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Rabbit Between Us
ISBN: HB: 9780857427977, Seagull Books, April 2021
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits were their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence"?  ...
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£18,99
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Reason and Character The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy
ISBN: HB: 9780226688169, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", this book offers a novel int...
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£28,00
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Reading Marx On Transcendental Materialism
ISBN: PB: 9783035802016, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this book, Reiner Schurmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schurmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories...
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£24,00
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Rousseau's Reader Strategies of Persuasion and Education
ISBN: HB: 9780226689142, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 4 tables
On his famous walk to Vincennes to visit the imprisoned Diderot, Rousseau had what he called an "illumination" – the realization that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the influence of society – a fundamental change in Rousseau's perspe...
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£28,00
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Radical Sacrifice
ISBN: PB: 9780300251500, Yale University Press, March 2020
216 pp., 21x14 cm
The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter an...
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£10,99
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Richard Rorty The Making of an American Philosopher
ISBN: PB: 9780226676487, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as "one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers." Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experience...
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£20,00
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Returns of Fetishism Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
ISBN: PB: 9780226464756, ISBN: HB: 9780226464619, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses's term "fetishism" has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to "magic" but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses's term has pro...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Religion of Existence Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre
ISBN: HB: 9780226404516, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
"The Religion of Existence" reopens an old debate on an important question: What was existentialism? At the heart of existentialism, Noreen Khawaja argues, is a story about secular thought experimenting with the traditions of European Christianity. T...
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£34,00
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Run, Spot, Run The Ethics of Keeping Pets
ISBN: HB: 9780226209890, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as po...
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£19,50
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Rhetoric of Plato's 'Republic' Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion
ISBN: HB: 9780226278629, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Plato isn't exactly thought of as a champion of democracy, and perhaps even less as an important rhetorical theorist. In this book, James L. Kastely recasts Plato in just these lights, offering a vivid new reading of one of Plato's most important wor...
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£28,00
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