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“This little book is a jewel of intelligence, finesse and culture, which takes a technical object without complaint and turns it over and over as Heidegger taught us to do with Van Gogh's shoes. What is striking is the ambition of a meditation on the maps of...
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Max Milo Editions
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2025-06-17
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Psychiatrist and anti-colonial activist, Frantz Fanon was long censured in France for his fight against racism, xenophobia, indignity and alienation, at a time when these subjects were taboo.More than fifty years after his death, his thought still resonates at the heart...
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Max Milo Editions
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2025-06-04
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Graphic Essay
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'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive...
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Polity
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2015-10-09
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Who was Nietzsche? What did he think? What was his journey, from his youth to his maturity?
If we had to describe Nietzsche's philosophy, we would call it the philosophy of joy. Contrary to the clichés that weigh on his name, Nietzsche is the philosopher of creativity...
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Max Milo Editions
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2013-05-12
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Graphic Essay
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'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-10-13
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'The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking' Heidegger'We should never allow our fears of the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny'Martin Heidegger was one of the most controversial philosophers...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-10-13
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Popular Great Philosopher's Series.An accessible overview of the work of one of our most influential living philosophers, as part of the popular Great Philosophers series. Richard Rorty is often cited as the most prominent philosophical defender of postmodernism. Best...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-10-13
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Great Philosophers
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A short book combining extracts from the work of one of the world's greatest thinkers with commentary by one of Britain's most distinguished writers on philosophy.
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.Democritus c. 460-c. 370BCThe Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher'; our own age's 'Prophet of Quark': throughout the modern philosophical tradition, Democritus has been a man little known beyond his labels.Yet if the image of the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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Pascal 1623-1662The moralist who advocated dressing up, the ascetic who liked a flutter, the devout Christian who lauded vanity,Pascal is a funnier, more ironic philosopher than his reputation as an anguished existentialist would suggest.Yet however irreverent the terms...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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Karl Popper 1902-1994The political history of the twentieth century has been full of savage 'certainties'. A similar idea of history warranted the callous savageries of both Marxism and Fascism. They shared a faith in whatKarl Popper called 'Historicism': the belief...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.John Locke 1632-1704What Newton did for physics in the seventeenth century, Locke did for philosophy. The revolution wrought by these two giants established the intellectual underpinnings of the modern world.Yet out own age has...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.' So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of the man with best claims to be its founding father.Yet...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-14
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Great Philosophers
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Containing important papers by various Georgist scholars, this book highlights the ideas and influence of Henry George as a political economist. Highlights the ideas and influence of Henry George Includes path-breaking work on Henry George’s rent theory Features in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-23
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AJES - Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice
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All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of 1992, & for the next...
Editeur :
Back Bay Books
Parution :
2008-08-01
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During the nineteenth century, traditional Catholic Spain and its "decadent intellectual climate" was chalenged by liberal Europeanizing influences. It had happened before, but this time the status quo was threatened by Krausism, an idealistic doctrine of universal...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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This work is an exposition of Salighed, a concept at the heart of Kierkegaard's thought, and the dialectical starting point for his reflections on what it means to live a genuinely human life. Kierkegaard studies to date appear to have underestimated the importance of...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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