Philosophical Hermeneutics
10 best books like Philosophical Hermeneutics (Hans-Georg Gadamer): Politics, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Complete Poems and Translations, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy), The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change, Oneself as Another, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: Conversation with Jacques Derrida
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0486414248 |
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...
Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
| Author | Geneen Roth |
| ISBN | 1416543074 |
Roth began exploring emotional eating in her bestseller When Food Is Love. Now, two decades later, here is her masterwork: WOMEN FOOD AND GOD.
The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated or wise or enlightened you believe you...
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0143104950 |
The poetry gets five stars, but the edition only gets two. With modernized spelling but no notes or context, Marlowe's translations of Ovid's Elegies and of Lucan's First Book are especially difficult to understand. This slim, inexpensive book (Dover Thrift Editions) might be useful if you already...
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0312425708 |
The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their choosing. Attended by thousands, Foucault's lectures were seminal events in the world of French letters, and his ideas...
| Author | Jacques Lacan |
| ISBN | 0393307093 |
What a relief! To know that nothing and no one depend on me to be the lone persuasive English voice exhorting you to read this! I don't have to prove anything, least of all that I have--first--completely understood and--second--can readily illuminate for you every shadowy nuance of Lacan, both within...
For anyone who wants to see what the third division of S&Z was supposed to be about. This book contains what was projected to be division iii, where Heidegger was supposed to take a more in depth approach as far as the destruktion of Kantian existence as position, existence as substance as posited...
| Author | Randall Collins |
| ISBN | 0674001877 |
Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought in China, Japan, India, ancient Greece, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a general theory of intellectual...
| Author | Paul Ricœur |
| ISBN | 0226713296 |
Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics," substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals.
Focusing on the concept of personal identity, Ricoeur...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0823217558 |
Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence...
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521344 |
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0805202412 |
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...
