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Essential Works of Thomas More
ISBN: HB: 9780300223378, Yale University Press, February 2020
1520 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 102 black&white illus.
In this book, Wegemer and Smith assemble More's most important English and Latin works for the first time in a single volume. This volume reveals the breadth of More's writing and includes a comprehensive selection of his works on theology, political...
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£75,00
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Sovereignty, Inc. Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment
ISBN: PB: 9780226668413, ISBN: HB: 9780226668383, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the co-authors of "Sovereignty, Inc." argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding – s...
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£18,00
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£50,00
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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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£10,99
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Martin Buber A Life of Faith and Dissent
ISBN: HB: 9780300153040, Yale University Press, May 2019
440 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments – such as his sudden...
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£16,99
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Party Fun with Kant
ISBN: PB: 9780857425362, Seagull Books, October 2018
192 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let's be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In "Party Fun with Kant", Nicolas Mahler tells the story of Kant – and his fellow serious-minded fi...
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£16,00
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Martin Heidegger's Grouch
ISBN: HB: 9783035800524, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 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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£10,99
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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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On Descartes' Passive Thought The Myth of Cartesian Dualism
ISBN: HB: 9780226192581, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"On Descartes' Passive Thought" is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his pre...
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£37,50
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Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics
ISBN: PB: 9780226527765, ISBN: HB: 9780226249315, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book provides an innovative approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. Rudolf A. Makkreel proposes an orientational and reflective conception of interpretation...
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£30,00
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£40,00
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Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226565705, ISBN: HB: 9780226275857, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in "Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion" is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed...
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£24,00
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£32,00
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