Studies in Philosophy
The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings
1st Edition
By James Atkinson
August 18, 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 11, 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If Edmund Husserl's true philosophy lay in his unpublished research manuscripts, as he argues, then it is in these – rather than the "introductions" and fragmentary studies he published during his lifetime – that we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 11, 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 ...
Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern
1st Edition
By Sara Eigen Figal
November 04, 2010
This book places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories. It has at its core a deceptively simple question, one too often taken for granted: what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what ...
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Nick Bostrom
June 21, 2010
Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes alluded to as "the ...
Referential Opacity and Modal Logic
1st Edition
By Dagfinn Follesdal
December 07, 2009
This landmark dissertation (1961) provides a systematic introduction to systems of modal logic and stands as the first presentation of what have become central ideas in philosophy of language and metaphysics, from the 'new theory of reference' and non-linguistic necessity and essentialism to '...
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Serena Parekh
November 24, 2009
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary theoreticians of human rights. Beginning ...
Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism: The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition
1st Edition
By Emanuele Saccarelli
June 22, 2009
This book examines the legacy of Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky in the shadow of Stalinism in order to reassess the very different and distorted academic reception of the two figures, as well as to contribute to the revitalization of Marxism for our time. While Gramsci and Trotsky lived and ...
The German Gita: Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought
1st Edition
By Bradley L. Herling
May 22, 2009
How did the Bhagavadgãtà first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of ...
Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event
1st Edition
By Lin Ma
June 11, 2009
This book traces a most obscure and yet most intriguing theme concealed in Heidegger’s thinking and work, which has hitherto not yet been made the focus of a thorough and sustained investigation: that is, the emergence and course of Heidegger’s interest in East Asian thought and of his reflection ...