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Author : Ernst Cassirer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Logic of the Humanities. Translated by Clarence Smith Howe written by Ernst Cassirer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernst Cassirer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)
Download or read book The Logic of the Humanities. Translated by Clarence Smith Howe written by Ernst Cassirer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clare O'Farrell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349131067
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Foucault written by Clare O'Farrell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-06-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the writings of Michael Foucault, focusing particularly on "Histoire de la Folie" written at the beginning of his career and "What is Enlightenment?" written at the end. Foucault's work is examined as a reflection on the "limits" of history, society and culture.
Author : Samantha Matherne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135104883X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Cassirer written by Samantha Matherne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) occupies a unique place in 20th-century philosophy. His view that human beings are not rational but symbolic animals and his famous dispute with Martin Heidegger at Davos in 1929 are compelling alternatives to the deadlock between 'analytic' and 'continental' approaches to philosophy. An astonishing polymath, Cassirer's work pays equal attention to mathematics and natural science but also art, language, myth, religion, technology, and history. However, until now the importance of his work has largely been overlooked. In this outstanding introduction Samantha Matherne examines and assesses the full span of Cassirer’s work. Beginning with an overview of his life and works she covers the following important topics: Cassirer’s neo-Kantian background Philosophy of mathematics and natural science, including Cassirer’s first systematic work, Substance and Function, and subsequent works, like Einstein’s Theory of Relativity The problem of culture and the ground-breaking The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Cassirer’s ethical and political thought and his diagnosis of fascism in The Myth of the State Cassirer’s influence and legacy. Including chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of terms, this is an ideal introduction to Cassirer’s thought for anyone coming to his work for the first time. It is essential reading for students in philosophy as well as related disciplines such as intellectual history, art history, politics, and literature.
Author : Ernst Cassirer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226096076
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy written by Ernst Cassirer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative volume, one of the most important interpretive works on the philosophical thought of the Renaissance, has long been regarded as a classic in its field. Ernst Cassirer here examines the changes brewing in the early stages of the Renaissance, tracing the interdependence of philosophy, language, art, and science; the newfound recognition of individual consciousness; and the great thinkers of the period—from da Vinci and Galileo to Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno. The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy discusses the importance of fifteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Cusanus, the concepts of freedom and necessity, and the subject-object problem in Renaissance thought. “This fluent translation of a scholarly and penetrating original leaves little impression of an attempt to show that a ‘spirit of the age’ or ‘spiritual essence of the time’ unifies and expresses itself in all aspects of society or culture.”—Philosophy
Author : Andrew Fuyarchuk
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498547060
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Inner Voice in Gadamer's Hermeneutics written by Andrew Fuyarchuk and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inner word in Gadamer’s hermeneutics refers to the meaning that exceeds anything explicitly said. This explanation has been subsumed within metaphysical and theological parameters of interpretation with little regard for the implication of Gadamer’s turn to the living language for understanding the inner word. Through examining his phenomenology of the inner word, The Inner Voice in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics reveals its musical (rhythmic and tonal) dimensions and how they function to harmonize disparate orientations in the middle voice, above all for Gadamer, those that underlie modes of cognition in both the humanities and the sciences—a visual and auditory ethos. However, understood as constituting the music of language discernible in the middle voice, the inner word is also suppressed or forgotten by the technological extension of sight—that is, print—and thus requires a turn of the inner ear or auditory disposition. Andrew Fuyarchuk assesses theories of language in evolutionary and cognitive science in light of Gadamer’s insights into the nature of thought, and he employs them to account for a dimension of language that is inscribed in the lingual minds of our species. When recalled by the inner ear, this dimension enables us to think such opposites together as we find in the humanities and sciences together. This thinking together is expressed in a double account of an object of inquiry, such as the one Fuyarchuk puts forward about the inner word in Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics.
Author : Bo Mou
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812694345
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Two Roads to Wisdom? written by Bo Mou and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are Chinese philosophy and analytic philosophy-two very distinct traditions-alike? In this volume, fifteen distinguished scholars compare and contrast the methodologies, finding areas in which each tradition can learn from, contribute to, and complement the other.
Author : Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349108855
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Humanistic Heritage written by Daniel R. Schwarz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of the principle works of Anglo-American novel criticism, defining the values, method and concepts that these works have in common and advancing a defence of Anglo-American humanistic criticism and the ideas proposed by Structuralism, Marxism and deconstruction.
Author : Shuchen Xiang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143848321X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book A Philosophical Defense of Culture written by Shuchen Xiang and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Philosophical Defense of Culture, Shuchen Xiang draws on the Confucian philosophy of "culture" and Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms to argue for the importance of "culture" as a philosophic paradigm. A defining ideal of Confucian-Chinese civilization, culture (wen) spans everything from natural patterns and the individual units that make up Chinese writing to literature and other refining vocations of the human being. Wen is thus the soul of Confucian-Chinese philosophy. Similarly, as a philosopher who bridged the classical age of German humanism and postwar modernity, Cassirer implored his and future generations to think of humankind in terms of their culture and to think of the human being as a "symbolic animal." The philosophies of culture of these two traditions, very much compatible, are of urgent relevance to our contemporary epoch. Xiang describes the similarity of their projects by way of their conception of the human being, her relationship to nature, the relationship of human culture to nature, the importance of cultural pluralism, and the role of the arts in human life, as well as the metaphysical frameworks that gave rise to such conceptions. Combining textual exegesis in classical Chinese texts and an exposition of Cassirer's most important insights against the backdrop of post-Kantian philosophy, this book is philosophy written in a cosmopolitan mode, arguing for the contemporary philosophical relevance of "culture" by drawing on and bringing together two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition.
