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  • The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers

    Edited by Hans Joas, Matthias Bormuth ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Companions to Sociology
    This collection of articles by an international group of leading experts has its special focus on the relevance of Karl Jaspers’s philosophy for the social sciences. It also includes classical evaluations of Jaspers’s thinking by renowned authors Talcott Parsons and Jürgen Habermas. Several chapters are devoted to the relationship between Jaspers and his teacher (Max Weber), his famous student ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

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  • German Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Bowie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Politics without Vision

    Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

    by Tracy B. Strong ...
    "Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."— Perspectives on PoliticsFrom Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ernst Cassirer

    The Last Philosopher of Culture

    by Edward Skidelsky ...
    This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heidegger in Ruins

    Between Philosophy and Ideology

    by Richard Wolin ...
    What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century’s most important philosopher?Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University of Freiburg in the early 1930s, he worked hard to reshape the university in accordance with ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • Anthropology

    A Continental Perspective

    by Christoph Wulf ...
    Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced ... Read more

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  • Things Needed to Get Better

    Conversations with Stefan Müller-Doohm and Roman Yos

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    In this book Jürgen Habermas offers a wide-ranging reflection on his life and work and on the factors that shaped the development of his thought. He discusses the motives behind his work, the circumstances under which it emerged and the changes it has undergone over the course of his long and productive career. He speaks about the events and the texts that played a decisive role in his thinking ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Critical Models

    Interventions and Catchwords

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Henry Pickford ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works — Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the pressing political, cultural, and philosophical concerns of the postwar era. The pieces in Critical ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School

    by John Abromeit ...
    This book is the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Max Horkheimer during the early and middle phases of his life (1895–1941). Drawing on unexamined new sources, John Abromeit describes the critical details of Horkheimer's intellectual development. This study recovers and reconstructs the model of early Critical Theory that guided the work of the Institute for Social Research in the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Socratic Way of Life

    Xenophon's "Memorabilia"

    by Thomas L. Pangle ...
    The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows that Xenophon depicts more authentically than does Plato the true teachings and way of life of the citizen philosopher Socrates, founder of political philosophy.In the first part of the book, Pangle analyzes Xenophon's defense of Socrates against the two ... Read more

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  • Pathologies of Reason

    On the Legacy of Critical Theory

    by Axel Honneth ...
    Translated by James Ingram ...
    Series Book 23 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant themes of the Frankfurt School, which counted Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Franz Neumann, and Albrecht ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Afterness

    Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics

    by Gerhard Richter ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what came before it, or does it in fact tacitly perpetuate its predecessor as a consequence of its inevitable indebtedness ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD