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Bernard Williams and Alasdair MacIntyre on Authenticity
The formation of the moral point of view in Bernard Williams’ work might be understood as taking place between two central concepts: the individual...
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Introduction: Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Differences in the History of Knowledge-Making
This book proposes a novel approach to knowledge-making. By formulating a new paradigm and drawing on fresh material about spaces that have so far...
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Vygotsky and Spinoza
The article analyzes Lev Vygotsky’s attempts to utilize Spinoza’s philosophical ideas in solving the methodological crisis of psychology in the 1920s...
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Darwinism
This chapter aims to analyze how Darwinian ideas, assimilated into the fields of politics, science, and medicine in Latin America, interacted with...
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On Heidegger’s Sofa: Some Remarks on Psychotherapy from Historical and Philosophical Points of View
Our starting point in this article is that the question of the essence of psychotherapy has to some extent been neglected. Its medical context has...
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The Constitution of geistige Gegenstände in Carnap’s Aufbau and the Importance of Hans Freyer
The aim of this paper is twofold: to consider Rudolf Carnap’s ideas about the so-called geistige Gegenstände – i.e., the products of the human mind –...
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A Meeting of Minds: Iris Murdoch and the Theory of Remorse
This chapter outlines the growth of Murdoch’s standing in twenty-first-century critical acclaim and analyses her unique philosophical and literary...
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Panic at the Law School! A Critical Case for Legal Subcultures
Given the original founders, texts, and location of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), its association with the 1960s counterculture is uncontroversial....
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Networked names: synonyms in eighteenth-century botany
This paper addresses early modern botanical nomenclature, the practices of identifying and publishing synonyms in particular, as a collaborative...
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Heidegger and the German Reception of the Zhuangzi
Heidegger reportedly received a copy of the German translation of The Book of Tea (a work inspired in part by both Zen Buddhism and Daoism) by Kakuzō...
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Nietzsche: Out of the Spirit of Music
This chapter argues that Nietzsche’s understanding of tragedy articulates the intimate links between life and art. In his first published work, The...
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Globalization
Contrary to Francis Fukuyama’sFukuyama, Francis (1989) triumphant proclamation of a definite ‘endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution’ following...
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Nietzsche and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
In order to contextualize the view of Jesus presented in The Anti-Christ as well as elsewhere, this chapter examines older examples of the critique...
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Virtue Ethics and the Origins of Feminism: The Case of Christine de Pizan
The aims of this chapter are threefold. The first is to outline the importance of the tradition of virtue ethics for the origins of feminist thought....
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General Thought and Context
To understand Henry Dawes’ ideas and projects—for example his General Allotment Act—, we have to understand his upbringing and his professional and...
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Infinitesimal Knowledges
The notion of indivisibles and atoms arose in ancient Greece. The continuum—that is, the collection of points in a straight line segment, appeared to...
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Dialectical Materialism
Although Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels strictly speaking never used the term, “dialectical materialism” refers to the philosophy of science and...
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Freedom of the Press: Respecting Traditions and Taking Offence
Within the context of an age of disorder, the ethics of cross-cultural provocation (as exemplified by the Muhammed cartoons and Charlie Hebdo...
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Darwinism
This chapter aims to analyze how Darwinian ideas, assimilated into the fields of politics, science, and medicine in Latin America, interacted with...
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Philosophical foundations of Acmeism: Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, and the figure of Adam
The article discusses the significance of the figure of Adam in the artistic philosophy of Acmeism (or Adamism). Particular attention is paid to the...