What is Philosophy?

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860916864
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (168 download)

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Book Synopsis What is Philosophy? by : Gilles Deleuze

Download or read book What is Philosophy? written by Gilles Deleuze and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Mathematics and the Divine

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080457355
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Mathematics and the Divine by : Teun Koetsier

Download or read book Mathematics and the Divine written by Teun Koetsier and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics and the Divine seem to correspond to diametrically opposed tendencies of the human mind. Does the mathematician not seek what is precisely defined, and do the objects intended by the mystic and the theologian not lie beyond definition? Is mathematics not Man's search for a measure, and isn't the Divine that which is immeasurable ?The present book shows that the domains of mathematics and the Divine, which may seem so radically separated, have throughout history and across cultures, proved to be intimately related. Religious activities such as the building of temples, the telling of ritual stories or the drawing of enigmatic figures all display distinct mathematical features. Major philosophical systems dealing with the Absolute and theological speculations focussing on our knowledge of the Ultimate have been based on or inspired by mathematics. A series of chapters by an international team of experts highlighting key figures, schools and trains of thought is presented here. Chinese number mysticism, the views of Pythagoras and Plato and their followers, Nicholas of Cusa's theological geometry, Spinozism and intuitionism as a philosophy of mathematics are treated side by side among many other themes in an attempt at creating a global view on the relation of mathematics and Man's quest for the Absolute in the course of history.·Mathematics and man's quest for the Absolute·A selective history highlighting key figures, schools and trains of thought ·An international team of historians presenting specific new findings as well as general overviews·Confronting and uniting otherwise compartmentalized information

Heidegger from Metaphysics to Thought

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791421031
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Heidegger from Metaphysics to Thought by : Dominique Janicaud

Download or read book Heidegger from Metaphysics to Thought written by Dominique Janicaud and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philosophy has come to an end" claimed Heidegger in the final posthumous interview he granted to Der Spiegel. The goal of Janicaud's chapters ("Overcoming Metaphysics?," "Heideggeriana," "Metamorphosis of the Undecidable," and the dialogue "Heidegger in New York") first of all is to clarify the project of "overcoming" metaphysics, a project that Heidegger himself recognized as open to innumerable misunderstandings. Is it really possible to surmount metaphysics, not by transgressing it, but by means of a patient elucidation of its key concepts? In the effort to underscore the originality of his own enterprise, doesn't Heidegger tend to project too harsh a dichotomy between the forgetfulness of Being and its authentic recollection? By raising these questions, Janicaud suggests that Heidegger himself does not elude the objections that he directs toward the great metaphysical thinkers. The final recourse to dialogue in the midst of twentieth-century New York - a landscape intentionally "different" from one expectedly Heideggerian - intends to hint at another possibility than the indefinite deconstruction of metaphysical texts. It suggests new ways for thoughtful meditation and a new cast for action. At the center of the book, Mattei evokes the "Heideggerian Chiasmus or the Setting-apart of Philosophy." Through an inquiry into the major Heideggerian texts produced between 1935 and 1969 and inspired by Holderlin's poetry, Mattei gradually detects the cosmic figure of the Geviert, the initial Fourfold where "earth and sky, the divine ones and the mortals" gather. Such a community, whose meaning Heidegger is the only one to decipher in our times, silently conforms to what is truly the archaic path to philosophy. The cosmic game of the Geviert also evokes, for Heidegger, the path of the Tao in the Chinese tradition. In this epoch characterized by the destruction of ontology, the two paths in which East and West meet may grant us moderns the hope one day of "dwelling" in the world.

Deleuze and Guattari

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134974787
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Deleuze and Guattari by : Ronald Bogue

Download or read book Deleuze and Guattari written by Ronald Bogue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosopher Giles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst and political activist Felix Guattari have been recognised as among the most important intellectual figures of their generation. This is the first book-length study of their works in English, one that provides an overview of their thought and of its bearing on the central issues of contemporary literary criticism and theory. From Deleuze's 'philosophy of difference' to Deleuze and Guattari's 'philosophy of schizoanalytic desire', this study traces the ideas of the two writers across a wide range of disciplines - from psychoanalysis and Marxist politics to semiotics, aesthetics and linguistics. Professor Bogue provides lucid readings, accessible to specialist and non-specialist alike, of several major works: Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962), Difference and Reception (1968), and Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Besides elucidating the basic structure of Deleuze and Guattari's often difficult thought, with its complex and often puzzling array of terms, this study also shows how theory influences critical practice in their analyses of the fiction of Proust, Sacher-Masoch and Kafka.

Deleuze and Guattari

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Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446226239
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Book Synopsis Deleuze and Guattari by : Philip Goodchild

Download or read book Deleuze and Guattari written by Philip Goodchild and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-09-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible book examines critically the writings of Deleuze and Guattari, clarifying the ideas of these two notoriously difficult thinkers without over-simplifying them. Divided into three sections - Knowledge, Power, and Liberation of Desire - the book provides a systematic account of the intellectual context as well as an exhaustive analysis of the key themes informing Deleuze and Guattari′s work. It provides the framework for reading the important and influential study Capitalism and Schizophrenia and, with the needs of students in mind, explains the key concepts in Deleuze and Guattari′s discussion of philosophy, art and politics. Definitive and incisive, the book will be invaluable in situating the philosophy of these two major figures within the perspective of the social and human sciences.

