Discourse on metaphysics and The monadology
In: Dover philosophical classics
In: Dover philosophical classics
Ian Hunter has made a name for himself as a critic of German university metaphysics, finding its progeny at work in places where many of us would not even think of looking, for example in the late twentieth-century celebration of theory in the humanities. Some of his recent work has focused on a rather different issue: the methodological task of making intellectual history empirical. Here he builds on Quentin Skinner's rationale for the Cambridge School's efforts to make the history of political thought more properly historical. Skinner's argument draws on the work of R. G. Collingwood, at least in its earlier versions, and on neo-Kantian tendencies in mid-twentieth century Oxford philosophy. Thus, in aligning his methodological programme with Skinner's argument, Hunter may risk bringing elements of university metaphysics back in another form.
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Ian Hunter has made a name for himself as a critic of German university metaphysics, finding its progeny at work in places where many of us would not even think of looking, for example in the late twentieth-century celebration of theory in the humanities. Some of his recent work has focused on a rather different issue: the methodological task of making intellectual history empirical. Here he builds on Quentin Skinner's rationale for the Cambridge School's efforts to make the history of political thought more properly historical. Skinner's argument draws on the work of R. G. Collingwood, at least in its earlier versions, and on neo-Kantian tendencies in mid-twentieth century Oxford philosophy. Thus, in aligning his methodological programme with Skinner's argument, Hunter may risk bringing elements of university metaphysics back in another form.
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In: The review of politics, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 138-142
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 86-112
ISSN: 0037-783X
In: Studies in contemporary phenomenology v. 13
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Towards a Genealogy of the Metaphysics of Sight: Seeing, Hearing, and Thinking in Heraclitus and Parmenides /Jussi Backman -- 2 The Extent of Visibility /John Sallis -- 3 Seeing and Being Seen in Plato: The Logic of Image and Original and the Platonic Phenomenology Behind It /Burt C. Hopkins -- 4 On Touch and Life in the De Anima /Christopher P. Long -- 5 Beyond the Innocence of the Painter's Eye /Pavlos Kontos -- 6 Voyance: On Merleau-Ponty's Processual Conception of Vision /Luca Vanzago -- 7 Seeing the Invisible: Jean-Luc Marion's Path from Husserl to Saint Paul /Claudio Tarditi -- 8 The Use and Abuse of Vision /Michael Inwood -- 9 In the Shadow of Light: Listening, the Practical Turn of Phenomenology, and Metaphysics of Sight /David Espinet -- 10 Seeing the Truth and Living in the Truth: Optical Paradigms of Truth and Pauline Countermodels /Antonio Cimino -- 11 Self-touch and the Perception of the Other /James Mensch -- Index.
In: Law and Philosophy, Forthcoming
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Translator's Preface -- Preface -- 1. Nietzsche's Place in the Aesthetics of Post-Modernity -- 2. The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche -- 3. Necessity and Contingency in Nietzsche's Early Writings -- 4. Nietzsche and Stoicism -- 5. The Role of the Idea of the Eternal Recurrence in the Genesis of the Project for the Revaluation of All Values -- 6. Nihilism According to Nietzsche -- Bibliography
A planet in transition -- Transforming reality -- A divided vision -- Space-time -- The process of life -- Whither evolutionists? -- The structure of life -- Transforming instincts -- The human mind -- The quickening pace -- Our social groupings -- Our transforming institutions -- Expanding the legal universe -- The charismatic model -- Tribal religious realities -- The traumatic planetary past -- Theologians and scientists -- The future of theology -- The transformation of science -- The metaphysics of modern existence
Nicholas F. Stang explores Kant's theory of possibility, from the precritical period of the 1750-60s to the critical system initiated by the 'Critique of Pure Reason' in 1781. He argues that the key to understanding the relationship between these periods lies in Kant's reorientation of an ontological question towards a transcendental approach
1. Hidden Worlds -- 2. Ur-Kenosis and Nothingness -- 3. Holographic Matter -- 4. Holo-cryptic Metaphysics in an Entropic Universe -- 5. Black Hole Entropy and the Holographic Universe -- 6. Transubstantiation and Quantum Mechanical Theory -- 7. The Heart of the Matter.
In: Human affairs: HA ; postdisciplinary humanities & social sciences quarterly, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 474-494
ISSN: 1337-401X
This paper provides a sketch of a fresh conception of the "metaphysics" of culture and a sense of its conceptual power and advantages, based on a post-Darwinian account of the artifactual, hybrid nature of a person, chiefly in terms of (what I treat as terms of art) Bildung ("external" and "internal"), Sittlichkeit (both descriptive and normative), and interpretation (diversely manifested in different sectors of inquiry). I consider the ("metaphysical") relationship between membership in the species Homo sapiens sapiens and functioning as a person the generic distinction of human cultures (enlanguaged cultures), which I call Intentionality (that is, whatever is culturally significant or significative); and the bearing of the thesis on familiar philosophical quarrels and theory of the sciences.