TUBUH manusia, dalam berbagai bentuknya memang cuma seonggok daging dan tulang. Tetapi tatkala tubuh itu telah berpadu dengan "ruh", eksistensi manusia sebagai individu serta merta terkait dengan berbagai hal. Sebagaimana ditunjukkan Michel Foucault (1926-1984), seorang pemikir dan filsuf Perancis kenamaan abad ini, tubuh tidak saja sekedar anatomi dari aringan sel-sel yang mengandung sejuta pe…
Disusun sebagai upaya mengisi kelangkaan literatur studi ini, maka fakus utama buku ini adalah kajian etis dengan pendekatan filsafat terhadap studi komunikasi, baik sebagai ilmu (tingkat teoretis konseptual) sebagaimana yang tampak dalam bebrbagai teori, pemikiran, asumsi, dan pandangan tentang komunikasi, maupun sebagai aplikasi sebagaimana yang mewujud dalam perilaku dan tindakan berkomunika…
The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with Ecce Homo, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows him using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline. The work consists of three essays. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term …
Intellectual rebel, romantic pragmatist, aristocratic pluralist, William James was both a towering figure of the nineteenth century and a harbinger of the twentieth. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including 1,500 letters between James and his wife, acclaimed biographer Linda Simon creates an intimate portrait of this multifaceted and contradictory man. Exploring James's irrepressible famil…
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied. After publication, the Press was barely able to keep up with demand, and the book has since gone on to become one of it…
This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work and a major contribution to the leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential moral and political philosophers of our time, and these essays address topics in his thought ranging over the history of philosophy, truth, modernity …
This out- of-print classic returns, in a new paperback edition, through the Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy. Designed to serve as both a systematic account of James's development and a repository of selections from his unpublished writings, the one-volume work (which forms the basis for this new paperback edition) offers a brief and convenient sourcebook of James's thought, set forth …