Cacciari, The Unpolitical
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today’s Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times ...
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The Foundations of Arithmetic (German: Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik) is a book by Gottlob Frege, published in 1884, which investigates the philosophical foundations of arithmetic. ...
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“Knowing how we know” is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, ...
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This first volume of Niklas Luhmann’s two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize ...
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in ...
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Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré is a book on the history of mathematics published in ...
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Declaration of Independence, in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 ...
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Author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson is among the most important and controversial of American political ...
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The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. ...
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While Jefferson is responsible for a voluminous body of literature, this is the first time an editor has focused principally on his comments regarding war ...
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