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Giving an Account of Oneself

Judith Butler

• Hardcover | Engels
• What does it mean to lead a moral life?In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical p... Lees meer

Conversations on Peirce

Douglas R Anderson, Carl R Hausman

• Hardcover | Engels | American Philosophy
• The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the authors and their colleagues and students over the last decade and a half. Their g... Lees meer

The Rebellious No

Noëlle Vahanian

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• This book aims to renew theological thinking by extending and radicalizing an iconoclastic and existentialist mode of thought. It proposes a theology ... Lees meer

Judeities

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: "As for myself, I could imagine another Abra... Lees meer

New Bedford's Civil War

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• Paperback | Engels | North's Civil War
• New Bedford's Civil War examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with ... Lees meer

The Last Professors

Frank Donoghue

• Hardcover | Engels
• "What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. "There is mo... Lees meer

To Make the Hands Impure

Adam Zachary Newton

• Hardcover | Engels
• How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our... Lees meer

Philosophy in Experience

Richard E Hart, Douglas R Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | American Philosophy | nr. 5
• This collection of essays aims to mark a place for American philosophy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Taking their cue from the work of Pe... Lees meer

The Imperative to Write

Jeff Fort

• Hardcover | Engels
• Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer's vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? ... Lees meer

Charms That Soothe

Dean Duncan

• Hardcover | Engels | Communications and Media Studies
• From Chaplin's brilliant use of Wagner in The Gold Rush to the Bach chorale closing Scorsese's Casino, classical music has played a fascinating role i... Lees meer

King Alfonso VIII of Castile

• Hardcover | Engels | Fordham Medieval Studies
• King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (11... Lees meer

Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

Hélène Cixous

• Hardcover | Engels
• An inventive literary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplace Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and ... Lees meer

Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief

Harry Berger

• Hardcover | Engels
• A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an account of the genre's comi... Lees meer

Creative Fidelity

Gabriel Marcel

• Paperback | Engels
• These lectures and essays were regarded by Marcel as the best introduction to his thought. Creative Fidelity not only deals with perennial themes of f... Lees meer

Reflection Revisited

James C Swindal

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Jurgen Habermas, particularly in his master work Theory of Communicative Action (1981), takes us several of the basic insights of the philosophical tr... Lees meer

The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

• Hardcover | Engels | Reconstructing America
• Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college c... Lees meer

Soldier, Sage, Saint

Robert Cummings Neville

• Paperback | Engels
• This is a philosophic study of some aspects of spiritual development, broadly defined. Professor Neville has been influenced significantly by comparis... Lees meer

Unitas

Edward P Eismann

• Paperback | Engels
• Unitas is an outreach therapeutic program serving Hispanic and African American children in the South Bronx. It is a complex institutional structure b... Lees meer

The Reinvention of Religious Music

Sander Van Maas

• Paperback | Engels
• On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his no... Lees meer

The Human Eros

Thomas M Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | American Philosophy
• The Human Eros: Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily that of John Dewey, but also ... Lees meer

Common Goods

• Hardcover | Engels | Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
• In the face of globalized ecological and economic crises, how do religion, the postsecular, and political theology reconfigure political theory and pr... Lees meer

Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500

Karl Shoemaker

• Hardcover | Engels | Just Ideas
• Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval le... Lees meer

Freedom and Law

Randi Rashkover

• Hardcover | Engels
• Freedom and Law offers a provocative new view of the relationship between human desire, the production of knowledge, and conceptions of power by devel... Lees meer

Death's Following

John Limon

• Hardcover | Engels
• Almost all twentieth-century philosophy stresses the immanence of death in human life-as drive (Freud), as the context of Being (Heidegger), as the es... Lees meer