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Machado de Assis: Toward a Poetics of Emulation

Machado de Assis: Toward a Poetics of Emulation

Author: João Cezar de Castro Rocha ,  Flora Thomson-DeVeaux
ISBN: 9781611861815
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Offers an alternative explanation for one of the core dilemmas of Brazilian literary criticism: the “midlife crisis”...  Read More >>

Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism

Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary...

Author: Pierpaolo Antonello ,  Heather Webb
ISBN: 9781611861655
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Fifty years after its publication in English, René Girard’s Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased...  Read More >>

Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age

Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian...

Author: Robin Hammerman ,  Andrew L. Russell
ISBN: 9781970001488
Format: Paperback
$101.20

Illustrates the depth and diversity of writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the...  Read More >>

Rise of Reason: Intellectual history of 19th-century Maharashtra

Rise of Reason: Intellectual history of 19th-century...

Author: Hulas Singh
ISBN: 9781138929722
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The Last of the Light: About Twilight

The Last of the Light: About Twilight

Author: Peter Davidson
ISBN: 9781780235103
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age

Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian...

Author: Robin Hammerman ,  Andrew L. Russell
ISBN: 9781970001518
Format: Hardback
$141.90

Illustrates the depth and diversity of writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the...  Read More >>

Hope Without Optimism

Hope Without Optimism

Author: Terry Eagleton
ISBN: 9780813937342
Format: Hardback
$82.50

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte im Verhältnis zu Kirche und Staat

Johann Gottlieb Fichte im Verhältnis zu Kirche und Staat...

Author: Adolf Lasson
ISBN: 9783846070741
Format: Hardback
$184.54

Der Philosoph Adolf Lasson blickt auf einen der wichtigsten Vertreter des Deutschen Idealismus: Johann Gottlieb...  Read More >>

Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics beyond the Moral Calculus

Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics beyond the Moral...

Author: Shalini Satkunanandan (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9781107082724
Format: Hardback
$201.83

This book explores how an impoverished understanding of responsibility as quantifiable and dischargeable sustains...  Read More >>

Does Santa Exist?: A Philosophical Investigation

Does Santa Exist?: A Philosophical Investigation

Author: Eric Kaplan
ISBN: 9780147516428
Format: Paperback
$42.24

""Surveying everything from the analytic philosophy of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Buddhism, Taoism,...  Read More >>

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern...

Author: Steven Johnson
ISBN: 9781846148552
Format: Paperback
$28.44

How did photography bring about social reform? What connects refrigeration to Hollywood? And how did our battle...  Read More >>

Problems from Reid

Problems from Reid

Author: James Van Cleve (, USC)
ISBN: 9780199857036
Format: Hardback
$179.95

In this systematic study, James Van Cleve expounds Thomas Reid's positions and arguments on topics in the philosophy...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the...

Author: Jonathan Israel
ISBN: 9780691169712
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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How to Read Plato

How to Read Plato

Author: Richard Kraut
ISBN: 9787508655406
Format: Paperback
$67.32

"Simplified Chinese edition of How to Read Plato by Richard Kraut. Kraut is the editor of ""The Cambridge Companion...  Read More >>

Introduction a la Philosophie de Husserl

Introduction a la Philosophie de Husserl

Author: Professor Renaud Barbaras (The Sorbonne)
ISBN: 9782711626526
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Ce cours, qui n'a d'autre ambition que d'introduire a la lecture de Husserl, prend pour fil conducteur la correlation...  Read More >>

Dios y el Estado: Trabajo escrito

Dios y el Estado: Trabajo escrito

Author: Martin Hernandez B ,  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
ISBN: 9781518670275
Format: Paperback
$30.70

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The Bulgarian Jews during WWII

The Bulgarian Jews during WWII

Author: Mario Ignatov
ISBN: 9783639794380
Format: Paperback
$50.74

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Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities...

Author: James Turner
ISBN: 9780691168586
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Many today do not recognize the word, but ""philology"" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual...  Read More >>

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