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GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
15/ 11/ 2021

Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in a 54-volume set. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must have been relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read repeatedly with respect to liberal education; and it must be a part of "the great conversation about the great ideas", relevant to at least 25 of the 102 "Great Ideas" as identified by the editor of the series' comprehensive index, what they dubbed the "Syntopicon", to which they belonged. The books were not chosen on the basis of ethnic and cultural inclusiveness, (historical influence being seen as sufficient by itself to be included), nor on whether the editors agreed with the views expressed by the authors. A second edition was published in 1990 in 60 volumes. Some translations were updated, some works were removed, and there were significant additions from the 20th century located in six new, separate volumes. Originally published in 54 volumes, The Great Books of the Western World covers categories including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics. Hutchins wrote the first volume, titled The Great Conversation, as an introduction and discourse on liberal education. Adler sponsored the next two volumes, "The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon", as a way of emphasizing the unity of the set and, by extension, of Western thought in general. A team of indexers spent months compiling references to such topics as "Man's freedom in relation to the will of God" and "The denial of void or vacuum in favor of a plenum". They grouped the topics into 102 chapters, for which Adler wrote the 102 introductions. Four colors identify each volume by subject area—Imaginative Literature, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, History and Social Science, and Philosophy and Theology. The volumes contained the following works: Volume 1 The Great Conversation Volume 2 Syntopicon I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, Form, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justice, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, and Love Volume 3 Syntopicon II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition, Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment, Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric, Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny, Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice, War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, and World Volume 4 Homer (rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler) The Iliad The Odyssey Volume 5 Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson) The Suppliant Maidens The Persians Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound The Oresteia Agamemnon Choephoroe The Eumenides Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb) The Oedipus Cycle Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Ajax Electra The Trachiniae Philoctetes Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge) Rhesus Medea Hippolytus Alcestis Heracleidae The Suppliants The Trojan Women Ion Helen Andromache Electra Bacchantes Hecuba Heracles Mad The Phoenician Women Orestes Iphigenia in Tauris Iphigenia in Aulis Cyclops Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers) The Acharnians The Knights The Clouds The Wasps Peace The Birds The Frogs Lysistrata Thesmophoriazusae Ecclesiazousae Plutus Volume 6 Herodotus The History (translated by George Rawlinson) Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham) Volume 7 Plato The Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett) Charmides Lysis Laches Protagoras Euthydemus Cratylus Phaedrus Ion Symposium Meno Euthyphro Apology Crito Phaedo Gorgias The Republic Timaeus Critias Parmenides Theaetetus Sophist Statesman Philebus Laws The Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward) Volume 8 Aristotle Categories On Interpretation Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics Topics Sophistical Refutations Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology Metaphysics On the Soul Minor biological works Volume 9 Aristotle History of Animals Parts of Animals On the Motion of Animals On the Gait of Animals On the Generation of Animals Nicomachean Ethics Politics The Athenian Constitution Rhetoric Poetics Soucre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

PRAGMATISM BY WILLIAM JAMES
08/ 11/ 2021

