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Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939
ISBN: PB: 9780226904269, University of Chicago Press, October 1989
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture. He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with som...
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£21,00
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Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason
ISBN: PB: 9780300046137, Yale University Press, September 1989
263 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In his magnum opus, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwo...
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£26,00
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Nietzsche's Teaching An Interpretation of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
ISBN: PB: 9780300044300, Yale University Press, September 1989
392 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra – an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert's chapter-by-chapter commentary on Ni...
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£31,00
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Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780226025957, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
182 pp., 23x15 cm
Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled "The Life of the Mind". Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, "Thinking and Willing". Of the third, "Judging", only the title page, with e...
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£15,00
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Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism A Commentary on The Spirit of the Laws
ISBN: PB: 9780226645452, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
This first comprehensive commentary on "The Spirit of the Laws" uncovers and explicates the plan of Montesquieu's famous but baffling treatise. Pangle brings to light Montesquieu's rethinking of the philosophical groundwork of liberalism, showing how...
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£32,50
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Poetic Interaction Language, Freedom, Reason
ISBN: HB: 9780226557038, University of Chicago Press, January 1989
504 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Poetic Interaction" presents an original approach to the history of philosophy in order to elaborate a fresh theory that accounts for the place freedom in the Western philosophical tradition. In his thorough analysis of the aesthetic theories of Heg...
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£97,00
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