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Margins of Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780226143262, University of Chicago Press, February 1984
360 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Translator's Note Tympan Differance Note on a Note from Being and Time The Pit and the Pyramid: Introduction to Hegel's Semiology The Ends of Man The Linguistic Circle of Geneva Form and Meaning: A Note on the Phenomenology of Language The Supplement...
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£22,50
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Notebooks, 1914-1916
ISBN: PB: 9780226904474, University of Chicago Press, January 1984
234 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This considerably revised second edition of Wittgenstein's 1914-1916 notebooks contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E. D. Klemke. Corrections have been ma...
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£23,50
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Michel Foucault Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
ISBN: PB: 9780226163123, University of Chicago Press, December 1983
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unf...
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£24,00
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Kant's Life and Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780300029826, Yale University Press, September 1983
430 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen's and Cassirer's only full-scale study of Kant's philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer's philosophy was based on Kant's, and accordingly this book is Cassirer's explicit coming to...
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£28,00
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Dialogue and Dialectic Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato
ISBN: PB: 9780300029833, Yale University Press, September 1983
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This book is a virtual case study in the application of hermeneutical principles to illuminate philosophical texts. The book contains translations of eight of Gadamer's best known essays on Plato. These studies, spanning a period of almost fifty year...
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£16,00
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Positions
ISBN: PB: 9780226143316, University of Chicago Press, November 1982
122 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as "Writing and Difference" and "Dissemination". Derrida takes positions on h...
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£15,00
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Allegories of Reading Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
ISBN: PB: 9780300028454, Yale University Press, September 1982
305 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered b...
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£19,99
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Critical Understanding The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
ISBN: PB: 9780226065557, University of Chicago Press, September 1982
422 pp., 23x15 cm
Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In "Critical Understanding", Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism – a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any on...
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£34,50
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Freedom and Karl Jaspers' Philosophy
ISBN: HB: 9780300026290, Yale University Press, July 1981
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.
As a founding father of Existentialism, Karl Jaspers has been seen as a twentieth-century successor to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard; as an exponent of reason, he has been seen as an heir of Kant. But studies tracing influences upon his thought or placin...
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Symbol, Myth, and Culture Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer, 1935-1945
ISBN: PB: 9780300026665, Yale University Press, March 1981
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The papers in this volume of Ernst Cassirer's unpublished works give insight into the major issues that engaged Cassirer's interest between 1935 and 1945. The book begins with his inaugural address at the University of Goteborg, Sweden, in the first...
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