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  • Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas

    New Methods and Computational Approaches

    Edited by Peter de Bolla ...
    What would the history of ideas look like if we were able to read the entire archive of printed material of a historical period? Would our 'great men (usually)' story of how ideas are formed and change over time begin to look very different? This book explores these questions through case studies on ideas such as 'liberty', 'republicanism' or 'government' using digital humanities approaches to ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Architecture of Concepts

    The Historical Formation of Human Rights

    by Peter de Bolla ...
    The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century.The first chapter outlines an innovative account of concepts as cultural entities. The second develops an ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Harold Bloom (Routledge Revivals)

    Towards Historical Rhetorics

    by Peter De Bolla ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Since the 1960s, the literary critic Harold Bloom has been producing some of the most powerful criticism in the United States. This large body of work has, since the publication of The Anxiety of Influence in 1973, increasingly distanced itself from all critical vogues, be they psychoanalytic, post-structuralist or new formalist, in favour of a highly idiosyncratic poetic theory. First published ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Impassioned Jurisprudence

    Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848

    by Simon Stern, Melissa J. Ganz, Erin Sheley, Peter de Bolla, Ian Ward, J.T. Scanlan ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its rights with an assurance of fairness and equity. Yet, an investigation of the rational discourse of ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    by Michel Foucault ...
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  • Wittgenstein

    A Very Short Introduction

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences ... Read more

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  • The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

    by Stephen Jay Gould ...
    The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers:Heidegger

    by Jonathan Rée ...
    'The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking' Heidegger'We should never allow our fears of the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny'Martin Heidegger was one of the most controversial philosophers of the 20th century, and still causes widespread division. Born in Germany, he was concerned with what makes beings intelligible ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Phenomenology

    by Robert Sokolowski ...
    This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human thinking arises from experience. It also studies personal identity as established through time and discusses the nature of philosophy. In addition to ... Read more

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    Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

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  • Sociolinguistics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Edwards ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong ... Read more

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  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Heidegger and Being and Time

    by Stephen Mulhall ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. A difficult and powerful philosopher, his work requires careful reading. Being and Time was his first major book and remains his most influential work.Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses: Heidegger's life and the background of Being and Time; the ideas and text of Being and Time; Heidegger's importance ... Read more

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