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  • Making Promises

    Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies

    How should we understand promises as public, private, or political commitments? What are the conditions for promise-making in religiously diverse societies with competing jurisdictions and sovereignties? Making Promises addresses how promises are made meaningful not only through law, but also through appeals to transcendent powers across diverse traditions.Each contribution in this volume takes a ... Read more

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  • Schelling, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature

    From Matter to Spirit

    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
    This book develops an original interpretation of the relationship between F.W.J. Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel. It argues that the difference between these philosophers should be understood in light of their shared commitment to the philosophy of nature and the idea that spirit, or humanity, emerges from the natural world.The author makes a case for the contemporary relevance of German idealist ... Read more

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  • The Schelling Reader

    F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The Schelling Reader introduces students to Schelling's philosophy by guiding them through the first ever English-language anthology of his key texts-an anthology which showcases the vast array of his interests and concerns (metaphysics, epistemology, ... Read more

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  • Attention Deficit Democracy

    The Paradox of Civic Engagement

    Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widespread agreement. But how realistic--or helpful--is it to expect citizens to devote more attention and ... Read more

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  • Discriminations

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