Philip J. Kain

{{short description|American philosopher}}

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Philip Joseph Kain (born May 21, 1943) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University.{{cite web |title=Philip J. Kain |url=https://www.scu.edu/cas/philosophy/faculty-and-staff/philip-j-kain/kain.html |website=College of Arts and Sciences - Santa Clara University}} He is known for his works on post-Kantian philosophy.{{cite web |title=Philip Kain |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E7D5iMkAAAAJ&hl=en |website=Google Scholar Citations}}{{cite journal |last1=McNeal |first1=Michael J. |title=Nietzsche and the Horror of Existence by Philip J. Kain (review) |journal=The Journal of Nietzsche Studies |date=9 May 2013 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=123–125 |doi=10.5325/jnietstud.44.1.0123 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/506859/pdf |language=en |issn=1538-4594}}{{cite journal |last1=Riemer |first1=Neal |title=Book Reviews : Philip J. Kain, Marx and Ethics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988. Pp. 222, $35.00 (cloth |journal=Philosophy of the Social Sciences |date=1 September 1991 |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=409–412 |doi=10.1177/004839319102100309 |s2cid=144276720 |language=en |issn=0048-3931}}

Books

  • Schiller, Hegel, and Marx: State, Society, and the Aesthetic Ideal of Ancient Greece. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1982.
  • Marx' Method, Epistemology, and Humanism: A Study in the Development of His Thought. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1986.
  • Marx and Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Paperback edition 1991.
  • Marx and Modern Political Theory: From Hobbes to Contemporary Feminism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993.
  • Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.
  • Nietzsche and the Horror of Existence. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Lexington Books, 2009.
  • Hegel and Right: A Study of the Philosophy of Right. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018.
  • Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2023.

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