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Back in the USSR
ISBN: HB: 9781906497279, Seagull Books, November 2009
88 pp., 19x11.9 cm
Though it has been nearly two decades since the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union and the accompanying disintegration of the Soviet state, a strange aspect of the current cultural situation in Russia and in the other former republics of th...
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£11,50
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Two Underdogs and a Cat Three Reflections on Communism
ISBN: HB: 9781906497286, Seagull Books, November 2009
112 pp., 18.4x11.2 cm
Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic here presents an unorthodox, imaginative take on the transition from Communism to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. Three characters – a dog, an underdog, and a cat – offer the reader narratives that reflect on...
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£13,00
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Why Arendt Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300136197, Yale University Press, August 2009
240 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Upon publication of her 'field manual', "The Origins of Totalitarianism", in 1951, Hannah Arendt immediately gained recognition as a major political analyst. Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books and developed a set of ideas that...
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£19,00
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Plato's Dialectical Ethics Phenomenological Interpretations Relating to the Philebus
ISBN: PB: 9780300159745, Yale University Press, March 2009
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Plato's Dialectical Ethics", Gadamer's earliest work, has now been translated into English for the first time. This classic book, published in 1931 and reprinted in 1967 and 1982, is still important today. It is one of the most extensive and imagina...
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£24,00
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