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The Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a systematic theory of the emotions and a detailed prescription for human virtue and blessedness. Too controversial to be published during his lifetime, it was surreptitiously printed by Spinoza's friends after his death. Nowadays the Ethics is studied in university classes as an exemplary work of early modern rationalism.
In Spinoza's 'Ethics': A Reader's Guide, J. Thomas Cook...

W. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the recent resurgence of the view that empirical science is our best avenue to knowledge. His views, however, have not been well understood. Critics charge that Quine's naturalized epistemology is circular and that it cannot be normative. Yet, such criticisms stem from a cluster of fundamental traditional assumptions regarding language, theory, and the knowing subject - the very presuppositions that Quine is at pains to reject. Through investigation of Quine's views regarding...

Much has been written about Heidegger's reappropriation of Aristotle, but little has been said about the philosophical import and theoretical context of this element of Heidegger's work. In this important new book, Michael Bowler sheds new light on the philosophical context of Heidegger's return to Aristotle in his early works and thereby advances a reinterpretation of the background to Heidegger's forceful critique of the primacy of theoretical reason and his radical reconception of the very nature of philosophical thinking.

This book offers a detailed analysis of the development of...

Martin Heidegger was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His analysis of human existence proves an inexhaustible ground for thinkers of all backgrounds who seek answers for their specific questions left open or opened up by our times. This book explores the intrinsic connection between two fundamentally human traits, language and death. Heidegger addresses each of these traits in depth, without ever explicitly outlining their relationship in a separate theory. However, in a close examination of Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, Joachim L. Oberst uncovers a...

Activities help readers build the underpinning generic critical...

This book brings together an international team of expert contributors in a...

How is Nature Possible?: Kant's Project in the First Critique presents a clear and systematic appraisal of what is perhaps the most difficult treatise in the philosophical canon. Daniel N. Robinson situates Kant's undertaking in the First Critique within the context of the history of philosophy and as a response to the challenges of scepticism.

Kant's central task in the First Critique is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature itself. Where others assumed the validity or the weakness of perception and reason, Kant presents a critical appraisal...

Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza explores Spinoza's political philosophy by confronting it with that of Niccolo Machiavelli.
Filippo Del Lucchese conducts a study of the relationship between Machiavelli and Spinoza from a perspective at once philosophical, historical and political.
The book begins by showing how closely tied the two thinkers are in relation to realism. Del Lucchese then goes on to examine the theme of conflict as a crucial element of an understanding of Machiavelli and Spinoza's conceptions of modernity.

The book concludes with...

How is Nature Possible?: Kant's Project in the First Critique presents a clear and systematic appraisal of what is perhaps the most difficult treatise in the philosophical canon. Daniel N. Robinson situates Kant's undertaking in the First Critique within the context of the history of philosophy and as a response to the challenges of scepticism.

Kant's central task in the First Critique is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature itself. Where others assumed the validity or the weakness of perception and reason, Kant presents a critical appraisal of both,...

Heidegger's Platonism challenges Heidegger's 1940 interpretation of Plato as the philosopher who initiated the West's ontological decline into contemporary nihilism. Mark A. Ralkowski argues that, in his earlier lecture course, On the Essence of Truth, in which he appropriates Plato in a positive light, Heidegger discovered the two most important concepts of his later thought, namely the difference between the Being of beings and Being as such, and the 'belonging together' of Being and man in what he eventually calls Ereignis, the 'event of appropriation'.

Ralkowski shows...

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes' philosophical followers. A member of The Oratory, a Roman Catholic order founded in 1611 to increase devotion to the Church and St. Augustine, Malebranche brought together his Cartesianism and his Augustinianism in a rigorous theological-philosophical system.Malebranche's occasionalist metaphysics asserts that God alone possesses true causal power. He asserts that human understanding is totally passive and relies on God for both sensory and intellectual perceptions. Critics have wondered what exactly...

Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation is a systematic study of three of Deleuze's central works: Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense and, with Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. Hughes shows how each of these three works develops the Husserlian problem of genetic constitution. After an innovative reading of Husserl's late work, Hughes turns to a detailed study of the conceptual structures of Deleuze's three books. He demonstrates that each book is surprisingly similar in its structure and that all three function as nearly identical accounts of the genesis of representation....

This important collection of more than twenty original essays by prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant's teaching in relation to his published works.
With the Academy edition's continuing publication of Kant's lectures, the role of his lecturing activity has been drawing more and more deserved attention. Several of Kant's lectures on metaphysics, logic, ethics, anthropology, theology, and pedagogy have been translated into English, and important studies have appeared in many languages. But why study the lectures? When they are read in light of Kant's published...

Mit seiner Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1781) beansprucht Kant, die bisherige Metaphysik auf eine vollig neue Grundlage zu stellen. Im Zuge dessen ersetzt er den "stolzen Namen der Ontologie" durch die Analytik des reinen Verstandes. Trotz dieser negativen Bewertung der Ontologie als Grundlage der Metaphysik finden sich im Werk Kants Passagen, an denen er seine Transzendentalphilosophie mit der Ontologie gleichsetzt.

Rivero untersucht diese erstaunliche Gleichsetzung in entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive: In einem ersten Teil werden die Architektonik der reinen...

Friedrich Albert Lange: Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2013

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

Erstdruck: Iserlohn 1866. Hier nach der zweiten, veranderten Ausgabe, Leipzig 1873/75.

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Friedrich Albert Lange: Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Alfred Schmidt, Band 1 und 2, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974.

Herausgeber der...

Das Werk von 1777 zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Veroffentlichungen der Philosophie der Spataufklarung. In insgesamt 14 umfangreichen Essays versucht Tetens die Grundprobleme der Aufklarungsphilosophie zu losen. Der Band bietet die erste vollstandige und kommentierte Ausgabe dieses opus magnum der empiristischen Spataufklarung seit der Erstpublikation.

Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777) gehorte zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen und Publizisten der europaischen Aufklarung, und zwar sowohl innerhalb aller Teilbereiche der Schulphilosophie als auch im Kontext literarischer und popularphilosophischer Diskurse. Mendelssohn, Lessing, Herder und Kant schatzten ihn, bislang fehlte aber eine Gesamtdarstellung von Meiers OEuvre. Diese Lucke schliet der Band.