The question of imaginary starts where its opposition to reality ends. Once this opposition is dismissed, it becomes possible thinking of imaginary as a mean of construction and transformation of the social reality. A series of essays - regarding the taking form of socio-anthropological environments; the collective dynamics of social integration; ......
This book presents both a new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (often similar to Ogden's, but with significant improvements) and a line-by-line guide to relevant secondary literature. Rather than arguing for any particular interpretation, it presents a variety of positions for the reader to consider.
This book explores how thinking with Alfred North Whitehead and various continental philosophers can advance ideas about sustainability and civilization writ large. Contributors employ Whitehead and one or more continental thinkers around a given topic, whether philosophical or social, to produce the dislocations necessary for generating new ......
Problem Solving Technologies provides a user friendly understanding of technological objects including what they are and how the function in our lives.
This book presents both a new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (often similar to Ogden's, but with significant improvements) and a line-by-line guide to relevant secondary literature. Rather than arguing for any particular interpretation, it presents a variety of positions for the reader to consider.
This book calls scholars to avoid the temptation to reduce philosophy into a normative discipline. The author argues that philosophy's main responsibility does not reside in changing the world, but in safeguarding sense and intelligibility against unfounded forms of skepticism.
Philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein had an enormous influence on twentieth-century philosophy. Many of his ideas have survived in the dictations and the notes taken by his students, from 1932 to 1935, through his lectures at Cambridge University. This work contains these notes, which shed light on Wittgenstein's philosophical development.
Offers an introduction to several aspects of one of the most influential schools of thought in the twentieth century. This work begins by pointing out the distinctions among the various types of analytic and linguistic philosophies, while emphasising that they arose as a response to the formerly predominant school of absolute idealism.
