In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher presented concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy. Written in reaction to the stultifying system of rote learning and memorisation prevalent throughout Europe in Rousseau's time, this is a utopian vision of child-centred education.
This book gives the first complete account of Emerson's metaphysics of cause and effect and its position in his philosophy as a whole. Urbas proposes an intellectual biography of Emerson the metaphysician but also the story of a concept synonymous, in the Transcendentalist period, with life itself-the principle at the origin of all being and ......
This book gives the first complete, fully historicized account of Emerson's metaphysics of cause and effect and its foundational position in his philosophy as a whole. Urbas tells the story of the making of a metaphysician and in so doing breaks with the postmodern, anti-metaphysical readings that have dominated Emerson scholarship since his ......
Geldard attends in depth to Emerson's late (Harvard) "University Lectures" to fill significant gaps in our understanding of how Emerson saw laws of mind operating in us, and present Transcendentalism as an important contribution to American philosophy.
Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.
Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics
Until now, ethicists have said little about the body, limiting their comments on it to remarks made in passing or, at best, devoting a chapter to the subject. Embodied Care is the first work to argue for the body's centrality to care ethics, doing so by analyzing our corporeality at the phenomenological level. It develops the idea that our bodies ......
Spanning over nine hundred years, Eight Women Philosophers is the first singly-authored work to trace the themes of standard philosophical theorizing and feminist thought across women philosophers in the Western tradition. Jane Duran has crafted a comprehensive overview of eight women philosophers--Hildegard of Bingen, Anne Conway, Mary Astell, ......
Critique, Theory, and Practice in Karl Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge
Situating Karl Mannheim in a tradition of critical social philosophy, Iaan Reynolds argues that Mannheim's early explorations in the sociology of knowledge offer a novel approach to this tradition since they emphasize the need for social research to cultivate the critical self-awareness of social researchers.
Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature
Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that modernism, while exhibiting many strands of ......
