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This collection provides the essential readings for a course on Plato's views of sex and love, or a main component of more general courses on ideas of sex and love. Featured are the preeminent translations of Paul Woodruff, Alexander Nehamas,D. S. Hutchinson, Stanley Lombardo, and C.D. C. Reeve.

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A work on the Timaeus that takes Plato's Cosmology as starting point.

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The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M.A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.

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A translation of Aristotle's "Poetics". It features notes of both the "Tractatus Coislinianus", which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the "Poetics", and fragments of Aristotle's "Dialogue On Poets", including the texts about catharsis.

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A reconstruction of the philosophical thought of Henri Poincare, the mathematician who founded the field of topology and made important contributions to theoretical physics. It presents his thought as a unified system, reconciling apparent conflicts and examining its potential shortcomings.

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Does God play cards with the universe Do women have better poker faces than men These and other questions are pondered in this witty collection of essays that demonstrates what serious card sharks have long known: winning big takes more than a good hand and a straight face.

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The Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Politics is a lucid and useful translation for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western civilization. Includes an introductory essay and glossaries of names and important Greek words.

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The Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Politics is a lucid and useful translation for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western civilization. Includes an introductory essay and glossaries of names and important Greek words.

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A graphic introduction to the most important radical critiques of violence, from Fanon to Chomsky, Foucault to Sontag.

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Author deals with modernism and the post-modern sublime and the role of the avant-gardes legitimation and narrative authority, republicanism and totalitarianism.

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This book is the chance to find out how the world works today. It tells the whole story of how history has evolved into our present period, Postmodernity, in terms of the social, political and cultural dynamics of each period, and explains why scientists have proposed the term 'Anthropocene' as a name for the next period.

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Contents: Introduction, Bibliography and Textual Note Lecture I: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means Lecture III: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered Lecture IV: The One and the Many Lecture V: Pragmatism and Common Sense Lecture VI: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth Lecture VII: Pragmatism and Humanism Lecture VIII: Pragmatism and Religion

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The word pragmatism is used everywhere today, from business to sports to politics. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this title offers a corrective to modern uses of the word, since the voice that speaks in its pages embodies precisely the opposite values from the pejorative semes the word has acquired.

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A reprint of the New American Library edition of 1970.

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Sheds light not only on Spinoza's debt to Descartes but also on the development of Spinoza's own thought. This title appends Lodewijk Meyer's inaugural dissertation on matter (1683) - relevant for its comments on Descartes, Spinoza, and other thinkers of the time - with notes and a short commentary.

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Sheds light not only on Spinoza's debt to Descartes but also on the development of Spinoza's own thought. This title appends Lodewijk Meyer's inaugural dissertation on matter (1683) - relevant for its comments on Descartes, Spinoza, and other thinkers of the time - with notes and a short commentary.

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