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  • Mastering the Balance of the Principalship

    How to Be a Compassionate and Decisive Leader

    by Robert Ricken ...
    "From the theoretical to the practical, the author clearly understands what it is like to serve as a principal. I love the practicality of the text; the real life of the principal is seen through the vignettes."—Bonnie Tryon, Principal, Golding Elementary School, Cobleskill, NY"This book is relevant for new and veteran administrators. It is very insightful and validating, and will help guide ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment

    A contribution to the history of the relationship between language theory and ideology

    by Ulrich Ricken ...
    Translated by Robert Norton ...
    Series series History of Linguistic Thought
    Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment treats the development of linguistic thought from Descartes to Degerando as both a part of and a determining factor in the emergence of modern consciousness. Through his careful analyses of works by the most influential thinkers of the time, Ulrich Ricken demonstrates that the central significance of language in the philosophy of ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

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  • Death and Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy

    by Bernard N. Schumacher ...
    Translated by Michael J. Miller ...
    This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $104.49 CAD

  • French: From Dialect to Standard

    by R. Anthony Lodge ...
    Written as a text, this book looks at the external history of French from its Latin origins to the present day through some of the analytical frameworks developed by contemporary sociolinguistics. French is one of the most highly standardized of the world's languages and the author invites us to see the language as heterogenous, rather than a monolithic entity, using the model proposed by E. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Ideologies of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

    Edited by John E. Joseph, Talbot J. Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
    Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous?One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with claims of scientific objectivity and explanatory autonomy. Ideologies of Language counters these claims ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Jean Piaget and Neuchâtel

    The Learner and the Scholar

    Edited by Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Jean-Marc Barrelet ...
    Jean Piaget is widely acknowledged as one of the most important scholars of the twentieth century. His passionate philosophical search for an understanding of the nature of knowledge led him to make major contributions to the study of child development and epistemology. But how did his early life in Neuchâtel inspire him to embark on this search?Taking a socio-historical and cultural perspective, ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Saussure

    by John E. Joseph ...
    "In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system." (From the posthumous Course in General Linguistics, 1916.) No one becomes as famous as Saussure without both admirers ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • Gaston Bachelard

    Critic of Science and the Imagination

    by Cristina Chimisso ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century. The book is introduced by a study - based on an analysis of portraits and literary representations - of how Bachelard's admirers transformed him into the mythical image of the Philosopher, the ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • A New Philosophy of History

    Edited by Frank Ankersmit, Hans Kellner ...
    Series series Critical Views
    ‘What is history?’ From Thucydides to Toynbee, historians and non-historians alike have wondered how to answer this question. A New Philosophy of History reflects on developments over the last two decades in historical writing, not least the renewed interest in the status of narrative itself and the presence of the authorial ‘voice’. Subjects include the problems of Grand Narrative, multiple ... Read more

    $26.49 CAD

  • What is Literature for?

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 30 November 2006

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literature”, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Spinoza Contra Phenomenology

    French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze

    by Knox Peden ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. This ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD