Philosophy : Western

Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. more...

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This is the first volume to bring together philosophers, sociologists and scientists to explore and examine the role of practices in human activity. more...

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This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works.:.; This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works.; From ‘aporia’ to ‘yes’, the Dictionary suggests ways into Derrida that show what is at stake in his work.; Demonstrates that Derrida is not just about philosophy, but also about politics and pop music.; Explains why deconstruction matters, and how Derrida can change the way you think.; The A-Z entries are framed by essays on the inherent interdisciplinarity of Derrida’s work and on Derrida’s relationship to a range of other thinkers. more...

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Simon Critchley discusses the ideas and approaches of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Habermas, Foucault, and Derrida, and introduces key concepts such as existentialism, nihilism, and phenomenology by explaining their place in the continental tradition. more...

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There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Following under the teachings of Socrates, Plato's works are among the world's greatest literature. The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attained. Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth; and both of them had to be content with an abstraction of science which was not yet realized. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. more...

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