Peter Munz
Biographic Data
| ID | 274593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Munz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Munz |
| SIGNATURE | MUNZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When the Golden Bough Breaks: Structuralism or Typology?
This original, provocative study, first published in 1973, presents a new method of interpretation of mythology, and reveals the wide-ranging implications of this universal phenomenon for many disciplines. The volume begins with a sympathetic but critical examination of Lévi-Strauss’s interpretation of mythology. Professor Munz points out the deficiencies in structuralist interpretations, and takes Lévi-Strauss’s neglect of the historicity of all…
Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge (Routledge Revivals): Popper or Wittgenstein
Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants of knowledge; and Popper’s evolutionary epistemology…
The Story of My Engagements with the Past
My first engagement with the past was prompted by philosophical and political commitments to Plato and Marx and their theories of historical development. But these commitments were soon dislodged by the study of the history of the ideas of historical development of Burke, Locke and Hooker. Prompted by Hooker's intellectual background, these studies, in turn, led to further but different engagements with medieval history—first with the history of …
The Perception of Ingold’s Perceptions
The Poverty of Randall Collins’s Formal Sociology of Philosophy
Face au phenomene de regression a l'infini de la philosophie, et face aux diverses tentatives de relier la philosophie a d'autres disciplines telles que l'histoire, l'A. critique la conception trop formelle de la sociologie de l'esprit developpee par R. Collins, qui n'examine pas le contenu de la philosophie. Privilegiant l'idee de reseaux et de communautes de pensee, Collins presente une version universelle et appauvrie de l'argument developpe p…
The Quixotic Element in The Open Society
While the ethics and the sociology of The Open Society can stand up to criticism after 50 years, it is argued that Popper's thesis that closed societies are prompted and promoted by "historicism" cannot. Moreover, Popper's conceptions of "historicism" and of "developmental law" are based on a misunderstanding of our knowledge of history, the practice of historical writing, and the discipline of sociology. In conclusion there is an attempt to expl…
Darwin in Italy. Science across cultural frontiers
Darwin in Italy. Science across cultural frontiers." History of European Ideas, 21(2), p. 312
Darwinisme et société
How Nietzsche's Idea about Language Came to be Transformed into Derrida's Ideology of Deconstruction
The meaning of evolution
Philosophical Darwinism: On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection
Philosophers have not taken the evolution of human beings seriously enough. If they did, argues Peter Munz, many long standing philosophical problems would be resolved. One of the philosophical consequences of biology is that all the knowledge produced in evolution is a priori, i.e., established hypothetically by chance mutation and selective retention, not by observation and intelligent induction. For organisms as embodied theories, selection is…
The Rhetoric of Rhetoric
One of the remarkable features of the second half of our century is the revival of an interest in rhetoric, always alleged to be the art of persuasion not by truth or reason or any other authority but by a number of irrational, psychologically effective, devices, which an earlier more rational age might have dismissed as irrelevant tricks. Rhetoric, broadly speaking, had its heyday before science and reason and declined as science grew. Why the r…
The Measure of Times Past. Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time
Letters
The spectre of feudalism
Edmund Leach, S.N. Mukherjee and John Ward, eds, Feudalism: Comparative Studies. Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, No. 2. The Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, Sydney, 1985. 246pp. Notes,preface. Paper: npg
Sense perception and the reality of the world
THE EVIDENCE OF THE SENSES: A REALISTIC THEORY OF PERCEPTION by David Kelley Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. 286 pp., $24.95
Bloor's Wittgenstein or The Fly in the Bottle
Naissance de la nation France
Crisis in consciousness: The thought of Ernst Troeltsch
Crisis in consciousness: The thought of Ernst Troeltsch." History of European Ideas, 7(2), pp. 205–206
In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of Karl Popper on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
Historische Vernunft
History and imagination
Philosophy and the Mirror of Rorty
Oppositionelle Gruppen im Karolingerreich
Metaphern für Geschichte: Sprachbilder und Gleichnisse im historischpolitischen Denken. Alexander Demandt
When the Golden Bough Breaks: Structuralism or Typology
History and Myth
Journal Article History and Myth Get access Peter Munz Peter Munz Victoria University College, Wellington, N.Z Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 22, January 1956, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217333 Published: 01 January 1956
The Measure of Times Past. Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time
Sense perception and the reality of the world
THE EVIDENCE OF THE SENSES: A REALISTIC THEORY OF PERCEPTION by David Kelley Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. 286 pp., $24.95
Bloor's Wittgenstein or The Fly in the Bottle
The Story of My Engagements with the Past
My first engagement with the past was prompted by philosophical and political commitments to Plato and Marx and their theories of historical development. But these commitments were soon dislodged by the study of the history of the ideas of historical development of Burke, Locke and Hooker. Prompted by Hooker's intellectual background, these studies, in turn, led to further but different engagements with medieval history—first with the history of …
The Poverty of Randall Collins’s Formal Sociology of Philosophy
Face au phenomene de regression a l'infini de la philosophie, et face aux diverses tentatives de relier la philosophie a d'autres disciplines telles que l'histoire, l'A. critique la conception trop formelle de la sociologie de l'esprit developpee par R. Collins, qui n'examine pas le contenu de la philosophie. Privilegiant l'idee de reseaux et de communautes de pensee, Collins presente une version universelle et appauvrie de l'argument developpe p…
