Philosophy and Religion
G. W. F. Hegel
The Philosophical System
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, perhaps the most influential of all German philosophers, made one of the last great attempts to develop philosophy as an all-embracing scientific system. This system places Hegel among the "classical" philosophers—Aristotle, Aquinas, Spinoza—who also attempted to build grand conceptual edifices.…
Hegel’s Phenomenology, Part 2
The Evolution of Ethical and Religious Consciousness to the Absolute Standpoint
The publication in 1807 of Georg Wilhelm Frederich Hegel's Phanomenologie des Geistes (translated alternately as “Phenomenology of Mind” or “Phenomenology of Spirit”) marked the beginning of the modern era in philosophy.…
Heidegger and Whitehead
A Phenomenological Examination into the Intelligibility of Experience
Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time can be broadly termed a transcendental inquiry into the structures that make human experience possible. Such an inquiry reveals the conditions that render human experience intelligible.…
The History of Islam in Africa
Edited by Nehemia Levtzion and Randall Pouwels
The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History of Islam in Africa presents a detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of this significant presence on a continent-wide scale.…
Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity
A Response to the Linguistic-Pragmatic Critique
By Dan Zahavi
Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity analyzes the transcendental relevance of intersubjectivity and argues that an intersubjective transformation of transcendental philosophy can already be found in phenomenology, especially in Husserl.…
Introduction To Hegel
Stages of Modern Philosophy
In a sense it would be inappropriate to speak of “Hegel’s system of philosophy,” because Hegel thought that in the strict sense there is only one system of philosophy evolving in the Western world.…
Investigations in Philosophy of Space
The central contribution of Ströker’s investigations is a careful and strict analysis of the relationship between experienced space, Euclidean space, and non-Euclidean spaces. Her study begins with the question of experienced space, inclusive of mood space, space of action and perception, of practical activities and bodily orientations, and ends with the controversies of the proponents of geometric and mathematical understanding of space.…
Kant’s Methodology
An Essay in Philosophical Archeology
Kant's revolution in methodology limited metaphysics to the conditions of possible experience. Since, following Hume, analysis—the "method of discovery" in early modern physics—could no longer ground itself in sense or in God's constituting reason a new arché , "origin" and "principle," was required, which Kant found in the synthesis of the productive imagination, the common root of sensibility and understanding.…
Light Shineth In Darkness
An Essay In Christian Ethics And Social Philosophy
By S.L. Frank
Russian philosopher S. L. Frank here examines the unceasing struggle between good and evil within the limits of this world. Frank combines an interpretation of his life-experience in the light of his Christian faith with his overall philosophical intuition of metaphysical realism.…
The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, 1799-1999 – On Sale
Historical Essays in Celebration of the Bicentenary of the LMS in Southern Africa
Edited by John de Gruchy
Compiled to mark the bicentenary of the London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, this volume provides an assessment of the work and legacy of the Society, which played a critical role in the politics and societies of the subcontinent and whose leading figure—like David Livingstone, Robert Moffat, and John Phili—were major historical actors in their day.…
Merleau-Ponty and Derrida – On Sale
Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity
While there have been many essays devoted to comparing the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty with that of Jacques Derrida, there has been no sustained book-length treatment of these two French philosophers.…
Monad and Thou
Phenomenological Ontology of Human Being
The genesis for this volume was in the bombing of Japan during World War II, where the author, as a young boy, watched the bombers overhead, speculating about the lives of the pilots and their relationship with those huddled on the ground.…
Moral Philosophy and Development
The Human Condition in Africa
By Tedros Kiros
Although development issues generally have been considered in a framework of economic theory and politics, in this volume Tedros Kiros looks to European ideas of moral philosophy to explain the underdevelopment of Africa and the persistent African food crisis.…
Nietzsche and Emerson
An Elective Affinity
George J. Stack traces the sources of ideas and theories that have long been considered the exclusive province of Friedrich Nietzsche to the surprisingly radical writings of the American essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.…
Ontology of the Work of Art
The Musical Work, The Picture, The Architectural Work, The Film
In these studies Roman Ingarden investigates the nature and mode of being of four kinds of art works: the musical work, the picture, the architectural work, and the film. He establishes that the work of art is a purely intentional object but considers also its connections to the real world.…
Order in the Twilight – On Sale
In this seminal work, acclaimed philosopher Bernhard Waldenfels deals with the problem of the nature of order after the "shattering of the world," and the loss of the idea of a universal or fundamental order.…
Philosophical Perspectives On Peace
Anthology of Classical & Modern Sources
Philosophizing about peace has been a consistent occupation of major figures in the history of philosophy and letters since the Middle Ages. Immanuel Kant’s Eternal Peace is well-known and is still being widely studied.…
Placing Aesthetics
Reflections on the Philosophic Tradition
Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker's philosophy.…
