The quest of this volume is one of recalling what we have thus hidden from ourselves. It is a philosopher's book, deeply indebted to the cultural heritage of three millennia of Western thought. It is also a book of philosophy, though in a sense far older than the current acceptation of that term.
A presentation of various views and strategies in ecological ethics. The work describes the relation of humankind to the rest of the natural world, various conceptions of nature and its value, and several approaches to the ecological crisis, including the Gaia theory, ecofeminism and sociobiology.
This volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's "Philosophy of the Will", is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the distorting dimensions of existence, the bondage of passion, and the vision of innocence, to which ...
Good-by, Samizdat offers the first collection of some of the best of underground texts. Divided into three sections, it includes fiction, cultural and political writing, and philosophical essays. The writings reflect the creative thought of some of the best minds of modern times, from the well-known - Ivan Klima, Ludvik Vaculik, Vaclav Havel - to ...
One of the most important Central European philosophers of this century, Jan Patocka was a student and heir of Masaryk, Husserl, and Heidegger as well as a philosopher and historian of ideas in his own right.
"This translation presents an opening to Patocka's own phenomenological philosophy -- based on Husserl -- and is both critical as well as appreciative of Husserl's many contibutions. His mastery of Husserl's thought is demonstrated throughout -- and provides the foundation for the development of his own elaborations and critical commentaries". -- ...
In this text the Czech philosopher, Patocka, pursues the threefold theme of subject body, human community, and the phenomenological understanding of the "world". The work of Patocka blends the thought of Hussel and Heidegger, with his own distinct philosophical voice.
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