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The Great Philosophers
The Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers
Stephen Law
From the Buddha and Confucius to Wittgenstein, Quine, Strawson and Kripke in the 20th century, Stephen Law outlines the biographies of 50 of the world's most important philosophers and gives a concise account of their fundamental and most influential ideas.

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Dangerous Illusions
How Religion Deprives Us of Happiness
Vitaly Malkin
In this appeal for us to reject religion’s ‘chimeras’, the businessman and philanthropist Vitaly Malkin argues that the adoption of monotheistic doctrines slowed down the progress of human civilization and has failed to make people happier. Examining the big questions of evil, death, suffering and ‘the great battle against pleasure’, he encourages the reader to question what benefit religious practices offer and to live in the present rather than wait for life after death. Slightly off-mint.

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Philosophy Hacks
100 Clever Ways to Help you Understand and Remember the Most Important Theories
Robert Arp;Martin Cohen
Each volume in this series uses a three-part approach to explain complex ideas. First the ‘helicopter overview’ introduces the concept, then the ‘shortcut’ gives more detail on core elements and the pithy ‘hack’ offers a memorable summary. These straightforward explanations present philosophical theories and arguments ranging from ancient religious ideas, through the work of such seminal figures as Avicenna and Descartes, to modern thought experiments including the Trolley Problem and Wittgenstein’s beetle.

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Philosophy: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know
Ben Dupré
From Plato’s cave and Occam’s razor to debates over liberty and justice, these accessible essays introduce some of the most puzzling and troubling questions that have been raised by philosophers since the era of the ancient Greeks.

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Does Santa Exist?
A Philosophical Investigation
Eric Kaplan
In this humorous meditation on the existence of Father Christmas, The Simpsons screenwriter Eric Kaplan poses questions about the nature of reason and the human propensity to believe contradictory propositions simultaneously.

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Marcus Aurelius
The Dialogues
Alan Stedall
The 488 personal jottings that form Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations have significantly influenced Western thought but lack clear order and sequence. Stedall’s dialogues make these Stoic ideas more accessible, as the Roman Emperor converses with historical figures including the Greek doctor Galen and Egyptian priest Harnouphis. Slightly off-mint.

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Ramsey's Legacy
Ed. Hallvard Lillehammer;Ed. DH Mellor
Originating in a conference held in 2003 to commemorate the centenary of Frank Ramsey’s birth, and with an introduction by Professor Lillehammer, this volume of 10 essays discusses Ramsey’s philosophical work in relation to topics including universals; Wittgenstein’s theory of judgement; subjective decision theory; and success semantics.

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The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus;Trans. Justin O'Brien
‘It is legitimate and necessary to wonder whether life has a meaning; therefore it is legitimate to meet the problem of suicide face to face’: this is how Camus, in his preface, describes the subject of this profound philosophical statement. The Myth is accompanied by five short essays, including ‘Summer in Algiers’, evoking the city in which Camus’ novel The Outsider is set.

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Freudian Slip:
Psychoanalysis and Textual Criticism
Sebastiano Timpanaro
The Italian philologist Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923–2000) presents a sustained critique of Freudian psychoanalysis and the explanation of ‘slips’ and instances of forgetting that Freud gives in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

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Meister Eckhart
Philosopher of Christianity
Kurt Flasch
The philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher and alleged mystic who was active during the 14th-century Avignon Papacy and posthumously condemned as a heretic by Pope John XXII. Flasch argues that Eckhart was an important philosopher of his time rather than a mystic, and sheds new light on this medieval figure who has attracted the attention of modern thinkers including Schopenhauer, Fromm and Derrida.

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William Ockham
Opera Politica IV
Ed. HS Offler
This volume's first three polemical texts are Ockham's Compendium errorum, attacking John XXII, Breviloquium on the extent of papal power and De imperatorum et pontificum potestate, against Avignon's injustices and heresies. Two further treatises, attributed to Ockham, attack Charles IV's claim to kingship in Germany and the papal proceedings against Lewis the Bavarian. Offler provides new editions of the Latin text, with critical apparatus and short introductions discussing each work's content, manuscript tradition and authorship. No jacket.

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The Story of Philosophy
A History of Western Thought
James Garvey;Jeremy Stangroom
The scope of this compact and punchy history of the Western philosophical tradition includes the Ancient Greeks and their related schools, the Enlightenment, the political and moral philosophy of Rousseau and Locke, and existentialism and analytic philosophy.

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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne
The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
The major work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) is the Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646), a catalogue of ‘vulgar errors’ and their correction which, together with Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus, has charmed writers from Samuel Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges and Javier Marías. Here, another acolyte sets off in the footsteps of the erudite, witty and good-humoured Browne to rediscover his life and work through its diversity of themes, from medicine and human longevity to faith and melancholy. American-cut pages.

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Understand Humanism
Mark Vernon
What is humanism, and what insights can be gleaned from the different contemporary varieties of this philosophy? Mark Vernon - philosopher, agnostic and former Anglican priest - introduces the history of humanistic thought, from its origins in ancient Greek philosophy, through its emergence as a movement during the Renaissance, to ten 'pressing issues', such as climate change, blasphemy and identity politics, which humanists must face in our own time.

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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy
Volume VI
Daniel Garber;Donald Rutherford

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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy
Volume VI
Ed. Daniel Garber;Ed.Donald Rutherford

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Relativism
A Guide for the Perplexed
Timothy Mosteller
Slightly off-mint.

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Virtue Epistemology
Motivation and Knowledge
Stephen Napier
Slightly off-mint.

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Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot: Ethics and the Ambiguity of Writing
William Large
This study argues that the work of French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) should ideally be read with reference to his contemporary Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003)

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The Advancement of Learning (1640)
Francis Bacon
The nine books of Francis Bacon's famous review of the state of knowledge begin by extolling the dignity of learning and go on to cover topics from natural philosophy to theology. This book is from the Archival Facsimile series of reprints of first or important editions in the British Library - in this case, the facsimile is of the copy owned by Charles I. Although published in 1987, this is a new book. No jacket.

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Ancient Philosophy of Religion
Volume One: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion
Graham Oppy;NN Trakakis
Comprising chapters devoted to individual thinkers from Pythagoras to Pseudo-Dionysius, this volume covers ancient and early Christian thought on God, the gods, religious belief and practice. Vol 1 of The History of Western Philosophy of Religion.

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Robert Grosseteste: Hexaëmeron
Hexaëmeron
Ed. Richard C Dales;Servus Gieben
Robert Grosseteste's influential Hexaëmeron is a study of the creation story found in the opening chapters of Genesis, which he interpreted not only through the contemporary scientific ideas of the 1230s but also in the light of ancient philosophical thought which was being re-introduced into western Europe. This critical edition presents the full Latin text, based on all the available manuscripts, one of which contains Grosseteste's own annotations and corrections.

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The Sophists
An Introduction
Patricia O'Grady
This volume introduces the sophists and their influence on the social and political structure of ancient Greece in chapters on individuals from Pythagoras to Isocrates and topics including natural theology and Plato's The Sophist.

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From Taoism to Einstein: Ki and Ri in Chinese and Japanese Thought
A Survey
Olof Lidin

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Oxford Studies in Metaethics
Volume Two
Russ Shafer-Landau
This second volume of the annual periodical devoted to original philosophical work on the foundation of ethics comprises 11 essays on topics including 'wrongness and reasons', moral obligation and value and autonomy in Kantian ethics.

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Russell's Theory of Perception
1905–1919
Sajahan Miah
Sajahan Miah re-examines and evaluates the development of Russell's concept of perception and the relation of perception to our knowledge of the external world. He focuses largely on the period 1909-19, when Russell attempted a reductionist analysis of empirical knowledge. No jacket.

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Josiah Royce's Late Writings
A Collection of Unpublished and Scattered Works (Two volumes)
Frank M Oppenheim
This collection aims to reveal the late stage of the thought of Josiah Joyce, the American philosopher of community, from 1912 when he began to make creative use of the thought of the logician Charles Sanders Peirce, up to his death in 1916. No jackets.

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Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
A Reader's Guide
William Uzgalis
In the Essay - actually 721 pages long - published in 1689, John Locke laid out the basic principles of the Empiricism that was to characterize British philosophy for centuries.

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Early Responses to Hume
(Ten volumes)
James Fieser
These ten volumes bring together the most important early discussions of Hume's work in five areas: moral, literary and political writings; metaphysical and epistemological writings; writings on religion; the History of England; and responses to his life and reputation. Fieser provides an introduction to each part and notes on each selection.

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Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany
Seven Significant Translations, 1745-1776
Heiner F Klemme

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Systemic Functional Grammar of Japanese
Kazuhiro Teruya

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Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy
David Pears
David Pears provides a concise and readable investigation of five themes at the heart of Wittgenstein's thought: the idea of language as a picture of the world; the phenomenon of linguistic regularity; the famous 'private language' argument; logical necessity; and ego and the self.

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The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers
(Two volumes, slip-cased)
John Yolton;John Valdimir Price;John Stephens
Ranging chronologically between John Locke (1632-1704) and Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), this dictionary covers a long 18th century and interprets 'philosophy' inclusively, with entries and bibliographies for around 600 philosophers, scientists, theologians and writers in many other disciplines. No jacket. Slip-cased.

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Studies in Chinese Language
MAK Halliday

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The Theoretical Practices of Physics
Philosophical Essays
RIG Hughes

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Personal Responsibility
Why It Matters
Alexander Brown
No jacket.

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What Don't You Know?
Philosophical Provocations
Michael C LaBossiere

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Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany
(Seven volumes)
Unknown

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Philosophy for Life
Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture
Rupert Read

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Alain Badiou: Live Theory
Oliver Feltham
No jacket.

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Derrida and Disinterest
Sean Gaston
A study of the treatment of disinterest as a philosophical topic in the works of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, identifying both thinkers as part of a tradition treating

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Free Will
Sourcehood and Its Alternatives
Kevin Timpe

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Hume on God
Irony, Deism and Genuine Theism
Timothy S Yoder

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Rousseau's The Social Contract
A Reader's Guide
Christopher D Wraight
No jacket

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On The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche;Trans. Ian Johnston
This important work comprises three essays: Good and Evil, Guilt, Bad Conscience and Related Matters and What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean? Nietzsche (1844–1900) analyses the evolution of moral concepts in a critique of 'moral prejudices', specifically the morality of the Christian and Judaic traditions. The complete, unabridged work is read here by Duncan Steen.

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The Nature and Structure of Content
Jeffrey C King
In a book 'addressed to both friends and foes of propositions', Jeffrey King formulates and defends a detailed account of the metaphysical nature of structured propositions. In addition to explaining what it is that binds together the constituents of structured propositions and imposes structure on them, King deals with some of the standard objections to accounts of propositions and shows how and why propositions manage to have truth conditions and represent the world as being in a certain way.

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Russell
Gregory Landini

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Speculative Realism
Peter Gratton
Peter Gratton presents a first critique of the new movement in Continental philosophy launched by Brassier, Grant, Harman and Meillassoux, and covers topics including correlationism, the non-existence of God, objects, and time.

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Converts, Heretics, and Lepers
Maimonides and The Outsider
James A Diamond
James A Diamond’s study shows how Maimonides (1138–1204) used outsiders on the fringes of society or religion – the convert, leper, heretic, king or sage – as metaphors for larger theological and philosophical issues.

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Jung: The Key Ideas
An Introduction to Carl Jung's Pioneering Work on Analytical Psychology, Dreams and the Collective Unconscious
Ruth Snowden
This accessible and methodical introduction to Karl Jung’s analytical psychology offers concise explanations of his key concepts, from archetypes and the collective unconscious to dream analysis and the eight psychological types. Illustrated with humorous cartoons, the book also explores his main influences, including his relationship with Freud and his deep interest in Eastern religion, as well as examining the numerous approaches he devised to help understand the human psyche.

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The Visual World of French Theory
Figurations
Sarah Wilson
In the 1960s and 1970s there were remarkable encounters between the most prominent French philosophers and contemporary artists, particularly members of the Narrative Figuration movement. Passages from critical texts arising from those encounters serve as the focus in each chapter of this illustrated study, which explores, among others, the meetings of Jean-Paul Sartre and Robert Lapoujade; Louis Althusser and Lucio Fanti; and Jacques Derrida and Valerio Adami.

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Critical Responses to Josiah Royce, 1885-1916
Ed. Randall E. Auxier

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From a Deflationary Point of View
Paul Horwich (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Deflationism has emerged as one of the most significant developments in contemporary philosophy. These papers represent Paul Horwich's development of the deflationary perspective over two and a half decades, and demonstrate its considerable power and fertility.

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David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature: Volume II: Editorial Material
Ed. David Fate Norton;Mary J Norton

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Pragmatism without Foundations
Reconciling Realism and Relativism
Joseph Margolis

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Berkeley
A Guide for the Perplexed
Talia Mae Bettcher
This Continuum Guide for the Perplexed introduces Anglo- Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753) as an idealist and man of letters famous for extravagance of Knowledge and Three Dialogues.

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Hume
Don Garrett (New York University, USA)
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Locke
E J Lowe
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings
Oliver Leaman
Written by noted experts, these lucid, alphabetically organized handbooks define and discuss the central concepts, thinkers and debates in a broad range of academic disciplines.

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Hegel
Frederick Beiser
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Jacques Derrida
Ed. Claire Colebrook
Every book in this series comprises around 15 essays in which the author explores a single concept in the work of one of the major philosophers.

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Einstein
Thomas Ryckman;Arthur Fine
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Knowledge
Harold W Noonan
Each GuideBook considers a key area in the work of a major philosopher by focusing on an important text and assessing its contribution to contemporary thought.

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Kant
Paul Guyer
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Heidegger
John Richardson
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Humanism
Tony Davies
Each of these invaluable introductory guides to today's critical terminology offers an original overview by a leading literary or cultural critic.

