Philosophy in the Modern World : A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4.
Title:
Philosophy in the Modern World : A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4.
Author:
Kenny, Anthony.
ISBN:
9780191524998
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (364 pages)
Series:
New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4 ; v.4
New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Bentham to Nietzsche -- Bentham's Utilitarianism -- The Development of John Stuart Mill -- Schopenhauer's Philosophy of the Will -- Ethics and Religion in Kierkegaard -- Dialectical Materialism -- Darwin and Natural Selection -- John Henry Newman -- Nietzsche -- 2. Peirce to Strawson -- C. S. Peirce and Pragmatism -- The Logicism of Frege -- Psychology and Pragmatism in William James -- British Idealism and its Critics -- Russell on Mathematics, Logic, and Language -- Wittgenstein's Tractatus -- Logical Positivism -- Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy -- Analytic Philosophy after Wittgenstein -- 3. Freud to Derrida -- Freud and Psychoanalysis -- Husserl's Phenomenology -- The Existentialism of Heidegger -- The Existentialism of Sartre -- Jacques Derrida -- 4. Logic -- Mill's Empiricist Logic -- Frege's Refoundation of Logic -- Induction and Abduction in Peirce -- The Saga of Principia Mathematica -- Modern Modal Logic -- 5. Language -- Frege on Sense and Reference -- The Pragmatists on Language and Truth -- Russell's Theory of Descriptions -- The Picture Theory of the Proposition -- Language-Games and Private Languages -- 6. Epistemology -- Two Eloquent Empiricists -- Peirce on the Methods of Science -- Frege on Logic, Psychology, and Epistemology -- Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description -- Husserl's Epoche -- Wittgenstein on Certainty -- 7. Metaphysics -- Varieties of Idealism -- Metaphysics and Teleology -- Realism vs. Nominalism -- First, Second, and Third in Peirce -- The Metaphysics of Logical Atomism -- Bad and Good Metaphysics -- 8. Philosophy of Mind -- Bentham on Intention and Motive -- Reason, Understanding, and Will -- Experimental vs. Philosophical Psychology -- The Freudian Unconscious -- Philosophical Psychology in the Tractatus -- Intentionality -- Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mind.
9. Ethics -- The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number -- Modifications of Utilitarianism -- Schopenhauer on Renunciation -- The Moral Ascent in Kierkegaard -- Nietzsche and the Transvaluation of Values -- Analytic Ethics -- 10. Aesthetics -- The Beautiful and the Sublime -- The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard on Music -- Nietzsche on Tragedy -- Art and Morality -- Art for Art's Sake -- 11. Political Philosophy -- Utilitarianism and Liberalism -- Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer on Women -- Marx on Capital and Labour -- Closed and Open Societies -- 12. God -- Faith vs. Alienation -- The Theism of John Stuart Mill -- Creation and Evolution -- Newman's Philosophy of Religion -- The Death of God and the Survival of Religion -- Freud on Religious Illusion -- Philosophical Theology after Wittgenstein -- Chronology -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Alongside extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have transformed our understanding of ourselves and our world. Kenny introduces the ideas of such extraordinary thinkers as Schopenhauer,. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Russell; the narrative is illuminated by a selection of intriguing and beautiful illustrations. Philosophy in the Modern World is the fourth and final volume of Kenny's magisterial New History of Western Philosophy. - ;Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have transformed our understanding of ourselves and our world. In the first part of the. book Kenny offers a lively narrative introducing the major thinkers in their historical context. He then proceeds to guide the reader lucidly through the nine main areas of philosophical work in the period, offering a serious engagement with the ideas and arguments. Among those we meet are the great. figures of continental European philosophy, from Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche to Heidegger and Sartre; the Pragmatists who first developed a distinctively American philosophical tradition; Marx, Darwin, and Freud, the non-philosophers whose influence on philosophy was immense; Wittgenstein and Russell,
friends and colleagues who set the agenda for analytic philosophy in the twentieth century. Philosophy in the Modern World brings to completion Kenny's magisterial New History of Western Philosophy. The four volumes have been designed to dovetail with each other: they offer a unified overview of the entire development of philosophy, allowing readers to trace themes through the centuries, from antiquity to the present day. The story is illuminated by a selection of intriguing and beautiful illustrations. - ;An enviable combination of authority and page-turning readability. - Anthony Freeman, THES;Both scholarly and accessible... a fine choice not only for those with a background in philosophy but for those new to the subject. - Library Journal USA.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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