Does the law act for or against «the people»? Who are «the people»? This collection of essays by philosophers, historians, legal scholars, and others examines these questions in historical perspective; in law and literature; in contemporary, advanced, and developing societies; and with respect to gender and economics. What «the law» does and ought to represent is viewed semiotically as a problem admitting of no definitive answer.

This book presents Hartshorne's philosophical theology briefly, simply, and vividly. Throughout the centuries some of the world's most brilliant philosophers and theologians have held and perpetuated six beliefs that give the word God a meaning untrue to its import in sacred writings or in active religious devotion: God is absolutely perfect and therefore unchangeable 2.omnipotenc 3.omniscienc 4.God's unsympathetic goodness, 5.immortality as a career after death, and 6.revelationble Charles Hartshorne deals with these six theological mistakes from the standpoint of his (...) process theology. Hartshorne says, "The book is unacademic in so far as I am capable of being that." Only a master like Hartshorne could present such sophisticated ideas so simply. This book offers an option for religious belief not heretofore available to lay people. (shrink)

The philosophy of Spinoza is increasingly recognised as holding a position of crucial importance and influence in early modern thought, and in previous years has been the focus of a rich and growing body of scholarship. In this volume of essays, leading experts in the field offer penetrating analyses of his views about God, necessity, imagination, the mind, knowledge, history, society, and politics. The essays treat questions of perennial importance in Spinoza scholarship but also constitute critical examinations of his worldview. (...) Scholars of modern philosophy will value this volume as a collection of some of the very best work done on Spinoza's philosophy. (shrink)

I want to make the case that Wittgenstein’s limiting of knowledge claims to what we can doubt makes a significant contribution to aesthetics. We have known since Aristotle that works of art do not correlate very well with concerns for truth. Wittgenstein helps explain that fact without any idealist machinery with which to praise the distinctive value of the arts. In his framework, the arts matter simply because they focus on situations in which there need not be epistemic doubt. The (...) relevant questions become not ‘Is this true?’ but ‘Is this an illuminating presentation of some aspect of our cultural practices?’. (shrink)

This sketch of his life and work has been published in the hope that it may induce some readers to seek a closer acquaintance with his writings.

A l'intérieur d'une langue, il s'agit d'analyser le passage de la frontière des genres, le transfert des modèles ou des paradigmes, la situation sur l'« entre-deux » des domaines théoriques et des modèles grammaticaux comme élargissements de la notion de « traduction interne ». Cette réflexion s'étend aux questions de la traductibilité politique d'une doctrine ou d'une pensée, d'une politique de la traduction, du traducteur et de sa clandestinité dans la détermination des politiques culturelles. Si traita di analizzare, allinterno di (...) una stessa lingua, dove passa il confine fra generi, il trasferimento dei modelli dei paradigmi, la situazione dello « spazio intermedio » dei campi teoretici e grammaticali, in quanto allargamento délia nozione di « traduzione interna » . Questa riflessione si estende fino ai problemi di traducibilità política di una dottrina o di un pensiero, di una politica délia traduzione, del traduttore e délia sua clandestinità per quanto riguarda le polinche culturali. (shrink)

Introduction.--pt. I. The demonology of Thomas Aquinas.--pt. II. Thomas Aquinas as mediator between earlier and later beliefs.--Conclusion.--Bibliography (p. 185-188).