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Urban Condition
ISBN: PB: 9788024632933, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2021
300 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The first installment in Karolinum's new Vaclav Havel Series – which aims to continue the philosophical discourse of that thinker, playwright, dissident, and president – this book asks whe...
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£19,00
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Utopia
ISBN: PB: 9780300186109, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's "Utopia" is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Pree...
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£6,99
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Unspeakable Girl The Myth and Mystery of Kore
ISBN: HB: 9780857420831, Seagull Books, December 2013
104 pp., 25x15 cm, 40 colour illus.
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well....
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Unsimple Truths Science, Complexity, and Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226006628, ISBN: HB: 9780226532622, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones
The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference...
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£28,00
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Uncivil Unions The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism
ISBN: HB: 9780226136936, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm
"What a strange invention marriage is!" wrote Kierkegaard".Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership... or is it a little of all that?" Like Kierkegaard a...
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£34,50
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Unmodern Observations (Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen)
ISBN: PB: 9780300180190, Yale University Press, July 2011
422 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
This translation of Nietzsche's early "Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen" consists of four long essays and notes for a fifth. Nietzsche planned these works as part of an extremely ambitious critique of German culture. Although the project was never complet...
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