[PDF] On Philosophy History And Literature eBook

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0241980860

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AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES 'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the history of debates in these areas, through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, then the philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world. And finally, into philosophy today.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2014-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0199674531

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Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world

Author : M.C. Lemon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1134717474

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An essential introduction to a vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the contemporary world.

Author : Michael Stanford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1998-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631199411

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This book uncovers the wealth of philosophical problems that history presents, and encourages further thought on how these issues grow out of historical questions.

Author : Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1118963873

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This monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to both literary and philosophical studies of literature. Helpfully groups essays into the field's main sub-categories, among them ‘Relations Between Philosophy and Literature’, ‘Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading’, ‘Literature and the Moral Life’, and ‘Literary Language’ Offers a combination of analytical precision and literary richness Represents an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialists alike, ideal for course use

Author : Donald Phillip Verene
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1532641737

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The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies puts forth the question of the extent to which philosophers must go to school with the poets. It begins with a new interpretation of the famous Platonic quarrel with the poetic wisdom of Homer. It brings this question forward through the humanism of thinkers of the Italian Renaissance and the German Idealism of Hegel. It then treats the relation of philosophy and literature in four ways by considering philosophy as literature, philosophy of literature, philosophy in literature, and philosophy and literature. In regard to the first of these, it discusses Jorge Luis Borges’s The Immortal, to the second James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, to the third Carl Sandburg’s epic prose poem The People, Yes, and to the fourth, Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools. This work demonstrates that in an area of thought often dominated by fashionable doctrines of literary interpretation, the great works of literature and philosophy remain as permanent residents of our thought and imagination.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 1984-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521273305

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Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.

Author : Robert C. Scharff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134626738

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In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy’s past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history actually matters for even Plato’s Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, in spite of their apparent promotion of conspicuously ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part Two, Scharff argues that the real issue is not whether history matters; rather it is that we already have a history, a very distinctive and unavoidable inheritance, which paradoxically teaches us that history’s mattering is merely optional. Through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, he describes what thinking in a historically determinate way actually involves, and he considers how to avoid the denial of this condition that our own philosophical inheritance still seems to expect of us. In a brief conclusion, Scharff explains how this book should be read as part of his own effort to acknowledge this condition rather than deny it.