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"This book is an anthology of commentary and criticism written within the transitional period between Alan Watts' 1973 death and the twenty-first century intellectual horizon. Comprised of 16 essays written and published between 1974 and 1994, with up-to-date introductions from the essayists and other contemporary thinkers, this volume opens a window onto unexplored grounds of Alan Watts' impact within late-twentieth-century discourse - an intermediate space where scholars reoriented their bearings through changing times and emerging academic trends. Offering varied explanations and assessments of Alan Watts, including his influence on the Beat and Hippie generations, and his popularization of Zen Buddhism in America, it tackles unaddressed questions within the milieu of late-twentieth century America from the Reagan Revolution and religious conservatism, to paradigm shifts in Buddhist studies and the rise of post-colonial theory. Contributors' post-mortem analyses and critiques of Watts allow for a thematic rendering of their consonance or dissonance with noted Beat, Hippie, and Zen Buddhism themes of his lifetime. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology, the psychology of religion, comparative religion, and American studies"--

On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind not only conjoins two seemingly divergent authors but also takes on the larger picture of libertarian trends and ideologies. These timely topics further intermingle with Bell-Villada's own conflicted relationship - personal, cultural, satirical, literary - to the ""odd pair"" and their ways of thinking. The inclusion of Louis Begley's essay adds yet another dimension to this unique, wide-ranging meditation on art and politics, history and memory

On Exceeding Determination and the Ideal of Reason: Immanuel Kant, William Desmond, and the Noumenological Principle examines the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, as it bears on theological principles. Focusing on the foundational ideas (of self, wor

"The idea of international political theory after Hobbes is a timely and lively focus through which to raise questions about international politics. Contributors explore Hobbes views on contemporary international political theory and on international relations in the context of the history of political thought and Hobbesian realism"--

It has become commonplace to write about the vociferous appetite of colonialism and its insatiable devouring of modern life. In this book the authors expand on those ideas, showing how there has been a colonization of critical theory itself, fitted with prejudices that would limit knowledge to analytic reductions commensurate with so-called Western metaphysics. Against such a monolithic force, the authors posit the work of the oft-neglected German Idealist Ernst Cassirer in careful textual precision to unearth his contribution to critical theory via an in-depth understanding of symbolic forms in all of their richness and complexity. Such a maneuver allows an ethical humanism to emerge that grants equal importance and standing both to the intellectual heritage of Afro-Caribbean historicism and poeticism and to the long-ignored significance of black philosophies of existence. Each of these traditions provide searing indictments against imperialist domination of the so-called Third World and return such questions of domination to the realm of critical theory against some who would deny that we are still in an age of imperialism. The focus of this book is an exposition on the human condition that is then expanded upon to raise, and at times answer, some of the most important questions of Gwhat is to be doneG about the global racism, sexism, and poverty that have asymmetrically infected the livelihoods and ways of life for so many people who have been rendered beneath the register of humanity.

Preliminary material /P. Vilches and G. Seaman -- The enduring power of Niccolò Machiavelli: An overview of his life and times /Patricia Vilches -- An introduction to The Prince edited and translated by Gerald Seaman /Marie Gaille-Nikodimov -- Machiavelli's burden: The Prince as literary text /Charles D. Tarlton -- The discourses on Livy: Preserving a free way of life /Julia Conaway Bondanella -- Machiavelli: Rhetoric and prudence /Eugene Garver -- Machiavelli and women /Jo Ann Cavallo -- Masculinity and Machiavelli /Gerry Milligan -- Machiavelli on stage: Mandragola and Clizia /Salvatore Di Maria -- Debauchery, mayhem, and sex in Machiavelli's Mandragola /Salvino Bizzarro -- The mask in the mirror: Nicomaco as an imprudent ruler-prince in the Clizia /Patricia Vilches -- To hell with men and meaning! Vesting authority in Belfagor /Sante Matteo -- Historical reception of Machiavelli /Mary Walsh -- Machiavelli the revolutionary: A modern reinterpretation /Susan A. Ashley -- Marlowe's Tamburlaine: Idealized machiavellian Prince /Joseph Khoury -- Shakespeare and Machiavelli: The Prince and the history plays /John Roe -- Machiavelli, Thucydides, and the anglo-american tradition /William E. Klein -- Machiavelli in the modern world /Roseanna Mueller -- Index /P. Vilches and G. Seaman.

1. Introductory -- 2. The context of Wittgenstein's thought : the intentionalists -- 3. The context of Wittgenstein's thought : Russell, Frege and Moore -- 4. Language, logic and philosophy in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- 5. The Blue and Brown books -- 6. Wittgenstein's later philosophy of mathematics and logic -- 7. The Philosophical investigations.

"This outstanding student reference series offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of philosophy as a whole. Written by today's leading philosophers, each volume provides lucid and engaging coverage of the key figures, terms, topics, and problems of the field. Taken together, the volumes provide the ideal basis for course use, representing an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialists alike"--