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| The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a... Many philosophers have heralded the death of philosophy. Kant claimed responsibility for both its beginning and end, while Heidegger...
Designed for undergraduate and graduate study, this anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism,... Animal studies has emerged as a major field within the humanities, despite its challenge to the very notion of the “human”...
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the... In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago...
As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume... " On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."& mdash;Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and...
Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this... Americans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter's position...
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought.... Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian...
Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever... Only by understanding Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life...
A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of... Jnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosopher of his generation. His...
Philosophy is a discipline that makes no observations, conducts no experiments, and needs no input from experience. It is an armchair... Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy,...
Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet... Richard Rorty is famous, maybe even infamous, for his philosophical nonchalance. His groundbreaking work not only rejects all theories of...
The idea of "culture" has become central to intellectual debates since at least the end of the 1970s, with the reemergence of... For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art....
Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote a brilliant... Over the course of his career, Gianni Vattimo has assumed a number of public and private identities and has pursued multiple intellectual...
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