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Must We Burn Sade?
Häftad, 1999
429 kr
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The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) has been labeled everything from a sadomasochistic pornographer (The 120 Days of Sodom) to the fiction writer responsible for the ideas that led to the Nazi death camps.Must We Burn Sade? peels away the negative legacy that has shrouded Sade for too long. Deepak …
Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture
Häftad, 2002
317 kr
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This absorbing study of the Victorian controversies over the cultural meaning of evolution broadens our perspective by discussing the roles played by prominent individuals besides Charles Darwin, notably Alfred Russel Wallace, Herbert Spencer, and Thomas Henry Huxley. Fichman traces the emergence …
Telling Right from Wrong
Inbunden, 1985
406 kr
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Presents an analysis and discussion of moral language and the assumptions underlying its use. This book contends that much of our prescriptive language pertaining to issues such as gambling, abortion, capitol punishment, homosexuality, prostitution, divorce, freedom of speech and expression, …
Revolutionary Marxism and Social Reality in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1994
341 kr
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Features Mandel's essays that are an affirmation of internationalism, macropolitics, political economy, and class analysis.
All Before Them
Av John Mcveagh
Inbunden, 1990
801 kr
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Explores the literary reflection of Britain's changing attitudes to the wider world between the Restoration and the American War of Independence. This work assesses the impact upon literary genres of this awareness of real and imagined travel, and of travel literature.
Breaking With the Enlightenment : The Twilight of History and the Rediscovery of Utopia
1997
270 kr
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Before Ethics
Inbunden, 1997
562 kr
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Shows the way to a post-modern ethics - neither utilitarian nor deontological - by reflecting on its key concepts of freedom, value, intersubjectivity, obligation, responsibility, rights, ethos, history, and culture.
Medical Ethics
Applying Theories and Principles to the Patient Encounter
Häftad, 2001
698 kr
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Offers a guide to various ethical dilemmas. This book provides both a theoretical and an empirical foundation for addressing several emotionally difficult issues. It includes fifty-five articles divided into eighteen sections dealing with subjects as ethical theory, geriatric ethics, end-of-life …
Heidegger, German Idealism, and Neo-Kantianism
Av Tom Rockmore
Inbunden, 2000
895 kr
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Examines the link between Heidegger's theories and his reading of German philosophy - especially idealist and neo-Kantian strains. This title offers the analyses and evaluations of Heidegger's writings that represent a range of views, running from those who agree with Heidegger to those who are …
Patriotism
Häftad, 2002
341 kr
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Presents a collection of essays by philosophers and political theorists that cover the main varieties of patriotism. This title includes articles that discuss the history of the term in moral and political discourse in the English-speaking world. It emphasises that patriotism is a distinct moral …
Mind, Body, and Freedom
Inbunden, 2002
497 kr
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Descartes with his sharp separation of the mental and the physical set the stage for the philosophy of mind for the years to come. Philosopher Patrick T Mackenzie finds in the later writings of Wittgenstein the suggestion that Descartes got off on the wrong foot.
Heidegger
Decisionism and Quietism
Inbunden, 2002
615 kr
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Argues that Heidegger's questioning of rationality and his rejection of objectivity did not cause him to abandon the idea of norms. This book suggests that Heidegger's critics have fundamentally misunderstood his idea of freedom, the key to which lies in Heidegger's notion of resoluteness.
Great American Women of the 19th Century
A Biographical Encyclopedia
Av Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary A. Livermore
Inbunden, 2004
1068 kr
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Containing 1500 biographies and more than 1400 photographs or portraits, this encyclopaedia documents the lives and achievements of remarkable American women who lived during the nineteenth century. This work demonstrates that women were a rising cultural and intellectual force to be reckoned with.
The Conscious Self
The Immaterial Center of Subjective States
Inbunden, 2005
641 kr
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Aimed at philosophers, cognitive scientists, and anyone with an interest in the perennial riddle of consciousness. This work about philosophy of mind is a defence of dualism as a serious philosophical explanation of consciousness.
The Head And the Heart
Philosophy in Literature
Inbunden, 2006
380 kr
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Explores the philosophic content of some literary works, analysing and evaluating the ideas that drive the narrative. This book examines, among other things, the concept of free will and determinism in Melville's "Moby Dick", placing the quest for the white whale within the context of …
Reason & Emancipation
Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen
Av Michel Seymour, Matthias Fritsch
Inbunden, 2007
667 kr
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Kai Nielsen is a towering figure of Canadian philosophy. This work contains twenty papers on Nielsen's thought, and also his responses to critical essays, which show that it is possible to develop a systematic approach that links difference areas of philosophy within one perspective.
The Image of a Second Sun
Plato on Poetry, Rhetoric, And the Techne of Mimesis
Inbunden, 2008
648 kr
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Offers an interpretation based upon central features of both the pre-Platonic conception of poetry and features of Plato's various discussions of poetry and the poets. This book concentrates on the philosophical significance of Plato's distinction between dramatic and non-dramatic sorts of poetry.
Speaking Out for America's Poor
A Millionaire Socialist in the Progressive Era
Häftad, 2007
431 kr
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Robert Hunter made an impact on social reform. He demonstrated that poverty was preventable by appropriate government action. His proposals helped precipitate action at state and local levels and foreshadowed much of the social legislation enacted under the New Deal. This book provides an account …
New Interpretations of Berkeley's Thought
Inbunden, 2008
823 kr
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Describes how the Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1684-1753) continues to inspire debates about his views on knowledge, reality, God, freedom, mathematics, and religion. This book resolves discussions about Berkeley's account of physical objects, minds, and God's role in human experience within …
This Quintessence of Dust?
Discovering Who We Are--From Ancient Greece to the Modern World
Häftad, 2010
444 kr
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Presents a survey of the concept of the 'self' throughout history. Divided into four parts, this title begins with an exploration of the concept of self in the classical period of Plato and Aristotle, before moving on to the development of empirical, rational and humanist perspectives though the …
