Tag: Sensibility

Free Download Adrian Wesolowski, "Philanthropic Celebrity in the Age of Sensibility "
English | ISBN: 1032373873 | 2023 | 282 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1523 KB + 11 MB
This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy was used as a self-standing claim to fame and philanthropists started being considered as a distinct breed of public figures.

Free Download The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0199594937 | 464 Pages | PDF | 9.3 MB
Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture – one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones – is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted.

Free Download Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities by Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro
English | May 30, 2017 | ISBN: 069117668X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2.4 MB
A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics

Free Download The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry By Koen Vermeir, Michael Funk Deckard (auth.), Koen Vermeir, Michael Funk Deckard (eds.)
2012 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 9400721013 | PDF | 4 MB
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke’s prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke’s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collection is the first book length work devoted primarily to Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in both its historical context and for its contemporary relevance. It will establish the fact that the Enquiry is an important philosophical and literary work in its own right.

Free Download Sorin Baiasu, "Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature, and Religion "
English | ISBN: 1138503746 | 2020 | 246 pages | EPUB | 1034 KB
Immanuel Kant’s work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy. The significance of Kant’s work for the so-called continental philosophy cannot be exaggerated, although work in this area is relatively scant. The book includes eight chapters, a substantial introduction and a postscript, all newly written by an international cast of well-known authors. Each chapter focuses on particular aspects of a fundamental problem in Kant’s and post-Kantian philosophy, the problem of the relation between the world and transcendence. Chapters fall thematically into three parts: sensibility, nature and religion. Each part starts with a more interpretative chapter focusing on Kant’s relevant work, and continues with comparative chapters which stage dialogues between Kant and post-Kantian philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, Luce Irigaray and Jacques Derrida. A special feature of this volume is the engagement of each chapter with the work of the late British philosopher Gary Banham. The Postscript offers a subtle and erudite analysis of his intellectual trajectory, philosophy and mode of working. The volume is dedicated to his memory.

Free Download Michael Howard, Benjamin Rhode, "A Historical Sensibility: Sir Michael Howard and The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1958-2019"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367495627 | EPUB | pages: 396 | 1.3 mb
With the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) lost not only its president emeritus but the last of its founders and intellectual parents. The foremost military historian of his generation, Sir Michael embodied and epitomised a historical sensibility that informed all his writing. He will forever remain an icon not only for historians, but for all those who acknowledge the indispensability of history and the historical sensibility for any true understanding of present events.

Free Download Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art, ‘Sensibility’ and War in the 1960s (Transnational Surrealism) by Gavin Parkinson
English | April 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1501358294 | True EPUB/PDF | 320 pages | 15.9/17 MB
The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself displayed some hostility towards. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists, particularly across the period 1959-69.

Free Download Ve-Yin Tee, "Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire "
English | ISBN: 1474456472 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Romantic Environmental Sensibility employs a class-based analysis in global studies. The chapters here reveal the extent to which our representations of the land, as well as of the plants, animals and people who live on the land, are imposed upon by habits of thought that are profoundly class-based. It shows how Green Romanticism has simplified Romantic period discourse by bringing to light the multiplicity of perspectives and long-standing inequalities that have been occluded and how current approaches to conservation and animal rights continue to be influenced by a class-bound Romantic environmental sensibility.