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  • The Ethics of Silence

    An Interdisciplinary Case Analysis Approach

    by Nancy Billias, Sivaram Vemuri ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse. How is silence treated in different cultures? In a globalized world, how is silence managed between and across cultures?Co-authored by a philosopher and an economist, the text draws on interviews with scholars and practitioners in fields as diverse as marine ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Nancy Billias ...
    For ten years, Rilke struggled to create the Duino Elegies: a cycle of ten unrhymed, free-form poems. By contrast, the fifty-five Orphic sonnets presented here were composed in just three weeks, in and as the wake of the final elegy. In this, the first sonnet-form translation to appear in print since 1960, the translator has sought to retain the musicality of the poems, to hew as closely as ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Skepticism, Causation, Induction, and the Limits of Knowledge in Enlightenment Empiricism

    by David Hume, Keira Dovewick ...
    David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a lucid, incisive condensation of the epistemological arguments first advanced in A Treatise of Human Nature. Written in elegant eighteenth-century prose, it examines the origins, limits, and reliability of human knowledge, distinguishing "relations of ideas" from "matters of fact" and famously challenging causal necessity, induction, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Be Born

    Genesis of a New Human Being

    by Luce Irigaray ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    “According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone. Love, whose destiny is said to be unique amongst the gods and humans, perhaps embodies desire for a conjunction always in search of its happening. Love would represent a dynamism longing for the copula incarnating the transcendence ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice

    A Wittgensteinian Perspective

    by J. Hermann ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality. It offers an account of moral certainty, which it links with a view of moral competence. Drawing on everyday examples, it is shown how morality is grounded in action, not in reasoning. ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Intersubjectivity and the Double

    Troubled Matters

    by Brian Seitz ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book extends philosophy’s engagement with the double beyond hierarchized binary oppositions. Brian Seitz explores the double as a necessary ontological condition or figure that gets represented, enacted, and performed repeatedly and in a myriad of configurations. Seitz suggests that the double in all of its forms is simultaneously philosophy’s shadow, its nemesis, and the condition of its ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development

    Innovative Tools for Increasing Research Impact and Evidence-Based Policy-Making

    by André Martinuzzi, Michal Sedlacko ...
    The menace of a post-truth era challenges conventional policy-making and science. Instead of fighting an uphill battle against populist solutions, those involved in both policy-making and science have to find innovative ways to collaborate, and make use of the vast amounts of knowledge that are already available. Knowledge brokerage, in this context, is more than a simple question-and-answer game: ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Mythic-Symbolic Language and Philosophical Anthropology

    A Constructive Interpretation of the Thought of Paul Ricœur

    by David M. Rasmussen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book will attempt to achieve a constructive and positive correla tion between mythic-symbolic language and philosophical anthropolo gy. It is intended as a reflection on the philosophical accomplishment of Paul Ricoeur. The term mythic-symbolic language in this context means the language of the multivalent symbol given in the myth with its psychological and poetic counterparts. The term ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Legal Knowledge and Analogy

    Fragments of Legal Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Linguistics

    Edited by P.J. Nerhot ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    3 of law as an object that has always already been there, systematic and com plete. Quite the contrary. Some, indeed practically all of us, reject this sort of epistemology of law, and where the hypothesis of the coherence of the legal universe is put forward, this is in order to define it in very noticeably different terms from those traditionally used in legal scholarly accounts. If this ... Read more

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  • Kazimierz Opałek Selected Papers in Legal Philosophy

    Edited by Jan Wolenski ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Philosophical aspects of law and jurisprudence are investigated from various points of view. This collection represents the analytic approach to legal philosophy. However, this approach is not extreme in the sense that it is limited exclusively to linguistic matters. The concept of norm as a directive of conduct is the central category analyzed in particular essays. The structure of directives as ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Cause, Mind, and Reality

    Essays Honoring C.B. Martin

    Edited by J. Heil ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    T is said that there is no progress in philosophy. The illusion of standing I still, however, arises only when we lose sight of our history and so fail to notice the distance we have travelled. Philosophers nowadays find obvious ideas and themes that, as it happens, emerged slowly and painfully and largely in reaction to prevailing sensibilities. The essays here honour a man to whom present-day ... Read more

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  • Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues

    by Omid Tofighian ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book rethinks Plato’s creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields. Individual myths function differently depending on cultural practice, religious context or literary tradition, and this interdisciplinary study merges new perspectives in Plato studies with recent scholarship and theories pertaining to ... Read more

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