Features essays which are the proceedings of a conference on the importance of Irving Singer's work, reflecting his interests and focusing on his key distinction between love as appraisal and love as bestowal. This book assesses Singer's view of love.
Discusses the essence of history and human existence, the ideals of knowledge and a decent life, the destiny of Russia, and the life of the world community from the 10th century through the early 20th century.
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement which began in 17th century Europe and espoused an optimistic project. This title includes the contributions from the members of the Academy of Humanism are united in their conviction that the ideals of the Enlightenment must be preserved.
The first extended analysis by a scholar formally trained in the discipline of philosophical inquiry. Dooley shows how Crane's philosophical pluralism, which represents his response to the acute moral uncertainties resulting from the decline of late nineteenth-century religious authority, allies him with the contextualism of such contemporary ......
Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values is an assessment of Nietzsche's challenging plan to revalue all values, including knowledge, morality, religion, art, and the state. E. E. Sleinis analyzes the success of Nietzsche's enterprise as well as its inadequacies; among the positive contributions he singles out Nietzsche's theory of value, his conception ......
Richard Schacht has long argued that alienation theory can shed important light upon aspects of life in the modern world and upon our human predicament. The essays here call for a rethinking of a variety of forms of alienation in light of contemporary dynamics and a clearer understanding of the dialectic of human selfhood and social participation. ......
This lucidly argued volume covers the key philosophical revolutions that are shaping contemporary psychology. Harr[ac]e and Gillett herald a new paradigm in psychology, dissolving the Cartesian distinction between mind and body in favour of the discursive turn in psychological theory. The authors explore the discursive origins of the self, the problem of agency and social understanding of personality. In the process, they elevate the emotions to a significant place in our understanding of mind, action and being. The theoretical breadth of the book is matched by its treatment of a wide range of subjects, including: consciousness; the brain; perception; thought; personality; and the emotions.
'The meaning of life' ...we question it, ponder it, dispute and fret about it, but at some point each of us finds the need to address this fundamental issue of human existence. This book suggests that we must first set aside our comfortable assumptions and try to gain an accurate understanding of this powerful concept known as the meaning of life.
This groundbreaking study details the intellectual development of George Herbert Mead as a thinker of great originality and as a practitioner of social reform. Gary Cook traces the genesis of Mead's social psychological and philosophical ideas by analyzing his journal articles and posthumously published writings. ''One of the most reliable and ......
