Who's Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1This book is of extraordinary importance. It collects one of the most important and underappreciated aspects of Derrida’s work - his investigations into the institutions of philosophical research and teaching - in a definitive and comprehensive volume. These essays are crucial to an understanding of Derrida, and their publication in English is a milestone.
Such classical Greek philosophers as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are fine, if lofty thinking is what you want. But philosophy means "love of wisdom," not "love of thinking." Where can you find philosophy that tells you not how to think well, but how to live well? Greek and Roman philosophers of the early imperial period devoted their lives not to metaphysics and epistemology but to the appreciation and practice of morality and virtue, values and character.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains 23 newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres (from Ancient Epic to the Novel and Contemporary Experimental Writing), Periods (from Realism and Romanticism to Postcolonialism), Devices and Powers (Imagination, Plot, Character, Style, and Emotion), and Contexts and Uses (in relation to inquiry, morality, and politics).
A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems central to the philosophy of action. - The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions) - Brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts
