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In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry is the sole exception. This is an astonishing omission, one this collection of original essays will correct. If contemporary philosophy still regards metaphors such as 'Juliet is the sun' as a serious problem, one has an acute sense of how prepared it is to make philosophical and aesthetic sense of poems such W. B. Yeats's 'The Second Coming', Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy', or Paul Celan's 'Todesfuge'. The Philosophy of Poetry brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. In doing so it lays the foundation for a proper philosophy of poetry, setting out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address. Given its breadth of approach, the volume is relevant not only to aesthetics but to all areas of philosophy concerned with meaning, truth, and the communicative and expressive powers of language more generally. Poetry is the last unexplored frontier in contemporary analytic aesthetics, and this volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy

Analytic philosophy is roughly a hundred years old, and it is now the dominant force within Western philosophy. Interest in its historical development is increasing, but there has hitherto been no sustained attempt to elucidate what it currently amounts to, and how it differs from so-called 'continental' philosophy. In this rich and wide-ranging book, Hans Johann Glock argues that analytic philosophy is a loose movement held together both by ties of influence and by various 'family resemblances'. He considers the pros and cons of various definitions of analytic philosophy, and tackles the methodological, historiographical and philosophical issues raised by such definitions. Finally, he explores the wider intellectual and cultural implications of the notorious divide between analytic and continental philosophy. His book is an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to understand analytic philosophy and how it is practised

The Verge of Philosophy is both an exploration of the limits of philosophy and a memorial for John Sallis's longtime friend and interlocutor Jacques Derrida. The centerpiece of the book is an extended examination of three sites in Derrida's thought: his interpretation of Heidegger regarding the privileging of the question; his account of the Platonic figure of the good; and his interpretation of Plato's discourse on the crucial notion of the chora, the originating space of the universe. Sallis's reflections are given added weight-even poignancy-by his discussion

An Early Evaluation -- Phenomenology -- Foundational Philosophers -- Sense and Essence: Frege and Husserl -- Husserl and/or Wittgenstein -- Husserl and Wittgenstein on Language -- The Double Awareness in Heidegger and Wittgenstein -- Heidegger's Criticism of Wittgenstein's Conception of Truth -- Meaning and Language -- Austin and Phenomenology -- Meta-Philosophical Reflections -- Some Parallels between Analysis and Phenomenology -- Is There a World of Ordinary Language? -- Hare, Husserl, and Philosophic Discovery -- Phenomenology and Linguistic Analysis I -- Phenomenology and Linguistic Analysis II -- What are the Grounds of Explication?: A Basic Problem in Linguistic Analysis and Phenomenology -- Notes on Contributors -- Sources -- Index of Names.

Intro -- Contents -- 1: The Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill -- 2: The Individual: Keirkegaard and Nietzsche -- 3: Pragmatism: James and Dewey -- 4: Process Philosophy: Bergson and Whitehead -- 5: Analytic Philosophy: Russell, Logical Positivism, and Wittgenstein -- 6: Husserl and Heidegger -- 7: Existentialism: Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Picture Credits -- Index.

"The will of John Calvin McNair established a Foundation at the University of North Carolina upon which public lectures are to be given . . . This book contains three lectures which were given in February of this year upon this Foundation"--Pref. ; I. German philosophy: the two worlds.--II. German moral and political philosophy.--III. The German philosophy of history. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Toleration and Political Philosophy" published on by Oxford University Press.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. 'Subjectivity Without the Subject': Thinking Beyond the Subject with / through Spinoza -- 2. Spinoza's Non-Humanist Humanism -- 3. The Ethical Relation of Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza Towards an Affective Ecology -- 4. Spinoza's Architectural Passages and Geometric Comportments -- 5. The Secret History of Musical Spinozism -- Interlude LANCE BREWER, 'SHADOWS' -- 6. Thinking the Future: Spinoza's Political Ontology Today -- 7. Spinoza's Empty Law: The Possibility of Political Theology -- 8. Which Radical Enlightenment? Spinoza, Jacobinism and Black Jacobinism -- 9. George Eliot, Spinoza and the Ethics of Literature -- 10. Coleridge's Ecumenical Spinoza -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

"Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion presents a new scholarly interpretation of Hobbes's treatment of religious speech and practice. It argues that the key to Hobbes's treatment of religion is his theory of religious language. According to Hobbes, the proper function of religious language is not to describe, state facts, or affirm truths. Instead, such talk ought only to express attitudes of honour, reverence, and humility before the incomprehensible great cause of nature. His theory valorises the traditional discourses of theism, natural religion, and revealed religion, but only as an expression of reverence without descriptive import. Hobbes is sincerely pious, rejecting atheism and irreligion. But he also rejects literal-minded theism, and any realist conception of the divine attributes. The book provides a comprehensive study of Hobbes's highly original treatment of religion. It also offers an integrated account of Hobbes's philosophical thought around religious topics. The account brings out the connections between Hobbes's theoretical philosophy - including his philosophy of mind, language, and human nature - and his practical religious politics, including his views on religious toleration, ecclesiology, and the religious function of the civil state--

1. The problem of method and the project of a hermeneutics of the human sciences -- 2. Truth after art -- 3. The destruction of prejudices in nineteenth-century aesthetics and epistemology -- 4. Vigilance and horizon in hermeneutics -- 5. The dialogue that we are.