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Truth and Existence

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226735238, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
143 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Truth and Existence", written in response to Martin Heidegger's "Essence of Truth", is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging t...

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Philosophy

Imagination and Interpretation in Kant The Hermeneutical Import of the Critique of Judgment

Makkreel Rudolf A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226502779, University of Chicago Press, March 1995
195 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this illuminating study of Kant's theory of imagination and its role in interpretation, Rudolf A. Makkreel argues against the commonly held notion that Kant's transcendental philosophy is incompatible with hermeneutics. The charge that Kant's foun...

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Philosophy

Elevations The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Cohen Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112756, ISBN: HB: 9780226112749, University of Chicago Press, December 1994
364 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

"Elevations" is a series of closely related essays on the ground-breaking philosophical and theological work of Emmanuel Levinas and Franz Rosenzweig, two of the twentieth century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of trans...

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Philosophy

Arendt, Camus and Modern Rebellion

Isaac Jeffrey C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300060546, Yale University Press, September 1994
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

The works of Hannah Arendt and Albert Camus – two of the most compelling political thinkers of the "resistance generation" that lived through World War II – can still provide penetrating insights for contemporary political reflection. Jeffrey C. Isaa...

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Philosophy

American Philosopher Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn

Borradori Giovanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226066486, University of Chicago Press, March 1994
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's "The American Scholar", this book explores the identity of the American phi...

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Philosophy

Concept of Political Judgment

Steinberger Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226771939, ISBN: HB: 9780226771915, University of Chicago Press, September 1993
317 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

What is good political judgment? Is it a science subject to strict standards of logic and inference, or is it more like an art, the product of intuition, feeling, or even chance? Peter J. Steinberger shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of in...

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Philosophy

Phenomenology and Deconstruction Volume Two: Method and Imagination

Denoon Cumming Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226123691, ISBN: HB: 9780226123684, University of Chicago Press, January 1993
404 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Husserl had captured me, I saw everything in terms of the perspectives of his philosophy", wrote Sartre of his conversion to Husserl's phenomenology. In the present volume Cumming analyzes Sartre's transformation of Husserl's phenomenological method...

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Philosophy

Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment

Zammito John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226978550, University of Chicago Press, August 1992
490 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this philosophically sophisticated and historically significant work, John H. Zammito reconstructs Kant's composition of The Critique of Judgment and reveals that it underwent three major transformations before publication. He shows that Kant not...

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Philosophy

Logic of Reflection German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Roberts Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780300052077, Yale University Press, June 1992
256 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm

This lucid and original book offers a detailed and critical exposition of German metaphysics and philosophy of logic during the past century. Julian Roberts sets his argument in the context of the current debate between "analytical" and "continental"...

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Philosophy

Phenomenology and Deconstruction Volume One: The Dream is Over

Denoon Cumming Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226123677, ISBN: HB: 9780226123660, University of Chicago Press, January 1992
263 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Philosophy as... a rigorous science... the dream is over", Edward Husserl once declared. Heidegger (Husserl's successor), Derrida, and Rorty have propounded versions of "the end of philosophy". Cumming argues that what would count as philosophy's co...

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