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 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: 0521513340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429

Book Description
These essays demonstrate the contemporary vitality of existential thought, engaging critically with the main concepts and figures of existentialism.

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.

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 Foucault

Author: Gary Gutting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494974
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become major topics of discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences. The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Foucault's major themes and texts, from his early work on madness through his history of sexuality. Special attention is also paid to thinkers and movements, from Kant through current feminist theory, that are particularly important for understanding his work and its impact. This revised edition contains five new essays and revisions of many others, and the extensive bibliography has been updated.

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 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 Berg

Author: Anthony Pople
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521564892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
The world of Alban Berg is full of paradoxes, secrets and allusions, but he was able to handle emotional and moral issues at a distance and with profound sympathy. His unhurried, almost aristocratic attitude to life and his extreme self-criticism in professional matters resulted in an extraordinarily small musical output, but it includes towering masterpieces such as the operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and his last work, the Violin Concerto. All of Berg's substantial works are discussed in this Companion which brings together a team of experts who write from a variety of historical and critical perspectives, outlining the place of the music in the cultural history of its time and recontextualising it against the broader twentieth-century interplay of fashions, aesthetics and ideas.