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The Philosophy of Nietzsche by H. Mencken offers a comprehensive analysis of the philosopher's life, events that influenced his worldview, ideas, and influence on philosophy. A reader will learn interesting facts about the youth of Nietzsche, his education and first attempts in philosophy, the growth of the idea of a superman. Also, a book gives insights into his relations with women, the church, other philosophers, and government. Special attention...
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The Future of the World Is Open examines the work and thought of three prominent Italian feminist philosophers, Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavarero, as it delves into the significant experiences that shaped them, highlighting their converging and diverging positions. Also appearing here for the first time in English translation are three essays by renowned author, journalist, and political figure Rossana Rossanda. Rossanda's essays offer...
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Offering, for the first time, a full historicized accounting of philosophical archaeology, Ido Govrin delineates how this overarching method of historical inquiry has today become associated, to a large extent, with the work of Giorgio Agamben-and how it constitutes Agamben's philosophy of history in particular. As befits a book situated at an intellectual crossroads that brings together a range of discourses-philosophy, history, aesthetics, theology...
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Cuando compramos rara vez nos paramos a pensar que no estamos adquiriendo un objeto o producto sin más, sino un cristal solidificado de la fuerza de trabajo de otras personas. Esto, que Marx denominó el «fetichismo de la mercancía», aparece en paralelo con otro fenómeno que impregna toda la sociedad moderna, la ilusión de que el capital genera capital, la «mistificación del capital».
En Fetiche y mistificación capitalistas, Clara Ramas...
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Entra en el anfiteatro, rápido, precipitado para llegar a su silla. Aparta las grabadoras, para hacer hueco en la superficie de la mesa, y coloca sus papeles. Se quita la chaqueta, enciende la lámpara y se sienta. Alza la mirada, sus gafas devuelven el brillo de la luz, y arranca. El sonido de su voz, fuerte, eficaz, iluminadora, que llega a través de altavoces a las más de quinientas personas apiñadas en la sala, marca el inicio de una nueva...
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La vida nos ofrece suficiente tiempo para hacer todo lo que es realmente importante.
Simple y claro. Que no fácil. Así lo concebía Séneca.
Y así lo expresó en el año 55 d. C. en este ensayo incluido en su obra Diálogos y dirigido a su suegro Paulino. En él plantea una serie de principios estoicos que tratan sobre el tiempo y cómo la gente lo malgasta en actividades absurdas en lugar de hacer algo útil con él.
El filósofo estoico realiza...
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A Derrida scholar traces the evolution of the philosopher's final seminar in Paris as he contemplates the state of the world and his own mortality.
For decades, philosopher Jacques Derrida held weekly seminars in Paris, spending years at a time on a single, complex theme. From 2001 to 2003, he delivered the final work in this series, entitled "The Beast and the Sovereign." As this final seminar progressed, its central theme was diverted by questions...
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Auch ich war in Arkadien! - Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff - 1788 auf Schloss Lubowitz bei Ratibor als Sohn eines preußischen Offiziers geboren, genießt Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff eine aristokratisch-katholische Erziehung und schließt 1812 - gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder - das Studium der Rechtwissenschaft ab und nimmt als Leutnant im Lützowschen Freikorps am Befreiungskrieg teil. 1815 erscheint mit »Ahnung und Gegenwart« sein...
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In Thinking the Event, continental philosopher François Raffoul explores the question of what constitutes an event as an event: not what happens or why it happens, but what "happening" means. If it's true that nothing happens without a reason, as Leibniz famously posited, then does this principle of reason have a reason?
Bringing together philosophical insights from Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jean-Luc Marion, Raffoul...
10) Reading Wiredu
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Reading Wiredu is the first comprehensive overview of the philosophical thought of Kwasi Wiredu. Born in Ghana in 1931, Wiredu, an important observer and critic of philosophy generally, remains an original and penetrating African thinker. Interrelating Wiredu's philosophical writings from across decades, Barry Hallen sets forth the basic tenets and the defining features of his philosophy.
