Philosophische Untersuchungen

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Jorge Eduardo Rivera

Serie de ensayos escritos en los que el autor expone algunos puntos fundamentales de la filosofía de Heidegger y de la metafísica de Zubiri, despejando prejuicios construidos en torno a dos filósofos que representan el pensamiento vivo inaugurado por Parménides, Heráclito, Platón y Aristóteles. Al mismo tiempo, deja planteada la posibilidad de explorar los pensamientos de Heidegger que Zubiri asume y transforma estableciendo una conexión entre el concepto heideggeriano de "ser mismo" y el de "realidad" que desarrollará más tarde el filósofo español. El autor es Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Heidelberg, Alemania. Profesor Titular asociado de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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Alain Badiou

Twenty years ago, Alain Badiou's first Manifesto for Philosophy rose up against the all-pervasive proclamation of the "end" of philosophy. In lieu of this problematic of the end, he put forward the watchword: "one more step". The situation has considerably changed since then. Philosophy was threatened with obliteration at the time, whereas today it finds itself under threat for the diametrically opposed reason: it is endowed with an excessive, artificial existence. "Philosophy" is everywhere. It serves as a trademark for various media pundits. It livens up cafe s and health clubs. It has its magazines and its gurus. It is universally called upon, by everything from banks to major state commissions, to pronounce on ethics, law and duty. In essence, "philosophy" has now come to stand for nothing other than its most ancient enemy: conservative ethics. Badiou's second manifesto therefore seeks to demoralize philosophy and to separate it from all those "philosophies" that are as servile as they are ubiquitous. It demonstrates the power of certain eternal truths to illuminate action and, as such, to transport philosophy far beyond the figure of "the human" and its "rights". There, well beyond all moralism, in the clear expanse of the idea, life becomes something radically other than survival. -- Cover.

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Sarah Sawyer

"In this book, a group of innovative young philosophers working in philosophy of language present an invigorating examination of some of the seminal issues in the field"--Provided by publisher.

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R. A. Herrera

"Reasons for Our Rhymes provides a chronological overview of the major philosophical approaches to human history. R. A. Herrera clearly presents the ideas and influence of key figures from the past two thousand years - from St. Augustine and Joachim to Bossuet and Vico, from Hegel and Marx to Soloviev and Berdyaev - showing how each of these thinkers initiated a new paradigm for our understanding of the meaning of history."--BOOK JACKET.