Dialog filsafat dengan sains dan (pelbagai aspek) kehidupan dunia semakin urgen dikembangkan mengingat kian menganganya ketimpangan antara wilayah pemikiran filsafat dengan sains dan dinamika praksis kehidupan. Perkembangan sains mutakhir yang sedemikian pesat, tanpa menafikan pelbagai manfaatnya, justru makin menyulitkan manusia untuk memahami dan memaknainya. Begitu pula, perkembangan global …
Buku ini membahas tiga tema besar dalam filsafat Barat: tubuh, kesadaran, dan kekuasaan. Ketiga tema ini disorot dengan tiga pendekatan utama dalam filsafat Barat kontemporer: deskripsi (fenomenologi), kritik (filsafat kritis), dan dekonstruksi (poststrukturalisme). Seperti dalam karya-karya sebelumnya, penulis memusatkan diri pada problem epistemologis, sosial, dan politis. Penulis melakukan b…
Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of Arendt’s writings from the 1930s, 1940s, a…
First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deco…
In "What is Philosophy?" the philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand analyzes the datum of knowledge itself in its different forms, from the most casual perception of some object in our naive experience to "a priori knowledge", taken as consisting of absolutely certain insights into "necessary essences". Plato's central teaching about the kind of human knowledge which transcends the world of time a…