The American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce, best known as the founder of pragmatism, has been influential not only in the pragmatic tradition but more recently in the philosophy of science and the study of semiotics, or sign theory. Strands of System provides an accessible overview of Peirce's systematic philosophy for those who are beginning to ......
Invoking Nietzsche's drastic critique of genius, this book assesses the less programmatic and more anxious cases of Pater, Valery and Freud on the role of Leonardo da Vinci. Whereas Nietzsche sought for and found an escape from romantic humanism, the others could not relinquish the idea of genius.
John Courtney Murray, SJ (1904-1967), is most renowned for his ethical writings, which distinguish between the secular and the sacred, and for his defense of civil religious freedom based on natural law philosophy. This title presents a selection of Murray's theological writings.
Voltaire (1694-1778), novelist, dramatist, poet, philosopher, historian, and satirist, was one of the most renowned figures of the Age of Enlightenment. This is a collection of anti-clerical works from the last twenty-five years of his life, where he attacks the philosophical optimism of the deists, and the so-called inspiration of the Bible.
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), was a mathematician, a champion of women's and minority rights, and the last of the illustrious line of philosophies who graced eighteenth century France and enriched the world with the message of 'enlightenment'. This title examines the life and work of this remarkable man.
Rousseau's writings reflect paradoxes and apparent inconsistencies with his principled commitments to freedom and equality. This title addresses the debates concerning Rousseau's understandings of gender, justice, freedom, community, and equality.
This contribution to feminist theory addresses the debates concerning Rousseau's understandings of gender, justice, freedom, community and equality. Weiss also examines how Rousseau's political strategies give rise to a range of important questions regarding families, citizens and communities.
Contains three debates - "Rome of Reason", "Controversy on Christianity", and "The Limits of Toleration" - between the great American freethinker Robert G Ingersoll (1833-1899) and leading Christian churchmen and statesmen of his own day, including Cardinal Edward Manning and William Gladstone.
Contemporary Critical Theory is an up-to-date overview of significant theories and theorists in literary studies. The volume contains introductory essays on a range of critical theories-from Russian formalism and New Criticism to postcolonial studies and the new historicism-and lists nearly two thousand journals and books (including translations) ......
