Philosophy in the Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy in the Present write by Alain Badiou. This book was released on 2009-12-14. Philosophy in the Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will not be restrained by academic discipline. Philosophy is strange and new, and yet speaks in the name of all - as Badiou shows with his theory of universality. Similarly, Zizek believes that the philosopher must intervene, contrary to all expectations, in the key issues of the time. He can offer no direction, but this only shows that the question has been posed incorrectly: it is valid to change the terms of the debate and settle on philosophy as abnormality and excess. At once an invitation to philosophy and an introduction to the thinking of two of the most topical and controversial philosophers writing today, this concise volume will be of great interest to students and general readers alike.
Modern Philosophy
Modern Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Philosophy write by Brian Duignan Senior Editor, Religion and Philosophy. This book was released on 2010-08-15. Modern Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the history of modern philosophy and includes profiles of notable philosophers, discussing the writings of the Renaissance, Rationalism, Enlightenment, and Empiricism.
Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future
Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future write by André Grahle. This book was released on 2022-01-25. Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume features original essays on the philosophy of love. The essays are organized thematically around the past, present, and future of philosophical thinking about love. In Part I, the contributors explore what we can learn from the history of philosophical thinking about love. The chapters cover Ancient Greek thinkers, namely Plato and Aristotle, as well as Kierkegaard’s critique of preferential love and Erich Fromm’s mystic interpretation of sexual relations. Part II covers current conceptions and practices of love. These chapters explore how love changes over time, the process of falling in love, the erotic dimension of romantic love, and a new interpretation of grand-parental love. Finally, Part III looks at the future of love. These chapters address technological developments related to love, such as algorithm-driven dating apps and robotic companions, as well as the potential of polyamory as a future romantic ideal. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in moral philosophy and social and political philosophy who are working on issues related to the philosophy of love.
The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Philosophy write by Christoph Delius. This book was released on 2016-04-07. The Story of Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A volume in the "Compact Knowledge Series," this title provides a well-illustrated survey of philosophy. Beginning in Classical Antiquity (the Greeks and Romans), the survey moves through the Middles Ages (the emergence of Scholasticism), The Renaissance, Rationalism and Empiricism in the Seventeenth Century, The Enlightenment, German Idealism, Positivism and Pragmatism in the 19th Century and on into the Present. Includes a Glossary and Index of Persons. Also available in this series: The Story of Architecture (978-1-56649-354-3) and The Story of World Religions (978-1-56649-353-6).
The Actual and the Possible
The Actual and the Possible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Actual and the Possible write by Mark Sinclair. This book was released on 2017. The Actual and the Possible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history. The ultimate purpose of this historical approach is to contextualise and even to offer some alternatives to dominant positions within the contemporary philosophy of modality. Hence the volume contains not only new scholarship on the early-modern doctrines of Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff and Immanuel Kant, but also work relating to less familiar nineteenth-century thinkers such as Alexius Meinong and Jan Lukasiewicz, together with essays on celebrated nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers such as G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger and Bertrand Russell, whose modal doctrines have not previously garnered the attention they deserve. The volume thus covers a variety of traditions, and its historical range extends to the end of the twentieth century, addressing the legacy of W. V. Quine's critique of modality within recent analytic philosophy.
