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Hardcover. While moral philosophy has traditionally been understood as an examination of the good life, this book argues that ethical inquiry should, rather, begin from an examination of evil and other 'negative' moral concepts, such as guilt and suffering. Num Pages: 147 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412652
- ISBN
- 9781137412652
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Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. This is a book about evolution - from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the confluences of these ideas with those of complexity theory in environmental biology. Num Pages: 252 pages, 3 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones, 1 figures. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412195
- ISBN
- 9781137412195
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Condition: New
€ 44.74
€ 44.74
Hardcover. Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism, which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience compassion with bodily suffering and to the redeeming qualities of the arts. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412164
- ISBN
- 9781137412164
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€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412102
- ISBN
- 9781137412102
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Condition: New
€ 67.75
€ 67.75
Hardcover. Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411532
- ISBN
- 9781137411532
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Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. The End of Russian Philosophy describes and evaluates the troubled state of Russian philosophical thought in the post-Soviet decades. The book suggests that in order to revive philosophy as a universal, professional discipline in Russia, it may be necessary for Russian philosophy to first do away with the messianic traditions of the 19th century. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JM; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409898
- ISBN
- 9781137409898
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. Just as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactured animal cruelty in a new phenomenon of globalized animal cruelty. Animals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and cultural contexts. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPQ; JFFZ; LAQ; LNKG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408013
- ISBN
- 9781137408013
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Condition: New
€ 127.49
€ 127.49
Hardcover. The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407894
- ISBN
- 9781137407894
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Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardback. Modes of Explanation is the first book in decades to attempt to bring these conflicting approaches together and to offer a compelling narrative to explore how the paradox of 'explanation' can converge. Editor(s): Lissack, Michael; Graber, Abraham. Num Pages: 319 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HP; KCA; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 643.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406453
- ISBN
- 9781137406453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.84
€ 128.84
Hardcover. Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405494
- ISBN
- 9781137405494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Individuals have little incentive to vote, acquire political information or contribute campaign funds, because their vote has very little chance of affecting the outcome of an election. Jankowski offers an explanation and evidence for political participation based on the fact that most individuals are weakly altruistic. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403186
- ISBN
- 9781137403186
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Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. Discovering someone disagrees with you is a common occurrence. The question of epistemic significance of disagreement concerns how discovering that another disagrees with you affects the rationality of your beliefs on that topic. This book examines the answers that have been proposed to this question, and presents and defends its own answer. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 204 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400895
- ISBN
- 9781137400895
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Condition: New
€ 116.23
€ 116.23
Hardcover. Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume. Editor(s): Weiss, Bernhard (University of Cape Town, South Africa). Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400697
- ISBN
- 9781137400697
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. The Poetic Organization explores the inherent aspects of organization that revolve around poetic processes. This book is a commentary on poetic elements in organization that are critical to developmental areas of organizations, yet poetics are rarely given the attention deserved. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398710
- ISBN
- 9781137398710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardback. How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher to disseminate Epicurean atomism in England, Walter Charleton (1619-1707). Num Pages: 94 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398574
- ISBN
- 9781137398574
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Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Hardcover. This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms. It examines the glorious sex life we will allegedly enjoy due to greater control of our emotions, improved capacity for pleasure, and availability of sex robots. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393494
- ISBN
- 9781137393494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Hardcover. This work positions Arendt as a political writer attempting to find a way in which humanity, poised between the Holocaust and the atom bomb, might reclaim its position as the creators of a world fit for human habitation. Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392954
- ISBN
- 9781137392954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Defending a procedural conception of global justice that calls for the establishment of reasonably democratic arrangements within and beyond the state, this book argues for a justice-based understanding of social development and justifies why a democracy-promoting international development practice is a requirement of global justice. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389923
- ISBN
- 9781137389923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389824
- ISBN
- 9781137389824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63
Hardcover. How are emotions related to values? This book argues against a perceptual theory of emotions, which sees emotions as perception-like states that help us gain evaluative knowledge, and argues for a caring-based theory of emotions, which sees emotions as felt desires or desire satisfactions, both of which arise out of caring about something. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389794
- ISBN
- 9781137389794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389206
- ISBN
- 9781137389206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Dialectics in Social Thought examines the work of thinkers who used dialectics in their attempts to understand the world. Among them are foundational thinkers such as Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche; seminal social critics of the last century such as Camus and Sartre; and current contributors like Badiou, Ranciere, and Zizek. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388896
- ISBN
- 9781137388896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Hardcover. The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision argues that we can read early Daoist texts as works of moral philosophy that speak to perennial concerns about the well-lived life in the context of the Way. Lee argues that we can interpret early Daoism as an ethics of attunement. Series: Content and Context in Theological Ethics. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRAB; HRAX; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137387028
- ISBN
- 9781137387028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. Through an analysis of the different dimensions of equality, this book provides a critical introduction to recent philosophical work on egalitarianism, discussing the central questions associated with each of the major debates about egalitarian justice. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385970
- ISBN
- 9781137385970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95