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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.

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In modern philosophy, German idealism, Hegel in particular, is said to have made significant innovative steps in redefining the meaning, scope and use of dialectic. This title studies the significance of Hegel's dialectic. It examines the epistemological import of Hegelian dialectic in the widest sense.

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In modern philosophy, German idealism, Hegel in particular, is said to have made significant innovative steps in redefining the meaning, scope and use of dialectic. This book brings together an international team of expert contributors in a discussion of Hegelian dialectic.

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Includes a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. This book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s onwards.

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Linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis.

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Introduces the world of low-budget, DIY documentary filmmaking. This book features incisive and helpful interviews with dozens of industry professionals, on subjects as diverse as interview techniques, the NBC News Archive, music rights, setting up your own company, camera hire, filmmaking ethics, and online marketing and distribution.

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A comprehensive bibliography of the literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on different levels. It offers coverage of the thousands of substantial studies in various Roman-alphabet languages.

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"The Duchess of Malfi" was first performed in 1614 and published in 1623. This guide offers students and scholars an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen. It includes an annotated bibliography that provide a basis for further individual research.