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  • Hans Jonas: Philosophy as Personal Engagement

    by Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo, Nathalie Frogneux, Jelson Oliveira ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This text presents a critical synthesis of the thought of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), a philosopher of Jewish origin and former pupil of M. Heidegger and R. Bultmann in Marburg, who in 1933 fled from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Canada and finally settled in the USA. Jonas authored significant works on late-antique Gnosticism, the philosophy of life, philosophical anthropology, the ethics of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Philosophy

    by Kevin Perry ...
    Philosophy is to question everything. More than a lifestyle, larger than any single idea, broader than a conviction, philosophy is the love of exploration, of knowledge, of uncertainty, and of that cornerstone of free thinking: doubt. Kevin Perry's "Philosophy" takes the reader on a grand tour of life's biggest questions, examining all that the world's greatest philosophers have said about life ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Uncountable

    A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

    by David Nirenberg, Ricardo L. Nirenberg ...
    Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of humanity.Our knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as individuals and communities, shaping our psychologies, sociologies, and economies. In pursuit of a more predictable and more controllable cosmos, we have ... Read more

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  • Emancipation After Hegel

    Achieving a Contradictory Revolution

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel’s thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Hegel and Modern Society

    by Charles Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise them with the intrinsic good of community membership. Hegel's goal of a society of free ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Hegel and the Infinite

    Religion, Politics, and Dialectic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Ideology and Utopia

    by Karl Mannheim ...
    Translated by Louis Wirth ...
    This book is concerned with the problem of how men actually think. The aim of these studies is to investigate not how thinking appears in textbooks on logic, but how it really functions in public life and in politics as an instrument of collective action.Philosophers have too long concerned themselves with their own thinking. When they wrote of thought, they had in mind primarily their own history ... Read more

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  • Simply Hegel

    Great Lives

    by Robert L. Wicks ...
    Series series Great Lives
    The philosopher who saw history as a struggle of ideas.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is famous for being difficult to read, but the questions at the heart of his philosophy are surprisingly familiar: How does society change? Why do ideas clash? And how do we become who we are? In Simply Hegel, philosopher Robert L. Wicks offers an accessible introduction to one of the most influential thinkers of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1

    The Project of a Genealogy of Postmetaphysical Thinking

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    Translated by Ciaran Cronin ...
    This is the first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy.In this major new work, Habermas sets out the ideas that inform his systematic account of the history of Western philosophy as a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking. His account goes far beyond a vindication of the enduring relevance of philosophical reflection founded on communicative reason ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • A Farewell to Truth

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective description of facts, though many have yet to acknowledge that this is changing.Gianni Vattimo explicitly engages with the important consequences for democracy of our changing conception of politics and truth, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • A Systems Theory of Religion

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by David Brenner, Adrian Hermann ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology of religion. Religion, for Luhmann, is one of the many functionally differentiated social systems ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

    Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being

    by Vanessa Lemm ...
    "[Lemm] consolidates her reputation as one of Nietzsche's most original, attentive, and lively readers." — The Journal of Nietzsche StudiesThis book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's body of work. Vanessa Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a ... Read more

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