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This volume brings into focus the unique philosophical and historical importance of Wittgenstein's pre-Tractatus writings. These contributed essays show that Wittgenstein’s earliest writings are worth studying for their own sake. They also reveal how much one can still...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-01
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Jacques Rancière is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed modes of interpretation. This hostility is not limited to his detailed critiques of Pierre Bourdieu—it characterises his thinking about politics,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-31
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A philosophical exploration of Joker and the meaning of the iconic antagonist's murderous escapadesA diabolically sinister but clownish villain, Joker is a symbolically rich and philosophically fascinating character. Both crazed and cunning, sadistically cruel but...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-30
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book expands the known canon by presenting arguments and concepts from women philosophers, from all periods of the history of philosophy, from antiquity to the present day. The collaborative collection is an undertaking that emerged from intensive discussions on...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-30
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This book investigates dispositions in grammatical-normative terms through a contrast between a naturalized paradigm and a Wittgenstein-inspired perspective. The book presents a conceptual analysis of the notion of disposition informed by Wittgenstein's and Ryle's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-29
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This book provides a critical outlook on, and an inquiry into the practical implications of, the works of Professor W.J. Waluchow, one of the most important jurisprudence scholars of the early twenty-first century, while also reflecting on the interconnections between...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-28
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Is it a contradiction, a lie, a madness, a freedom to affirm a theory and live the opposite?
Rousseau writes a treatise on education thanks to the abandonment of his five children, Kierkegaard composes religious texts while living as a libertine, Beauvoir founds the...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2024-08-28
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John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His published works spanned many areas, but he is not well known as a political philosopher. In the late 1970s, however, Mackie turned his attention to issues...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His published works spanned many areas, but he is not well known as a political philosopher. In the late 1970s, however, Mackie turned his attention to issues...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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The Possibility of Moral Community defends the claim that there could be a moral community, a community of rational creatures somewhat like ourselves living together in ways informed and regulated by shared normative standards and understandings. These creatures aim to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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This book explores new societal paradigms related to current debates and discusses how we can confront aspects of those debates which do not fit into a traditional social model. It proposes a theoretical and reflective framework for understanding new social discourse,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-28
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This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics.This beginning begins with Plato and culminates in Heidegger. By revisiting Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato and retrieving Neoplatonist...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-08-26
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From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking work, the differences run deep. Li explores the philosophical origins of...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-08-26
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Aus der Sicht der Neurobiologie regiert im Kopf das neuronale Geschehen. Doch was wissen die Hirnforscher genau über die Mechanismen des Hirngeschehens und ihren Einfluss auf den menschlichen Geist? Dieser Frage geht Brigitte Falkenburg nach.
Die Physik hat sich längst...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-08-24
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The Possibility of Moral Community defends the claim that there could be a moral community, a community of rational creatures somewhat like ourselves living together in ways informed and regulated by shared normative standards and understandings. These creatures aim to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-22
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Wie verrückt, dass überhaupt etwas existiert – und man selbst steckt für ein paar Jahrzehnte mittendrin! Die befremdliche Existenz der Wirklichkeit ist höchst erstaunlich. Es mag in der Natur mit rechten Dingen und im weitesten Sinne rational zugehen. Doch dass...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-20
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What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth’s major new work is devoted to answering this question. His central thesis is that participation in democratic will formation can only proceed from a...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-08-20
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Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and normalization? In order to address this question, Jacques Rancière pays...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-08-20
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Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics, it ignores the separateness of persons, cannot secure the protections of basic rights, demands extreme sacrifice, can...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-08-20
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Dieses Buch präsentiert zeitgenössische Perspektiven von Wissenschaftlern, die an verschiedenen Aspekten der Philosophie von Sri Aurobindo arbeiten – der Idee der Evolution, integralem Yoga, der Transformation des Individuums, der Gesellschaft und der Erde, Theorien der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-16
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