On an interview by Nigel Warburton on pragmatism in fivebooks.com, Robert Talisse recommended Pragmatism by William James as one of the five best books on pragmatism. This work has just been translated into Vietnamese by Phạm Viêm Phương and published by Sách Khai Tâm (https://www.khaitam.com/khai-tam-phat-hanh/chu-nghia-thuc-dung-bia-mem). Here is the extract from the interview: That links nicely to the next book in that it seems to be describing an approach to the world that is very sympathetic to scientific enquiry, with an emphasis on the correct way of going about discovering things about the world. It’s called Pragmatism and it’s by William James, best known as an early psychologist, and as brother of Henry James. Interestingly, both James and Peirce were trained scientists. Peirce was a chemist and James studied anatomy and to be a physician. James is the one who popularizes the term ‘pragmatism’, and credits Peirce with having coined it. Jamesian pragmatism is, on the one hand, a theory of meaning — the pragmatic maxim that he picks up from Peirce — and, on the other hand, a theory of truth. He’s picking up from Peirce that pragmatism is a two-pronged idea, a conception of meaning and an epistemic conception. It’s intended to be a scientific conception of meaning, it’s supposed to be pulled out of a laboratory, to give one a sense of the understanding of meaning that scientists employ when they do their experiments. James thinks that meaning is to be cashed out in terms of the implications of believing a proposition or a statement for your behaviour or conduct. James thinks that part of the meaning of a statement might even be — and this is one of James’s own innovations, something that Peirce gets very cross about — its implications for your psychological wellbeing. This is where pragmatism goes a bit odd, because doesn’t William James use that style of thinking to suggest that when somebody says they believe in God that is really a statement about the psychological effects of that belief? Yes, this is the way the view starts moving in James’s hands. What’s really important to understanding what motivates James to say that kind of thing is that he is biographically deeply torn. There is his scientific training: he is still regarded as the father of modern experimental psychology, he knows how to run a lab and do experiments. When one reads his The Principles of Psychology it’s very sophisticated measurement of difficult things to measure. He’s really good at the science. But temperamentally he is drawn to various kinds of spiritualism. He’s a religious guy. He believes, in parts of his life, in ghosts and spirits. In fact, towards the end of his life, he started trying to investigate, in scientific ways, parapsychological and paranormal things. So he’s got an almost spooky side to him, and he sees pragmatism as a kind of empiricism which — unlike the logical empiricism of the logical positivists — is going to be more hospitable to religion, spirituality, and values, in a very broad sense of that term. James is constantly talking about “feeling at home in the universe.” Part of what motivates his pragmatism is the attempt to reconcile a scientific, hard-nosed view of the world with a spiritualistic, religious conception of our place in it, these two drives that he personally felt quite strongly. So the way it works is that we’re supposed to understand the meanings of propositions in terms of their implications for our behaviour — our behaviour very broadly defined to include our psychological moods and comportments and attitudes. We understand what the proposition means by how it would lead us to act. Then, there’s the conception of the truth, and a proposition is true in so far as it leads us to act in a way that is successful, or a way that is good for us to act. It’s a very puzzling conception of truth, philosophically speaking. It’s also very difficult to formulate it in a way that makes it sound anything but silly. When James says things that are not as cautious as they should be like, “Truth is what works,” he invites — unnecessarily I should say — a lot of well-placed criticism. Truth is what works? If I believe that I’m a very handsome guy, that could work for all kinds of purposes. It might not be true. These are the kinds of statements that earlier in the 1900s people like Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore had a field day with. It seemed like a crazy conception of truth. But I think it’s a more nuanced view than James sometimes suggests. It’s a view that says, we have beliefs for purposes. Beliefs are tools. A belief is like a hammer or a pair of scissors. It’s supposed to do things, behaviourally, it’s supposed to guide our actions. James thinks that the truth of a belief is to be understood in terms of the success it brings to our action when it serves as our guide. When you put it that way, there are still all kinds