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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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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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Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: An Edited Anthology
by Frank Cameron Publisher Comments This book is an anthology that gathers together, for the first time, the political commentary and writings found throughout Nietzsche's corpus. Included is an historical introduction which demonstrates that Nietzsche was an observer of and responded...
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Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: An Edited Anthology
by Frank Cameron Publisher Comments This book is an anthology that gathers together, for the first time, the political commentary and writings found throughout Nietzsche's corpus. Included is an historical introduction which demonstrates that Nietzsche was an observer of and responded...
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The Consolation of Philosophy
by P. G. Walsh Publisher Comments Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust. Though a Christian, Boethius details the true end of...
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Virtue Epistemology: Motivation and Knowledge (Continuum Studies in Philosophy)
by Stephen Napier Synopsis Combining conceptual analysis with well established empirical evidence, this is an important new book in analytical epistemology....
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Epistemology After Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus
by Mi-kyoung Lee Publisher Comments Relativism, the position that things are for each as they seem to each, was first formulated in Western philosophy by Protagoras, the fifth-century BC Greek orator and teacher. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines the challenge to the possibility of expert knowledge...
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Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases
by Jr. Harris Publisher Comments Extend your analytical skills to moral deliberation with this best-selling engineering ethics text. ENGINEERING ETHICS: CONCEPTS AND CASES, 4E bridges the gap between theory and practice with more than 100 current case studies available in the text and...
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Sun Tzu's the Art of War
by Sun Tzu Publisher Comments The oldest known military treatise, Sun Tzu's the Art of War is still one of the world's most influential writings on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has...
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The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
by Ayn Rand Synopsis Written in the last decades of Rands life, these pieces reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity, while covering topics as diverse as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe....
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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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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus Vol. 2. Proclus on the Causes of the Cosmos and Its Creation (Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus)
by Proclus Publisher Comments This volume of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus records Proclus' exegesis of Timaeus 27a-31b, in which Plato first discusses preliminary matters that precede his account of the creation of the universe, and then moves to the account of the creation...
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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 constraintsthe need to...
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Nietzsche's 'on the Genealogy of Morality': An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts)
by Lawrence Hatab Publisher Comments Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is a forceful, perplexing, important book, radical in its own time and profoundly influential ever since. This introductory textbook offers a comprehensive, close reading of the entire work, with a section...
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What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog
by Steven D. Hales Publisher Comments Do dogs live in the same world as humans? Is it wrong to think dogs have personalities and emotions? What are dogs thinking and what’s the nature of canine wisdom? This is a book for thoughtful dog-lovers who want to explore the deeper issues...
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Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics
by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world's greatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarity on the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy, politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines...
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The Visible and the Revealed
by Jean-luc Marion Publisher Comments In The Visible and the Revealed, Jean-Luc Marion brings together his most significant papers dealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology. Covering the ground from some of his earliest writings on this topic to very recent reflections...
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New Waves in Aesthetics
by Kathleen Stock Publisher Comments Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of...
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Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation. Joe Hughes (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy)
by Joe Hughes Synopsis Makes an original and important contribution to Deleuze studies....
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