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Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Martin Hagglund  Publisher Comments Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious "turn" in Derrida's thinking, Hägglund argues that a radical atheism informs...
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A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy
by James Bono Publisher Comments A Future for the Humanities: Praxis, Heteronomy, Invention brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the pressing question of...
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Existentialism for Beginners (For Beginners)
by David Cogswell Publisher Comments Existentialism For Beginners is a lighthearted romp through the history of a philosophical movement that had broad-reaching influence on Western culture, politics and the arts during the period of mid-19th century through the late 20th century, and still...
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Ideologies of Theory, New Edition
by Fredric Jameson Publisher Comments A definitive collection of Jameson's early essays. For the first time, this classic collection of Fredric Jameson's theoretical essays is published in one volume. Most of these pieces were composed under a particular set of constraints—the need to...
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Event and World
by Claude Romano Publisher Comments The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However central they may be to the question of being in...
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Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics (St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs)
by Grant Gillett Synopsis This book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. It examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity...
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Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence
by David Benatar Publisher Comments Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about whether...
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Spinoza
by Michael Rocca Publisher Comments Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was one of towering philosophers of the Seventeenth century. Renowned for his metaphysics, he also made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy...
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Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place, World
by Jeff Malpas Publisher Comments This groundbreaking inquiry into the centrality of place in Martin Heidegger's thinking offers not only an illuminating reading of Heidegger's thought but a detailed investigation into the way in which the concept of place relates to core philosophical...
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Was Jesus God?
by Richard Swinburne Synopsis Writing clearly and powerfully, Swinburne argues that it is probable that the main Christian doctrines about the nature of God and his actions in the world are true. In virtue of his omnipotence and perfect goodness, the author shows, God must be a...
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And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay
by R. Buckminster Fuller Publisher Comments Buckminster Fuller (1895a 1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his...
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The Will: Volume 1, Dual Aspect Theory
by B. O'shaughnessy Publisher Comments 'O\'Shaughnessy investigates bodily action in a new edition of this classic work of analytical philosophy.'...
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The Ultimate Book of Knowledge: Everything You Need to Know
by Publisher Comments From the human body to the solar system, and from the American Revolution to the continent of Africa, The Ultimate Book of Knowledge offers young readers a dazzling source of information on virtually any topic they can dream of. Packed with full-color...
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The Mythology of American Politics: A Critical Response to Fundamental Questions
by John T. Bookman Publisher Comments In this provocative set of essays, John Bookman delves beneath the transitory issues of the day to identify and respond to the fundamental, perennial questions of American politics. The questions concern the myths that shape the thinking of so many...
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Philosophy and Medicine #97: Altering Nature: Volume I: Concepts of a Naturea (TM) and a The Naturala (TM) in Biotechnology Debates
by Andrew B. Lustig Synopsis This volume analyzes concepts of nature and a the naturala (TM) in discussions of biotechnology with four broad concerns in mind. First, it surveys the recent history of biotechnology debates and identifies characteristic reactions and approaches to new...
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Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
by Terry Melanson Publisher Comments Presenting an advanced and authoritative perspective, this definitive study chronicles the rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious Enlightenment-era guild surrounded by myth. Describing this enigmatic community in...
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Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
by Simon Critchley Synopsis A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy. Infinitely Demanding is the clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics. Part diagnosis of the times,...
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Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics (Posthumanities)
by David Wills Publisher Comments In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should...
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de Rerum Natura (the Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation
by Titus Lucretius Carus Publisher Comments This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura is Lucretius' majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurian physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds over...
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New Waves in Philosophy of Technology
by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Publisher Comments The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations that currently limit the fields of philosophy of...
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