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Foundations of Natural Morality On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law

Seagrave S. Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226380674, ISBN: HB: 9780226123431, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between t...

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Most Good You Can Do How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

Singer Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300219869, Yale University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effe...

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Philosophy

Animots: Post Animality in French Thought Yale French Studies, Number 127

Senior Matthew, Clark David L., Freccero Carla

ISBN: PB: 9780300206654, Yale University Press, August 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The latest volume of "Yale French Studies" addresses French-inspired theoretical and philosophical concerns centered on animals and animality. Contributors from France, the U.K., and North America discuss animal-related topics in the French philosoph...

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Philosophy

View of Life Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

Simmel Georg

ISBN: PB: 9780226273303, ISBN: HB: 9780226757834, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

Published in 1918, "The View of Life" is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed "the brightest man in Europe" by George Santayana, Simmel addressed a variety of topics across his essayistic writings, which have influenced scholars in aesthetics,...

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Contemporary Art

Philosophy

Beyond Speculation Art and Aesthetics without Myths

Schaeffer Jean-Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780857420428, Seagull Books, August 2015
436 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm

In his well-known work of art criticism "Art of the Modern Age", Jean-Marie Schaeffer offered a lucid and powerful critique of what he identified as the historically dominant thinking about art and aesthetics from the Jena Romantics, to Nietzsche, He...

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Philosophy

New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness

Shili Xiong, Makeham John

ISBN: HB: 9780300191578, Yale University Press, July 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

This book, the first English translation of what many consider to be the most original work of Chinese philosophy produced in the twentieth century, draws from Buddhist and Confucian philosophy to develop a critical inquiry into the relation between...

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Philosophy

On Historical Distance

Salber Phillips Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300213874, ISBN: HB: 9780300140378, Yale University Press, April 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In...

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Philosophy

Deepest Human Life An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone

Samuelson Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226272771, ISBN: HB: 9780226130385, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for phil...

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Jewish Studies

Autonomy After Auschwitz Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity

Shuster Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226155487, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy – the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves – has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human freedom. But could our commitment to autonomy, as Theod...

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Philosophy

Hitler's Philosophers

Sherratt Yvonne

ISBN: PB: 9780300205473, Yale University Press, April 2014
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader", and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this compelling book, Yvonne Sherratt explores Hi...

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