The Road to Universal Logic

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Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3319153684
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis The Road to Universal Logic by : Arnold Koslow

Download or read book The Road to Universal Logic written by Arnold Koslow and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of a collection of papers offers new perspectives and challenges in the study of logic. It is presented in honor of the fiftieth birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau. The papers touch upon a wide range of topics including paraconsistent logic, quantum logic, geometry of oppositions, categorical logic, computational logic, fundamental logic notions (identity, rule, quantification) and history of logic (Leibniz, Peirce, Hilbert). The volume gathers personal recollections about Jean-Yves Béziau and an autobiography, followed by 25 papers written by internationally distinguished logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists and philosophers, including Irving Anellis, Dov Gabbay, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Istvan Németi, Henri Prade. These essays will be of interest to all students and researchers interested in the nature and future of logic.

AN INTRODUCTION TO ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS OF TIME

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Publisher : VILLEGAGNONS-PLAISANCE ED.
ISBN 13 : 2953384618
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (533 download)

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Book Synopsis AN INTRODUCTION TO ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS OF TIME by : Régis LAURENT

Download or read book AN INTRODUCTION TO ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS OF TIME written by Régis LAURENT and published by VILLEGAGNONS-PLAISANCE ED.. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Greek time before Aristotle’s philosophy starts with a commentary on his first text, the Protrepticus. We shall see two distinct forms of time emerge: one initiatory, circular and Platonic in inspiration, the other its diametrical opposite, advanced by Aristotle. We shall explore this dichotomy through a return to poetic conceptions. The Tragedians will give us an initial outline of the notion of time in the Greek world (Fate); we shall then turn to Homer in order to better grasp the complex relations between time and the religious sphere (the Hero); the work of the great theologian Hesiod will confirm this initiatory vision, later set out in remarkable fashion by Nietzsche (Myths); we shall then dive deep into Pythagoreanism to complete our account (Mysteries). Having understood this current of thought, powerfully influenced by the Iranian theogony, we shall be able to discern its clear differences from the so-called “Ionian” current, and thus to move away from Plato (Ideology). Lastly, we shall return to the early Ionian thinkers Thales and Anaximander to analyse whether this really was the vision of the world that Aristotle adopted in developing the first model of time (Science). In the second volume we shall see the return of the thought of the theologoi within the Aristotelian corpus itself, and will question our distinction between the being and existence of time. - FREE EBOOK VERSION : http://editions-villegagnons.com/philosophy.htm -TRADUCTION : This book is also available in french with this title "Métaphysique du temps chez Aristote. Recherches historiques sur les conceptions mythologiques et astronomiques précédant la philosophie aristotélicienne.", 252p. 2009

Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271044810
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings by : Charles L. Griswold Jr.

Download or read book Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings written by Charles L. Griswold Jr. and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793603936
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud by : Max Statkiewicz

Download or read book Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud written by Max Statkiewicz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning the Enlightenment in Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Artaud challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. The Enlightenment was characterized, as Arnold put it, as “sweetness and light”. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud each pushed back against the optimism of the enlightenment through their writing and advanced the idea of cruelty as lying at the root of all human nature and culture. In this study, Statkiewicz explores the seemingly opposing notions of culture and cruelty within the works of these authors to discuss their complex relationship with one another.

Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474412114
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics by : Abraham Jacob Greenstine

Download or read book Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics written by Abraham Jacob Greenstine and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of 18 essays, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the problems of ancient metaphysics: one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. Alongside these essays are three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.

Dionysus Reborn

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501746286
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Dionysus Reborn by : Mihai Spariosu

Download or read book Dionysus Reborn written by Mihai Spariosu and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mihai Spariosu here explores the significance of the closely linked concepts of play and aestheticism in philosophical and scientific discourse since the end of the eighteenth century. Spariosu points out that since its birth in archaic and classical Hellenic thought the concept of play has always been subject to the influences of various rational and prerational sets of values. Spariosu maintains that there have been not one but two major modern concepts of aestheticism: artistic aestheticism, related to a prerational mentality and introduced in modern thought by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; and philosophicalscientific aestheticism, initiated by Kant and Schiller and shaped by rationalism. According to Spariosu, the first has often arisen in response to the attempts of philosophy and science to impose their standards on art, and the second has often been called on to deal with the epistemological crises that periodically shake these disciplines. Spariosu also looks closely at some of the play concepts that surface in modern science in connection with the Darwinian theory of evolution and the play of scientific discourse itself, as exemplified by the new physics and the contemporary philosophy of science. A penetrating and cogently argued book, Dionysus Reborn will be welcomed by readers interested in Continental philosophy, scientific discourse, and the aesthetics of play, including literary theorists, comparatists, philosophers, intellectual historians, and social scientists.