of objections and problems that can be raised, but it’s not so obviously the easily dismissible, silly idea that one gets when one leaves it at “the truth is what works” formulation. And one of the ways that William James’s writing works, pragmatically, is that he’s a superb writer at the sentence level, like his brother. Absolutely. If anybody ever wants to read a book of philosophy that’s about truth and meaning and religion and metaphysics that is a breeze — that you could almost read at the poolside — James’s Pragmatism is a brilliantly written piece of philosophy. I don’t think it’s too far of a stretch to say that William was a better writer than his brother. Source: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/robert-talisse-on-pragmatism/
PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (2 VOLUMES)
31/ 10/ 2021

This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition’s leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances toward solving the tradition’s core problems. Though no broad philosophical position ever achieved lasting dominance, Soames argues that two methodological developments have, over time, remade the philosophical landscape. These are (1) analytic philosophers’ hard-won success in understanding, and distinguishing the notions of logical truth, a priori truth, and necessary truth, and (2) gradual acceptance of the idea that philosophical speculation must be grounded in sound prephilosophical thought. Though Soames views this history in a positive light, he also illustrates the difficulties, false starts, and disappointments endured along the way. As he engages with the work of his predecessors and contemporaries — from Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Donald Davidson and Saul Kripke — he seeks to highlight their accomplishments while also pinpointing their shortcomings, especially where their perspectives were limited by an incomplete grasp of matters that have now become clear. Soames himself has been at the center of some of the tradition’s most important debates, and throughout writes with exceptional ease about its often complex ideas. His gift for clear exposition makes the history as accessible to advanced undergraduates as it will be important to scholars. Despite its centrality to philosophy in the English-speaking world, the analytic tradition in philosophy has had very few synthetic histories. This will be the benchmark against which all future accounts will be measured. Table of contents, volume 1 Acknowledgments Introduction to the Two Volumes PART ONE: G. E. MOORE ON ETHICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS CHAPTER 1: Common Sense and Philosophical Analysis CHAPTER 2: Moore on Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge CHAPTER 3: Moore on Goodness and the Foundations of Ethics CHAPTER 4: The Legacies and Lost Opportunities of Moore’s Ethics PART TWO: BERTRAND RUSSELL ON LOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS CHAPTER 5: Logical Form, Grammatical Form, and the Theory of Descriptions CHAPTER 6: Logic and Mathematics: The Logicist Reduction CHAPTER 7: Logical Constructions and the External World CHAPTER 8: Russell’s Logical Atomism PART THREE: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN’S TRACTATUS CHAPTER 9: The Metaphysics of the Tractatus CHAPTER 10: Meaning, Truth, and Logic in the Tractatus CHAPTER 11: The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences PART FOUR: LOGICAL POSITIVISM, EMOTIVISM, AND ETHICS CHAPTER 12: The Logical Positivists on Necessity and Apriori Knowledge CHAPTER 13: The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning CHAPTER 14: Emotivism and Its Critics CHAPTER 15: Normative Ethics in the Era of Emotivism: The Anticonsequentialism of Sir David Ross PART FIVE: THE POST-POSITIVIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE EARLY W. V. QUINE CHAPTER 16: The Analytic and the Synthetic, the Necessary and the Possible, the Apriori and the Aposteriori CHAPTER 17: Meaning and Holistic Verificationism Index Table of contents, volume 2 Acknowledgments Introduction to Volume 2 PART ONE: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS CHAPTER 1: Rejection of the Tractarian Conception of Language and Analysis CHAPTER 2: Rule Following and the Private Language Argument PART TWO: CLASSICS OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY: TRUTH, GOODNESS, THE MIND, AND ANALYSIS CHAPTER 3: Ryle’s Dilemmas CHAPTER 4: Ryle’s Concept of Mind CHAPTER 5: Strawson’s Performative Theory of Truth CHAPTER 6: Hare’s Performative Theory of Goodness PART THREE: MORE CLASSICS OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY: THE RESPONSE TO RADICAL SKEPTICISM CHAPTER 7: Malcolm’s Paradigm