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'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural for……続きを見る

Blanchot provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. Although Blanchot's work is characterised by a fragmentary and complex style, Leslie Hill……続きを見る

George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English to examine Bataille's work as a whole. It offers an……続きを見る

The righteousness of God is transparent and it is different from the righteousness of human beings. God's righteousness is revealed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which was completed by ……続きを見る

Pragmatism established a philosophical presence over a century ago through the work of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, and has enjoyed an unprecedented revival in recent years owing to……続きを見る

Para Schopenhauer “el mundo es mi representación” y el sujeto es aquel que todo lo conoce y de nadie es conocido. El sujeto es la base del mundo, la condición supuesta de antemano de todo objeto per……続きを見る

Observations psychologiques Arthur Schopenhauer, philosophe allemand (1788-1860) Ce livre numérique présente «Observations psychologiques», de Arthur Schopenhauer, é……続きを見る

Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas’s virtue ethics remains myst……続きを見る

The intellectual history of the last quarter of this century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought--an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over id……続きを見る

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are……続きを見る

Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Eur……続きを見る

The Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas. Counter-Enlightenments i……続きを見る

5 works of Thomas Chandler Haliburton Politician, judge, and author in the British Colony of Nova Scotia (1796-1865) This ebook presents a collection of 5 works of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. A dyna……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Extrait : De quoi te plains-tu ? La divinité t'a donné ce qu'elle avait de plus grand, de plus noble, de plus royal e……続きを見る

The Second Treatise is notable for a number of themes which Locke develops therein. It begins with a depiction of the state of nature, wherein individuals are under no obligation to obey one another……続きを見る

Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne Jean-Jacques Rousseau, écrivain, philosophe et musicien genevois francophone (1712-1778) Ce livre numérique présente &laq……続きを見る

Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally considered as the greatest philosopher since Immanuel Kant, and his personal life, work, and his historical moment intertwined in a fascinating, complex web. Noted s……続きを見る

This book is about the use of legal scholarship by judges. It discusses the possibility that legal scholarship may function as a genuine source of law in modern municipal legal systems. The book adv……続きを見る

Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Em……続きを見る

This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writi……続きを見る

This comprehensive collection of Emerson's work includes his Address to Harvard Divinity College, his poetry, and the famous essays "Self-Reliance" (Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist), "……続きを見る

What is the relationship between scientific research and ethics? Some think that science should be free from ethical and political considerations. Biomedical Research and Beyond argues that ethical ……続きを見る

This unique collection looks at analytic philosophy in its historical context. Prominent philosophers discuss key figures, including Russell and Wittgenstein, methods and results in analytic philoso……続きを見る

First published in English in 1953, this volume represents a collection of three essays written by seminal sociologist and philsopher Emile Durkheim in which he puts forward the thesis that society ……続きを見る

Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws. His book begins with the question of whether there are any genuinely law-like phenomena in nature. The discussion addresses questions currently b……続きを見る

Understanding Eastern Philosophy provides an accessible critical introduction to how some of the key philosophies of the East compare with those in the West. Starting from a discussion of the proble……続きを見る

Taking Picture Books Seriously: What can we learn about philosophy through children's books? This warm and charming volume casts a spell on adult readers as it unveils the surprisingly profound phil……続きを見る

This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular in the writings of Frege, Husserl, Ru……続きを見る

Combining the most powerful elements of Foucault's theories, Clifford produces a methodology for cultural and political critique called "political genealogy" to explore the genesis of modern politic……続きを見る

Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy. Scan any personal ads page and it's clear that to get a life you need a personality first. It is also a notion with a long and often bizarre hist……続きを見る