A Heidegger Dictionary enables the student to read Heidegger's immensely rich and varied works with understanding, and assigns him to his rightful place in both contemporary philosophy and in the history of the subject.

A Heidegger Dictionary enables the student to read Heidegger's immensely rich and varied works with understanding, and assigns him to his rightful place in both contemporary philosophy and in the history of the subject.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Hegela s philosophical thought via a systematic exploration of over 100 key terms, from 'absolutea to 'willa . By exploring both the etymological background of such terms and Hegela s particular use of them, Michael Inwood clarifies for the modern reader much that has been regarded as difficult and obscure in Hegela s work.

The social, educational and political writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau have become enormously influential in the 200 years since his death. But the breadth as well as the depth of Rousseau's achievement - he was amongst other things a creative writer and musical composer as well as a philosopher - is not always appreciated. In around 100 articles, alphabetically arranged and f...(展开全部)

In this new lexical survey of Kanta s works, Howard Caygill presents Kantian concepts and terminology in terms that will introduce and clarify his ideas for students and general readers alike.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Hegela s philosophical thought via a systematic exploration of over 100 key terms, from 'absolutea to 'willa . By exploring both the etymological background of such terms and Hegela s particular use of them, Michael Inwood clarifies for the modern reader much that has been regarded as difficult and obscure in Hegela s work.

From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention–and a fascinating, comic, deepl...(展开全部)

This book defines over 5,000 terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings, each executed in Mr. Ching's signature style.