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Gadamer and the limits of the modern techno-scientific civilization by Marino, Stefano, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Gadamer's long twentieth century -- Science and technology : the real roots of modernity -- The basic features of our societies : conformism, bureaucracy, and self-alienation -- Cosmopolitan hermeneutics in the age of the "clash of civilizations" -- The possibility of global disasters and the fear for the self-destruction of mankind -- On the problematic character of ethic and aesthetic experiences in the age of science -- Religious experience in a nihilistic epoch -- Hermeneutics, techno-science, enlightenment : a complex "constellation" -- The rehabilitation and universalization of practical knowledge and experience -- Reasonableness, dialogue, and freedom: ethical-political consequences of hermeneutics.…”
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The Taming of Evolution : The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans / by Greenwood, Davydd J.

Table of Contents: “…Simple continuities -- 3. Humoral politics : races, constitutional types, and ethnic and national character -- III. …”
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The Taming of Evolution : The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans / by Greenwood, Davydd J.

Table of Contents: “…Simple continuities -- 3. Humoral politics : races, constitutional types, and ethnic and national character -- III. …”
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Byron and the Forms of Thought / by Howe, Tony (Lecturer in English)

Table of Contents: “…'Glory's dream unriddled' : politics and the forms of war.…”
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Byron and the Forms of Thought / by Howe, Tony (Lecturer in English)

Table of Contents: “…'Glory's dream unriddled' : politics and the forms of war.…”
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Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion / by Lander, James

Table of Contents: “…Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality.…”
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Essays from the edge parerga & paralipomena / by Jay, Martin, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…: Foucault and the truth of the gaze -- The Kremlin of modernism -- Phenomenology and lived experience -- Aesthetic experience and historical experience : a twenty-first-century constellation -- Still waiting to hear from derrida -- Pseudology : Derrida on Arendt and lying in politics -- The menace of consilience : keeping the disciplines unreconciled -- Can there be national philosophies in a transnational world? …”
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Re-reading Richard Hoggart life, literature, language, education /

Table of Contents: “…Richard Hoggart : a personal appreciation / David Lodge -- Richard Hoggart : the intellectual as politician / Fred Inglis -- The legacy of Richard Hoggart : education as democratic practice / Jon Nixon -- To think fearlessly : Richard Hoggart and the politics of the English language / Ben Clarke -- Richard Hoggart and literature / Sue Owen -- The uses of D.H. …”
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Scientific pluralism

Table of Contents: “…Kenneth Waters -- The many unities of science : politics, semantics, and ontology / Alan W. Richardson -- Perspectival pluralism / Ronald N. …”
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Liberal faith essays in honor of Philip Quinn /

Table of Contents: “…Griffiths -- Part III: Political philosophy -- Moral foundations of liberal democracy, secular reasons, and liberal neutrality toward the good / Robert Audi -- Egalitarianism without equality? …”
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Globalizing American studies

Table of Contents: “…Pease -- Bodies of knowledge: the exchange of intellectuals and intellectual exchange between Scotland and America in the post-revolutionary period / Kariann Akemi Yokota -- Ralph Ellison and the grain of internationalism / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Cold war, hot kitchen: Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya and the speakin place of Cold War womanhood / Kate Baldwin -- Circulating empires: colonial authority and the immoral, subversive problem of American film / Brian Larkin -- Scarlett O'Hara in Damascus: Hollywood, colonial politics, and Arab spectatorship during World War II / Elizabeth F. …”
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The Supreme Court and the idea of constitutionalism

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Constitutional constraints in politics / Keith E. Whittington -- "The court will clean it up" : executive power, constitutional contestation and war powers / Benjamin A. …”
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John Dewey's educational philosophy in international perspective a new democracy for the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Dewey's central insight / Hilary Putnam -- Dewey and the education of Eros / Jim Garrison -- Democracy as a way of life / Ruth Anna Putnam -- The problem of a science of education in John Dewey's thought / Giuseppe Spadafora -- Political-pedagogical itineraries in Dewey's thought (before and after the New Deal) / Franco Cambi -- John Dewey and progressive education, 1900-2000: The school and society revisited / Leonard J. …”
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The origins of nationalism an alternative history from ancient Rome to early modern Germany / by Hirschi, Caspar

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Virginia Woolf and the migrations of language by Dalgarno, Emily

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The wisdom of the Christian faith

Table of Contents: “…Beauty and aesthetics in theology / Charles Taliaferro; 11. Education for political autonomy / Paul Weithman; 12. The wisdom of hope in a despairing world / Jerry Walls.…”
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The mechanical patient : finding a more human model of health / by Glouberman, Sholom

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Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Chapter 1 - Theory in Bioarchaeology: An Introduction; Chapter 2 - Embodying Bioarchaeology: Theory and Practice; Chapter 3 - Gender; Chapter 4 - Bioarchaeological Applications of Intersectionality; Chapter 5 - Life Course Approaches and Life History Theory: Synergistic Perspectives for Bioarchaeology; Chapter 6 - Reconstructing Immune Competence in Skeletal Samples: A Theoretical and Methodological Approach; Chapter 7 - Niche Construction Theory in Bioarchaeology; Chapter 8 - Live Through This: Developing a Sustainable Pathway for Resilience Theory in Bioarchaeological Research; Chapter 9 - Structural Violence and Political Economy: Epistemological Considerations for Bioarchaeology; Chapter 10 - Making Silenced Voices Speak: Restoring Neglected and Ignored Identities in Anatomical Collections; Chapter 11 - Theoretical Approaches to Bioarchaeology: The View from Across the Pond; Chapter 12 - Towards a Bioarchaeology beyond Nature and Culture: Potentials and Possibilities in Contemporary Theoretical Bioarchaeology…”
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The Onlife Manifesto Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era /

Table of Contents: “…The public sphere in a computational era -- The Public(s) Onlife – A Call for Legal Protection by Design; Mireille Hildebrandt -- Rethinking the Human Condition in a Hyperconnected Era: Why Freedom is not about Sovereignty but about Beginnings; Nicole Dewandre -- Designing the public sphere: information technologies and the politics of mediation; Peter-Paul Verbeek -- Towards an Online Bill of Rights; Sarah Oates -- On Tolerance and Fictitious Publics; May Thorseth -- The Onlife Initiative – Conclusion.…”
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J.M. Coetzee and ethics philosophical perspectives on literature /

Table of Contents: “…People, Human Relationships, and Politics -- The paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. …”
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