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Decent Life Morality for the Rest of Us
ISBN: PB: 9780226786346, ISBN: HB: 9780226609744, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
You're probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let's face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you?   In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair – and it's also easy to judge ourselv...
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Deconstruction An American Institution
ISBN: PB: 9780226536057, ISBN: HB: 9780226535869, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that h...
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£26,00
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£76,00
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Doing
ISBN: HB: 9780857427847, Seagull Books, December 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Doing", Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most prominent and lucid articulators of contemporary French theory and philosophy, examines the precarious but urgent relationship between being and doing. His book is not so much a call to action as a summons...
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Dance of Values Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project
ISBN: PB: 9783035801088, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
240 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 30 halftones
Sergei Eisenstein's cinematic adaptation of Karl Marx's "Capital" was never realized, yet it has haunted the imagination of many filmmakers, historians, and philosophers to the present day".Dance of Values" aims to conjure the phantom of Eisenstein's...
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David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society
ISBN: PB: 9780300207149, Yale University Press, November 2018
408 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars explo...
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Decoding Chomsky Science and Revolutionary Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780300228762, ISBN: HB: 9780300221466, Yale University Press, February 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern...
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£18,99
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Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable
ISBN: PB: 9780226483696, ISBN: HB: 9780226483559, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 20 line drawings
We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In "Deep Ref...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Death Penalty, Volume II
ISBN: HB: 9780226410821, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a...
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Dr. Freud, Fish Whisperer
ISBN: HB: 9783035800074, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, fully illustrated in colour
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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Diogenes the Dog-Man
ISBN: HB: 9783037349335, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, fully illustrated in colour
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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