Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Reference

In the last three decades, Postmodernism has emerged as a significant cultural, political and intellectual force that has left unyielding critiques of architecture, selfhood, knowledge formation, ethics, history, economics and politics in its wake. While there are countless texts today that chronicle the advent and current status of postmodernism, most of the primary and historically significant accounts of postmodernism took place in scholarly journals long before the publication of these books. Until now, these pertinent and historically necessary texts remain uncollected. This title aims...

Wittgenstein scholarship has continued to grow at a pace few could have anticipated - a testament both to the fertility of his thought and to the thriving state of contemporary philosophy.
In response to this ever-growing interest in the field, we are delighted to announce the publication of a second series of critical assessments on Wittgenstein, emphasising both the breadth and depth of contemporary Wittgenstein research.
As well as papers on the nature and method of Wittgenstein's philosophy, this second collection also relates to a broader range of topics, including psychology,...

This series provides a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher or school of major influence and significance. The volumes reprinted here were originally published between 1973 and 1991. The volumes will be reissued individually (at u65 per volume), in mini-sets (at u60 per volume) and as a complete set (at u53 per volume)."

This reference book on philosophy brings the subject up to date with entries on new concepts, new thinking about older themes, and entries relating to developing schools such as feminist philosophy and post-structuralism. All the entries aim to reflect the state of the art in philosophy scholarship. The encyclopedia contains than 2000 thematic, biographical and national entries ranging from 500 to 15,000 words in length, and is bound in 10 volumes consisting of over 5 million words of text, with considerable bibliographic material. It has contributions from 1200 international authors. It...