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Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education
(November 2021)
Timothy W. Burns - Author
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The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.
Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, ...(Read More) |
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The Humanistic Background of Science
(October 2021)
Philipp Frank - Author
George A. Reisch - Editor
Adam Tamas Tuboly - Editor
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The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.
Philipp Frank (1884–1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose last book, The Humanistic Background of Science, is finally available. Never publishe...(Read More) |
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D. G. Leahy and the Thinking Now Occurring
(September 2021)
Lissa McCullough - Editor
Elliot R. Wolfson - Editor
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A critical introduction to the American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014), whose oeuvre sets forth a fundamental thinking in which change itself is revealed to be the very essence of reality and mind.
This book offers a critical introduction to the work of American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014). Leahy’s fundamental thinking can be characterized as an absolute creativity<...(Read More) |
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Critique in German Philosophy
(November 2020)
From Kant to Critical Theory
María del Rosario Acosta López - Editor
J. Colin McQuillan - Editor
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Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.
Critique has been a central theme in the German philosophical tradition since the eighteenth century. The main goal of this book is to provide a history of this concept from its Kantian inception to contemporary critical theory. Focusing on both canonical and previously overloo...(Read More) |
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John Dewey's Later Logical Theory
(September 2020)
James Scott Johnston - Author
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A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.
By 1916, Dewey had written two volumes on logical theory. Yet, in light of what he would write in his 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, much remained to be done. Dewey did not yet have an adequate account of experience suitable to explain how our immediate experienci...(Read More) |
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The Disintegration of Community
(September 2020)
On Jorge Portilla’s Social and Political Philosophy, With Translations of Selected Essays
Carlos Alberto Sánchez - Author
Francisco Gallegos - Author
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Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.
The Disintegration of Community analyzes the social and cultural writings of Jorge Portilla (1919−1963) in order to demonstrate the continued relevance of his thought. Carlos Alberto Sánchez and Francisco Gallegos situate Portilla’s otros ensayos—a series of essays originally p...(Read More) |
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The Movement of Showing
(March 2020)
Indirect Method, Critique, and Responsibility in Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger
Johan de Jong - Author
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Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive of their thought as a “movement” rather than as a presentation of results or conclusions.
This book explores the idea shared by Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger that the value of their thought is not found in its results or conclusions, but in its “movement.” All three describe the heart of their work in terms of a pathway, development, or movement that see...(Read More) |
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Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
(November 2019)
Steven Skultety - Author
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Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contemporary political theory.
Do only modern thinkers like Machiavelli and Hobbes accept that conflict plays a significant role in the origin and maintenance of political community? In this book, Steven Skultety argues that Aristotle not on...(Read More) |
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Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement
(November 2019)
Ian Alexander Moore - Author
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Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.
In the late Middle Ages the philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart preached that to know the truth you must be the truth. But how to be the truth? Eckhart’s answer comes in the form of an imperative: release yourself, let ...(Read More) |
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Bergson and History
(October 2019)
Transforming the Modern Regime of Historicity
Leon ter Schure - Author
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Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought.
Henri Bergson is famous for his explorations of time as duration, yet he rarely referred to history in his writings. Simultaneously, historians and philosophers of history have generally disregarded Bergson’s ideas about the nature of time. Modernity has brought change at an ever-accelerating rate, and one of the...(Read More) |
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