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Leo Strauss and Nietzsche
ISBN: PB: 9780226468266, ISBN: HB: 9780226468259, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The influential political philosopher Leo Strauss has been credited by conservatives with the recovery of the great tradition of political philosophy stretching back to Plato. Among Strauss's most enduring legacies is a strongly negative assessment o...
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Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger
ISBN: PB: 9780300072549, Yale University Press, October 1997
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, black&white illus.
This book is the first to tell in detail the story of the passionate and secret love affair between two of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Drawing on their previously unknown correspondenc...
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Leading a Human Life Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism
ISBN: PB: 9780226203133, ISBN: HB: 9780226203126, University of Chicago Press, October 1997
307 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this provocative new study, Richard Eldridge presents a highly original and compelling account of Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", one of the most enduring yet enigmatic works of the twentieth century. He does so by reading the text...
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Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason Volume One: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History
ISBN: PB: 9780226254685, ISBN: HB: 9780226254678, University of Chicago Press, September 1997
356 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent th...
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£76,00
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Modernity on Endless Trial
ISBN: PB: 9780226450469, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
267 pp., 23x15 cm
Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English.
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Why We Are Not Nietzscheans
ISBN: PB: 9780226244815, ISBN: HB: 9780226244808, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
242 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"To think with Nietzsche against Nietzsche". Thus the editors describe the strategy adopted in this volume to soften the destructive effects of Nietzsche's "philosophy with a hammer" on French philosophy since the 1960s. Frustrated by the infinite in...
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Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics
ISBN: PB: 9780300070897, Yale University Press, April 1997
256 pp., 23x14 cm
In this historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts among various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive critique of Gadamer's view of hermeneutic...
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