Studies in Philosophy
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
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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
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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. ...
Wittgenstein's Novels
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By Martin Klebes
April 30, 2012
Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the ...
Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics, Justice, and the Human Beyond Being
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By Lis Thomas
April 10, 2012
This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century...
Volition, Rhetoric, and Emotion in the Work of Pascal
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By Thomas Parker
April 10, 2012
This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal's description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a ...
Discourse, Desire, and Fantasy in Jurgen Habermas' Critical Theory
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By Kenneth MacKendrick
March 13, 2012
This book argues that Jürgen Habermas’ critical theory can be productively developed by incorporating a wider understanding of fantasy and imagination as part of its conception of communicative rationality and communicative pathologies. Given that meaning is generated both linguistically and ...
Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience
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By Marc Djaballah
December 15, 2011
This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on the ...
Teleology and the Norms of Nature
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By William J. FitzPatrick
December 12, 2011
This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their application to human life....
Topics in the Philosophy of Possible Worlds
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By Daniel Nolan
December 12, 2011
This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds. Areas investigated include the theories of the nature of possible worlds, general questions about metaphysical analysis and questions about the direction of dependence between what is ...
Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference
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By Kevin C. Klement
December 09, 2011
This book aims to develop certain aspects of Gottlob Frege's theory of meaning, especially those relevant to intentional logic. It offers a new interpretation of the nature of senses, and attempts to devise a logical calculus for the theory of sense and reference that captures as closely as ...
Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy: Reflections on Mathematical Practice
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By Lisa Shabel
December 09, 2011
Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy provides a much needed reading (and re-reading) of Kant's theory of the construction of mathematical concepts through a fully contextualized analysis. In this work Lisa Shabel convincingly argues that it is only through an understanding of the relevant ...