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Kierkegaard and Levinas : ethics, politics, and religion by Kierkegaard, Søren; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Wood, David; Lévinas,

By Kierkegaard, Søren; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Wood, David; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Kierkegaard, Søren; Simmons, J. Aaron

Recent discussions within the philosophy of faith, ethics, and private political philosophy were deeply marked by way of the impression of 2 philosophers who're usually considered towards one another, Søren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas. dedicated expressly to the connection among Levinas and Kierkegaard, this quantity units forth a extra rigorous comparability and sustained engagement among them. tested and more recent students representing assorted philosophical traditions carry those thinkers into discussion in 12 glowing essays. they think about similarities and variations in how every one elaborated a special philosophy of faith, they usually current topics resembling time, legal responsibility, love, politics, God, transcendence, and subjectivity. This dialog among acquaintances is sure to motivate extra inquiry and ignite philosophical debate.

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Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture: by Suzanne Rintoul

By Suzanne Rintoul

Suzanne Rintoul identifies an enormous contradiction in Victorian representations of abuse: the simultaneous compulsion to show and to imprecise brutality in the direction of girls in intimate relationships. via case experiences and literary research, this booklet illustrates how intimate violence used to be either extraordinary and unspeakable within the Victorian interval.

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Edmund Husserl - Darstellung seines Denkens by Rudolf Bernet

By Rudolf Bernet

Diese konzentrierte, aber umfassend angelegte Darstellung der Philosophie Edmund Husserls bringt eine neue Gesamtinterpretation seines Werkes auf der Grundlage der entscheidenden Fortschritte der version der Forschungs- und Vorlesungsmanuskripte. Sie hält sich im Aufbau soweit möglich an den Fortgang von Husserls Denken, verfährt additionally entwicklungsgeschichtlich. Zugleich ist das Buch nach den systematischen Zusammenhängen gegliedert. Die so erarbeitete Zusammenführung der Entwicklungsstränge und Unterscheidung der Stufen bei Husserl bietet eine intestine fundierte, übersichtlich gegliederte Orientierungshilfe für die systematische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Gesamtwerk auf der foundation des heutigen Forschungsstandes. Unveränderter Print-on-Demand-Nachdruck der 2., verb. Aufl. von 1996.

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The Limits of Disenchantment: Essays on Contemporary by Peter Dews

By Peter Dews

During this e-book Peter Dews explores one of the most pressing difficulties confronting modern eu idea: the prestige of the topic after postmodernism, the moral and existential dimensions of severe idea, the come upon among psychoanalysis and philosophy, and the chances of a non-foundational metaphysical pondering. Peters Dews's strategy cuts around the opposed barriers which typically separate diverse theoretical traditions. Lacan and the Frankfurt institution are introduced into discussion, as are deconstruction and Ricoeur's hermeneutics. present questions of language, verbal exchange and critique can be found in a broader context, because the writer levels again over the heritage of contemporary philosophy, from poststructuralism - through Nietzsche - to German Romanticism and Idealism. a wide selection of matters is mentioned within the ebook, together with Habermas's perspectives at the ethics of nature, Lacan's concept of Oedipal main issue, the relation among writing and the lifeworld of Derrida, and Schelling's philosophy of the 'Ages of the World'. the amount is usually enlivened via forceful reviews of more than a few at the moment influential thinkers, together with Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Rodolphe Gasche and Slavoj Zizek.

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The Victorian Novel and Masculinity by P. Mallett

By P. Mallett

What did it suggest, within the quickly altering international of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specifically for this quantity, 9 exotic students from Britain and the us express how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to find what made males, what broke them, and what restored them.

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Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling: Angst and the by Sharin N. Elkholy

By Sharin N. Elkholy

The early Heidegger of Being and Time is usually believed to find finitude strictly in the person, in line with an figuring out that this person must face its loss of life by myself and in its singularity. dealing with demise is characterised by means of the temper of Angst (anxiety), as dying isn't really an adventure it is easy to another way entry outdoors of one's personal demise.

In the later Heidegger, the finitude of the person is rooted within the finitude of the area it lives in and during which it actualizes its chances, or Being. opposed to the traditional interpreting that the early Heidegger areas the emphasis on person finitude, this significant new booklet indicates how the later version of the finitude of Being is built in Being and Time. Elkholy questions the position of Angst in Heidegger's dialogue of dying and it's on the aspect of transition from the not anything again to the realm of initiatives that the writer locates finitude and exhibits that Heidegger's later deliberating the finitude of Being is rooted in Being and Time.

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Thought's Footing, A Theme in Wittgenstein's Philosophical by Charles Travis

By Charles Travis

Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the connection among the methods issues are and how we expect and discuss them. it's also a learn of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of yes key issues right into a unified view of the paintings as a complete. The significant query is: how does proposal get its footing? How can the idea that issues are a undeniable approach be attached to objects being that means?

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