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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Comptes Rendus Philosophiques
Author: The End of the Soul
Author: Jennifer HechtPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231502389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of individuals. This strange scientific pact, and indeed what we have come to think of as anthropology, which the group's members helped to develop, had its genesis in aggressive, evangelical atheism. With this group as its focus, The End of the Soul is a study of science and atheism in France in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows that anthropology grew in the context of an impassioned struggle between the forces of tradition, especially the Catholic faith, and those of a more freethinking modernism, and moreover that it became for many a secular religion. Among the adherents of this new faith discussed here are the novelist Emile Zola, the great statesman Leon Gambetta, the American birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes embodied the triumph of ratiocination over credulity. Boldly argued, full of colorful characters and often bizarre battles over science and faith, this book represents a major contribution to the history of science and European intellectual history.
Paul Ricœur
Author: Frans D. VansinaPublisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042908734
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Already more than sixty years Paul Ricoeur enriches the international philosophical patrimony with an astonishing number of highly technical books and enlightening reflections on actual problems and situations. To serve the community of researchers in philosophy I have already published two systematic bibliographies of (and on) Ricoeur in 1985 and 1995. Encouraged by friends and colleagues I present now another updated bibliography as exhaustive as possible.
History of Linguistics 1999
Author: Jocelyne ArpinPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027245885
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume represents a selection of 25 out of altogether 86 papers given at the Eighth International Conference for the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VIII), which took place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris, in September 1999. This conference was marked by three new elements: the integration of the study of Amerindian languages into Western linguistics; a particular emphasis on the history of the teaching of (foreign) languages; and new information on the history of linguistics in Eastern Europe during the Soviet era.
Ruminations: Selected Philosophical, Historical, and Ideological Papers: Volume 1, Part 1, The Infinite
Author: Eric v.d. LuftPublisher: Gegensatz Press
ISBN: 162130700X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Since the 1970s I have pursued three separate but overlapping and sometimes simultaneous careers: (1) philosopher / writer / teacher / historian of the long nineteenth century, 1789-1914; (2) editor / translator / photographer / publisher / biographer / encyclopedist; (3) cataloging librarian / rare books and special collections librarian / historian of medicine. Somehow these three vocations have garnered me some acclaim, even an entry in Who's Who in America. Each of them has resulted in some published or presented works. Because these works have been scattered in a wide variety of venues, some of which have gone out of print or have otherwise become generally unavailable - and of course with the oral presentations being gone as soon as they are given - I have thought it wise to select, epitomize, and bring them together in one place - here. Thus, what follows in these volumes is what I consider to be the most important of my shorter works.
Ruminations, Volume 2, Dawns and Departures
Author: Eric v.d. LuftPublisher: Gegensatz Press
ISBN: 1933237937
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Essays and other short works on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, socialism, Stirner, Feuerbach, Karl Schmidt, art, religion, popular music, suicide, games, humor, and general culture.
Ruminations, Volume 3: The Frozen Landscape: Selected Philosophical, Historical, and Ideological Papers
Author: Eric v.d. LuftPublisher: Gegensatz Press
ISBN: 1621306976
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Essays , poems, and other short works on Heidegger, Nietzsche, the ontological argument, Hegel, Schopenhauer, logic, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of art, socialism, metaphysics, and the principle of sufficient reason
Heidegger and French Philosophy
Author: Tom RockmorePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134832826
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Martin Heidegger's impact on contemporary thought is important and controversial. However in France, the influence of this German philosopher is such that contemporary French thought cannot be properly understood without reference to Heidegger and his extraordinary influence. Tom Rockmore examines the reception of Heidegger's thought in France. He argues that in the period after the Second World War, due to the peculiar nature of the humanist French Philosophical tradition, Heidegger became the master thinker of French philosophy. Perhaps most importantly, he contends that this reception - first as philosophical anthropology and later as postmetaphysical humanism - is systematically mistaken.
The International Beginnings of the Congo Free State
Author: Jesse Siddall ReevesPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Original ed. issued as no. 11-12 of Institutional and economic history, which forms the 12th series of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.
Representation and Suffrage in Massachusetts, 1620-1691
Author: George Henry HaynesPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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