Rethinking Kant
This text represents a mirror of Kantian studies in North America. It gathers papers presented at the various study groups of the North American Kant Society, along with contributions from hosts, session chairs, and keynote speakers.
Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language
Heidegger and Gadamer are among the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. This book addresses their contributions to aesthetics, metaphysics, and language, comparing their views to those of other thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty.
How to do Philosophy
Why take Wittgenstein seriously today? This text explores the therapeutic conception of philosophy in his later work. Drawing on his writings, including posthumous publications, it clarifies his problem-specific and person-specific philosophical project.
Conversations in Philosophy
This collection of thoughtful and challenging essays offers a careful examination of knowledge and freedom. It interrogates the social dimensions of knowledge, the relationship between knowledge and truth, and the nature of personal and social liberty.
Arthur Schopenhauer
See Schopenhauer the man through 24 letters to his dedicated apostle, David Asher. They reveal the philosopher’s 30-year struggle for recognition in a Germany dominated by Hegelian thought, and the ultimate triumph of a thinker who had long been ignored.
Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice
This volume brings together rich thinking on gestalt therapy from Gestalt!, the pioneering electronic journal of the 1990s. Although the journal no longer exists, this book reclaims its great historical value and still-significant ideas.
The Recognition Principle
This book explores recognition across psychology, sociology, and politics. It argues that no philosophy of recognition can be built without deep psychological and anthropological foundations, ultimately exploring recognition as a general ‘recognition principle’.
These essays advance the philosophical understanding of causation, agency, and moral responsibility. The volume investigates important questions: Can causation be perceived? Is a causal relation a necessary condition for moral responsibility?
This collection addresses the multi-dimensionality of modern moral philosophy. It analyzes agency through historical figures and contemporary issues like oppression and debt, exploring moral reasoning, emotion, responsibility, and what constitutes a moral agent.
Symbolic Forms as the Metaphysical Groundwork of the Organon of the Cultural Sciences
This work restructures the history of ideas and philosophy of culture through the idea of the organon. It provides a new philosophical foundation for the cultural sciences by extracting their main principles and shaping them as symbolic forms.
On Affirmation and Becoming
This book re-explores Nietzsche’s critique of nihilism through Gilles Deleuze. Using Deleuze’s experimental reading, it introduces Nietzsche’s ethics of affirmation and ontology of becoming, moving beyond traditional metaphysics to a new image of thought.
This line-by-line commentary on Kant’s B-Transcendental Deduction reveals its argument as the progressive unfolding of the Principle of Apperception. Focusing on this structure settles controversial questions, making it helpful to students and specialists.
This ambitious work reclassifies the history of ideas by proposing a new organon for the cultural sciences. To comprehend our vast knowledge, the organon extracts key principles and shapes them into symbolic forms, providing a new foundation for philosophy.
This work reclassifies the history of ideas through a new organon for the cultural sciences. Radically revising standard theories, it extracts principles from philosophy, arts, and sciences, and reshapes them as symbolic forms grounded in imagination.
In the first collection devoted to Deleuze and Asia, Asian and Western scholars explore Deleuzian concepts in philosophy, religion, film, art, and literature, mapping new directions in East-West research that reveal new dimensions of Deleuze’s thought.
This unique collection challenges readers to reconsider the nature of ethics. With a panoramic view of ethical themes, it revisits age-old positions and investigates fresh fields to elicit new debates. An invaluable resource for students and scholars.
Locating and Losing the Self in the World
This collection on comparative philosophy explores locating and losing the self in the world. Essays draw on diverse viewpoints from Kant and Simone de Beauvoir to Nāgārjuna and Nishida Kitarō, examining the self’s engagement with the world.
Dante and Heterodoxy
This volume explores Dante’s “temptations” by the radical thought of the 13th century. Spurred by new Aristotelian and Greek-Arabic learning, Dante interrogated heterodox ideas, revealing a poet deeply involved in the intellectual debates of his culture.
Metaphysics and ontology are fundamental philosophical concerns, yet history has revealed flawed conclusions built on dogma. The essays in this volume tackle this secular debate in fresh and original ways, providing tools for clearing the field of unpalatable items.
Aesthetics of Everyday Life
This book reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East. It highlights the interaction between scholars to build a new form of aesthetics from a global perspective, bringing aesthetics to a wider sphere of human life.
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