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Here, Nicholas Rescher surveys and analyzes the different kinds of unreal possibilities and nonexistent objects, tying together all the ways in which this area has been approached by philosophers.

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How biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death

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Grant Farred takes up the event as a philosophical problem from a novel perspective, examining infamous events in sport and arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an entirely original way of thinking about it. He shows how what was inherent in the event is opened to new possibilities for understanding ontological being by thinking about sport philosophically.

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When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts What if the government commits a moral crime This book explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship.

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"Originally published in French as L'individuation a la lumiere des notions de forme et d'information, copyright Editions Jerome Millon, 2005."

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"Originally published in French as L'individuation a la lumiere des notions de forme et d'information, copyright Editions Jerome Millon, 2005."

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Who is the most truly heroic--Captain America or Iron Man The writers in this book try to answer that question from many diverse viewpoints.

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Isaiah Berlin, a prominent public intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century, is examined in historical context for the first time as a thinker deeply influenced by, and deeply reactive against, the British Idealists.

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Can traditional Japanese life concepts--like loyalty, harmony, meticulousness--make sense in Western societies Here aredozens ofideas for "decluttering the spirit."

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A journey in search of the Holocaust's present-day meaning in today's Australian political culture. This is Higgins' travel diary, with all its disturbing reflections on his own country's moral condition at the turn of the 21st century.

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This study looks at the relationship between the two thinkers and demonstrates the viable alternative to Hobbes' orthodoxy that can be found in Kant's political writings. It also shows how Kant anticipated the development of a world-wide political order.

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Explaining the nature of knowledge, this book presents an account of the author's views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. It shows how experience should be understood if it is to figure in the epistemic competence that must be manifest in the truth of any belief apt enough to constitute knowledge.

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Starting with a chapter centered on Plato, but also discussing the pre-Socratics as well as Aristotle, this book moves to social contract theory as discussed by Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, and then continues with chapters on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche.

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My dear Reader, within this book are one hundred and twenty-four letters on the subject of morals written from the philosopher Seneca to his friend, Lucilius Junior. Masterfully crafted, this insightful collection is a fantastic introduction to the school of Stoicism that covers everything from saving time to the value of good advice.

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Featuring a riveting collection of anarcho-communist poetry, essays, articles, and diary entries, this translation of Erich Meuhsam's legendary writings introduces the German revolutionary's ideas to English speakers for the first time.

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This study considers Lyotard's notion of a "grand" narrative and analyzes his critique of modernity. In the light of Lyotard's views, it goes on to examine the work of seven political thinkers whose ideas represent different stands of a distinctively modern perspective.

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This study considers Lyotard's notion of a "grand" narrative and analyzes his critique of modernity. In the light of Lyotard's views, it goes on to examine the work of seven political thinkers whose ideas represent different stands of a distinctively modern perspective.