The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche

The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche

Author: Monroe Beardsley

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2002-11-12

Total Pages: 946

ISBN-13: 0375758046

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“Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing,” Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. “If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least be studied, and we can ask whether any dominant themes, overall patterns of movement, or notable achievements can be found within it. This question is one that is best asked by the reader after he has read, or read around in, these works.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic also includes a newly updated Bibliography.


The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche

The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche

Author: Monroe C. Beardsley

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01

Total Pages: 870

ISBN-13: 9780758180575

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" Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing, " Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. " If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least be studied, and we can ask whether any dominant themes, overall patterns of movement, or notable achievements can be found within it. This question is one that is best asked by the reader after he has read, or read around in, these works." This Modern Library Paperback Classic also includes a newly updated Bibliography.


Nietzsche and Modern Times

Nietzsche and Modern Times

Author: Laurence Lampert

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780300065107

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This major work by Laurence Lampert provides a new interpretation of modern philosophy by developing Nietzsche's view that genuine philosophers set out to determine the direction of culture through their ideas and that they conceal the radical nature of their thought by their esoteric style. From this Nietzschean perspective, Francis Bacon and René Descartes can be considered the founders of modernity. Lampert argues that Bacon's positive claims for science aimed to destroy the dominance of Christianity. Descartes continued Bacon's radical program while providing it with the mathematical physics required for its success. Far from being solely an epistemological and metaphysical thinker, says Lampert, Descartes was a master writer whose comic ridicule helped bring down the Church to which he paid lip service. Both Bacon and Descartes used the Platonic art of dissimulation to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity. Once we recognize Bacon and Descartes as legislators of modern times in a specifically Nietzschean sense, we can also see Nietzsche in a new way--as the first thinker to have understood modern times and transcended it in a postmodern worldview. According to Lampert, Nietzsche provides a new foundation for culture, a joyous science that reveals the grandeur and purposeless play of the cosmic whole and yet avoids enervating despair or destructive, dogmatic belief.


Descartes to Derrida

Descartes to Derrida

Author: Peter Sedgwick

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2001-02-16

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780631201427

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This volume provides a critical survey of issues in European philosophy from Descartes to the present.


On the History of Modern Philosophy

On the History of Modern Philosophy

Author: F. W. J. von Schelling

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-05-27

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780521408615

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F. W. J. Schelling's On the History of Modern Philosophy surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure.


Changing the Subject

Changing the Subject

Author: Raymond Geuss

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0674545729

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“A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in philosophy yet.” —Times Literary Supplement “Exceptionally engaging...Geuss has a remarkable knack for putting even familiar thinkers in a new light.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Geuss is something like the consummate teacher, his analyses navigable and crystal, his guidance on point.” —Doug Phillips, Key Reporter Raymond Geuss explores the ideas of twelve philosophers who broke dramatically with prevailing wisdom, from Socrates and Plato in the ancient world to Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Adorno. The result is a striking account of some of the most innovative thinkers in Western history and an indirect manifesto for how to pursue philosophy today. Geuss cautions that philosophers’ attempts to break from convention do not necessarily make the world a better place. Montaigne’s ideas may have been benign, but the fate of those of Hobbes, Hegel, and Nietzsche has been more varied. Yet in the act of provoking people to think differently, philosophers remind us that we are not fated to live within the systems of thought we inherit.


Reinterpreting Modern Culture

Reinterpreting Modern Culture

Author: Paul van Tongeren

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Attempts to elucidate the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche through the experience of his writings. After a chapter devoted to Nietzsche's style and the proper way to read the philosopher, chapters focus separately on his thoughts on knowledge and reality, morality and politics, and religion. Each chapter presents fairly lengthy selections from Nietzsche's works (in both German and English) and then proceeds to comment on the texts with the help of additional brief selections. Paper edition available (1-55753-157-9), $24.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.


Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Author: Leszek Kolakowski

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2007-11-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0465010385

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Do we have free will? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? These are some of the questions that have intrigued the world's greatest thinkers over the ages. They are questions that make us think about the way we live, work, relate to each other, and see the world. In elegant and accessible prose, the eminent philosopher Leszek Kolakowski explores the essence of these ideas and their ongoing relevance as he introduces us to the great figures of Western thought: from Socrates to St. Augustine, Descartes to Nietzsche, and beyond. Reflecting on the great issues that animate our lives -- good and evil, truth and beauty, faith and the soul, free will and consciousness -- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? offers a guided tour of Western philosophy by one of the world's greatest living experts.