Tragic Thoughts at the End 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 Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy write by Gerald L. Bruns. This book was released on 1999-07-21. Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this text Bruns investigates the recent phenomenon of philosophers taking an interest in literature and literary theory.
Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 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 and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy write by N. Joll. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.
Thinking like a Mall
Thinking like a Mall - 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 Thinking like a Mall write by Steven Vogel. This book was released on 2016-09-02. Thinking like a Mall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment. Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,” as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the “environment”—that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit. We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold urged) as like a mall. Shopping malls, too, are part of the environment and deserve as much serious consideration from environmental thinkers as do mountains. Vogel argues provocatively that environmental philosophy, in its ethics, should no longer draw a distinction between the natural and the artificial and, in its politics, should abandon the idea that something beyond human practices (such as “nature”) can serve as a standard determining what those practices ought to be. The appeal to nature distinct from the built environment, he contends, may be not merely unhelpful to environmental thinking but in itself harmful to that thinking. The question for environmental philosophy is not “how can we save nature?” but rather “what environment should we inhabit, and what practices should we engage in to help build it?”
Freedom to Fail
Freedom to Fail - 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 Freedom to Fail write by Peter Trawny. This book was released on 2015-06-24. Freedom to Fail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in contemporary philosophy. Yet his name has also been mired in controversy because of his affiliations with the Nazi regime, his failure to criticize its genocidal politics and his subsequent silence about the holocaust. Now, according to Heidegger's wishes, and to complete the publication of his multi-volume Complete Works, his highly controversial and secret 'Black Notebooks' have been released to the public. These notebooks reveal the extent to which Heidegger's 'personal Nazism' was neither incidental nor opportunistic, but part of his philosophical ethos. So, why would Heidegger, far from destroying them, allow these notebooks, which contain examples of this extreme thinking, to be published? In this revealing new book, Peter Trawny, editor of Heidegger's complete works in German, confronts these questions and, by way of a compelling study of his theoretical work, shows that Heidegger was committed to a conception of freedom that is only beholden to the judgement of the history of being; that is, that to be free means to be free from the prejudices, norms, or mores of one's time. Whoever thinks the truth of being freely exposes themselves to the danger of epochal errancy. For this reason, Heidegger's decision to publish his notebooks, including their anti-Jewish passages, was an exercise of this anarchical freedom. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion of Heidegger's views on truth, ethics, the truth of being, tragedy and his relationship to other figures such as Nietzsche and Schmitt, Trawny provides a compelling argument for why Heidegger wanted the explosive material in his Black Notebooks to be published, whilst also offering an original and provocative interpretation of Heidegger's work.
Tragedy and Philosophy
Tragedy and 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 Tragedy and Philosophy write by Walter Kaufmann. This book was released on 1992. Tragedy and Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.
