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Norberto Bobbio - Old Age and Other Essays

DOWNLOADOld Age and Other Essays by Norberto Bobbio This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccupied writers from Cicero to Améry, but in this volume Norberto Bobbio produces an account that is specific to our times. Born in 1909, Bobbio has lived through the major events of the past century,

A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

DOWNLOADA Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy: 2 Volume Set (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit, Thomas W. Pogge (Editors)Product DescriptionThis new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today's most distinguished scholars.New

Walter Benjamin - The Arcades Project

DOWNLOADThe Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin"Quite simply, the Passagen-Werk is one of the twentieth century's great efforts at historical comprehension--some would say the greatest." --T. J. Clark, author of The Painting of Modern Life The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh

The Cultures of Globalization

DOWNLOADThe Cultures of Globalization (Post-Contemporary Interventions)by Fredric Jameson, Ioan Davies, Subramani, Barbara Trent, Sherif Hetata, Joan Martinez-Alier, Noam ChomskyA pervasive force, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. Here an international panel of intellectuals

Edward W. Said - presentations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures

DOWNLOADpresentations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. SaidCelebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these six stunning essays - delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures - Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily

Georg Simmel - The Philosophy of Money

DOWNLOADThe Philosophy of Money by Georg SimmelIn The Philosophy of Money, Simmel provides us with a remarkably wide-ranging discussion of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationships take. He analyzes the relationships of money to exchange, the human personality, the position of women, individual

Hans-Georg Gadamer - Truth And Method

DOWNLOADTruth And Method (Continuum Impacts) by Hans-Georg Gadamer This is Gadamer's most influential work, his magnum opus. An astonishing synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, theology, the theory of law and classical scholarship, it is undoubtedly one of the most important texts in twentieth century philosophy.

Jean-Luc Nancy - The Creation of the World or Globalization

DOWNLOADThe Creation of the World or Globalization (SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought) by Jean-Luc Nancy Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that are used interchangeably, namely globalisation (

Jacques Derrida - The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond

DOWNLOADThe Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but indecipherably. What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it

Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia

DOWNLOADEuripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia by Gary S. MeltzerBranded by critics from Aristophanes to Nietzsche as sophistic, iconoclastic, and sensationalistic, Euripides has long been held responsible for the demise of Greek tragedy. Despite this reputation, his drama has a fundamentally conservative character. It conveys nostalgia for an idealized age that still respected the gods and

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

DOWNLOADThe Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Steven Connor (Editor) Offering a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism, this Companion features examinations of the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include

Reading Ancient Texts, Aristotle and Neoplatonism

DOWNLOADReading Ancient Texts, Aristotle and Neoplatonism: Essays in Honour of Denis O'brien (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; Reading Ancient Texts) by Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Kevin Corrigan (Editors)What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled

Reading Ancient Texts, Presocratics and Plato

DOWNLOADReading Ancient Texts, Presocratics and Plato: Essays in Honour of Denis O'brien (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; Reading Ancient Texts) by Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Kevin Corrigan (Editors) What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled this

A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography

DOWNLOADA Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by Aviezer Tucker (Editor) The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a

Fredric Jameson - A Singular Modernity

DOWNLOADA Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present by Fredric JamesonThe concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new, muscular, intervention Fredric Jameson—perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity—explores these notions in a fresh and

Fredric Jameson The Modernist Papers

DOWNLOADThe Modernist Papers by Fredric JamesonFredric Jameson, one of America's finest cultural critics, offers his dynamic insight into modernist literature and art. A companion to the classic A Singular Modernity, this stunning tour de force looks at the innovative literary experiments of Joyce and Proust, the poetry of Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein and the

Philosophical Hermeneutics

DOWNLOADPhilosophical Hermeneutics [SPECIAL EDITION] by Hans-Georg Gadamer (Author), David E. Linge (Editor, Translator) This excellent collection contains 13 essays from Gadamer's Kleine Schriften, dealing with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. Gadamer applies hermeneutical analysis to Heidegger and Husserl's phenomenology, an

Plato, VII, Theaetetus. Sophist

DOWNLOADPlato, VII, Theaetetus. Sophist (Loeb Classical Library) by Plato (Author), H. N. Fowler (Translator)

C.G. Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

DOWNLOADMemories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. JungAn autobiography put together from conversations, writings and lectures with Jung's cooperation, at the end of his life.

Boethius - Consolation of Philosophy

DOWNLOADConsolation of Philosophy by Boethius (Author), Joel C. Relihan (Translator) Joel Relihan's translation highlights the poetry of the Consolation while remaining faithful to Boethius' Latin.Unjustly imprisoned and waiting to die, Boethius penned his last and greatest work, Consolation of Philosophy, an imaginary dialogue between himself and Philosophy, personified as a woman. Reminiscent

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