Philosophy : Movements

From the ninth to the fifteenth centuries Jewish thinkers, influenced by Islamic theological speculation, classical philosophers and Christian Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, philosophized about Judaism. The essays in this comprehensive Companion present all the major Jewish thinkers of the period and the philosophical and non-philosophical contexts of their thoughts. more...

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A comprehensive guide to phenomenology and the major philosophers who shaped the movement: Brentano, Tardowski, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, Adorno and Arendt. more...

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Examining key environmentalist ideas within their social and historical context, this book analyses the diverse views within the science/nature debate ,addresses questions of social change and suggests how to establish the desired ecological society. more...

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In the New Approaches to European History series, this title provides an inter-disciplinary study of the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. James Melton's lucid and accessible account will be of interest to students of social and political history, literary studies, political theory, and the history of women. more...

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De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia ) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book, originally written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Despite modern connotations of the word "utopia," it is widely accepted that the society More describes in this work was not actually his own "perfect society." Rather he wished to use the contrast between the imaginary land's unusual political ideas and the chaotic politics of his own day as a platform from which to discuss social issues in Europe. What probably first suggested the idea for Utopia to Thomas More was his work with Erasmus, when they jointly translated some of Lucian's works from Greek into Latin. Among these dialogues, one involved the story of Menippus, the Greek playwright, descending into the underworld and describing what he found there. The other significant influence was Plato's Republic, which is a far more politically motivated work about imaginary lands; it is referred to several times in Utopia. [Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29] more...

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