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Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, this book challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. It offers insight to those who strive to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of cultural politics in the twenty-first century.

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Combining ethics, history, and psychology, The Code of the Warrior examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures, arguing that todays warriors need a code to navigate the moral line between soldier and killer.

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Just before and during the English Civil War of the 1640s, Thomas Hobbes wrote in defence of the monarchy, his aim being to eliminate the root causes of civil war and internal strife. This book examines Hobbes's arguments for how best to achieve this aim, taking into account the political, philosophical, and religious context of Hobbes's time.

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Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

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Arguing that our notions of justice have been made incoherent by the radical incompatibility between instinctive notions of ordinary justice and theoretical conceptions of social justice, this book goes on to explore the historical roots of these ideas of social justice.

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Argues for a new theory of ordinary justice in opposition to historically rooted conceptions of "social" justice.

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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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A clear and concise account of the metaphysical concept of world, its possibilities and limitations, from Kant to Derrida.

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A clear and concise account of the metaphysical concept of world, its possibilities and limitations, from Kant to Derrida.

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Paul Ricoeur is one of the foremost contemporary French philosphers whose work is focused on the uncovering the multiple meanings buried in a text.

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In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality.

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This book shows that the notion of the constitutive a priori provides a compelling way to understand some of the most significant lessons learned in twentieth-century philosophy. It demonstrates how the constitutive a priori orientation integrates and consolidates certain epochal insights of Wittgenstein, Carnap, Quine, Kripke, and Kaplan.

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A guide to contemporary aesthetics. It explores the issues pertaining to contemporary art forms, as well as tackles traditional questions in well-established art forms with insights of disciplines such as pragmatics and other areas of cognitive science.

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Suitable for those working in Continental Philosophy, this book offers the guidance to contemporary Continental thought. It covers important themes and categories in the field. It features a series of research tools, including key terms and concepts, a chronology, and guidance to practical research in the field.

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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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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.