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The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 100.99Lebensphilosophie , central to nineteenth-century philosophical thought, is concerned with the meaning, value and purpose of life. In this much-needed study, historical lebensphilosophie is returned to the core of philosophical investigations and revealed in the contemporary ascendency of 'life' in philosophical thinking. Scholars from aesthetics,... more...
Foucault and Education
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial. Original and challenging, the essays assess the relevance of Foucault's... more...
Essays on Heidegger and Others, Volume 2
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 27.00Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity,... more...
Self-Concern
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 25.00This is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on the nature of the self, personal identity and survival. more...
The Great Philosophers: Nietzsche
Orion 2011; US$ 9.96Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900 ?God is dead?, announced Nietzsche ? before going on to abolish himself. For there is no Nietzsche, suggests Ronald Hayman in this stimulating, provocative guide: just a shifting set of contradictory voices. Those envious contemporaries who smeared Nietzsche with the mark of madness came closer than the knew in... more...
A Literary Review
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailableWhile ostensibly commenting on the work of a contemporary novelist, Kierkegaard used this review as a critique of his society and age. The influence of this short piece has been far-reaching. The apocalyptic final sections are the source for central notions in Heidegger's Being and Time. Later readers have seized on the essay as a prophetic analysis... more...
Material Ethics of Value
Springer 2011; US$ 149.99Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a phenomenological basis. This volume demonstrates that their contributions to a material ethics of value are complementary: by supplementing the work of one with that of the other, we obtain a comprehensive and defensible axiological and moral theory. By 'phenomenology,' we refer to an... more...
Bewusstsein, Intentionalität und mentale Repräsentation
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 182.00Until now, a systematic new evaluation of transcendental phenomenology that gives due attention to the analytic philosophy of mind has been lacking. With an emphasis on Husserl's anti-representationalist theory of the intentionality of consciousness, Thomas Szanto demonstrates phenomenology's descriptive and explanatory potential and presents it as... more...
Languages of Intentionality
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 120.00Intentionality therelationship between conscious states and their objects is one of the mostdiscussed topics in contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, cognitiveneuroscience and the study of consciousness. Long a foundational concept inPhenomenology, it has also received considerable coverage in the writings ofanalytic philosophers. This book is... more...
Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
Springer 2009; US$ 249.99"The Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science" contains a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the main ideas and methods currently used at the intersection of phenomenology and the neuro- and cognitive sciences. The idea that phenomenology, in the European continental tradition, has something to offer to the cognitive sciences... more...









