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Cassirer by Samantha Matherne
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Routledge Philosophers Ser.
Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) occupies a unique place in 20th-century philosophy. His view that human beings are not rational but symbolic animals and his famous dispute with Martin Heidegger at Davos in 1929 are compelling alternatives to the deadlock between 'analytic' and 'continental' approaches to phi ...Show more
Einstein by Thomas Ryckman
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Routledge Philosophers Ser.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) was the most influential physicist of the twentieth century. Less well-known is that fundamental philosophical problems, such as concept formation, the role of epistemology in developing and explaining the character of physical theories, and the debate between positivism an ...Show more
Freud by Jonathan Lear
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The Routledge Philosophers
In this fully revised and updated second edition, Jonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, rationality, the nat ...Show more
Hegel by Frederick Beiser
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Routledge Philosophers Ser.
Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex id ...Show more
Merleau-Ponty (Routledge Philosophers) by CARMAN, TAYLOR
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Routledge Philosophers Ser.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61) was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His theories of perception and the role of the body have had an enormous impact on the humanities and social sciences, yet the full scope of his contribution not only to phenomenology but philosophy gene ...Show more
Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca
Category: Infant | Series: The Routledge Philosophers
Renowned for his metaphysics, Spinoza made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. Beginning with an overview of Spinoza's life, Michael Della Rocca carefully unpacks and explains Spinoza's philosophy: his metaphysics of substa ...Show more
WITTGENSTEIN by CHILD WILLIAM
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Routledge Philosophers Ser.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is considered by most philosophers - even those who do not share his views - to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. His contributions to the philosophy of language, mind, meaning and psychology - as well as to logic, mathematics and epistemology - per ...Show more
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