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  • Wittgenstein Reads Freud

    The Myth of the Unconscious

    Translated by Carol Cosman ...
    by Jacques Bouveresse ...
    Series series
    Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis, and it is of utmost importance to Lacanian analysts, whose main project has been to stress Freud's scientific grounding. Here Jacques Bouveresse, a noted authority on ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Why I am so very unFrench, and other essays

    by Jacques Bouveresse ...
    Series series Philosophie de la connaissance
    For those like myself, who found the politico-philosophical terrorism beginning its reign at the beginning of the 1960s intolerable, analytic philosophy in contrast could not but offer the comforting image of what a democratic philosophical community should be: civilized and tolerant, where all citizens equally must offer arguments and be willing to listen to and discuss possible objections. This ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy.Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and *Atlas Shrugged—*have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality—the ethics of rational self-interest—that ... Read more

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  • How to Speak French for Kids | A Children's Learn French Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Ciao! This is French lesson book dedicated for children. Absolutely no difficult words and phrases, this shall make your kids get that good first impression about the French language. Get them to love the language so you won't have to force it on them. You can have your own copy of this book by hitting on that buy button today! ... Read more

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  • Why the World Does Not Exist

    by Markus Gabriel ...
    Translated by Gregory Moss ...
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  • A Certain Ambiguity

    A Mathematical Novel (New in Paper)

    by Gaurav Suri, Hartosh Singh Bal ...
    While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief ... Read more

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  • Hermeneutics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jens Zimmermann ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives. As humans, we decipher the meaning of newspaper articles, books, legal matters, religious texts, political speeches, emails, and even dinner conversations every day . But how is knowledge mediated through these forms? What constitutes the process of interpretation? And how do ... Read more

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  • This New Yet Unapproachable America

    Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    A renowned aesthetics' professor explores the philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ludwig Wittgenstein.Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson ... Read more

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  • The Warburg Years (1919-1933)

    Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology

    by Ernst Cassirer, S. G. Lofts ...
    Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer’s discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence-that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural ... Read more

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  • French is Fun, Friendly and Fantastic! | A Children's Learn French Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    This educational book about the French language aims to make your kids feel that they can do everything they want to do, achieve everything they focus their minds on achieving. The goal of this book is to never lose their interest in the subject so lessons here are made to be fun, friendly and yes, fantastic. Grab a copy for your children now. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

    Edited by Peter K. Austin, Julia Sallabank ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language ... Read more

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  • Discourse on Method and Related Writings

    by René Descartes, Desmond Clarke ...
    Translated by Desmond M. Clarke ...
    This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a ... Read more

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