Category: Existentialism

By Jean-Paul Sartre

ISBN-10: 0415254043

ISBN-13: 9780415254045

Jean-Paul Sartre used to be essentially the most vital philosophical and political thinkers of the 20th century. His writings had a efficiency that was once impossible to resist to the highbrow scene that swept post-war Europe, and feature left an important inheritance to modern idea. The principal guideline of the Existentialist flow which he helped to stumbled on, wherein God is changed through a moral self, proved highly beautiful to a new release that had visible the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war inspiration and literature. In What is Literature? Sartre the novelist and Sartre the thinker mix to deal with the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we learn, and why we write.

By Marvin Farber

Copyright® 1950, 1968, via The study origin of kingdom collage of latest York, Albany, ny. X, 813 pages – ASIN: B001WB8THW

Foreword (fragment): “The ebook of a moment version of Philosophic inspiration in France and the U.S. presents an appropriate celebration for recalling the position performed via the 1st variation, which seemed in 1950. It was once obvious that the essays making up the amount met a long-felt want, as proven by way of the nice and cozy reception and the continued curiosity in them. There have been all too little wisdom of French philosophy in the US, or even much less wisdom of yankee philosophy in France. It used to be to be anticipated that the philosophical disagreement of students from international locations during which there were such huge, immense cultural energy and highbrow switch might meet with a lot curiosity […]”.

Contents: Marvin Farber: Foreword – PART I: modern FRENCH PHILOSOPHY – Jacques Havet: French Philosophical culture among the 2 Wars – Jean Wahl: the current state of affairs and the current way forward for French Philosophy – Emile Bréhier : The Spirit of the heritage of Philosophy and of the Sciences in France – Jean Hering: Phenomenology in France –Gaston Berger adventure and Transcendence – René Le Senne: l. a. Philosophie de l'Esprit – Louis Lavelle : the 3 levels of Metaphysics – Robert Campbell : Existentialism in France because the Liberation – Auguste Cornu Bergsonianism and Existentialism – André Lalande: significant guides at the Philosophy of the Sciences introduced out in France due to the fact 1900 – Marcel Boll and Jacques Reinhart: good judgment in France within the 20th Century – Raymond Polin:The Philosophy of Values in France – Henry Dumêry: Catholic Philosophy in France – Roger Mehl: the placement of non secular Philosophy in France – Raymond Bayer fresh Esthetic proposal in France – Henri Lefebvre: wisdom and Social feedback – Raymond Aron: The Philosophy of background – Henri Wallon : The Philosophy of schooling in France – Richard McKeon – PART II: modern AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: A. Cornelius Benjamin: Philosophy in the USA among Wars – George Boas: The background of Philosophy – H.G. Townsend: Idealism in the USA – Marvin Farber: Descriptive Philosophy and the character of Human lifestyles – Charles A. Baylis: The Given and Perceptual wisdom – Roy wooden Sellars: severe Realism and glossy Materialism – Sidney Hook: where of John Dewey in sleek proposal – Victor F. Lenzen: Philosophy of technological know-how in the US – Donald Cary Williams: likelihood, Induction, and the Provident guy – Frederic JB. Fitch: characteristic and sophistication – Felix Kaufmann: simple matters in Logical Positivism – Abraham Edel: a few traits in American Naturalistic Ethics – Vernon J. Bourse: fabric Possessions and Thomistic Ethics – Daniel S. Robinson: Philosophy of faith within the usa within the 20th Century – Thomas Munro: current trends in American Esthetics – V. J. McGill: the most development of Social Philosophy in the USA – Morton G. White: towards an Analytic Philosophy of background – Harold Taylor: The Philosophy of yankee schooling – André Lalande: Reflections of a French thinker at the previous American Essays – Gilbert Varet: Supplementary Bibliography – index.

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My own opinion approximately this book: most likely the best expositions of ways “continental” and “American” philosophy seemed like within the first many years of the 20 Century.

By Henry David Thoreau

ISBN-10: 0679642021

ISBN-13: 9780679642022

Henry David Thoreau's imaginative and prescient of non-public freedom is indelibly etched at the American cognizance. 'We want the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and via turning his again on city facilities to construct a home on Walden Pond in 1845, he contributed to shaping our notions of the person, subsistence, and an ethical relation to nature. elevating white beans and potatoes that he offered to his harmony friends, he stayed for 2 years; his e-book files either the philosophy he built whereas residing on my own and the evidence of his lifestyle. integrated the following with the entire textual content of Walden are choices from Thoreau's first ebook, per week at the harmony and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent protection of the yank abolitionist's uprising at Harper's Ferry, and such masterpieces as his well-known essay 'Civil Disobedience,' during which he describes an evening spent in criminal for refusing to pay a ballot tax to a central authority that condoned slavery.

By Marjorie Grene

ISBN-10: 0226308189

ISBN-13: 9780226308180

ISBN-10: 0226308197

ISBN-13: 9780226308197

ISBN-10: 0226308235

ISBN-13: 9780226308234

By Volker Gerhardt (Hg.)

