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  • Critique of Judgement

    by Immanuel Kant ...
    Translated by James Creed Meredith ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

    World, Finitude, Solitude

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by William McNeill, Nicholas Walker ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    " . . an important addition to the translations of Heidegger's lecture-courses . . Heidegger's voice can be heard with few of the jolting Germanicisms with which so many translations of Heidegger's texts have been burdened. . . ." —International Philosophical Quarterly"The translators of these lectures have succeeded splendidly in giving readers an intimation of the tensely insistent tone of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 2

    Social Theory and Politics

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Nicholas Walker ...
    When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself as a leading public intellectual. Adorno’s widespread influence on the postwar debates was due in part to the public lectures he gave outside of the university in which he analysed and commented on ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1

    Music, Literature and the Arts

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Nicholas Walker ...
    When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself as a leading public intellectual. Adorno’s widespread influence on the postwar debates was due in part to the public lectures he gave outside of the university in which he analysed and commented on ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Philosophy and Sociology: 1960

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Nicholas Walker ...
    In summer 1960, Adorno gave the first of a series of lectures devoted to the relation between sociology and philosophy. One of his central concerns was to dispel the notion, erroneous in his view, that these were two incompatible disciplines, radically opposed in their methods and aims, a notion that was shared by many. While some sociologists were inclined to dismiss philosophy as obsolete and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Remnants of Hegel

    Remains of Ontology, Religion, and Community

    by Felix Duque ...
    Translated by Nicholas Walker ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel's thought.In the preface to the second edition of the Science of Logic, Hegel speaks of an instinctive and unconscious logic whose forms and determinations "always remain imperceptible and incapable of becoming objective even as they emerge in language." In spite of Hegel's ambitions to provide a philosophical system that might transcend ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Thomas Hobbes

    by Otfried Höffe ...
    Translated by Nicholas Walker ...
    An introduction to Thomas Hobbes as a systematic and not merely political philosopher.Best known for his contributions to political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes set out to develop a coherent philosophical system extending from logic and natural philosophy to civil and religious philosophy. In this introduction to Hobbes's thought, Otfried Höffe begins by providing an overview of the entire scope of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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  • Politics without Vision

    Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

    by Tracy B. Strong ...
    "Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."— Perspectives on PoliticsFrom Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Karl Marx

    The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market)

    by Allan Megill ...
    Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism? In Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason, Allan Megill begins with this question. Megill's examination of Marx's formative writings casts new light on Marx's relation to philosophy and reveals a hitherto largely unknown "rationalist" Marx. In demonstrating how Marx's rationalism permeated his attempts to ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Art and Liberation

    Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 4

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    Series series Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers
    The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected, misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthetics that leads to an escape from politics and society. Yet, as this volume demonstrates, Marcuse analyzes culture and art in the context of how it produces forces of domination and resistance in society, and his writings on culture and art generate the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Hegel, the End of History, and the Future

    by Eric Michael Dale ...
    In Phenomenology of Spirit (1806) Hegel is often held to have announced the end of history, where 'history' is to be understood as the long pursuit of ends towards which humanity had always been striving. In this, the first book in English to thoroughly critique this entrenched view, Eric Michael Dale argues that it is a misinterpretation. Dale offers a reading of his own, showing how it sits ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Far Reaches

    Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe

    by Michael D. Gubser ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    When 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 produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and explaining the status of values; it also called on philosophy to renew European societies facing crisis, an ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD