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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chris mortensen”
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  • The Impossible Arises

    Oscar Reutersvärd and His Contemporaries

    by Chris Mortensen ...
    Series series Special Publications of the Lilly Library
    The Impossible Arises explores the life and work ofOscar Reutersvärd (1916–2002), founder of the Impossible Figures movement. The movement began in Stockholm in 1934 when eighteen-year-old Reutersvärd drew the first impossible triangle. Over the course of his life he would go on to draw around 4000 impossible figures and be honored by the Swedish government with an issue of stamps showing his work ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Antipodean Philosopher

    Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, Volume 1

    by John Bigelow, Raymond D. Bradley, Andrew Brennan, James Franklin, Karen Green, Russell Grigg, Matthew Sharpe, Jeanette Kennett, Neil Levy, Gary Malinas, Chris Mortensen, Robert Nola, Charles R. Pidgen, Val Plumwood, Greg Restall, Paul Thom, Paul Patton, Jack Reynolds, Michelle Boulous Walker, Tony Coady, Peter Forrest, Catriona Mackenzie, Graham Priest ...
    Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions Australasian philosophers have made to their discipline, a series of public talks by leading ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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  • Introducing Marxism

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    Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? "Introducing Marxism" provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy, its roots in 19th century European ideology, his radical economic and social criticism of capitalism that inspired vast 20th century revolutions. ... Read more

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  • Introducing Heidegger

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    by Jeff Collins ...
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    Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction, existentialism and phenomenology, he stands behind all major strands of post-structuralist and postmodern thought. Heidegger announced the end of ... Read more

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  • Why We Think the Things We Think

    Philosophy in a Nutshell

    by Alain Stephen ...
    Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing really matters if everything is just an illusion or a dream?These ideas are some of the central questions of philosophical enquiry that have engaged, troubled and exasperated some of the greatest minds ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Philosophical Development

    Phenomenology, Grammar, Method, and the Anthropological View

    by M. Engelmann ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book explains why and how Wittgenstein adapted the Tractatus in phenomenological and grammatical terms to meet challenges of his 'middle period.' It also shows why and how he invents a new method and develops an anthropological perspective, which gradually frame his philosophy and give birth to the Philosophical Investigations . ... Read more

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  • Was Ludwig von Mises a Conventionalist?

    A New Analysis of the Epistemology of the Austrian School of Economics

    by Alexander Linsbichler ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a concise introduction to the epistemology and methodology of the Austrian School of economics as defended by Ludwig von Mises. The author provides an innovative interpretation of Mises’ arguments in favour of the a priori truth of praxeology, the received view of which contributed to the academic marginalisation of the Austrian School. The study puts forward a unique argument ... Read more

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  • Ancient Views on the Quality of Life

    by Alex C. Michalos ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being. Revisiting ancient texts from about 600 BCE to 300 BCE, the book explores the earliest ideas in recorded western philosophical and ... Read more

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  • Critique as Critical History

    by Bregham Dalgliesh ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents the first sustained articulation of a Foucauldian œuvre. It situates Foucault’s critique within the tradition of Kant’s call for a philosophical archaeology of reason; in parallel, it demonstrates the priority in Foucault’s thought of Nietzsche over Heidegger and the framing of reason against an ontology of power. Bregham Dalgliesh hereby claims that at the heart of the ... Read more

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  • Heidegger and the Death of God

    Between Plato and Nietzsche

    by Duane Armitage ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents a reading of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy as an effort to strike a middle position between the philosophies of Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche. Duane Armitage interprets the history of Western philosophy as comprising a struggle over the meaning of “being,” and argues that this struggle is ultimately between materialism and idealism, and, in the end, between atheism and theism. ... Read more

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  • The Rebuke of History

    The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought

    by Paul V. Murphy ...
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