Case Argument CHAPTER 8: Austin’s Sense and Sensibilia PART FOUR: PAUL GRICE AND THE END OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY CHAPTER 9: Language Use and the Logic of Conversation PART FIVE: THE PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISM OF WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE CHAPTER 10: The Indeterminacy of Translation CHAPTER 11: Quine’s Radical Semantic Eliminativism PART SIX: DONALD DAVIDSON ON TRUTH AND MEANING CHAPTER 12: Theories of Truth as Theories of Meaning CHAPTER 13: Truth, Interpretation, and the Alleged Unintelligibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes PART SEVEN: SAUL KRIPKE ON NAMING AND NECESSITY CHAPTER 14 Names, Essence, and Possibility CHAPTER 15: The Necessary Aposteriori CHAPTER 16: The Contingent Apriori CHAPTER 17: Natural Kind Terms and Theoretical Identification Statements EPILOGUE: The Era of Specialization Index
WITTGENSTEIN‘S WORKS
25/ 10/ 2021

During his lifetime, Wittgenstein only published Tractatus (1921) and one article. Most of his two dozens works were edited and published posthumously by his students. Books 1) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) 2) Notebooks 1914–1916 (1961; Sổ tay 1914-1916) 3) ProtoTractatus—An Early Version of Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus (1971; Proto-tractatus – phiên bản đầu của Tractatus) 4) Wittgenstein’s Notes on Logic (2009; Những ghi chú về logic của Wittgenstein) 5) Philosophical Investigations (1953; Những khảo sát mang tính triết học) 6) The Blue and Brown Books (1958; Sách xanh và sách nâu) 7) Philosophical Remarks (1964; Những nhận xét triết học) 8) Zettel (1967) 9) Philosophical Grammar (1974; Ngữ pháp triết học) 10) On Certainty (1969; Về sự chắc chắn) 11) Culture and Value (1980; Văn hóa và giá trị) 12) Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (1956; Những nhận xét về Các cơ sở của toán học) 13) Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (1980, 2 volumes; Những nhận xét về triết học tâm lý học) 14) Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology (2 volumes; Những tác phẩm cuối cùng về Triết học tâm lý học) 15) Remarks on Colour (1977; Những nhận xét về màu sắc) 16) The Collected Manuscripts of Ludwig Wittgenstein on Facsimile CD Rom, 1997; (Tổng tập bản thảo của Ludwig Wittgenstein) 17) The Big Typescript: TS 213, German English Scholars’ Edition, 2005. Lectures 18) Wittgenstein’s Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics (1976; Những bài giảng về Các cơ sở của toán học của Wittgenstein) 19) Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge 1932–1935 (1979; Những bài giảng ở Cambridge 1932-1935 của Wittgenstein) 20) Wittgenstein’s Lectures on Philosophical Psychology 1946 - 47 (1988; Những bài giảng về tâm lý học triết học 1946-47 của Wittgenstein) 21) Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief (1966; Các bài giảng và trò chuyện về Mỹ học, tâm lý học, và niềm tin tôn giáo) Correspondence and conversations 22) Letters to C. K. Ogden with Comments on the English Translation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1973; Thư từ gửi C. K. Odgen với những bình luận về bản dịch Tractatus) 23) Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore (1974; Thư từ gửi Russell, Keynes, và Moore) 24) Wittgenstein: Conversations, 1949–1951 (1986; Wittgenstein: những cuộc trò chuyện 1949-1951) 25) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Public and Private Occasions (2003; Ludwig Wittgenstein: những dịp riêng tư và công cộng) 26) The Voices of Wittgenstein: The Vienna Circle: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Friedrich Waismann (2003; Các tiếng nói của Wittgenstein: Nhóm Vienna: Ludwig Wittgenstein và Friedrich Waismann) 27) Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911–1951, 2008, Brian McGuinness (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell. Vietnamese translations of Wittgenstein‘s works include: - Luận văn logic - triết học. Translated by Trần Đình Thắng, Nxb Đà Nẵng, 2018. - Những tìm sâu triết học. Translated by Trần Đình Thắng, Nxb Đà Nẵng, 2019. - Về tính chắc chắn. Translated by Trần Đình Thắng, Nxb Đà Nẵng, 2021.

THE WORKS OF HEGEL
17/ 10/ 2021

