Transformation and the History of Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367520885 / Twarda / 2023 / 424 str.

Opis

Transformation and the History of Philosophy is an outstanding survey of the history, nature and development of the idea of transformation, from the classical period to the twentieth century. Essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, non-western philosophy and aesthetics.

Spis treści

Part 1: Philosophy as Transformative: Ancient China, Greece, India, and Rome  Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits  1. Socratic Dialogue and the Transformation of Character Frisbee C.C. Sheffield  2. Aristotle on Personal and Epistemic Transformation Marta Jimenez and Andrew Culbreth  3. Philosophy and Life: Nagel and Zhuangzi on Absurdity and Equanimity Karyn Lai  4. On Transformative Insight as the Quieting of Views in Indian Buddhist Philosophy: Nāgārjuna as Master of Irony Antoine Panaïoti  5. The Dangers of Sects: Lucian, Galen, and Sextus Empiricus Justin Vlasits  6. Transformation as Self-Cultivation in Plotinian Neoplatonism Michael Griffin  Part 2: Transformation Between the Human and the Divine: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy  Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits  7. Human Transformation at the Limits of Animality and Divinity in Avicenna’s Epistle on Love Bligh Somma  8. Transformation via Mystical Experience in the 13^th Century: Hadewijch, Marguerite d’Oingt, and Mechthild of Hackeborn Christina van Dyke  9. Via Transformativa: Reading Descartes’ Meditations as a Mystical Text Amber L. Griffioen and Kristopher G. Phillips  10. Spinozan (Trans)Formations Julie Klein  11. Transformation and Essence (K’oje’ik) in the K’iche’ Maya Popol Vuhi Alexus McLeod  Part 3: Transformation After the Copernican Revolution: Post-Kantian Philosophy  Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits  12. Is Radicalization becoming a Fanatic? A Historical Inquiry Joshua di Paolo  13. Post-Kantian Idealism and Self-Transformation G. Anthony Bruno  14. Marx on Ideology and Historical Transformation Jaime Edwards  15. Responsibility and Transformation in Either/Or and Being and Time Sacha Golob  16. World History in a Dictionary: Franz Rosenzweig on Teshuva, Metanoia, and Umkehr Benjamin Pollock  17. Merleau-Ponty, the Improvisatory Body, and Humans as Revolutionary Animals Kym Maclaren  Part 4: Treatises, Pregnancies, Psychedelics, and Epiphanies: Twentieth-Century Philosophy  Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits  18. Wittgenstein’s Transitions: ‘A Philosophical Problem Has the Form: I Don’t Know My Way About’ Hans Sluga  19. Dewey on the Ever-Transformative Character of Experience Irina Schumski  20. Transformative Experience in Psychedelic Therapy Adam Bradley  21. Epiphanies: A Brief and Partial History, with Particular Reference to James Joyce Sophie-Grace Chappell  22. Pregnancy: Transformations in Philosophy and Legal Practice Suki Finn, Jill Marshall, Anna Pathe-Smith, and Victoria Adkins.  Index

O autorze

G. Anthony Bruno is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

Justin Vlasits is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.