Topical Study -- The Pragmatic Test of the Ontopoeisis of Life -- Phenomenologists' Vocation in the World of Life -- “Phenomenology of Life” as Chance for Philosophy’s Transformation into a New Humanism -- The Meaning of Life vis-à-vis the Challenges of the Present-Day World -- The Transcendental-Phenomenological Meaning of the Notion of “Experience” in E. Husserl and J. Dewey’s Ph…
Scholastics and Neo-Scholastics -- Sources and Authorities for Moral Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Thomas Aquinas and Jean Buridan on Aristotle’s Ethics -- Action, Will and Law in Late Scholasticism -- Michael Baius (1513-89) and the Debate on ‘Pure Nature’: Grace and Moral Agency in Sixteenth-Century Scholasticism -- On the Anatomy of Probabilism -- Casuistry and the Early Moder…
Marx, Marxist Philosophy and the Construction of ‘Orthodoxy’ -- Qu Qiubai and the Origins of Marxist Philosophy in China -- Qu Qiubai and the Origins of Marxist Philosophy in China -- The New Philosophy and Marxist Philosophy in China -- Ai Siqi and Mao Zedong -- Ai Siqi on the New Philosophy -- Li Da and Marxist Philosophy in China -- Mao Zedong and the New Philosophy -- Mao Zedong on Dial…
Substances: Public and Private -- Primary Matter -- Extension -- The Composition of Bodies -- The Composition of the Continuum -- Perceptions and Perceivers -- Phenomenal Bodies -- Derivative Forces -- Pre-Established Harmony -- Freedom.In the present book, Pauline Phemister argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate reality as a p…
German Idealism's Philosophy of History and its Contemporary Critique -- Schlegel's Theory of History and his Critique of Idealistic Reason -- History as the Control of Speculation: Schelling's Discovery of History and Baader's Critique of Absolute Historicity -- Absolute Historicity, Theory of the Becoming Absolute, and the Affect for the Particular in German Idealism and Historism: Introducti…
Cohen and the Marburg School in Context -- Logik -- Cohen’s Ursprungsdenken -- Identity and Correlation in Hermann Cohen’S System of Philosophy -- Beweis and Aufweis: Transcendental a priori and metaphysical a priori in Cohen’s neo-Kantianism -- Notes on Future and History in Hermann Cohen’s Anti-Eschatological Messianism -- Hanging Over the Abyss -- Ethik -- Jurisprudence is the Organo…
Individuals and Concepts at the Origins of Leibniz’s Project -- A World of Individuals: Particularist Ontology -- A World of Concepts: Combinatorial Science and the Individual -- Abstraction and Predication: At the Boundary of Concepts and Things -- Origo Rerum ex Formis -- “Mira res, aliud esse subjectum quam formas seu attributa” -- Modes and Requisites: The Genesis of Finite Things -- …
A priori Knowledge -- Kant’s Concept of the A Priori -- Skepticism and A Priori Knowledge -- The Skeptical Problem -- Transcendental Idealism -- The Transcendental Ideality of Space and Time: The Problem -- The Singularity and Immediacy of Intuitions -- The Immediacy of Space and Time -- The Non-Spatiotemporality of Things in Themselves -- Appearances, The Transcendental Object and the Noumen…