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Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit concern with the subject of the human. This volume outlines the key elements of a hermeneutic philosophy of social science. Contributions by key authors focus on politics, economics, applied ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, education as well as the history of philosophy. Themes in the history of philosophy are drawn from Plato to Descartes to Husserl.

Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunther Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhu...

Das vorliegende Buch bietet hermeneutische und phänomenologische Reflexionen über das Kunstwerk aus der Sicht sowohl des Künstlers - als Schaffendem - als auch des Rezipienten. Erörtert werden die Materialität des Kunstwerks, Bronze, Marmor, Farbe und Klang sowie die Frage nach Nietzsches Artistenmetaphysik. In einem Kernkapitel wird eine neue Lesart von Nietzsches Zarathustra und dessen plastischem Begriff des Erhabenen vorgestellt. Auf Basis...

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William J. Richardson, S.J., was born in Brooklyn, New York on the 2nd of November, 1920. He died at the Jesuit Campion Health Center, in Weston, Massachusetts, on the 10th of December, 2016.Leo O'Donovan, S.J., Richard Kearney, and Jeffrey Bloechl, each in different ways gathered the diffusions of mourning friends, students, colleagues, patients, and admirers of the late William J. Richardson, via email over the days leading up to and after h...

Neben seinen Vorlesungen über vorplatonische Philosophie behauptete Nietzsche in seiner "Theorie der quantitirenden Rhythmik" die Aussprache des Altgriechischen aus dem , Geist der Musik' heraus , entdeckt' zu haben. Dieser Geist spiegelt sich in Nietzsches Auseinandersetzung mit der klassischen Musik wider, insbesondere in der mit Beethoven. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch stammen aus Aufsätzen und Vorträgen zu Nietzsches weniger bekannten Überle...

Epicurus provides a recipe for happiness, beginning with the reminder that happiness, at the end of the day, is the absence of suffering. This reflection can be epitomized in the Epicurean tradition in the fourfold list summarized in Philodemus, 1. Don?t fear the gods, 2. Don?t worry about death, 3. What is good is easy to get, 4. What is terrible is easy to endure. This book discusses the simple art of happiness. But is that all it takes? Fam...

This collection of reading and essays on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics, history of philosophy as well as the history of science. This much needed volume on David Hume will enrich scholars across all levels of university study and research.

Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit concern with the subject of the human. This volume outlines the key elements of a hermeneutic philosophy of social science. Contributions by key authors focus on politics, economics, applied ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, education as well as the history of philosophy. Themes in the history of philosophy are drawn from Plato to Descartes to Husserl.

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This collection on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics, history of philosophy as well as the history of science. This much needed volume on David Hume will enrich scholars across all levels of university study and research.

This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah embody, acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today, the working of music is magnified and transformed by recording dynamics and mediated via Facebook exchanges, blog postings and video sites. Given ...

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: The Problem of the Philosophy of Science and Nietzsche's Question of Ground The Plan of the Text Chapter 1 Nietzsche's Musical Stylistics: Writing a Philosophy of Science The Hermeneutic Challenge of Nietzsche's Elitism: Style and Interpretive Affinity Philosophic Concinnity: The Spirit of Music and Nietzschean Style The Project of Communication: Self-Deconstruction and Nietzschean Sel...

Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science, is the second volume of a collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, featuring essays addressing truth, epistemology, and the philosophy of science, with a substantial representation of analytically schooled Nietzsche scholars. This collection offers a dynamic articulation of the differing strengths of Anglo-American analytic and contemporary European approaches to philosophy, with translati...

A philosophical exploration of the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us.

This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah embody, acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today, the working of music is magnified and transformed by recording dynamics and mediated via Facebook exchanges, blog postings and video sites. Given ...

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Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist Nietzsches Beschäftigung mit den Naturwissenschaften, angefangen bei seinem ersten Buch über die Tragödie bis hin zu Nietzsches Frage nach den Ursprüngen der Logik (aus dem Nicht-Logischen) und unserem Verlangen nach Wahrheit (in seiner Entgegensetzung von Unwahrheit und Lüge). Weit davon entfernt, Irrationalist oder Relativist zu sein, entwickelte Nietzsche eine radikal kritische Wissenschaftsphilosophie. In di...

Why did Nietzsche claim to have "written in blood"? Why did Heidegger remain silent after World War II about his participation in the Nazi Party? How did HC6lderlin's voice and the voices of other, more ancient poets come to echo in philosophy?