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“albert sweet”

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  • The Pragmatics and Semiotics of Standard Languages

    by Albert Sweet ...
    Sweet describes the pragmatic foundations of standard logic and applies these foundations to the task of developing a theory of intended models as an extension of standard model theory in which the relevant "intending" is represented pragmatically. Methods of formal logic are used to investigate the structure of the relation between language and the world. The truism which holds that this relation ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Letters to a Young Contrarian

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreementIn Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young (wo)men of tomorrow. Exploring the entire range of “contrary positions”—from noble dissident to ... Read more

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  • The Critique of Practical Reason

    by Immanuel Kant ...
    The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788. It follows on from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his moral philosophy. ... Read more

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  • Pink Floyd and Philosophy

    Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!

    Edited by George A. Reisch ...
    Series Book 30 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    With their early experiments in psychedelic rock music in the 1960s, and their epic recordings of the 1970s and '80s, Pink Floyd became one of the most influential and recognizable rock bands in history. As "The Pink Floyd Sound," the band created sound and light shows that defined psychedelia in England and inspired similar movements in the Jefferson Airplane's San Francisco and Andy Warhol's New ... Read more

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  • Dark Deleuze

    by Andrew Culp ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been recycled into business mantras that joyously affirm “Power is vertical; potential is horizontal!”Culp ... Read more

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  • Introducing Empiricism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Our knowledge comes primarily from experience – what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world – and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'.In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, ... Read more

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  • Selfish People

    by Nikos Antoniadis ...
    Has anyone ever called you selfish? Did you deny it? Well, if you did, that was wrong of you! I have a theory that everyone is selfish on our planet and everything we do results in our pleasure. Read my opinion regarding the meaning of life, humanity's enemy and humans' personality. ... Read more

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  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art

    by Aaron Ridley ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses:Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on artthe ideas and texts of his works which contribute to art, including The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Hyperbole in English

    A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration

    by Claudia Claridge ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This volume provides the first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on data from genres such as spoken conversation, TV, newspapers, and literary works from Chaucer to Monty Python. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, it uses ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

    Edited by Ruth Page ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

    by Katalin Nun, Gerhard Schreiber ...
    Series series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
    This volume is a revised and improved edition of the auction catalogue of Kierkegaard’s private library. The catalogue has long served as one of the most valuable tools in Kierkegaard studies and has been actively used by commentators, translators and researchers for tracing the various sources of Kierkegaard’s thought. With the catalogue in hand, one can determine with some degree of probability ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Paradoxes of Emotion and Fiction

    by Robert J. Yanal ...
    How can we experience real emotions when viewing a movie or reading a novel or watching a play when we know the characters whose actions have this effect on us do not exist? This is a conundrum that has puzzled philosophers for a long time, and in this book Robert Yanal both canvasses previously proposed solutions to it and offers one of his own.First formulated by Samuel Johnson, the paradox ... Read more

    $29.69 USD