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À qui les philosophes s’adressent-ils ? Engagent-ils un dialogue intempestif ou contradictoire avec un « petit nombre » d’experts ? Avec tous ceux qu’ils peuvent toucher, ou bien encore parlent-ils à quelque grand nombre à venir ? Le fait se complique du droit : il faut qu’un plus grand nombre d’hommes accèdent à l’exigence qui, au mieux, se manifeste par la philosophie. Faire sortir la philosophie de sa réserve fut la préoccupation des « Lumières ». Rousseau, Hume, Kant, notamment, affrontèrent l’impératif exprimé par Diderot : « Il faut rendre la philosophie populaire ! ». Des auteurs plus obscurs le reprirent en des pays différents ; ce fourmillement de tentatives reste à interroger. Les études ici réunies tentent d’aborder l’énigme de cette « popularité de la philosophie ». Un dossier fournit des textes « d’époque », rapportant le ton singulier de cette perspective complexe. Est-ce la nôtre ? Et comment ?

Filosofie en beschaving --- Philosophie et civilisation --- Philosophy and civilization --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Philosophie moderne --- Philosophy --- Popular works --- History and criticism --- Modern philosophy --- philosophie --- sens commun --- histoire --- philosophie moderne

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This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in the analytic tradition, and the late modern period in non-analytic traditions. In its unusually wide range, A. W. Moore's study refutes the tired old cliché that there is some unbridgeable gulf between analytic philosophy and philosophy of other kinds. It also advances its own distinctive and compelling conception of what metaphysics is and why it matters. Moore explores how metaphysics can help us to cope with continually changing demands on our humanity by making sense of things in ways that are radically new.

Metaphysics --- Philosophy, Modern --- Modern philosophy --- History --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie moderne --- History. --- Histoire --- Metaphysics. --- Metaphysik. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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Bringing together social science researchers from France, Israel, the United States, Belgium and Switzerland, this book analyses contemporary Jewishness within the constant dialectic between faithfulness to Jewish tradition and culture and adherence to the values of modernity and democracy. Systems of family and gender normativity have durably influenced the traditional Jewish universe, but the norms and the institutions that embody them are today shaky. Individualization the essence of modernity is at work in the Jewish world, as it is elsewhere, and new identities are emerging and question the transmission of Jewish identities and traditions. The contributions here highlight the contrasting experiences of societies in the Diaspora and in Israeli society societies that are different, yet sometimes very close because of tensions around religious and identity boundaries. As such, this book revisits the relationship to the other and the conditions for an alliance among people, a notion dear to Judaism.

Jewish law --- Judaism --- Philosophy, Modern --- Droit juif --- Judaïsme --- Philosophy. --- Influence. --- Philosophie --- Histoire --- Philosophie moderne --- Judaïsme --- Modern philosophy --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Religion

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Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.

Aesthetics [Modern ] --- Bildungsroman --- Esthetica (Moderne filosofie) --- Esthetica [Moderne ] --- Esthétique (Philosophie moderne) --- Esthétique moderne --- Modern aesthetics --- Moderne esthetica --- Roman éducatif --- Aesthetics, Modern. --- Bildungsromans --- European fiction --- German fiction --- History and criticism. --- Aesthetics, Modern --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Literature: history & criticism

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The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic interactions between theories of knowledge and of matter, experiments, observations, moral, theological and scientific claims, analogies, metaphors, imitations, and specific objects or artifacts. The main objective of this book is to retrace these interactions within different disciplinary, methodological and conceptual perspectives that reach from soul-body debates to models of organic molecules, fibre bodies and self-regulating clocks. Contributors are Tobias Cheung, Charles T. Wolfe, Ann Thomson, Hanns-Peter Neumann and Yvonne Wübben. Originally published as Volume XV, Nos. 1-2 (2010) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine .

Philosophical anthropology --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Animals (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Anthropologie philosophique --- Mécanisme (Philosophie) --- Animaux (Philosophie) --- Philosophie moderne --- History. --- Histoire --- Modern philosophy --- Philosophy --- Mechanistic philosophy --- Philosophy, Mechanistic --- Biology --- Life (Biology) --- Materialism --- Naturalism --- Science --- Vitalism