A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous reading of numerous philosophical and poetic works to examine how these issues have been traditionally explored. Agamben argues that the human being is not just “speaking” and “mortal” but irreducibly “social” and “ethical.” Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is the author of Means without End (2000), Stanzas (1993), and The Coming Community (1993), all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Karen E. Pinkus is professor of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Michael Hardt is professor of literature and romance studies at Duke University.
A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
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A Brief History of the Paradox Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
Because paradoxes show great minds at once at their most inspired and befuddled, a book like this makes an excellent introduction to philosophy in general.
By treating how different thinkers deal with a problem, Mr. Sorensen provides a sort of whistle-stop tour of Western thought. originally posted 2007-07-9; updated 2007-08-21
Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume provides a survey of contemporary philosophy of language. Each essay provides a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts and debates, and makes new and original contributions to ongoing debate. Taken together, this volume is a key text and indispensable reference for philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and epistemology.
John Burnet's: Early Greek Philosophy (with notes)
This text is a reprint of the 3rd edition of John Burnet's famous study of Presocratic philosophy, Early Greek Philosophy, originally published in 1920 with Burnet's notes.
Common Sense Philosophy In the first century BC the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero claimed “There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it”. Indeed, in the history of Western thought, philosophers have rarely been credited with having much common sense. In the 17th century Francis Bacon made the point rather poetically and wrote “Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high”.
