Tag: Philosophy

Free Download Teodolinda Barolini, "Dante’s Multitudes: History, Philosophy, Method "
English | ISBN: 0268202931 | 2022 | 410 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A critical addition to Dante studies that illuminates the poet’s disruptive impact within Italian culture and foregrounds Barolini’s marked contribution to the field.

Free Download A Philosophy of Ambient Sound: Materiality, Technology, Art and the Sonic Environment
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819917549 | 372 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This bookpresents the first book-length study of ambient sound as a key issue in sound studies and sonic philosophy. Taking a broad, media-philosophical approach, it explores ambient sound as a basic dimension of the sonic environment, sonic technologies, sonic arts and the material staging of listening.

Free Download Nikola Kompa, Christian Nitmz, Christian Suhm, "The a Priori and Its Role in Philosophy"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 389785662X | PDF | pages: 269 | 1.5 mb
Ascertaining the nature and scope of a priori knowledge is of key import to philosophical thought. Philosophers do not merely ponder this issue in order to solve an epistemological puzzle. Philosophers do also strive to understand the a priori in order to understand what doing philosophy amounts to. So what is the nature of a priori knowledge? And is philosophy an a priori endeavour? Starting off from such epistemological and meta-philosophical considerations, the papers here collected trace the import and role of a priori knowledge through the diverse disciplines of philosophy – from metaphysics to ethics, and from the philosophy of Language to the philosophy of science. The Contributors A. Burri, S. Psillos and D. Christopoulou, G. Ernst, H.-J. Glock., S. Häggqvist, P. Horwich, N. Kompa, C. Misselhorn, C. Nimtz, G. Rey, O. Scholz, W. Spohn, I. Stojanovic, N. Strobach, C. Suhm

Free Download George Smith, "The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 0367588471 | 2020 | 196 pages | PDF | 1101 KB
In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy, Smith argues that Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as "an end." That is hardly to say philosophy as such is over or soon to disappear; rather, its purpose as a medium of cultural change and as a generator of history has run its course. He thus calls for a New Philosophy, conceptualized by the artist-philosopher who "makes" or "poeticizes" New Philosophy, spanning literary and theoretical discourses and operating across art in all its forms and across culture in all its locations. To this end, Smith proposes the establishment of schools and social networks that advance the training and development of artist-philosophers, as well as global digital networks that are themselves designed toward this "ever-becoming community."

Free Download Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism by Wayne Deakin
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 204 Pages | ISBN : 3031304934 | 3.6 MB
This books delineates the seismic shifts of the twentieth century humanities by way of a close examination of the dynamic landscape of modern language, criticism and philosophy. In this manner, it argues that both philosophy and literary criticism have dovetailed in the twenty-first century. Starting out as a survey of literary criticism in its broadest terms, later chapters – which are more expository – assess recent movements within modern literary theory. These are located with respect to the post-Russell and Fregean "linguistic turn" in philosophy.

Free Download Field Environmental Philosophy: Education for Biocultural Conservation by Ricardo Rozzi, Alejandra Tauro, Noa Avriel-Avni, T. Wright, Roy H. May Jr.
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 613 Pages | ISBN : 3031233670 | 80.5 MB
This fifth volume in the Ecology and Ethics series integrates key concepts of the previous four volumes by addressing biocultural conservation through novel educational methods. In Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP), the authors undertake two complementary tasks. First, they address a problematic facet of education as an indirect driver of a global change and biocultural homogenization. Second, they contribute to solve the former problems by introducing the FEP method as well as other educational approaches from around the world that value and foster conservation of biological and cultural diversity. A particular emphasis is therefore on the integration of sciences, arts, humanities, and ethics into educational practices that involve the participation of local communities with their diverse forms of ecological knowledge and practices.

Free Download Mary Midgley, "What Is Philosophy for?"
English | ISBN: 135005108X | 2018 | 208 pages | PDF | 1446 KB
Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives?

Free Download Marxist Writings on History & Philosophy By George Novack
2002 | 269 Pages | ISBN: 1876646233 | PDF | 1 MB
Beginning with an aptly named ‘long view view of history’, this collection of writings brings a dynamic Marxist perspective to key questions of historical development.

Free Download Lawrence J. Kaplan, Dov Schwartz, "Maimonides – Between Philosophy and Halakhah: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Lectures on the Guide of the Perplexed"
English | 2016 | pages: 266 | ISBN: 965524203X | PDF | 47,6 mb
This is the first and only comprehensive study of the philosophy of Maimonides by the noted 20th-century rabbinic scholar and thinker, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Based on a complete set of notes, taken by Rabbi Gerald (Yaakov) Homnick, on R. Soloveitchik’s lectures on Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed at the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and edited by the noted scholar Lawrence Kaplan, this work constitutes a major contribution to our knowledge of both Maimonides and Soloveitchik. In these lectures Soloveitchik emerges as a major commentator on the Guide. In a wide-ranging analysis he eloquently and incisively explores such diverse topics in Maimonides’ philosophy as his views on prophecy, the knowledge of and approach to God-normative, intellectual, and experiential; divine knowledge; human ethics and moral excellence; the divine creative act; imitation of God; and the love and fear of God. He also undertakes an extensive and penetrating comparison and contrast of Maimonides’ and Aristotle’s philosophical views. Over the course of these lectures develops a very profound and challenging overall approach to and interpretation of the Guide’s central and critical issue: the relationship between philosophy and divine law. This work sheds a bright light on the thought of both Maimonides and Soloveitchik-two great philosophers and rabbinic scholars.

Free Download Konstantinos Kavoulakos, "Georg Lukács’s Philosophy of Praxis: From Neo-Kantianism to Marxism"
English | ISBN: 1474267416 | 2018 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Georg Lukács’ early Marxist philosophy of the 1920s laid the foundations of Critical Theory. However the evaluation of Lukács’ philosophical contribution has been largely determined by one-sided readings of eminent theorists like Adorno, Habermas, Honneth or even Lukács himself. This book offers a new reconstruction of Lukács’ early Marxist work, capable of restoring its dialectical complexity by highlighting its roots in his neo-Kantian, ‘pre-Marxist’ period.