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This edited volume features a range of essays from world-leading philosophers discussing the key philosophical concepts of 'object' and 'property'. Arguably, these are two of the most fundamental concepts in metaphysics. Nor is it hard to see why. If one of the central...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-12
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Weise Worte des jüdischen Glaubens Der Talmud ist eine der wichtigsten Schriften des Judentums. In ihm diskutieren bedeutende Rabbis der Geschichte in aufeinander antwortenden Texten über Jahrhunderte hinweg die Auslegung der Thora. Ihre Lehren über die Schrift sind die...
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Wiley-VCH
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2025-11-12
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Für Dummies
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In this book Jürgen Habermas offers a wide-ranging reflection on his life and work and on the factors that shaped the development of his thought. He discusses the motives behind his work, the circumstances under which it emerged and the changes it has undergone over the...
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Polity
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2025-11-11
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The life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism “A rich, engaging portrait of intellectual fearlessness” (Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer...
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Basic Books
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2025-11-11
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The many mass protests that have taken place since 2011 have been characterised by an unmistakable need to challenge, overthrow and destroy the prevailing political representations without proposing new ones.The protests are not concerned with replacing the current...
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Polity
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2025-11-11
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Theory Redux
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Human beings change the world in order to know it more easily and reliably. That is, we construct social and material environments, or 'epistemic niches', and develop cognitive tools to better acquire, transmit, or store information. A queue, for example, is an...
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Polity
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2025-11-11
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Human beings produce many things, and the most remarkable of these we call works of genius. The symphonies of Beethoven, the of paintings of Cézanne, and the novels of Virginia Woolf are distinguished by their originality and their power. They are novel but not mere...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-11-10
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This open access volume presents the select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference, Anubhuti: Revitalizing Indian Knowledge Systems for the Modern World (ICIKS 2025).
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Atlantis Press
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2025-11-08
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In tandem with its companion volume, The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings by James W.C. Pennington, this collection of new essays seeks to recover and reappraise James W.C. Pennington (1808-1870), a truly remarkable figure of Black intellectual and...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-11-07
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The concept of humility has venerable philosophical roots. For instance, Socrates' unparalleled wisdom is exhibited primarily through the recognition of his own ignorance-that is, through his epistemic humility. Humility, whether understood epistemically or morally, has...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-11-07
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This book envisions a more practical effectiveness of critical theory thru consideration of concrete alternatives that allow for the capability of a gradually transformed and redeemed reality. Mordacci combines critique with utopia, and inspires new visions in...
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Springer
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2025-11-07
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Der Denkraum der Besonnenheit stammt als Begriff vom Hamburger Kulturwissenschaftler Aby Warburg (1866-1929). Obwohl bereits vor über einhundert Jahren formuliert, scheint die dringliche Notwendigkeit für einen derartigen Raum aktueller denn je. Das Buch...
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Springer
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2025-11-07
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This book provides the first in-depth theory of how we communicate using photographs. Despite the ubiquitous use of photographs as a universal language in digital social media, a systematic understanding of photographic communication has remained elusive. The author...
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Springer
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2025-11-07
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A new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the world’s most influential philosophersHow do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a series of gradual changes...
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Penguin
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2025-11-06
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Das von der Forschung vernachlässigte und kontrovers diskutierte späte Gedicht Hölderlins <An die Madonna> ist eine elegische Hymne, in der Hölderlin seiner Dichtung eine poetologische Neuorientierung gibt, die dem Geist der Zeit zwischen 1800 und 1805/06...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-11-06
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Frederick Douglass' fame as an activist and abolitionist often eclipses his less appreciated work as a political philosopher. Indeed, few people know that he declared in an 1867 speech: "From this little bit of experience, slave experience, I have elaborated quite a...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-11-04
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In this book, Taline Artinian takes a critical look at the existing discussion on dyadic forms of gratitude, from propositional to non-directed, and develops the concept of transpersonal gratitude, which captures the experience of thankfulness for a personally...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-03
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This book focusses on Nietzsche's Der Antichrist as the first part of Nietzsche's planned four volume work (which was never completed) and explores how situating it in this way affects our understanding of Der Antichrist and The Revaluation of All Values, as well as of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-03
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This book develops a logic of world-views: belief-systems that shape how we know, interpret, and act in the world. It explores how these frameworks function as sign-systems, models of reality, and normative guides for thought and behavior.This book starts with...
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Springer
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2025-11-01
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Value-based Civilization revolutionizes civilization studies by spotlighting human values as civilization's core and technology as its propelling force. The book's trailblazing "Human Civilization Function" model and "Value-Based Civilization" formula provide incisive...
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Springer
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2025-11-01
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