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05/07/2025
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Cover ArtThe age of diagnosis : sickness, health and why medicine has gone too far by Suzanne O'Sullivan

Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 44.50 Tull
ISBN: 9781399727655
Publication Date: 2025
 
 

Cover ArtChristoph Wittich (1625-1687): reformierte Theologie unter dem Einfluss von René Descartes by Kai-Ole Eberhardt

Call Number: University Library Closed Stacks
ISBN: 9783525552834
Die epochale Bedeutung des Denkens von Rene Descartes ist fur die Philosophie- und Geistesgeschichte der Neuzeit unbestritten. In welch hohem Masse auch die reformierte Theologie die neue Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts aufgenommen und diskutiert hat, zeigt Kai-Ole Eberhardts Analyse von Leben und Werk des Theologieprofessors Christoph Wittich. Wittich reprasentiert eine Gruppe von Gelehrten, die von der Bedeutung Descartes' zutiefst uberzeugt waren und sich gegen grossen Widerstand aus Kirche und Theologie fur die Rezeption des cartesianischen Wissenschafts- und Weltbildes eingesetzt haben. Der Verlauf von Wittichs Karriere, ausgehend von seinem Studium in den Niederlanden uber Professuren in Herborn, Duisburg, Nijmegen und Leiden, illustriert die Entstehung eines cartesianischen Gelehrtennetzwerkes und dessen Auseinandersetzungen mit Vertretern einer anticartesianischen Theologie. Eine detaillierte Analyse der Hauptwerke Wittichs gewahrt Einblicke in die Entstehung einer Theologie, die sowohl beansprucht, reformiert-orthodox zu sein als auch dem modernen Wissenschaftskonzept des Cartesianismus zu entsprechen.
 

Cover ArtAnimals: A History by Peter Adamson (Editor); G. Fay Edwards (Editor)

Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 08.20 Adam
ISBN: 9780199375974
Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize - before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy. This volume examines the richness and complexity of that long history. Twelve essays trace the significance of animals from Greek and Indian antiquity through the Islamic and Latin medieval traditions, to Renaissance and early modern thought, ending with contemporary notions about animals. Two main questions emerge throughout the volume: what capacities can be ascribed to animals, and how should we treat them? Notoriously ungenerous attitudes towards animals' mental lives and ethics status, found for instance in Aristotle and Descartes, are shown to have been more nuanced than often supposed, while remarkable defenses of benevolence towards animals are unearthed in late antiquity, India, the Islamic world, and Kant. Other chapters examine cannibalism and vegetarianism in Renaissance thought, and the scientific testing of animals. A series of interdisciplinary reflections sheds further light on human attitudes towards animals, looking at their depiction in visual artworks from China, Africa, and Europe, as well as the rich tradition of animal fables beginning with Aesop.

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04/14/2025
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Cover ArtThe Twilight of Politics by Mario Tronti

Call Number: Print - University Library Open Collection - 08.45 Tron
ISBN: 9781803093741
A classic work of political theory by a major twentieth-century figure of the Italian Left. Italian political thinker Mario Tronti is most famous for being the author of Workers and Capital, which became the central theoretical formulation of Italian operaismo or workerism, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionized the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In The Twilight of Politics, written originally in 1998, Tronti argues that modern politics, which reached its apogee in the twentieth century, has ended. Realism and Utopia, Tronti explains, were the foundational qualities of modern politics, which it always tried to clasp together. But behind this highwater mark of politics was a history over the longue durée, encompassing the wars of religion, Hobbes' Leviathan, revolution, great individuals, and popular movements, as well as innovations such as the nation-state and the party-form. Historically, the modern period is also a coming together of the categories of the political and the laws of political economy. At the heart of this book is Tronti's attempt to hold together a view of the course of political history with a critique of the "dictatorship of the present" to help us escape being "chained to the bars of an eternal present . . . which deprives us both of the freedom to look back and to see ahead."
 

Cover ArtCritical Phenomenology: an Introduction by Elisa Magrì; Paddy McQueen

Call Number: Print - University Library Open Collection - 08.25 Magr
ISBN: 9781509541126
Publication Date: 2022
Phenomenology is one of the leading movements in twentieth-century philosophy and continues to exert a strong influence on many contemporary philosophical traditions and investigations. In recent years, phenomenological insights have been increasingly developed in relation to philosophy of illness, disability, race, gender, sexuality, and politics, leading to the emergence of critical phenomenology as a new, prominent field for interdisciplinary research. Magrì and McQueen's Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction is the first book of its kind, addressing the critical questions at the core of both classical and contemporary phenomenology. This book provides a concise, accessible introduction to key areas of phenomenological research, such as intersubjectivity, bodily experience, race, gender, social experience, and political action. In doing so, it demonstrates both the rich history of phenomenology and its continuing philosophical and ethical importance. This textbook will be essential reading for undergraduate philosophy students and academics interested in critical phenomenology.
 

