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• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Craig Vincent Mitchell • Publisher: Zondervan • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan • BISAC: Biblical Reference - GeneralFrom the Back CoverPhilosophy and philosophers have had a profound, lasting impact on worldwide culture, history, polit...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - TheoryReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlighten...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Signet Classics • Publisher Imprint: Signet Classics • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalMore than two thousand years ago, Aristotle established unique standards of philosophic inquiry, obse...

• Author(s): Irving Singer | Alan Soble • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other ...

• Author(s): Norman L. Geisler | Ronald M. Brooks • Publisher: Baker Academic • Publisher Imprint: Baker Academic • BISAC: Philosophy

• Author(s): Roslyn Weiss • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn Plato's Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers be...

• Author(s): Kieran Setiya | Hille Paakkunainen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA collection of the most important recent work on reasons for action and the question "why be moral?"Some ...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Arthur Schopenhauer • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Sch...

• Author(s): A. C. Grayling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralIdeas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundament...

• Author(s): Byung-Chul Han • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: Movements - HumanismAn argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-C...

• Author(s): Paul M. Churchland • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismAn updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental re...

• Author(s): Paul Horwich • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsTime is generally thought to be one of the more mysterious ingredients of the universe. In this intriguing book, Paul Horwich ...

• Author(s): James H. Collier • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: EpistemologyOffers a vital, unique and agenda-setting perspective for the field of social epistemolog...

• Author(s): Drew Khlentzos • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - GeneralIn this important book, Drew Khlentzos explains the antirealist argument from a realist perspective. He defends naturalistic realism aga...

• Author(s): Peter Sloterdijk • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Popular CulturePeter Sloterdijk's essay on Friedrich Nietzsche and the benefits and dangers of narcissistic jubilation. For Pe...

• Author(s): David Lewis Schaefer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Individual PhilosophersThis provocative book provides a comprehensive interpretation of Montaigne's Essays as a work of...

• Author(s): Svend Andersen • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Christian Theology - Ethics & Moral TeachingDas bewährte Studienbuch von Svend Andersen, das jetzt in einer überarbeiteten und erweit...

• Author(s): Nicholas Agar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EthicsA nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings. ...

• Author(s): James Bohman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative de...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalA unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics The Greek Cynics own...

• Author(s): Franz Von Kutschera • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: AestheticsKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Ästhetik" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Christopher Macann • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Movements - PhenomenologyMacann guides the student through the major texts of the four great thinkers of the phenomenological movement.

• Author(s): Kory P. Schaff • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis bookexplores a timely topic for philosophers, social scientists, and ...

• Author(s): Timothy Freke • Publisher: Tarcher • Publisher Imprint: Tarcher • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe first easily accessible translation of the esoteric writings that inspired some of the world's greatest artis...

• Author(s): Steven Scott Aspenson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: MethodologyA concise introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to understand, analyze, criticize,...

• Author(s): Bernard J. Verkamp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The religious affiliations and beliefs of 152 prominent philosophers are presented here, in A-Z entries. Biographic...

• Author(s): J. Adam Carter | Emma C. Gordon • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis book demonstrates pride's unique profile in philosop...

• Author(s): Rudiger Bittner • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy Vieles, was wir tun, tun wir aus Gründen. Was aber sind diese Gründe? Gegen die gängige Lehre, wonach es sich um geisti...

• Author(s): Briankle G. Chang | Garnet C. Butchart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesClassical, modern, and contemporary philosophical writings that address the fundamental concepts of communicat...

• Author(s): Mitchell H. Miller • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classicalothers in his discipline tend not to bring their studies to bear on the substance of the dialogues. Conver...

• Author(s): Byung-Chul Han • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralOne of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positiv...

• Author(s): Gregory E. Kaebnick | Thomas H. Murray • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EthicsA range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.Synthetic biolog...