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The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger
Martin Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. He transformed mainstream philosophy by...
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Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715
Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This book explores why...
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Descartes: A Biography
Descartes is best remembered for ‘I think, therefore I am’, but his main contribution to the history of ideas was to construct a philosophy that...
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The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger
Martin Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. He transformed mainstream philosophy by...
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Romantic Sociability
Challenging the assumptions which underlie an understanding of the Romantics as solitary and anti-sociable, and Romanticism as representing the...
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Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy
This volume explores the relationship between Kant’s aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason...
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Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution
Historically, philosophers of biology have tended to sidestep the problem of development by focusing primarily on evolutionary biology and, more...
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Swift’s Politics
Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins’ contextual reassessment of Swift’s...
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The Cambridge Companion to Keynes
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the...
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Scientific Method in Ptolemy’s Harmonics
The science called harmonics was one of the major intellectual enterprises of Greek antiquity. Ptolemy’s treatise seeks to invest it with new...
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Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820
In this discerning study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J. Denby sheds new light on Enlightenment thought and...
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Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence
Rousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David Gauthier...
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The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy
In this volume Smith examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development....
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Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton
The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as dour and repressive in character, an image which has been central to ways of reading sixteenth-...
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The Cambridge Companion to Keynes
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the...
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Reasoning in Biological Discoveries
Reasoning in Biological Discoveries brings together a series of essays which focus on one of the most heavily debated topics of scientific discovery...
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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and...
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Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence
Rousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David Gauthier...
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Defending Einstein
Hans Reichenbach, a philosopher of science who was one of five students in Einstein’s first seminar on the general theory of relativity, became...
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The English Fable
Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. In The...
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The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle’s Polis
Among ancient writers Aristotle offers the most profound analysis of the ancient Greek household and its relationship to the state. The household was...
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Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology
How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question...
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Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature
Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists,...
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The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays
How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important...
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