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Ideas Explained eBook Series

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  • Phenomenology Explained

    From Experience to Insight

    by David Detmer ...
    Series Book 9 - Ideas Explained
    Phenomenology is one of the most important and influential philosophical movements of the last one hundred years. It began in 1900, with the publication of a massive two-volume work, Logical Investigations, by a Czech-German mathematician, Edmund Husserl. It proceeded immediately to exert a strong influence on both philosophy and the social sciences. For example, phenomenology provided the central ... Read more

    £14.30

  • Sartre Explained

    From Bad Faith to Authenticity

    by David Detmer ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980) was the major representative of the philosophical movement called existentialism,” and he remains by far the most famous philosopher, worldwide, of the postWorld War Two era.This book will provide readers with all the help they will need to find their own way in Sartre’s works. Author David Detmer provides a clear, accurate, and accessible guide ... Read more

    £11.69

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  • Heidegger

    Thinking of Being

    by Lee Braver ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Martin Heidegger is among the most important philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Within the continental tradition, almost every great figure has been deeply influenced by his work. For this reason, a full understanding of the course of modern philosophy is impossible without at least a basic grasp of Heidegger. Unfortunately, his work is notoriously difficult, both because of his innovative ... Read more

    £16.99

  • Heidegger

    An Introduction

    by Richard Polt ...
    Heidegger is a classic introduction to Heidegger's notoriously difficult work. Truly accessible, it combines clarity of exposition with an authoritative handling of the subject-matter. Richard Polt has written a work that will become the standard text for students looking to understand one of the century's greatest minds. ... Read more

    £39.59

  • The Cambridge Companion to Quine

    Edited by Roger F. Gibson Jr ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    W. V. Quine (1908–2000) was quite simply the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended from logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object, introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical translation, a bleak view of ... Read more

    £20.78

  • Mind and World

    With a New Introduction by the Author

    by John McDowell ...
    Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one ... Read more

    £19.43

  • The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty

    Edited by Taylor Carman, Mark B. N. Hansen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–61) was described by Paul Ricoeur as 'the greatest of the French phenomenologists'. The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, from his central and abiding concern with the nature of perception and the bodily constitution of intentionality to his reflections on science, nature, art, history, and politics. The authors explore the ... Read more

    £20.78

  • Deleuze and Pragmatism

    Edited by Simone Bignall, Sean Bowden, Paul Patton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of American pragmatist thought, taking seriously the commitment to pluralism at the heart of both. Contributors explore in novel ways Deleuze’s explicit references to pragmatism, and examine the philosophical significance of a number of points at which Deleuze’s philosophy converges with, or diverges from, the ... Read more

    £49.49

  • The Paradoxes of Art

    A Phenomenological Investigation

    by Alan Paskow ...
    In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they emotionally affect us. He then applies these questions to painting, demonstrating that certain paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. As emblematic of the fundamental concerns of our lives, paintings, he argues, are not simply in our heads but in our world. ... Read more

    £21.41

  • Wittgenstein

    by Hans Sluga ...
    Series Book 34 - Blackwell Great Minds
    wittgenstein“Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with an often original and always profound understanding of Wittgenstein’s work, yielding an accessible and illuminating account of his thought.”Joachim Schulte, University of Zurich“Concise, clear, and accessible, this sophisticated introduction covers an ... Read more

    £19.99

  • Narratology

    Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

    by Mieke Bal ...
    Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literary works. In this ... Read more

    £15.29

  • The Last Word

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential ... Read more

    £18.17