Product Description: The author shows how the concept of opposition can be instrumental in solving some of the notorious problems in philosophy. With special attention to Sartre and Heidegger, Hoffman offers new solutions to the problems that have been formulated by other philosophers...read more

Product Description: The concept of power shapes both the political philosophy and the general worldview of the modern age. For this reason, two areas of philosophy - ontology and political philosophy - which were hitherto treated separately, must be brought together...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In this original analysis, Hoffman shows how the modern self's drive for total autonomy and independence defines the relations of human selves as essentially violent. He further argues that the notion of violence underlies some of the key components of mainstream modern philosophizing.

Product Description: Following on the arguments adumbrated in his previous works, Piotr Hoffman here argues that the notion of and concern with violence are not limited to political philosophy but in fact form the essential component of philosophy in general...read more

Product Description: In this work of original philosophy, Piotr Hoffman focuses on two of the central concerns of modern philosophy—doubt and time. He argues that both concerns stem from a suppressed but underlying feeling that life is an all-out, unrestrained struggle and that violence is inherent in the human condition...read more

Examines the impact of the life and death struggle on the freedom of the self and analyzes the theories of the self of Hegel, Heidegger, and Sartre

Product Description: In its attempt to come to grips with the nature of the human mind idealism employs such terms as "pure self," "transcendental apperception," "pure con­ sciousness" and so on. What do these terms mean? What do they refer to? Pro­ visionally, at least, the following answer could be satisfying: such and similar expressions are purported to capture a very special quality of human mind, a quality due to which man is not simply a part of nature, but a being capable of knowing and acting according to principles governing the spiritual realm...read more