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Provides an insight into Heidegger's Phenomenology. This book demonstrates Heidegger's indebtedness to Wilhelm Dilthey and Count Yorck von Wartenburg. It agrees with them that historicity must be at the centre of the new philosophy to come. It gives evidence to the view that thought about history is the germ cell of "Being and Time".

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This work examines the philosophy underpinning current higher education provision.

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Offers an introduction to the American novel focusing on contexts, key texts, and criticism. This book registers the diversity of American writing and situates this work in historical contexts that include Reaganomics, the Clinton years and the post-9/11 'War on Terror'.

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Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global circulation. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.

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A reference guide to the research and future directions in Epistemology. It covers all the fundamental questions asked by epistemology - areas that have continued to attract interest historically. It reveals where important work continues to be done in the area and, most valuably, the directions the field is taking.

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Provides a reference tool for those working in contemporary philosophical ethics. This title offers a guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy.

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A guide to the research and future directions in existentialism. It covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism. It features a series of research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and concepts, a chronology, a detailed list of resources and a fully annotated bibliography.

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A comprehensive reference guide to Hindu Studies. It covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics of research. It features a series of indispensible research tools, including a detailed list of resources, chronology and diagrams.

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David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be the most important philosopher ever to write in English. This guide to Hume's life and work includes 22 specially commissioned essays, written by a team of leading experts, covering various aspects of Hume's thought.

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Immanuel Kant is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment. This title presents a comprehensive overview of historical and philosophical context in which Kant wrote and the various features, themes and topics apparent in his thought.

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G W F Leibniz (1646-1716) was one of the great polymaths of the modern world. With entries written by scholars in the field of Modern Philosophy, this guide to Leibniz's life, thought and work is suitable for those who are interested in Leibniz and the era in which he wrote.

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Covers the fundamental areas of philosophical logic. This guide explores issues pertaining to classical logic and its rivals, extensional and intensional extensions of classical logic, semantics for parts of natural language, and the application of logic in the theory of rationality.

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From new questions concerning qualia, representation, embodiment and cognition to fresh thinking about the long-standing problems of physicalism, dualism, personal identity and mental causation, this book offers a guide to the research in the Philosophy of Mind. It also includes an extended glossary of terms for quick reference.

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Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. This guide includes over 140 entries on various aspects of Plato's thought.

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Offers a guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy. This title covers all the fundamental questions asked by pragmatism. It explores issues pertaining to aesthetics, economics, education, the environment, epistemology, ethics, history, law, metaphysics, politics, race, religion, science and technology, language, and social theory.

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A guide to the study of film and religion. It covers important themes and categories in the field. Featuring a series of research tools, including a list of resources, chronology and diagrams summarizing content, it is suitable for those with an interest in the intersections between religion and film.

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A guide to contemporary philosophy of language. It covers the fundamental questions asked by the philosophy of language. It explores issues pertaining to the nature of language, form semantics, theories of meaning, reference, intensional contexts, context-dependence, pragmatics, the normativity of language, analyticity, a priority and modality.

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This book offers a sweeping and original look at the development of continental philosophy, examining the work of several major figures, including Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida, Gadamer and Levinas.

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Darrow Schecter explores the most important theoretical and political debates about the relation between reason and legitimacy. >

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Darrow Schecter explores the most important theoretical and political debates about the relation between reason and legitimacy.

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A highly original study of analytic philosophy in twentieth-century British thought.

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Moves beyond Marx's concepts of capital as value in motion and the fetishism of commodities to sketch an alternative called New Economic Democracy. This title offers an explanatory approach of Marx's concepts that is suitable for students and researchers in political theory, democratic theory, and political economy.

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This book does not question Rawlsian principles, but it does reject the liberal institutions he advocates. A debate is constructed in which his liberalism is contrasted with a libertarian socialism.