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  • The Mind's Provisions

    A Critique of Cognitivism

    Series series New French Thought Series
    Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful new philosophy of the mind.Beginning with a critical examination of American cognitivism and French structuralism, Descombes launches a more general critique of all philosophies that view the mind in ... Read more

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  • Puzzling Identities

    Translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz ...
    Series series Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series
    As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So why, Vincent Descombes asks, do we routinely use “identity” to describe the feelings associated with membership in a number of different communities, as when we speak of our ethnic identity and religious identity? And how can we ascribe the same “identity” to more than one individual in a group? In Puzzling Identities, one of the ... Read more

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  • The Institutions of Meaning

    A Defense of Anthropological Holism

    Translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz ...
    Holism grows out of the philosophical position that an object or phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. And yet analysis--a mental process crucial to human comprehension--involves breaking something down into its components, dismantling the whole in order to grasp it piecemeal and relationally. Wading through such quandaries with grace and precision, The Institutions of Meaning guides ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein Reads Freud

    The Myth of the Unconscious

    Translated by Carol Cosman ...
    Series series
    Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis, and it is of utmost importance to Lacanian analysts, whose main project has been to stress Freud's scientific grounding. Here Jacques Bouveresse, a noted authority on ... Read more

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  • Puzzling Identities

    Translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz ...
    Series Book 4 - Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series
    As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So why, Vincent Descombes asks, do we routinely use “identity” to describe the feelings associated with membership in a number of different communities, as when we speak of our ethnic identity and religious identity? And how can we ascribe the same “identity” to more than one individual in a group? In Puzzling Identities, one of the ... Read more

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  • Philosophy: The Classics

    Now in its fourth edition, Philosophy: The Classics is a brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy. In his exemplary clear style, Nigel Warburton introduces and assesses thirty-two philosophical classics from Plato’s Republic to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. The fourth edition includes new material on:Montaigne EssaysThomas Paine Rights of ManR.G. Collingwood The ... Read more

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  • Time and Narrative: Volume 1

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  • Truth and Truthfulness

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  • What Is Critique?

    & The Culture of the Self

    These two newly translated lectures showcase Foucault's late reflections on Kant and the Enlightenment.On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefined his entire philosophical project in light of Immanuel Kant's 1784 text "What Is Enlightenment?" Foucault strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral attitude consisting in the ... Read more

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  • French Philosophy

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