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During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their particular understanding revealed the actual secret of the Torah. They presented their own readings in a coded fashion that has come to be regarded by many as the very essence of esotericism. "Concealment and Revelation" takes us on a fascinating journey to the depths of the esoteric imagination. Carefully tracing the rise of esotericism and its function in medieval Jewish thought, Moshe Halbertal''s richly detailed historical and cultural analysis gradually builds conceptual-philosophical force to culminate in a masterful phenomenological taxonomy of esotericism and its paradoxes. Among the questions addressed: What are the internal justifications that esoteric traditions provide for their own existence, especially in the Jewish world, in which the spread of knowledge was of great importance? How do esoteric teachings coexist with the revealed tradition, and what is the relationship between the various esoteric teachings that compete with that revealed tradition? Halbertal concludes that, through the medium of the concealed, Jewish thinkers integrated into the heart of the Jewish tradition diverse cultural influences such as Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism, and Hermeticisims. And the creation of an added concealed layer, unregulated and open-ended, became the source of the most daring and radical interpretations of the tradition.

Alchimiste grec reconnu, originaire de Panopolis, une province d''Egypte, Zosime de Panopolis jouissait d''un immense prestige auprès de ses successeurs. Cet ouvrage comprend des témoignages directs,

In this study, Tom Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are often instantly dismissed in analytic philosophy. His book serves as a reinterpretation of Cartesianism and responds directly to the dislike of Descartes in contemporary philosophy. To identify what is defensible in Cartesianism, Sorell starts with a picture of unreconstructed Cartesianism, which is characterized as realistic, antisceptical but respectful of scepticism, rationalist, centered on the first person, dualist, and dubious of the comprehensiveness of natural science and its supposed independence of metaphysics. Bridging the gap between history of philosophy and analytic philosophy, Sorell also shows for the first time how some contemporary analytic philosophy is deeply Cartesian, despite its outward hostility to Cartesianism.

This book is a critical examination of Michel Foucaults relation to ancient Greek thought, in particular his famous analysis of Greek history of sexuality. Wolfgang Detel offers a new understanding of Foucault''s theories of power and knowledge based on modern analytical theories of science and concepts of power. He offers a fresh and complex reading of the texts which Foucault discusses, covering topics such as Aristotles ethics and theory of sex, Hippocratic dietetics, the earliest treatises on economics, and Platos theory of love. The result is a philosophically rich and probing critique of Foucault''s later writings, and a persuasive account of the relation between ethics, power and knowledge in classical antiquity. His book will have a wide appeal to readers interested in Foucault and in Greek thought and culture.

Aunque de orientación general clásicamente académica, la novedad a la que aspira esta obra responde a una concepción de la filosofía como una reflexión a realizar sobre el conjunto de la cultura occidental a partir de la Grecia clasica, con interes especial en el saber cientifico y otras areas que incluyen la literatura, el arte y la religion; en definitiva, trata de situar la historia de la filosofia en el conjunto de la historia cultural, en el marco del desarrollo de la sociedad y sus estructuras.La obra, constituida por tres volumenes, debido a su caracter interdisciplinar ofrece facilidad en la comprension, y tiene, ademas de su innegable interes academico, un gran atractivo para aquellos no profesionales de la enseñanza con curiosidad por el saber humanistico.

Sono scritti che vanno dalle poesie e pagine di diario del Nietzsche quattordicenne ai primi saggi di riflessioni sulla storia e sull''arte. E'' anche evidente in questa fase il suo interesse per il mondo della mitologia nordica e germanica, come pure la tendenza a elaborare in composizioni poetiche i pensieri ispiratigli da personaggi storici e dalle figure di grandi artisti.

Il pensiero greco e l''alpha e l''omega della filosofia. Forte di questa convinzione - da lui tradotta nella sentenza "la filosofia nasce grande" Heidegger ha cercato di mostrare come i concetti fondamentali coniati dai greci abbiano segnato il destino della civilta occidentale. Lungo il suo itinerario speculativo, egli e percio tornato di continuo a misurarsi con la grecita filosofica, al punto di voler "pensare in modo piu greco dei greci". In questo volume, il filosofo illustra lo sviluppo del pensiero dai presocratici ad Aristotele, seguendo il filo conduttore dei testi originali e obbedendo insieme all''esigenza di guidare anche il profano alla comprensione di quei vertici speculativi.

Questo volume dell'Epistolario copre un quinquennio fondamentale nella vita di Nietzsche. Dopo la stesura della Nascita della tragedia e delle Considerazioni inattuali, egli comincia ad avvertire il peso della filologia come mestiere e avvia quel processo di emancipazione della metafisica e di ricerca della "liberta di pensiero" che lo allontanera definitivamente da Schopenhauser e da Wagner.

The philosophical and theoretical approach discussed in this Element explains the properties of biological systems by appealing to their organization It addresses classic and modern issues in the philosophy of biology revises the conceptual foundations and offers an updated version This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core