Allgemeines, Lexika (50 Artikel)

Queneau's novels are extremely popular for their wit and linguistic ingenuity but they also pose a serious challenge to the reader's reconstruction of the fictional world, which can often go unreco...

This book examines the notion of 'the homely' which rests at the foundation of Gaston Bachelard's concrete metaphysics. In order to trace the development of this effaced notion through the history ...

¿Cuál es la actualidad del pensamiento humboldtiano? Destacados investigadores de Europa y América han contestado a esta pregunta en el Simposio «Alexander von Humboldt y la actualidad de su pensam...

In this study of emotions and moods the author discusses both analytic and continental traditions of philosophy. He starts by examining critically the influential hybrid cognitive theory (in partic...

Die vorliegende Arbeit besteht aus drei Studien. In der ersten Studie unternimmt der Autor den Versuch einer hypothetischen Auslegung, wie Aristoteles die zweiten Substanzen und die Universalien in...

Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, this book offers a new and comprehensive examination of Kant's argument that aesthetic judgements are combined with a claim to subjective universality. The a...

This volume is devoted to a critical discussion and re-appraisal of the work of Anglo-American Idealists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Idealism was the dominant philosophy in Britain a...

This book focuses on the novel Paradiso of Cuban author José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), and in particular on the protagonist José Cemí. It examines the development of Cemí according to the three dist...

In welchem Sinne bestimmt und bedingt es die Lektüre, wenn man Robert Musil als Philosoph, als Natur- oder Kulturwissenschaftler, vielleicht sogar als Linguist, oder doch vorrangig als Schriftstell...

Most of the papers included in this volume were first presented at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2003. Mount Athos is the principal surviving ...

Au croisement de l'épistémologie et de l'esthétique, cette enquête révèle la pluralité du monstre. Parler du monstre, en effet, cela signifie toujours parler d'autre chose : de la nature et de ses ...

Denis Diderot's Salons

The essays presented here are the outcome of research carried out by members of IFILNOVA (Institute for Philosophy of New University of Lisbon) in 2016. The IFILNOVA Permanent Seminar seeks to show...

Héritier d'une longue tradition pour laquelle la nature est un être vivant en devenir (natura naturans), Stéphane Mallarmé est l'auteur d'une physiologie des lettres qui le mène à concevoir la litt...

Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something important there for a future occasion. This collecti...

Wittgenstein is not generally thought of as a philosopher of education, yet his views on how we think, learn and teach have the potential to contribute significantly to our contemporary understandi...

Nuraan Davids is a lecturer in the Department of Education Policy Studies within the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. She holds a doctorate in the philosophy of education. Her inter...

L'arme biologique est développée et utilisée par le Japon entre les années 1920 et 1945. Figure de proue de ce programme, l'Unité 731 sera jusqu'à la fin de la guerre le noyau d'un réseau d'unités ...

The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886-87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L'esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defi...

Cette étude alliant l'épistémologie du vieux continent à la pragmatique américaine présente une vaste synthèse des recherches et des solutions industrielles dans l'ensemble des médias informatisés....

Many philosophers adopt methods that emulate those of the natural sciences. They call such an overall approach naturalism, and consider it indispensable for fruitful philosophical debate in various...

This monograph is a fundamental theme in Thomism. It deals with the basic ontological principles. From the Thomistic perspective and based on Aristotle, it studies the nature and roles of the essen...

Jane Cook was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and has for thirty years owned and run an organic kiwifruit and avocado farm in Tauranga, New Zealand. With degrees in biological and social s...

Le présent volume est le résultat des interventions et des discussions qui prirent place lors de deux journées d'études organisées à l'Université Paris-Est Créteil à l'automne 2010. Croisant les pe...

Maria Filomena Molder is Full Professor of Philosophy at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Diana Soeiro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Nuno Fonseca is a ...

Rainer Kamber studierte an der Universität Basel Philosophie, Soziologie und Geschichte. Er erlangte 1999 das Lizentiat an der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel und daselbst...

