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Authors: Tristan Garcia
Categories: Philosophy
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What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to
The Order of Things
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Michel Foucault
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-18 - Publisher: Routledge

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When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an int
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Language: en
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Plato's Parmenides
Language: en
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Authors: Samuel Scolnicov
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-07-08 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Of all Plato’s dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject mat