(Išleidimo metai: 30-May-2019, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Quarto Publishing PLC, ISBN-13: 9781782408031)
Throughout history, the story of the skyscraper has been defined by our desire for ascendancepolitically, militarily, economically, religiously, culturally, and, of course, physically. These spectacular superstructures epitomise more than architectur...Daugiau...
Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from...Daugiau...
John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sades highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how, though Sades work continues to shock, it can also be s...Daugiau...
The world today hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man C. G. JungJung was the original anti-psychiatrist, who believed that the real patient was not the suffering individual, but a sick and ailing Western civilization. He was...Daugiau...
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. David HumeDavid Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdoms greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist and a central figure of the Enlightenment. Ye...Daugiau...
Sacred to millions across the world, translated into countless languages and with estimated annual sales of 25 million, The Bible is one of the most influential books of all time. But how, in the 21st century, should believers and non-believers alike...Daugiau...
Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the subject or the self. Terence Cave discusses these and oth...Daugiau...
Incoherent, obsessive and violent, Hitlers ideas nonetheless found an audience of millions and led to one of the most horrific and devastating conflicts of the 20th century. Taking two of Hitlers texts as his starting point, Neil Gregor discusses ...Daugiau...
The Quran is regarded by Muslims as the direct word of God, timeless and unchanged. It is used not only for prayer and worship but as a path which can lead the believer to a closer understanding of the essence of their relationship with God. In this...Daugiau...
In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that provokes so much opposition to psychoanalysis...Daugiau...
Men are infamous and detestable who are destroyers of religion, squanderers of kingdoms and republics, and enemies of the virtues. Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli (1459-1527) is one of the most influential modern political thinkers. His works, abov...Daugiau...
Shakespeares legacy is all around us - in our books and our films, in our politics and in our everyday speech. With his words he has formed our world, and his influence has been greater than that of any other writer. So what makes Shakespeares play...Daugiau...
Soren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy...Daugiau...
Thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato and Parmenides have shaped the way we see the world, and it is their original conception of philosophy which has placed topics such as logic, metaphysics, ethics and ontology at the heart of philosophical debates for...Daugiau...
The unexamined life is not worth living. SocratesPlato is the founding thinker of European speculative thought. He was the first Western writer to undertake a comprehensive and rigorous study of the fundamental categories of reality and value, and...Daugiau...
Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marxs writings, Peter Osborne presents Marxs thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be practical historical beings. Drawing upon passages fr...Daugiau...
Heidegger is perhaps the most influential, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Mark A. Wrathall unpacks Heideggers dense prose and guides the reader through Heideggers early concern with the nature of human existence and...Daugiau...
I can want only the freedom of others Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free. Robert Bernasconi shows how the early existentialist Sart...Daugiau...
Deconstruction is not neutral. It intervenes Jacques DerridaAn idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as law, anthropology, literature and architecture. In Derr...Daugiau...
I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last. Ren, DescartesRevered as the father of modern philosophy, Descart...Daugiau...
