Search results for “[Subject: metaphysics]”

• Author(s): Nuno Nabais • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralThis book is a concise and historicized analysis of the development of Nietzsche's thought on the subject of tragedy.

• Author(s): Dale Jacquette • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsIn Philosophy of Mind: The Metaphysics of Consciousness, Dale Jacquette provides students and professionals with a concise and accessible overvi...

• Author(s): Dale Jacquette • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsIn Philosophy of Mind: The Metaphysics of Consciousness, Dale Jacquette provides students and professionals with a concise and accessible overvi...

• Author(s): Angela M. Coventry • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralContinuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects t...

• Author(s): Christopher Norris • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsAlain Badiou's Being and Event is the most original and significant work of French philosophy to have appeared in recent decades. It is the ...

• Author(s): Franklin Perkins • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralGottfried Leibniz is one of the most influential and important European philosophers of the early modern period. Although ...

• Author(s): Justin Skirry • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe traditional account of mind/body union attributed to Descartes supposes that the immaterial, thinking mind and the material, non-thinking bod...

• Author(s): Alison Assiter • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAlison Assiter argues that the notion of the person that lies at the heart of the liberal tradition is derived from a Kantian ...

• Author(s): Franklin Perkins • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralContinuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects tha...

• Author(s): Caitlin Smith Gilson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the nec...

• Author(s): H. O. Mounce • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsMetaphysics and the End of Philosophy is a defence of metaphysics as central to philosophy and a criticism of the attempts of modern philosophy to...

• Author(s): Angela M. Coventry • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralContinuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects t...

• Author(s): Louis P. Blond • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernHeidegger and Nietzsche: Overcoming Metaphysics charts Heidegger's course of the 1930s that culminates in his notorious confr...

• Author(s): Sherry Deveaux • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralBaruch Spinoza began his studies learning Hebrew and the Talmud, only to be excommunicated at the age of twenty-four for supposed heresy. Throughout...

• Author(s): Paul Guyer • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralKant is probably the philosopher who best typifies the thought and ideals of the Enlightenment. He was influenced by the modern ...

• Author(s): Paul Guyer • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralKant is probably the philosopher who best typifies the thought and ideals of the Enlightenment. He was influenced by the modern ...

• Author(s): Michael Witmore • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: ShakespeareMetaphysics is usually associated with that part of the philosophical tradition which asks about 'last things', questions such as: How many sub...

• Author(s): Sharin N. Elkholy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe early Heidegger of Being and Time is generally believed to locate finitude strictly within the individual, based on an...

• Author(s): Todd Bates • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - MedievalJohn Duns Scotus (d.1308), known as the 'subtle doctor' among medieval schoolmen, produced a formidable philosophical theology ...

• Author(s): Francis A. Grabowski III • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalFew philosophical doctrines have been as influential and as widely discussed as Plato's theory of ...

• Author(s): Sharin N. Elkholy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe early Heidegger of Being and Time is generally believed to locate finitude strictly within the individual, based on an...

• Author(s): Markus Gabriel • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernTranscendental Ontology in German Idealism: Schelling and Hegel sheds remarkable light on a question central to post-Kantian ...

• Author(s): Talia Mae Bettcher • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis book tackles some of the deepest problems in Berkeley's philosophy by providing a fresh interpretation of Berkeley's...

• Author(s): David Werther • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: PhilosophyPhilosophy and the Christian Worldview is a collection of new essays written by fifteen philosophers of religion. Bringing together some of the le...

• Author(s): Martin Heidegger • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Concept of Time presents Heidegger's so-called Dilthey review, widely considered the first draft of his celebrated masterpiece, Being and ...

• Author(s): Eric Alliez • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix...

• Author(s): Nuno Nabais • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralThis book is a concise and historicized analysis of the development of Nietzsche's thought on the subject of tragedy.

• Author(s): Eric Matthews • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Mind & BodyKey Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the st...

• Author(s): Sebastian Gardner • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsJean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness marked the beginning of the rise of French existentialism in the twentieth century. In this work Sar...

• Author(s): Sarah Borden • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralEdith Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in 1998 but is still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. She provid...

• Author(s): David James • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralIn this important new book, David James offers an innovative interpretation of a key element of Hegel's political thought. James seeks to identify the ...

• Author(s): Caroline Williams • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern"Caroline Williams marks what is distinctive about 20th Century French philosophy's interrogation of the subject and demon...

• Author(s): Alain Badiou • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernTheory of the Subject, first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou's most important works, laying m...

• Author(s): Todd S. Mei • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn a world of changing work patterns and the global displacement of working lifestyles, the nature of human identity and work is...

• Author(s): Emmanuel Levinas • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: EasternEmmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. He is widely considered to be one of the most important thinkers ...

• Author(s): Robin Small • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsPuzzles about time - about past, present and future, and the nature of becoming - have concerned philosophers from the ancient Greeks to the presen...