Filosofie

In dit boek gaat Roland Barthes na hoe op basis van het structureel linguïstisch begrippenapparaat een algemene tekenleer ontwikkeld zou kunnen worden.

Postfreudiaanse beschrijving van sublimering, opgevat in het licht van de vervoering, zoals die beschreven wordt in de hoofse en mystieke liefde.

In the first two essays of this book, Louis Althusser analyses the work of two of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment – Montesquieu and Rousseau. He shows that although they made considerable advances towards establishing a science of politics, particularly in comparison with the theorists of natural law, they nevertheless remained the victims of the ideologies of their day and class. Montesquieu accepted as given the political notions current in French absolutism; Rousseau attempted to impose by moral conversion an already outdated mode of production. The third essay examines Marx’s relationship to Hegel and elaborates on the discussions of this theme in Althusser’s earlier books, For Marx and Lenin and Philosophy. Althusser argues that Marx was able to establish a theory of historical materialism and the possibility of a Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism not simply by turning his back on Hegel, but by extracting and converting certain categories from Hegel’s Logic and applying them to English political economy and French socialist political theory.

De auteur wil aantonen dat problemen uit de moderne wetenschap al in de Oudheid bekend waren, waarbij hij zich baseert op Soemerische kleitabletten en het bijbelboek Genesis.

Tekstboek van de cursus Cultuurfilosofie van de Open Universiteit.

Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. The interest which his Homo Sacer sparked in America is likely to continue to grow for a great many years to come. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction presents the complexity and continuity of Agamben's philosophy—and does so for two separate and distinct audiences. It attempts to provide readers possessing little or no familiarity with Agamben's writings with points of entry for exploring them. For those already well acquainted with Agamben's thought, it offers a critical analysis of the achievements that have marked it.

Filosoof Herman Philipse is bij het grote publiek bekend geworden met zijn "Atheïstisch manifest". Naast zijn wetenschappelijke werk publiceert hij regelmatig in diverse dagbladen en tijdschriften en neemt hij actief deel aan het maatschappelijk debat. "Filosofische polemieken" bundelt de beste van zijn populaire artikelen die eerder in andere media zijn verschenen, geschreven voor een algemeen publiek. Philipse schrijft soms provocatief, maar altijd scherp en argumentatief, en zijn artikelen zetten veelal aan tot nadere discussie. In de gebundelde columns en opiniestukken komt een breed scala aan onderwerpen aan bod. Zo komen onder meer politiek, religie, wetenschap en filosofie aan de orde.

Het beoefenen van de deugden van het Tao-meesterschap versterkt de band tussen geestverwanten.

Stijlparodieën en pastiches in proza en poëzie op binnen- en buitenlandse auteurs, met name uit de antieke oudheid. Het Pantheon der Klassieke Schrijvers heeft voor de meeste lezers een hoge drempel. Zij zouden de klassieke schrijvers en filosofen wel willen leren kennen, want die zijn toch niet voor niets klassiek, maar zouden ze niet te zwaar of te moeilijk zijn? 

In deze sprankelende bundel laat Lévi Weemoedt een aantal van de klassiekste onder hen opdraven, van Plato tot Nietzsche, en zet ze in een geheel nieuw licht. Ze mogen dan onsterfelijk zijn, onfeilbaar zijn ze niet. Wanneer Lévi Weemoedt ze confronteert met de wereld van vandaag blijken ook de grote schrijvers gewone mensen te zijn. 

In parodieën en oorspronkelijke verhalen en gedichten schept Lévi Weemoedt zijn eigen Pantheon, waarin ook de Klassieke Schrijvers onverwacht menselijke trekjes blijken te vertonen.

Overpeinzingen van de Duitse filosoof (1788-1860) over levensgeluk. Hoe kunnen we, ervan uitgaande dat de wereld nu eenmaal een tranendal is, toch proberen ons leven zo aangenaam mogelijk in te richten? Jaag niet het geluk na, zo luidt de raad die Schopenhauer ons in dit boek geeft, maar besteed al je energie aan het vermijden van ongeluk. Bespiegelingen over levenswijsheid geeft niet alleen een schat aan wijze levenslessen maar is dankzij Schopenhauer's onnavolgbare stijl ook te genieten als een literair meesterwerk.

Literatuurtheoretische en sociologische eassays over Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-1814), François Marie Charles Fourier (1772-1837) en Ignatius van Loyola (1491-1556)

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Sociologische studie over de betekenis van respect voor de structurering van de samenleving.

Inleiding in het denken van enkele bekende westerse filosofen.

Verslag van een speurtocht naar de elementen die essentieel zijn voor optimisme als persoonlijk levensgeluk.

Persoonlijke en filosofische beschouwing over de zin en onzin van de zoektocht naar de eigen identiteit.

Bundel korte uitspraken van de Dalai Lama, geestelijk leider van de Tibetaanse boeddhisten, waarin begrippen als liefde, mededogen en mildheid centraal staan.

Bloemlezing van polemische teksten van westerse filosofen, van Plato tot Sartre.

Over het nut van paradoxen (tegenspraak) en parabels (beeldspraak)

For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself are the results of both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes. In this compelling and fascinating book, Ehrman shows where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, explaining for the first time how the many variations of our cherished biblical stories came to be, and why only certain versions of the stories qualify for publication in the Bibles we read today. Ehrman frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible.

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In God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion.

From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits and emotions, and eventually transformed into a single Divine Personality- the God known today by such names as Yahweh, Father, and Allah.

Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, God challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of religious belief, and with it our relationship with life and death, with the natural and spiritual worlds, and our understanding of the very essence of human existence.

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy.

• Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson
• Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy
• Explains the method of philosophy as a development from non-philosophical ways of thinking
• Suggests new ways of understanding what contemporary and past philosophers are doing

Geschiedenis van de filosofie van 636 v.Chr. tot en met de twintigste eeuw.

Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with. Defying the conventions of the world around him, he embraces a battle over two decades against a double-dealing crew of rivals who will stop at nothing to bring him down. These include, perhaps most troublesome of all, the ambitious Dominique Francon, who may just prove to be Roarke's equal. This epic story of money, power and a man's struggle to succeed on his own terms is a paean to individualism and humanity's creative potential. First published in 1943, The Fountainhead introduced millions to Rand's philosophy of Objectivism: an uncompromising defence of self-interest as the engine of progress, and a jubilant celebration of man's creative potential.

Plato, Aristoteles, thomas van Aquino, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Levinas en Witgenstein in actueel perspectief.

Vierentwintig bekende Nederlanders vertellen welke plaats God & Gebod in hun leven hebben. En of het nu om Maarten 't Hart - 'Een Bachvrezend man'-of Emile Ratelband-"God huist in elke cel van mijn lichaam'- gaat; uiteindelijk lijkt een ieder zijn best te doen om zo 'rechtvaardig mogelijk' te leven. Vierentwintig levensroutes, over smalle wegen.