Letters and Other Texts

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1635901278
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters and Other Texts by : Gilles Deleuze

Download or read book Letters and Other Texts written by Gilles Deleuze and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A posthumous collection of writings by Deleuze, including letters, youthful essays, and an interview, many previously unpublished. Letters and Other Texts is the third and final volume of the posthumous texts of Gilles Deleuze, collected for publication in French on the twentieth anniversary of his death. It contains several letters addressed to his contemporaries (Michel Foucault, Pierre Klossowski, François Châtelet, and Clément Rosset, among others). Of particular importance are the letters addressed to Félix Guattari, which offer an irreplaceable account of their work as a duo from Anti-Oedipus to What is Philosophy? Later letters provide a new perspective on Deleuze's work as he responds to students' questions. his volume also offers a set of unpublished or hard-to-find texts, including some essays from Deleuze's youth, a few unusual drawings, and a long interview from 1973 on Anti-Oedipus with Guattari.

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253108799
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Book Synopsis Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic by : Claudia Baracchi

Download or read book Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic written by Claudia Baracchi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Baracchi has identified pivotal points around which the Republic operates; this allows a reading of the entire text to unfold.... a very beautifully written book." -- Walter Brogan "... a work that opens new and timely vistas within the Republic.... Her approach... is thorough and rigorous." -- John Sallis Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work remains obscure and enigmatic. To fully understand and appreciate its meaning, she argues, we must attend to what its original language discloses. Through a close reading of the Greek text, attentive to the pervasiveness of story and myth, Baracchi investigates the dialogue's major themes. The first part of the book addresses issues of generation, reproduction, and decay as they apply to the founding of Socrates' just city. The second part takes up the connection between war and the cycle of life, employing a thorough analysis of Plato's rendition of the myth of Er. Baracchi shows that the Republic is concerned throughout with the complex but intertwined issues of life and war, locating the site of this tangled web of growth and destruction in the mythical dimension of the Platonic city.

The Scots Revised Reports

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Scots Revised Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents--I. Robertson's Appeals and Paton's Appeals, vols. I, II and III. 1707-1797.--II. Paton's Appeals, vols. IV, V and VII. 1797-1821.--III. Dow's Appeals, vols. I to VI, and Bligh's Appeals, vols. I to III. 1813-1821.--IV. Shaw's Appeals, 2 vols. and Wilson & Shaw's Appeals, vols. III to V. 1828-1831.--VI. Wilson & Shaw's Appeals, vols. VI and VII, Shaw & Maclean's Appeals, vols. I and II. 1832-1837.--VII. Shaw & Maclean's Appeals, vol. III, Maclean & Robinson's Appeals, Robinson's Appeals, vols. I and II. 1838-1841.--VIII. Bell's Appeals, vols. I to VI. 1842-1849.--IX. Bell's Appeals, vol. VII, Macqueen's Appeals, vols. I and II. 1850-1857.--X. Macqueen's Appeals, vols. III and IV. 1857-1865.

Rhapsody of Philosophy

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271075643
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Rhapsody of Philosophy by : Max Statkiewicz

Download or read book Rhapsody of Philosophy written by Max Statkiewicz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato’s dialogues. The dialogues have been seen as the source of a long tradition that subordinates poetry to philosophy, but they may also be approached as a medium for understanding how to overcome this opposition. Paradoxically, Plato then becomes an ally in the attempt “to overturn Platonism,” which Gilles Deleuze famously defined as the task of modern philosophy. Max Statkiewicz identifies a “rhapsodic mode” initiated by Plato in the dialogues and pursued by many of his modern European commentators, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Irigaray, Derrida, and Nancy. The book articulates this rhapsodic mode as a way of entering into true dialogue (dia-logos), which splits any univocal meaning and opens up a serious play of signification both within and between texts. This mode, he asserts, employs a reading of Plato that is distinguished from interpretations emphasizing the dialogues as a form of dogmatic treatise, as well as from the dramatic interpretations that have been explored in recent Plato scholarship—both of which take for granted the modern notion of the subject. Statkiewicz emphasizes the importance of the dialogic nature of the rhapsodic mode in the play of philosophy and poetry, of Platonic and modern thought—and, indeed, of seriousness and play. This highly original study of Plato explores the inherent possibilities of Platonic thought to rebound upon itself and engender further dialogues.

The Scots Revised Reports

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis The Scots Revised Reports by : David K. Robertson

Download or read book The Scots Revised Reports written by David K. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027277850
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach by : Ronald Bogue

Download or read book Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach written by Ronald Bogue and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-06-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume focus on the interrelated themes of mimesis, semiosis and power, each study exploring some facet of the problem of representation and its relation to strategies of power in the use of verbal and visual signs. Topics discussed include mimesis and power in Plato's Ion, rhetoric and erotics in Petrarch's thought; the limits of visual and verbal representation in Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation; binary thought and Peirce's triadic semiotics; the cinematic semiotics of Gilles Deleuze; fascist iconography in the paintings of Anselm Kiefer; oppositional strategies in postmodern fiction; visual and verbal representations of the body in mass culture; and the semiotics of violence in postmodern popular culture.