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All Or Nothing

Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism

By: Paul W. Franks

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Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism

By: Paul W. Franks

Interest in German Idealism--not just Kant, but Fichte and Hegel as well--has recently developed within analytic philosophy, which traditionally defined itself in opposition to the Idealist tradition. Yet one obstacle remains especially intractable: the Idealists' longstanding claim that philosophy must be systematic. In this work, the first overview of the German Idealism that is both conceptual and methodological, Paul W. Franks offers a philosophical reconstruction that is true to the movement's own times and resources and, at the same time, deeply relevant to contemporary thought. At the center of the book are some neglected but critical questions about German Idealism: Why do Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel think that philosophy's main task is the construction of a system? Why do they think that every part of this system must derive from a single, immanent and absolute principle? Why, in short, must it be all or nothing? Through close examination of the major Idealists as well as the overlooked figures who influenced their reading of Kant, Franks explores the common ground and divergences between the philosophical problems that motivated Kant and those that, in turn, motivated the Idealists. The result is a characterization of German Idealism that reveals its sources as well as its pertinence--and its challenge--to contemporary philosophical naturalism.

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Harvard University Press

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0674018885

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Cultural Disjunctions

Post-Traditional Jewish Identities

By: Paul Mendes-Flohr

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Cultural Disjunctions

Post-Traditional Jewish Identities

By: Paul Mendes-Flohr

Contemporary Jews variously configure their identity, which is no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish. They are affiliated with many communities-vocational, professional, political, and cultural-whose interests may not coincide with that of the community of their birth and inherited culture. In Cultural Disjunctions, Paul Mendes-Flohr explores the possibility of a spiritually and intellectually engaged cosmopolitan Jewish identity for our time. To ground this project, he draws on the sociology of knowledge and cultural hermeneutics to reflect on the need to participate in the life of a community so that it enables multiple relations beyond its borders and allows one to balance a commitment to the local and a genuine obligation to the universal. Over the course of six provocative chapters, Mendes-Flohr lays out what this delicate balance can look like for contemporary Jews, both in the Diaspora and in Israel. Mendes-Flohr takes us through the ghettos of twentieth-century Europe, the differences between the personal libraries of traditional and secular Jews, and the role of cultural memory. Ultimately, the author calls for Jews to remain discontent with themselves (as a check on hubris), but also discontent with the social and political order, and to fight for its betterment"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022678486X

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9780226784861

All Or Nothing

Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism

By: Paul W. Franks,Assistant Professor of Philosophy Paul W Franks

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Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism

By: Paul W. Franks,Assistant Professor of Philosophy Paul W Franks

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International Environmental Policy

From the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century

By: Lynton Keith Caldwell,Paul Stanley Weiland

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International Environmental Policy

From the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century

By: Lynton Keith Caldwell,Paul Stanley Weiland

In this newly revised and expanded edition of the award-winning International Environmental Policy, Lynton Keith Caldwell updates his comprehensive survey of the global international movement for protection of the environment. Serving as a history of international cooperation on environmental issues, this book focuses primarily on the development of international agreements and institutional arrangements--both governmental and nongovernmental--along with the impact of science, technology, trade, and communication on environmental policy. With implications for multinational commerce, population policy, agriculture, energy issues, biological and cultural diversity, transnational equity, ideology, and education, this book takes a broad view of the policy outcomes of what may be the most important social movement of the 20th century, and addresses the events and politics that have significantly affected the movement over the last twenty years and will continue to affect it into the next century.

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500

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Duke University Press

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0822318660

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Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism

The Enchantment of the Public Sphere

By: Paul Egan Nahme

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Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism

The Enchantment of the Public Sphere

By: Paul Egan Nahme

Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) is often held to be one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the nineteenth century. Paul E. Nahme, in this new consideration of Cohen, liberalism, and religion, emphasizes the idea of enchantment, or the faith in and commitment to ideas, reason, and critique—the animating spirits that move society forward. Nahme views Cohen through the lenses of the crises of Imperial Germany—the rise of antisemitism, nationalism, and secularization—to come to a greater understanding of liberalism, its Protestant and Jewish roots, and the spirits of modernity and tradition that form its foundation. Nahme's philosophical and historical retelling of the story of Cohen and his spiritual investment in liberal theology present a strong argument for religious pluralism and public reason in a world rife with populism, identity politics, and conspiracy theories.

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Indiana University Press

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0253039789

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Book's by Paul W. Franks

All Or Nothing

All Or Nothing

Cultural Disjunctions

Cultural Disjunctions

All Or Nothing

All Or Nothing

International Environmental Policy

International Environmental Policy

Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism

Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism

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