Lukács and Heidegger (Routledge Revivals)
Lukács and Heidegger (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Lucien Goldmann

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 2009-11-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415564595

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This text re-issues an important work by Lucien Goldmann, based on his university lectures from 1967-8, and first published in English in 1977. It focusses upon two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, György Lukács and Martin Heidegger, demonstrating the origins of of existenialist thought in the implicit connection between the two. This book represents the application of methodology already developped in The Hidden God and also sees Goldmann elaborating the differences between himself and Lukács for the sake of defining his own Marxist perspective.

Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals)
Kant, Respect and Injustice (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Victor Seidler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1135156077

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In this work, originally published in 1986, Victor Seidler explores the different notions of respect, equality and dependency in Kant’s moral writings. He illuminates central tensions and contradictions not only within Kant’s moral philosophy, but within the thinking and feeling about human dignity and social inequality which we take very much for granted within a liberal moral culture. In challenging our assumption of the autonomy of morality, Seidler also questions our understanding of what it means for someone to live as a person in his or her own right. The autonomy of individuals cannot be assumed but has to be reasserted against relationships of subordination. This involves a break with a rationalist morality, so that respect for others involves respect for emotions, feelings, desires and needs, and establishes a fuller autonomy as a basis for freedom and justice.

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.

Routledge Revivals: The Power of Shame (1985)
Routledge Revivals: The Power of Shame (1985)

Author: Agnes Heller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1351359215

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First published in 1985, this book provides a stimulating series of inter-connected essays which address the theme of shame, which, unlike the problem of conscience, has been seldom discussed by moral philosophers. The essays focus on the ethical regulation of human action and judgement, examining both its constant and varying elements and concentrating on contemporary types of moral regulation. Professor Heller uses Aristotelian categories, such as the good life, in her discourse to present a new conception of rationality, distinguishing between shame regulation and conscience regulation of moral conduct, and arguing that shame regulation cannot be completely overcome even in an age of rationalism.

The Alienated Mind (Routledge Revivals)
The Alienated Mind (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Frisby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1135018421

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This book, first published in 1983, with a second edition in 1992, investigates the emergence of the sociology of knowledge in Germany in the critical period from 1918 to 1933. These years witnessed the development of distinctive paradigms centred on the works of Max Scheler, Georg Lukács and Karl Mannheim. Each theorist sought to confront the base-superstructure models of the relationship between knowledge and society, which originated in Orthodox Marxism. David Frisbsy illustrates how these and other themes in the sociology of knowledge were contested through a detailed account of the central sociological debates in Weimar Germany. This reissue of The Alienated Mind will be of particular interest to students and academics concerned with the development of an important tradition in the sociology of knowledge and culture, social theory and German history.

Malign Masters Gentile Heidegger Lukács Wittgenstein
Malign Masters Gentile Heidegger Lukács Wittgenstein

Author: Harry Redner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1349257079

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A politically oriented study of the thought of the founders of the main schools of contemporary academic philosophy, those which dominate nearly all universities throughout the world. It concentrates on four key masters: Wittgenstein, who founded both Logical Positivism and the so-called Common Language or Analytic school; Heidegger, the acknowledged master of Hermeneutic Philosophy or the so-called Continental school; Lukacs, the founder of Hegelian Marxism and the leading Communist philosopher of the Soviet period; and, finally, the now lesser-known Gentile, the Hegelian Idealist.

Lukács and Heidegger
Lukács and Heidegger

Author: Lucien Goldmann

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415552929

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Focusses upon two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, Gyorgy Lukacs and Martin Heidegger

The Sociology of Art (Routledge Revivals)
The Sociology of Art (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Arnold Hauser

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 791

ISBN-13: 1136464468

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First published in 1982, The Sociology of Art considers all forms of the arts, whether visual arts, literature, film, theatre or music from Bach to the Beatles. The last book to be completed by Arnold Hauser before his death in 1978, it is a total analysis of the spiritual forces of social expression, based upon comprehensive historical experience and documentation. Hauser explores art through the earliest times to the modern era, with fascinating analyses of the mass media and current manifestations of human creativity. An extension and completion of his earlier work, The Social History of Art, this volume represents a summing up of his thought and forms a fitting climax to his life’s work. Translated by Kenneth J. Northcote.

Questions on Wittgenstein (Routledge Revivals)
Questions on Wittgenstein (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Rudolf Haller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1317686861

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Wittgenstein, possibly the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, is often labelled a Neopositivist, a New-Kantian, even a Sceptic. Questions on Wittgenstein, first published in 1988, presents a selection of nine essays investigating a matter of vital philosophical importance: Wittgenstein’s relationship to his Austrian predecessors and peers. The intention throughout is to determine the precise contours of Wittgenstein’s own thought by situating it within its formative context. Although it remains of particular interest to Anglo-Saxon philosophers, special familiarity with Austrian philosophy is required to appreciate the subtle and profound influence which this cultural and philosophical setting had on Wittgenstein’s intellectual development. Professor Haller has spent his career exploring these themes, and is one of the foremost authorities on both Wittgenstein and contemporary Austrian philosophy. Questions on Wittgenstein thus offers a unique insight into the twentieth-century tradition of Austrian philosophy, and its importance for Wittgenstein’s thought.

Susan Sontag (Routledge Revivals)
Susan Sontag (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Sohnya Sayres

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1317612558

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First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst of culture, author of ‘Notes on Camp’ and Illness as Metaphor, novelist, reviewer, and filmmaker. It was modernism, and the excitement it created in her, that "rescued" Sontag from childhood in Southern California and sent her abroad in the 1950s. Sohnya Sayres looks into the foundations and directions of Sontag’s imposing work and in doing so discovers a unity of design and subject that Sontag has only recently acknowledged to have been an ambition all along. Sayres’s Sontag is the "elegiac modernist", committed to a modernism whose high noon has long since passed. And yet Sayres finds in Sontag’s lifelong indebtedness to modernism’s aesthetic an inherent conservatism. While guiding us through the work of a brilliant critic, Sayres questions whether Sontag is not herself caught in the paradoxes of the modernism she herself so much admires. A comprehensive analysis of the work of a remarkable intellectual, this title will be of value to any student of American modernism and literary life.