenological Sightings In Modern Art And Literature

by Jennifer Anna (Fordham University) Gosetti-Ferencei

37,84€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

An Image Of The Soul In Speech - Plato And The Problem Of Socrates

by David N. (University Of Essex, Uk) Mcneill

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Investigates what Nietzsche called the "problem of Socrates," as that problem manifests itself in Plato's work. In particular, the book demonstrates how Socrates' own confrontation with this problem is the key to understanding the distinctively mimetic, dialogic, and reflexive character of Socratic philosophy.
Loading results...

View more results