Cover ArtPost-Europe by Yuk Hui

Call Number: Print - University Library Open Collection - 08.25 Hui
ISBN: 9798985423518
Publication Date: 2024
Envisioning a post-European thinking: not through a neutralization of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an individuation of thinking between East and West. With the unstoppable advance of global capitalism, the Heimatlosigkeit (homelessness) which twentieth-century European philosophers spoke of--and which Heidegger declared had become the "destiny of the world"--is set to become ever more pathological in its consequences. But rather than dreaming of an impossible return to Heimat, Yuk Hui argues that today thinking must start out from the standpoint of becoming-homeless.  Drawing on the philosophies of Gilbert Simondon, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Jan Patočka alongside the thought of Kitaro Nishida, Keiji Nishitani, and Mou Zongsan among others, Yuk Hui envisions a project of a post-European thinking. If Asia and Europe are to devise new modes of confronting capitalism, technology, and planetarisation, this must take place neither through a neutralization of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an individuation of thinking between East and West.
 

Cover ArtThe Fragmentation of Being by Kris McDaniel

Call Number: Print - University Library Open Collection - 08.31 McDa
ISBN: 9780198848080
Publication Date: 2019
The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident. In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.

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01/10/2025
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Cover ArtThe Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley by Marietje Schaake

 

Cover ArtCicero by Malcolm Schofield

Call Number: Print - 08.21 Scho
 

 

 

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11/17/2023
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Cover ArtCollected Works of Erasmus
Online access to the volumes published until 2022 in the series 'Collected Works of Erasmus'.
 
 
 
 
 

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04/11/2023
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Cover ArtMaking a Killing by Bob Torres
ISBN: 9781849350389
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtCode : From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
ISBN: 9781478023630
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtWays of Being by James Bridle
ISBN: 9780374601119
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtForgotten Connections by Klaus Mollenhauer; Norm Friesen (Editor)
ISBN: 9781315883007
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtLiberalism in Dark Times. The liberal ethos in the twentieth century by Joshua L. Cherniss
ISBN: 9780691220949
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtPhilosophy of the Tourist by Hiroki Azuma
ISBN: 9781915103000
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtA Piece of the Action by Joe Nocera
ISBN: 9781476734798
Publication Date: 2013-01-15

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03/29/2023
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01/25/2023
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Cover ArtThe Didi-Huberman Dictionary by Magdalena Zolkos (Editor)
ISBN: 9781399500982
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Gender of Critical Theory by Lois McNay
ISBN: 9780198857747
 
 
 
 
 

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11/30/2022
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Cover ArtEthics in Sport by William J. J. Morgan (Editor)
ISBN: 9781492556763
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtLa fin de la pensée? : Philosophie analytique contre philosophie continentale by Babette Babich
ISBN: 9782296560161
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtLes classiques du soin by Frédéric Worms, Céline Lefève, Lazare Benaroyo
ISBN: 9782130729884
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtTyranny and Revolution by Waller R. Newell
ISBN: 9781108424301
 
 
 
 
 

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10/24/2022
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Cover ArtDeleuze and Ethology by Jason Cullen
ISBN: 9781350204003
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtNietzsche: Untimely meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche; Daniel Breazeale (Editor); R. J. Hollingdale (Translator); Karl Ameriks (Contribution by); Desmond M. Clarke (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780521585842
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age : comparative approaches by Dmitri Levitin, Ian Maclean
ISBN: 9789004462335
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtAnimals and Business Ethics by Natalie Thomas
ISBN: 9783030971427
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtMaking Constituencies by Lisa Jane Disch
ISBN: 9780226804330
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe unpolitical : on the radical critique of political reason by Massimo Cacciari
ISBN: 9780823238651
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Withholding Power by Massimo Cacciari; Howard Caygill (Introduction by); Edi Pucci (Translator)
ISBN: 9781472580498
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Jonathan Theodore
ISBN: 9781137569974
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Philosophy of Football by Steffen Borge
ISBN: 9780429059476
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtFootball: the First Hundred Years by Adrian Harvey
ISBN: 9780203023150
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtFair Play in Sport by Sigmund Loland (Editor)
ISBN: 9780203479049
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtSports, Virtues and Vices by Mike McNamee
ISBN: 9780203090107
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtLeftist Theories of Sport by William J. Morgan
ISBN: 9780252020681
 
 
 
 
 

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02/03/2021
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Cover ArtArt and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance by Julius von Schlosser; Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Editor); Jonathan Blower (Translator)
ISBN: 9781606066652
 
 
 
 

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12/09/2020
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Cover ArtSelected Writings by Elizabeth Rottenberg; Jacques Derrida (Introduction by); Georgia Albert (As told to); Thomas Albrecht (Editor); Sarah Kofman
ISBN: 9780804732970
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtHistory and Event by Nathan Coombs
ISBN: 9780748698998
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtWas war Bielefeld? : eine ideengeschichtliche Nachfrage
ISBN: 9783835316843
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtConspiracy Theories by Quassim Cassam
ISBN: 9781509535835
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtSimultaneity and Delay by Jay Lampert
ISBN: 9781472524775
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience by Mikel Dufrenne; Edward S. Casey (Translator); Albert A. Anderson (Translator)
ISBN: 9780810105911
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtDenken op de dijken by Ronald van Raak
ISBN: 9789463389044
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtPeak Libido by Dominic Pettman
ISBN: 9781509543021
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtSmart Machines and Service Work by Jason E. Smith
ISBN: 9781789143188
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtHead in the stars by Stephen Zepke
ISBN: 9789537372675
 
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtMind Ecologies by Matthew Crippen; Jay Schulkin
ISBN: 9780231190251
 
 
 
 
 

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