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When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion o…
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Trenchant and wide-ranging work of contemporary philosophy that challenges some of the deepest-held beliefs in Western culture. "}Straw Dogs{ is that rarest of things, a contemporary work of philosophy devoid of jargon, wholly accessible, and profound…
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He is obsessed with her innocence. He will be destroyed by her guilt.<br><br>The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and…
Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectuals--and, because of his challenges to…