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Warburg Years (1919-1933) Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology
ISBN: HB: 9780300108194, Yale University Press, December 2013
384 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was one of the leading proponents of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence – the fact that our...
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£57,00
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Secular Powers Humility in Modern Political Thought
ISBN: HB: 9780226081298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the ear...
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£35,00
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Excommunication Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
ISBN: PB: 9780226925226, ISBN: HB: 9780226925219, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables
Always connect – that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself – those messages t...
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£19,50
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£59,00
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Deconstructing Dignity A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate
ISBN: HB: 9780226088129, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In "Deconstructing Dignity", Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philos...
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£30,00
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Romantic Absolute Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804
ISBN: HB: 9780226084060, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic amon...
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£44,00
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Limits of History
ISBN: PB: 9780226101248, ISBN: HB: 9780226239101, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
347 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no...
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£26,00
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£39,00
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Spartakus The Symbology of Revolt
ISBN: HB: 9780857421739, Seagull Books, December 2013
180 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
On December 29, 1918, the Spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to class rule by the bourgeoisie. Massive demonstrations followed and more than 500,000 Berliners took to the streets in January – onl...
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£16,00
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Dogs of the Sinai
ISBN: HB + DVD: 9780857421722, Seagull Books, December 2013
116 pp., 19.5x14 cm
A searing introduction to Franco Fortini, a Jewish communist and a major figure in postwar Italian intellectual life, "The Dogs of the Sinai" is a book against – against those who love to rush to the aid of the victors, against the widespread and rac...
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£20,50
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Unspeakable Girl The Myth and Mystery of Kore
ISBN: HB: 9780857420831, Seagull Books, December 2013
104 pp., 25x15 cm, 40 colour illus.
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well....
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£19,00
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Philosophy of Dreams
ISBN: HB: 9780300188400, Yale University Press, November 2013
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Why has mankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Turcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrut...
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£49,00
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