Philosophers In Conversation
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Philosophies Of Place
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Author : Peter D. Hershock
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Philosophies Of Place written by Peter D. Hershock and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is the disposition to qualitatively transform spaces into places that are charged with distinctive kinds of intergenerational significance. There is a profound, felt difference between a house as domestic space and a home as familial place or between the summit of a mountain one has climbed for the first time and the “same” rock pinnacle celebrated in ancestral narratives. Contemporary philosophical uses of the word “place” often pivot on the distinction between “space” and “place” formalized by geographer-philosopher Yi-fu Tuan, who suggested that places incorporate the experiences and aspirations of a people over the course of their moral and aesthetic engagement with sites and locations. While spaces afford possibilities for different kinds of presence—physical, emotional, cognitive, dramatic, spiritual—places emerge as different ways of being present, fuse over time, and saturate a locale with distinctively collaborative patterns of significance. This approach to issues of place, however, is emblematic of what Edward S. Casey has argued are convictions about the primacy of absolute space and time that evolved along with the progressive dominance of the scientific imagination and modern imaginations of the universal. The recent reappearance of place in Western philosophy represents a turn away from abstract and a priori reasoning and back toward phenomenal experience and the primacy of embodied and emplaced intelligence. Places are enacted through the sustainably shared practices of mutually-responsive and mutually-vulnerable agents and are as numerous in kind as we are divergent in the patterns of values and intentions. The contributors to this volume draw on resources from Asian, European, and North American traditions of thought to engage in intercultural reflection on the significance of place in philosophy and of the place of philosophy itself in the cultural, social, economic, and political domains of contemporary life. The conversation of place that results explores the meaning of intercultural philosophy, the critical interplay of place and personal identity, the meaning of appropriate emplacement, the shared place of politics and religion, and the nature of the emotionally emplaced body.
Talking Philosophy
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Author : Bryan Magee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Talking Philosophy written by Bryan Magee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Philosophy categories.
This book consists of fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of the outstanding thinkers of the twentieth century. It is based on a highly successful BBC television series which had enormous impact. The informality and clarity of the conversational form makes even the most difficult ideas accessible to the general reader.Isaiah Berlin opens by considering the fundamental question 'What is philosophy?' Subsequent conversations examine such widely different schools as Marxism and existentialism. Chomsky, Quine, Marcuse, and others discuss their own work; A. J. Ayer reviews logical positivism; Iris Murdoch talks about the relation between philosophy and literature. Moral philosophy, political philosophy, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science are all treated in depth by the thinkers whose work has shaped the fields.
Open To Reason
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Author : Souleymane Bachir Diagne
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-21
Open To Reason written by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-21 with Social Science categories.
What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Diagne explains the long history of philosophy in the Islamic world and its relevance to crucial issues of our own time. From classical figures such as Avicenna to the twentieth-century Sufi master and teacher of tolerance Tierno Bokar Salif Tall, Diagne explores how Islamic thinkers have asked and answered such questions as Does religion need philosophy? How can religion coexist with rationalism? What does it mean to interpret a religious narrative philosophically? What does it mean to be human, and what are human beings’ responsibilities to nature? Is there such a thing as an “Islamic” state, or should Muslims reinvent political institutions that suit their own times? Diagne shows that philosophizing in Islam in its many forms throughout the centuries has meant a commitment to forward and open thinking. A remarkable history of philosophy in the Islamic world as well as a work of philosophy in its own right, this book seeks to contribute to the revival of a spirit of pluralism rooted in Muslim intellectual and spiritual traditions.
Thinking About Thinking
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Author : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2012
Thinking About Thinking written by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Philosophy categories.
Thinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a the practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and thought. Without forgetting the logical and methodological conditions of systematic thought, the author insists on the intimate connections that tie all philosophical texts and conversations to the lives from which they emerge. As product of an individual thinker, who, thanks to individual teachers, has been familiarized with particular traditions of a particular culture, each philosophy is unique. If it is a good one, it is also revealing for many--perhaps even for all--other philosophers. At the same time, all thinking is addressed to individual interlocutors, each of whom responds to it by transforming it into a different philosophy. This fact invites us to explore the dialogical dimension of thinking, which, in turn, refers us to the communitarian and historical contexts from which solitude, as well as solidarity, competition, alliances, and friendships in thought emerge. After the collapse of modern autonomy, the question of philosophy's dependence on prephilosophical conditions is a basic question of metaphilosophy -- especially if a philosophy is always entangled with or even rooted in some belief or trust or faith.
Gadamer In Conversation
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Author : Hans-Georg Gadamer
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Gadamer In Conversation written by Hans-Georg Gadamer and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
This volume presents six lively conversations with Hans-Georg Gadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Looking back over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those who accuse him of having been in complicity with the Nazis. A genial and direct conversationalist, Gadamer is here captured at his best and most accessible. The interviews took place between 1989 and 1996, and all but one appear in English for the first time in this volume. The first three conversations, conducted by Heidelberg philosopher Carsten Dutt, deal with hermeneutics, aesthetics, and practical philosophy and the question of ethics. In a fourth conversation, with University of Heidelberg classics professor Glenn W. Most, Gadamer argues for the vital importance of the Greeks for our contemporary thinking. In the next, the philosopher reaffirms his connection with phenomenology and clarifies his relation to Husserl and Heidegger in a conversation with London philosopher Alfons Grieder. In the final interview, with German Nazi expert Dorte von Westernhagen, Gadamer describes his life
The Philosophical Conversation
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Author : Kristof Van Rossem
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-26
The Philosophical Conversation written by Kristof Van Rossem and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-26 with Philosophy categories.
How do you keep your conversations light and playful yet profound? How do you ask the right questions, with the right words, at the right moment? The Philosophical Conversation teaches you the basics of philosophical skills and instructs how to get started. A philosophical score, which provides you with the right attitude, technique and execution, determines the rhythm. Inside these pages there are all kinds of exercises to help you think more accurately and show you how to share that with others. Discover the joy of making music with words.
French Philosophers In Conversation
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
French Philosophers In Conversation written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Philosophy categories.
A collection of interviews with such French philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Emmanuel Levinas. Each thinker represents one or more strand of the Parisien philosophical scene and feminism, literature, phenomenology and semiotics are subjects covered within this book.
Philosophers In Conversation
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Author : S. Phineas Upham
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Philosophers In Conversation written by S. Phineas Upham and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Philosophy categories.
This book brings together for the first time fourteen recent interviews with some of the most important names in contemporary philosophy. Covering a wide range of issues from law to logic and metaphysics to literature, the interviews provide a fascinating introduction to some of the most influential thinkers of the day, and offer a rare opportunity for readers to learn about their views through the relaxed format of conversation.
Philosophers In Conversation
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Author : S Phine Upham
language : en
Publisher:
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The Great Conversation
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Author : NORMAN. MORROW MELCHERT (DAVID.)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-31
The Great Conversation written by NORMAN. MORROW MELCHERT (DAVID.) and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with categories.