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This book examines the metaphilosophy that underlies the work of Arthur Schopenhauer and discusses important questions concerning the proper nature and aims of philosophy. It sheds vital new light on a thinker whose ideas continue to both provoke and inspire.

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This book weaves together apparently disconnected elements of Bertrand Russells philosophy and social activism into a coherent narrative about the acclaimed twentieth-century intellectuals evolving stances concerning science and technology and their role in bringing either a future Golden Age or a secular Doomsday.

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This selection provides the reader with the text of Diderot's more important philosophical writings.

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This text offers a representative selection of the work of Bulgakov, one of the most influential Russian thinkers in the "silver age" of Russian intellectual life in the decade and a half before the Revolution.

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Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were two of the most brilliant, influential, and scandalous intellectuals of the 20th century. Their committed but notoriously open union created huge controversy in their lifetime. This book examines the personal and intellectual relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

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Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were two of the most brilliant, influential, and scandalous intellectuals of the 20th century. Their committed but notoriously open union created huge controversy in their lifetime. This book examines the personal and intellectual relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

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We are accustomed to considering the other as an individual without paying sufficient attention to the particular world or specific culture to which the other belongs. This book questions the validity of the 'sameness' that sits at the root of Western culture.

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The Signature of the World is here accompanied by two appendices, 'Deleuze Virtual Philosophy' and 'On the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction to (the) Matter', as well as a preface by Alberto Toscano.

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Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion of ideology.

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Offering a field-defining survey of the topic, this is the first book to engage all the key figures in the social imaginaries field. It offers new perspectives on the productive tension between social imaginaries and the creative imagination, providing the first programmatic approach to the field as a whole.

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Offering a field-defining survey of the topic, this is the first book to engage all the key figures in the social imaginaries field. It offers new perspectives on the productive tension between social imaginaries and the creative imagination, providing the first programmatic approach to the field as a whole.

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Originally published in 1991, this book is in three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, "The Civilizing Process", or was written along with it. Part 2 was written between 1940 and 1960. Part 3 is from 1987.

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This book diagnoses a crisis facing philosophy and the humanities more broadly and sketches a path toward institutionalizing socially engaged approaches to philosophical research.

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This book diagnoses a crisis facing philosophy and the humanities more broadly and sketches a path toward institutionalizing socially engaged approaches to philosophical research.

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Covering many key concepts of Heidegger's work, this title provides an introduction to the ideas that are embodied in his magnum opus, "Being and Time". Thematically structured, it encourages the reader to engage with Heidegger's thought, leading him or her to a more thorough understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns.

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Covering the key concepts of Heidegger's work, this book also provides an introduction to the ideas that are embodied in his magnum opus, "Being and Time". It encourages the reader to engage with Heidegger's thought, leading him or her to an understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns.

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Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important European philosophers of the 20th century. Covering Merleau-Ponty's key works and focussing particularly on "The Phenomenology of Perception", this book offers the reader an overview of the development of his thought, resulting in a more thorough understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns.

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Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important European philosophers of the 20th century, whose work made enormous contributions to the development of phenomenology and the concept of the lived-body. This title includes an overview of the development of his thought, in a more thorough understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns.

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Jean-Paul Sartre is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential philosophers and writers of the twentieth century. This book introduces the life and work of this significant thinker. It leads the reader through an overview of the development of his thought, resulting in an understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns.