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De-centering the human, the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewed intimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamic environmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.

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De-centering the human, the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewed intimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamic environmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.

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"An anthology exploring the principal ideas and actors of the Enlightenment in twelve chapters, organized thematically and chronologically, comprising exemplary texts composed between 1620 and 1794: from the origins of that movement in seventeenth-century metaphysics and cosmology to its culmination at the zenith of the French Revolution"--

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"An anthology exploring the principal ideas and actors of the Enlightenment in twelve chapters, organized thematically and chronologically, comprising exemplary texts composed between 1620 and 1794: from the origins of that movement in seventeenth-century metaphysics and cosmology to its culmination at the zenith of the French Revolution"--

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In his antireligious "Essay On Miracles", David Hume reiterates a simple message: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish".

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The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectua

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In Eros and Revolution, Javier Castro presents a comprehensive intellectual and political biography of the world-renowned critical theorist Herbert Marcuse

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Specialists on both sides of the doctrinal-ideological divide regarding the European philosophy of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard offer their views here. Some see the influence of Derrida and others as benign or insignificant; others perceive it as bad for academic standards.

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English translation of Plato's dialogue of Socrates with two prominent Sophists, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, and their conflicting philosophical views, in which Plato satirizes the logical fallacies of the Sophists. With notes, introduction, interpretive essay, and a glossary of important words.

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A Greek language reader with extensive commentary in English; it is an ideal introduction to Plato and Greek prose. The Greek is clear and easy to follow but not overly simple, with word-by-word, line-by-line commentary including grammar help and explanation.

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Eights renowned thinkers including Judith Butler, Michael Hardt, Peter Singer and Cornel West take their philosophies to the streets in interviews drawn from Taylor's documentary film.

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Kathleen Lennon provides a new approach to the philosophy of action, showing how "reasons" fit into the casual framework of the world, while defending their autonomy. She disputes the rapidly-congealing orthodoxy which maintains that explanations according to intentional states cannot be casual explanations.

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Kathleen Lennon provides a new approach to the philosophy of action, showing how "reasons" fit into the casual framework of the world, while defending their autonomy. She disputes the rapidly-congealing orthodoxy which maintains that explanations according to intentional states cannot be casual explanations.

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Skepticism, the view that reliable knowledge is beyond our grasp, has defied refutation throughout the history of philosophy. This work argues that skepticism cannot be avoided as long as knowledge is considered purely as an intellectual matter.

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Family Pictures reveals the application that classical philosophical questions have to our aspirations, emotional ties with others, jobs, concrete relationships, and daily routines.

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Essays on Foucault reframing his legacy and building new ways of thinking about the struggle against society's mechanisms of domination.

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In the early 1990s Francis Fukuyama argued that society had entered a new and lasti ng phase. He claimed that the change was so dramatic that it might be accurately depicted as the end of history. This volume is an in-depth discussion of Fukuyama's argument.