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Freedom from the Free Will
Author | : Dimitris Vardoulakis |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2016-08-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438462417 |
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Brings Kafka’s fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory. Many of Kafka’s narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the Metamorphosis, and the land surveyor in The Castle is stuck in the village unable either to leave or to gain access to the castle. Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Kafka constructs these plots of confinement in order to laugh at his heroes’ futile attempts to express their will. In this way, Kafka emerges as a critic of the free will and as a proponent of a different kind of freedom: one focused within the confines of one’s experience and mediated by one’s circumstances. Vardoulakis contends that his sense of humor is the key to understanding Kafka as a political thinker. Laughter, in this account, is the tool used to deconstruct power. By placing Kafka in dialogue with philosophy and political theory, Vardoulakis shows that Kafka can give us invaluable insights into how to be free—and how to laugh. Dimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University, Australia. He has written and edited several books, including (with Andrew Benjamin) Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press.
Free Will
Author | : Sam Harris |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781451683400 |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
Freedom Regained
Author | : Julian Baggini |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226319896 |
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"Originally published in English by Granta Publications under the title Freedom Regained"--Title page verso.
The Freedom of the Will
Author | : John Randolph Lucas |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106005335515 |
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The author, who pioneered this argument in 1961, here places it in the context of traditional discussions of the problem, and answers various criticisms that have been made.
Freedom of the Will
Author | : Jonathan Edwards |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
ISBN | : HARVARD:AH4D1V |
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Free Will
Author | : Gary Watson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015005625705 |
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The Aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university students or the general reader.
Living Without Free Will
Author | : Derk Pereboom |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521029964 |
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Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.
I and Thou
Author | : Martin Buber |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826476937 |
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'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber (1897-19) was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939 to 1951. Having studied philosophy and art at the universities of Vienna, Zurich and Berlin, he became an active Zionist and was closely involved in the revival of Hasidism. Recognised as a landmark of twentieth century intellectual history, I and Thou is Buber's masterpiece. In this book, his enormous learning and wisdom are distilled into a simple, but compelling vision. It proposes nothing less than a new form of the Deity for today, a new form of human being and of a good life. In so doing, it addresses all religious and social dimensions of the human personality. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith>