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ISBN: 9780674072534 - The Troubled Empire The Troubled Empire
Timothy Brook

ISBN10: 0674072537  ISBN13: 9780674072534
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Mar 2013
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. This title explores what happened to China between these two... More

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ISBN: 9780231150583 - Media of Reason Media of Reason
Matthias Vogel

ISBN10: 023115058X  ISBN13: 9780231150583
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 Dec 2012
Matthias Vogel challenges the belief, dominant in contemporary philosophy, that reason is determined solely by our discursive, linguistic abilities as communicative beings. In his view, the medium of language is not the only force of reason. More

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ISBN: 9780823244850 - Reading Descartes Otherwise Reading Descartes Otherwise
Kyoo Lee

ISBN10: 0823244857  ISBN13: 9780823244850
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Nov 2012
Revitalizes and reframes the legacy of Cartesian modernity, in a way more mindful of its proto-phenomenological traces Focusing on the first four images of the Other mobilized in Descartes' Meditations--namely, the blind, the mad, the dreamy... More

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ISBN: 9781118360620 - A Companion to Rationalism A Companion to Rationalism
Alan Nelson

ISBN10: 1118360621  ISBN13: 9781118360620
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Oct 2012
In this Companion , a cast of established and rising stars in philosophy lays out the historical roots, the celebrated expressions, the controversies, and the contemporary determinations of rationalist thought. This book is a wide... More

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ISBN: 9780739172261 - Politics of Practical Reasoning Politics of Practical Reasoning
Ricca Edmondson, Karlheinz Hulser

ISBN10: 0739172263  ISBN13: 9780739172261
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 04 Oct 2012
The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems systematically distorted. Practical... More

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ISBN: 9780674066243 - China's Last Empire China's Last Empire
William T Rowe

ISBN10: 0674066243  ISBN13: 9780674066243
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Sep 2012
The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. This book challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. It presents the history of China's... More

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ISBN: 9780739171615 - The Poetic Character of Human Activity The Poetic Character of Human Activity
Wendell John Coats, Jr , Chor-yung Cheung

ISBN10: 0739171615  ISBN13: 9780739171615
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Jul 2012
The Poetic Character of Human Activity is a collection of essays by two Oakeshott scholars, most of which explores the meaning of Oakeshott's pregnant phrase, "the poetic character of human activity" by comparing and contrasting this idea with... More

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ISBN: 9780230116801 - Words, Space, and the Audience Words, Space, and the Audience
Michael Y Bennett

ISBN10: 0230116809  ISBN13: 9780230116801
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Jul 2012
Situating theatre in crucial moments in history and philosophy, Bennet reads four of the most influential plays through their contemporary epistemological debates between rationalism and empiricism. In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re... More

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ISBN: 9780262017220 - In Praise of Reason In Praise of Reason
Michael P Lynch

ISBN10: 0262017229  ISBN13: 9780262017220
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd MIT Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Apr 2012
Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name... More

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ISBN: 9780674064010 - China's Cosmopolitan Empire China's Cosmopolitan Empire
Mark Edward Lewis

ISBN10: 0674064011  ISBN13: 9780674064010
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Apr 2012
The Tang dynasty is often called China's golden age, a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. This title captures a dynamic era in which... More