This book argues that the mass is the most characteristic socio-historical feature of our century. Kierkegaard was the first to anticipate and delineate this phenomenon philosophically. Heidegger appr
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is widely recognized as one of the greatest scientific thinkers in history. Intriguingly, when offered a place in the Medici court in 1610, he requested the title of «Philo
Humans are gullible. We do not question enough, and, of course, plenty has been written about the adverse effect that today's Western culture has on our already weak skeptical facility. This cross-dis
Having in the first volume described the underlying structures, goals, and methods common to any genealogical investigation, Lightbody (philosophy, Brock U., Ontario) here shows how two philosophical
Presbyterian minister Kin (philosophy and theology, Columbia Evangelical Seminary in Washington and Washington Baptist U. and Seminary in Virginia) shows how in his Philosophical Fragments, Danish the
Lubling (philosophy, Elon U., North Carolina) argues that the naturalistic writings of American pragmatist philosopher Dewey (1859-1952) afford the best context in which to articulate a post-Holocaust
Revising her doctoral dissertation in visual art at the University of Western Ontario, Jordan-Haladyn demonstrates the importance of Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin's (1895-1975) dialogism in anal
This book explores Eastern and Western ideas of freedom and reveals the essential differences, as well as similarities, between Eastern and Western cultural values. Inspired by an ancient Greek myth r
Sherwin Klein's book is markedly different from standard business ethics texts. Since he discusses business ethics from a Platonic point of view, he takes a value-based and virtue-based interdisciplin