Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love (Strawser Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love (Strawser Michael)(Pevná vazba)

In Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love, Michael Strawser provides a new reading of Spinoza as a philosopher of love, and one who centered in his thought an ethically qualified conception of noble love. Strawser examines the threefold conception of love found in Spinoza's Ethics and argues that what

Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (Deleuze Gilles)(Paperback)

A concise and illuminating book about the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism.Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. This book,

The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II (Spinoza Benedictus de)(Pevná vazba)

The second and final volume of the most authoritative English-language edition of Spinoza's writingsThe Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical

Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (Matheron Alexandre)(Pevná vazba)

A definitive collection of Matheron's essays on Spinoza - translated into English for the first timeOffers an opportunity to access essential writings by Alexandre Matheron, which are considered among the most important in recent Spinoza scholarship in any language Establishes a rigorous

Naturalistic Explanation in Spinoza's Ethics: Being Mind-Full of Nature (Shoolman Harvey)(Pevná vazba)

Spinoza was the most uncompromising naturalist in the history of philosophy, determined to provide a comprehensive system of ultimate reasons for the existence of any object or event by relating that object or event to the infinitely complex structure of Nature itself. Unprecedented in the detail

Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy (Sandel Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he's a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity 'usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.' China Newsweek declared him the 'most influential foreign

Surfing and the Philosophy of Sport (Brennan Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

Surfing and the Philosophy of Sport uses the insights gained through an analysis of the sport of surfing to explore key questions and discourses within the philosophy of sport. As surfing has been practiced dynamically, since its beginnings as a traditional Polynesian pursuit to its current status

Phenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy (Jung Hwa Yol)(Pevná vazba)

Phenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy explores the concept of world philosophy (Weltphilosophie) to take into account the reality of today's multicultural and globalizing world. It challenges the assumption that the particular in the West is universalizable, but the particular in the

Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (Maudlin Tim)(Pevná vazba)

A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world's leading philosophers of physicsIn this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of quantum

Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom (Taylor Dan)(Pevná vazba)

Combining careful historical and textual analysis with comparisons across past and present political theory, this book re-establishes Spinoza as a collectivist philosopher. Taking as its starting point the formative role of fear in Spinoza's thought, Dan Taylor argues that Spinoza's vision of

Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine: Philosophy, Science, Clinical Applications, and Research (Seffinger Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The most current, comprehensive osteopathic text available, Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine, Fourth Edition defines osteopathic terminology and techniques and instills the confident understanding essential to clinical success. This proven resource is the standard text for teaching the

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy (Farinas Rebecca L.)(Pevná vazba)

An innovative examination of the ways in which dance and philosophy inform each other, Dance and Philosophy brings together authorities from a variety of disciplines to expand our understanding of dance and dance scholarship. Featuring an eclectic mix of materials from exposes to dance therapy

The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy (Hardcover) (Still Andrew T.)(Pevná vazba)

Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism (Falcato Ana)(Pevná vazba)

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a 'critical philosophy in the condition of

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

Volume VI of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the later Ionian and Athenian thinkers Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia, along with chapters on early Greek medicine and the Derveni

The Philosophy of Illumination (Suhrawardi)(Pevná vazba)

The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay (Gaukroger Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy--and what we can learn from them Philosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories. But, taking the long view, philosophy

Spinoza (Nadler Steven)(Pevná vazba)

The standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher, now updated to draw on the latest archival discoveries, offers an engaging narrative of Spinoza's life and times and an accessible introduction to his radical ideas. Essential to scholars, it will also appeal to a broad readership

Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (Deleuze Gilles)(Paperback)

Expressionism in Philosophy is both a pivotal reading of Spinoza's work and also a crucial text within the development of Deleuze's own thought. It was the culmination of a series of monographic studies by Deleuze (on Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Proust, Kant, and Sacher-Masoch), and it prepared the

Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy (Ambury James M.)(Pevná vazba)

Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy is the first volume of essays dedicated to the whole question of self-knowledge and its role in Platonic philosophy. It brings together established and rising scholars from every interpretative school of Plato studies, and a variety of texts

After Debussy: Music, Language, and the Margins of Philosophy (Johnson Julian)(Pevná vazba)

Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring it in terms of expression, representation, and discourse. This book turns that idea on its head. Focusing on the music of Debussy and its legacy in the

Owl or Pussycat? (Morpurgo Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A true story of first love and first-night

Philosophy (Cave Peter)(Paperback)

Philosophy, the 'love of wisdom', is the product of our endless fascination and curiosity about the world - the child of wonder. Through it, we seek to answer the most fundamental of questions: How do we know what we know? Does God exist? What is beauty? How should we live our lives? What am I? In

Spinoza (Scruton Roger)(Paperback)

Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a vision of man as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. Ostracized by the Jewish