Piet Van Spijk, geboren 1956 in Aarau (Schweiz), studierte in Bern und Lausanne Medizin. Er arbeitete während knapp zwanzig Jahren als niedergelassener Internist und leitet seit 2008 in Luzern eine...

Le sujet est-il vraiment en train de disparaître, par dissolution, fragmentation, oubli ? D'aucuns s'en alarment. Mais de quel sujet exactement parle-t-on ? Comment son éventuelle disparition est-e...

Fabrizio Lomonaco is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Naples «Federico II». As a member of the editorial boards, he is involved with following journals: «Archivio di storia d...

Narcisse Kabeya Makweta est prêtre du diocèse de Popokabaka en République Démocratique du Congo. Licencié en philosophie (Facultés Catholiques de Kinshasa) et en théologie (Faculté de théologie de ...

May Chehab (Université de Chypre) étudie la rémanence de la philosophie présocratique et l'interaction entre sciences, lettres et philosophie ( , 2009). Apostolos Lampropoulos (Université de Chypre...

Carlo Calanchini studierte Humanmedizin in Basel und Philosophie in Fribourg und Bern. Er ist Facharzt für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Er arbeitet als Psychiater und Psychotherapeut sowie als f...

What is the nature of time? This new study engages with the philosophy of Henri Bergson on time and proposes a new way of thinking about the effects of future events on the past. According to Bergs...

To what extent is philosophy reliant on translation and how does this practice impact on philosophy itself? How should philosophical texts be translated? Is translation inherently philosophical? Ca...

This book began to materialize in the 1960s and 1970s during clandestine seminars organized by the author for Czechoslovak thinkers who dared to ponder theological questions during the communist er...

This book argues that a silent axis of the unconscious world rests largely undiscovered. It recasts foundational concepts in the psychology of Freud, Jung, Carol Gilligan and R.D. Laing, as well as...

Ian Cooper is Lecturer in German at the University of Kent, England. He is the author of numerous publications on modern German and English literature and intellectual history. Bernhard F. Malkmus ...

L'ouvrage a pour objectif de mettre en lumière la dimension normative de l'action humaine, en partant d'une analyse phénoménologique de la perception. La perception n'est pas conçue seulement comme...

This book addresses the theme of what «nature» is and humans' obligations toward the natural world. It demonstrates that an approach based in metaphysics can help us to understand better what natur...

Stefano Marino (1976) graduated in Musicology from the University of Bologna (2001), and in Philosophy from the University of Parma (2004). In 2008 he obtained his PhD in Philosophy at the Universi...

Tout au long de l'histoire de la philosophie et de l'éducation, les modernes ont plus ou moins bien abordé les questions qui se posent par rapport à la liberté en éducation. Ce livre invite les édu...

Fabrizio Moser studierte an den Universitäten Bern, Freie Universität Berlin und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Philosophie, Neueste Geschichte und Soziologie. Im Herbst 2010 schloss er sein Studiu...

The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics. The ...

Bruce Edward Burbidge realizó sus estudios en la Universidad de Cambridge, Inglaterra, la Pontificia Universidad Gregoriana, Roma, Italia y la Facultad Eclesiástica de Filosofía de Cataluña, Barcel...

What significance did the Lex Regia De Imperio Vespasiani bear for the Dutch philosophers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Did it simply define a question of law and its ancient use? Wa...

Jean-Yves Beziau is Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has a PhD in philosophy and a PhD in mathematical logic. He has worked in France, Poland, Brazil, Switzerland a...

This book proposes to identify three long-term structures in causal reasoning - in particular, in terms of the relationship between cause and identity - that appear to be of value in categorizing a...

Nel quadro della teoria della percezione in Aristotele, questo libro si occupa del senso dell'udito nell'intero Corpus Aristotelicum. L'autore, oltre ad analizzare gli aspetti più specificamente an...

Claudio Canaparo es Licenciado en Ciencia Política y en Ciencias. Realizó estudios de postgrado en la Universidad de Bologna, Italia, y obtuvo su doctorado en el King's College de Londres en 2000. ...

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