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Immanuel Kant
Key Concepts
Will Dudley;Kristina Engelhard
Every book in this series comprises around 15 essays in which the author explores a single concept in the work of one of the major philosophers.

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Frege on Sense and Reference
Mark Textor (King's College London, UK)
Each GuideBook considers a key area in the work of a major philosopher by focusing on an important text and assessing its contribution to contemporary thought.

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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger
Professor George Pattison
Each GuideBook considers a key area in the work of a major philosopher by focusing on an important text and assessing its contribution to contemporary thought.

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations
AD Smith
Each GuideBook considers a key area in the work of a major philosopher by focusing on an important text and assessing its contribution to contemporary thought.

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Hobbes
AP Martinich
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics
Angela Curran (St. Mary's College of Maryland, USA)
Each GuideBook considers a key area in the work of a major philosopher by focusing on an important text and assessing its contribution to contemporary thought.

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Eastern Philosophy
The Basics
Victoria S. Harrison
Intended as first introductions for students new to a subject, each of these guidebooks gives an overview of the fundamental principles of a subject area in an accessible format and jargon-free language.

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Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae
Jason T. Eberl
This series introduces the texts that have helped shape Western civilization, every volume providing a detailed examination of the central ideas and arguments of a seminal text and discussion of its lasting significance.

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The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time
Stephen Mulhall
This series introduces the texts that have helped shape Western civilization, every volume providing a detailed examination of the central ideas and arguments of a seminal text and discussion of its lasting significance.

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Routledge Guidebook to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
E. J. Lowe;Ed. Anthony Gottlieb
This series introduces the texts that have helped shape Western civilization, every volume providing a detailed examination of the central ideas and arguments of a seminal text and discussion of its lasting significance.

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Routledge Guidebook to Mill's On Liberty
Jonathan Riley
This series introduces the texts that have helped shape Western civilization, every volume providing a detailed examination of the central ideas and arguments of a seminal text and discussion of its lasting significance.

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Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Ed. Anthony Gottlieb;Sandrine Berges
This series introduces the texts that have helped shape Western civilization, every volume providing a detailed examination of the central ideas and arguments of a seminal text and discussion of its lasting significance.

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Adorno
Brian O'Connor
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Dewey
Steven Fesmire (Steven Fesmire, Green Mountain College, USA)
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Habermas
Kenneth Baynes (Syracuse University, USA)
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Husserl
David Woodruff-Smith
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Leibniz
Nicholas Jolley (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Plato
Constance Meinwald
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Plotinus
Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Rousseau
Nicholas Dent (University of Birmingham, UK)
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Wittgenstein
William Child (University of Oxford, UK)
Ideal for students new to philosophy, each book in this series places a major philosopher in historical context, explains their key arguments and considers their legacy.

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Not in God's Name
Confronting Religious Violence
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
‘Religiously motivated violence must be fought religiously as well as militarily, and with passionate intensity.’ So writes the former Chief Rabbi in this powerful exploration of the roots of religious extremism. By analysing stories of sibling rivalry in the biblical texts shared by the Abrahamic faiths, he shows how centuries of misreadings have led to the ‘altruistic evil’ by which murder is seen as a moral act – an idea against which those of all faiths and none must stand together. Off-mint.

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Hannah Arendt
Ed. Professor Patrick Hayden
Every book in this series comprises around 15 essays in which the author explores a single concept in the work of one of the major philosophers.

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Martin Heidegger
Bret W Davis
Every book in this series comprises around 15 essays in which the author explores a single concept in the work of one of the major philosophers.

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Theodor Adorno
Key Concepts
Deborah Cook
Every book in this series comprises around 15 essays in which the author explores a single concept in the work of one of the major philosophers.

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Georges Bataille
Key Concepts
Ed. Mark Hewson (University of Melbourne, Australia);Ed. Marcus Coelen (Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany)
Every book in this series comprises around 15 essays in which the author explores a single concept in the work of one of the major philosophers.

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Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue
Maurice A. Finocchiaro (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
This series introduces the texts that have helped shape Western civilization, every volume providing a detailed examination of the central ideas and arguments of a seminal text and discussion of its lasting significance.

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Alain Badiou
Key Concepts
AJ Bartlett;Justin Clemens
Every book in this series comprises around 15 essays in which the author explores a single concept in the work of one of the major philosophers.

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Berkeley and the Principles of Human Knowledge
Robert Fogelin
Each GuideBook considers a key area in the work of a major philosopher by focusing on an important text and assessing its contribution to contemporary thought.

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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Derrida on Deconstruction
Barry Stocker (Yeditepi University, Turkey)
Each GuideBook considers a key area in the work of a major philosopher by focusing on an important text and assessing its contribution to contemporary thought.

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