Best of
Philosophy

1935

Parables and Paradoxes


Franz Kafka - 1935
    

The Blue and Brown Books


Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1935
    The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-34. The 'Brown Book' was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination & growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Witgenstein's later work. It's indispensable therefore to students of Witgenstein's thought & to all those who wish to study at firsthand the mental processes of a thinker who fundamentally changed the course of modern philosophy.PrefaceThe Blue BookThe Brown BookIndex

Our Enemy, the State


Albert Jay Nock - 1935
    The introduction is by Edumund A. Opitz, founder, the Nockian Society.

Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact


Ludwik Fleck - 1935
    Arguing that every scientific concept and theory—including his own—is culturally conditioned, Fleck was appreciably ahead of his time. And as Kuhn observes in his foreword, "Though much has occurred since its publication, it remains a brilliant and largely unexploited resource.""To many scientists just as to many historians and philosophers of science facts are things that simply are the case: they are discovered through properly passive observation of natural reality. To such views Fleck replies that facts are invented, not discovered. Moreover, the appearance of scientific facts as discovered things is itself a social construction, a made thing. A work of transparent brilliance, one of the most significant contributions toward a thoroughly sociological account of scientific knowledge."—Steven Shapin, Science

Nationalism And Culture


Rudolf Rocker - 1935
    Tracing the evolution of religious and political systems and their relation to the authoritarian state, Rocker analyses concepts of ‘Nation’ as alleged communities of race, culture, language,and common interest.

The Crisis of the European Mind


Paul Hazard - 1935
    With clarity as well as a sharp eye for historical detail, Hazard depicts the progressive erosion of the respect for tradition, stability, proportion, and settled usage that had characterized classicism. He shows how a new awareness of the countries beyond Europe encouraged a fresh critical re-evaluation of European institutions and how the growth of modern science and scientific method threatened the accepted intellectual order, while also prompting prosecution of free inquiry.Hazard goes on to consider the situation of the new thinkers who confronted this turbulent world, from Locke, who sought the foundations of reality in sensation and so paved the way for Rousseau, to Bayle, the Huguenot exile whose great dictionary taught Voltaire and his generation that morality could be separated from religion. Throughout, Hazard conveys the excitement of a revolution, the impact of which continues to be felt in our own time.

Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers


Kathleen Banks Freeman - 1935
    This book is a complete translation of the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers given in the fifth edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.

The Conquest of Violence: an Essay on War and Revolution (The Libertarian Critique)


Bart De Ligt - 1935
    

The Works Of Thomas Lovell Beddoes


Thomas Lovell Beddoes - 1935
    Reprints the very scarce Oxford edition of Beddoes' Complete Works.

Science and the Human Temperment.


Erwin. Schrodinger - 1935
    ASIN: B000WW46ZQ

Collectivist Economic Planning: Critical Studies


Friedrich A. Hayek - 1935
    

Heritage of Our Times


Ernst Bloch - 1935
    Recalling work by Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School, Ernst Bloch's study of everyday life and politics during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany is a brilliant historical analysis of the cultural conditions leading to German fascism.A half-century later, Bloch's prescient meditations on culture and politics still retain their explosive power and are certain to provoke controversy and discussion among cultural critics, philosophers, social theorists, and historians. In their Introduction, the translators contextualize the book within the political and intellectual tendencies of the period and Bloch's other work.

The Art of Happiness


John Cowper Powys - 1935
    

Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity


Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1935
    A documentary and analytical record, the book presents the classical background of primitivism and anti-primitivism in modern literature, historiography, and social and moral philosophy, and comprises chapters that center around particular ancient concepts and authors, including cynicism, stoicism, epicureanism, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, and Cicero. According to the authors in their preface, "there is some reason to think that this background is not universally familiar to those whose special field of study lie within the period of the Renaissance to our own time"; this book, in which the original Greek and Latin sources stand side by side with their English translations, will prove useful to scholars from a variety of disciplines who study this period.

The State In Catholic Thought; A Treatise In Political Philosophy


Heinrich A Rommen - 1935