'Philosophy'

© Fabian Freyenhagen, 2013. Adorno notoriously asserted that there is no 'right' life in our current social world. This assertion has contributed to the widespread perception that his philosophy has no practical import or coherent ethics, and he is ...

A wide-ranging survey of the problems and thinkers dominating today's philosophical discourse. In this book Peter Dews explores some of the most urgent problems confronting contemporary European thought: the status of the subject after postmodernism, ...

© 2011 Taylor & Francis. Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and ...

For post-Kantian philosophy, ?life? is a transitory concept that relates the realm of nature to the realm of freedom. From this vantage point, the living seems to have the double character of being both already and not yet free: Compared with the ...

In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato?s distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and ethical inquiry. In particular, McNeill ...