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The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern...
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Pauli’s Exclusion Principle
There is hardly another principle in physics with wider scope of applicability and more far-reaching consequences than Pauli\'s exclusion principle....
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The Body in Swift and Defoe
This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the...
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Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jonathan Marks offers a new interpretation of the philosopher’s thought and...
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Phenomenology, Logic, and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Offering a collection of fifteen essays that deal with issues at the intersection of phenomenology, logic, and the philosophy of mathematics, this...
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The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770
Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient...
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Heidegger on Ontotheology
Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his later...
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Symmetry and its Discontents
This volume brings together a collection of essays on the history and philosophy of probability and statistics by one of the eminent scholars in...
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Johnson, Writing, and Memory
Johnson, Writing, and Memory demonstrates the importance of memory in Samuel Johnson’s oeuvre. Greg Clingham argues that this is a notion of memory...
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Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism
This book is a systematic reconstruction of Heidegger’s account of time and temporality in Being and Time. The author locates Heidegger in a...
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How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science
This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold...
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Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
In the two hundred years from 1475 London was transformed from a medieval commune into a metropolis of half a million people, a capital city and a...
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Heidegger on Ontotheology
Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his later...
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How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science
This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold...
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The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
This study examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing in particular on the...
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Descartes Reinvented
In this study, Tom Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are often instantly dismissed in analytic philosophy. His book serves as a...
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Measuring the Mind
Is it possible to measure psychological attributes like intelligence, personality and attitudes and if so, how does that work? What does the term...
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Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and...
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Values of Beauty
Values of Beauty discusses major ideas and figures in the history of aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of the...
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Musings of the Masters
The anthology is a collection of articles contiguous to the humanities written by renowned mathematicians of the twentieth century. The articles...
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The Evolution of English Prose, 1700–1800
Between 1700 and 1800 English prose became more polite and less closely tied to speech. A large scale feminisation of literary and other values...
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The End of Art
In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by ‘postart’, a term...
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Values of Beauty
Values of Beauty discusses major ideas and figures in the history of aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of the...
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The Selfish Meme
Culture is a unique and fascinating aspect of the human species. How did it emerge and how does it develop? Richard Dawkins suggested culture evolves...
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