Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: philosophy, series, intersections, theory, suny, critical, definition, followed, essays, itself, manifesto
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1999-06-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0791442209
ISBN-13: 9780791442203

"..An excellent introduction to the work of one of the most important philosophers writing today, Manifesto for Philosophy will undoubtedly quicken the discourse that has become too comfortable with its own death."--Joan Copjec, author of Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists

Author: Aaron Allen Schiller
Publisher: Open Court
Keywords: philosophy, culture, popular, stephen, colbert
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0812696611
ISBN-13: 9780812696615

At the head of The Colbert Report, one of the most popular shows on television, Stephen Colbert is a pop culture phenomenon. More than one million people backed his fake candidacy in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on Facebook, a testament to the particularly rich set of issues and emotions Colbert brings to mind. Stephen Colbert and Philosophy is crammed with thoughtful and amusing chapters, each written by a philosopher and all focused on Colbert’s inimitable reality — from his word creations (truthiness, wikiality, freem, and others) to his position as a faux-pundit who openly m

Author: Jim Kanaris
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: philosophy, religious, studies, god, religion, lonergan, bernard
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-08
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0791454665
ISBN-13: 9780791454664

Explicates the philosophy of religion emerging from the work of Bernard Lonergan, the esteemed theologian who reinvigorated Catholic thought in the twentieth century.

Author: Riccardo Pozzo
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: philosophy, studies, history, modern, aristotelianism, impact
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2003-11
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0813213479
ISBN-13: 9780813213477

This volume provides the first extensive assessment of the impact of Aristotelianism on the history of philosophy from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. The contributors have considered Aristotelian issues in late scholastic, Renaissance, and early modern philosophers such as Vernia, Nifo, Barbaro, Cajetan, Piccolomini, Zabarella, Campanella, Galileo, Sémery, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Gadamer. Specific attention is given to the role of the five intellectual virtues set forth by Aristotle in book VI of the Nicomachean Et

Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: philosophy, studies, history, ages, middle, natural, nature
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2010-04-21
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0813217385
ISBN-13: 9780813217383

The period from 1200 to 1500 laid the intellectual and institutional foundations for the Scientific Revolution that would occur in the seventeenth century. During this time, the spirit of inquiry motivated natural philosophers more than did substantive content or arguments. Natural philosophers posed hundreds of questions about nature and weighed the pros and cons of each. In the process, they developed a philosophical approach to nature that may be characterized as "probing and poking around"--they used their imaginations guided by reason. In this volume, distinguished scholar Edward Gran

Author: Brian J. Shanley
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: philosophy, studies, history, years, hundred, one
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2001-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0813209978
ISBN-13: 9780813209975

This collection originated in the centenary celebration of the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, the essays provide a unique overview of philosophical developments in the twentieth century. The broad range of topics considered makes the book an invaluable reference work. The first set of essays deals with philosophy in the English-speaking world. Thomas R. Russman argues that British philosophy is best understood as reflecting a long-standing preoccupation with the refutation of idealism. William Wallace narrates the d

Author: Jean De Groot
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: philosophy, history, studies, nature, american
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2004-11
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0813213819
ISBN-13: 9780813213811

In the European settlement of the New World, encounter with nature was a drama of success or failure, life or death. As American civilization became established in the nineteenth century and the United States assumed its own cultural voice, the relation between nature and the human being became a theme in American philosophy in ways it had not been in Europe. This book collects essays by leading scholars, both American and European, on the American understanding of nature from Emerson to Dewey and beyond. The volume features essays on Emerson and Thoreau, Royce, Peirce, Wright, James, Holmes,