PIPPIN B. ROBERT

Φιλμαρισμένη σκέψη
Στον παρόντα τόμο, ο φιλόσοφος και θεωρητικός του κινηματογράφου Ρόμπερτ Πίπιν (1948) εξερευνά τους τρόπους με τους οποίους τα φιλμ φωτίζουν διάφορα ουσιώδη ζητήματα της ανθρώπινης ζωής. Η Φιλμαρισμένη Σκέψη είναι ένα βιβλίο το οποίο εξετάζει προβληματισμούς που περιστρέφονται γύρω από το ηθικό ζήτημα του status του προσώπου μέσω του Μίλα της του Πέδρο Αλμοδόβαρ, απ' την αλληλοδιαπλοκή της αγαθότητας και της αφέλειας μέσω της Σκιάς της Αμφιβολίας του Άλφρεντ Χίτσκοκ, απ' τη συσχέτιση μεταξύ των ταξικών και των ερωτικών ορίων μέσω του Όλα Ό...
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(P/B) MODERNISM AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM
Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE PERSISTENCE OF SUBJECTIVITY
The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free, reflective, self-determining subject. Since it is a relatively recent historical development that human beings think of themselves as individual centers of agency, and that one's entitlement to such a self-determining life is absolutely valuable, the issue at stake also involves the question of the historical location of philosophy. What might it mean...
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(H/B) NIETZSCHE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND FIRST PHILOSOPHY
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain readings of his work have become standard and influential. In this major new interpretation of Nietzsche's work, Robert B. Pippin challenges various traditional views of Nietzsche, taking him at his word when he says that his writing can best be understood as a kind of psychology. Pippin traces th...
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