The Revolution in Philosophy

The Revolution in Philosophy
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Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 1013709470
ISBN-13 : 9781013709470
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Synopsis The Revolution in Philosophy by : A J (Alfred Jules) 1910-1989 Ayer

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Philosophy and Revolution

Philosophy and Revolution
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9781786635808
ISBN-13 : 1786635801
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Synopsis Philosophy and Revolution by : Stathis Kouvelakis

Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a “revolution without revolution.” Trapped in a politically ossified society, German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of the revolutionary experience. In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the progressive currents of German society. On the one side were those socialists—among them Moses Hess and the young Friedrich Engels—who sought to discover a principle of harmony in social relations, bypassing the question of revolutionary politics. On the other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture, proletarian hegemony and struggle for democracy, thereby redefining the very notion of politics itself.

The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy

The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9780198714057
ISBN-13 : 019871405X
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Synopsis The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy by : Richard Healey

Quantum theory launched a revolution in physics. But we have yet to understand the revolution's significance for philosophy. Richard Healey opens a path to such understanding. The first part of this book offers a self-contained but opinionated introduction to quantum theory. The second part assesses the theory's philosophical significance.

Descartes' Philosophical Revolution: A Reassessment

Descartes' Philosophical Revolution: A Reassessment
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 474
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ISBN-10 : 9781137512024
ISBN-13 : 1137512024
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Synopsis Descartes' Philosophical Revolution: A Reassessment by : H. Ben-Yami

Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind–body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape his new and influential theory of perception.

The Modern Philosophical Revolution

The Modern Philosophical Revolution
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 502
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ISBN-10 : 9781139475204
ISBN-13 : 1139475207
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Synopsis The Modern Philosophical Revolution by : David Walsh

The Modern Philosophical Revolution breaks new ground by demonstrating the continuity of European philosophy from Kant to Derrida. Much of the literature on European philosophy has emphasised the breaks that have occurred in the course of two centuries of thinking. But as David Walsh argues, such a reading overlooks the extent to which Kant, Hegel, and Schelling were already engaged in the turn toward existence as the only viable mode of philosophising. Where many similar studies summarise individual thinkers, this book provides a framework for understanding the relationships between them. Walsh thus dispels much of the confusion that assails readers when they are only exposed to the bewildering range of positions taken by the philosophers he examines. His book serves as an indispensable guide to a philosophical tradition that continues to have resonance in the post-modern world.

Kant's Philosophical Revolution

Kant's Philosophical Revolution
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9780691204574
ISBN-13 : 0691204578
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Synopsis Kant's Philosophical Revolution by : Yirmiyahu Yovel

A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophy Perhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult ideas, and tortuous sentences. In this short, accessible book, eminent philosopher and Kant expert Yirmiyahu Yovel helps readers find their way through the maze of Kant's classic by providing a clear and authoritative summary of the entire work. The distillation of decades of studying and teaching Kant, Yovel's "systematic explication" untangles the ideas and arguments of the Critique in the order in which Kant presents them. The result is an invaluable guide for philosophers and students.

Philosophy and Revolution

Philosophy and Revolution
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 0739105590
ISBN-13 : 9780739105597
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Philosophy and Revolution by : Raya Dunayevskaya

Few thought systems have been as distorted and sometimes misconstrued as those of Marx and Hegel. Philosophy and Revolution, presented here in a new edition, attempts to save Marx from interpretations which restrict the revolutionary significance of the philosophy behind his theory. Developing her breakthrough on Hegel's Absolute Idea, Raya Dunayevskaya, who died in the June of 1987, aims at a total liberation of the human person--not only from the ills of a capitalist society, but also from the equally oppressive state capitalism of established communist governments. She assumes within her theory of class struggle issues as diverse as feminism, black liberation, and even the new nationalism of third world countries. Moreover, Dunayevskaya combines within herself an incorruptible objectivity with a passionate political attitude, making this work a vibrant and concrete discussion of the vicissitudes of society, justice, equality, and existence.

Democratic Enlightenment

Democratic Enlightenment
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 1083
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ISBN-10 : 9780199668090
ISBN-13 : 0199668094
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Democratic Enlightenment by : Jonathan Israel

That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does. In Democratic Enlightenment, Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. The American Revolution and its concerns certainly acted as a major factor in the intellectual ferment that shaped the wider upheaval that followed, but the radical philosophes were no less critical than enthusiastic about the American model. From 1789, the General Revolution's impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups represented in the French National assembly, they nonetheless forged "la philosophie moderne"-in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas-into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America, Canada and Eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. In addition, Israel argues that while all French revolutionary journals powerfully affirmed that la philosophie moderne was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste "Revolution of reason."

The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution

The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution
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Total Pages : 551
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ISBN-10 : 9781108420303
ISBN-13 : 1108420303
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Synopsis The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution by : David Marshall Miller

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution

Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781402059674
ISBN-13 : 1402059671
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Synopsis Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution by : Walter Roy Laird

This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.