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This book proposes a new solution to the problem of vagueness. There are several different ways of addressing this problem and no clear agreement on which one is correct. The author proposes that it should be understood as the problem of explaining vague predicates in a...
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Springer
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2021-03-12
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Synthese Library
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A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English,...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-01-07
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· What's wrong with gluttony?· Would it be boring to live forever?· Should education prepare us for work or leisure?With a light touch, Matters of Lunch and Death distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a...
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Short Books
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2020-11-05
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Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies, and how we can apply his teachings to our daily lives'Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water'Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, world renowned for his martial arts and film legacy. But...
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Ebury Digital
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2020-10-08
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A heart-warming and joyful collection of short lyric essays, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling and celebrating ordinary wonders'Pure balm for your soul' CELESTE NG, author of Little Fires Everywhere'His delight is infectious. It's hard to...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2020-08-11
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This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism. Providing a single conceptual key adapted from the philosophical debate on proper names, the book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-11
Collection :
Jewish Thought and Philosophy
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'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-11-14
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'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-11-14
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'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his revolutionary work on...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty.Nothing evokes the calm and nuance of the traditional Japanese aesthetic more profoundly than this book. Tanizaki’s eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, even toilets, examining the design and feel of the intimate...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-11-07
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This book shows how pragmatics and philosophy are interconnected, and explores the consequences and ramifications of this innovative idea, especially in addressing and solving the problem of breaking Grice's circle. The author applies philosophy in order to get to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-14
Collection :
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMALAre you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-04-16
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This volume presents eight papers and a draft monograph by T. Price Caldwell on topics in linguistics, semiotics and philosophy of language.
From the beginning of his professional career onwards, Caldwell wrote short fiction and poetry, and he taught English...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-06-19
Collection :
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many prevailing...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-07
Collection :
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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‘IB was one of the great affirmers of our time.’ John Banville, New York Review of BooksThe title of this final volume of Isaiah Berlin’s letters is echoed by John Banville’s verdict in his review of its predecessor, Building: Letters 1960–75, which saw Berlin publish...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-09-07
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Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naïve disciple Protarchus and Socrates, Philebus is a compelling consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good. Here, Socrates speculates on the differing intensities...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-05-04
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Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist?Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world’s great thinkers...
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Penguin
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2017-05-04
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Die Arbeit hat die Form einer vergleichenden Analyse der dialogischen Entwürfe von Ferdinand Ebner, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel und Karl Löwith.Die Hauptintention ist es, die Bedeutung der Intersubjektivität, die als Zwischenmenschlichkeit und Dialog zu...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2017-01-27
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This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-10
Collection :
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious tolerance, Treatise on Toleration was written after the Toulouse...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-08-04
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