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“sam o imbo”

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  • An Introduction to African Philosophy

    by Sam O. Imbo ...
    Organized topically rather than historically, this book provides an excellent introduction to the subject of African Philosophy. Samuel Oluoch Imbo synthesizes the ideas of key African philosophers into an accessible narrative. The author focuses on five central questions: What are the definitions of African philosophy? Is ethno-philosophy really philosophy? What are the dangers of an African ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Essays and Aphorisms

    by Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Discourse on Method and the Meditations

    by René Descartes ...
    Translated by F. Sutcliffe ...
    René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, ... Read more

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  • Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Sean Sheehan ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Žižek's work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available for readers struggling to master the ideas of this hugely influential thinker. Unpacking the philosophical references that fill Žižek's writings, the book explores his influences, including Lacan, Kant ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Agreeable Connexions

    Scottish Enlightenment Links with France

    by Alexander Broadie ...
    Scotland has played an immense role in European high culture through the centuries, and among its cultural links none have been greater than those with France. This book shows that the links with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a break into the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. In one way or another all of the major figures of the Scottish ... Read more

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  • Colonialism and Neocolonialism

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Azzedine Haddour, Steve Brewer, Terry McWilliams ...
    Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism is a classic critique of France's policies in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and inspired much subsequent writing on colonialism, post-colonialism, politics, and literature. It includes Sartre's celebrated preface to Fanon's classic Wretched**of the Earth. Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism had a profound impact on French intellectual life, inspiring many other ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Textual Genesis of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

    Edited by Nuno Venturinha ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Sixty years after its first edition, there is an increasing consensus among scholars that the work posthumously published as Philosophical Investigations represents something that is far from a complete picture of Wittgenstein’s second book project. G.H. von Wright’s seminal research on the Nachlass was an important contribution in this direction, showing that the Wittgenstein papers can reveal ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930

    Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity

    Edited by G. M. Hamburg, Randall A. Poole ...
    The great age of Russian philosophy spans the century between 1830 and 1930 - from the famous Slavophile-Westernizer controversy of the 1830s and 1840s, through the 'Silver Age' of Russian culture at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the formation of a Russian 'philosophical emigration' in the wake of the Russian Revolution. This volume is a major history and interpretation of Russian ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Critique of Historical Theory

    by Emerita S. Quito ...
    This work is essentially a philosophy of history. The author’s research on this topic spans more than three decades. Part One of this book has three chapters. Chapter I is divided into seven sections featuring philosophers who see a plan in history. Chapter II is divided into two sections featuring those who do not see a plan in history. Chapter III is divided into three sections featuring ... Read more

    $4.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism

    Edited by Alan Richardson, Thomas Uebel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical logic as a topic in and tool for philosophy, and initiated the project of formal semantics. Accounts of analytic philosophy written in the middle ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Humean Moral Pluralism

    by Michael B. Gill ...
    Michael B. Gill offers an original account of Humean moral pluralism. Moral pluralism is the view that there are different ultimate moral reasons for action, that those different reasons can sometimes come into conflict with each other, and that there exist no invariable ordering principles that tell us how to resolve such conflicts. If moral pluralism is true, we will at times have to act on ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man

    A New Translation and Commentary

    by Pico della Mirandola ...
    This is a new translation of and commentary on Pico della Mirandola's most famous work, the Oration on the Dignity of Man. It is the first English edition to provide readers with substantial notes on the text, essays that address the work's historical, philosophical and theological context, and a survey of its reception. Often called the 'Manifesto of the Renaissance', this brief but complex text ... Read more

    $38.99 USD