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  • Utopia 1516-2016

    More's Eccentric Essay and its Activist Aftermath

    Edición de Giulia Sissa, Han van Ruler ...
    This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies ... Leer más

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  • Leibniz: Dissertation on Combinatorial Art

    Edición de Massimo Mugnai, Han van Ruler ...
    Series series Leibniz from Oxford
    Leibniz published the Dissertation on Combinatorial Art in 1666. This book contains the seeds of Leibniz's mature thought, as well as many of the mathematical ideas that he would go on to further develop after the invention of the calculus. It is in the Dissertation, for instance, that we find the project for the construction of a logical calculus clearly expressed for the first time. The idea of ... Leer más

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    de Brian Duignan ...
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    Concerned more with rationality, human nature, and human interaction with society and the world than the theological questions of the Middle Ages, contemporary philosophy has advanced study of the limits of the human mind. This insightful volume traces the evolution of present-day Western philosophy and the diverging methods of inquiry that continue to inform a wide range of disciplines. ... Leer más

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  • On Pedantry

    A Cultural History of the Know-it-All

    A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual viceIntellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths. On Pedantry offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning ... Leer más

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  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity

    Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

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    "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between ... Leer más

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  • Western Self-Contempt

    Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations

    Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence of cultural self-hatred and its cyclical recurrence. Benedict Beckeld explores oikophobia, described by its coiner Sir Roger Scruton as "the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and ... Leer más

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  • Freedom and Its Betrayal

    Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition

    de Isaiah Berlin ...
    These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom—views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. When they were broadcast on BBC radio in 1952, the lectures created a sensation and ... Leer más

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  • A Hedonist Manifesto

    The Power to Exist

    de Michel Onfray ...
    Traducido por Joseph McClellan ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, ethical, and embodied life. He then lays the groundwork for both a radical and constructive politics of the ... Leer más

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  • The Omnibus Homo Sacer

    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse.This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this ... Leer más

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  • Homo Sacer

    Sovereign Power and Bare Life

    Traducido por Daniel Heller-Roazen ...
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    In this major work by the renowned Italian philosopher, an obscure figure in Roman law poses significant questions about the nature of power.The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, challenges modern conceptions of society and the individual's place within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and ... Leer más

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  • Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

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    In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical context and the larger framework of current theory concerning language, representation, ... Leer más

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    Presentism and Experiences of Time

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    François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work on the threshold of historical consciousness and contrasting it with an investigation of the anthropologist ... Leer más

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