The Cambridge Companion to Husserl


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Exploring the full range of Husserl's work, these essays reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. An underlying theme is resistance to the idea, current in much intellectual history, of a radical break between "modern" and "postmodern" philosophy, with Husserl as the last of the great Cartesians.




The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger


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This volume contains both overviews of Heidegger's life and works and analysis of his most important work, Being and Time.




The Cambridge Companion to Levinas


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A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas, first published in 2002, which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.




The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty


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The Cambridge Companion to Carnap


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This book explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.




The Cambridge Companion to Brentano


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Franz Brentano (1838–1917) led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. His philosophy laid the groundwork for philosophy of science as it came to fruition in the Vienna Circle, and for phenomenology in the work of such figures as his student Edmund Husserl. This volume brings together newly commissioned chapters on his important work in theory of judgement, the reform of syllogistic logic, theory of intentionality, empirical descriptive psychology and phenomenology, theory of knowledge, metaphysics and ontology, value theory, and natural theology. It also offers a critical evaluation of Brentano's significance in his historical context, and of his impact on contemporary philosophy in both the analytic and the continental traditions.




The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy


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A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.




Edmund Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition


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A collection of papers meant to illustrate the richness of Edmund Husserl's own work and the tradition he began.




The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism


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These essays demonstrate the contemporary vitality of existential thought, engaging critically with the main concepts and figures of existentialism.




The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss


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Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.