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Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" for the first time are frequently perplexed by his often intentionally weird writing. This guide helps the reader understand why and how perplexity has been deliberately created by Kafka's texts.

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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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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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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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Relating the unifying method of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" with Deleuze's account of experience, and using Kant's concern to secure the conditions that make experience possible to develop Deleuze's attempt to convincingly relate 'the actual' and 'the virtual', this book helps in our understanding of Deleuze and his philosophical project.

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A unique and much needed book exploring the debt Deleuze owes to Kantian arguments and principles.

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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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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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Volume 14 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series focuses on Karl Popper, an important and controversial thinker of the 20th century. >

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A reinterpretation of Katharine Mansfield's work that expands our understanding of her place in Modernism. It discusses her fiction in relation to her life.

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'Negative capability', the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book clarifies the meaning of the term and offers an anatomy of its key components, and provides an account of the history of this idea.

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Negative capability, the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book studies the concept of Negative capability.

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Challenging gnosticizing interpretations of the letter, Terry Griffith explores how the polemic against idols was variously used in Jewish and Christian circles to define self-identity and the limits of community. He shows that the rhetoric of 1 John is not polemical, but pastoral.

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Offers an introduction to a central topic in philosophy. This book offers an overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the history of this key area of philosophical thought. It provides detailed summaries of the key concepts in the study of moral philosophy. It is useful to undergraduate students of moral philosophy.

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Offers an introduction to a central topic in philosophy. This book offers an overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the history of this key area of philosophical thought. It is useful to undergraduate students of moral philosophy and to the general reader curious about how philosophy tackles issues relating to morality.

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A comprehensive reference guide to the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the philosophy of religion. It offers an introduction to a central topic in philosophy. Suitable for first-year students coming to the subject for the first time, it provides summaries of the key concepts in the study of philosophy of religion.

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A comprehensive reference guide to the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the philosophy of religion. It offers an introduction to a central topic in philosophy. Suitable for first-year students coming to the subject for the first time, it provides summaries of the key concepts in the study of philosophy of religion.

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Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in other types of text. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the field, along with sections that explain relevant terms, concepts and key thinkers, listed from A to Z.

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Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in other types of text. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the field, along with sections that explain relevant terms, concepts and key thinkers, listed from A to Z.

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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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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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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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Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud.