Studies in Philosophy
Dialectics of the Body: Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno
1st Edition
By Lisa Yun Lee
August 12, 2014
The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present ...
Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism
1st Edition
By Jennifer Ang Mei Sze
August 12, 2014
Reinterpreting Sartre’s main methodologies and removing Hegelian dialectics from his notion of violence, this book demolishes the supposed hostile intersubjective relations that characterizes all concrete relations. Furthering this stance, it reconstructs an interpretation of the "violent Sartre" ...
Understanding the Many
1st Edition
By Byeong Uk Yi
August 12, 2014
This book presents a mathematically and logically sophisticated analysis of the many, or the more than one. Covering issues of natural numbers, facts and their proper analysis, properties and their instantiation, as well as the logic of sets, this book elucidates one of the most debated concepts ...
Hegel's Critique of Essence: A Reading of the Wesenlogic
1st Edition
By Franco Cirulli
July 17, 2014
This volume shows how The Doctrine of Essence intersects with perennial philosophical questions including above all, the relationship between freedom and determinism. The Doctrine of Essence is of central importance, since it is a critical description of traditional categories which also ...
The Constitution of Consciousness: A Study in Analytic Phenomenology
1st Edition
By Wolfgang Huemer
July 17, 2014
Through the work of philosophers like Sellars, Davidson, and McDowell, the question of how the mind is related to the world has gained new importance in contemporary analytic philosophy. This book demonstrates that Husserl's phenomenological analyses of the structure of consciousness can provide ...
Logic and Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
1st Edition
By Ian Proops
May 16, 2014
This historical study investigates Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of logic and language, as it is presented in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The study makes a case for the Tractatus as an insightful critique of the philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege-the Founding ...
Bioregionalism and Global Ethics: A Transactional Approach to Achieving Ecological Sustainability, Social Justice, and Human Well-being
1st Edition
By Richard Evanoff
April 28, 2014
Bioregionalism and Global Ethics suggests that current trends towards globalization are creating entirely new social and environmental problems which require cross-cultural dialogue towards the creation of a new "global ethic." Current models of development are based on an implicit global ethic ...
The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation
1st Edition
By Sarah Clark Miller
April 09, 2014
The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care ...
Violence and Phenomenology
1st Edition
By James Dodd
December 11, 2013
This book pursues the problem of whether violence can be understood to be constitutive of its own sense or meaning, as opposed to being merely instrumental. Dodd draws on the resources of phenomenological philosophy, and takes the form of a series of dialogues between figures both inside and ...
The Immanent Word: The Turn to Language in German Philosophy, 1759-1801
1st Edition
By Katie Terezakis
May 01, 2013
The Immanent Word establishes that the philosophical study of language inaugurated in the 1759 works of Hamann and Lessing marks a paradigm shift in modern philosophy; it analyzes the transformation of that shift in works of Herder, Kant, Fichte, Novalis and Schlegel. It contends that recent ...
On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy
1st Edition
By Nathan Ross
February 28, 2013
On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegel’s thinking about political and social institutions. It counters as overly simplistic the notion that Hegel has an ‘organic concept of society’. It examines the thought of Hegel’s peers and...
Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature
1st Edition
By Ulrich Plass
May 08, 2012
Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse.Selected Contents: Introduction: Adorno’s Literary Criticism 1. The Art of Transition 2. ...