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Value, Conflict, and Order Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory
ISBN: PB: 9780226718316, ISBN: HB: 9780226718286, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, dr...
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£32,00
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£100,00
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Kingdom and the Garden
ISBN: HB: 9780857427861, Seagull Books, August 2020
164 pp., 19.7x13.9 cm
What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in "The Kingdom and the Garden", Giorgio Agamben uses it as a starting point for an investigation of human nature and t...
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£14,99
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Engineering Ethics Contemporary and Enduring Debates
ISBN: PB: 9780300209242, Yale University Press, July 2020
216 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the most difficult and controversial issues that engineers face in daily practice. Written by a...
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£18,00
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Georg Simmel Essays on Art and Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226621098, ISBN: HB: 9780226620930, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influentia...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Life Death
ISBN: HB: 9780226699516, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, "Life Death" challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of t...
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£36,00
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Why Do Things Have Names?
ISBN: HB: 9783035802757, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2020
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Why is a horse called a horse and not a giraffe or a flapdoodle? Why did Plato go from being called Aristocles, after his grandfather, to being called Plato, which means muscleman? Where do any names come from? In this delightful book, readers young...
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£10,99
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Science and the Good The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
ISBN: PB: 9780300251821, ISBN: HB: 9780300196283, Yale University Press, May 2020
312 pp., 21x14 cm
In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky recount the centuries-long, passionate quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The "new moral science" led by such figures as E.O. Wilson, Patricia Churchland and Josh...
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£14,99
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£20,00
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Seeing Silence
ISBN: HB: 9780226693521, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table
"To hear silence is to find stillness in the midst of the restlessness that makes creative life possible and the inescapability of death acceptable". So writes Mark C. Taylor in his latest book, a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age...
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£28,00
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Action versus Contemplation Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780226706634, ISBN: HB: 9780226032238, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
256 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 halftones
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone", Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in 1856: "Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dal...
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£15,00
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£19,00
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Philosopher's Economist Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780226597447, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Although David Hume's contributions to philosophy are well known, his work on economics has been largely overlooked. "A Philosopher's Economist" offers the definitive account of Hume's "worldly philosophy", and argues that economics served as a unify...
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