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  • Wild Diplomacy
    Baptiste Morizot / Catherine Porter
    Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Starting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot invites us to think about what he calls 'diplomacy with living beings.'...
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    46,97 €

  • Wild Diplomacy
    Baptiste Morizot / Catherine Porter
    Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Starting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot invites us to think about what he calls 'diplomacy with living beings.'...
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    121,45 €

  • The Queer Turn in Feminism
    Anne Emmanuelle Berger / Catherine Porter
    More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both "American" an...
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    45,80 €

  • The Animal Side
    Jean-Christophe Bailly / Catherine Porter
    The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals' ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poet...
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    35,93 €

  • Weaving Self-Evidence
    Claude Rosental / Catherine Porter
    The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. In Weaving Self-Evidence, French sociologist Claude Rosental challenges this notion by tracing the history of one well-known recent example in the field of artificial intelligence--a theorem on the foundations of fuzzy logic. Rosen...
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    54,06 €

  • On Justification
    Laurent Thévenot / Luc Boltanski / Catherine Porter
    A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On J...
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    85,55 €

  • The Empire of Fashion
    Gilles Lipovetsky / Catherine Porter
    In a book full of playful irony and striking insights, the controversial social philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky draws on the history of fashion to demonstrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common good. Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of 'fashion,' Lipovetsky bounds ac...
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    56,98 €

  • Genres in Discourse
    Tzvetan Todorov / Catherine Porter
    This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of contemporary literacy critics. In the first section of this volume Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse and genre. ...
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    69,54 €

  • Genres in Discourse
    Todorov Tzvetan / Tzvetan Todorov / Catherine Porter
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    154,26 €