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Philosophy

Possibility of Language Internal Tensions in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Cerezo Maria

ISBN: PB: 9781575864389, University of Chicago Press, September 2005
345 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this volume, Maria Cerezo examines Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" as a response to some of Frege's and Russel's logical problems. In analyzing the tractarian conditions for the possibility of language, she explains the two main th...

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Philosophy

Logic of the Cultural Sciences Five Studies

Cassirer Ernst

ISBN: PB: 9780300081152, Yale University Press, October 2000
190 pp., 21x14 cm

This new translation of "The Logic of the Cultural Sciences" (formerly entitled "The Logic of the Humanities") makes Ernst Cassirer's classic study, long out of print, available to English readers. A German Jew living in exile at the beginning of the...

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Christianity

Tears and Saints

Cioran E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226106748, ISBN: HB: 9780226106724, University of Chicago Press, July 1998
154 pp., 21.3x12.9 cm

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a mode...

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Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms

Cassirer Ernst

ISBN: PB: 9780300074338, Yale University Press, January 1998
264 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

At his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms". John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings a...

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On the Heights of Despair

Cioran E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226106717, University of Chicago Press, October 1996
150 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Born of a terrible insomnia – "a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell" – this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole ci...

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Elevations The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Cohen Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112756, ISBN: HB: 9780226112749, University of Chicago Press, December 1994
364 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

"Elevations" is a series of closely related essays on the ground-breaking philosophical and theological work of Emmanuel Levinas and Franz Rosenzweig, two of the twentieth century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of trans...

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Philosophy

Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason Volume 1: Theory of Practical Ensembles

Catalano Joseph S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226097015, University of Chicago Press, January 1987
289 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Sartre's "Critique of Dialectical Reason" ranks with "Being and Nothingness" as a work of major philosophical significance, but it has been largely neglected. The first volume, published in 1960, was dismissed as a Marxist work at a time when structu...

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Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness

Catalano Joseph S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096995, University of Chicago Press, September 1985
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness" represents, I believe, a very important beginning of a deservingly serious effort to make the whole of "Being and Nothingness" more readily understandable and readable. In his systematic inte...

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Philosophy

Kant's Life and Thought

Cassirer Ernst, Haden James

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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Symbol, Myth, and Culture Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer, 1935-1945

Cassirer Ernst

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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