The scientific advances made in the last two centuries have drastically improved the quality and structure of human exis......more
This study discloses the intellectual context and the personal pretext of Thomas Paine s assault on religion in The Age ......more
After the great revolutions of 1776 in America and 1789 in France, modern nations began to express political struggle as......more
This book is a critique of political essentialism, the doctrine that states that there is a single nature and destiny fo......more
Book I of this first volume is an introduction to the nature of language, and serves as a point of departure for ideal t......more
In this second volume, Book III looks at another irreal language, that of games/sports, and discusses how it functions m......more
How do our feelings for others shape our attitudes and conduct towards them? Is morality primarily a matter of rational ......more
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According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, i......more
Current philosophical discussions of self-deception remain steeped in disagreement and controversy. In The Self-Deceivin......more
This volume brings together international scholars working at the intersection of Spinoza studies and critical and femin......more
The use of mental imagery and mental models can make a substantial difference to language and thinking, which improve by......more
This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic ......more
Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acc......more
History, Singing in is a double-entendre indicating the dual purpose of this book. First it marks the initial effort by ......more
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Primarily an essay in the Sociology of Knowledge, the major thrust of the discussion focuses upon the interaction of cul......more
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This is the first full-length study devoted to Roger Laporte, whose lifelong exploration of the stakes of writing has pr......more
Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation--the first in more than......more
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How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable about the world? In this book Nadja El Kassar argues that an inform......more
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The author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism-and why we need it now more th......more
A politically oriented study of the thought of the founders of the main schools of contemporary academic philosophy, tho......more
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Die gegenw rtige Sch pfungstheologie, die seit der zweiten H lfte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine Renaissance erf hrt, setzt s......more
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Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, th......more
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