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  • Categorization and the Moral Order (Routledge Revivals)

    by Lena Jayyusi ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, this is a study of categorization practices: how people categorize each other and their actions; how they describe, infer, and judge. The book presents a sociological analysis and description of practical activities and makes a cogent contribution to the study of how the moral order actually works in practical communicative contexts. Among the issues dealt with are: ... Read more

    Was $83.99 CAD Now $74.19 CAD

  • The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan

    An Arab Folk Epic

    Edited by Lena Jayyusi ...
    "A charming and agreeable surprise . . . A welcome gift to Western readers." —Kirkus Reviews"Editor Jayyusi offers a major example of the Arabic folk epics or romances called siras . . . The siras are full of heroic adventures, exotic landscapes, love affairs, friendships, supernatural dangers, magical spells, and great Arab heroes. . . . " —Library Journal"This text should find its place ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture

    by Patricia Pisters ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domains—Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, ... Read more

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  • The Flame of Eternity

    An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought

    by Krzysztof Michalski ...
    Translated by Benjamin Paloff ...
    The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof Michalski, Nietzsche's reflections on human life are inextricably linked to time, which in turn cannot be conceived of without eternity. Eternity is a measure of time, but also, ... Read more

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  • Spatial Justice

    Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere

    by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    There can be no justice that is not spatial. Against a recent tendency to despatialise law, matter, bodies and even space itself, this book insists on spatialising them, arguing that there can be neither law nor justice that are not articulated through and in space.Spatial Justice presents a new theory and a radical application of the material connection between space – in the geographical as well ... Read more

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  • Reification and the Aesthetics of Music

    by Jonathan Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case, with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical ... Read more

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  • Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by Dr Tracy Colony ...
    Series series Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
    Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression is a crucial text for understanding the early development of Heidegger's thought. This lecture course was presented in the summer semester of 1920 at the University of Freiburg. At the center of this course is Heidegger's elaboration of the meaning and function of the phenomenological destruction. In no other work by Heidegger do we find as comprehensive a ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Life

    The Primogenital Matrix of Life and Its Context

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations. In our attempt to understand life through its origins, the ambition of the present collection is to unravel the network of the origin of the various spheres of sense that carry it onwards. The primogenital matrix of generation (Tymieniecka), elaborated as the fulcrum of this collection, elucidates the main ... Read more

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  • The Far Reaches

    Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe

    by Michael D Gubser ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "By restoring morality to phenomenology, and phenomenology to East European politics, Gubser has rewritten the intellectual history of the twentieth century." —Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Against ItselfWhen future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only ... Read more

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  • Phenomenology, Naturalism and Science

    A Hybrid and Heretical Proposal

    by Jack Reynolds ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Phenomenology
    Arguing for the compatibility of phenomenology and naturalism, this book also refashions each. The opening chapters begin with a methodological focus, which seeks to curb the "over-bidding" characteristic of both traditional transcendental phenomenology and scientific naturalism. Having thus opened up the possibility that the twain might meet, it is in the detailed chapters on matters where ... Read more

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  • Intoxication

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    From Plato’s Symposium to Hegel’s truth as a “Bacchanalian revel,” from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Eros and Eris

    Contributions to a Hermeneutical Phenomenology Liber Amicorum for Adriaan Peperzak

    Edited by P. van Tongeren, Paul Sars, Chris Bremmers, Koen Boey ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $179.39 CAD