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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 The unpublished part of that work was to be titled "Basic Features of a Phenomenological De...
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Spare the Rod Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226785707, ISBN: HB: 9780226785677, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warner investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial subject, they first ask questions of...
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£76,00
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Seven Letters to Melin From Letters to My Scientist Friend
ISBN: PB: 9788024643755, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
300 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Josef Safarik's "Seven Letters to Melin" is an exploration of man's alienation from nature – and from himself – in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin,...
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Luther. The Origin of Modern Self-Consciousness Lectures, Volume 12
ISBN: PB: 9783035800166, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm
If we are to understand the specifically modern function of self-consciousness, we must first look to the origins of the concept. Among the key thinkers who elaborated on self-consciousness was the German monk and theologian Martin Luther. Reiner Sch...
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£59,50
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To Flourish or Destruct A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil
ISBN: PB: 9780226759920, ISBN: HB: 9780226231952, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 2 tables
In his 2010 book "What Is a Person?", Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dime...
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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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Modern Philosophies of the Will
ISBN: PB: 9783035803075, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, December 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through the lenses of Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, this edited volume traces the development of the relation between the will and the law as self-given. Modern Philosophies of the Will explores a variety of topics including: the ontological turn i...
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Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization
ISBN: PB: 9780226792484, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza'...
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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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Georg Simmel Essays on Art and Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226621098, ISBN: HB: 9780226620930, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influentia...
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£84,00
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