From inside dust jacket: Man's Lot fuses photography and poetry, scholarship and philosophy to present a vision of the human condition.... In "Life at the Limits," all of the color photographs are of people in India while the text deals largely with the West. The final chapters compare attitudes toward extreme situations in India and in the West. The second part, "Time Is an Artist," shows us time's artistry in nature as well as time's effects on human art, including patina, torsos, and ruins. It deals critically with multimillion-dollar restoration projects and shows how different attitudes toward time are related to our attitudes toward ourselves and the past, old age, and death, widows and witches. The social implications are developed, and the epilogue bears the title "Old is Beautiful." The last part, "What Is Man?," represents the culmination of the Trilogy. The text and pictures are meant to be lived with, and the whole book is intended for continued meditation and reflection....

Man's Lot: A Trilogy

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McGraw-Hill Inc.,US

Since 1961, Philosophic Classics has provided a generation of students with an anthology of quality in the history of Western philosophy. Using complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections of works, this series allows the philosophers to speak directly to the reader. This series includes texts central to the thinker's philosophy, using the best available translations. Introductions to the readings are divided into three sections: Biographical - provides a glimpse into the life of the philosopher; Philosophical - presents a resume of the philosopher's thought; and Bibliographical - offers suggestions for further reading. In addition, drawings, photographs, and time lines help put the readings in context. In short, every effort has been made to help the reader understand the primary source materials.

Philosophic Classics, Volume V: Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Prentice Hall College Div.

From Shakespeare to Existentialism

Explores such themes as philosophy versus poetry, post-World War II German thought, art, tradition, and truth in a collection of essays.

Princeton University Press

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche's proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. More positively, he presented Nietzsche's ideas about power as one of the great accomplishments of modern philosophy, arguing that his conception of the "will to power" was not a crude apology for ruthless self-assertion but must be linked to Nietzsche's equally profound ideas about sublimation. He also presented Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology and argued that a key to understanding his overall philosophy is to see it as a reaction against Christianity. Many scholars in the past half century have taken issue with some of Kaufmann's interpretations, but the book ranks as one of the most influential accounts ever written of any major Western thinker.

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Princeton University Library

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

TEXTBOOK PUBLISHERS

Contents: Introductory note by Ronald Suter, On the Structure of Scientific Theories by Carl G. Hempel, Stimulus and Meaning by W. V. Quine, Utilitarianism by J. O. Urmson, Aesthetics as the Middle Ground by Stuart Hampshire, On the Concept of a Moral Principle by Henry David Aiken, Is there an Existential A Priori? by John Wild, The Husserlain Conception of the Intentionality of Consciousness by Aron Gurwitsch, The Phenomenon of Reason by Quentin Lauer S.J., and The Riddle of Oedipus - Tragedy and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann.

Isenberg Memorial Lecture Series 1965-1966

John WILD

W. V. QUINE

Stuart Hampshire

Carl G. Hempel

Aron Gurwitsch

J.O. Urmson

Henry David Aiken

Quentin Lauer, S. J.

Michigan State University Press

This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings. Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped by their own distinctive mentalities.
Kaufmann's version of psychohistory stays clear of gossip and is carefully documented. He offers us a radically new understanding of two centuries of intellectual history, but his primary focus is on self-knowledge. He is in a unique position to perform this task by virtue of being, according to Stephen Spender, "the best translator of Faust"; and in Sidney Hook's view, "unquestionably the most interesting and informative writer of Hegel in English."
The foremost interpreter of Kant, Lewis White Beck, has called this book on Goethe, Kant, and.Hegel "fascinating" - a work which "will stir up a good many people by telling them things they have never heard, and providing an alternative to what is the accepted reading of that part of the history of philosophy. The story of how personality affects philosophy has never been better told." We are shown how Goethe advanced the discovery of the mind more than anyone before him, while Kant was in many ways a disaster. Hegel, like others between 1790 to 1990, tried to reconcile Kant and Goethe.
Kaufmann shows this is impossible He paints a large picture, but he is always highly specific and details the major contributions of Goethe and Hegel as well as the ways in which Kant's immense influence proved catastrophic.

Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind. Volume one.

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge

Religion From Tolstoy to Camus (Classic Reprint)

Religion & Spirituality

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Walter A. A. Kaufmann

Critica de La Religion y La Filosofia

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