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The Drama of Possibility. Experience as Philosophy of Culture.
McDermott, John J.. Ed(S): Anderson, Douglas ...
Hardback. Traces the trajectory of the author's philosophical career through a selection of his essays. This work addresses specific issues in American thought and culture. It constitutes a mosaic of his philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience. Editor(s): Anderson, Douglas R. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 36. Weight in Grams: 891.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226627
- ISBN
- 9780823226627
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€ 122.20
€ 122.20
Hardback. Develops a philosophy of life in opposition to the notion of "bio-power," which reduces the human to the question of power over what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life," mere biological existence. This book provides conceptual tools for intervening in issues such as the AIDS epidemic and life-support for the infirm. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226535
- ISBN
- 9780823226535
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€ 103.15
€ 103.15
Hardback. What is it to be a Jew and a philosopher? How has the notion of "Jewish identity" been written into and across Jewish literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? This title addresses these questions, contrasting Derrida's thought with philosophical predecessors such as Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem. Editor(s): Bergo, Bettina. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226412
- ISBN
- 9780823226412
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€ 104.02
€ 104.02
Hardback. Philosophers speak-or, rather, they respond to various forms of speaking that are handed to them. This book focuses on the communicative aspect of philosophical thought. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226184
- ISBN
- 9780823226184
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€ 97.15
€ 97.15
Hardback. Exploring the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual worlds of contemporary thought, this book brings together the wide-ranging writings, across twenty years, of one of our most important philosophers, Wyschogrod. It also analyzes the negations of biological research and cultural images of mechanized and robotic bodies. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 592 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 37. Weight in Grams: 916.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226061
- ISBN
- 9780823226061
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€ 133.18
€ 133.18
Hardback. Explores Cavell's writings. This book states that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of "King Lear" turned into a nightmarish meditation on Vietnam, he found a more audible voice. Here, the poetry of ideas and presence of mind that animate Cavell's writing receive readings attuned to the spirit of their composition and its enlivening powers. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225965
- ISBN
- 9780823225965
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€ 87.47
€ 87.47
Hardback. Challenging various assumptions about the relationship between language and politics, this book offers an account of aesthetic and economic thought since the eighteenth century. Providing a contribution to contemporary debates about culture and ideology, it is suitable for scholars of literature, history, and political theory. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 24. Weight in Grams: 491.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225873
- ISBN
- 9780823225873
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€ 95.95
€ 95.95
Hardback. This book offers an alternative way of taking up the American Philosophical tradition as a way of doing philosophy and a way of life. Douglas Anderson explores the relationship between American philosophy and other features of American culture, including where in that culture thinking that could be called "philosophical" is to be found. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225507
- ISBN
- 9780823225507
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€ 103.84
€ 103.84
hardcover. Introducing the range of noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking, this book focuses in particular on the dynamic of the loss of the subject and its possible post-deconstructive recovery. The author places Lacoue-Labarthe's achievements in the context of related philosophers, most importantly Nancy, Derrida, and Blanchot. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 26. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823225347
- ISBN
- 9780823225347
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Condition: New
€ 103.88
€ 103.88
Hardback. The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy a target. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 309.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224753
- ISBN
- 9780823224753
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Condition: New
€ 91.58
€ 91.58
Hardback. ".. Exemplifies a vision of education as cooperative inquiry in which heterogenous voices resound yet experiential authority in its full force operates."-Journal of Philosophy of Education Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224623
- ISBN
- 9780823224623
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Condition: New
€ 98.02
€ 98.02
Hardback. This book follows up the developments inphenomenology discussed in Phenomenology andthe Theological Turn: The French Debate, attempting toestablish what potentialities in the phenomenologicalmethod exist at present. Translator(s): Cabral, Charles N. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 126
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224463
- ISBN
- 9780823224463
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€ 91.66
€ 91.66
Hardback. Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. This title examines three somatic figures of speech: the touch, the fold, and the cut. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 21. Weight in Grams: 451.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224067
- ISBN
- 9780823224067
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Condition: New
€ 108.67
€ 108.67
Hardback. Does the philosophy of Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical response, Lacoste confronts the ultimate definition of human nature, the humanity of the human. Translator(s): Raftery-Skehan, Mark. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 477.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223756
- ISBN
- 9780823223756
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Condition: New
€ 119.65
€ 119.65
Hardback. This book studies the use of biblical quotations in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works, as well as Kierkegaard's hermeneutical methods in general. Kierkegaard's mode of writing in these works-indeed, the very method of indirect communication-consists in a certain appropriation of the Bible. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 479.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223695
- ISBN
- 9780823223695
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€ 81.80
€ 81.80
Hardback. In the context of Holderlin's poetics of alienation, exile, and wandering, Gosetti-Ferencei poses a phenomenologically sensitive theory of poetic language and a "new poetics of Dasein," or being there. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223602
- ISBN
- 9780823223602
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€ 103.71
€ 103.71
Hardback. Although widely recognized as founder and key figure in the current re-emergence of pragmatism, Charles Peirce is rarely brought into contemporary dialogue. This book shows that Peirce has much to offer contemporary debate and deepens the value of Peirce's view of representation in light of feminist epistemology, and cultural anthropology. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 479.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223541
- ISBN
- 9780823223541
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Condition: New
€ 87.24
€ 87.24
Hardback. In this account of the American philosophical tradition, Roger Ward explores the work of key thinkers through an innovative and counterintuitive lens: religious conversion. From Jonathan Edwards to Cornel West, Ward threads the history of American thought into an extended, multivalent encounter with the religious experience. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPC; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223138
- ISBN
- 9780823223138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.33
€ 98.33
hardcover. In meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats and other artists, Chretien shows how "talking hands of painters" and the "secretly lucid" voices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. "Hand to Hand" is a renewal of art in its provocative, transforming, spiritual presence. Translator(s): Lewis, Stephen E. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 13. Weight in Grams: 361.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823222896
- ISBN
- 9780823222896
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Condition: New
€ 102.70
€ 102.70
Hardback. John Knasas engages a debate at the heart of the revival of Thomistic thought in the 20th century. Richly detailed, his book calls on the tradition established by Gilson, Maritain and Owen to build a case for existential Thomism as a valid metaphysics. Series: Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 24. Weight in Grams: 607.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823222483
- ISBN
- 9780823222483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.55
€ 108.55