Among those who are concerned with the relationship between the individual and social change, no psychoanalytic thinker has exercised more influence in recent years than Erik H. Erikson. This biographical assessment of his work by a younger colleague, Robert Coles, may be one of the most influential books ever written by one student of the mind about another.
This book is not addressed to beginning students in philosophy so much as it is addressed to those who, though fairly well-versed in the philosophical tradition, find themselves frankly baffled and brought up short by the writ ings of Martin Heidegger, and who-while recognizing the novelty of the Heideggerean enterprise - may sometimes find themselves wondering if this "thinking of Being" is …
The choice of the basis of metaphysics is of capital importance. This basis ought to guarantee the very existence and validity of metaphysics, while at the same time giving this science its formal object and a solid foundation. But if metaphysics is bound up with the study of a universal unity or of the totality of things and, if then, our inquiry ought to be concerned with the whole, how can w…
The issue of care serves as a critique of the agonizing situation of our civilization, but it also serves as an inspiring principle for a new paradigm of living together. This is what Boff presents in this groundbreaking new work. Boff dreams of a world that is still to come, a world where we no longer need electronic devices to overcome our solitude and fulfill the human essence of care and ki…