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  • Vygotsky

    Philosophy and Education

    by Jan Derry ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel.Presents a reassessment of the works of Lev Vygotsky in light of the tradition of Spinoza and Hegel informing his workReveals Vygotsky’s connection with the ... Read more

    $36.25 USD

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  • A Very Brief History of Eternity

    by Carlos Eire ...
    From the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a brilliant cultural history of the idea of eternityWhat is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations?In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos ... Read more

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  • The Art of War - an Andy McNab War Classic: The beautifully reproduced illustrated 1882 edition, with introductions by Andy McNab and Henry Cust. M. P.

    by Niccolò Machiavelli, Andy McNab ...
    - Introduction from SAS and Gulf War hero Andy McNab DCM MM- The 1882 edition of The Art of War- Preface by Niccolò Machiavelli- Translated from Italian by Christian E Detmold- Bonus material: Introduction by Henry Cust, MP- Complete with all the original illustrations- Beautifully formatted in this Apostrophe Books editionThe Art of War sees political and military theory brought together by one ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Hegel

    Edited by Stephen Houlgate, Michael Baur ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel’s mature thought and his lasting influence.A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophersEssays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel researchContributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Rethink

    The Surprising History of New Ideas

    by Steven Poole ...
    An “engaging and enlightening” (The Wall Street Journal) argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic, Stephen Poole.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem. Rethink is the story of how old ideas that were mocked or ignored for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy

    by Andrew Bowie ...
    Theodor Adorno’s reputation as a cultural critic has been well-established for some time, but his status as a philosopher remains unclear. In Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy Andrew Bowie seeks to establish what Adorno can contribute to philosophy today.Adorno’s published texts are notably difficult and have tended to hinder his reception by a broad philosophical audience. His main influence as a ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Reconsidering C.B. MacPherson

    From Possessive Individualism to Democratic Theory and Beyond

    by Phillip Hansen ...
    C.B. Macpherson occupies an ambiguous place in contemporary political thought. Though his work is well known, it remains on the margins of current democratic theory. That marginalization, Phillip Hansen argues, comes from our failure to appreciate the underlying philosophical dimension of Macpherson’s work.Identifying and exploring Macpherson’s systematic critique of the liberal claim that the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Scripting the Environment

    Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space

    by Geo Takach ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for documentary film, audio-visual and stage formats, focusing on how the identity of a place is constructed and contested in the face of environmental concerns around fossil-fuel extraction in a ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Rousseau's Social Contract

    An Introduction

    by David Lay Williams ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
    If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a masterpiece. Within a week of its publication in 1762 it was banished from France. Soon thereafter, Rousseau fled to Geneva, where he saw the book burned in public. At the same time, many of his contemporaries, such as ... Read more

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  • Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference

    Race in Early Modern Philosophy

    by Justin E. H. Smith ...
    "Innovative, thought-provoking . . . looks at the construction and evolution [of] 17th- and 18th-century modern views of racial difference." — ChoicePeople have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific ... Read more

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  • The New Orientalists

    Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard

    by Ian Almond ...
    The west's Orientalism - its construction of an Arab or Islamic 'Other' - has been exposed and examined under the critical theory microscope and thoroughly expelled, it seems, from academic thought. At the same time postmodern thinkers from Nietzsche onwards have employed the motifs and symbols of the Islamic Orient within an ongoing critique of western modernity, an appropriation which, this ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • From Cause to Causation

    A Peircean Perspective

    by M. Hulswit ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce.The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of `cause'. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD