foundations introduction philosophical contemporaries

books:

Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections, and Replies (Science & Its Conceptual Foundations)

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

Before publishing his landmark Meditations in 1641, Rene Descartes sent his manuscript to many leading thinkers to solicit their objections to his arguments. He included these objections, along with his own detailed replies, as part of the first edition. This unusual strategy gave Descartes a chance to address criticisms in advance and to demonstrate his willingness to consider diverse viewpoints—critical in an age when radical ideas ...

Apology for Raymond Sebond

2 reviews
Michel De Montaigne

Hackett Publishing Company, 2003

Anything But ... The Apology for Raymond Sebond
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) was never famous for staying on topic. The titles of his essays, and this book is his longest essay, are pretexts for writing about what interested him at the time. If you don't know any more about Raymond Sebond after reading this essay than you did before, don't worry about it! If you gave it a slow, thoughtful read, you have experienced one of the ...

Dreadful freedom,: A critique of existentialism,

1 review
Marjorie Glicksman Grene

University Of Chicago Press, 1957

An excellent introduction
This book by Marjorie Grene, available under another title of 'Introduction to Existentialism', provides in a very short space an excellent introduction to the basic thinking of existentialism, a philosophy that has its beginnings in the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, and may be considered one of the greatest schools of philosophy for the twentieth ...

The knower and the known (Campus)

1 review
Marjorie Glicksman Grene

University of California Press, 1974

Good Historical Comparative Analysis of knowing
Grene is a good writer with a great mind and takes command of her subject matter. A great text that explores the grappling of former philosophers with the idea of knowing the real world. If you have a modicum of philosophical history and an appreciation for the struggle to explore epistemology, then this text is highly recommended. Marjorie Grene is the philosopher behind Michael Polanyi's opus ...

A Philosophical Testament

1 review
Marjorie Glicksman Grene

Open Court Publishing Company, 1995

Home Cooked Philosophy.
Professor Grene is a charming companion, witty, clear and unassuming in her prose. This is quite an achievement when her subject matter concerns nothing less than the most intractable epistemological and metaphysical issues in the history of Western thought and such figures as Kant, Heidegger (with whom she studied as a very young woman), and Jaspers (with whom she also studied). Her life stories ...

Introduction to existentialism

2 reviews
Marjorie Glicksman Grene

University Of Chicago Press, 1948

An excellent introduction
This book by Marjorie Grene, available under another title of 'Dreadful Freedom', provides in a very short space an excellent introduction to the basic thinking of existentialism, a philosophy that has its beginnings in the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, and may be considered one of the greatest schools of philosophy for the twentieth century. Grene ...

Philosophy in and out of Europe
Marjorie Glicksman Grene

University of California Press, 1976

Treats, in retrospect and prospect, dominant themes and main currents in twentieth century philosophy, such as the European sources of Anglo-American philosophy, Continental philosophy in America, and German and French Existentialism. Special attention is directed toward Heidegger, Jaspers, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and their crucial ideas. Originally published in 1976 by the University of California Press. Co-published by arrangement with the ...

A portrait of Aristotle
Marjorie Glicksman Grene

University Of Chicago Press, 1964

A key introduction to Aristotle, emphasizing the importance of his biological thinking to the study of his thought. Written for students and the general reader with little prior knowledge of Aristotle, this edition features a new preface by Professor Grene