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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born in Konigsberg to secular Jewish parents, she was a student of the two major exponents of Existenz philosophy in...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-29
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In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel.
During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-14
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On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and...
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Polity
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2022-12-01
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This volume brings together a selection of Rosalind Hursthouse's essays on Aristotle, virtue ethics, and social philosophy. These articles provide valuable context and clarification for much of her more famous work while drawing attention to new avenues of philosophical...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-11-24
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This volume brings together a selection of Rosalind Hursthouse's essays on Aristotle, virtue ethics, and social philosophy. These articles provide valuable context and clarification for much of her more famous work while drawing attention to new avenues of philosophical...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-11-10
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Exploitation is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery, serfdom, and the patriarchy...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-10-31
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In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel.
During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Fittingness explores the nature, roles, and applications of the notion of fittingness in contemporary normative and metanormative philosophy. The fittingness relation is the relation in which a response stands to a feature of the world when that feature merits, or is...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-10-03
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This book brings together Antonio Negri’s critical writings on the nature and form of the modern state. The central theme that runs through these writings is our need to be done with the sovereign state – that is, with the particular form of political power that the...
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Polity
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2022-09-30
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Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially for some -...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-09-22
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What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by fences and walls built...
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Polity
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2022-09-20
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Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. Friendship for Virtue has four main aims. The first is to give the virtue of friendship the pride of place...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-09-15
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Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially for some -...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-08
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While demagoguery is traditionally regarded as destabilizing and dangerous, this book shows how it can also be used to advance the common good.
Most of us think that demagoguery is, by definition, bad. Relatedly, scholars almost invariably treat demagoguery as a...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-09-01
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Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. Friendship for Virtue has four main aims. The first is to give the virtue of friendship the pride of place...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-01
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This book presents contemporary perspectives of scholars working on different aspects of the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo- the idea of evolution, integral yoga, the transformation of the individual, society and earth, theories of nation and human unity, philosophy of...
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Springer
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2022-08-30
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This book is about permissive consent--the moral tool we use to give another person permission to do what would otherwise be forbidden. For instance, consent to enter my home gives you permission to do what would otherwise be trespass.This transformation is the very...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-08-18
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This book is about permissive consent--the moral tool we use to give another person permission to do what would otherwise be forbidden. For instance, consent to enter my home gives you permission to do what would otherwise be trespass.This transformation is the very...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-08-18
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Many liberal political philosophers hold that the state should not impose or even promote any particular conception of the good life or human flourishing. It should not, for instance, enact laws and policies designed to elevate citizens' tastes, to refine their...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-28
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Many liberal political philosophers hold that the state should not impose or even promote any particular conception of the good life or human flourishing. It should not, for instance, enact laws and policies designed to elevate citizens' tastes, to refine their...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-28
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