[An Inquiry into Modes of Existence] is not just a book; it is also a project in interactive metaphysics. In other words, a book, plus website ... Intrigued readers of Latour's text can go online [http://www.modesofexistence.org/] and find themselves drawn into a collaborative p…
In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection o…
Petit traité de toutes vérités sur l'existence
4e de couverture: ... par son humble épaisseur, le traité bienfaisant peut tenir dans toutes les poches et se glisser, discret, puissant et délassant, dans la ceinture du pantalon, la manche du sari, la robe du Bédouin. Au moindre doute surgissant inopinément sur l'existence, il…
Tim Crane addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. He argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that to understand thought's representational power we need to unde…
The study of being was one of the main preoccupations of Gilson's scholarly and intellectual life. Being and Some Philosophers is at once a testament to the persistence of these concerns and an important landmark in the history of the question of being. The book charts the ways …
This collection is intercultural philosophy at its best. It contextualizes the global significance of the leading figures of Western phenomenology, including Husserl, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Buber and Levinas, enters them into intercultural dialogue with the Daoism of Laozi…
