In Is Philosophy Androcentric? , Iddo Landau contends that none of the arguments for viewing philosophy as pervasively androcentric ultimately stand up to rational scrutiny, while the ones that show it to be nonpervasively androcentric do not undermine it in the way that many critics have supposed. “Philosophy emerges, in almost all of its parts,” he concludes, “as human rather than male, and most parts and aspects ...
In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato’s political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato’s theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be seen as having the potential for contributing to democratic discourse about ethics and politics today. The author argues tha ...
The Symposium is one of Plato’s most accessible dialogues, an engrossing historical document as well as an entertaining literary masterpiece. By uncovering the structural design of the dialogue, Plato’s Dialectic at Play aims at revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely ornamentation or philosophical methodology but the essence of philosophical exploration. His dialectic is not only argument; it is als ...
Plato (428 – 347 B.C.) is one of the founding fathers of Philosophy. His work, Symposium, is a philosophical dialog between notable men of Greek history. It is considered both a philosophical and literary classic. ...
В мире уж почти не осталось тех, кто не слышал бы о нашей, так сказать, "многослойности". Человека дробили и на четыре оболочки, и на пять тонких тел, и на семь никому неведомых субстанций. И самое интересное во всём этом дроблении – это то, что тенденция эта всё никак не смолкает. От эзотерики, традиция деления сместилась к психологии, а от той, простёрлась во все соседствующие с ней дисциплины, в том числе в философию и историю. Этот историосо ...
Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding examines the loneliness that remains at work in modern life even as we find ourselves increasingly interconnected. While much has been said about this experience in the main currents of continental philosophy, this book opens new paths within this discourse by developing the problem of loneliness in a political register. The central claim of this book is that neoliberal subjectivity has ren ...
Reaganism is a discourse of devotion and disqualification, combining a neoliberal negative theology of the market with a neoconservative demonization of opponents. Reagan’s personality cult shelters the aggressivity of a war of all against all by representing the market as a moralistic standard of perfection, a representation of goodness and freedom. In literary theory and criticism, a homologous valuative system centered itself on the canon, re ...
