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  • In Praise of Nonsense

    Kant and Bluebeard

    by Winfried Menninghaus ...
    Translated by Henry Pickford ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early Romantic poetics and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Time of the Magicians

    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    by Wolfram Eilenberger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street JournalA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Martin Heidegger

    by George Steiner ...
    A rich and evocative study of one of modern history's most compelling and controversial philosophers by a literary and critical grand masterIn Martin Heidegger, George Steiner delves into the life and work of the prolific German philosopher. His deft analysis lays bare the intricacies of Heidegger's work and his influence on modern society, offering a clear and accessible analysis of the ... Read more

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  • Between Word and Image

    Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

    by Dennis J. Schmidt ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: "Probing and lucid" (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of ... Read more

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  • The Question of Psychological Types

    The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916

    by C. G. Jung, Ernst Falzeder, Hans Schmid-Guisan ...
    Series series Philemon Foundation Series
    In 1915, C. G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to understand and codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness. Their ambitious dialogue, focused on the opposition of extraversion and introversion, demonstrated the difficulty of reaching a shared awareness of differences even as it introduced ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Jargon of Authenticity

    by Theodor Adorno ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and abuses of language, he calls into question the jargon, or 'aura', as his colleague Walter Benjamin described it, which clouded existentialists' ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

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  • Four Seminars

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by Andrew Mitchell, François Raffoul ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    The philosopher presents a stimulating overview of his work, its intellectual roots, and its relationship to the work of other twentieth century thinkers.In Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger's approval ... Read more

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  • Constellation

    Friedrich Nietzsche & Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History

    by James McFarland ...
    The first extended exploration of the relationship between the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic and the radical philosopher.In five chapters, Constellation presents the changing figure of Friedrich Nietzsche as Walter Benjamin encountered him: an inspiration to his student activism, an authority for his skeptical philology, a manifestation of his philosophical nihilism, a companion in his ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works.The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work of Georg Lukács to a sustained reflection on the theory of aesthetic experience, from an examination of works by Plato, Kant, Hegel, ... Read more

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  • Bremen and Freiburg Lectures

    Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by Andrew J. Mitchell ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    This volume presents two important lecture cycles delivered after WWII, exploring the poetry of Hölderlin and the nature of thought itself.Heidegger delivered his lecture series, Insight into That Which Is, at Bremen in 1949. It was his first speaking engagement after World War II, when he was officially banned from teaching. Here, Heidegger openly resumes thinking that deeply engaged him with ... Read more

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