The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

Author: Bernd Magnus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521367677
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by three essays on the appropriation and misappropriation of his writings, and a group of essays exploring the nature of Nietzsche's philosophy and its relation to the modern and post-modern world. The final contributions consider Nietzsche's influence on the twentieth century in Europe, the USA, and Asia. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Nietzsche currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Nietzsche.

The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

Author: Tom Stern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107161363
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 467

Book Description
Provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of Nietzsche's philosophy, his key works and themes, his major influences and his legacy.

The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard

Author: Alastair Hannay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521477192
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
Accessible guide to Kierkegaard available serving as a reference to students and non-specialists.

The Cambridge Companion to Freud

Author: Jerome Neu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521377799
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
This volume covers all the central topics of Freud's work, from sexuality to neurosis to morality, art, and culture.

The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism

Author: Steven Crowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107493846
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 429

Book Description
Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir and show how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, language and history. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.

The Cambridge Companion to Plato

Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521436106
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Book Description
Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.

The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer

Author: Christopher Janaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825747
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) is something of a maverick figure in the history of philosophy. He produced a unique theory of the world and human existence based upon his notion of will. This collection analyses the related but distinct components of will from the point of view of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis. This volume explores Schopenhauer's philosophy of death, his relationship to the philosophy of Kant, his use of ideas drawn from both Buddhism and Hinduism, and the important influence he exerted on Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein.

The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein

Author: Hans Sluga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110712025X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 533

Book Description
Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.

The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze

Author: Daniel W. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107002613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397

Book Description
This book provides a clear, comprehensive survey of Deleuze's philosophy, whilst also offering deep analysis of key aspects of his thought.

The Cambridge Companion to Kant

Author: Paul Guyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139824899
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason (1781) shook the very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that the basic principles of the natural science are imposed on reality by human sensibility and understanding, and thus that human beings are also free to impose their own free and rational agency on the world. This 1992 volume is the only systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Kant's writings available, and the first major overview of his work to be published in more than a dozen years. An internationally recognised team of Kant scholars explore Kant's conceptual revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion.