Anacker, Stefan

Seven Works Of Vasubandhu. The Buddhist Psychological Doctor

Motilal Books, 2008, reprint, Hardcover with Dustjacket, 490pp, Bibliography an Index some creases, further very good. Vasubandhu one of the most famous Mahayana Buddhist philosophers wrote works on a vast variety of subjects. this collection of translations includes the Vadavidhi a work on logic the Panca-skandhaka-prakarana which deals with the aggregates making up 'Personality'; the Karmasiddhi prakarana, which in explaining psychic continuity, also attacks many features of earlier Buddhist psychology; the famous Vimsalika and Trimsika, which take Buddhist psychology into hitherto unexplored areas; the Madhyanta-Vibhaga-bhasya, one of the most profound books for Mahayana realization; and the Tri-svabhava-nirdesa which shows a way for ridding consciousness of ensnaring mental constructions. A glossary of key words is included, as are the texts of those works which survive in Sanskrit. Each translation is prefaced by an explanatory introduction and is followed by notes. These include also references to other Indian philosophical systems and occasional comparisons with modern Western psychological systems, particularly where the latter seem inadequate in comparison with Vasubandhu's Yogacara.. ISBN: 97881212

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Anton, Corey

How Non-being Haunts Being / On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021, Gebonden, 220 pp, Nieuw. Direct leverbaar!. How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to what is. Human life is an open expanse of what was and what will be, what might be and what should be. It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences and present absences. Corey Anton draws upon and integrates thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson, Kenneth Burke, Terrence Deacon, Lynn Margulis, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Douglas Harding, and E. M. Cioran. He discloses the moral possibilities liberated through death acceptance by showing how living beings, who are of space not merely in it, are fundamentally on loan to themselves. A heady multidisciplinary work, How Non-being Haunts Being explores how absence, incompleteness, and negation saturate life, language, thought, and culture. It details how meaning and moral agency depend upon forms of non-being, and it argues that death acceptance in no way inevitably slides into nihilism. Thoroughgoing death acceptance, in fact, opens opportunities for deeper levels of self-understanding and for greater compassion regarding our common fate. Sure to provoke thought and to stimulate much conversation, it offers countless insights into the human condition.. ISBN: 97816812

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Aurobindo, Shri

On Yoga.

Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 1957/1958. Hardcover (linen), with dustjacket. 1034, 843 and 871 pp. Good, brown spots. Volume IV: ON YOGA I - The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol VI: ON YOGA II - Tome One, Volume VII: ON YOGA II - Tome Two.. 3 volumes from the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre Collection, IV, VI and VII.

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Bell, David

Husserl. The Arguments of the Philosophers - serie

London Routledge, 1990, Hardcover with Dustjacket, 266 pp., Very Good. By tracing the development of Husserl's thought, Bell reveals its overall unity and offers a critical examination of his earliest writing to the last great works on science, culture, and the "Lebenswelt" . This book should be of interest to advanced students of phenomenology, existentialism, modern German thought and professional philosophers.. ISBN: 97804212

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Book number: 214934965

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Gallie, Roger D.

Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the anatomy of the self.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 1. Hardcover. 198 pp. As New. This book is a critical exposition of Reid's philosophical anatomy of the self, his moralphilosophy and his aesthetics, and is aimed at an advanced undergraduateand graduate readership. Those familiar with Reid scholarship will beonly too aware of how little attention has been paid of late to Reid'saccounts of beauty, of sublimity and aesthetic assessment, compared withhis moral philosophy and philosophy of action. One main purpose of thisbook is to help remedy this imbalance, if only because of the veryconsiderable impact of Reid's aesthetic thought in nineteenth centuryFrance. Notoriously Reid presents his accounts of moral and aestheticjudgment as the fruits of a sense of morals and of taste. Accordinglyhis position on the nature of a sense needs to be carefully considered,as well as his position on the origin of conceptions needed for thedeployment of a sense. The Lehrer-Smith III computational computer modelof Reidian faculties is assessed at some length as a seriouscontribution to this task, especially since its employment would seem topresuppose positions at odds with crucial components in Reid's account,which is also presented in the book, of the self as thinker,decision-maker and moral agent exercising both active and speculativepower.. ISBN: 9789048150953

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Hark, M. ter

Beyond the Inner and the Outer / Wittgenstein

Springer, 1990, Hardcover with Dustjacket, 340 pp., Very Good, only some rust spots on upper cut, Translation from Dutch Anthony P. Runia. Wittgenstein's aphoristic style holds great charm, but also a great danger: the reader is apt to glean too much from a single fragment and too little from the fragments as a whole. In my first confron tations with the Philosophical Investigations I was such a reader, and so, it turned out, were most of the writers on Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Wittgenstein's remarkable ability to bring together many facets of his thought in one fragment is fully exploited in the critical literature; but hardly any attention is paid to the connection with other fragments, let alone to the many hitherto unpublished manuscripts of which the Philosophical Investigations is the final product. The result of this fragmentary and ahistorical approach to Wittgenstein's later work is a host of contradictory interpretations. What Wittgenstein really wanted to say remains insufficiently clear. Opinions are also strongly divided about the value of his work. Some authors have been encouraged by his aphorisms and rhetorical questions to dismiss the whole Cartesian tradition or to halt new movements in linguistics or psychology; others, exasperated, reject his philo sophy as anti-scientific conceptual conservatism. After consulting unpublished notebooks and manuscripts which Wittgenstein wrote between 1929 and 1951, I became a very different reader. Wittgenstein turned out to be a kind of Leonardo da Vinci, who pursued a form from which every sign of chisel ling, every attempt at improvement, had been effaced.. ISBN: 9780792308508 Wittgenstein's aphoristic style holds great charm, but also a great danger: the reader is apt to glean too much from a single fragment and too little from the fragments as a whole. In my first confron­ tations with the Philosophical Investigations I was such a reader, and so, it turned out, were most of the writers on Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Wittgenstein's remarkable ability to bring together many facets of his thought in one fragment is fully exploited in the critical literature; but hardly any attention is paid to the connection with other fragments, let alone to the many hitherto unpublished manuscripts of which the Philosophical Investigations is the final product. The result of this fragmentary and ahistorical approach to Wittgenstein's later work is a host of contradictory interpretations. What Wittgenstein really wanted to say remains insufficiently clear. Opinions are also strongly divided about the value of his work. Some authors have been encouraged by his aphorisms and rhetorical questions to dismiss the whole Cartesian tradition or to halt new movements in linguistics or psychology; others, exasperated, reject his philo­ sophy as anti-scientific conceptual conservatism. After consulting unpublished notebooks and manuscripts which Wittgenstein wrote between 1929 and 1951, I became a very different reader. Wittgenstein turned out to be a kind of Leonardo da Vinci, who pursued a form from which every sign of chisel­ ling, every attempt at improvement, had been effaced.

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Hoffman, Frank J. & Deegalle Mahinda

Pali Buddhism.

Richmond, Curzon Press, 1996, 1. Hardcover (linnen). 233 pp. (as) new.. The essays include: Abhidharma as a Paradigm for Practice by Christopher Chapple; Two Dogmas of Buddhism by Arthur Herman; Process Philosophy and Theravada Buddhism by Shanta Ratnayaka; the Moral Significance of Nirvana by Deegalle Mahinda; Two Formulations of the Dasa Sila and Ethics by George Bond; Early Buddhist Liberation by Andrew Olendzki; Dhammapada and Tirukkral by Subramania Gopalan; Suicide and Emotional Ambivalence by Padmasiri De Silva; a Buddhist Critique of Theravada by Gunapala Dharmasiri; the Word Rebirth in the Buddhist Paradigm by A.D.P.Kalansuriya; the Status of the Doctrine of Dependent Origination by Ramakrishna Puligandla; Nirvana as a Meta Process by Ninian Smart; and Orientalism in Buddhology by Frank Hoffman.. ISBN: 9780700703593

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Book number: 180811267

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Keywords: Spiritualiteit

Houppermans, Sjef, Rico Sneller & Peter Van Zilfhout(editors)

Enduring Resistance/La Resistance Persevere: Cultural Theory after Derrida / La theorie de la culture (d

Brill, 2010, Paperback, 346 pp., Very good/as new. Addressing both the humanities and the social sciences, this volume aims to explore the enduring significance of the work of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) in the field of cultural theory. It assembles a variety of articles by internationally renowned scholars from different academic disciplines and traditions. Contrary to recent commemorative publications on Derrida's oeuvre, this volume proposes to critically evaluate and rethink key concepts in Derrida's work within the present state of affairs in cultural theory. Centred around four main topics (manoeuvres, societies, images and fictions), the sections propose a creative and contemporary reading of 'Derrida' and its openings to new work in cultural theory. Ce livre qui se destine à la fois aux humanités et aux études sociales tente d'explorer la signification durable de l'?uvre de Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) dans le champ de la théorie culturelle. Il rassemble un ensemble d'articles variés écrits par des chercheurs de renommée internationale provenant de différentes disciplines et traditions académiques. S'opposant par là à la majorité du flot de publications récentes sur l'?uvre de Derrida ce volume se propose d'évaluer et de repenser d'un point de vue critique les concepts clé de Derrida tenant compte de l'état actuel de la recherche en études culturelles. Centrées autour de quatre domaines majeurs (man?uvres - sociétés - images - fictions), les sections offrent une lecture créatrice et actuelle de 'Derrida' et des ouvertures que sa pensée permet vers une nouvelle idée de la théorie culturelle.. ISBN: 97890412

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Book number: 214665784

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Magliola, Robert

Derrida on the Mend

Purdue University Press, 1986, Hardcover (linnen), with Dustjacket. 238 pp. Very Good, dj has some wear. The book has four parts. The first provides a lengthy explication and critique of Derrida, a service still much needed by today's philosophers and literary theorists. The second part locates a recension of Heideggerian thought at a site the author calls centric mysticism. Throughout this section, there are original applications to literature. The third part presents the full-scale analysis of Nagarjunist technique, and then goes on to develop a "differential" Zen contrasting very much with the "centric" Zen of Suzuki. Replete with treatments of Buddhist poetry, it is bound to be of great interest to Buddhologists. The fourth part applies "differentialism" to monotheism and Christian theology and develops a non-entitative trinitarianism, which will revise, it is hoped, contemporary theology significantly. Two appendices, in a concrete way, apply to literary theory and criticism what the author has worked out in the body of the book.. ISBN: 97809112

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Parthasarathy, A.

Vedanta Treatise

Vedanta Life Institute, 1989, 3d, Hardcover with dustjacket, 361 pp., dustjacket front under a small damage(picture 1), further very good.. The Vedanta Treatise expounds the ancient philosophy of the Vedas. It presents the eternal pricniples of life and living. Living is a technique that needs to be learnt and practised. The technique provides the formula for combining continual action with enduring peace. It further equips one with a clear intellect to meet the challenges of the world.

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Roudinesco, Elisabeth

Philosophy in Turbulent Times

Columbia University Press, 2008, 192pp., Gebonden met stofomslag, als nieuw.. For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a great generation of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled and innovative thinkers endured World War II and the cultural and political revolution of the 1960s, and their cultural horizon was dominated by Marxism and psychoanalysis, though they were by no means strict adherents to the doctrines of Marx and Freud. Roudinesco knew many of these intellectuals personally, and she weaves an account of their thought through lived experience and reminiscences. Canguilhem, for example, was a distinguished philosopher of science who had a great influence on Foucault's exploration of sanity and madness-themes Althusser lived in a notorious personal drama. And in dramatizing the life of Freud for the screen, Sartre fundamentally altered his own philosophical approach to psychoanalysis.Roudinesco launches a passionate defense of Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida against the new philosophers of the late 1970s and 1980s, who denounced the work-and sometimes the private lives-of this great generation. Roudinesco refutes attempts to tar them, as well as the Marxist and left-wing tradition in general, with the brush of Soviet-style communism. In Freudian theory and the philosophy of radical commitment, she sees a bulwark against the kind of manipulative, pill-prescribing, and normalizing psychology that aims to turn individuals into mindless consumers. Intense, clever, and persuasive, Philosophy in Turbulent Times captivates with the dynamism of French thought in the twentieth century.. ISBN: 9780231143004

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Sass, Louis A.

Madness and Modernism. Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought.

Harvard University Press, 1992, Paperback, 595 pp., Very Good/As New. The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of authority, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this book, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, and Duchamp and philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. It provides a portrait of the world of the madman, along with a commentary on modernist and postmodernist culture.. ISBN: 9780674541375

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Book number: 220047258

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Keywords: Psychiatrie

Upadhyaya, K.N.

Early Buddhism and the Bhagavadgita

Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1971, 1st edition, Hardcover wit dustjacket, Good, clean, straight.. This is a critical and philosophical analysis and assessment of the teachings of Buddha as Found in the Early Stratum of the Pali Canon and those of Lord Krsna as embodied in the Bhagvadgita. It is the first time that the foundational works of the two most important traditions of Indian thought have been brought together for comperative treatment.The Widely prevalent openion among scholars that Hindu thought did not have any significant contact with Pali Buddhism, might perhaps be one of the reasons why no attempt has previously been made to undertake a comparative study of Bhagwadgita and early Buddhism. The author covers the whole field of epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics in detail and depth, and bases his conclusions throughout on the original texts, making careful examinations of, and paing due attention, to the commentatiorialexegeses and scholarly interpretations.. ISBN: 9780895816306

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Book number: 193296637

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Waithe, Mary Ellen

A History of Women Philosophers. Volume III. Modern Women Philosophers, 1600-1900

Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Paperback. 302 pp.. No images. Conditie: Very good, Some discoloring of cover, name on flyleaf.. edited by Mary Ellen Waithe Series: HISTORY OF WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS volume: 3 From the 17th century onwards, increasing numbers of mostly self-educated women became philosophers. The philosophical writings of Anna Maria van Schurman, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Mary Astell, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Harriet Taylor Mill, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Fuller, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Lou Andreas Salome, Germaine de Staehl, Sophie Germain, and Mary Sommerville were influential. Other philosophers, including Queen Kristina of Sweden, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Julie Favre, Clarisse Coignet, Anna Tumarkin, Hortense Allart de Meritens, Sophie Bryant, and Hedwig Bender were less well known. But all demonstrate expertise in many areas of philosophy: epistemology, logic, aesthetics, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, of psychology, of religion, and, of mathematics. They write on such diverse topics as the mystical and the paranormal, the nature of thought, of faith, of morality, of liberty, of logic, and, the rights of women. Together they manifest philosophy's own transition from mysticism to logical positivism.. ISBN: 97807912

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Waithe, Mary Ellen

A History of Women Philosophers. Volume II. Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment. Women Philosophers 500-1600

Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Hardcover. 349 pp., As new.. ISBN: 9789024735716

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