Product Description: Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy...read more

A powerful new portrait of the nineteenth-century preacher and intellectual who rejected the teaching authority of the Bible and challenged the status quo on slavery and women's rights reveals a revolutionary figure who drew his inspiration from the same religious tradition he rejected. (Biography)

This collection offers a critical assessment of transcendentalism, the understanding of consciousness, absolutized as a system of a priori laws of the mind, that was advanced by Kant and Husserl. As these studies show, transcendentalism critically informed 20th Century phenomenological investigation into such issues as temporality, historicity, imagination, objectivity and subjectivity, freedom, ethical judgment, work, praxis. Advances in science have now provoked a questioning of the absolute prerogatives of consciousness. Transcendentalism is challenged by empirical reductionism. And recognition of the role the celestial sphere plays in life on planet earth suggests that a radical shift of philosophy's center of gravity be made away from absolute consciousness and toward the transcendental forces at play in the architectonics of the cosmos.

Product Description: Most modern epistemologies violate philosophical conditions of sense, as first formulated by Kant, because they assume a standpoint that transcends knowledge. This investigation works out in detail the sensible, linguistic, and meaning-theoretic foundations of a theory of knowledge that is committed to knowability...read more

Product Description: Kant's introduction of a distinctive form of philosophical investigation and proof, known as transcendental, inaugurated a new philosophical tradition. Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism assesses the present state and contemporary relevance of this tradition...read more

Provides a lavishly illustrated tour of the towns, regions, and villages that served as inspiration to members of the Transcendentalist movement--including such locales as Cambridge, in which Ralph Waldo Emerson gave his speeches, and Walden, made famous by Henry David Thoreau, retracing the steps of major writers, poets, and utopian communities of the era. Original.

Product Description: Throughout history, human beings have searched for meaningful answers, and above all else, Truth. As seekers, we pursue what we perceive will provide the ultimate fulfillment. Bearing timely messages of eternal wisdom, Transcendental Illuminations has been created to encourage, assist, and support people in their pursuit of Truth and individual conscious evolution...read more

A spiritual approach to human sexuality looks at the power of sex to bring readers to the highest spiritual states described in various world religions, detailing lovers who have experienced possession, channeling supernatural entities, visions, past lives, paranormal abilities, shapeshifting, nirvana, and more. Original. 20,000 first printing.