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Pages: 356
Authors: Jan Patocka
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-15 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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The first text to critically discuss Edmund Husserl’s concept of the "life-world," The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem reflects Jan Patocka's youthfu
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Pages: 256
Authors: John Kekes
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-08 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientifi
Thinking Like a Mall
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Steven Vogel
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built envir
Nature and Experience
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Pages: 244
Authors: Bryan Bannon
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What do we mean when we speak about and advocate for ‘nature’? Do inanimate beings possess agency, and if so what is its structure? What role does metaphor
Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane
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Authors: Franklin Perkins
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That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effo