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Author : Alexander García Düttmann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826495621
'Philosophy of Exaggeration' addresses the philosophical relevance of exaggeration & discusses key thinkers including Adorno, Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Deleuze, Derrida, Freud, Kant, Hegel, Levinas & Wittgenstein.
Author : Ervik Cejvan
Publisher : Akram
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2023-03-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781805243380
The questions concerning the divine in philosophy have inspired the ways of thinking that go beyond ordinary ways of thinking. Despite that, philosophy is less successful in providing universally satisfying discourses about the divine, not always appealing to theologians and those who seek the divine through experience. The thinking about the divine in philosophy pertains, therefore, less to the question of the divine. It incites a task of critical examination of the ways of thinking beyond in philosophy. Especially interesting for me here is the way of exaggeration. Traditional examples employ exaggeration in the figurative language of hyperbole to overemphasize the divine beyond the human. The hyperbolic expressions facilitate the thinking beyond, for instance, in assigning God superlative attributes, surpassing the human limitations. However, as Thomas Browne points out, the hyperbole "reach not the portal of divinity"
Author : Adam Zagajewski
Publisher :
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374265879
A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet For Adam Zagajewski—one of Poland’s great poets—the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his “restless and quizzical quest for self-knowledge.” Slight Exaggeration is an autobiographical portrait of the poet, arranged not chronologically but with that same luminous quality that distinguishes Zagajewski’s spellbinding poetry—an affinity for the invisible. In a mosaic-like blend of criticism, reflections, European history, and aphoristic musings, Zagajewski tells the stories of his life in glimpses and reveries—from the Second World War and the occupation of Poland that left his family dispossessed to Joseph Brodsky’s funeral on the Venetian island of San Michele—interspersed with intellectual interrogations of the writers and poets (D. H. Lawrence, Giorgos Seferis, Zbigniew Herbert, Paul Valéry), composers and painters (Brahms, Rembrandt), and modern heroes (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke) who have influenced his work. A wry and philosophical defense of mystery, Slight Exaggeration recalls Zagajewski’s poetry in its delicate negotiation between the earthbound and the ethereal, “between brief explosions of meaning and patient wandering through the plains of ordinary days.” With an enduring inclination to marvel, Zagajewski restores the world to us—necessarily incomplete and utterly astonishing.
Author : Jennifer Mather Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199603685
Jennifer Saul presents a close analysis of the distinction between lying to others and misleading them, which sheds light on key debates in philosophy of language and tackles the widespread moral preference for misleading over lying. She establishes a new view on the moral significance of the distinction, and explores a range of historical cases.
Author : Arthur M. Melzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022617512X
“Shines a floodlight on a topic that has been cloaked in obscurity . . . a landmark work in both intellectual history and political theory” (The Wall Street Journal). Philosophical esotericism—the practice of communicating one’s unorthodox thoughts “between the lines”—was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. Despite its long and well-documented history, however, esotericism is often dismissed today as a rare occurrence. But by ignoring esotericism, we risk cutting ourselves off from a full understanding of Western philosophical thought. Walking readers through both an ancient (Plato) and a modern (Machiavelli) esoteric work, Arthur M. Melzer explains what esotericism is—and is not. It relies not on secret codes, but simply on a more intensive use of familiar rhetorical techniques like metaphor, irony, and insinuation. Melzer explores the various motives that led thinkers in different times and places to engage in this strange practice, while also exploring the motives that lead more recent thinkers not only to dislike and avoid this practice but to deny its very existence. In the book’s final section, “A Beginner’s Guide to Esoteric Reading,” Melzer turns to how we might once again cultivate the long-forgotten art of reading esoteric works. The first comprehensive, book-length study of the history and theoretical basis of philosophical esotericism, Philosophy Between the Lines is “a treasure-house of insight and learning. It is that rare thing: an eye-opening book . . . By making the world before Enlightenment appear as strange as it truly was, [Melzer] makes our world stranger than we think it is” (George Kateb, Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University). “Brilliant, pellucid, and meticulously researched.” —City Journal
Author : Andrew Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521107822
Modern philosophers generally assume that music is a problem to which philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie's Music, Philosophy, and Modernity suggests, in contrast, that music might offer ways of responding to some central questions in modern philosophy. Bowie looks at key philosophical approaches to music ranging from Kant, through the German Romantics and Wagner, to Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Adorno. He uses music to re-examine many ideas about language, subjectivity, metaphysics, truth and ethics, and he suggests that music can show how the predominant images of language, communication, and meaning in contemporary philosophy may be lacking in essential ways. His book will be of interest to philosophers, musicologists, and all who are interested in the relation between music and philosophy.
Author : Paul Fairfield
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1441116389
Examines hermeneutics in relation to existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory and postructuralism. >
Author : Robert B. Brandom
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674976819
In a new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel's classic The Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Brandom argues that when our self-conscious recognitive attitudes take Hegel's radical form of magnanimity and trust, we can overcome a troubled modernity and enter a new age of spirit.
Author : Ingmar Persson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199276900
One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give us guidance about how to live our lives. The ancient Greeks typically assumed that a life led in accordance with reason, a rational life, would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Ingmar Persson's book resumes this project, which has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. But his conclusions are very different; by exploring the irrationality of our attitudes to time, our identity, and our responsibility,Persson shows that the aim of living rationally conflicts not only with the aim of leading the most fulfilling life, but also with the moral aim of promoting the maximization and just distribution of fulfilment for all. Persson also argues that neither the aim of living rationally nor any of the fulfilmentaims can be rejected as less rational than any other. We thus face a dilemma of either having to enter a retreat of reason, insulated from everyday attitudes, or making reason retreat from its aspiration to be the sole controller of our attitudes.The Retreat of Reason explores three areas in which there is a conflict between the rational life and a life dedicated to maximization of fulfilment. Persson contends that living rationally requires us to give up, first, our temporal biases; secondly, our bias towards ourselves; and, thirdly, our responsibility to the extent that it involves the notion of desert and desert-entailing notions. But giving up these attitudes is so overwhelmingly hard that the effort to do so not only makesour own lives less fulfilling, but also obstructs our efficient pursuit of the moral aim of promoting a maximum of justly distributed fulfilment.Ingmar Persson brings back to philosophy the ambition of offering a broad vision of the human condition. The Retreat of Reason challenges and disturbs some of our most fundamental ideas about ourselves.
Author : Ann Margaret Sharp
Publisher : Ediciones de la Torre
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788479601461
Serie de artículos de personas de todo el mundo plenamente identificados con el Programa de Filosofía para Niños. Y en los que se toma como eje de reflexión la obra Pixie. Se completa con notas y bibliografía de Matthew Lipman.