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Heidegger's De(con)struction of Metaphysics
ISBN: PB: 9783035803693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Being and Time, Heidegger announced the "Task of Destroying the History of Ontology" in order to free what had remained "unthought" in Western metaphysics. The unpublished part of that work was to be titled "Basic Features of a Phenomenological De...
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£28,00
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How Socrates Became Socrates A Study of Plato's "Phaedo," "Parmenides," and "Symposium"
ISBN: HB: 9780226746333, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Laurence Lampert recognizes the path of Plato's stride...
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£36,00
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Hegel's Realm of Shadows Logic as Metaphysics in "The Science of Logic"
ISBN: PB: 9780226703411, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, "The Science of Logic". This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists ca...
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£24,00
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Hope Without Optimism
ISBN: PB: 9780300248678, Yale University Press, August 2019
178 pp., 21x14 cm
In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimi...
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£10,99
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How to Read Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780300247640, Yale University Press, August 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be f...
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Heidegger The Question of Being and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226678924, ISBN: HB: 9780226355115, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 tables
Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the Ecole Normale Superieure,...
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How We Cooperate A Theory of Kantian Optimization
ISBN: PB: 9780300233339, Yale University Press, June 2019
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Game theory assumes that people are self-interested and works from this premise to explain competitive behavior. People don't just compete, however; they also cooperate. John Roemer argues that attempts by orthodox game theorists to account for coope...
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£45,00
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How We Became Our Data A Genealogy of the Informational Person
ISBN: PB: 9780226626581, ISBN: HB: 9780226626444, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Humour
ISBN: HB: 9780300243147, Yale University Press, April 2019
224 pp., 21x14 cm
Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is hum...
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£16,99
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How Should We Live? A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality
ISBN: PB: 9780226639079, ISBN: HB: 9780226155654, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years...
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