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  • Hegel's Aesthetic Ontology

    The Event of Beauty

    by David Ciavatta ...
    Beauty is significant to us in many different registers, but perhaps the least appreciated has to do with its distinctively metaphysical significance. For Hegel, aesthetic experience offers us its own distinctive perspective on the nature of reality, and in this book David Ciavatta shows how in Hegel's ground-breaking Aesthetics, his astute observations on art and on beauty in nature relate to and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Phenomenology and the Arts

    by A. Licia Carlson, Peter Costello, Galen A. Johnson, Brian Rogers, Scott Marratto, Kirsten Jacobson, Susan Bredlau, Laura McMahon, Jeff Morrisey0, Matthew Goodwin1, David Ciavatta2, John Russon3, John Lysaker4, Christian Lotz5 ...
    Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Kant: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

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  • Philosophy

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    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how philosophy is relevant to life in the modern world. The topics he discusses range from the nature of ... Read more

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  • Hegel and the Infinite

    Religion, Politics, and Dialectic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard ... Read more

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  • Plant-Thinking

    A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

    by Michael Marder ...
    The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics. He identifies the existential features of plant behavior and the vegetal heritage of human ... Read more

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  • Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

    A Guide

    by Terry Pinkard ...
    Series series OXFORD GUIDES TO PHILOSOPHY SERIES
    Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure just what it is about. Even the words in the title are disputed: What sense of “phenomenology” is being used? Is Geist to be rendered “spirit” or “mind”? What does this have to do with Hegel's original title, “The Science of the Experience of ... Read more

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  • Irigaray

    by Rachel Jones ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms.This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation of western thought. Through detailed analysis of her most important text, Speculum of the Other Woman, ... Read more

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  • Return to Nature?

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  • Bergson

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    by Professor Keith Ansell Pearson ...
    A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers. Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that make up our intellectual ... Read more

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  • The Other Side of Language

    A Philosophy of Listening

    by Gemma Corradi Fiumara ...
    First published in 1990. Our philosophy is grounded in only half a language, in which the power of discourse is deployed and the strength of listening ignored. We are inhabitants of a culture that knows how to speak but not how to listen, so we constantly mistake warring monologues for genuine dialogue. In this remarkable book, Gemma Corradi Fiumara seeks to redress that balance by examining the ... Read more

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