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Facets of the Human Condition Truthtelling and Being Human
ISBN: PB: 9781551647616, ISBN: HB: 9781551647630, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the leading thinker of politics and the humanities in the modern era and continues to draw widespread attention. No other scholar so enrages and engages citizens and scholars from all political persuasions, all the while...
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£17,95
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£53,95
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Forming Humanity Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780226618487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Kant's proclamation of humankind's emergence from "self-incurred immaturity" left his contemporaries with a puzzle: What models should we use to sculpt ourselves if we no longer look to divine grace or received authorities?  Deftly uncovering the roo...
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£30,00
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From Possession to Freedom The Journey of Nili-Nilakeci
ISBN: HB: 9789385932281, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
280 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
The Tamil text "Nilakeci", published between the first and fifth centuries, deals with Jaina philosophy through the use of an unusual literary technique: retrieving a pey, or possessing spirit (usually a woman), from the folk tradition and casting it...
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£30,00
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Forgotten Sense Meditations on Touch
ISBN: PB: 9780226561479, ISBN: HB: 9780226561332, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones
Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable – and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's c...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Flourishing Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
ISBN: PB: 9780300227130, Yale University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula...
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£14,99
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Fragile Life Accepting Our Vulnerability
ISBN: HB: 9780226439952, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm
It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity...
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£19,00
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Foundations of Natural Morality On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law
ISBN: PB: 9780226380674, ISBN: HB: 9780226123431, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between t...
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£17,00
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£31,00
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Four Lectures on Ethics Anthropological Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780990505075, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field – Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Di...
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£26,50
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Freedom Regained The Possibility of Free Will
ISBN: HB: 9780226319896, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and is at the heart of numerous political, social, and personal concerns: Do we have free will? In this cogent and compelling book, Julian Baggini explores the concept of fre...
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£22,00
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Freedom Beyond Sovereignty Reconstructing Liberal Individualism
ISBN: HB: 9780226234694, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What does it mean to be free? We invoke the word frequently, yet the freedom of countless Americans is compromised by social inequalities that systematically undercut what they are able to do and to become. If we are to remedy these failures of freed...
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£24,00
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