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Logic of Reflection German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300052077, Yale University Press, June 1992
256 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm
This lucid and original book offers a detailed and critical exposition of German metaphysics and philosophy of logic during the past century. Julian Roberts sets his argument in the context of the current debate between "analytical" and "continental"...
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£46,00
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Spirit in Ashes Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death
ISBN: PB: 9780300046229, Yale University Press, September 1990
263 pp., 21x14 cm
Contemporary phenomena of mass death – such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz – have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various manifestations of man-made mass...
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£17,00
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Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason
ISBN: PB: 9780300046137, Yale University Press, September 1989
263 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In his magnum opus, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwo...
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£26,00
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Nietzsche's Teaching An Interpretation of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
ISBN: PB: 9780300044300, Yale University Press, September 1989
392 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra – an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert's chapter-by-chapter commentary on Ni...
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£31,00
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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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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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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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£35,00
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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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£16,90
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Problem of Knowledge Philosophy, Science, and History Since Hegel
ISBN: PB: 9780300010985, Yale University Press, September 1969
352 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm
Cassirer employs his remarkable gift of lucidity to explain the major ideas and intellectual issues that emerged in the course of nineteenth century scientific and historical thinking. The translators have done an excellent job in reproducing his cla...
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£23,00
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