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Philosophy of Antoine Arnauld
Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694) was a wide-ranging and influential thinker and one of the most important philosophical and theological figures of his time. He engaged in theological controversies, took part in philosophical correspondences, sparred with Popes and Kings, was expelled from the Sorbonne, and penned texts that would have great influence on subsequent generations of thinkers. In this book on Arnauld, the first book-length systematic study of his philosophical thought to appear in English, Eric Stencil draws on texts from throughout Arnauld's corpus to present an analysis of his philosophical thought, with chapters on method and epistemology, ontology, substance dualism, the mind-body union, ideas and perception, human freedom, modality, knowledge of God, God's nature, and the creation doctrine. His book illuminates the richness and originality of Arnauld's philosophical project and its key contributions to enlightenment-era thought.
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Pufendorf's International Political and Legal Thought
Contemporary research on the genealogy of human rights and the foundations of international law has brought renewed interest to the study of natural law in the early-modern period. German-born Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) is one of the eminent thinkers of this tradition, shaping the period's natural jurisprudence. This unique collection of essays edited by historian of political thought Peter Schr"oder fills in a gap in Pufendorf scholarship, exploring the significance of his contributions to political and legal thought on a broad scale. While many books studying Pufendorf's work are confined to one specific academic area, Pufendorf's International Political and Legal Thought is truly interdisciplinary, and the first book to substantially address the international aspect of Pufendorf's work.Ambitious and accessible, this collection is indispensable for scholars and students of intellectual history, political thought, international legal history, the Enlightenment, and political economy. With its focus on international law, Pufendorf's International Political and Legal Thought is a critical addition to the existing body of work on this renowned philosopher and jurist.
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Samuel Pufendorf and the Emergence of Economics as a Social Science
This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and political economy and was one of the most important figures in early-modern political thought. Although his work fits within the intellectual framework of natural jurisprudence, there is an argument to be made that his ideas promoted the development of economics as a distinct discipline within the social sciences.Written by participants in the 34th Heilbronn Symposion in Economics and the Social Sciences, the contributions to this volume give an overview of Pufendorf’s influence on other authors of the Enlightenment, such as Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, as well as addressing the theoretical implications of his extensive writings. Further chapters place a special focus on Pufendorf’s discussion of economic matters, such as property rights theory, price theory, taxation, and preferences and decision-making. The book concludes with analyzing Pufendorf’s influence on Adam Smith, his anticipations of elements of modern economic theory, and his impact on the history of economic thought. Providing a fresh look at one of the foundational scholars of social science, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of the history of economic thought, political economy, economic history, and political philosophy.
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Felix Hausdorff
Felix Hausdorff ist eine singuläre Erscheinung in der Geschichte der Wissenschaft. Als Mathematiker hat er die Entwicklung der modernen Mathematik des 20. Jahrhunderts wesentlich mitgeprägt. Er begründete die allgemeine Topologie als eigenständige mathematische Disziplin und bereicherte die Mengenlehre um eine Reihe grundlegender Konzepte und Resultate. Auf den von Hausdorff geschaffenen und später nach ihm benannten Maß- und Dimensionsbegriff gehen tiefgreifende Folgeentwicklungen in zahlreichen mathematischen Disziplinen zurück, die bis in die Physik hinein wirken. Diese Hausdorffschen Schöpfungen liegen auch der sogenannten Fraktaltheorie mit ihren faszinierenden Computergraphiken zugrunde. Die Vielseitigkeit von Hausdorffs Wirken zeigt auch die Tatsache, dass in der Mathematik nicht weniger als 13 Begriffe, Theoreme und Verfahren nach ihm benannt sind. Aber Hausdorff war nicht nur Mathematiker. Er war auch ein origineller philosophischer Denker, Literat und Essayist. Unter Pseudonym erschienen ein Aphorismenband, ein erkenntniskritisches Buch, ein Gedichtband, ein erfolgreiches Theaterstück und eine Reihe bemerkenswerter Essays in führenden literarischen Zeitschriften. Als Jude wurde er unter der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur zunehmend verfolgt und gedemütigt. Als die Deportation in ein Konzentrationslager unmittelbar bevorstand, nahm er sich gemeinsam mit seiner Frau und seiner Schwägerin das Leben.
