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Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre
epub |eng | | Author:Henri Lefebvre

Hegel’s Phenomenology already contained this striking theory of the abstract animal: man who, taking the abstraction and split of his activity (specialization) as reality and thing into which to absorb ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 17,2016 )
On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume by Noam Chomsky & Mitsou Ronat
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Noam Chomsky & Mitsou Ronat [Chomsky, Noam]

CHAPTER 2 The Object of Inquiry I hope it will not be too repetitive if I begin by summarizing briefly what I have said so far, elaborating here and there ...
( Category: Postmodernism June 10,2016 )
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor
epub, azw, pdf |eng | 2016-03-13 | Author:Charles Taylor [Taylor, Charles]

6 Constitution 1 The Articulation of Meaning 1 In Chapter 5 I discussed how what I called “figuring” can extend the reach of our descriptive powers. The time has now ...
( Category: Modern May 25,2016 )
Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical by Sciabarra Chris
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Sciabarra, Chris [Sciabarra, Chris]

MASTER AND SLAVE As we have seen, The Fountainhead provided Rand with the first opportunity to present a complex psychological portrait of those individuals whom she described as “second-handers.” As ...
( Category: Russia May 19,2016 )
Existential Monday by Benjamin Fondane
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Benjamin Fondane

MAN BEFORE HISTORY Or, The Sound and the Fury “Man Before History,” the closing contribution to a symposium about the European political crisis, published in the spring of 1939, stands ...
( Category: Existentialism May 19,2016 )
Georges Bataille by Hewson Mark; Coelen Marcus;
epub |eng | | Author:Hewson, Mark; Coelen, Marcus;

Notes 1 Unless specified otherwise, translations of Bataille’s quotations from his Complete Works in French are mine. Where possible, I have used the English translation available. 2 On this topic, ...
( Category: Modern May 4,2016 )
A Hedonist Manifesto by Michel Onfray
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Michel Onfray

A Dialectic of Politeness Hedonism thus entails a perpetual calculus that considers the pleasures one can expect from a given situation, as well as the possible pains. We make a ...
( Category: Modern May 2,2016 )
Germany's Last Mission to Japan by Joseph Mark Scalia
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Joseph Mark Scalia [Scalia Mark Joseph]

Commanding the naval contingent to Japan was forty-eight-year-old Gerhard Falcke, a naval construction engineer and electrical welding expert. Upon the conclusion of preliminary POW interrogations, the ONI assessed Falcke as ...
( Category: Japan April 30,2016 )
Michel Foucault by Taylor Diana;
epub |eng | | Author:Taylor, Diana;

Spiritual practices Foucault’s historicizing of the Western subject leads him to ancient Greek and Hellenist forms of subjectivity in his final works. In his 1981–82 Collège de France course, The ...
( Category: Modern April 21,2016 )
The Philosophy of Husserl by Hopkins Burt;
epub |eng | | Author:Hopkins, Burt;

Reciprocal and asymmetrical foundational relations between reflectively and unreflectively modified lived-experiences The “modifications” that “belong to any lived-experience as ideally inherent variations” (Ideas I, 149) in it are therefore investigated ...
( Category: Phenomenology April 21,2016 )
The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism by Sim Stuart;
epub |eng | | Author:Sim, Stuart;

Television is Old and New: Modern and Postmodern A constructive way to theorize television’s uniqueness in the broadcast/post-broadcast era, which at the same time allows for a discussion of postmodernity, ...
( Category: Postmodernism April 20,2016 )
A Companion to Schopenhauer by Vandenabeele Bart;
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Vandenabeele, Bart;

14 Schopenhauer on Tragedy and the Sublime ALEX NEILL At its best, Schopenhauer suggests, tragic drama: shows us the greatest misfortune not as an exception, not as something brought about ...
( Category: Modern April 20,2016 )
Portraits of American Philosophy by Steven M. Cahn
epub |eng | 2012-04-13 | Author:Steven M. Cahn

And today, more than fifty years after that meeting, it is still the image that comes to mind when I think of what democracy at its best really means. In ...
( Category: Modern April 14,2016 )
Philosophy of Social Science by Alexander Rosenberg
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alexander Rosenberg [Rosenberg, Alexander]

CHAPTER NINE Holism and Antireductionism in Sociology and Psychology Among social scientists there is a long tradition of insisting that the distinctive subject matter of their sciences are facts that ...
( Category: Methodology April 8,2016 )
Nietzsche and the Nazis by Hicks Stephen R.C
mobi |eng | 2010-07-28 | Author:Hicks, Stephen R.C. [Hicks, Stephen R.C.]

This leads us to a third major point of difference. 30. On anti-Semitism: valid or disgusting? The most repulsive sign of Germany’s decline, Nietzsche writes—and this may be initially surprising—is ...
( Category: Modern March 6,2016 )

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