Fully cross-referenced A†"Z entries define French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux's 75 most important concepts and the key figures who have influenced him.
Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and certainly for the concept of reality itself. ...Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, Why the Humanities Matter offers a guided tour of the modern condition, calling upon thinkers in a variety of disciplines to affirm essential concepts such as truth, goodness, and beauty. Offering a lens of “new humanism,” Frederick Aldama also provides a liberating examination of the current cultural repercussions of assertions by such revolutionary theorists as Said, Foucault, Lacan, and Derrida, as well as Latin Americanists such as Sommer and Mignolo. Emphasizing pedagogy and popular culture with equal verve, and writing in colloquial yet multifaceted prose, Aldama presents an enlightening way to explore what “culture” actually does—who generates it and how it shapes our identities—and the role of academia in sustaining it.
Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the five volumes range ...over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpieces of the western philosophical canon. This volume covers the central texts in the history of analytic philosophy from Quine's Word and Object (1960) to the present day. The texts range over political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophies of language, mind and logic and represent some of the most important philosophical work of the last forty years. Students and non-specialists who may find the technicality of some of the texts forbidding will welcome the clarity of exposition and exegesis that the essays provide. Taken together the essays provide both a map and compass for the current philosophical landscape and will prove a valuable resource not only for undergraduate and postgraduate philosophy students but for teachers and researchers in allied disciplines who need an understanding of the preoccupations of contemporary philosophy.
Contributors Preface Introduction: The Twentieth Century: Quine and After John Shand 1. W. V. Quine: Word and Object Gary Kemp 2. P. F. Strawson: Individuals Paul Snowdon 3. John Rawls: A Theory of Justice Anthony Laden 4. Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia Peter Vallentyne 5. Michael Dummett: Truth and Other Enigmas Berhnard Weiss 6. Richard Rorty: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Alan Malachowski 7. Donald Davidson: Essays on Actions and Events Kirk Ludwig 8. Saul Kripke: Naming and Necessity John P. Burgess 9. Hilary Putnam: Reason, Truth and History Peter Clark 10. Bernard Williams: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy A. W. Moore 11. Thomas Nagel: The View From Nowhere Anita Avramides 12. David Lewis: On the Plurality of Worlds Phillip Bricker 13. Charles Taylor: Sources of the Self Ruth Abbey 14. John McDowell: Mind and World Tim Thornton Index
In this rich and detailed study of early modern women's thought, Jacqueline Broad explores the complexity of women's responses to Cartesian philosophy and its intellectual legacy in England and ...Europe. She examines the work of thinkers such as Mary Astell, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway and Damaris Masham, who were active participants in the intellectual life of their time and were also the respected colleagues of philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz and Locke. She also illuminates the continuities between early modern women's thought and the anti-dualism of more recent feminist thinkers. The result is a more gender-balanced account of early modern thought than has hitherto been available. Broad's clear and accessible exploration of this still-unfamiliar area will have a strong appeal to both students and scholars in the history of philosophy, women's studies and the history of ideas.
La relación de José Ortega y Gasset con la fenomenología de Edmund Husserl, una de las principales corrientes filosóficas surgidas a comienzos del pasado siglo, se ha convertido en las últimas ...décadas en uno de los temas más debatidos entre los especialistas en la obra del filósofo español. A ello ha contribuido de un modo decisivo Javier San Martín, cuyos trabajos, pioneros en esta materia, se han convertido en referencia ineludible en los estudios orteguianos a nivel internacional. Prueba fehaciente de ello quiere ser el presente volumen colectivo, en el que trece profesores e investigadores de distintas generaciones y nacionalidades entran en diálogo con la lectura fenomenológica de Ortega que nos propone Javier San Martín, sintetizada por él mismo en el ensayo que inaugura este libro. En el trascurso de estas páginas encontrará el lector abordados y discutidos prácticamente todos los temas centrales de la filosofía orteguiana: desde filosofía del lenguaje, antropología, ética, sociología, pedagogía, política, epistemología y teoría de la ciencia, hasta su menos estudiada filosofía de la religión, pasando, como no puede ser de otra manera en los estudios orteguianos, por las meditaciones sobre el amor, el vino y los marcos. Javier San Martín es Catedrático de Filosofía de la UNED y Profesor Emérito desde 2016. Fundador de la Sociedad Española de Fenomenología, de la que es presidente honorífico, y autor de más de doscientas publicaciones en varios idiomas sobre fenomenología, antropología filosófica y la obra de Ortega y Gasset, las tres grandes temáticas a las que ha dedicado su producción filosófica.
