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Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essentia......more
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Using critical and poetic practice-as-research techniques, this transdisciplinary book explores the potential of posthum......more
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There may exist something like the most unbearable of all philosophical thoughts. It is the thought of contingency and u......more
In Paul: Living in the Last Days, Char Roone Miller reveals the Christian founder’s previously under-examined considerat......more
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This book offers a thoughtful, original critique of how contemporary development practices govern life under global capi......more
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The first English translation of Emanuele Severino’s radical critique of the notion of identity, this is a major work fr......more
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Interpersonal Diplomacy offers a pioneering theory of how emotional connection and trust between world leaders can shape......more
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Published surreptitiously in 1670, Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise transformed early modern Europe, destabilisin......more
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Across thirteen chapters, this collection examines how love takes place. Ranging from the classical to the contemporary,......more
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From a preeminent scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aristotle’s essential work The Nicomachean Ethic......more
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Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers pre......more
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25 Summers by Stephan Schäfer is a delightful, uplifting self-help fable that has been the success story of German publi......more
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New translation of a crucial study of modern capitalism, famously used by Lenin as his basis for analyzing imperialism. ......more
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The influence of Jacques Maritain in the post-war era s embrace of human rights is undeniable. Scholars, however, overlo......more
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Machiavellianism and Platonism are traditionally opposed, as realism is to idealism, and might is to right. This book qu......more
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On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics. What gets stranded......more
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The profound influence of Afro diasporic and African philosophy has been mostly either silenced or dismissed in Western ......more
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Charles Lincoln interprets the U.S. Constitution through the mythic and psychological lens of Georges Dumézil’s trifunct......more
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Does fiction that inhabits a fantasy world have to be escapist or can it tell us something unexpectedly radical? This bo......more
After the death of de Gaulle in 1970, France’s new leaders launched a quiet revolution. Under the guise of leading the c......more
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