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Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death
A Critical Guide
Av Jeffrey Hanson, Sharon Krishek
Häftad, 2024
471 kr
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The Sickness unto Death (1849) is commonly regarded as one of Kierkegaard's most important works - but also as one of his most difficult texts to understand. It is a meditation on Christian existentialist themes including sin, despair, religious faith and its redemptive power, and the relation and …
Aristotle's Generation of Animals
A Critical Guide
Av Andrea Falcon, David Lefebvre
Inbunden, 2018
1628 kr
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Generation of Animals is one of Aristotle's most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings. His overall goal is to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of how animals reproduce, including a study of their reproductive organs, what we would call fertilization, …
Descartes' Meditations
A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2012
1628 kr
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Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the Meditations and explores issues such as scepticism, …
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
A Critical Guide
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is a work with few equals in systematic integrity, philosophical originality and historical influence. This collection of essays, contributed by leading Hegel scholars, examines all aspects of the work, from its argumentative strategies to …
Mill's On Liberty
A Critical Guide
Av C. L. Ten
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty, published in 1859, has had a powerful impact on philosophical and political debates ever since its first appearance. This volume of essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by the essay, including the concept of liberty, the toleration of …
Augustine's City of God
A Critical Guide
Av James Wetzel
Inbunden, 2012
993 kr
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Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of …
Plato's 'Republic'
A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2010
927 kr
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Plato's Republic has proven to be of astounding influence and importance. Justly celebrated as Plato's central text, it brings together all of his prior works, unifying them into a comprehensive vision that is at once theological, philosophical, political and moral. The essays in this volume …
Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
A Critical Guide
Av Lara Denis
Inbunden, 2010
1628 kr
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Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797), containing the Doctrine of Right and Doctrine of Virtue, is his final major work of practical philosophy. Its focus is not rational beings in general but human beings in particular, and it presupposes and deepens Kant's earlier accounts of morality, …
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
A Critical Guide
Av Jon Miller
Inbunden, 2011
1349 kr
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written, and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics and moral psychology. This collection of essays, written by both senior and younger scholars in the field, presents a thorough and …
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
A Critical Guide
Av Simon May
Inbunden, 2011
820 kr
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On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what …
Kant's Observations and Remarks
A Critical Guide
Av Susan Meld Shell, Richard Velkley
Inbunden, 2012
1563 kr
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Kant's Observations of 1764 and Remarks of 1764-5 (a set of fragments written in the margins of his copy of the Observations) document a crucial turning point in his life and thought. Both reveal the growing importance for him of ethics, anthropology and politics, but with an important difference. …
Mill's On Liberty
A Critical Guide
Av C. L. Ten
Inbunden, 2009
1547 kr
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John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty, published in 1859, has had a powerful impact on philosophical and political debates ever since its first appearance. This volume of essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by the essay, including the concept of liberty, the toleration of …
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2008
1593 kr
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Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is a work with few equals in systematic integrity, philosophical originality and historical influence. This collection of essays, contributed by leading Hegel scholars, examines all aspects of the work, from its argumentative strategies to …
Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim
Av Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, James Schmidt
Inbunden, 2009
1593 kr
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Lively debates about narratives of historical progress, the conditions for international justice, and the implications of globalisation have prompted a renewed interest in Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim. The essays in this volume, written by distinguished contributors, …
Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise'
A Critical Guide
Av Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Michael A. Rosenthal
Inbunden, 2010
1056 kr
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Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was published anonymously in 1670 and immediately provoked huge debate. Its main goal was to claim that the freedom of philosophizing can be allowed in a free republic and that it cannot be abolished without also destroying the peace and piety of that …
Plato's 'Laws'
A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in …
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
A Critical Guide
Av Arif Ahmed
Inbunden, 2010
1084 kr
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Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close analysis of the way we use language continues to …
Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'
A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2010
1628 kr
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Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, …
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
A Critical Guide
Häftad, 2026
420 kr
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Hegel's Philosophy of Nature constitutes the second part of his mature philosophical system presented in the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of themes and issues, as Hegel considers the content and structure of how humanity approaches nature …
Hume's Essays
A Critical Guide
Av Max Skjönsberg, Felix Waldmann
Häftad, 2026
420 kr
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David Hume's Essays, which were written and published at various junctures between 1741 and his death in 1776, offer his most accessible and often most profound statements on a range of subjects including politics, philosophy, aesthetics, and political economy. In Hume's lifetime, the readable and …
Cicero's 'De Officiis'
A Critical Guide
Häftad, 2025
389 kr
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Cicero's De Officiis, perhaps his most influential philosophical work, ranges over a wide variety of themes, from the role of the family in society to the question of whether our duties can conflict with one another, and from the moral significance of offence to the question of whether it is right …
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
A Critical Guide
Häftad, 2025
389 kr
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Published just over a century ago, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length work to have been published during his lifetime and it continues to generate interest and scholarly debate. It is structured as a series of propositions on metaphysics, language, the nature of …
Kierkegaard's Either/Or
A Critical Guide
Av Ryan S. Kemp, Walter Wietzke
Häftad, 2025
422 kr
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Either/Or is Kierkegaard's first major work and arguably his most virtuosic. It introduces many of the most important philosophical themes that define the rest of his authorship and showcases - through its several pseudonyms and genres - Kierkegaard's prodigious literary scope. In this Critical …
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
A Critical Guide
Av Paul Russell
Inbunden, 2026
1563 kr
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David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion were published posthumously in 1779 and are considered one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of religion. Throughout Hume's philosophical career his views on religion were highly controversial and many of his own contemporaries …
Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy
A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2025
1450 kr
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A decade prior to his main publications in political philosophy, Kant presented his views on the topic in his 1784 course lectures on natural right. This Critical Guide examines this only surviving student transcript of these lectures, which shows how Kant's political philosophy developed in …
Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy
A Critical Guide
Häftad, 2026
420 kr
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A decade prior to his main publications in political philosophy, Kant presented his views on the topic in his 1784 course lectures on natural right. This Critical Guide examines this only surviving student transcript of these lectures, which shows how Kant's political philosophy developed in …
Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature
A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2026
1563 kr
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David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in 1739-40, was his first major work of philosophy, and his only systematic, scientific analysis of human nature. It is now regarded as a classic text in the history of Western thought and a key text in philosophical empiricism, …
Boethius' 'Consolation of Philosophy'
A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2024
1370 kr
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Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe, considering questions such as How can evil exist in a world governed by God? And how is happiness still attainable despite the vicissitudes of fortune? Written as a dialogue between …
Boethius' 'Consolation of Philosophy'
A Critical Guide
Häftad, 2025
389 kr
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Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe, considering questions such as How can evil exist in a world governed by God? And how is happiness still attainable despite the vicissitudes of fortune? Written as a dialogue between …
Ockham's Summa Logicae
A Critical Guide
Av Claude Panaccio, Jenny Pelletier
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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William of Ockham's Summa Logicae (The Sum of Logic), composed in the mid-1320s, is a major work in the history of Western philosophy. It was highly influential for several centuries following its appearance. Ostensibly a textbook on logic, the work is an essential resource for understanding …
