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One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and The Bauhaus poses some …
The forty-nine papers collected here illuminate the meaning of quantum theory as it is disclosed in the measurement process. Together …
This book has emerged from a meeting held during the week of May 29 to June 2, 1989, at St. …
Pendragon Press is proud to offer this new, revised, and expanded edition of Formalized Music, Iannis Xenakis's landmark book of …
This book is based on material taught to final-year physics undergraduates as part of the …
One of the best, without pointless murmuring on how to solve the Schroedinger equation and etc., but maybe too conceptual. Suitable for philosophers.
Frederick C. Beiser tells the story of the emergence of neo-Kantianism from the late 1790s until the 1880s. He focuses …
This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) has been made even more comprehensive …
Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the …
The Early Romantics met resistance from artists and academics alike in part because they defied the conventional wisdom that philosophy …
This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous …
Bibliophile, scholar, founder of what would become the Warburg Institute, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ranks as one of the most original …
A modern translation of J. G. Fichte's best known philosophical work (including his two explanatory Introductions), which contributed to the …
Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity examines the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, …
The overall direction is not wrong: The Concept of Irony truly is the central and foundational work for Kierkegaard. But the author doesn't really have that sensitivity regarding Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms, and more importantly the author's whole writing defeats the purpose of Kierkegaard's irony.
However, plainly, this is an introductory work, written for audiences without even a knowledge of Socrates, Hegel, Fichte... hence many depth cannot be revealed (granted that they can in principle be explicated), especially when the reader hasn't faced the difficulties that Kierkegaard was confronting himself.
Kierkegaard is an immensely difficult and profound thinker. He's not technically, verbally, difficult, but philosophically difficult. He has no set positions, it is in the dialectical process, in the very process of feeling, thinking, etc. that the essence of his thought lies, not in various conclusions and positions. It's ill-advised to write an introductory exposition to his thoughts, unless the …
The overall direction is not wrong: The Concept of Irony truly is the central and foundational work for Kierkegaard. But the author doesn't really have that sensitivity regarding Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms, and more importantly the author's whole writing defeats the purpose of Kierkegaard's irony.
However, plainly, this is an introductory work, written for audiences without even a knowledge of Socrates, Hegel, Fichte... hence many depth cannot be revealed (granted that they can in principle be explicated), especially when the reader hasn't faced the difficulties that Kierkegaard was confronting himself.
Kierkegaard is an immensely difficult and profound thinker. He's not technically, verbally, difficult, but philosophically difficult. He has no set positions, it is in the dialectical process, in the very process of feeling, thinking, etc. that the essence of his thought lies, not in various conclusions and positions. It's ill-advised to write an introductory exposition to his thoughts, unless the author himself is a profound thinker and a literary master. The author of this book certainly is not the case.
Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity examines the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, a unique figure, who has …