Several attempts have been made to publish Hegel‘s complete works, among them is the most popular edition Werke in 20 Bänden edited by E. Moldenhauer and K. M. Michel published by Suhrkamp during 1969–1971. This edition includes: Volume 1: Frühe Schriften (Các tác phẩm thời đầu) Volume 2: Jenaer Schriften (Các tác phẩm thời ở Jena) Volume 3: Phänomenologie des Geiste (Hiện tượng học tinh thần) Volume 4: Nürnberger und Heidelberger Schriften (Các tác phẩm thời ở Nürnberg und Heidelberg) Volume 5: Wissenschaft der Logik I (Khoa học logic I) Volume 6: Wissenschaft der Logik II (Khoa học logic II) Volume 7: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (Các nguyên lý của triết học pháp quyền) Volume 8: Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften I (Bách khoa thư các khoa học triết học I) Volume 9: Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften II (Bách khoa thư các khoa học triết học II) Volume 10: Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften III (Bách khoa thư các khoa học triết học III) Volume 11: Berliner Schriften 1818–1831 (Các tác phẩm thời ở Berlin 1818-1831) Volume 12: Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte (Các bài giảng về triết học lịch sử) Volume 13: Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik I (Các bài giảng về Mỹ học I) Volume 14: Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik II (Các bài giảng về Mỹ học II) Volume 15: Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik III (Các bài giảng về Mỹ học III) Volume 16: Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Religion I (Các bài giảng về Triết học tôn giáo I) Volume 17: Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Religion II (Các bài giảng về Triết học tôn giáo II) Volume 18: Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie I (Các bài giảng về Lịch sử triết học I) Volume 19: Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie II (Các bài giảng về Lịch sử triết học II) Volume 20: Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie III (Các bài giảng về Lịch sử triết học III) The most noteworthy Hegel‘s complete works is Academy edition published since 1968, 28 volumes up to now (not yet completed). There is no Hegel‘s complete works in English translation which are comparable to The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. Vietnamese translations of Hegel‘s works are: Hiện tượng học tinh thần. Translated by Bùi Văn Nam Sơn, Nxb Văn học, 2006. Các nguyên lý của triết học pháp quyền. Translated by Bùi Văn Nam Sơn, Nxb Tri thức, 2010. Bách khoa thư các khoa học triết học I: Khoa học logic (its nickname is Smaller Logic). Translated by Bùi Văn Nam Sơn, Nxb Tri thức, 2008. Mỹ học (2 volumes). Translated by Phan Ngọc, Nxb Văn học, 1999. Triết học pháp quyền. Translated by Phạm Chiến Khu, Nxb Chính Trị Quốc Gia Sự Thật, 2013. Bách khoa thư các khoa học triết học I: Khoa học logic. Translated by Phạm Chiến Khu, Nxb Chính Trị Quốc Gia Sự Thật, 2013.
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF IMMANUEL KANT
16/ 10/ 2021

General Editors: Paul Guyers and Allen W. Wood; published since 1992. The first ever complete English-language edition of the works of Immanuel Kant, still the most influential figure in modern philosophy. The purpose of the Cambridge Edition is to offer scrupulously accurate translations of the best modern German editions of Kant's work in a uniform format suitable for both Kant scholars and students. When complete the Cambridge Edition will include all of Kant's published writings, together with a generous selection of his unpublished writings such as the Opus Postumum, Handschriftliche Nachlass, lectures, and correspondence. Each volume will be furnished with a substantial editorial apparatus (linguistic and factual notes, bibliographies, glossaries). The published volumes include: Theoretical Philosophy, 1755–1770 (1992; Triết học lý thuyết 1755-1770). Theoretical Philosophy after 1781 (2002; Triết học lý thuyết sau 1781). Translated by Gary Hatfield, Michael Friedman. Critique of Pure Reason (1998; Phê phán lý tính thuần túy). Practical Philosophy (1996; Triết học thực hành), including Critique of Practical Reason (Phê phán lý tính thực hành). Critique of the Power of Judgment (2000; Phê phán năng lực phán đoán). Translated by Eric Matthews. Opus Postumum (1993; Di cảo). Kant: Natural Science (2002; Kant: Khoa học tự nhiên). Anthropology, History, and Education (2007; Nhân học, lịch sử, và giáo dục). Edited and translated by Robert B. Louden, Günter Zöller. Religion and Rational Theology (1996; Tôn giáo và thần học thuần lý). Edited and translated by Allen W. Wood, George di Giovanni. Lectures on Logic (1992; Những bài giảng về logic học). Lectures on Anthropology (2012; Những bài giảng về nhân học). Translated by Robert R. Clewis, G. Felicitas Munzel. Lectures on Metaphysics (1997; Những bài giảng về siêu hình học). Edited and translated by Karl Ameriks, Steve Naragon. Lectures on Ethics (1997; Những bài giảng về đạo đức học). Edited and translated by Peter Heath. Kant: Lectures and Drafts on Political Philosophy (2016; Kant: Những bài giảng và bản thảo về triết học chính trị). Translated by Kenneth R. Westphal. Correspondence (1999; Thư từ). Notes and Fragments (2005; Chú thích và đoản văn). Edited and translated by Paul Guyer. Vietnamese translations of Kant‘s works from original German are: Phê phán lý tính thuần túy. Translated by Bùi Văn Nam Sơn, Nxb Văn học, 2005. Phê phán lý tính thực hành. Translated by Bùi Văn Nam Sơn, Nxb Tri thức, 2007. Phê phán năng lực phán đoán. Translated by Bùi Văn Nam Sơn, Nxb Tri thức, 2007. Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-edition-of-the-works-of-immanuel-kant/703660AAB7838A41309D7E80AD5C8EEE
