Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Criticism

Ecce Mulier begins with a presentation of the...

While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.

Auch der vormoderne Mittel- und Nordeuropaer ist als "homo ludens" vorzustellen. So begegnen uns verschiedenste Spiele sportliche Disziplinen im Germanischen und Keltischen in mannigfacher Funktion als literarisches Motiv in fiktionalen Texten und als mythologische Chiffre. Spielverbote sind fur die Rechtsgeschichte einschlagig. Reichhaltiges archaologisches Material dokumentiert diesen kulturellen Bereich auch realhistorisch.
Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten Aufsatze ergrunden das Phanomen "Spiel und Sport" in seinen philologischen, archaologischen, kunsthistorischen sowie...

Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a "conversation" (in Hans-Georg Gadamer's sense) with philosophical thinkers today who share his interest in the relationship of interpretation to ethics and whose ideas can be both illuminated and challenged by Coleridge's insights into and struggles with this relationship.

In his philosophy, poetry, theology, and personal life, Coleridge revealed his concern with this issue, as it manifests itself in the relation between...

First published in 1918, Ernst Bertram's "Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology" substantially shaped the image of Nietzsche for the generation between the wars. It won the Nietzsche Society's first prize and was admired by luminous contemporaries including Andre Gide, Hermann Hesse, Gottfried Benn, and Thomas Mann. Although translated into French in 1932, the book was never translated into English following the decline of Nietzsche's and Bertram's reputations after 1945. Now, with Nietzsche's importance for twentieth-century thought undisputed, the work by one of his most influential...

First published in 1918, Ernst Bertram's Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology substantially shaped the image of Nietzsche for the generation between the wars. It won the Nietzsche Society's first prize and was admired by luminous contemporaries including Andre Gide, Hermann Hesse, Gottfried Benn, and Thomas Mann. Although translated into French in 1932, the book was never translated into English following the decline of Nietzsche's and Bertram's reputations after 1945. Now, with Nietzsche's importance for twentieth-century thought undisputed, the work by one of his most influential...

• Features essays by eminent contemporary philosophers concerning the over-arching themes in The Twilight Zone, as well as in-depth discussions of particular episodes
• Fuses popular cult entertainment with classical philosophical perspectives
• Acts as a guide to unearthing larger questions - from human nature to the...