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Edouard Glissant
Edouard Glissant is an accomplished and influential novelist and poet, and has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and...
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Derrida and Autobiography
The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and...
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Edouard Glissant
Edouard Glissant is an accomplished and influential novelist and poet, and has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and...
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Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and...
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Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and...
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The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed a change in the perception of the arts and of philosophy. In the arts this transition occurred...
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The Enigma of the Mind
Sergio Moravia’s The Enigma of the Mind (originally published in Italian as L’enigma della mente) offers a broad and lucid critical and...
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The Epistemology of Religious Experience
This book addresses fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion. Can religious experience provide evidence for religious belief? If so, how?...
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The Cambridge Companion to Hume
David Hume is, arguably, the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology,...
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Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation
The topic of this book is creation. It breaks down into discussions of two distinct, but interrelated, questions: what does the universe look like,...
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Ethics, Theory and the Novel
The virtual suppression of explicit ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be seen as the triumph of one post-Enlightenment...
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Myth, Truth and Literature
Colin Falck’s book has had a widespread influence since it first appeared in 1989. Hailed as a work that alters the way we think about literary...
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Taking Chances
J. Howard Sobel has long been recognized as an important figure in philosophical discussions of rational decision. He has done much to help formulate...
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Englishness and the Study of Politics
The definition of Englishness has become the subject of considerable debate, and in this important contribution to Ideas in Context, Julia Stapleton...
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A Pack of Lies
Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in which people tell lies, how they are detected and...
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Defining the Common Good
The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain. The revolt of the North American colonies and the...
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The Visionary D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence is often seen either as an artist whose novels are spoiled by the intrusion of ideas or as a philosopher whose ideas happen to be...
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The Idea of Luxury
In this far-ranging and innovative study Christopher Berry explores the meanings and ramifications of the idea of luxury. Insights from political...
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Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy
This collection makes available in English twelve papers by the distinguished French scholar Professor Jacques Brunschwig. The essays deal with...
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Reported Miracles: A Critique of Hume
Suppose that one is presented with a report of a miracle as an exception to nature’s usual course. Should one believe the report and so come to...
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Structures and Categories for the Representation of Meaning
This book develops a way of representing the meanings of linguistic expressions which is independent of any particular language, allowing the...
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Language in the World
What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining,...
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