THE HISTORY OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (ALAN D. SCHRIFT)
30/ 09/ 2021

From Kant to Kierkegaard, from Hegel to Heidegger, continental philosophers have indelibly shaped the trajectory of Western thought since the eighteenth century. Although much has been written about these monumental thinkers, students and scholars lack a definitive guide to the entire scope of the continental tradition. The most comprehensive reference work to date, this eight-volume History of Continental Philosophy will both encapsulate the subject and reorient our understanding of it. Beginning with an overview of Kant’s philosophy and its initial reception, the History traces the evolution of continental philosophy through major figures as well as movements such as existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism. The final volume outlines the current state of the field, bringing the work of both historical and modern thinkers to bear on such contemporary topics as feminism, globalization, and the environment. Throughout, the volumes examine important philosophical figures and developments in their historical, political, and cultural contexts. The first reference of its kind, A History of Continental Philosophy has been written and edited by internationally recognized experts with a commitment to explaining complex thinkers, texts, and movements in rigorous yet jargon-free essays suitable for both undergraduates and seasoned specialists. These volumes also elucidate ongoing debates about the nature of continental and analytic philosophy, surveying the distinctive, sometimes overlapping characteristics and approaches of each tradition. Featuring helpful overviews of major topics and plotting road maps to their underlying contexts, A History of Continental Philosophy is destined to be the resource of first and last resort for students and scholars alike. Table of contents Volume 1: Kant, Kantianism, and idealism: the origins of continental philosophy (edited by Thomas Nenon) Introduction, Thomas Nenon Immanuel Kant’s turn to transcendental philosophy, Thomas Nenon Kant’s early critics: Jacobi, Reinhold, Maimon, Richard Fincham Johann Gottfried Herder, Sonia Sikka Play and irony: Schiller and Schlegel on the liberating prospects of aesthetics, Daniel Dahlstrom Fichte and Husserl: life-world, the other, and philosophical reflection, Robert R. Williams Schelling: philosopher of tragic dissonance, Joseph P. Lawrence Schopenhauer on empirical and aesthetic perception and cognition, Bart Vandenabeele G.W.F. Hegel, Terry Pinkard From Hegelian reason to the Marxian revolution, 1831-48, Lawrence S. Stepelevich Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Proudhon: “utopian,” French socialism, Diane Morgan Volume 2: Nineteenth-century philosophy: revolutionary responses to the existing order (edited by Alan D. Schrift and Daniel Conway) Introduction, Daniel Conway Feuerbach and the left and right Hegelians, William Clare Roberts Marx and Marxism, Terrell Carver Søren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay Dostoevsky and Russian philosophy, Evgenia Cherkasova Life after the death of god: Thus Spoke Nietzsche, Daniel Conway Hermeneutics: Schleiermacher and Dilthey, Eric Sean Nelson French spiritualish philosophy, F.C.T. Moore The emergence of sociology and its theories: from Comte to Weber, Alan Sica Developments in philosophy of science and mathematics, Dale Jacquette Peirce: pragmatism and nature after Hegel, Douglas R. Anderson Aesthetics and the philosophy of art, 1840-1900, Gary Shapiro Volume 3: The new century: Bergsonism, phenomenology and responses to modern science (edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson and Alan D. Schrift) Introduction, Keith Ansell-Pearson Henri Bergson, John Mullarkey Neo-Kantianism in Germany and France, Sebastian Luft and Fabien Capeillères The emergence of French sociology: Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, Mike Gane Analytic and continental traditions: Frege, Fusserl, Carnap, and Heidegger, Michael Friedman and Thomas Ryckman Edmund Husserl, Thomas Nenon Max Scheler, Dan Zahavi The early Heidegger, Miguel de Beistegui Karl Jaspers, Leonard H. 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