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This book explores the impact of the year 1929 on the development of Wittgenstein's thought. The contributors generate important new insights for understanding Wittgenstein's philosophy and his place in the history of analytic philosophy.

This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows how the ethical, political, and psychological outlooks of these two influential thinkers can further our understandings of how to bring about justice in the face of deep power imbalances.

Aesthetic Order challenges contemporary theories of aesthetics, offering the idea of beauty as quantitative yet different from the traditional discursive order. It will be of importance to all interested in aesthetic theory.

Discusses how Modernists shared the belief that the kind of truth "sub specie aeterni" was sought by philosophers was meaningless or was expressed by literature and poetry, and addresses the challenge this belief presented to philosophy. This book argues the modernist assumption rests upon unacknowledged, or denied dogmas or tacit images.

Toleration would seem to be the most rational response to deep conflicts. However, by examining the conditions under which trust can develop between warring parties, it becomes clear that a fundamental shift in values - a conversion - is required before toleration makes sense.

Explores Collingwood's work in epistemology and metaphysics, uncovering his importance beyond his better known work in philosophy of history and aesthetics.

Presenting an analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion. It distinguishes different senses in which it might be said that something can't be said.

In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French philospher of science, Gaston Bachelard by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the twentieth century.

A defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language, which to a large extent means ordinary language, Hanfling shows that this view does not entail that philosophy is less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be.

Examines the relationship between metaphor, art and science against the backdrop of modern European philosophy and, in particular, the work of Kant, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. This book explores the impact which the notion of cognitive metaphor has on key positions and concepts within aesthetics, epistemology and the philosophy of science.

The Subject in Question provides a fascinating insight into a debate between two of the most famous contemporary philosophers - Jean-Paul Satre and Edmund Husserl - over key notions of conscious experience and the self.

Explores the history and significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection. This title traces the implications of the access to language in some of the most prominent projects and results of the historical and contemporary tradition of analytic philosophy.

Drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop an argument for understanding perception and metaphysics, this book is a study in the philosophy of the mind.

Presents a fresh approach to the problem that has haunted twentieth century philosophy in both its analytical and continental shapes. This book addresses the parallels between Wittgenstein and leading Continental philosophers such as Levinas, Husserl, and Heidegger.

Developments in ethical discourse have brought the issue of nature and development of character traits to the forefront of philosophical debate. This book presents an alternative to the dominant Aristotelian view of character. It is suitable for academics and graduate students concerned with virtue ethics and the theory of character.

Outlining a different theory of natural laws, this book addresses questions debated by metaphysicians such as whether the laws of nature are necessary or contingent and whether a property can be identified independently of its causal role. It begins with the question of whether there are any genuinely law-like phenomena in nature.

Formulating an approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.