Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.Jean-Marie Schaeffer, one of France's leading aestheticians, explores the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger to show that these diverse thinkers shared a common approach to art, which he calls the ";speculative theory."; According to this theory, art offers a special kind of intuitive, quasi-mystical knowledge, radically different from the rational knowledge acquired by science. This view encouraged theorists to consider artistic geniuses the high-priests of humanity, creators of works that reveal the invisible essence of the world. Philosophers came to regard inexpressibility as the aim of art, refused to consider second-tier creations genuine art, and helped to create conditions in which the genius was expected to shock, puzzle, and mystify the public. Schaeffer shows that this speculative theory helped give birth to romanticism, modernism, and the avant-garde, and paved the way for an unfortunate divorce between art and enjoyment, between ";high art"; and popular art, and between artists and their public.Rejecting the speculative approach, Schaeffer concludes by defending a more tolerant theory of art that gives pleasure its due, includes popular art, tolerates less successful works, and accounts for personal tastes.";[A] remarkable work. [Schaeffer's] writing is governed by . the ideals of clarity and consequence, the ideas of logic, truth, and evidence. Schaeffer is so precise and unrelenting a philosophical critic that one wonders how some of the philosophies he anatomizes here can possibly survive the operation.";--From the foreword by Arthur C. Danto

Aesthetics, Modern. --- Art --- Philosophy. --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Aestheticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Antinomy. --- Archetype. --- Art for art's sake. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Avant-garde. --- Classicism. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Critical philosophy. --- Culture industry. --- Determination. --- Explanatory model. --- Figurative art. --- Fine art. --- First principle. --- Genre. --- Historicism. --- Historicity. --- Historicization. --- Idealism. --- Idealization. --- Imagination. --- Intellectualization. --- Literariness. --- Literature. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Modern art. --- Modernity. --- Neoplatonism. --- Novalis. --- Objective idealism. --- Ontic. --- Ontology. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Poetry. --- Politique. --- Positivism. --- Postmodernism. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Pre-established harmony. --- Precognition. --- Realism (arts). --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Religion. --- Romanticism. --- Scholasticism. --- Scientism. --- Secularization. --- Solipsism. --- Spinozism. --- Subjectivism. --- The Soul of the World. --- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. --- Theodicy. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory of art. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Transcendental idealism. --- Truism. --- Volksgeist. --- Work of art.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This study of the metaphysics of G. W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural philosophy. Catherine Wilson examines the shifts in Leibniz's thinking as he confronted the major philosophical problems of his era. Beginning with his interest in artificial languages and calculi for proof and discovery, the author proceeds to an examination of Leibniz's early theories of matter and motion, to the phenomenalistic turn in his theory of substance and his subsequent de-emphasis of logical determinism, and finally to his doctrines of harmony and optimization. Specific attention is given to Leibniz's understanding of Descartes and his successors, Malebranche and Spinoza, and the English philosophers Newton, Cudworth, and Locke.Wilson analyzes Leibniz's complex response to the new mechanical philosophy, his discontent with the foundations on which it rested, and his return to the past to locate the resources for reconstructing it. She argues that the continuum-problem is the key to an understanding not only of Leibniz's monadology but also of his views on the substantiality of the self and the impossibility of external causal influence. A final chapter considers the problem of Leibniz-reception in the post-Kantian era, and the difficulty of coming to terms with a metaphysics that is not only philosophically "critical" but, at the same time, "compensatory."Originally published in 2050.