Will Large's Pages

This website is delighted to host some of the work of Dr Will Large, a distinguished philosopher and teacher. Get details of Will's excellent book on Blanchot here.

The files are grouped according to theme:

Aesthetics

On aesthetics (esp. for media students)
Kant

Introduction to Kant
Kant's Copernican Turn
Kant on space and time
Kant on metaphysical deduction
Kant on transcendental deduction


Atheism



Descartes (the Meditations)
Lectures 
Doubt
Cogito
Wax
God
Truth
Material substance
Mind-Body
Powerpoints        
Doubt
Cogito
Wax
God
Truth
Material substance
Mind-body



Phenomenology

What is phenomenology?
Intentionality
Noesis and noema
The question of Being
Being in the world
The 'They'
Anxiety
'Being There'
'Being to Death'
Greek Philosophy

Pre-Socratics
Heraclitus
Parmenides
The Sophists
Stoics
Socrates
Plato's Metaphysics
Aristotle
Plato and Aristotle on ethics
Theaetetus



Spinoza

What is substance?
From Descartes to Spinoza
Substance
Modes
Spinoza's parallelism
Spinoza's materialism
Spinoza's ethics
Joy and sadness
Mastery of the affects
The vision of necessity
Empire

Biopolitics
Alternative to the Empire
Creative Politics
Modernity
The End of Postmodernism
The Geometry of Politics
The New Subjectivity
The New Deal
The Information Age
Mulitplicity
Pessimism
Philosophy and Literature: Blanchot

The Other Death: Language Wrtiting and Dread
Anxiety and Writing
Why Write?
What Does the Philosopher Want?
Dying Without Death and the Nothingness of Literature
Literature and the impossibility of Death
The Solitude of Writing
Language and the Image -- Two Versions of the Imaginary
Philosophy of Religion

Hegel and the Unity of Opposites
Kant and the Invisible Church
Kant's Morality and the Existence of God
Nietzsche and Moral Nihilism
Nietzsche and the Death of God
Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity
The Existential Turn to God: Franz Rosenzweig
Hegel's Philosophy of Religion
Theology Today
Transcendental Theology
Philosophy and Literature

Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics
Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment
Art of the Modern Age
Heidegger's Philosophy of Art
Kant's Theory of Taste
Literature and the Right to Death
Nihilism, Art, Technology and Politics
Seeing Things
The Narrative Voice
The Origin of the Work of Art
Truth and Art

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