The Wild Region in Life-History
Title | The Wild Region in Life-History PDF eBook |
Author | Laszlo Tengelyi |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2004-04-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0810116618 |
A critique of--and alternative to--pure narrative approaches to life-history, offered by a distinguished Hungarian philospher
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
Title | Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Alasdair MacIntyre |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2016-11-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1316820246 |
Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire and practical reasoning are to be characterized, what it is to have adequate self-knowledge, and what part narrative plays in our understanding of human lives. He asks, further, what it would be to understand the modern condition from a neo-Aristotelian or Thomistic perspective, and argues that Thomistic Aristotelianism, informed by Marx's insights, provides us with resources for constructing a contemporary politics and ethics which both enable and require us to act against modernity from within modernity. This rich and important book builds on and advances MacIntyre's thinking in ethics and moral philosophy, and will be of great interest to readers in both fields.
New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
Title | New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Burt Hopkins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2020-11-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1000106497 |
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.
The Epochal Event
Title | The Epochal Event PDF eBook |
Author | Zoltán Boldizsár Simon |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2020-07-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 303047805X |
This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings have become agents of a new kind of transformative event. The ongoing sixth mass extinction of species, the prospect of a technological singularity, and the potential crossing of planetary boundaries are expected to trigger transformations on a planetary scale that we deem catastrophic and try to avoid. In making sense of these prospects, Simon’s book sketches the rise of a new epochal thinking, introduces the epochal event as an emerging category of a renewed historical thought, and makes the case for the necessity of bringing together the work of the human and the natural sciences in developing knowledge of a more-than-human world.
THE WILD TURKEY IN VIRGINIA; LIFE HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT.
Title | THE WILD TURKEY IN VIRGINIA; LIFE HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT. PDF eBook |
Author | HENRY SACKETT MOSBY |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1941 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Lost in the Wild
Title | Lost in the Wild PDF eBook |
Author | Cary Griffith |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2008-10-14 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0873516826 |
"True survival odysseys of two wilderness adventurers who entered the woods in search of tranquility-- but found something else entirely"--Page 4 of cover.
History in Times of Unprecedented Change
Title | History in Times of Unprecedented Change PDF eBook |
Author | Zoltán Boldizsár Simon |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2019-06-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350095060 |
Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not been appropriately explained in a coherent theory of history. In this book, Zoltán Simon argues that instead of seeing the past, the present and the future together on a temporal continuum as history, we now expect unprecedented change to happen in the future (in visions of the future of technology, ecology and nuclear warfare) and we look at the past by assuming that such changes have already happened. This radical theory of history challenges narrative conceptualizations of history which assume a past potential of humanity unfolding over time to reach future fulfillment and seeks new ways of conceptualizing the altered socio-cultural concerns Western societies are currently facing. By creating a novel set of concepts to make sense of our altered historical condition regarding both history understood as the course of human affairs and historical writing, History in Times of Unprecedented Change offers a highly original and engaging take on the state of history and historical theory in the present and beyond.