Author : Terrell Carver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 1991-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521366946
In the wake of political collapse in Eastern Europe, the intellectual influence of Marx's thought requires re-appraisal. Backed by current debate and new perspectives, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of his significant contributions.
Author : Terrell Carver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 110703700X
Offers the latest contextual and biographical scholarship with innovative interpretations and is supplemented by the first and latest English translations.
Author : Terrell Carver
Publisher :
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
ISBN : 9781139815079
In the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important Marx's work is now. This volume places Marx's writings in their historical context and separates what he actually said from what others interpreted him as saying.
Author : Fred Leland Rush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521016896
Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. In this volume an international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as lesser known but important thinkers such as Pollock and Neumann. The volume surveys the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history, while at the same time showing the diversity among its proponents that contributes so much to its richness as a philosophical school. The result is an illuminating overview of the entire history of Critical Theory in the twentieth century, an examination of its central conceptual concerns, and an in-depth discussion of its future prospects.
Author : Jerome Neu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 1991-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521377799
This volume covers all the central topics of Freud's work, from sexuality to neurosis to morality, art, and culture.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 1992-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139824899
The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason (1781) shook the very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that the basic principles of the natural science are imposed on reality by human sensibility and understanding, and thus that human beings are also free to impose their own free and rational agency on the world. This 1992 volume is the only systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Kant's writings available, and the first major overview of his work to be published in more than a dozen years. An internationally recognised team of Kant scholars explore Kant's conceptual revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion.
Author : Stephen K. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 1995-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139825143
Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas' work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his most recent publication. Amongst the topics discussed are his relationship to the Frankfurt School of critical theory and Marx, his unique contributions to the philosophy of the social sciences, the concept of 'communicative ethics', and the critique of post-modernism. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Habermas currently available. Advanced students will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Habermas.
Author : Christina Howells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139824945
This is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date surveys of the philosophy of Sartre, by some of the foremost interpreters in the United States and Europe. The essays are both expository and original, and cover Sartre's writings on ontology, phenomenology, psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, as well as his work on history, commitment, and progress; a final section considers Sartre's relationship to structuralism and deconstruction. Providing a balanced view of Sartre's philosophy and situating it in relation to contemporary trends in Continental philosophy, the volume shows that many of the topics associated with Lacan, Foucault, Levi-Strauss, and Derrida are to be found in the work of Sartre, in some cases as early as 1936. A special feature of the volume is the treatment of the recently published and hitherto little studied posthumous works.
Author : Edward Feser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827588
F. A. Hayek (1899–1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an 'anti-Marx' who did more than any other recent thinker to elucidate the theoretical foundations of the free market economy. His account of the role played by market prices in transmitting economic knowledge constituted a devastating critique of the socialist ideal of central economic planning, and his famous book The Road to Serfdom was a prophetic statement of the dangers which socialism posed to a free and open society. He also made significant contributions to fields as diverse as the philosophy of law, the theory of complex systems, and cognitive science. The essays in this volume, by an international team of contributors, provide a critical introduction to all aspects of Hayek's thought.
Author : Edward J. Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827340
Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond. His work nevertheless attracted hostility as well as acclaim and he was increasingly drawn into bitter political controversies, especially the issue of France's place and role in the country of his birth, Algeria. Most recently, postcolonial studies have identified in his writings a set of preoccupations ripe for revisitation. Situating Camus in his cultural and historical context, this 2007 Companion explores his best-selling novels, his ambiguous engagement with philosophy, his theatre, his increasingly high-profile work as a journalist and his reflection on ethical and political questions that continue to concern readers today.
