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Michael Dummett’s new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished …
This has to be the profoundest philosophical work on truth and meaning in general. It's exceedingly difficult, though.
Professor Erwin Panofsky’s study, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, captured and holds an eminent place in …
The paradigmatic work that demonstrates the methods of Warburg (or Hamburg) School of Art History, and more broadly, iconology and iconography. In conjunction with Vienna School's method and the Neo-Kantian theoretical background of the German countries from WWI to WWII, human culture is for the first time genuinely treated as a unified system, fulfilling the long march of German symbolic theology and German philosophy from Origen and Augustine of Hippo's theological anthropology, to Joachim of Fiore to Meister Eckhart and Jakob Boehme, to Giambattista Vico, to Herder, to Kant's philosophical anthropology, and to Goethe, to Hegel, and finally to Dilthey and Rickert, in its yearning for true inwardness and the self-knowledge of the depth of human - Imago Dei - spirit.
Considered one of Jung's most controversial works, Answer to Job also stands as Jung's most …
This is from a theological point of view the most profound and difficult of Jung's works. And since it is from a theological point of view, it follows that it is the most profound and difficult of Jung's works.
Jung's reading of "the Job question" is extremely controversial and problematic, but in the final chapters, when he becomes to argue for the significance of Marian dogma and Pius XII's promulgation of the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, "minds are gonna blow". Jung indicates how Religion in work functions.
People tend to focus on Jung's reading of the divine drama that is related to theodicy, rather than the Marian dogma he defends in the final chapters. This is a grave mistake, since the metaphysics is in the latter, while his (anti-)"theodicy" is merely a hermenuetic attempt in the guise of psychoanalysis.
Considered one of Jung's most controversial works, Answer to Job also stands as Jung's most extensive commentary on a biblical …
Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the author attempts to create a world-view which brings …
While my little essay A Brief Remark on the Actual Thoughts of C. G. Jung: Human Participation in the Creation tries to make sense of Jungian thoughts, this book, without actually arguing for it philosophically (hence, it may come as lack of rigor and conceptual clarity), gives a most - if not the most - compact exposition of the core of Jungian thoughts from a more purely Jungian point of view. Correctly, and plainly, Edinger shows that, the actual thoughts of Jung isn't really about archetype classifications and vague thoughts about the transformations of archetype, but the generation and transformation of consciousness.
The book is written for a wide audience, so there are some "popular", New-Age-ish passages. Some people may not really like the quasi-utilitarian naive-eudaimonistic point of departure that Edinger takes. Furthermore it doesn't venture further to the metaphysical, and doesn't argue that creation of consciousness is actually the …
While my little essay A Brief Remark on the Actual Thoughts of C. G. Jung: Human Participation in the Creation tries to make sense of Jungian thoughts, this book, without actually arguing for it philosophically (hence, it may come as lack of rigor and conceptual clarity), gives a most - if not the most - compact exposition of the core of Jungian thoughts from a more purely Jungian point of view. Correctly, and plainly, Edinger shows that, the actual thoughts of Jung isn't really about archetype classifications and vague thoughts about the transformations of archetype, but the generation and transformation of consciousness.
The book is written for a wide audience, so there are some "popular", New-Age-ish passages. Some people may not really like the quasi-utilitarian naive-eudaimonistic point of departure that Edinger takes. Furthermore it doesn't venture further to the metaphysical, and doesn't argue that creation of consciousness is actually the creation of the ontological real so that the full-blown (modern) Schellingian nature of Jungian thoughts is made clear. Nevertheless it is still a good read.
Jungian thoughts should still be understood by actually peeking into Jung's writings: the last chapters of his autobiography, Aion, and the opening and several closing chapters Answer to Job. It is also a shame that Jungians are in general not good philosophers, and certainly not good metaphysicians, more or less due to Jung's holding on to Kantianism in order to remain scientific, since it is not psychology but metaphysics that Jung actually inherited as the culminating figure who found the way to the final confines of German Romanticism.
Cassirer's two essays on Rousseau, Kant, and Goethe are large in everything but size. Read sympathetically, and with an eye …
In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in the great cities of …
Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the industry's unparalleled, award-winning reference. With over 1,400 high-quality images throughout, this visually stunning …
Here is a new edition of Donald Preziosi's masterful selection of the most influential and …
Oftentimes history of criticism is a better source for history of ideas than history per se since criticism reflects the meta-historical consciousness of the age. This assemblage of articles, while certainly not complete, is an excellent map that charts possible historical narratives of art history, which are points of departure.
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most …
In Contradiction advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that flies in the face …
In Contradiction advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view …
Mind-blowing book, but with some sloppiness regarding tertium non datur.
To the medieval thinker, man was the center of creation and all of nature existed …
This immensely influential work of Edwin Arthur Burtt, who influenced Koyre, and thus Kuhn, and virtually all philosophy of sciences, has many merits, but it is, not merely as a truism, not without great deficiencies.
The crucial deficiency is that it is the origin of this absurd humanist scholarss and students' aversion to "the mathematical". It is as if the mathematization of the world led to a false metaphysics, while those who condemn this very mathematization knows virtually nothing about mathematics. For them mathematics, instead of a general science of structural form and their relations, is a science of quantity and figures.
Another deficiency is its naivety as to the proposed solutions. A commen-sense Aristotelian form of metaphysics is, if not directly called for, implicitly suggested. Burtt finished the book in 1925, and in 1926 the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics was put forward, unfortunately for him, so while many …
This immensely influential work of Edwin Arthur Burtt, who influenced Koyre, and thus Kuhn, and virtually all philosophy of sciences, has many merits, but it is, not merely as a truism, not without great deficiencies.
The crucial deficiency is that it is the origin of this absurd humanist scholarss and students' aversion to "the mathematical". It is as if the mathematization of the world led to a false metaphysics, while those who condemn this very mathematization knows virtually nothing about mathematics. For them mathematics, instead of a general science of structural form and their relations, is a science of quantity and figures.
Another deficiency is its naivety as to the proposed solutions. A commen-sense Aristotelian form of metaphysics is, if not directly called for, implicitly suggested. Burtt finished the book in 1925, and in 1926 the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics was put forward, unfortunately for him, so while many of his analyses and rejections to the Newtonian metaphysics is trenchant, valid and to the point, his proposed solutions are tremendously naive in hindsight. His critique of forms of "wild" idealism became quite unfounded, which is still unnoticed by many of his readers, especially those who do not continue the journey to engage with modern philosophy of sciences and tackle the real problems of metaphysics, but rather, being convinced by Burtt's rhetoric, becomes unrestrained in their frank ignorance.
The first and the concluding chapters are really worth reading, but the concluding chapter is for those with a critical mind who is responsible enough to force himself to learn modern science and contemporary mathematics before he participates in the stupid marches of those humanity scholars in their ignorance.
A panoramic survey of the vast spectrum of modern and contemporary mathematics and the new …
Good insights, but, for those familiar with pragmaticism and category theory and various issues in foundation, proof theory, etc. the perspective isn't new. Some chapters are rather like introductions to works of seminal contemporary mathematicians with flowery language.
While the book is rather about what future philosophy of mathematics should do, a call to a re-orientation of philosophy of mathematics, it is the rediscovery of Albert Lautman and indication of his unique modern Platonistic metaphysics implicitly present is of pivotal importance, at least for me. The extreme structuralization in contemporary mathematics and its power of organization indicates a brand-new schema for a new version of Pythagoreanism and thus a new version of Platonism to be founded. This should be an ambitious and fruitful project.
Becomes repetitive and pointless when it goes to the end. Again, for those with enough background, an 50-pages essay should have been sufficient.
