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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17246-0
EAN 9780691172460
A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin's theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea, was unable to kill it. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17846-2
EAN 9780691178462
What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions-ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years? The Philosopher does just that, providing a new ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17815-8
EAN 9780691178158
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique ...
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PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-417-7
EAN 9781786634177
In a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterranean country "a sort of open-air political lesson", with much to tell us about the wider situation. Greece is exemplary of "our fundamental contradictions in Europe, which are also ultimately the fundamental contradictions of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-577-2
EAN 9781784785772
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical ...
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Libro · 170 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-1-350-04082-3
EAN 9781350040823
In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as his object of his study. The book presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art. Deleuze analyzes the distinctive innovations that came to mark Bacon's style: the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-426-9
EAN 9781786634269
Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the philosophy of science, Sheehan shows how Marx's and Engel's ideas on the development and structure of natural science had ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-092-6
EAN 9781786630926
Deemed by Arthur C. Clarke to be "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made", The World, the Flesh and the Devil is most famous for having been the first to propose the so-called Bernal Sphere, a type of space habitat intended for permanent residence. Written by one of the most well-known and controversial ...
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Ilya Prigogine; Stengers, Isabelle
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-100-8
EAN 9781786631008
Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53436-9
EAN 9780262534369
Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03681-8
EAN 9780262036818
If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Zizek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late masterpiece Ill Seen Ill Said), Zizek explores the empty spaces between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 276 páginas
PVP: 107,60 €
ISBN 978-1-138-21895-6
EAN 9781138218956
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing question: what would a conversation between these two great thinkers look like?In this outstanding ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17701-4
EAN 9780691177014
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17721-2
EAN 9780691177212
What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, and if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science?What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17812-7
EAN 9780691178127
We human beings had no say in existing-we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains.When our minds and senses are baffled, faith can seem justified-but faith is not knowledge. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 225 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-132-9
EAN 9781786631329
What is it that makes humans, human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. It is in our relationship with non-humans, that we decided ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 178,70 €
ISBN 978-1-138-70367-4
EAN 9781138703674
Contemporary interest in realism and naturalism, emerging under the banner of speculative or new realism, has prompted continentally-trained philosophers to consider a number of texts from the canon of analytic philosophy. The philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, in particular, has proven remarkably able to offer a contemporary re-formulation of traditional "continental" concerns that is amenable to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03628-3
EAN 9780262036283
The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this book, Lambert Zuidervaart examines debates surrounding the idea of truth in twentieth-century German continental philosophy. He argues that the Heideggerian and critical theory traditions have much in common -- despite the miscommunication, opposition, and even outright hostility ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-241-0
EAN 9781784872410
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is his personal account of the experience, in which he documents the beauty and fulfilment to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 702 páginas
ISBN 978-0-521-86327-8
EAN 9780521863278
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas. Dale Jacquette's lively and incisive biography charts Frege's life from its beginnings in small-town north Germany, through ...
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