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Paperback. This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 246.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745663814
- ISBN
- 9780745663814
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Condition: New
€ 23.29
€ 23.29
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The most forceful philosophical objections to belief in God arise from the existence of evil. Bad things happen in the world and it is not clear how this is compatible with the existence of an all-powerful and perfectly loving being. Series: Polity Key Concepts in Philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
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- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745664071
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- 9780745664071
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€ 23.46
€ 23.46
Hardcover. An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates. The book is divided into five parts. Num Pages: 224 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 18. Weight in Grams: 596.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 2nd Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745664316
- ISBN
- 9780745664316
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Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Paperback. Martin Heidegger is among the most important philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Within the continental tradition, almost every great figure has been deeply influenced by his work. For this reason, a full understanding of the course of modern philosophy is impossible without at least a basic grasp of Heidegger. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745664927
- ISBN
- 9780745664927
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Condition: New
€ 25.92
€ 25.92
Hardcover.
In this important new book, the leading philosopherFrancois Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in oursocieties today, specifically with regards to criminal justice. Heargues that, rather than concerning themselves with abstractphilosophical notions like justice, truth and violence,intellectuals should focus on the human victims. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745668406
- ISBN
- 9780745668406
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 30. Weight in Grams: 724.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
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- Tra
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745669427
- ISBN
- 9780745669427
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Condition: New
€ 72.70
€ 72.70
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The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. Wehave to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Westernworld. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745669779
- ISBN
- 9780745669779
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€ 18.56
€ 18.56
Hardcover. This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy. Its unique feature is to focus on problems that cut across the established divide between analytic and continental philosophical traditions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745670294
- ISBN
- 9780745670294
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Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardcover. * Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most influential philosophers of the last fifty years and his book, The Postmodern Condition, was an international bestseller. * This short and very accessible book consists of a series of introductory lectures on philosophy that Lyotard gave to new students. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670720
- ISBN
- 9780745670720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.75
€ 53.75
Paperback. Francois Laruelle's non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge. There is a growing interest in Laruelle's work in the English-speaking world, but his work is often misunderstood as a wholesale critique of philosophy. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671239
- ISBN
- 9780745671239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.64
€ 24.64
Hardcover. This book stands as a testimony to Bauman's belief in the enduring relevance of sociology. But it is also a call to us all to start questioning the world in which we live and to transform ourselves from being the victims of circumstance into the makers of our own history. For that, at the end of the day, is the use of sociology. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671246
- ISBN
- 9780745671246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.65
€ 59.65
Paperback. What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 304.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671550
- ISBN
- 9780745671550
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Condition: New
€ 24.49
€ 24.49
Hardcover. The most accessible expression of Francois Laruelle's non-philosophical, or 'non-standard', thought, General Theory of Victims forges a new role for contemporary philosophers and intellectuals by rethinking their relation to victims. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745679600
- ISBN
- 9780745679600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback.
The most accessible expression of Francois Laruelle's non-philosophical, or 'non-standard', thought, General Theory of Victims forges a new role for contemporary philosophers and intellectuals by rethinking their relation to victims. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 258.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745679617
- ISBN
- 9780745679617
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Condition: New
€ 21.98
€ 21.98
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745680620
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- 9780745680620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.66
€ 72.66
Hardcover. The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can only be properly understood if it is grasped as the expression of a culture of freedom that encompasses an entire form of life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745682129
- ISBN
- 9780745682129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Paperback. Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the Red Years at the end of the Sixties and both were Maoists, but while Badiou was focusing all his attention on China, Milner was already taking his distance from it. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745682174
- ISBN
- 9780745682174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.98
€ 21.98
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From Gandhi?s salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote democracy, human rights and social justice have long played an important transformative role in local, national and global politics. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745682679
- ISBN
- 9780745682679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.49
€ 24.49
Hardcover.
In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example that "Google intends to develop an automated car", "the U.S. Series: Polity Key Concepts in Philosophy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745684833
- ISBN
- 9780745684833
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Condition: New
€ 60.10
€ 60.10
Hardcover. Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745685397
- ISBN
- 9780745685397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Paperback. Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745685403
- ISBN
- 9780745685403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.00
€ 26.00
Hardcover. White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9780745685441
- ISBN
- 9780745685441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. * Alain Badiou is probably the most widely read and influential philosopher in France today. Alain Finkielkraut is also a well-known public intellectual in France * Both have attracted controversy in the past and they hold strongly contrasting political views. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 196.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
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- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745685700
- ISBN
- 9780745685700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.03
€ 22.03
Hardcover. In a well-known text called The Communist Hypothesis , first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a systemic alternative to capitalism. Translator(s): Spitzer, Susan. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 220.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745688350
- ISBN
- 9780745688350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.39
€ 47.39