The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Routledge Revivals)
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Lucien Goldmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-11-02

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1136989633

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In this reissue, originally published in English in 1973, French philosopher Lucien Goldmann turns his attention to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, the great age of liberalism and individualism and analyses the ‘mental structures’ of the outlook of the philosophes, who showed that the ancien regime and the privileges of the Church were irrational anachronisms. In assessing the strengths and limitations of individualism, Goldmann considers the achievements and limitations of the Enlightenment. He discusses the views of Hegel and Marx and examines the relation between liberal scepticism and traditional Christianity to point the way to the possible reconciliation of the two seemingly incompatible ‘world visions’ of East and West today.

The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment

Author: Paul Hyland

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9780415204491

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This oustanding sourcebook brings together the work of major Enlightenment thinkers to illustrate the full importance and achievements of this great period of change.

The Philosophy of Art History (Routledge Revivals)
The Philosophy of Art History (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Arnold Hauser

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1134889860

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First published in 1959, this book is concerned with the methodology of art history, and so with questions about historical thinking; it enquires what scientific history of art can accomplish, what are its mean and limitations? It contains philosophical reflections on history and begins with chapters on the scope and limitations of a sociology of art, and the concept of ideology in the history of art. The chapter on the concept of "art history without names" occupies the central position in the book — thoroughly discussing the basic philosophical outlook for the whole work. There are also further chapters on psychoanalysis, folk art and popular art. The chapter on the role of convention in the history of art points the way for further study.

Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume II (1934)
Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume II (1934)

Author: Preserved Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages: 703

ISBN-13: 1351349473

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The understanding of history can be advanced only by the combination or alternation, of analysis and synthesis. Detailed research and generalizing survey are not antiethical but complementary. For a long time, however, the specialist has reigned supreme in our schools. The need is now, surely, for a return to synoptic writing. The present work was undertaken to supply the need of a synthesis. It is a map of a large region, not a geological chart of a square mile or the plan of a single city. Its value, if any, lies in its view of the interrelations of large tracts of social and intellectual life, not in the intensive investigation of narrow fields.

Contradiction of Enlightenment
Contradiction of Enlightenment

Author: Nigel Tubbs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-17

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0429836503

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Published in 1997, this books is an examination of the determination of the concept of enlightenment, and related notions, within modern social relations. The work opens up innovative areas of research into the relationship between philosophy, social relations, and education. It applies Gillian Rose's work on "the broken middle" of Hegelian philosophy to social and educational theorizing. It offers a critique of the idea of enlightenment, and of the identity of the teacher in social theory - Rousseau, Marx and Durkheim - in critical theory - Habermas and Adorno - in "postmodernism" - Foucalt and Nietzsche - and in a variety of educational and pedagogical theories. The book concludes with an original application of Hegelian speculative philosophy to the teacher/student relationship. This work challenges those working in social theory and in education to comprehend the contradictions on their theorising as a shared philosophical consciousness, a shared "broken middle".

Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Andrew Benjamin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1317675533

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This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter Benjamin and Freud, Andrew Benjamin reveals the interplay between the two disciplines not only in their relationship to language, but also at a deeper, cognitive level. Benjamin engages throughout with the central tenets of post-structuralism: the concept of a constant yet illusive ‘true’ meaning has lost authority, but remains a problem. The fact of translation seems to defy the notion that ‘meaning’ is reducible to its component words; yet, to say that the ‘truth’ is more than the sum of its parts, we are challenging the very foundations of what it is to communicate, to understand, and to know. In Translation and the Nature of Philosophy, the author sets out his own theory of language in light of these issues.