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Arnold Geulincx Ethics

Author : Han van Ruler

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 32,81 MB

Release : 2006-11-30

Category : History

ISBN : 9047411382

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Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant. His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel Beckett stated that Geulincx, with his emphasis on the powerlessness and ignorance of the human condition, was a key influence on his works. This is the first complete version of the text to appear in a modern language. It includes the full text of the Ethics and Beckett’s notes to his reading of Geulincx. Shedding new light on important moments of intellectual history, it is a major event for students of philosophy and literature. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, vol. 1



The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon

Author : Lawrence Nolan

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1642 pages

File Size : 40,40 MB

Release : 2015-01-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1316380939

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The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers. There are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of Cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countries.



Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx

Author : David Tucker

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 43,88 MB

Release : 2012-05-10

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1441139354

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The first full-length study of Samuel Beckett's fascination with the seventeenth-century philosopher Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669).



Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism

Author : Alexander X. Douglas

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 43,67 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0198732503

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Situates Spinoza's philosophy in its immediate historical context and argues that much of it was conceived with the purpose of rebutting a claim about the limitations of philosophy made by some of his contemporaries.



Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image

Author : Anthony Uhlmann

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 3 pages

File Size : 31,89 MB

Release : 2006-12-14

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1139460803

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Beckett often made use of images from the visual arts and readapted them, staging them in his plays, or using them in his fiction. Anthony Uhlmann sets out to explain how an image differs from other terms, like 'metaphor' or 'representation', and, in the process, to analyse Beckett's use of images borrowed from philosophy and aesthetics. This study, first published in 2006, carefully examines Beckett's thoughts on the image in his literary works and his extensive notes to the philosopher Arnold Geulincx. Uhlmann considers how images might allow one kind of interaction between philosophy and literature, and how Beckett makes use of images which are borrowed from, or drawn into dialogue with, philosophical images from Geulincx, Berkeley, Bergson, and the ancient Stoics. Uhlmann's reading of Beckett's aesthetic and philosophical interests provides a revolutionary reading of the importance of the image in his work.



Beckett/Philosophy

Author : Matthew Feldman

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 405 pages

File Size : 19,76 MB

Release : 2014-03-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 383826701X

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This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion.?S. E. Gontarski, Journal of Beckett StudiesThis is an important contribution to ongoing attempts to understand the relationship of Beckett's work to philosophy. It breaks some new ground, and helps us to consider not only how Beckett made use of philosophy but how his own thought might be understood philosophical.?Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney



One True Cause

Author : Andrew R. Platt

Publisher :

Page : 397 pages

File Size : 19,83 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0190941790

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Starting in the 1660s, followers of the philosopher Descartes argued for what has come to be known as "occasionalism." In its most extreme form, occasionalism is the doctrine that God directly causes everything that happens in the world, and no other being is a true cause of any effect. The views of Cartesian occasionalists were once largely dismissed by English-speaking philosophers. But since the 1970s, a growing body of secondary literature has highlighted the historical significance, and philosophical interest, of their views. This study expands on recent scholarship to provide the first comprehensive account of occasionalism in the seventeenth century.



Falsifying Beckett

Author : Matthew Feldman

Publisher : Ibidem Press

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 22,18 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9783838207063

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The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualize and exemplify the recent 'empirical turn' in Beckett studies. Characterized, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist interpretations, this approach has helped to transform the study of Samuel Beckett over the past generation. In addition to focusing upon Beckett's early immersion in philosophy and psychology, other chapters similarly analyze his later collaboration with the BBC through the lens of literary history. Falsifying Beckett thus offers new readings of Beckett by returning to his archive of notebooks, letters, and drafts. In reassessing key aspects of his development as one of the 20th century's leading artists, this collection is of interest to all students of Beckett's writing as well as 'historicist' scholars and critics of modernism more generally.



Platonism at the Origins of Modernity

Author : Douglas Hedley

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 36,13 MB

Release : 2007-12-22

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1402064071

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This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period. It examines philosophers of Platonic tradition, such as Cusanus, Ficino, and Cudworth. The book also addresses the impact of Platonism on major philosophers of the period, especially Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley.