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Liberalism of Care Community, Philosophy, and Ethics
ISBN: PB: 9780226745350, ISBN: HB: 9780226745213, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Attention to care in modern society has fallen out of view as an ethos of personal responsibility, free markets, and individualism has taken hold. The Liberalism of Care argues that contemporary liberalism is suffering from a crisis of care, manifest...
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£28,00
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Lions
ISBN: PB: 9780857428264, ISBN: HB: 9780857424303, Seagull Books, March 2021
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. "Lions", translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great pre...
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Luther. The Origin of Modern Self-Consciousness Lectures, Volume 12
ISBN: PB: 9783035800166, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm
If we are to understand the specifically modern function of self-consciousness, we must first look to the origins of the concept. Among the key thinkers who elaborated on self-consciousness was the German monk and theologian Martin Luther. Reiner Sch...
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£59,50
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Lions' Den Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
ISBN: PB: 9780300251845, ISBN: HB: 9780300222982, Yale University Press, September 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab...
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Living in Problematicity
ISBN: PB: 9788024645100, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
84 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Spanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patocka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writ...
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£14,00
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Life Death
ISBN: HB: 9780226699516, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, "Life Death" challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of t...
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£36,00
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Leibniz, or The Best of All Possible Worlds
ISBN: HB: 9783035801422, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2020
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 64 colour plates
Vienna, 1714: Late in life, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the universal genius of his time, puts down his pen and declares his description of the universe to be complete. In the evening, he sits in his study room among letters, books, and manuscripts as...
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Leo Strauss on Hegel
ISBN: HB: 9780226640686, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particu...
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£34,00
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Lao-Tzu, or the Way of the Dragon
ISBN: HB: 9783035800968, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
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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Last Works Lessons in Leaving
ISBN: HB: 9780300224399, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive...
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