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Bochenski, Joseph M., 1902- Title Contemporary European philosophy. Translated from the German by Donald Nicholl and Karl Aschenbrenner [from the 2d rev. German ed.] Publisher Berkeley, University of California Press, 1956 Description xviii, 326 p. 22 cm Note Bibliography: p. [267]-321 Contents I. Origin of contemporary philosophy. The nineteenth century: The nature and growth of modern philosophy, Kant, Romanticism, Main currents ; The crisis: The changing situation, The crisis in Newtonian physics, The critique of science, The crisis of mathematics: mathematical logic, The phenomenological method, Vitalistic irrationalism, The renaissance of realist metaphysics, Return to speculation, Pluralism ; The beginning of the twentieth century: Characteristics, The empiricists, Idealism ; Main currents of contemporary philosophy: The schools, Influences, The relative importance of the systems, General characteristics, External features. -- II. Philosophy of matter. Bertrand Russell: English neorealism, Common characteristics of neorealism, Bertrand Russell's personality and development, Concept of philosophy, Pluralism and realism, Psychology ; Neopostivism: Ancestry and chief representatives, Characteristics and evolution, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Logic and experience, The meaning of statement, Protocol sentences, Hans Reichenbach, Analytical philosophy ; Dialectical materialism: Characteristics, Origin and representatives, Developments in Russia, Materialism, Dialectical evolution: monism and determinism, Psychology, Epistemology, Values. -- III. Philosophy of the idea. Benedetto Croce: Italian philosophy and Croce's position, Life, work, characteristics, Main theses, The aesthetic synthesis, The logical synthesis, The practical synthesis, History and philosophy ; Le�n Brunschvicg: Historical background and characteristics, Idealism, The modality of the judgment, The levels of the spirit's life, The religion of the spirit ; Neo-Kantianism: The neo-Kantian school, The thinkers, General fundamental assumptions, The Marburg school, The Baden school, Bruno Bauch. -- IV. Philosophy of life. Henri Bergson: Origins and characteristics, Duration and intuition, Epistemology and psychology, Life and evolution, Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of religion ; Pragmatism and Bergsonism: Pragmatism, William James, English pragmatism, John Dewey, The dialectical school, Bergsonism ; Historicism and German life-philosophy: Characteristics, historicism, Wilhelm Dilthey, Dilthey's successors, German life-philosophy. -- V. Philosophy of essence. Edmund Husserl: Development, importance, Criticism of nominalism, Doctrine of meaning, The phenomenological method, Reduction: bracketing, Intentionality, idealism ; Max Scheler: Personality, Influences, Development, Epistemology, Values, Person and community, Man and God, Love. -- VI. Philosophy of existence. The general character of existentialist philosophy: What is existentialism is not, Its representatives, Origins, Common features ; Martin Heidegger: Origins, characteristics, Problem and method, Being-in-the world, "Thereness" and concern, Man and being-unto-death, Conscience and resoluteness, Temporality and historicity, Transcendence and nothingness ; Jean-Paul Sartre: His work and his character, Being-in-itself, Being-for-itself, Consciousness and freedom, Being-for-another, Possibility, value, and God, Theory of knowledge ; Gabriel Marcel: Development and characteristics, Basic ideas ; Karl Jaspers: Characteristics and influences, The search for being, World orientation, Existence, Communication, Situation and historicity, Freedom and guilt, Transcendence, Cypher reading and failure. -- VII. Philosophy of being. Metaphysics: The concept of metaphysics, The metaphysical philosophers, Influences, Characteristics, The French philosophie de l'esprit: Louis Lavelle, Samuel Alexander, Paul Hab̈erlin ; Nicolai Hartmann: Characteristics, Metaphysics and ontology, The givenness of real being, The dimensions and forms of being, Spiritual being, Ethics, freedom of the will ; Alfred North Whitehead: Characteristics, development, Philosophy, Criticism of materialism, The theory of organic mechanism, Epistemology, Psychology, Metaphysics, God ; Thomism: Characteristics and representatives, Being, act and potency, Philosophy of nature, Spirit, Knowledge, God, Ethics. -- Appendix. Mathematical logic: Significance and general characteristics, Basic concepts, Prepositional logic, Predicate logic and class logic, The logic of relations, Semiotics, Some special problems and theories ; International organizations: International Congress of Philosophy, The International Institute of Philosophy, International Federation of Philosophical Organizations |