Product Description: A useful forum for dialogue on the moral issues of faith and cultural diversity.

Product Description: The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integration of these movements has been elusive, if not impossible. In this landmark book, J...read more

This is the first English translation of Schelling s novel, most likely written after the death of his first wife, Caroline, the former wife of August Wilhelm Schlegel. Although only a fragment, Clara remains unique. Part novella, part philosophical tome, its central theme is the connection between this world and the next. Schelling masterfully weaves together his knowledge of animal magnetism, literary techniques, and his doctrine of the potencies to make his philosophy accessible to all. Steinkamp addresses the main issues concerning the dating of the work many commentators have deemed Clara to be a sketch for Schelling s The Ages of the World or an outline for the third, missing book of that work and provides a short biography of Schelling with particular emphasis on events claimed to play a role in the conception of Clara, such as the deaths of both Caroline and her daughter, Auguste. She also shows how passages in Clara are strikingly similar to the content of Schelling s touching letters mourning Caroline, written to Pauline, the daughter of Caroline s best friend and the woman who would become his second wife. Clara, strongly influenced by the Romantic movement, is an early illustration of Schelling s attempt to unite his positive and negative philosophy." (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection provides a thorough grounding in the philosophy of American pragmatism by examining the views of four principal thinkers - Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead - on issues of central and enduring importance to life in human society...read more

Product Description: Wittgenstein is generally regarded as a difficult philosopher. People reading him sometimes see the glint of a precious stone and are aware that there are diamonds to be found if only they knew how to look. His prose can seem obscure, yet Wittgenstein himself enjoins us to stay silent where we cannot speak clearly, and he criticizes other philosophers for finding “queer” what would seem wholly unmysterious if only they would curb their compulsion to be misled...read more

Product Description: This book deals with the impact of the Reformation debate in Germany on the most prominent intellectual movement of the time: humanism. Although it is true that humanism influenced the course of the Reformation, says Erika Rummel, the dynamics of the relationship are better described by saying that humanism was co-opted, perhaps even exploited, in the religious debate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume offers a lively and accessible guide to some of the major issues current in French philosophy today and to some of the figures who are or have been influential in shaping its development. The collection is unusual and interesting in bringing together a range of contributors from both Britain and France, and is intended not only for professional philosophers but also for those with a more general interest in the French intellectual scene...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to critical theory currently available. Providing a comprehensive overview of the practice, role and importance of theory across the humanities and social sciences, the book not only maps a notoriously complex area, but it also enables the reader to take the arguments and apply them in practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Challenges liberals and conservatives alike, as Hook pierces to the heart of momentous issues: human rights, racial equality, cultural freedom, and the separation of ethical behavior from religious belief.

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Product Description: Philosophical controversies within contemporary critical theory arise largely from questions about the nature, scope and limits of human reason. As the linguistic turn in 20th-century philosophy has increasingly given way to a socio-critical turn, traditional ideas of "pure" reason have been left further behind...read more