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The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson - Bok av Cary Wolfe - Inbunden

Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound.

SEK 1390.00

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The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson - Bok av Cary Wolfe - Häftad

Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound.

SEK 576.00

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Hegel's Political Theology - Bok av Andrew Shanks - Inbunden

This study attempts to grasp the continuing contemporary relevance of Hegel's political theology, which the author interprets as a uniquely radical critique of every sort of religious authoritarianism.

SEK 1376.00

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Hegel's Political Theology - Bok av Andrew Shanks - Häftad

This study attempts to grasp the continuing contemporary relevance of Hegel's political theology, which the author interprets as a uniquely radical critique of every sort of religious authoritarianism.

SEK 630.00

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Islam and Environmental Ethics - Bok av Muhammad Yaseen (Central University of Kashmir) Gada - Inbunden

This Element explores environmental ethics in Islam. Its core argument is that Islamic culture and civilization are rich in environmental concerns; Islam has unique considerations and directions about what sort of human-nature relationship there should be.

SEK 846.00

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Islam and Environmental Ethics - Bok av Muhammad Yaseen (Central University of Kashmir) Gada - Häftad

This Element explores environmental ethics in Islam. Its core argument is that Islamic culture and civilization are rich in environmental concerns; Islam has unique considerations and directions about what sort of human-nature relationship there should be.

SEK 316.00

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Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology - Bok av Daniel M. Hausman - Häftad

This collection brings together the essays of one of the foremost American philosophers of economics, offering fresh perspectives on foundational questions such as: what sort of science is economics? and how successful can economists be in acquiring knowledge of their subject matter?

SEK 616.00

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Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology - Bok av Daniel M. Hausman - Inbunden

This collection brings together the essays of one of the foremost American philosophers of economics, offering fresh perspectives on foundational questions such as: what sort of science is economics? and how successful can economists be in acquiring knowledge of their subject matter?

SEK 1246.00

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Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa - Bok av Walter E. (University of Chicago) Kaegi - Inbunden

Who 'lost' Christian North Africa? Who won and how? Walter Kaegi examines these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting book. An impartial comparative framework helps to sort through identity politics, 'Orientalism' charges and counter-charges, and institutional controversies.

SEK 1136.00

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Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa - Bok av Walter E. (University of Chicago) Kaegi - Häftad

Who 'lost' Christian North Africa? Who won and how? Walter Kaegi examines these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting book. An impartial comparative framework helps to sort through identity politics, 'Orientalism' charges and counter-charges, and institutional controversies.

SEK 476.00

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The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington - Introduction, Translation, and Commentary - Bok av Richard Kilvington - Häftad

Richard Kilvington was an obscure fourteenth-century philosopher whose Sophismata deal with a series of logic-linguistic conundrums of a sort which featured extensively in philosophical discussions of this period. Originally published in 1990, this was the first ever translation or edition of his work.

SEK 620.00

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The Art of Mathematics ? Take Two - Bok av Bela (University of Cambridge) Bollobas - Häftad

Mathematics is fun! Be charmed by this collection of problems of the sort pondered during afternoon tea by lovers of mathematics, whether they are young or old, professional or amateur, budding or expert. It will delight readers and inspire them to explore further and to think mathematically.

SEK 346.00

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Moral Philosophy - Bok - Häftad

What is moral philosophy? That is the question with which this important volume grapples. Its starting point is the famous critique made by Elizabeth Anscombe, who argued that moral philosophy begins from a mistake: that it is fundamentally wrong about the sort of concept that the word 'moral' represents.

SEK 360.00

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Personal Ontology - Bok av Andrew (Hong Kong Baptist University) Brenner - Inbunden

What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios.

SEK 1306.00

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After Kinship - Bok av Janet (University of Edinburgh) Carsten - Inbunden

Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? Janet Carsten gives an approachable view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology, which will be of interest not just to anthropologists but to social scientists generally.

SEK 960.00

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An Introduction to Dynamical Systems - Bok av D. K. Arrowsmith - Häftad

In recent years there has been an explosion of research centred on the appearance of so-called 'chaotic behaviour'. This book provides a largely self contained introduction to the mathematical structures underlying models of systems whose state changes with time, and which therefore may exhibit this sort of behaviour.

SEK 1146.00

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Evil and Human Agency - Understanding Collective Evildoing - Bok av Arne Johan (Universitetet i Oslo) Vetlesen - Häftad

This 2005 book investigates why and in what sort of circumstances evil desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited into collective evildoing. A philosophical approach combined with a sociological and psychological one is brought to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia.

SEK 736.00

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After Kinship - Bok av Janet (University of Edinburgh) Carsten - Häftad

Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? Janet Carsten gives an approachable view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology, which will be of interest not just to anthropologists but to social scientists generally.

SEK 416.00

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Evil and Human Agency - Understanding Collective Evildoing - Bok av Arne Johan (Universitetet i Oslo) Vetlesen - Inbunden

This 2005 book investigates why and in what sort of circumstances evil desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited into collective evildoing. A philosophical approach combined with a sociological and psychological one is brought to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia.

SEK 1560.00

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Epicurus on Freedom - Bok av Tim (Georgia State University) O'Keefe - Inbunden

This 2005 book reconstructs Epicurus' theory of freedom, arguing that the sort of freedom which Epicurus wanted to preserve is significantly different from the 'free will' which philosophers debate today, and that in its emphasis on rational action it has much closer affinities with Aristotle's thought than with current preoccupations.

SEK 1376.00

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Epicurus on Freedom - Bok av Tim (Georgia State University) O'Keefe - Häftad

This 2005 book reconstructs Epicurus' theory of freedom, arguing that the sort of freedom which Epicurus wanted to preserve is significantly different from the 'free will' which philosophers debate today, and that in its emphasis on rational action it has much closer affinities with Aristotle's thought than with current preoccupations.

SEK 646.00

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Workers and Change in China - Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness - Bok av Manfred Elfstrom - Inbunden

Strikes, protests and riots by Chinese workers are rising. Using interviews and statistics, Elfstrom shows that this unrest is altering governance in China at all levels. However, the result is political development of a profoundly contradictory sort: the state is becoming more responsive and more repressive at the same time.

SEK 1160.00

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Uncertainty in Economics and Other Reflections - Bok av G. L. S. (University of Liverpool) Shackle - Häftad

This book is a collection of some of Professor Shackle's papers written between 1939 and 1953 is largely concerned with the problems of 'expectation' and 'uncertainty' and with reducing these universal factors to some sort of plausible rules. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of economics.

SEK 660.00

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The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past - Bok av Andras Nemeth - Häftad

The first comprehensive study of the Excerpta, a sort of 'Byzantine Google' which repackaged many key works of Greek historiography stretching back into antiquity, and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century. Also tackles wider issues including the history of information management, philological practices and book culture.