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Apocalypse of Truth Heideggerian Meditations
ISBN: HB: 9780226766737, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We inhabit a time of crisis – totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher Jean Vioulac is invested in and worried by all of this, but his main concern lies with how these phenomena all repr...
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£32,00
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New Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300191134, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm
"The New Science" is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised in 1730 and 1744, it calls for a reinterpretation of human civilization by tracing the stages of historical development shared by all so...
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£20,00
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Dance of Values Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project
ISBN: PB: 9783035801088, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
240 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 30 halftones
Sergei Eisenstein's cinematic adaptation of Karl Marx's "Capital" was never realized, yet it has haunted the imagination of many filmmakers, historians, and philosophers to the present day".Dance of Values" aims to conjure the phantom of Eisenstein's...
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£34,00
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Between / Beyond / Hybrid New Essays on Transdisciplinarity
ISBN: PB: 9783035801743, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm
For years now, academics worldwide have been pushing for more interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Yet for all that, the very concept of transdisciplinarity has proved remarkably tough to define, let alone to enact. This book brings together...
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£27,00
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On Tarrying
ISBN: PB: 9780857427243, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy, and political...
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£9,99
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Teachers of the People Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill
ISBN: PB: 9780226637624, ISBN: HB: 9780226467498, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising...
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£21,00
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£28,00
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Flourishing Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
ISBN: PB: 9780300227130, Yale University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula...
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£14,99
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Epidemic Subjects – Radical Ontology
ISBN: PB: 9783037345962, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
192 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm, 12 halftones
Modern philosophy continues to grapple with the idea of subjectivity – and, as the concept of subjectivity has consequently been repeatedly refined and redefined, the struggle has spread to the ways we conceive of sovereignty, collectivity, nationali...
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£22,50
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Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy On Original Forgetting
ISBN: PB: 9780226214948, ISBN: HB: 9780226852546, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
208 pp., 23x15 cm
In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition's origins in radical...
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£22,00
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£42,00
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Freedom and the End of Reason On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780226155173, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Freedom and the End of Reason", Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant's philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy's larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole o...
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