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Event and World (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
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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Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Mark Richardson Publisher Comments In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that was the basis for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a book that has inspired generations with its searching personal and philosophical narrative. After...
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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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Paradoxes
by R. M. Sainsbury Publisher Comments A paradox can be defined as an unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises. Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary...
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Oxford Handbook of Skepticism
by John Greco Publisher Comments In the history of philosophical thought, few themes loom as large as skepticism. Skepticism has been the most visible and important part of debates about knowledge. Skepticism at its most basic questions our cognitive achievements, challenges our ability...
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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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Lacan and the Destiny of Literature: Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery (Continuum Literary Studies)
by Ehsan Azari Synopsis An original study aiming to explain fully Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts....
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
by John Locke Publisher Comments John Locke's classic work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding laid the foundation of British empiricism and remains of enduring interest today. Rejecting doctrines of innate principles and ideas, Locke shows how all our ideas, even the most abstract...
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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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The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited
by John E. Carroll Publisher Comments Humanism built Western civilization as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassadors are the heroes of modern culture—Erasmus...
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The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I: Human Nature; Part II: de Corpore Politico with Three Lives
by Thomas Hobbes Synopsis Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His...
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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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Derrida and Legal Philosophy
by Peter Goodrich Publisher Comments From early in his career Jacques Derrida was intrigued by law. Over time, this fascination with law grew more manifest and he published a number of highly influential analyses of ethics, justice, violence and law. This book brings together leading...
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