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Philosophy

Postmodern Platos Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida

Zuckert Catherine H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226993317, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
358 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Catherine Zuckert examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. She argues that Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, and Derrid...

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Business & Economics

Individualism and Economic Order

Hayek F. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226320939, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned e...

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Philosophy

Embodiment of Reason Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community

Meld Shell Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226752174, ISBN: HB: 9780226752150, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
492 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant'...

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Philosophy

Short Commentary on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Ewing A. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226227788, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
286 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This concise volume is at once an excellent introduction to Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and an original analysis of Kant's ideas. Intended to be read in conjunction with Kant's text, Ewing's commentary systematically examines the "Critique" chap...

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Philosophy

Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason

White Beck Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226040752, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first study entirely devoted to Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" and by far the most substantial commentary on it ever written. This land...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity

Smith Gregory Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226763408, University of Chicago Press, February 1996
376 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Among the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the modern age, Nietzsche and Heidegger have become pivotal in the struggle to define postmodernism. In this work, Gregory Smith offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the turn to pos...

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Philosophy

Truth and Existence

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226735238, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
143 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Truth and Existence", written in response to Martin Heidegger's "Essence of Truth", is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging t...

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Philosophy

Imagination and Interpretation in Kant The Hermeneutical Import of the Critique of Judgment

Makkreel Rudolf A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226502779, University of Chicago Press, March 1995
195 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this illuminating study of Kant's theory of imagination and its role in interpretation, Rudolf A. Makkreel argues against the commonly held notion that Kant's transcendental philosophy is incompatible with hermeneutics. The charge that Kant's foun...

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Philosophy

Elevations The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Cohen Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112756, ISBN: HB: 9780226112749, University of Chicago Press, December 1994
364 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

"Elevations" is a series of closely related essays on the ground-breaking philosophical and theological work of Emmanuel Levinas and Franz Rosenzweig, two of the twentieth century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of trans...

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Philosophy

American Philosopher Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn

Borradori Giovanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226066486, University of Chicago Press, March 1994
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's "The American Scholar", this book explores the identity of the American phi...

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