Studies in Philosophy
Wittgenstein's Novels
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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 ...
The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings
1st Edition
By James Atkinson
August 16, 2011
The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics...
Husserl's Constitutive Phenomenology: Its Problem and Promise
1st Edition
By Bob Sandmeyer
November 10, 2010
If Edmund Husserl's true philosophy lay in his unpublished research manuscripts, as he argues, then it is in these – rather than the "introductions" and fragmentary studies he published during his lifetime – that we may possibly find a systematic of his philosophy. This work constitutes a study of ...
The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'
1st Edition
By Chloe Taylor
November 10, 2010
Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and ...