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Nuclear Futurism: The Work of Art in The Age of Remainderless Destruction

In the time of ends, the most dangerous technology of nuclear weapons confronts us with a new philosophy of the future.

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Interdisciplinary Interpretation: Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of...

<span><span><span>Kenneth A. Reynhout contributes to the growing field of religion and science by developing an alternative understanding of interdisciplinary theology that is...

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Human Works, Absent Words: Law, Man, and God in Some Classical Philosophers

<span><span>What is said can be understood only when seen in the context of what is not said. Many ancient and medieval philosophers use this dynamic of presence and absence. Gray shows how...

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The Guide for the Perplexed

Complete text of crucial medieval work of philosophy: reconciliation of Aristotle and Scripture. Includes <I>Life of Maimonides,</I> analysis of <I>The Guide,</I> indexes of...

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

One of philosophy's most widely read books and the best introduction to Hume's other works, this 1748 treatise offers an accessible account of the author's provocative notions about the limitations of...

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A New Model of the Universe

Foremost occultist of early 20th century offers stimulating, thought-provoking discussions of relativity, the fourth dimension, Christian symbolism, the tarot, yoga, dreams and more....

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Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist

Two masterpieces of Plato's later period. The <I>Theaetetus</I> offers a systematic treatment of the question "What is knowledge?" The <I>Sophist</I> follows Socrates'...

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Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Philosophy as Combat, Play, and Aesthetic...

<span><span>Sarah A. Mattice develops a comparative intervention in contemporary metaphilosophy. Drawing on resources from hermeneutics, cognitive linguistics, aesthetics, and Chinese...

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Transcendence by Perspective: Meditations on and with Kenneth Burke

TRANSCENDENCE BY PERSPECTIVE: MEDITATIONS ON AND WITH KENNETH BURKE represents a fresh attempt to think with Kenneth Burke regarding the relationship between human symbolicity and social change. The...

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Place Meant: Hermeneutic Landscapes of the Spatial Self

<span><span>What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of...

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Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues: Humility, Patience, Prudence

<span><span>In </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues</span><span>, Goodson offers a philosophical analysis of the...

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The Pedagogic Mission: An Engagement with Ancient Greek Philosophical Practices

<span><span>This book focuses on philosophical questions about the nature and scope of educational practices, methods, and epistemological issues regarding the acquisition of the...

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The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Cross-Cultural Encounters with India

Through a unique combination of theoretical scope and material, and historical, breadth <b>The Hermeneutics of Suspicion</b><i style="font-style: italic;"> </i>poses an original...

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The Art of Gerhard Richter: Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning

<i>The Art of Gerhard Richter: Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning </i>presents the first philosophical investigation of, arguably, one of the most popular and important painters working today,...

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Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique

<span><span>This volume brings together eleven essays that address a range of issues extending from broader questions of social justice to the sexual intimacy that bears the mark of our...

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Intimacy: A Dialectical Study

An important contribution to the burgeoning field of the ethics of recognition, this book examines the contradictions inherent in the very concept of intimacy. Working with a wide variety of...

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Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy

We tell one another to accept reality, not to fight for something that doesn??t exist or might never be. Gianni Vattimo pushes back against this false wisdom, which lends tacit support to the status...

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Gadamer and the Question of Understanding: Between Heidegger and Derrida

<span><span>This book retraces the development of Hans-Georg Gadamer??s philosophical hermeneutics in relation with (and against) Martin Heidegger??s early ontological hermeneutics as well...

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The Pedagogic Mission: An Engagement with Ancient Greek Philosophical Practices

<span><span>This book focuses on philosophical questions about the nature and scope of educational practices, methods, and epistemological issues regarding the acquisition of the...

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Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues: Humility, Patience, Prudence

<span><span>In </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues</span><span>, Goodson offers a philosophical analysis of the...

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