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Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, Third Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music.
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Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Dworkin argues that equality, freedom, and individual responsibility are not in conflict, but flow from and into one another as facets of the same... Læs mere
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When this classic was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the nature versus nurture... Læs mere
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If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, G. A. Cohen argues that egalitarian justice is not only a matter of rules that define the structure of... Læs mere
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The Nazi Conscience (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Koonz’s latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Challenging... Læs mere
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Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Blame, he argues, is a response to the meaning of an... Læs mere
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Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity... Læs mere
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Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A classic in its field, Space, Time and Architecture has been revised and expanded four times since its... Læs mere
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Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz takes readers through the... Læs mere
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The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman,... Læs mere
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and... Læs mere
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On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines... Læs mere
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