Wiredu's thought is divided into five distinct but interconnected...
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Ziel dieses Werkes ist es, einen Leitfaden zu geben, um zu erlernen, wie man ein guter Mensch wird und wie man ein glückliches Leben führt. Da hierfür der Begriff des Handelns zentral ist, ist bereits im ersten Satz davon die Rede: "Jedes praktische Können und jede wissenschaftliche Untersuchung, ebenso alles Handeln und Wählen, strebt nach einem Gut, wie allgemein angenommen wird." Ein Gut kann dabei entweder nur dazu da sein, ein weiteres Gut...
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"Chinese Philosophy: The Classic Collection" is a comprehensive anthology that explores the rich philosophical traditions of ancient China. This book features key texts such as "The Analects," which contains the teachings of Confucius, and "Tao Te Ching," a foundational text of Taoism. It also includes "Musings of a Chinese Mystic," offering insights from the enigmatic sage Chuang Tzu , as well as "The Sayings of Mencius," presenting the ethical and...
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El coronavirus es un virus soberano que traspasa los muros patrióticos, las arrogantes fronteras de los soberanistas. Y revela con toda su terrible crudeza la lógica inmunitaria que excluye a los más débiles. La diferencia entre protegidos e indefensos, que desafía toda idea de justicia, no ha sido nunca tan evidente. El virus ha puesto al descubierto la crueldad del capitalismo y muestra la imposibilidad de salvarse si no es con ayuda mutua,...
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Three essential philosophers on the nature of reality, the health of the human body, and the meaning of history. Science and Philosophy: An essential introduction to Alfred North Whitehead's life and philosophy. From personal reflections to his groundbreaking essay "Process and Reality" to an enlightening discussion of Einstein's theories, Science and Philosophy is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand one of the modern world's greatest thinkers....
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Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence's top official for military matters to his posthumous works, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Christopher Lynch argues that the issue of war permeates the form and content of each of Machiavelli's works, the substance of his thoughts, and his own activity as a writer,...
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Contents:
Beyond Good and Evil
The Genealogy of Morals
The Birth of Tragedy or, Hellenism And Pessimism
The Antichrist
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
The Case of Wagner
The Twilight of the Idols
The Will to Power (Vol. 1&2)
The Gay Science or, The Joyful Wisdom
We Philologists
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is
The Greek State
The Greek Woman
On Music and Words
Homer's Contest
The Relation of Schopenhauer's Philosophy to a German...
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Three classic texts in one: essays by Alfred North Whitehead, an authoritative study of Otto Rank, and an essential reference book on hypnosis.
In Science and Philosophy, Alfred North Whitehead presents his mature thought on topics ranging from education to science and mathematics; from the theories of John Dewey to Albert Einstein. These collected essays cover his positions in a deep and extraordinarily unified way.
Austrian psychologist Otto...
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Friedrich Nietzsche was the most fearlessly provocative and original thinker in Western history. The protean diversity of his writings make him one of the most influential of modern philosophers, yet his often paradoxical statements can be properly understood only within the context of his restless, tragic life. Physically handicapped by weak eyesight, violent headaches and bouts of nausea, this Nietzsche made short shrift of self-pity and ostentatious...
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A presentation of the two-semester lecture course on Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971 by the esteemed American philosopher.
Devoted primarily to a close reading of the French philosopher's magnum opus, Phenomenology of Perception, this course begins with a detailed analysis of The Structure of Behavior. The central topics considered in the lectures include the functions of the phenomenological body, beyond realism and...
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Toward a Concrete Philosophy explores the reactions of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse to Martin Heidegger prior to their dismissal of him once he turned to the Nazi party in 1933. Mikko Immanen provides a fascinating glimpse of the three future giants of twentieth-century social criticism when they were still looking for their philosophical voices. By reconstructing their overlooked debates with Heidegger and Heideggerians, Immanen...
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