Explore 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from the ancient Greeks to modern thinkers, with this ultimate guide's stunning and simple approach to some of history's biggest ideas. This essential guide to philosophy includes thoughts on our modern society, exploring science and democracy, and posing the question: where do we go from here? Easy-to-understand text is accompanied by works of art and artifacts from history, as the big ideas and important thinkers are introduced through time. Famous quotes are highlighted, and the sidebars discuss other ideas or key works to include extra context around the theories and people. Celebrate the world's most revolutionary concepts and understand how these ideas continue to shape our world. Develop your own perspectives and explore relevant issues such as modern logic and religion with this wonderfully comprehensive illustrated guide. In a world of
Since Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literature was published in 1932, it has established itself as the standard source of reference for general readers, as well as an indispensable guide for students and specialists, on all aspects of English literature and English literary culture. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, with a team of distinguished contributors, the text was completely revised while retaining the essential characteristics of Sir Paul Harvey's much-loved volume. Since then, the Companion has continued to respond to the needs of contemporary readers, with a revision, published in 1995, containing sixty new entries on emerging contemporary voices. This new revision continues in this tradition, adding 16 survey articles on important literary concepts to reassert the position of the Companion as the most complete and readable reference gu
Liu’s study examines writers, philosophers, and political leaders in China and the West and reveals the extent to which they incorporate ideas about “culture” and “aesthetics” in their theories and practices. Titel: Aesthetics and Marxism : Chinese aesthetic Marxists and their Western contemporaries Genre: kunst_kultur Sammendrag: Bogen giver en komparativ analyse af marxistisk æstetik i Kina og i Vesten. Liu Kang viser, at æstetik og kultur ikke blot er biprodukter, men centrale i kinesisk marxistisk tænkning. Han gennemgår udviklingen fra klassisk tysk filosofi og vestlig marxisme til kinesiske marxister som Mao Zedong og senere teoretikere, og beskriver, hvordan deres idéer om kunst, litteratur og kultur har påvirket både revolutionær teori og kulturpolitik. Samtidig diskuteres vestlige tænkere som Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Adorno, Benjamin og Marcuse og deres betydning for forstå
Argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture—that is, when they are making history. Disclosing New Worlds calls for a recovery of a way of being that has always characterized human life at its best. The book argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture—that is, when they are making history. History-making, in this account, refers not to wars and transfers of political power, but to changes in the way we understand and deal with ourselves. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the creation of solidarity as the three major arenas
Chronicles the life of the booklover Poggio Bracciolini who rescued the text "On the nature of things" and describes the impact that the translation of this philosophical text by Roman philosopher Lucretius had on history, inspiring artists, great thinkers, and scientists of the fifteenth century and fueling the beginning of the Renaissance In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini, the greatest book hunter of the Renaissance. His discovery, Lucretius’ ancient poem On the Nature of Things, had been almost entirely lost to history for more than a thousand years. It was a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functions without the aid of gods, that religious fe
Forfattere: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel M. Klein Sprog: Engelsk Antal sider: 0 Forlag: Viking Adult Udgivelsesår: 2009 Explores death and the afterlife from lighthearted philosophical, theological, and psychological perspectives that consider that death may not be such a pessimism-inducing state. Titel: Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates Genre: Filosofi Sammendrag: From the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar comes a new philosophical quest, this time a journey to the edge of the pearly gates to discover just what the great philosophers, theologians, psychotherapists, and wiseguys have to say about life, death, and the hereafter. Type: Hardcover
Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and distrust, and electoral turnout in many modern democracies continues to fall. But are we right to display such contempt towards our elected representatives? Can politicians be morally good or is politics destined to involve dirty hands or the loss of integrity, as many modern philosophers claim? In this book, Susan Mendus seeks to address these important questions to assess whether this apparent tension between morality and politics is real and, if so, why. Beginning with an account of integrity as involving a willingness to stand by ones most fundamental moral commitments, the author discusses three reasons for thinking that politics undermines integrity and is incompatible with morality. These are: the relationship between politics and utili
The French Intellectuals in the 20th Century In this book we shall witness many a sacred cow being led to the slaughter as we consider the impact on the French intelligentsia of the Bolshevik Revolution, the Third Reich, the Spanish Civil War, the Algerian War and other crucial turning points in this century, and the nation's writers fashion a philosophy to match. To follow Bernard-Henri Levy, one of the high priests of the "new philosophers", in his quest is an altogether stimulating exercise. Forfatter: Bernard-Henri Lévy Forlag: The Harvill Press Udgivelsesår: 1995 Sider: 456 Sprog: Engelsk