The Quixotic Element in The Open Society
While the ethics and the sociology of The Open Society can stand up to criticism after 50 years, it is argued that Popper's thesis that closed societies are prompted and promoted by "historicism" cannot. Moreover, Popper's conceptions of "historicism" and of "developmental law" are based on a misunderstanding of our knowledge of history, the practice of historical writing, and the discipline of sociology. In conclusion there is an attempt to expl…
The Rhetoric of Rhetoric
One of the remarkable features of the second half of our century is the revival of an interest in rhetoric, always alleged to be the art of persuasion not by truth or reason or any other authority but by a number of irrational, psychologically effective, devices, which an earlier more rational age might have dismissed as irrelevant tricks. Rhetoric, broadly speaking, had its heyday before science and reason and declined as science grew. Why the r…
Frederick Barbarossa and the ‘Holy Empire’
A New Experiment in Democracy: Elections in India
(1952). A New Experiment in Democracy: Elections in India. Political Science: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 3-13
Historical Understanding
Historical Understanding Get access Peter Munz Peter Munz Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 3, Issue 12, July 1953, Pages 193–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216574 Published: 01 July 1953
The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought
Book Reviews Get access The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought. By Peter Munz. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1952. Pp. x + 217. Price 18s). M. H. Carré M. H. Carré Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 15, April 1954, Page 182, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216387 Published: 01 April 1954
Basic Intuitions of East and West
IN HIS The Meeting of East and West,1 Professor F. S. C. Northrop has set himself a gigantic task. He has endeavored to work out the philosophical assumptions underlying various civilizations and to discover thereby in what ways some civilizations are incompatible with one another and in what way others are complementary to one another. There can be no doubt that this is a very worth-while project-perhaps one of the very few worth-while projects …
India and the West: A Synthesis
ALL THEOLOGICAL THINKING must, in the last analysis, be philosophical thinking, if by philosophical thinking one understands no more than rational reflection which will appeal to no other authority than to its own inherent plausibility and reasonableness. Reason, Locke wrote, be our last judge and guide in everything. I do not mean that we must consult reason, and examine whether a proposition revealed from God can be made out by natural principl…
Relationship and Solitude in Hinduism and Christianity
IN AN EARLIER PAPER in this Journal* I argued that the meeting of Eastern and Western ideas should not in itself be taken as an enrichment but as a task for philosophico-theological speculation. I am in no position to attempt to accomplish this task, but I would like in the present paper to draw attention to a number of problems that could be solved more satisfactorily than has hitherto been the case by a cross-fertilization between the Christian…
History and Myth
Journal Article History and Myth Get access Peter Munz Peter Munz Victoria University College, Wellington, N.Z Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 22, January 1956, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217333 Published: 01 January 1956
Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of Peace . A. Gewirth
The thirteenth century and the ideas of Marsilius of Padua
Alcuin and Charlemagne: Studies in Carolingian History and Literature . Luitpold Wallach
Untersuchungen zur karolingischen Annalistik . Harmut Hoffmann
John Cassian
In this paper I propose to give a description of the thought of John Cassian. There are two recent books on Cassian, one in English by Dr. Owen Chadwick and one in French, by Canon Christiani.I do not mean to go over the ground covered by these works but I have set myself the task of approaching the ideas of Cassian from a special point of view
Medieval history in Australasia or the end of the ancient World∗
Frederick Barbarossa and the ‘Holy Empire’
Frederick Barbarossa and Henry the Lion in 1176
Carlo Magno ed Harun al Rashid . Giosuè Musca Carlo Magno e l'Inghilterra anglosassone . Giosuè Musca
Relationship and Solitude
Book Reviews Get access Relationship and Solitude. By Peter Munz (London : Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1964. Pp. xii + 236. Price 30s). Ninian Smart Ninian Smart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 65, October 1966, Page 419, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218547 Published: 01 October 1966
Relationship and Solitude
Der "Lateran" der karolingischen Pfalz zu Aachen . Ludwig Falkenstein
Why did Rahewin stop writing the Gesta Frederici? A further consideration
Journal Article Why did Rahewin stop writing the Gesta Frederici? A further consideration Get access PETER MUNZ PETER MUNZ Victoria University of Wellington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIV, Issue CCCXXXIII, October 1969, Pages 771–779, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIV.CCCXXXIII.771 Published: 01 October 1969
A Sociology of Sociology
"The Problem of "Die Soziologische Verortung Des Antiken Gnostizismus
THE PROBLEM OF "DIE SOZIOLOGISCHE VERORTUNG DES ANTIKEN GNOSTIZISMUS" BY PETER MUNZ Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Hans G. Kippenberg's Versuch einer soziologischen Verortung des antiken Gnostizismus (Numen, XVII, Fasc. 3, December 1970) is one of the most interesting recent contributions to our understanding of Gnosticism and could inaugurate a new chapter in the study of the subject. His argument, however, is open to a number of…
The Problem of [Double Low-9 Quotation Mark]Die soziologische Verortung des antiken Gnostizismus
When the Golden Bough Breaks: Structuralism or Typology
Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought: A Comparison of the Theory of Claude Levi-Strauss and Louis Althusser
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