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Samuel Pufendorf and the Emergence of Economics as a Social Science
This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and political economy and was one of the most important figures in early-modern political thought. Although his work fits within the intellectual framework of natural jurisprudence, there is an argument to be made that his ideas promoted the development of economics as a distinct discipline within the social sciences.Written by participants in the 34th Heilbronn Symposion in Economics and the Social Sciences, the contributions to this volume give an overview of Pufendorf’s influence on other authors of the Enlightenment, such as Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, as well as addressing the theoretical implications of his extensive writings. Further chapters place a special focus on Pufendorf’s discussion of economic matters, such as property rights theory, price theory, taxation, and preferences and decision-making. The book concludes with analyzing Pufendorf’s influence on Adam Smith, his anticipations of elements of modern economic theory, and his impact on the history of economic thought. Providing a fresh look at one of the foundational scholars of social science, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of the history of economic thought, political economy, economic history, and political philosophy.
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Political Difference and Global Normative Orders
Once considered a question of an international order based on consolidatedstatehood and homogeneous social communities within national borders, globalorder has become a question of alternative political articulations, resistancemovements, and cultural diversity, among others. This book first criticallyanalyzes the conditions for the struggles of theorizing global normative order inpolitical and IR theory. Second, to make sense of the presence of difference andpossibility for global normative order in view of the simultaneous absence of firstfoundations, the study draws on post-foundational thinking based on the seminalwork of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and Argentine political theoristErnesto Laclau. Finally, the author develops a theoretical framework for ahauntological approach to global normative order that provides an alternativeand theoretically coherent explanation for the emergence of global order. This isof interest to scholars as well as practitioners (including activists) concerned withglobal social relations, global political discourse, and the construction of globalidentity and normative order(s).
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Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences
This book proposes an original reading of Foucault's theory of the state in relation to the social sciences. In this text, Skornicki deconstructs the pseudo-obviousness in Foucauldian thought, namely that Michel Foucault's new approach in political philosophy rejects the importance of the State institution for an analysis of power relations to focus instead on the micro-relationships "coming from below" and forming a multiform and heterogeneous political field. He argues that the State is not the institutional framework from which to think about power, but is a reality with multiple political effects whose genetic history and genealogical importance must be accounted for in any critical analysis of contemporary forms of power. The author thus traces, through a history of the modern State that passes through Foucault (but is not reduced to him), paths of reflection that are crucial for our current political situation. He suggests that a fundamental contribution of Foucault's genealogical philosophy to the social sciences is the possibility of an anti-substantialist, yet positive and productive thinking of power and the State. The State is the product of a complex interweaving of phenomena, processes, theories and practices whose history must always be re-thought - and towards which many different forms of struggles are always possible and urgent to be initiated.
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Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason
For decades Foucault was mostly known for his diagnosis of modernity as a form of entrapment, both in our modes of thought and our behaviors. This book argues that Foucault's reappraisal of modernity occurs with the 1978 and 1979 lectures, in which he sketches modern power as governmentality and neoliberalism. From this perspective, Foucault’s once surprising studies on the Greeks' constitution of the ‘self’ can be seen as a continuation of his diagnosis of late modernity, and as an attempt to retrieve a form of autonomy for our modern selves. One finds in the late Foucault a postmodern conception of reason and not a destruction of reason; but this is possible only if postmodernity is seen as a critical exercise of reason in the analysis of norms.
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Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law
On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf's succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory he developed in his monumental classic On the Law of Nature and Nations (1672). His theory was the most influential natural law philosophy of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. He advanced a compelling reply to Grotius and Hobbes, and in doing so, set the intellectual problems for theorists such as Locke, Hutcheson, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith. In the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, Pufendorf sets forth a classic justification of the early modern enlightened state and of the proper relations of moral and political subjection to it. This lucid and historically sensitive translation by Michael Silverthorne, (a classicist and a specialist in Roman Law and early modern political thought) is the first since the early twentieth century. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its seventeenth-century context, summarises the main arguments, surveys recent literature on Pufendorf, and shows how Pufendorf transformed natural law theory into an independent discipline of juristic political philosophy which dominated reflection on politics until Kant.
