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“wilbur applebaum”

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  • Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution

    From Copernicus to Newton

    Edited by Wilbur Applebaum ...
    With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged.Covering the historiography of the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Slavoj iek is one of the worlds foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Speaking into the Air

    A History of the Idea of Communication

    by John Durham Peters ...
    Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought."This is a most interesting and thought-provoking book. . ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • On Generation and Corruption

    by Aristotle ...
    "On Generation and Corruption" (also known as "On Coming to Be and Passing Away") is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic (although not necessarily scientific in the modern sense). The philosophy, though, is essentially empirical; as in all Aristotle's works, the deductions made about the unexperienced and unobservable are based on observations and ... Read more

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  • Manhunts

    A Philosophical History

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A comprehensive history of manhunting in the West, from ancient times to the presentTouching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophic Pride

    Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau

    by Christopher Brooke ...
    Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

    Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki, Eike von Savigny ...
    This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • German Idealism and the Concept of Punishment

    by Jean-Christophe Merle ...
    Series series Modern European Philosophy
    Against the background of early modernism - a period that justified punishment by general deterrence - Kant is usually thought to represent a radical turn towards retributivism. For Kant, and later for Fichte and Hegel, a just punishment respects the humanity inherent in the criminal, and serves no external ends - it is instituted only because the criminal deserves it. In this original study, Jean ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Vladimir Jankélévitch and the Question of Forgiveness

    Edited by Alan Udoff ...
    The essays focus on the work of Vladimir Jankélévitch as a moral philosopher, particularly that aspect of his work dealing with the question of forgiveness. They treat topics such as the place of moral philosophy in relation to his work as a whole, his relationship to contemporary French thought, and the backgrounds of classical Judaic tradition and world literature. The centerpiece of this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Keynes and the British Humanist Tradition

    The Moral Purpose of the Market

    by David Andrews ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    Well-connected in academia, business and government, John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economic theorists of the twentieth century. It appears that his theories will be just as important for the twenty-first. As Keynes himself explained, his ideas throughout his life were influenced by the moral philosophy he learned as an undergraduate. Nevertheless, the meaning and significance ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Hector-Neri Castañeda

    Edited by H. Tomberlin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the logic. results of already outstanding personalities and ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Philosophic Silence and the ‘One' in Plotinus

    by Nicholas Banner ...
    Plotinus, the greatest philosopher of Late Antiquity, discusses at length a first principle of reality - the One - which, he tells us, cannot be expressed in words or grasped in thought. How and why, then, does Plotinus write about it at all? This book explores this act of writing the unwritable. Seeking to explain what seems to be an insoluble paradox in the very practice of late Platonist ... Read more

    $109.09 USD