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Kierkegaard translator Walter Lowrie presents a charming and warmly appreciative introduction to the life and work of the great Danish writer. Lowrie tells the story of Kierkegaard's emotionally turbulent life with a keen sense of drama and an acute understanding of how his life shaped his thought.

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Expounds, compares, and criticises Spinoza's theses.

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Offers a look at the 'golden age' of American philosophy. This volume focuses upon the activities of the American philosophical associations - the Western Philosophical Association and the American Philosophical Association - that were founded at the beginning of the twentieth century and that merged in to the APA in 1927.

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In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. This title examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces - a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project.

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Hauke Brunkhorst not only emphasizes the links between Adorno and the dialectical thinking of Hegel and Marx, but also the connection between Adorno and Kant. The book sheds light on Adorno's negative dialectic and adds a German voice to the debate in the English language on the celebrated Frankfurt philosopher.

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There has been a rise, within Western philosophy, of a wave of relativism, according to which Galileo was wrong and his persecutors were right. In this critique of relativism, the author turns the techniques of relativism against relativism, showing that it is self-refuting or ineffectual.

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There has been a rise, within Western philosophy, of a wave of relativism, according to which Galileo was wrong and his persecutors were right. In this critique of relativism, the author turns the techniques of relativism against relativism, showing that it is self-refuting or ineffectual.

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These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience in mind, and the first to be translated by a scholar with expertise in both modern epistemology and philosophy of language.

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All Thoughts Are Equal is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher Francois Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. John Maoilearca examines how philosophy might appear when viewed with non-philosophical and nonhuman eyes.

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All Thoughts Are Equal is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher Francois Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. John Maoilearca examines how philosophy might appear when viewed with non-philosophical and nonhuman eyes.

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'Tune in, turn off, drop out' were Timothy Leary's most famous words concerning youth culture's growing disenchantment with the lives mapped out before them. This book shows Leary's thoughts about the not so inevitable afterlife.

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Situates 'The Enquiry' in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and provides an account of Hume's ethical naturalism.

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This work provides an accessible introduction to Hegel's logic. The text is suitable for students about to embark on the study of this most challenging subject, as well as readers at any level of sophistication.

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An introduction to Husserl's philosophy written by one of his former students, himself an influential philosopher of the 20th century.

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An introduction to Husserl's philosophy written by one of his former students, himself an influential philosopher of the 20th century.

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Traces milestones in author's field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world's vigorous philosophical tradition.

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Ranging from Anselm's early treatises, the Monologion and the Proslogion, to his three philosophical dialogues on metaphysical topics such as the relationship between freedom and sin, and late treatises on the Incarnation and salvation, this collection of writings if for students of the history of philosophy and theology.

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Socrates was accused of impiety and corrupting the youth of ancient Athens and was tried, convicted, imprisoned, and executed. This book compares two key dialogues on the death of Socrates, including the hard-to-find Xenophon's Apology.

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Suitable for beginning students, this book presents an overview of Aristotle's entire system of thought.

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Suitable for beginning students, this book presents an overview of Aristotle's entire system of thought.