Philosophy & Culture


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    Learning To Live - Luc Ferry - Paperback
    Luc Ferry shows how philosophy is essential to our everyday lives. Both a sparkling, accessible history of Western thought and a courageous dissection of how religion and philosophy have converged and clashed through the ages, this text aims to answer once and for all - what use is philosophy, anyway?
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    Culture And Power In Cultural Studies: The Politics Of Signification - John Storey - Hardback
    This is a collection of John Storey's best and most significant contributions to the field of cultural studies, spanning 25 years. Covering a variety of topics, all chapters share a common focus on culture and power and the politics of signification.
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    Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays In Memory Of Jacques Derrida - Geoffrey Bennington - Hardback
    This collection gathers essays written by Geoffrey Bennington since the death of Jacques Derrida. It continues the ongoing work of elucidating difficult and complex thoughts, often enough with reference to Derrida's persistent interrogation of the concepts of life and death, mourning and melancholia and what he calls 'half-mourning'.
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    The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, And The Limits Of Human Understanding - Robert Zaretsky - Paperback
    The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the 18th century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau & David Hume, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship unravelled, rancorous letters were fired off, then quickly published & devoured by aristocrats, intellectuals & common readers alike.
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    Contemporary Political Movements And The Thought Of Jacques Rancière: Equality In Action - Todd May - Paperback
    In this book, Todd May shows how democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different arenas. He takes an intensive look at a range of contemporary political movements and shows how, to one degree or another, they exemplify the political thought of Jacques Ranciere.
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    A History Of Scottish Philosophy - Alexander Broadie - Paperback
    This book is unique in that is provides the first-ever substantial account of the seven-centuries-old Scottish philosophical tradition. It focuses on a philosophers in the period from the later 13th century until the mid-20th and gives space to some brilliantly original texts.
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    Essays On The Active Powers Of Man - Thomas Reid - Hardback
    This is a thoroughly investigated, scholarly edition of Thomas Reid's 'Essays on the Active Powers of Man'.
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    The Hogmanay Companion - Hugh Douglas - Paperback
    Revealing the true origins of Hogmanay, Hugh Douglas takes the reader from the remotest beginnings of this festival through the more recent developments, right up to the millennium. Also included are recipes, anecdotes and music for Hogmanay songs.
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    Reid On Ethics - Hardback
    This is an edited collection to bring together classic pieces and new work by leading scholars of Thomas Reid. The contributors explore key elements of Reid's ideas about moral epistemology, moral emotions, moral agency and practical ethics.
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    Hume's Skeptical Crisis: A Textual Study - Robert J. Fogelin - Hardback
    'Hume's Skeptical Crisis' is a textual study of the shifts in perspective that unfold as Hume attempts to produce a complete science of human nature. In the process, Hume's standpoint shifts from buoyant optimism to profound skeptical melancholy and finally comes to rest at a stable form of mitigated skepticism.

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