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How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connected

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Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote.

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A defense of traditional philosophical method against challenges from practitioners of experimental philosophy.

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Traces the evolution of man's study of himself from seventeenth-century human sciences.

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In iek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the politicaland rehabilitates dialectical materialism.

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Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. This title selects some of the best of his essays. It encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern age: romanticism, historicism, Fascism, relativism, irrationalism and nationalism.

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The first translation of three 1970s works by Alain Badiou, featuring a new preface by Badiou, an interview with Tzuchien Tho and a concluding essay by Bruno Bosteels.

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A comprehensive collection of Roger Scruton's writings. It gathers selections from some of Scruton's earliest works, such as "The Aesthetics of Architecture" (1979), to his recent "Culture Counts" (2007). It provides an insightful introduction to Scruton's philosophical foundations that include his Burkean political views.

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The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought.

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The essential anthology of writings by the world's leading Marxist thinker.

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Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics and evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others. This anthology of articles by US philosophers elucidating Dussel's thought offers critical analyses from a variety of perspectives.

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An innovative, ambitious, tradition-crossing study drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas to propose a new and transformative concept of truth.

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Understand Existentialism is an essential guide to what can often be challenging terrain. Suitable for newcomers as well as students of philosophy, this book explores the origins and development of existentialism as well as the contemporary relevance of existential ways of thinking.

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The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.

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Lively and provocative new introduction to Existentialism

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This work examines what it means to be a philosopher and attacks the sterility of modern philosophy. Part One explores the nature and scope of philosophy and its relation to social and economic development. Part Two considers other forms of thought: science, art, literature and music.

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A deeply researched account of Wittgensteins wartime experiences and reading during 1914 and 1917 that reveals numerous previously unknown yet vital details about his work on the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

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Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand has for some time now been experiencing something of a 'golden age'. The richness of Australasia's philosophical past, though less well known, should also not be forgotten. Australasian philosophy, although heavily indebted to overseas trends, includes much distinctive and highly original work. The Companion

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This work examines how social and political events intertwined and influenced philosophy during the early 20th-century, ultimately giving rise to two different schools of thought - analytic philosophy and continental philosophy.

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In this essay, Grene brings together some of the themes in philosophy, biology, and other disciplines which have influenced her own work, together with recollections of her contacts with some of the thinkers and ideas which have most impressed her.

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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.