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  • The Philosophy of Time

    Time before Times

    by Roger McLure ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years. This considered and complete study offers a contrastive analysis of phenomenologies of time from the perspective of the problematics of the visibility of time. Is time perceptible only through the veil of change? Or is there a naked presence of 'time itself'? Or has time always effaced ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Analysis of Mind

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    "A most brilliant essay in psychology."-New Statesman. "A delightful experience."-Joseph Conrad. Philosopher, mathematician and social critic, Bertrand Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. In The Analysis of Mind, one of his most influential and exciting books, Russell presents an intriguing reconciliation between the materialism of psychology with the anti-materialism of ... Read more

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  • The Golden Compass and Philosophy

    God Bites the Dust

    Edited by Richard Greene, Rachel Robison ...
    Series Book 43 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel. The series has also been highly controversial with its use of exciting adventure stories for children to comment on organized religion. These books have piqued the interest of the contributors to this fascinating volume, who use it to probe the philosophical issues ... Read more

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  • On Generation and Corruption

    by Aristotle ...
    "On Generation and Corruption" is a philosophical treatise written by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The work is concerned with the nature of change and the principles that govern the transformation of substances in the natural world.Aristotle argues that everything in the natural world is composed of four basic elements: earth, air, fire, and water. These elements have different ... Read more

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  • The Messianic Reduction

    Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time

    by Peter Fenves ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger. By concentrating on a neglected dimension of Benjamin's friendship with Gershom Scholem, who was a student of mathematics before he became a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Agon of Interpretations

    Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics

    by Ming Xie ...
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Agon of Interpretations explores the challenges and possibilities of critical intercultural hermeneutics in a globalized world. Editor Ming Xie and writers from eight countries on five continents not only lay out the importance of critical hermeneutics to intercultural understanding but also probe the conditions under which a hermeneutics ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Language As Disclosure

    by Carolyn Norman Slaughter ...
    Written in the 1980's, heyday of Deconstruction in university English Departments, Carolyn Norman Slaughter's study probes the ways that language "works" in the literature of a few American modernist authors. Slaughter's purpose is not to prove the futility and "meaning"lessness of language, as Deconstruction was striving to do at the time, but instead to recover the first-order importance and ... Read more

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  • The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air

    Three Godly Discourses

    by Søren Kierkegaard ...
    Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse ...
    A masterful new translation of one of Kierkegaard's most engaging worksIn the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world. Trenchant, brilliant, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image

    by Alison Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career. Using Kant’s treatment of the topic of sensuous form in his aesthetics as a comparative reference, Ross argues that Benjamin’s thinking on the image undergoes a major shift between his 1924 essay on ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Nothingness and the Meaning of Life

    Philosophical Approaches to Ultimate Meaning Through Nothing and Reflexivity

    by Dr Nicholas Waghorn ...
    What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing issues ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Contrary to Thoughtlessness

    Rethinking Practical Wisdom

    by Monica Mueller ...
    Since Hannah Arendt highlighted the stunning “banality” of his “evil” crimes, Adolf Eichmann has served posterity as a prime example of thoughtlessness. This book asks: as civilizations become ever more integrated, how will the complexities of our activities respond to the growing proclivity for thoughtlessness? When administrative necessity eclipses personal responsibility, the result is often ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • How to Do Things with Pornography

    by Nancy Bauer ...
    Feminist philosophers have made important strides in altering the overwhelmingly male-centric discipline of philosophy. Yet, in Nancy Bauer’s view, most are still content to work within theoretical frameworks that are fundamentally false to human beings’ everyday experiences. This is particularly intolerable for a species of philosophy whose central aspiration is to make the world a less sexist ... Read more

    $34.49 USD