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Nach Foucault
Auch zwei Jahrzehnte nach seinem Tod hat Michel Foucault nichts von seiner inspirierenden und irritierenden Wirkung verloren. Zwar tat sich die Pädagogik zunächst schwer mit der Rezeption seiner diskurs- und machtanalytischen Studien. Inzwischen aber ist an die Stelle anfänglicher Abwehr eine wachsende Resonanz in erziehungs- und bildungsphilosophischen Untersuchungen getreten. Foucaults eigener Intention folgend verlieren sich die hier versammelten Beiträge nicht in interpretativen Spitzfindigkeiten über das »richtige« Foucault-Verständnis, sondern knüpfen an unterschiedliche Studien Foucaults an, um den Verstrickungen von Wissen und Macht, Subjektivierung und Bildung, Erziehung und Gouvernementalität auf die Spur zu kommen.
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Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx
István Hont (1947–2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished material from an early project rewriting the history of liberty, politics and political economy from Samuel Pufendorf to Karl Marx was discovered. This book brings together seven of Hont's previously unpublished papers, providing a revolutionary intellectual history of the Marxian notion of communism and revealing its origin in seventeenth-century natural jurisprudence. Hont aspired to integrate the history and theory of politics and economics, to infuse present-day concerns with a knowledge of past events and theoretical responses. The essays selected for this volume realise Hont's historical imagination, range and intellectual ambition, exploring his belief that Marxism ought to be abandoned and explaining how to do it.
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Felix Hausdorff - Gesammelte Werke Band VII
Band VII der Hausdorff Edition widmet sich dem philosophischen Werk F. Hausdorffs. Der Band enthält den Aphorismenband "Sant' Ilario. Gedanken aus der Landschaft Zarathustras", das erkenntniskritische Buch "Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese" sowie drei bemerkenswerte Essays über Nietzsches Werke - alle unter dem Pseudonym Paul Mongré veröffentlicht. Die beiden Bücher werden sehr eingehend kommentiert. In einer historischen Einführung des Herausgebers wird Hausdorffs philosophisches Werk in die Geschichte des philosophischen Denkens eingeordnet.
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Foucault and the Modern International
This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary world-'international', 'neoliberal', 'biopolitical' and 'global'- and thus fill significant gaps in both international and Foucault studies. The chapters discuss what a Foucauldian perspective does or does not offer for understanding international phenomena while also questioning many appropriations of Foucault's work. This transdisciplinary volume will serve as a reference for both scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, political theory/philosophy and critical theory more generally.
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Felix Hausdorff - Gesammelte Werke Band IV
Felix Hausdorff gehört zu den herausragenden Mathematikern der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Gesamtausgabe seiner Werke galt lange als Desideratum. Die auf 8 Bände veranschlagte Edition wird Hausdorffs gesamtes publiziertes Opus enthalten, ferner eine Reihe bemerkenswerter Stücke aus dem umfangreichen wissenschaftlichen Nachlaß. Alle Texte werden von Fachleuten auf den einzelnen Gebieten sorgfältig kommentiert; an dieser Arbeit sind mehr als 20 Mathematiker, Mathematikhistoriker, Astronomen, Philosophen und Literaturwissenschaftler aus vier Staaten beteiligt. Der vorliegende Band IV enthält Hausdorffs Arbeiten zur Analysis, Algebra und Zahlentheorie, darunter die klassischen auch heute noch vielzitierten Texte zu Hausdorff-Maß und Hausdorff-Dimension und zum Hausdorffschen Kugelparadoxon. Aus dem Nachlaß werden 19 Faszikel publiziert, ferner einige interessante Briefe.
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