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Offers a critical review of Johann Georg Hamann, a retrospective of the life and works of one of Germany's challenging thinkers and writers. This title includes an essay on the role of friendship in Hamann's life, in the author's thought, and in German intellectual culture.

In his renowned courses at the College de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, among others. This work shows us Foucault in the last phase of his life in the act of becoming a philosopher.

Through an examination of Gilles Deleuze's independent work - focusing especially on ""Difference and Repetition"" - as well as his engagement with thinkers such as Kant, Maimon, Bergson, and Simondon, this title aims to unearth Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and to show how it differs from transcendental idealism, and absolute idealism.

Shows how one of the standard issues of analytic philosophy - realism and anti-realism - has also been at the heart of continental philosophy. Using a framework derived from prominent analytic thinkers, this book traces the roots of anti-realism to Kant's idea that the mind actively organizes experience.

Contains essays that demonstrate the depth and breadth of Fichte scholarship being done in English.With an introduction that locates the essays in philosophical and historical terms, the book divides into three related categories: Fichte's development, his view of religion, and other aspects of his ""popular"" (or not-so-popular) philosophy.

Contains essays which examine vital aspects of Plato's many methods, considering his dialogues in relation to Thucydides and Homer, narrative strategies and medical practice, images and metaphors. This book places the Platonic dialogues in an illuminating historical context.

This volume considers Heidegger's thought in relation to Plato before and after his 'kehre' - his estrangement from both Plato and Western philosophy. In doing so, it takes up various central issues in Heidegger's 'Being and Time' (1927) and thereafter, and the questions of hermeneutics, truth, and language.