Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> History & Surveys - Modern

This book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austen’s narrative style and offer new ways of reading her work. It grounds her writing in the Enlightenment philosophy of selfhood, exploring how Austen takes five major components of selfhood theory—memory, imagination, probability, sympathy and reflection—and investigates their relation to self-formation and moral judgement. At the same time, Austen’s narrative style breaks new ground in the representation of consciousness and engages directly with...

Kaum eine philosophische Strömung hat das deutschsprachige 18. Jahrhundert so nachhaltig geprägt wie der Rationalismus Leibniz-Wolffscher Prägung. Und kaum eine Frage hat die zeitgenössischen Diskurse so entschieden beeinflusst wie die nach der Beziehung von Sinnlichkeit und Verstand und der damit verbundenen Vorstellung vom Menschen.

Auf breiter Textbasis und in eingehender Quellenarbeit rekonstruiert die Studie das facettenreiche Verhältnis von Sinnlichkeit und Verstand anhand zentraler Denkstrukturen und Termini in Psychologie, Moralphilosophie und Kunsttheorie und legt...

This book re-conceptualizes teaching through an engagement with Jean-Paul Sartre’s early existentialist thought. Against the grain of teacher accountability, it turns to the demanding account of being human in Sartre’s thought, on the basis of which an alternative account of teaching can be developed. It builds upon Sartre’s key concepts related to the self, freedom, bad faith, and the Other, such that they might open up original ways of thinking about the practices of teaching. Indeed, given the everyday complexities that characterize teaching, as well as the vulnerabilities and...

This book excavates the rhetorical devices that Nietzsche habitually uses and demonstrates how they circumscribe rather than expand the reader’s interpretive horizon. Through a sustained analysis of Nietzsche’s rhetorical style, stratagems, and didactic aims in two of his early works (‘On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense’ and Daybreak) and two of his later works (Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols), the book assesses the extent to which Nietzsche’s substantial rhetorical arsenal undermines the philosophical claims he is seeking to...