Is there really Freedom? By following the philosophical debate on this issue, the book probes the ethical and existential aspirations of opposing theoretical views, and advances an inspiring vision of human freedom firmly embedded within nature.
Fractured Mirror
On Creation of the Self in Wittgenstein and Murdoch By Yoav Ashkenazy January 2013 Paperback Danacode 110-20190 In Stock
This book questions the meaning of moral discourse and of the place of literature and philosophy in the context of the inner moral domain, and aims to expose the therapeutic possibilities found in reading and writing literature and philosophy.
The “optional cinema model” that is revealed in this book allows the author to present a unique interpretative-philosophical view of the films discussed in the book.
Halakhic Loyalty
Between Openness and Closure By Avi Sagi September 2012 Hardcover Danacode 110-20184 In Stock
The subject of this book is the analysis of the meaning of halakhic loyalty. Is religious loyalty exclusive? Is it up to the faithful to be obedient or to shape the world as sovereigns who should not give up their autonomy?
This book presents Chomsky as a first rate philosopher. Chomsky`s linguistic theory is interpreted (in a Dworkian constructivist sense of the term ``interpretation``) as expressing three substantial and grounded philosophical contentions that ar...
Signs of Enjoyment
A Lacanian Reading of the Poetry of Yonah Wallach and David Avidan By Inbal Raz Barkin October 2010 Danacode 110-20158 In Stock
Jacques Lacan is known not only as a revolutionary and significant psychoanalyst, but also as the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. His psychoanalytical theory, founded on the basic Freudian concepts, introduces a new and unique set ...
This book offers a comprehensive reading of Hegel`s philosophical project, tracing this project from its moment of conception as a critical reaction to Kant`s philosophy, through its first theological formulation, to the discovery of the Idea of...
COMMENTARY ON YESOD MORA
The Commentary of Mordekhai ben Eliezer Komtiyano on R. Abraham Ibn Ezra`s Yesod Mora By Dov Schwartz April 2010 Hardcover Danacode 110-20152 In Stock
An annotated critical edition of Mordekhai ben Eliezer Komtiyano`s Commentary on R. Abraham Ibn Ezra`s Yesod Mora. Komtiyano was one of the leading Jewish philosophers in late medieval Byzantine. His commentary focuses on Ibn Ezra`s statements ...
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of R. Joseph Albo’s philosophical-religious thought. This analysis is based on a careful and meticulous reading of the Book of Principles and emphasizes the stylistic-literary dimension of the te...
This book traces the thought of the German philosopher Karl Jaspers, from his early writings as a young psychiatrist to his mature thinking as an existentialist.