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Libro · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-77694-1
EAN 9780226776941
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 445 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-34172-9
EAN 9780226341729
2009 marks the centennial of the influential Plan of Chicago. Designed by Daniel H. Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the forward-thinking plan proposed many of the city's most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. As a result, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 46,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-02595-7
EAN 9780226025957
Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death.As the titles suggest, Arendt conceived of her ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,87 €
ISBN 978-0-226-48205-7
EAN 9780226482057
When it was first published in 1992, "The Beginnings of Western Science" was lauded as the first successful attempt to present a unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a single volume. Chronicling the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from pre-Socratic Greek philosophy to late-medieval scholasticism, David C. Lindberg surveyed the ...
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This is an analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Coetzee argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-51697-4
EAN 9780226516974
Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals, capturing the imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable, they hunt and play together in close-knit packs, sometimes roaming over hundreds of square miles in search of food. Once teetering on the brink of extinction across much of the United ...
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The Burden of Responsibility
Blum, Camus, Aron and the French Twentieth Century
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 196 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-41419-5
EAN 9780226414195
Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the 20th century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time.Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron might ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 462 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-31964-3
EAN 9780226319643
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-74415-5
EAN 9780226744155
Anyone who has admired Gainsborough's "Blue Boy" of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owes much of his or her pleasure to the art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869-1939). Regarded as the most influential - or, in some circles, notorious ...
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning
From More to Shakespeare
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 332 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-30659-9
EAN 9780226306599
"Renaissance Self-Fashioning" is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance - More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare - and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 327 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-07824-3
EAN 9780226078243
Who hasn't been stirred by the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? That's a good question, claims Esteban Buch. German nationalists and French republicans, communists and Catholics have all, in the course of history, embraced the piece. It was performed under the direction of Leonard Bernstein at a concert to mark the fall of the Berlin ...
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Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy
The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-226-01654-2
EAN 9780226016542
Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but also how those ideas may today be undermining the very notion of individual liberty they were created to defend.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 374 páginas
PVP: 27,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-75746-9
EAN 9780226757469
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42415-6
EAN 9780226424156
On February 6, 1945, a 35-year-old French writer and newspaper editor named Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was the only writer of any distinction to be put to death by the French Liberation government during the violent days of score-settling known as the Purge. In this book, Alice ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-0-226-65067-8
EAN 9780226650678
Originally published as "Le Mirage Linguistique", this test studies the role of linguistics in structuralism and poststructuralism. Thomas G. Pavel examines French thought through the work of luminaries such as Levi-Struss, Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida.The "spell of language" for Pavel consists of three things: the promise that linguistics seemed to represent for the humanites and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-226-50066-9
EAN 9780226500669
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-10035-7
EAN 9780226100357
It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 31,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-06712-4
EAN 9780226067124
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 493 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-0-226-74341-7
EAN 9780226743417
As the flames of independence continue to threaten the Raj, leaders of the Indian Congress are rounded up and put into British prisons. Meanwhile, Mable Layton and her daughters are stranded in their colonial mansion awaiting the return of Colonel Layton from the war.
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