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In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue is to grasp the author's intention in composing it, in particular whether Plato believed that the city constructed in the Republic is possible and desirable.Rosen demonstrates that the fundamental principles underlying the just city are theoretically attractive but that the attempt to enact them in practice leads to conceptual incoherence and political disaster. The Republic, says Rosen, is a vivid illustration of the irreconcilability of philosophy and political practice

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Meanings of Violence; Part I Political Myth and Social Transformation; 1 Walter Benjamin and the General Strike: Non-Violence and the Archeon; 2 Violence, Divine or Otherwise: Myth and Violence in the Benjamin-Schmitt Constellation; 3 Violence and Civilization: Gramsci, Machiavelli, and Sorel; 4 The Violence of Oblivion: Hannah Arendt and the Tragic Loss of Revolutionary Politics; Part II Sociality and Meaning; 5 The World and the Embodied Subject: Humanism, Terror, and Violence

A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is the first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. The work is aimed at jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers. Edited by the renowned theorist Enrico Pattaro and his team, this book is a classical reference work that would be of great interest to legal and practical philosophers as well as to jurists and legal scholar at all levels. The work is divided in two parts. The theoretical part (published in 2005), consisting of five volumes, covers the main topics of the contemporary debate; the historical part, consisting of six volumes (Volumes 6-8 published in 2007; Volumes 9 and 10, published in 2009; Volume 11 published in 2011 and Volume 12 forthcoming in 2016), accounts for the development of legal thought from ancient Greek times through the twentieth century. Volume 12 Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil Law World Volume 12 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, titled Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil-Law World, functions as a complement to Gerald Postema's volume 11 (titled Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World), and it offers the first comprehensive account of the complex development that legal philosophy has undergone in continental Europe and Latin America since 1900. In this volume, leading international scholars from the different language areas making up the civil-law world give an account of the way legal philosophy has evolved in these areas in the 20th century, the outcome being an overall mosaic of civil-law legal philosophy in this arc of time. Further, specialists in the field describe the development that legal philosophy has undergone in the 20th century by focusing on three of its main subjects-namely, legal positivism, natural-law theory, and the theory of legal reasoning-and discussing the different conceptions that have been put forward under these labels. The layout of the volume is meant to frame historical analysis with a view to the contemporary theoretical debate, thus completing the Treatise in keeping with its overall methodological aim, namely, that of combining history and theory as a necessary means by which to provide a comprehensive account of jurisprudential thinking

Introduction -- The Moral Community -- Animal Minds -- Welfare and Death -- Moral Theory -- Animal Agriculture and Aquaculture -- Production and Consumption Ethics -- Fishing -- International Animal Care and Use Committees -- Animal Research -- Zoos -- Pests -- Companion Animals -- Activism -- Conclusion.

"Humility is a vital aspect of political discussion, social media and self-help, whilst recent empirical research has linked humility to improved well-being, open-mindedness and increased accuracy in assessing persuasive messages. It is also a topic central to research and discussion in philosophy, psychology, applied ethics and religious studies. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility is the first collection to present a comprehensive overview the philosophy of humility, whilst also covering important interdisciplinary topics. Comprising forty-one chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts: Theories of Humility, The Ethics of Humility , The Politics of Humility, Humility in Religious Thought , The Epistemology of Humility, The Psychology of Humility, Humility: Applications to the Social World. Essential reading for students and researchers in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and philosophy of mind and psychology, this Handbook will also be extremely useful for those in related disciplines such as religious studies and law"--

I / Analysis of Thought -- II / Expression and Its Functions -- III / Thinking and Meaning -- IV / Husserl's Philosophy of Language -- V / Certain Associated Problems -- A. On 'Occasional Expressions' -- B. On Non-extensional Expressions -- C. Dependent and Independent, Complete and Incomplete Meanings -- D. The Concept of Name -- VI / Formal Logic -- VII / Back to Experience -- Bibliographical references -- Index of proper names -- General index.

I. Separation and the General Economy -- Discontinuity in Bataille -- Separation and Cogito in Levinas -- Essential Solitude in Blanchot -- II. From Decision to the Exigency -- Prohibition and Transgression -- Death and Indecision -- Errance -- Desire and the Hunger which Nourishes Itself -- The Burrow and the Other Night -- Préhension persécutrice and the Arresting Hand -- III. Literature and the Exigency -- La littérature et le mal -- Silence and Orpheus -- Inspiration -- Approach of the Literary Space -- The Oeuvre -- IV. Proximity and Philosophy -- Savoir and non-savoir -- Proximity and Ontology -- Negativity and Il y a in Proximity -- Desire and the Question -- V. The Exigency as Experience -- Closure and Nudity -- Sensation and Intentionality -- Fascination and the Image -- Experience in Bataille and Blanchot -- Cogito and Temporality in Proximity -- VI. Alterity in the General Economy: Parole -- Parole and Entretien -- Alterity and Economy in Levinas -- VII. Same and Other -- From Difference to Non-indifference -- Separation in Proximity -- Recurrence -- Bataille, Blanchot, and Levinas -- Notes.