ISBN-10: 3050049383

ISBN-13: 9783050049380

Als Zarathustra dreissig Jahr alt conflict, verliess er seine Heimat und den See seiner Heimat und ging in das Gebirge. Hier genoss er seines Geistes und seiner Einsamkeit und wurde dessen zehn Jahr nicht müde. Endlich aber verwandelte sich sein Herz, - und eines Morgens stand er mit der Morgenröthe auf, trat vor die Sonne hin und sprach zu ihr additionally: Du grosses Gestirn! used to be wäre dein Glück, wenn du nicht Die hättest, welchen du leuchtest! Zehn Jahre kamst du hier herauf zu meiner Höhle: du würdest deines Lichtes und dieses Weges satt geworden sein, ohne mich, meinen Adler und meine Schlange. Aber wir warteten deiner an jedem Morgen, nahmen dir deinen Überfluss ab und segneten dich dafür. Siehe! Ich bin meiner Weisheit überdrüssig, wie die Biene, die des Honigs zu viel gesammelt hat, ich bedarf der Hände, die sich ausstrecken. Ich möchte verschenken und austheilen, bis die Weisen unter den Menschen wieder einmal ihrer Thorheit und die Armen einmal ihres Reichthums froh geworden sind. Dazu muss ich in die Tiefe steigen: wie du des Abends thust, wenn du hinter das Meer gehst und noch der Unterwelt Licht bringst, du überreiches Gestirn! Ich muss, gleich dir, untergehen, wie die Menschen es nennen, zu denen ich hinab will. So segne mich denn, du ruhiges Auge, das ohne Neid auch ein allzugrosses Glück sehen kann! Segne den Becher, welche überfliessen will, dass das Wasser golden aus ihm fliesse und überallhin den Abglanz deiner Wonne trage! Siehe! Dieser Becher will wieder leer werden, und Zarathustra will wieder Mensch werden. - additionally begann Zarathustra's Untergang. - - - Zarathustra stieg allein das Gebirge abwärts und Niemand begegnete ihm. Als er aber in die Wälder kam, stand auf einmal ein Greis vor ihm, der seine heilige Hütte verlassen hatte, um Wurzeln im Walde zu suchen. Und additionally sprach der Greis zu Zarathustra: Nicht fremd ist mir dieser Wanderer: vor ma

By Evangelia Sembou

ISBN-10: 1409443086

ISBN-13: 9781409443087

ISBN-10: 1409443094

ISBN-13: 9781409443094

ISBN-10: 147240601X

ISBN-13: 9781472406019

Formerly thought of diversified strands inside of continental suggestion, this booklet compares and contrasts Hegel's 'phenomenology' and Foucault's 'genealogy', contending that during spite in their modifications, those ways proportion vital commonalities, so much significantly within the demeanour during which they dispense with differences among topic and item, thought and praxis, brain and physique, and cause and nature, hence pointing how you can a sort of social and political theorizing with no presuppositions.Considering the potential of constructing a dialectical strategy of 'phenomenology' and 'genealogy', this quantity develops our figuring out of severe conception, when carrying out debates bearing on fact and data within the philosophy of the social sciences. A wealthy exploration of the importance and implications of Hegel's 'phenomenology' and Foucault's 'genealogy' for the social sciences, it is going to be of curiosity to philosophers, in addition to to social and political theorists.

By Giulio Goggi

By Tyron Goldschmidt

This groundbreaking quantity investigates the main basic query of all: Why is there whatever instead of not anything? The query is explored from different and radical views: spiritual, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does technology resolution the query? Or does theology? Does every little thing want a proof? Or can there be brute, inexplicable proof? may possibly there were not anything whatever? Or is there any being that may now not have didn't exist? Is the query significant in spite of everything? the quantity advances state of the art debates in metaphysics, philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of faith, and may intrigue and problem readers drawn to any of those topics.

By Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall

ISBN-10: 1405110775

ISBN-13: 9781405110778

A better half to Phenomenology and Existentialism is an entire consultant to 2 of the dominant pursuits of philosophy within the 20th century.* Written through a crew of top students, together with Dagfinn Føllesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc Marion* Highlights the realm of overlap among the 2 events* beneficial properties longer essays discussing all of the major faculties of proposal, shorter essays introducing sought after subject matters, and problem-oriented chapters* Organised topically, round strategies equivalent to temporality, intentionality, loss of life and nihilism* gains essays on strange matters, equivalent to medication, the sentiments, synthetic intelligence, and environmental philosophy

By James Dodd (auth.)

ISBN-10: 1402021747

ISBN-13: 9781402021749

ISBN-10: 1402021755

ISBN-13: 9781402021756

In his final paintings, "Crisis of the ecu Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology", Edmund Husserl formulated an intensive new method of phenomenological philosophy. not like his earlier works, within the "Crisis" Husserl embedded this formula in an bold mirrored image at the essence and price of the assumption of rational proposal and tradition, a mirrored image that he thought of to be an pressing necessity in gentle of the political, social, and highbrow concern of the interwar interval. during this ebook, James Dodd pursues an interpretation of Husserl's textual content that emphasizes the significance of the matter of the starting place of philosophy, in addition to advances the thesis that, for Husserl, the "crisis of cause" isn't really a contingent old occasion, yet an enduring characteristic of a lifestyles in cause usually.