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Offers readings of Hegel's central works in order to explain his views on various topics and as such demonstrates that his accounts of representation, the concept and the speculative sentence can be used to create sophisticated theories of language acquisition, universal grammar and linguistic practice.

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Offers an innovative interpretation of a key element of Hegel's political thought. The author argues that the basic aim of Hegel's philosophy of right is to accommodate subjectivity within a framework of universally valid ethical norms and that an analysis of how Hegel attempts to do this provides a key to understanding his philosophy of right.

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Drawing on insights from thinkers such as Badiou and Nancy, this book examines Hegel's conception of 'the rabble' in order to reconstruct his political philosophy. It identifies and explores a crucial problem in the Hegelian philosophy of right that strikes at the heart of Hegel's conception of the state.

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Presents a study of Hegel's social theory. This book outlines an alternative approach to a liberal politics of difference. It begins by constructing a definition of oppression that illuminates, from a liberal perspective, its salient features.

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A significant and timely study of Hegel's social theory - there has been a resurgence of scholarly interest in Hegel in recent years.

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An original study of spontaneity in Kant, a central yet neglected concept that is relevant to all aspects of his philosophy.

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An important new monograph on an overlooked aspect of Kant's aesthetic theory, presenting an innovative approach to one of modern philosophy's greatest works.

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A monograph on an overlooked aspect of Kant's aesthetic theory, presenting an approach to one of modern philosophy's greatest works. It examines Kant's various attempts to distinguish beauty from agreeableness. It argues that the real interest of Kant's distinction between beauty and agreeableness is ultimately epistemological.

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Presents a comprehensive study of the roots of the concept of genius in Kant's understanding of nature and his notion of the artist. While many studies have chronicled the Romantic legacy of artistic genius, this book uncovers the roots of the concept of genius in Kant's third Critique, alongside the development of his understanding of nature.

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The first comprehensive study of the roots of the concept of genius in Kant's understanding of nature and his notion of the artist.

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Two currents of thought dominated Western philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism. This book offers analysis of Kant's method of proof in philosophy. It constructs a model based on Kant's own statements about his procedure and then examines his famous proofs in light of it.

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An original investigation of the structure of human morality, that aims to identify the place and significance of moral deeds. It revokes and renews the tradition of Kant's moral philosophy. Through a novel reading of contemporary approaches to Kant, it draws a new map of the human capacity for morality.

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An original investigation of the structure of human morality, that aims to identify the place and significance of moral deeds.

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A monograph exploring the themes central to Kierkegaard's thought suitable for those working in both philosophy and theology.

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Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is simultaneously one of the most obscure philosophers of the Western world and one of the most influential. This book examines in particular Kierkegaard's understanding of the fall of the self and its recovery and the implications of his entire corpus for the life of the individual.

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An exploration of the themes that unite Kierkegaard's religious and philosophical writings centred on his understanding of the life of the individual.

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In taking up the problem of evil as it is found in the work of the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, the author has uncovered a framework that allows the notion of radical evil to be properly articulated. His book traces the sources of Kierkegaard's conception from its background in the work of Kant and Schelling.

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Offers a reading of the work of Kierkegaard in relation to metaphysics and political theory. This title argues that the notion of the person that lies at the heart of the liberal tradition is derived from a Kantian and Cartesian metaphysic. It also offers an alternative metaphysical image of the person that is derived from the work of Kierkegaard.

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Argues that the notion of the person that lies at the heart of the liberal tradition is derived from a Kantian and Cartesian metaphysic. This title also argues that there is a strand of Kierkegaard's writing that offers a metaphysical picture which recognises the dependence of people upon one another.

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Intentionality - the relationship between conscious states and their objects - is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and the study of consciousness. This book brings together phenomenological and analytic-empirical approaches to this issue in our understanding of consciousness.

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Provides both an elucidation and reinterpretation of a number of concepts central to Leibniz's work, such as "richness", "simplicity", "harmony" and "incompossibility". This book provides an reinterpretation of many of the core themes of Leibniz's philosophy. It serves as a useful entry point into this philosophy.

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Provides a defence of metaphysics as central to philosophy and a criticism of the attempts of philosophy to replace it. This work argues that philosophy, and not simply science, has a positive role to play in our understanding of the world.

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Argues that a good human being is one who has those traits the possession of which enables someone to achieve those ends natural to beings like us. This book shows that neither 'is-ought' gaps, nor objections concerning teleology pose insurmountable problems for naturalistic virtue ethics.

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Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes' philosophical followers. This book offers a detailed evaluation of Malebranche's efforts to provide a plausible account of human intellectual and moral agency in the context of his commitment to an infinitely perfect being possessing all causal power.