Free Will And Continental Philosophy

Author : David Edward Rose
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441114017
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Will and Continental Philosophy written by David Edward Rose and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Will and Continental Philosophy explores the concepts of free-will and self-determination in the Continental philosophical tradition. David Rose examines the ways in which Continental philosophy offers a viable alternative to the hegemonic scientistic approach taken by analytic philosophy. Rose claims that the problem of free-will is only a problem if one makes an unnecessary assumption consistent with scientific rationalism. In the sphere of human action we assume that, since action is a physical event, it must be reducible to the laws and concepts of science. Hence, the problematic nature of free will raises its head, since the concept of free will is intrinsically contradictory to such a reductionist outlook. This book suggests that the Continental thinkers offer a compelling alternative by concentrating on the phenomena of human action and self-determination in order to offer the truth of freedom in different terms. Thus Rose offers a revealing investigation into the appropriate concepts and categories of human freedom and action.

Author : Jeffrey A. Bell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802094090
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos written by Jeffrey A. Bell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early 1960s until his death, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. One of Deleuze's main philosophical projects was a systematic inversion of the traditional relationship between identity and difference. This Deleuzian philosophy of difference is the subject of Jeffrey A. Bell's Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos. Bell argues that Deleuze's efforts to develop a philosophy of difference are best understood by exploring both Deleuze's claim to be a Spinozist, and Nietzsche's claim to have found in Spinoza an important precursor. Beginning with an analysis of these claims, Bell shows how Deleuze extends and transforms concepts at work in Spinoza and Nietzsche to produce a philosophy of difference that promotes and, in fact, exemplifies the notions of dynamic systems and complexity theory. With these concepts at work, Deleuze constructs a philosophical approach that avoids many of the difficulties that linger in other attempts to think about difference. Bell uses close readings of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Whitehead to illustrate how Deleuze's philosophy is successful in this regard and to demonstrate the importance of the historical tradition for Deleuze. Far from being a philosopher who turns his back on what is taken to be a mistaken metaphysical tradition, Bell argues that Deleuze is best understood as a thinker who endeavoured to continue the work of traditional metaphysics and philosophy.

Author : F. W. J. Schelling
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481220
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom written by F. W. J. Schelling and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt offer a fresh translation of Schelling's enigmatic and influential masterpiece, widely recognized as an indispensable work of German Idealism. The text is an embarrassment of riches—both wildly adventurous and somberly prescient. Martin Heidegger claimed that it was "one of the deepest works of German and thus also of Western philosophy" and that it utterly undermined Hegel's monumental Science of Logic before the latter had even appeared in print. Schelling carefully investigates the problem of evil by building on Kant's notion of radical evil, while also developing an astonishingly original conception of freedom and personality that exerted an enormous (if subterranean) influence on the later course of European philosophy from Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard through Heidegger to important contemporary theorists like Slavoj Zðizûek. This translation of Schelling's notoriously difficult and densely allusive work provides extensive annotations and translations of a series of texts (by Boehme, Baader, Lessing, Jacobi, and Herder), hard to find or previously unavailable in English, whose presence in the Philosophical Investigations is unmistakable and highly significant. This handy study edition of Schelling's masterpiece will prove useful for scholars and students alike.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415095259
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Continental Philosophy Reader written by Richard Kearney and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Continental Philosophy Reader is the first complete anthology of classic writings from the major figures in European thought and provides a powerful introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential intellectual movements.

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631190139
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Continental Philosophy written by Simon Critchley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy.

Author : David Edward Rose
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847060994
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Will and Continental Philosophy written by David Edward Rose and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a detailed and original analysis of the concept of free will in the Continental philosophical tradition.

Author : Walter Brogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253337290
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Continental Philosophy written by Walter Brogan and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Continental Philosophy is the first anthology to gather a representative selection of the most important and original thinkers from the continental tradition in the U.S. The essays reflect the diverse directions and methodologies that have emerged from this influential field. This state-of-the-art sampler showcases the richness and scope of American continental philosophy and will be of value to the entire philosophical community.

Author : David West
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074564581X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Philosophy written by David West and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche, Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and Žižek. At the same time, it situates their thought within a coherent overall account of the development of continental philosophy since the Enlightenment. Individual chapters consider the character of modernity, the Enlightenment and its continental critics; the ideas of Marxism, the Frankfurt School and Habermas; hermeneutics and phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. In addition to the thinkers already mentioned, there is extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey, Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir and Lyotard. The new edition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continental philosophy in the twenty-first century focusing on Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek. Continental Philosophy: An Introduction is an invaluable introductory text for courses on continental philosophy as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences dealing with major figures or influential approaches within that tradition.

Author : Andrew Cutrofello
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415242080
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Philosophy written by Andrew Cutrofello and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction looks at the development of the tradition, tracing it back from Kant to the present day.

Author : Kim Atkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137835
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self and Subjectivity written by Kim Atkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self and Subjectivity is a collection of seminal essays with commentary that traces the development of conceptions of 'self' and 'subjectivity' in European and Anglo-American philosophical traditions, including feminist scholarship, from Descartes to the present.