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  • Evil, Suffering, and Pessimism

    Readings from the Darker Side of Modern Philosophy

    by Corey W. Dyck, Fabio Malfara, Ignacio Moya ...
    Is it possible to explain the existence of evil under the supposition of a supremely good creator? Are we ourselves the cause of most of the suffering that befalls us? Is life generally more painful than it is pleasant, and if so is non-existence preferable to existence? Is happiness ever even attainable?These questions occupied some of the best-known philosophers of the seventeenth to nineteenth ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

    by Corey W. Dyck, Frederick C. Beiser, Brandon C. Look ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The contributions to this Handbook serve as a collective rebuttal of the widespread sentiment that there is little of interest in 18th-century German philosophy between Leibniz and Kant. In its chapters, the reader will naturally find new insights into the Kantian philosophy and its context, particularly on the topics of philosophical method, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750)

    by Corey W. Dyck ...
    Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian Thomasius, Christian Wolff, Christian August Crusius, and Georg Friedrich Meier, as well as texts by consequential but less familiar thinkers such as ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics

    by Corey W. Dyck ...
    Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics offers a fresh account of philosophical developments in German philosophy in the first half of the 18th century. At the centre of this book is Wolff's seminal text on metaphysics, the Deutsche Metaphysik of 1719, a text that modernized and advanced German philosophy but also provoked a vigorous intellectual controversy which informed and ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Kant and his German Contemporaries: Volume 1, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Science and Ethics

    Edited by Corey W. Dyck, Falk Wunderlich ...
    This collection of new essays, the first of its kind in English, considers the ways in which the philosophy of Immanuel Kant engages with the views of lesser-known eighteenth-century German thinkers. Each chapter casts new light on aspects of Kant's complex relationship with these figures, particularly with respect to key aspects of his logic, metaphysics, epistemology, theory of science, and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany

    Edited by Corey W. Dyck ...
    Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany showcases the vibrant and diverse contributions on the part of women in eighteenth-century Germany and explores their under-appreciated influence upon philosophical debate in Germany in this period. Among the women profiled in this volume are Sophie of Hanover, Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Johanna Charlotte Unzer, Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, Amalia ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Morning Hours

    Lectures on God's Existence

    by Moses Mendelssohn ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The last work published by Moses Mendelssohn during his lifetime, Morning Hours (1785) is also the most sustained presentation of his mature epistemological and metaphysical views, all elaborated in the service of presenting proofs for the existence of God. But Morning Hours is much more than a theoretical treatise. It also plays a central role in the drama of the Pantheismusstreit, Mendelssohn's ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Kant: A Biography

    by Manfred Kuehn ...
    This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated part of Prussia living the life of a typical university professor. This has given rise to the view ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Futures Past

    On the Semantics of Historical Time

    by Reinhart Koselleck ...
    Translated by Keith Tribe ...
    Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Meaning and Representation in History

    Edited by Jörn Rüsen ...
    Series Book 7 - Making Sense of History
    History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Genealogy of the Tragic

    Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy

    by Joshua Billings ...
    Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon

    Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry

    Edited by Avi Lifschitz, Michael Squire ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing's essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the history of post-Enlightenment aesthetics, it has also shaped the very practices of 'poetry' and 'painting ... Read more

    $120.59 USD