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  • Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body
    Justin E. H. Smith / Stephen Menn
    Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752) was the first African philosopher in the modern period to write in the European philosophical tradition and study and teach in European universities. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, while still a small boy, he was sent from his home in present-day Ghana to Amsterdam. From there he was sent to Germany as a court attendant of Duke Anto...
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    128,16 €

  • Nourishment
    Corine Pelluchon / Justin E. H. Smith
    In her new book, Corine Pelluchon argues that the dichotomy between nature and culture privileges the latter. She laments that the political system protects the sovereignty of the human and leaves them immune to impending environmental disaster. Using the phenomenological writings of French philosophers like Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Ricœur, Pelluchon contends...
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    45,05 €

  • Nourishment
    Corine Pelluchon / Justin E. H. Smith
    In this original and important book, Corine Pelluchon argues for nothing less than a new social contract that does justice to the biosphere, to all life, especially other animals, as well as human life, and to future generations. On the basis of a phenomenology of food and nourishment, she shows how freedom depends on the 'love of life†? and on sharing what nourishes with other...
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    140,44 €

  • Embodiment
    Justin E H Smith
    Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition is the central concern of the present volume. The problem includes, but also goes beyond, the philosophical problem of body: that is, what the essence of a body is, and how, ...
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    71,66 €

  • Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference
    Justin E. H. Smith / Justin EHSmith / Justin Smith-Ruiu
    People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the German Enlightenment, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference charts the evoluti...
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    37,46 €