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The Sound of Ontology

Music as a Model for Metaphysics

by Kenneth LaFave
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

The Sound of Ontology: Music as a Model for Metaphysics explores connections between Western art music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the ideas that dominated philosophy leading up to and during that period. In the process of establishing John Cage as Richard Wagner’s heir via Arnold...
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The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy

Wicked Wisdom of the West

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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011

From the bedtime story by L. Frank Baum to the classic 1939 film, no story has captured the imaginations of generations of children - and adults - like The Wizard of Oz. The story of Dorothy’s journey through Oz, the colorful characters, places, songs, and dialogue have permeated popular culture...
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by Barry Stocker
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. Derrida on Deconstruction introduces and assesses: Derrida's life and the background to his philosophy the key themes of the critique of metaphysics, language and ethics that characterize his...
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Alfred Tarski and the "Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"

A Running Commentary with Consideration of the Polish Original and the German Translation

by Monika Gruber
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016

This book provides a detailed commentary on the classic monograph by Alfred Tarski, and offers a reinterpretation and retranslation of the work using the original Polish text and the English and German translations. In the original work, Tarski presents a method for constructing definitions of truth...
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Convention

A Philosophical Study

by David Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent...
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Derrida Now

Current Perspectives in Derrida Studies

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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016

For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida remained one of the most influential contemporary philosophers. It may be difficult to evaluate what forms his legacy will take in the future but Derrida Now provides some provocative suggestions. Derrida's often-controversial early...
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by Stephen Priest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is known and celebrated as a renowned phenomenologist and is considered a key figure in the existentialist movement. In this wide-ranging and penetrative study, Stephen Priest engages Merleau-Ponty across the full range of his philosophical thought. He considers Merleau-Ponty's...
Cover of Studies on Montesquieu - Mapping Political Diversity
by Rolando Minuti
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

This volume studies a fundamental element of Montesquieu’s argumentative architecture that is most apparent in his De l’Esprit des Lois: the problem of giving order to, and establishing a network of consistent explanations of political, social and cultural diversity. Following a thorough and careful...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

The Age of Enlightenment has often been portrayed as a dogmatic period on account of the veritable worship of reason and progress that characterized Eighteenth Century thinkers. Even today the philosophes are considered to have been completely dominated in their thinking by an optimism that leads...
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by William Penn
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012

William Penn (October 14, 1644 July 30, 1718) was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder of Pennsylvania (or Penns woods), as well as the man who designed the plan for the city of Philadelphia. His exploits in the new province made him one of the most influential Britons in Colonial...
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by James Stazicker
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015

This innovative new collection features six original essays exploring the spatial, temporal, and other structures that shape conscious perception. Includes cutting-edge research on an increasingly influential topic in the philosophy of the mind Explores structural differences between the senses...
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Nineteenth-Century British Secularism

Science, Religion and Literature

by Michael Rectenwald
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called 'Secularism' – the particular movement and creed founded by George...
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The Spectre Of Hegel

Early Writings

by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological...
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by Heather Battaly
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015

What is a virtue, and how are virtues different from vices? Do people with virtues lead better lives than the rest of us? Do they know more? Can we acquire virtues if so, how? In this lively and engaging introduction to this core topic, Heather Battaly argues that there is more than one kind...
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