Form and Object Garcia, Tristan; Ohm, Mark Allan; Cogburn, Jon
03/2014
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What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology ...that gives us deep insights into the world and our place in it.
This book introduces the diversity of Anglican biblical interpretation in the nineteenth-century. It draws out theological trends in biblical interpretation by examining the sermons, commentaries, ...and monographs of Anglican interpreters, comparing their readings of Scripture.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Denken speist sich aus einer breiten Kenntnis früherer Philosophen – aber hat es die Philosophiegeschichte selbst zum Thema? Hannes Amberger bejaht diese Frage: Leibniz’ ...Verständnis der Philosophiegeschichte orientiert sich an einem Fortschrittsparadigma, dem zufolge entscheidende Wahrheiten der Metaphysik von jeher bekannt sind, aber durch eine Verbesserung der philosophischen Methode in einem niemals abgeschlossenen Prozess kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt werden. Dieses für Leibniz lebenslänglich entscheidende Motiv dient Ambergers Studie zugleich als hermeneutischer Schlüssel, der einen neuen Blick auf bekannte Themen der Leibniz-Forschung erlaubt: die Rezeption etwa Thomas Hobbes’, des Platonismus oder der Scholastik, den Dualismus von Materie und Form, die Prästabilierte Harmonie, den Erfahrungshintergrund im barocken Fürstenstaat und die zeitliche Gliederung von Leibniz’ Werkbiografie. Entscheidende Prämisse für Leibniz’ progressives Geschichtsbild, so die These, ist das neuplatonische Motiv der Teilhabe aller Dinge am Wesen Gottes.
Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method ...of governance that can retain the spirit of the Confucian ideal while tackling problems arising from nonideal modern situations. The best way to meet this challenge, Joseph Chan argues, is to adopt liberal democratic institutions that are shaped by the Confucian conception of the good rather than the liberal conception of the right.
Confucian Perfectionismexamines and reconstructs both Confucian political thought and liberal democratic institutions, blending them to form a new Confucian political philosophy. Chan decouples liberal democratic institutions from their popular liberal philosophical foundations in fundamental moral rights, such as popular sovereignty, political equality, and individual sovereignty. Instead, he grounds them on Confucian principles and redefines their roles and functions, thus mixing Confucianism with liberal democratic institutions in a way that strengthens both. Then he explores the implications of this new yet traditional political philosophy for fundamental issues in modern politics, including authority, democracy, human rights, civil liberties, and social justice.
Confucian Perfectionismcritically reconfigures the Confucian political philosophy of the classical period for the contemporary era.
Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a ...wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire and practical reasoning are to be characterized, what it is to have adequate self-knowledge, and what part narrative plays in our understanding of human lives. He asks, further, what it would be to understand the modern condition from a neo-Aristotelian or Thomistic perspective, and argues that Thomistic Aristotelianism, informed by Marx's insights, provides us with resources for constructing a contemporary politics and ethics which both enable and require us to act against modernity from within modernity. This rich and important book builds on and advances MacIntyre's thinking in ethics and moral philosophy, and will be of great interest to readers in both fields.
What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the ...biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. The result is a provocative genealogy of morals that asks us to reevaluate the priority given to religion, absolute rules, and pure reason in accounting for the basis of morality.
The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. ...Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994. This first English-language selection introduces readers to the HCDM’s wide range of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates. Contributors are: Samir Amin, Jan Otto Andersson, Konstantin Baehrens, Lutz-Dieter Behrendt, Mario Candeias, Robert Cohen, Alex Demirović, Klaus Dörre, William W. Hansen, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle, Juha Koivisto, Wolfgang Küttler, Morus Markard, Eleonore von Oertzen, Christof Ohm, Rinse Reeling Brouwer, Jan Rehmann, Thomas Sablowski, Peter Schyga, Victor Strazzeri, Peter D. Thomas, André Tosel, Michael Vester, Lise Vogel, and Victor Wallis.
La philosophie politique de Claude Lefort (qui a enseigné à l’université de Caen de 1967 à 1971) est fortement ancrée dans le XXe siècle. Elle s’est nourrie de la pensée de nombreux auteurs, à ...commencer par celle de Maurice Merleau-Ponty dont il est l’héritier intellectuel. Elle s’est aussi inspirée de la sociologie et de l’anthropologie. Le dialogue ainsi instauré se poursuit aujourd’hui avec cet ouvrage qui rassemble des interlocuteurs issus de différentes disciplines. Il pose la question de l’héritage actuel de Lefort : dans quelle mesure une pensée qui a tant apporté à la compréhension du siècle dernier peut-elle encore éclairer « les ténèbres » du monde qui lui succèdent ? Différents spécialistes internationaux de l’œuvre, philosophes, sociologues ou anthropologues, de différentes générations et influencés par lui, reprennent ici les thèmes principaux de sa réflexion : le politique, la démocratie vs le totalitarisme, la bureaucratie ; ainsi que la lecture de ses auteurs de référence.
