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This book offers new insights into truth, knowledge, and reality. It details a unique approach to epistemological relativism based on the concept of points of view. In a point of view, an aspect represents an object for a subject. By applying this concept of...
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Springer
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2020-01-28
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This book addresses the limits of metaphysics and the question of the possibility of ethics in this context. It is divided into six chapters, the first of which broadens readers’ understanding of difference as difference with specific reference to the works of Hegel....
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Springer
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2020-01-27
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This third and final volume of the series of writings by Antonio Negri examines how Spinoza’s thought constitutes a radical break with past ideas and an essential tool for envisaging a form of politics beyond capitalism. Negri shows how Spinoza’s ideas have facilitated...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-01-22
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Writings on History brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a lecture, notes to his collaborators, and the transcript of an informal 1963 discussion of literary history. The centrepiece of this collection is...
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Polity
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2020-01-22
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In this comprehensive introduction, Albert Spencer presents a new story of the origins and development of American pragmatism, from its emergence through the interaction of European and Indigenous American cultures to its contemporary status as a diverse, vibrant, and...
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Polity
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2020-01-17
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The original – and often continuing – sin of countries with a settler colonial past is their brutal treatment of indigenous peoples. This challenging legacy continues to confront modern liberal democracies ranging from the USA and Canada to Australia, New Zealand and...
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Polity
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2020-01-17
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Political Theory Today
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Is democracy the best form of government? What does it mean to be ‘free’? Why should we obey the government? In this highly accessible and engaging new introductory textbook, Pete Woodcock examines all these questions and more in a compact outline of the basics of...
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Polity
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2020-01-17
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Michael Walzer is one of the world’s most important political thinkers, whose major works, such as Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars, have transformed many central debates in contemporary political philosophy. In this book, Toby J. Reiner provides the most...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-01-16
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Many of us wonder what we could possibly do to end oppression, exploitation, and injustice. People have studied revolutions and protest movements for centuries, but few have focused on prefigurative politics, the idea of 'building the new society within the shell of the...
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Polity
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2020-01-16
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Perché mai Nietzsche descriveva il suo Così parlò Zarathustra come un “libro sacro”, per l’esattezza un “quinto vangelo”? E perché, al contempo, lo definiva il “dono più grande” mai fatto all’umanità? Quale dono immaginava di offrire? E cosa si attendeva in cambio? Un...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2020-01-14
Collection :
Phy´sis. Collana di filosofia
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Ethics is a field of study that we all need. This is because we all make choices, and ethics is about the general norms that govern how we should make those choices. Not surprisingly, there is disagreement over what the “norms” are, but by working through such...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-14
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What is Philosophy?
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This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas. According to the authors’ view, qiyas represents an innovative and sophisticated form of...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-13
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Claims to self-determination are rife in world politics today. They range from Scottish and Catalonian campaigns for independence to calls for the devolution of power to regions and cities. But is self-determination meaningful or desirable in the twenty-first century,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-13
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Political Theory Today
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This book presents the research achievements of Jin Yuelin, the first logician and a prominent philosopher in China, who founded a new philosophical system combining elements from Western and Chinese philosophical traditions, especially the concept of Tao. It consists...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-02
Collection :
China Academic Library
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This book takes an in-depth look at the integration of fashion and philosophy. It challenges the deeply rooted prejudice or misconception that fashion is a field limited to body-oriented and appearance-related themes and practices. It also reveals that fashion is...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. This theory became famous very soon and inspired...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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This book presents the state of the art in the fields of formal logic pioneered by Graham Priest. It includes advanced technical work on the model and proof theories of paraconsistent logic, in contributions from top scholars in the field. Graham Priest’s research has...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
Collection :
Outstanding Contributions to Logic
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This edited volume collects essays on the four-valued logic known as Belnap-Dunn logic, or first-degree entailment logic (FDE). It also looks at various formal systems closely related to it. These include the strong Kleene logic and the Logic of Paradox. Inside, readers...
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Springer
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2020-01-01
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This book features a theoretical depiction of the Italian phenomenological tradition. It brings together the main Italian phenomenologists of the present to discuss the positions and theories of the most important Italian phenomenologists of the past. Those profiled...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-12-24
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