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Free Download Alfredo Ferrarin, "Thinking and the I: Hegel and the Critique of Kant"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0810139383, 0810139391 | PDF | pages: 250 | 1.6 mb
What is the relation between thinking and the I that thinks? And what is the relation between thought and reality? The ordinary view shared by modern philosophers from Descartes to Kant, as well as by common sense, is that there is only thought when someone thinks something, and thoughts and concepts are mental acts that refer to objects outside us.

Free Download Maurizio Ricciardi, "The Provisional Power: Marx and Politics As a Critique of Society "
English | ISBN: 9004699155 | 2024 | 188 pages | PDF | 15 MB
In this book, you can find an accurate and unusual analysis of the different ways in which Karl Marx investigates the political and social phenomenon of power. As a political militant, as a journalist, as a critic of capitalism and as a revolutionary theorist, Marx continually confronts the ways in which individuals and social classes enter into power relations. For Marx, however, there is no bourgeois power that proletarians can simply conquer and then use to their advantage. Workers’ power is always provisional because it constantly changes the very conditions of its own production.

Free Download The Bourgeois and the Savage: A Marxian Critique of the Image of the Isolated Individual in Defoe, Turgot and Smith (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) by Alfonso Maurizio Iacono, translated by Leigh-Anne Wendy Mazzoncini
English | March 19, 2020 | ISBN: 3030395073, 3030395103 | True EPUB | 161 pages | 1 MB
This classic text in Italian history of political philosophy, translated into English for the first time, investigates the philosophical and ideological conceptions hidden beneath the modern image of the isolated individual. In The Bourgeois and the Savage, Alfonso Maurizio Iacono reveals that this apparently simple and transparent image is imbued with a profound complexity containing human and social relationships, which are intertwined with relationships of power, domination, inequality, colonisation and servitude.

Free Download Jill Vance Buroker, "Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’: An Introduction "
English | ISBN: 0521618258 | 2006 | 338 pages | AZW3 | 631 KB
In this introductory textbook to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Jill Vance Buroker explains the role of this first Critique in Kant’s Critical project and offers a line-by-line reading of the major arguments in the text. She situates Kant’s views in relation both to his predecessors and to contemporary debates, explaining his Critical philosophy as a response to the failure of rationalism and the challenge of skepticism. Paying special attention to Kant’s notoriously difficult vocabulary, she explains the strengths and weaknesses of his arguments, while leaving the final assessment up to the reader. Intended to be read alongside the Critique (also published by Cambridge University Press as part of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation), this guide is accessible to readers with little background in the history of philosophy, but should also be a valuable resource for more advanced students.

Free Download Mary Gregor, "Kant: Critique of Practical Reason Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1107467055 | 2015 | 180 pages | AZW3 | 479 KB
The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant’s three Critiques, one of his three major treatises on moral theory, and a seminal text in the history of moral philosophy. Originally published three years after his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique provides further elaboration of the basic themes of Kant’s moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This revised edition of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason – which contains Mary Gregor’s acclaimed translation – is now the authoritative translation of this work. A substantial and lucid introduction by Andrews Reath places the mains themes of the Critique in the context of Kant’s moral theory and his critical system. For this edition, the introduction has been revised and the guide to the secondary reading completely updated.

Free Download Katherine Arens, "Empire in Decline: Fritz Mauthner’s Critique of Wilhelminian Germany"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0820450383 | PDF | pages: 240 | 10.0 mb
Fritz Mauthner (1849-1923), a Jewish Austro-Hungarian author born in Bohemia, grew up in Prague, and moved to Berlin to become a noted novelist, newspaper writer, and cultural critic turned philosopher of language. He retired from public life just before World War I to pursue the philosophy and politics of language. This first extensive study of Mauthner’s popular essays and fiction traces his critiques of Wilhelminian Germany and of rising European nationalism. Mauthner dissects the era’s dominant culture, including its class-, ethnicity-, and gender-bound identity politics, judicial discrimination, ethnic nationalism, and the press. In other works, in the traditions of Naturalism, he draws on popular science to anticipate his own critique of language, echoing more famous contemporaries such as physicist Ernst Mach and biologist Ernst Haeckel and influencing authors Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Max Nordau.

Free Download Immanuel Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason "
English | ISBN: 0521657296 | | 785 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple, direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the translation displays a philosophical and textual sophistication that will enlighten Kant scholars as well. This translation recreates as far as possible a text with the same interpretative nuances and richness as the original.

Free Download Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity "
English | ISBN: 0197767931 | 2024 | 376 pages | EPUB | 662 KB
Norms and obligations are central components of many religious traditions. Yet they have often been neglected as objects of reflection in the study of religion relative to belief, experience, and even the related category of ritual. More surprisingly, despite the centrality of mitzvah (commandment) in Judaism, halakhah (Jewish law) has only recently become a central topic in modern Jewish thought. This book rectifies these deficiencies while forging new connections between reflection on religion and modern Jewish thought by offering what it calls a critique of halakhic reason. Such a critique delineates the rational constraints on the justification of the commandments and the practical consequences for their jurisprudence. It also asks whether uniquely "religious reasons" even exist and draws conclusions for several areas of study.

Free Download Bernard E. Harcourt, "Critique and Praxis"
English | ISBN: 0231195729 | 2020 | 696 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to engage only in critique. These times of crisis demand more.

Free Download Coping with Work Stress: A Review and Critique By Philip J. Dewe, Michael P. O’Driscoll, Cary L. Cooper
2010 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0470997664 | PDF | 2 MB
Coping with Work Stress: A Review and Critique highlights current research relating to the coping strategies of individuals and organizations, and provides best practice techniques for dealing with the growing epidemic of stress and lack of overall well-being at work.Reviews and critiques the most current research focusing on workplace stressProvides ‘best practice’ techniques for dealing with stress at the workplaceExtends beyond stress to cover broader issues of well-being at work