Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's path-breaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Chidester, Jonestown recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is ancient history," writes Chidester, but it does provide us with an opportunity "to reflect upon the strangeness of familiar ...promises of redemption through sacrifice." David Chidester is Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town and author or editor of 20 books, including "American Sacred Space" (IUP, 1995), edited with Edward T. Linenthal, and "Christianity: A Global History".

The categorial structure of the world

Politics & Social Sciences

Grossmann, Reinhardt

Philosophy

Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN

Reinhardt Grossmann argues that a realistic ontology in regard to perceptual, physical, and mathematical objects can be combined with an empirical theory of knowledge. He shows that the traditional distinction between primary and secondary qualities leads to idealism, while the common Cartesian conception of knowledge by way of ideas leads to scepticism. In order to avoid these twin scourges of modern philosophy, the author argues for the existence of ordinary perceptual objects and explains how we know these objects directly through simple acts of perception. The book is concerned with the way in which we know what is in our minds, Grossmann maintains, is just as fallible as perception. The author concludes that logic, arithmetic, and set theory concern matters of facts and that we discover these facts empirically. Reinhardt Grossmann was born in Berlin,Germany and travelled as a young student to the United States, where he studied philosophy with Gustav Bergmann. Grossmann was professor of philosophy at Indiana University in Bloomington. He lives in Austin, Texas today and is considered one of the most distinguished ontologists in the United States.

The Fourth Way: A Theory of Knowledge

Indiana Univ. Pr

Ontological reduction (Indiana University humanities series, v. 72)

Indiana University Press

Structure of Mind

The University of Wisconsin Press

The Existence of the World: An Introduction to Ontology (Routledge Library Editions: Metaphysics)

Originally published in 1992.&nbsp;The history of Western philosophy can be seen as a battle between those that insist that the "physical universe" exists and those would claim that there is a much larger "world" which contains atemporal and nonspatial things as well. The central part of this book, and the battle, concerns the existence of universals. Starting with the mediaeval definition of the issue found in Porphry and Boethius, the author then considers modern and contemporary versions of the battle. He concludes that what is at stake between naturalists and ontologists is the existence and nature of a number of important categories, like structures, relations, sets, numbers and so on.

The Existence of the World (Routledge Library Editions: Metaphysics)

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Routledge

Originally published in 1992. The history of Western philosophy can be seen as a battle between those that insist that the "physical universe" exists and those would claim that there is a much larger "world" which contains atemporal and nonspatial things as well. The central part of this book, and the battle, concerns the existence of universals. Starting with the mediaeval definition of the issue found in Porphry and Boethius, the author then considers modern and contemporary versions of the battle. He concludes that what is at stake between naturalists and ontologists is the existence and nature of a number of important categories, like structures, relations, sets, numbers and so on.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Meinong (Arguments of the Philosophers)

Reference

Professor Grossman’s introduction to the revolutionary work of Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre studies the ideas of their predecessors too, explaining in detail Descartes’s conception of the mind, Brentano’s theory of intentionality, and Kierkegaard’s emphasis on dread, while tracing the debate over existence and essence as far back as Aquinas and Aristotle. For a full understanding of the existentialists and phenomenologists, we must also understand the problems that they were trying to solve. This book, originally published in 1984, presents clearly how the main concerns of phenomenology and existentialism grew out of tradition.

Phenomenology and Existentialism: An Introduction

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Professor Grossmann believes that for a full understanding of the existentialists and phenomenologists we must also understand the problems that they were trying to solve, problems inherited from the philosophical tradition. This book shows clearly how the main concerns of phenomenology and existentialism grew out of tradition.

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The categorial structure of the world

The Fourth Way: A Theory of Knowledge

Ontological reduction (Indiana University humanities series, v. 72)

Structure of Mind

The Existence of the World (Routledge Library Editions: Metaphysics)

The Existence of the World: An Introduction to Ontology (Routledge Library Editions: Metaphysics)

Meinong (Arguments of the Philosophers)

Phenomenology and Existentialism: An Introduction

Meinong (Arguments of the Philosophers)

Phenomenology and Existentialism: An Introduction