Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - Humanism

Life and Meaning surveys a variety of Philosophical answers to the question, 'What makes life worth living?' By collecting readings from a wide range of philosophical history it gives the various perspectives on the value and meaning of life. Aspects of life which appear to make it meaningless 9death, suffering, randomness) are seen in the light of their long and varied history in philosophical literature and are subjected to careful scrutiny. The texts chosen here pose these and related issues and offer various responses.

By careful selection and helpful editorial...

• Brings together the most important classic and contemporary articles in philosophy of mind and cognition
  
• Completely revised and updated throughout, in response to feedback from teachers in the field
  
• Now includes 20 new readings
  
• Each updated part opens with a brief, synoptic introduction to the individual field and a...

The book illustrates the concept of action in three different contexts - the justification of actions, people's life history, and pragmatism. The special feature of this book is that a comprehensive view of this kind marks a departure from the atomistic approach of action theory, which in itself raises a number of questions. If actions are not justified by mental states, how can persons then act for reasons? How can persons' actions over time be described, and what is the connection with the question of personal identity? If there is to be a unified understanding of the person, does the...

This book is a genealogical study of confession. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault as well as the history of Western confessional writings from Ancient Greece to contemporary pop culture, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. On the contrary, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and constraining, and alternatives to confessional subjectivity are explored.

'This is a quite remarkable book, a pleasure to read. Not only is it clear and informative but also by turns witty, melancholic and insightful. The book is astonishingly erudite, but wears this learning so lightly and so charmingly that it is both easy and gripping to read.' Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London

Penelope waits by her loom for Odysseus, Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot, all of us have to wait: for buses, phone calls and the kettle to boil. But do we know what the checking of one's watch and pacing back and forth is really all about? What is the...

Das Werk bietet eine umfassende Darstellung derAutobiographik des fruhneuzeitlichen Humanismus. Es behandelt insbesondere neulateinische autobiographische Schriften vom 14. Jh. bis ca. 1600. Hauptautoren: Petrarca, Alberti, Pius. II, Campano, Erasmus, Eobanus Hessus, Marullo, Cardano, Joseph Scaliger, Lipsius. In dem Werk wird vorgefuhrt, dass die fruhneuzeitliche Personendarstellung wesentlich nicht auf feste Identitaten zuruckzufuhren ist, sondern von sehr unterschiedlichen literarischen Diskursen abhangt, in denen die Selbstbilder auf variable und ausserst kreative Weise gestaltet...

Contents:

Translator's Introduction Selected Bibliography Note on the Text

"The Vocation of Man"

Preface Book One: Doubt Book Two: Knowledge Book Three: Faith