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, --- Métaphysique --- Metaphysics --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm --- Métaphysique. --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, - Freiherr von, - 1646-1716 --- History --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm --- A History of Western Philosophy. --- A priori and a posteriori. --- Analogy. --- Anti-realism. --- Antinomy. --- Antithesis. --- Aphorism. --- Aristotle. --- Athanasius Kircher. --- Atheism. --- Atomism. --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Cambridge Platonists. --- Cartesianism. --- Christian mortalism. --- Circular reasoning. --- Conatus. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Contingency (philosophy). --- Contradiction. --- Conventionalism. --- Critical philosophy. --- Critique of Pure Reason. --- Critique. --- David Hume. --- Eclecticism. --- Erudition. --- Ex nihilo. --- Existence of God. --- Explanation. --- Falsity. --- Fine-tuning. --- First principle. --- Freethought. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Horror vacui (physics). --- Hypothesis. --- Idealism. --- Identity and change. --- Identity of indiscernibles. --- Impenetrability. --- Infinite regress. --- Infinitesimal. --- Intuitionism. --- Logic. --- Logical Investigations (Husserl). --- Lullism. --- Luminiferous aether. --- Materialism. --- Metempsychosis. --- Monadology. --- Moral absolutism. --- Multitude. --- Natural theology. --- Naturalness (physics). --- Necessitarianism. --- New Essays on Human Understanding. --- Occam's razor. --- Occasionalism. --- Ontological argument. --- Pelagianism. --- Pessimism. --- Phenomenalism. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical language. --- Philosophical progress. --- Philosophy. --- Pre-established harmony. --- Predestination. --- Primitive notion. --- Problem of evil. --- Rationalism. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Religion. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-deception. --- Solipsism. --- Spinozism. --- State of nature. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tabula rasa. --- The Assayer. --- The Mind of God. --- The Philosopher. --- The Soul of the World. --- Theodicy. --- Theology. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. --- Truth. --- Two Treatises of Government. --- Unobservable. --- Voluntarism (philosophy). --- Zeno's paradoxes.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War I, but first used the term "synchronicity" in a 1930 lecture, in reference to the unusual psychological insights generated from consulting the I Ching. A long correspondence and friendship with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli stimulated a final, mature statement of Jung's thinking on synchronicity, originally published in 1952 and reproduced here. Together with a wealth of historical and contemporary material, this essay describes an astrological experiment Jung conducted to test his theory. Synchronicity reveals the full extent of Jung's research into a wide range of psychic phenomena. This paperback edition of Jung's classic work includes a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London.

Coincidence --- Astrology. --- Psychic aspects. --- Active imagination. --- Ad hoc hypothesis. --- Alhazen. --- All things. --- Apperception. --- Archetype. --- Astrological aspect. --- Astrological sign. --- Binomial distribution. --- Calculation. --- Carl Jung. --- Causal chain. --- Causality. --- Certainty. --- Clockwise. --- Coincidence. --- Consciousness. --- Correspondence theory of truth. --- Criticism. --- De Corpore. --- Determination. --- Disadvantage. --- Disposition. --- Eranos. --- Estimator. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- Extrasensory perception. --- Firmament. --- Foreknowledge. --- God. --- Hans Driesch. --- Hermann Weyl. --- Hieros gamos. --- Horoscope. --- Hypothesis. --- Image of God. --- Imagery. --- Incident (Scientology). --- Individuation. --- Instance (computer science). --- Interdependence. --- Johannes Kepler. --- Lao-Tzu. --- Maxima and minima. --- Modern physics. --- Monadology. --- Monograph. --- Natural philosophy. --- Niels Bohr. --- Observation. --- Parapsychology. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physicist. --- Plotinus. --- Poisson distribution. --- Precognition. --- Principle. --- Probability. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Psychology and Alchemy. --- Psychology. --- Psychophysical parallelism. --- Quantity. --- Quartile. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Result. --- Richard Wilhelm (sinologist). --- Robert Fludd. --- Scientific theory. --- Self-experimentation. --- Significant figures. --- Simultaneity. --- Skepticism. --- Society for Psychical Research. --- Sonu Shamdasani. --- Statistic. --- Statistics. --- Symptom. --- Taoism. --- Telepathy. --- Tertium comparationis. --- The Interpretation of Dreams. --- The Secret of the Golden Flower. --- The Soul of the World. --- The Various. --- Theodicy. --- Theory. --- Third eye. --- Thought. --- Treatise. --- Universality (philosophy). --- Validity (statistics). --- Wissenschaft. --- Wolfgang Pauli. --- Yin and yang.