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Hardback. In 1873, John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated a theory of 'the moral revolution' to characterize the historical shift from roughly 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, as part of a critical theory of history. This book brings light to the now eclipsed theory and offers new contexts and understandings of the phenomenon. Num Pages: 159 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441584
- ISBN
- 9781137441584
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Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
Hardcover. Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival-arguments that purport to show that data collected from ostensibly paranormal phenomena constitute good evidence for the survival of the self after death. Utilizing the conceptual tools of formal epistemology, he argues that classical arguments are unsuccessful. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440938
- ISBN
- 9781137440938
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€ 128.48
€ 128.48
Hardcover. What could Wittgenstein's work contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life's meaning? This book not only examines Wittgenstein's scattered remarks about value and 'sense of life' but also argues that his philosophy and 'way of seeing' has far reaching implications for the ways theorists approach an ancient question: 'How shall one live?'. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440907
- ISBN
- 9781137440907
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Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440877
- ISBN
- 9781137440877
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Condition: New
€ 117.54
€ 117.54
Hardback. Strawser examines several possible ethical justifications for the killing of Osama bin Laden and finds nearly all of them wanting. One, however, he argues is sound: that bin Laden was liable to be killed as a necessary and proportionate act of defensive harm on behalf of innocent people. Num Pages: 87 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPWL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 87
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440709
- ISBN
- 9781137440709
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€ 65.68
€ 65.68
Paperback. Gabriel Vahanian's final work, Theopoetics of the Word weaves together Christian theology, continental philosophy and cultural studies to present a new theology of language and technology for the 21st century. Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440624
- ISBN
- 9781137440624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.58
€ 65.58
hardcover. Gabriel Vahanian's final work, Theopoetics of the Word weaves together Christian theology, continental philosophy and cultural studies to present a new theology of language and technology for the 21st century. Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 381.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440617
- ISBN
- 9781137440617
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Condition: New
€ 64.98
€ 64.98
Hardcover. This book argues that Fromm is a vital and largely overlooked contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history, and one who offers a refreshingly reconfigured form of humanism that is capable of reintegrating explicitly humanist analytical categories and schemas back into social theoretical (and scientific) considerations. Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; JMA; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436399
- ISBN
- 9781137436399
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€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardcover. This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a form of religious experience. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; HPN; HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434760
- ISBN
- 9781137434760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Feeling Present in the Physical World and in Computer-Mediated Environ...
Waterworth, John, Riva, Giuseppe
Hardcover. This concise volume presents for the first time a coherent and detailed account of why we experience feelings of being present in the physical world and in computer-mediated environments, why we often don't, and why it matters - for design, psychotherapy, tool use and social creativity amongst other practical applications. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology. Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMH; JMR; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431660
- ISBN
- 9781137431660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping out of the contours for a speculative and pragmatic production of subjectivity. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430281
- ISBN
- 9781137430281
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Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. This book opens up the philosophical life force that informs the construction of Hip-hop by turning the gaze of the philosopher upon those blind spots that exist within existing scholarship. This book illustrates the abundance of philosophical meaning in the textual and graphic elements of hip hop, placing hip-hop within the philosophical canon. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVGR; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429933
- ISBN
- 9781137429933
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Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. Since the late 1970s China has undergone a great transformation, during which time the country has witnessed an outpouring of competing schools of thought. This book analyzes the major schools of political thought redefining China's transformation and the role Chinese thinkers are playing in the post-Mao era. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137427809
- ISBN
- 9781137427809
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Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426734
- ISBN
- 9781137426734
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Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Hardcover. Johnson argues that Aristotle's Politics needs to be understood as a 'two-layered' treatise - the first being Aristotle's political theory, and the second as a set of questions for statesmen and politicians. Employing this model, the book sets about to provide a reconceptualization of Politics as a multi-layered, canonical work. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426192
- ISBN
- 9781137426192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardback. In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make sense of ourselves as gendered beings. It analyses how such struggles for gender recognition are shaped by social discourses and power relations, and considers how feminism can best respond to these issues. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137425980
- ISBN
- 9781137425980
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Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZB; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415134
- ISBN
- 9781137415134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414977
- ISBN
- 9781137414977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. The letters of Heloise and Abelard remain one of the great romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization, while they themselves are second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here, collected for the first time, is their correspondence with accessible commentary from two of our foremost medieval scholars. Editor(s): McLaughlin, Mary Martin; Wheeler, Bonnie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413642
- ISBN
- 9781137413642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardcover. This book argues that the overlooked ideas of Jose Marti and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara explain recent politics in Latin America and the Caribbean but also, even more significantly, offer a defensible alternative direction for global development ethics. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413222
- ISBN
- 9781137413222
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Condition: New
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Hardcover. Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time of the trace, narrative time, calendar time, and generational time. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413154
- ISBN
- 9781137413154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GTR; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412843
- ISBN
- 9781137412843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.95
€ 116.95
Hardcover. A Theory of the Absolute develops a worldview that is opposed to the dominant paradigm of physicalism and atheism. It provides powerful arguments for the existence of the soul and the existence of the Absolute. It shows that faith is not in contradiction to reason. Editor(s): Nagasawa, Yujin; Wielenberg, Erik J. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412812
- ISBN
- 9781137412812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Paperback. In this groundbreaking book, Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditional morality nor reduced to a relativism, an ethics, that is, which is without ground. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMA; JMRN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412713
- ISBN
- 9781137412713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25