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Theory and Reality An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226618654, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour o...
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£24,00
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Migrants in the Profane Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization
ISBN: HB: 9780300250763, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Migrants in the Profane" takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin's image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: "Nothing of theolog...
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What is Anarchism? Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman
ISBN: PB: 9783035802269, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...
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£16,00
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Philosophy of Nietzsche Reiner Schurmann Lecture Notes
ISBN: PB: 9783035800548, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2020
160 pp., 22.2x14 cm
Nietzsche praised Kant for having "annihilated Socratism", for exhibiting all ideals as essentially unattainable, and for having exposed himself to the despair of truth – all essential traits Nietzsche claimed for his own thinking. At the same time,...
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Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry Channeling Wittgenstein
ISBN: HB: 9780226661278, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive pract...
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Nietzsche's Final Teaching
ISBN: PB: 9780226684758, ISBN: HB: 9780226476889, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", the best-selling and most widely read philosophical work of all time, as well as six additional works that are today considered required rea...
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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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Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780226575568, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Spinoza's Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In "Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination", Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a gu...
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Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
ISBN: PB: 9780226556598, ISBN: HB: 9780226556451, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In "The Human B...
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£79,00
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Autobiography or "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" A Critical Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300234077, Yale University Press, May 2018
816 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.
In the mid-1920s, prompted by a "small, still voice" that encouraged him to lay bare what was known only to him and his God, M. K. Gandhi began writing and publishing his autobiography. Drafted during a period of intensive fasting and "in-dwelling" a...
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