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Significantly advancing our notion of what constitutes a network, Philip Armstrong proposes a rethinking of political public space that specifically separates networks from the current popular discussion of globalization and information technology.

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Baltasar Gracian, a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit writer, explored the political uses of rhetoric. The essays in this volume focus on the relevance of Gracian in the late-20th century, arguing that the so-called "new world order" is an old idea, stretching back to the sophists of ancient Greece.

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A provocative look at the controversial new science of de-extinction and the ethical questions it raises.

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Richard Rorty is among the most cited, influential and notorious of recent philosophers. This book seeks to take Rorty seriously as a social and political philosopher, and to argue that his work is not as flippant, as frothy, or as easily dismissed as his opponents often tend to portray it.

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Richard Rorty is among the most cited, influential and notorious of recent philosophers. This book seeks to take Rorty seriously as a social and political philosopher, and to argue that his work is not as flippant, as frothy, or as easily dismissed as his opponents often tend to portray it.

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Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought.

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The essays written for this volume reflect the scope of Professor Fingarette's scholarship, which ranges from social philosophy to Confucian thought, and the essential unity in his concern with what it means to live a personal life.

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In drawing upon sources from his "Notebook for an Ethics", and the unpublished manuscript on a lecture delivered in 1964, this is a study of Sartre's first and second ethics. Anderson evaluates Sartre's arguments and concludes that his second ethics are more advanced than his first.

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Written between 1972 and 1999 by the late Professor, this collection of essays deals with controversial and topical issues in philosophy of science, education, and morality. It also features exchanges between the author and other leading philosophers, including a dialogue with Eger's colleague and friend, the eminent philosopher, Abner Shimony.

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A team of philosophical writers examines the startling ideas and arguments of this pundit of persuasion.

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A work that is suitable for teachers, students, and scholars with seventeenth-century interests.

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A book that is suitable for undergraduate courses.

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A collection of essays that shows that Sherlock Holmes sees things others don't. It explores the source of Holmes' faculty of observation and facility for deduction: Is it systematic training (as Watson surmises), genetics, or is he just really lucky

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"An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature"--

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"An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature"--

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Provides an introduction to theories of the good life, by exploring the strengths and weakness of six simple statements of what a good life should be. Drawing on classic Chinese, Indian, Greek and Roman sources, this book considers the various ways in which one might think about the values that are worth aiming for.

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What does it really mean to be a football fan (and why should we count Aristotle as one) Why do great players such as Cristiano Ronaldo count as great artists This title explores the complex and often hidden contours of the world's most popular game.

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This text is composed of selections from Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades I, and Alcibiades II, and provides a rich discussion of how Athens' greatest philosopher loved and tried to teach his most ambitious youth, and why Athens turned on both of them.