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  • Why It's OK to Be a Slacker

    by Alison Suen ...
    Series series Why It's OK
    "Stop slacking off!"Your parents may have said this to you when you were deep into a video-gaming marathon. Or maybe your roommate said it to you when you were lounging on the couch scrolling through Instagram. You may have even said it to yourself on days you did nothing. But what is so bad about slacking? Could it be that there’s nothing bad about not making yourself useful?Against our hyper ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Human–Animal Boundary

    Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction

    by Joshua A. Bergamin, Kristian Bjørkdahl, James P. Conlan, Sara Gavrell Ortiz, John Hartigan, Eduardo Mendieta, Sabine Lenore Müller, Aparajita Nanda, Sukanya Behura Senapati, Gary Comstock, Tomaž Grušovnik, Alison Suen ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference—rather than a porous transition—between the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans..This book shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Speaking Animal

    Ethics, Language and the Human-Animal Divide

    by Alison Suen ...
    Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. How should we understand this human-animal divide? Not only does it inform us of who we are, it also tells us how we should relate to the larger non-human world. The Speaking Animal interrogates the human-animal divide by looking at our linguistic differences – how the speaking human subject is ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Response Ethics

    by Kelly Oliver ...
    What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless?In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a “response ethics” as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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    by Baby Professor ...
    Ciao! This is French lesson book dedicated for children. Absolutely no difficult words and phrases, this shall make your kids get that good first impression about the French language. Get them to love the language so you won't have to force it on them. You can have your own copy of this book by hitting on that buy button today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A First Guide to Learning French | A Children's Learn French Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    French language is one of the most beautiful languages in the world that is why a whole lot of people are on their quests to mastering speaking French. This book should make your child one of these French-inspired folks all over the world. Designed for young beginners, the book aims to spark and maintain your child’s interest in the language. You can have your copy today. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Big Typescript

    TS 213

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein ...
    Translated by C. Grant Luckhardt, Maximilian E. Aue ...
    Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en face English–German scholar's edition.Presents scholar's edition of important material from 1933, Wittgenstein's first efforts to set out his new thoughts after the publication of the Tractatus Logico PhilosophicusIncludes indications to help the reader identify ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Assessment Sensitivity

    Relative Truth and its Applications

    by John MacFarlane ...
    Series series Context & Content
    John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis. Although there is a substantial philosophical literature on relativism about truth, going back to Plato's Theaetetus, this literature (both pro and con) has tended to focus ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Linguistics and Aphasia

    Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Intervention

    by Ruth Lesser ...
    Series series Language In Social Life
    Linguistics and Aphasia is a major study of recent developments in applying psycholinguistics and pragmatics to the study of acquired language disorders (aphasia) and their remediation.Psycholinguistic analyses of aphasia interpret disorders in terms of damaged modules and processes within what was once a normal language system. These analyses have progressed to the point that they now routinely ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Astrolinguistics

    Design of a Linguistic System for Interstellar Communication Based on Logic

    by Alexander Ollongren ...
    In linguistics, one of the main areas of modern research involves the capabilities and possibilities of there being a "lingua cosmica," a LINCOS, a universal language that could be used to communicate with non-human intelligences. This book touches on the area of the development and use of a "lingua universalis" for interstellar communication, but it also presents concepts that cover a broad area ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Figural Philology

    Panofsky and the Science of Things

    by Adi Efal ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
    Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives, and calls attention to several of aspects that were until now less accentuated in his intellectual reception. Insisting on the importance of iconology as a method for art history and the humanities in general, it shows how examining this promotes a cooperation between the history ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Situated Self

    by J.T. Ismael ...
    J.T. Ismael's monograph is an ambitious contribution to metaphysics and the philosophy of language and mind. She tackles a philosophical question whose origin goes back to Descartes: What am I? The self is not a mere thing among things--but if so, what is it, and what is its relationship to the world? Ismael is an original and creative thinker who tries to understand our problematic concepts about ... Read more

    $41.39 USD