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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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Seven Letters to Melin From Letters to My Scientist Friend
ISBN: PB: 9788024643755, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
300 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Josef Safarik's "Seven Letters to Melin" is an exploration of man's alienation from nature – and from himself – in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin,...
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£16,00
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Confronting Totalitarian Minds Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
ISBN: PB: 9788024645377, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that...
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£16,00
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Living in Problematicity
ISBN: PB: 9788024645100, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
84 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Spanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patocka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writ...
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£14,00
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Philosophy en noir
ISBN: PB: 9788024638539, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar philosophical texts are so difficult to u...
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£15,00
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Ethics, Life and Institutions An Attempt at Practical Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9788024634296, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2017
230 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! General complaints about moral decay, however frequent and even justified they may be, are of little use. This book does not complain; it acts. Jan Sokol's "Ethics, Life and Institutions"...
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£15,00
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Philosophy of Living Nature
ISBN: PB: 9788024631318, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Philosophy of Living Nature" focuses on the approach of the Western philosophical tradition to physis, or nature. Zdenek Kratochvil reveals, on a philosophical level, the roots of tod...
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£13,50
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Cur homo? A History of the Thesis of Man as a Replacement for Fallen Angels
ISBN: PB: 9788024625195, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Examining, outlining, elucidating, and supplementing the existing body of scholarship concerning the medieval theological supposition that man was created as a replacement for fallen angel...
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£15,00
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Thinking about Ordinary Things A Short Invitation to Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9788024622293, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this compact yet informative book, former dissident, occasional politician, software developer, and noted Czech philosopher, Jan Sokol offers a way to teach young radical students about...
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