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  • Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism

    Another Reason, Another Enlightenment

    by Corine Pelluchon ...
    Translated by Robert Howse ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss's thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy.How can Leo Strauss's critique of modernity and his return to tradition, especially Maimonides, help us to save democracy from its inner dangers? In this book, Corine Pelluchon examines Strauss's provocative claim that the conception of man and reason ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Nourishment

    A Philosophy of the Political Body

    by Corine Pelluchon ...
    Translated by Justin E. H. Smith ...
    In her new book, Corine Pelluchon argues that the dichotomy between nature and culture privileges the latter. She laments that the political system protects the sovereignty of the human and leaves them immune to impending environmental disaster. Using the phenomenological writings of French philosophers like Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Ricœur, Pelluchon contends that human beings ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities

    by Markus Gabriel, Christoph Horn, Anna Katsman, Wilhelm Krull, Anna Luisa Lippold, Corine Pelluchon, Ingo Venzke ...
    Series series
    What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the potential the humanities offer in a time of multiple crises? This volume tackles some of these fundamental questions, acknowledging and developing the changing role of academic discourse in a turbulent world. This timely book argues that the humanities ... Read more

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  • Beyond Learning

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  • The Struggle for Recognition

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    In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts. ... Read more

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  • Biopolitics

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    The Social Life of Reason

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