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Verso | 2000 | ISBN 1859847242 | 266 Pages | PDF OCR | 6 MB Kant, sober Enlightenment thinker and philosopher's philosopher, seems the very antithesis of Lacan, the "wild theorist" of psychoanalysis. But, drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, Alenka Zupancic here demonstrates that the two thinkers stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -- impossible because of the infinite and inhuman demands it makes on us. ... Ebook description

Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science By Hermann Weyl, Frank Wilczek Publisher: Princeton University Press | 2009 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0691141207 | DJVU | 13.26 MB “ When mathematician Hermann Weyl decided to write a book on philosophy, he faced what he referred to as "conflicts of conscience"--the objective nature of science, he felt, did not mesh easily with the incredulous, uncertain nature of philosophy. ... Ebook description

Princeton University Press | ISBN 0691117322 | (October 6, 2003) | PDF | 1,94 Mb | 240 pages "This stunning work is without question a major contribution to Cartesian studies, to the field of early modern philosophy, and to general epistemology--original, provocative, and philosophically interesting. The writing is everywhere precise and elegant, but straightforward and conversational at the same time. ... Ebook description

Circe | 1998 | ISBN 2842420462 | 118 Pages | PDF OCR | 3 MB La première pensée de l'art chez Heidegger, dans les années Trente, est une pensée de la violence : une "surpuissance " essentielle s'y impose, exigeant en retour un acte de création compris comme l'exercice d'une violence héroïque. Cette conception est-elle abandonnée dans les écrits ultérieurs ? Une alternative est-elle alors proposée, quant à l'art, à cette expérience de la souveraineté dominatrice ? L'enjeu est important, si l'art, comme l'écrit Heidegger lui-même, engage la question de ce qui "décide conjointement de qui nous sommes ", s'il révèle le type de relations que nous entretenons avec une "vérité " qui nous figure, qui dessine ou sculpte les contours de notre propre apparaître, et donc aussi, sans doute, de ce qui constitue notre être-ensemble. ... Ebook description

University of California Press | 1977 | ISBN 0520034759 | 301 Pages | PDF OCR | 6 MB This excellent collection contains 13 essays from Gadamer's Kleine Schriften, dealing with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. Gadamer applies hermeneutical analysis to Heidegger and Husserl's phenomenology, an approach that proves critical and instructive. ... Ebook description

Publisher: Dr. Ted Gambordella | ISBN: NA | edition 2001 | PDF | 84 pages | 18,73 mb 25 Year ago I began an intensive research into Oriental Philosophy. I studied and summarized over 25 books and spent years writing and researching. Now I have finally published a book on Oriental Philosophy. In this book you will learn about ZEN, Buddhism, Yoga, Meditation, and Confucius.I must point out that I am a CHRISTIAN, and wrote this book strictly for research into Oriental Philosophy. ... Ebook description

Monthly Review Press | 1971 | ISBN 0853452016 | 256 Pages | PDF OCR | 6.5 MB Lenin and Philosophy contains Althusser's essay on Lenin's study of Hegel; a major essay on the state, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," "Freud and Lacan: A letter on Art in Reply to André Daspre," and "Cremonini, Painter of the Abstract." The book opens with a 1968 interview in which Althusser discusses his personal, political, and intellectual history. ... Ebook description