Author : Sebastian Luft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040294790
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Neo-Kantian Reader written by Sebastian Luft and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latter half of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable resurgence of interest in Kant’s philosophy in Continental Europe, the effects of which are still being felt today. The Neo-Kantian Reader is the first anthology to collect the most important primary sources in Neo-Kantian philosophy, with many being published here in English for the first time. It includes extracts on a rich and diverse number of subjects, including logic, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and transcendental idealism. Sebastian Luft, together with other scholars, provides clear introductions to each of the following sections (to the authors as well as to each text), placing them in historical and philosophical context: the beginnings of Neo-Kantianism: including the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Otto Liebman, Friedrich Lange, and Hermann Lotze the Marburg School: including Hermann Cohen, Paul Natorp, and Ernst Cassirer the Southwest School: including Wilhelm Windelband, Heinrich Rickert, Emil Lask, and Hans Vaihinger responses and critiques: including Moritz Schlick, Edmund Husserl; Rudolf Carnap, and the 'Davos dispute' between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer. The Neo-Kantian Reader is essential reading for all students of Kant, nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and phenomenology, as well as to those studying important philosophical movements such as logical positivism and analytic philosophy and its history.
Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004279628
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century encourages contemporary Jewish thinkers to reflect on the meaning of Judaism in the modern world by connecting these reflections to their own personal biographies. In so doing, it reveals the complexity of Jewish thought in the present moment. The contributors reflect on a range of political, social, ethical, and educational challenges that face Jews and Judaism today and chart a path for the future. The results showcase how Jewish philosophy encompasses the methodologies and concerns of other fields such as political theory, intellectual history, theology, religious studies, anthropology, education, comparative literature, and cultural studies. By presenting how Jewish thinkers address contemporary challenges of Jewish existence, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the humanities as a whole, especially at a time when the humanities are increasingly under duress for being irrelevant.
Author : Zhang Qingxiong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000865711
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Conscience and Cognition in Social Research written by Zhang Qingxiong and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical examination of the different roles of conscience and cognition in social research in China and the West, exploring how the two traditions can enrich each other and help societies navigate through the complex intellectual and moral crises of our time. Drawing on a rich array of primary and secondary sources, this title traces the development of the Confucian conception of conscience, from Confucius and Mencius to Xiong Shili and Mou Zongsan, two representatives of Neo-Confucianism. This primacy of a moral sense is compared and contrasted with the tension within the Western culture between strains that place a premium on understanding and a deep commitment to the search for meaning in such philosophers as Habermas and Heidegger. The author explicates why such a commitment is essential to social research and how the focus on instrumental rationality that has defined modernity may be corrected by recentering the role of conscience on intellectual inquiry in general. To that end, both Chinese and Western cultures have plenty to offer both in terms of substantive insights and research methodologies. The book will be a crucial reference for scholars and students interested in Western philosophy, comparative philosophy and Chinese philosophy.
Author : Whitney Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836433
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A General Theory of Visual Culture written by Whitney Davis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory of Visual Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls "visuality" is the visual perspective from which certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. In this book, Davis provides a systematic analysis of visuality and describes how it comes into being as a historical form of vision. Expansive in scope, A General Theory of Visual Culture draws on art history, aesthetics, the psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference, and vision science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history, sociology, and anthropology. It provides penetrating new definitions of form, style, and iconography, and draws important and sometimes surprising conclusions (for example, that vision does not always attain to visual culture, and that visual culture is not always wholly visible). The book uses examples from a variety of cultural traditions, from prehistory to the twentieth century, to support a theory designed to apply to all human traditions of making artifacts and pictures--that is, to visual culture as a worldwide phenomenon.
Author : William Schultz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135628742
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Cassirer and Langer on Myth written by William Schultz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed overview of the approach by two of the leading philosophical theorists of myth.
Author : J. Nelson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137373865
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Popular Cinema as Political Theory written by J. Nelson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory. The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing about politics.
Author : Bruce Haley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487679
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Living Forms written by Bruce Haley and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time. The author explores a variety of such representations and responses to them, including Coleridge's Shakespeare lectures, Hazlitt's essays on portraits, Keats's poems on mythic and sculpted figures, meditations by Byron's Childe Harold on the monuments of Italy, Felicia Hemans's verses on monuments to and by women, and Shelley's poems and letters on figures from Italy, Egypt, and other antique lands. Haley argues that in what has been called the "museum age," Romantics sought aesthetically to frame these figures as "living forms," mental images capable of realization in alternate modes or forms.
Author : Howard Chiang
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784991910
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine written by Howard Chiang and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations. Topics range from the spread of gingko’s popularity from East Asia to the West to the appeal of acupuncture for complementing in-vitro fertilisation regimens, from the modernisation of Chinese anatomy and forensic science to the evolving perceptions of the clinical efficacy of Chinese medicine. The individual essays cohere around the powerful theoretical-methodological approach, 'historical epistemology', which challenges the seemingly constant and timeless status of such rudimentary but pivotal dimensions of scientific process as knowledge, reason, argument, objectivity, evidence, fact, and truth. In studying the globalising role of medical objects, the contested premise of medical authority and legitimacy, and the syncretic transformations of metaphysical and ontological knowledge, contributors illuminate how the breadth of the historical study of Chinese medicine and its practices of knowledge-making in the modern period must be at once philosophical and transnational in scope.
