The Laughter of the Thracian Woman A Protohistory of Theory【電子書籍】[ Hans Blumenberg ]
【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める!】<p>An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, <em>The Laughter of the Thracian Woman</em> describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato's <em>Theaetetus</em> dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles down. A Thracian servant girl laughs, amused that he sought to understand what was above him when he was not mindful of what was right in front of him.</p> <p>Blumenberg sees the story as a highly sought substitute for our missing knowledge of the earliest historical events that would fit the label “theory.” By retelling the anecdote, philosophers reveal their distinctive values regarding absorption in curiosity, philosophy's past, and the demand that theorists abide by sanctioned methods and procedures. In th...
The Life and Death of States Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty【電子書籍】[ Natasha Wheatley ]
【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める!】<p><strong>An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order</strong></p> <p>Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The 1848 revolutions sparked decades of heady constitutional experimentation that pushed the very concept of “the state” to its limits. This intricate multinational polity became a hothouse for public law and legal philosophy and spawned ideas that still shape our understanding of the sovereign state today. <em>The Life and Death of States</em> traces the history of sovereignty over one hundred tumultuous years, explaining how a regime of nation-states theoretically equal under international law emerged from the ashes of a dynastic empire.</p> <p>Natasha Wheatley shows how a new sort of experimentation began when the First World War brou...