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History and Truth (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Investigates the antinomy between history and truth, or between historicity and meaning. This book argues that history has meaning insofar as it approaches universality and system, but has no meaning insofar as this universality violates the singularity of individuals' lives.
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Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualizing Science (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The author examines the history and contemporary development of interpretation theory, with a special emphasis on how science in practice involves and implicates interpretive processes.
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All This Belongs to Me: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Chronicles the lives of three generations of women in a Mongolian family. Told from the point of view of a mother, three sisters, and the daughter of one of the sisters,... Læs mere
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Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought has been central to black political and intellectual life from the nineteenth century to the present.
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For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Assesses contemporary trends in ethical theory, including the deontological tradition dating back to Kant, the teleological tradition of the utilitarians, the analytic movement, and the existentialist-phenomenologist movement.
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Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The essays collected in Un/Translatables unite two inescapable interventions in contemporary translation discourses: the concept of "Untranslatables" as points of productive resistance, and the Germanic tradition as the primary dialogue partner for translation studies.
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Novas: Selected Writings (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work.
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Each One Teach One: Up and Out of Poverty- Memoirs of a Street Activist (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Chronicles Ron Casanova’s struggle out of poverty, homelessness, and drug addiction to find dignity and purpose in life. Through his own awakening, this Black, Puerto Rican activist ultimately finds his answer in helping other people.
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Blood of the Air: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This poetry collection creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention.
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The Life of Kingsley Amis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but also a dominant figure in post-World War II British writing. Zachary Leader's definitive, authorised... Læs mere
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Child Psychology and Pedagogy: The Sorbonne Lectures 1949-1952 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is a new translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Sorbonne lectures of 1949 to 1952. The lectures are a broad investigation into child psychology, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, henomenology, sociology, and anthropology that argue that the subject of child
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Tycho Brahe's Path to God: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Concerns the relationship between the great Danish astronomer and the younger, intellectually superior Johannes Kepler. This book talks of a conflict that becomes an... Læs mere
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