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This book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqeville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Elster proposes a novel reading of Democracy in America offers a reading of Ancien Regime and the Revolution. Elster argues that Tocqueville's main claim to our attention today rests on the large number of exportable causal mechanisms to be found in his work, many of which are still worthy of further exploration.

Cambridge, 2009; 202 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structures of humans. He exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between their thought in this area.

Oxford, 2009; 229 pp.; EN; index; pb

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Meer dan 200 geleden werd Charles Darwin geboren en zijn werk is nog steeds springlevend. Met name zijn Origin of Species is van groot belang. Het is meer dan een theorie in de biologie. De filosofische betekenis ervan gaat over de grenzen van de natuurwetenschappen heen, het heeft ook onze opvattingen over kennis, moraal en religie veranderd. In een heldere en meeslepende monografie zet filosoof Michael Ruse deze veranderingen op een rij.

Ten Have, 2009; 384 pp.; NL; index; ills. b/w; pb

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and Other Masters
Ranging from the amusing to the profound, this collection offers more than 250 freshly translated stories, extracts, and aphorisms from the golden age of Chinese philosophy. It includes selections from such classic texts as Confucius's Analects and Laozi's Tao Te Ching as well as more recently excavated manuscripts that reflect an idea at the root of Chinese culture -we are all born with the potential to grow, but most of us will learn only little by little as we mature and interact with others.

Duncan Baird, 2010; 176 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject. Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Cambridge; 268 pp.; EN; index; pb

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What is cunning, and how did it develop a pejorative connotation. Herzog applies his erudite style and barbed humor to his examination of the idea of cunning and how it connects to our concepts of rationality and morality.

Princeton, 2006; 197 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Allison examines the central tenets of Hume´s epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. He takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume´s thought in its own terms and historical context. On the other hand, Allison provides a criique of these tenets from a Kantian perspectives.

Oxford, 2010; 412 pp.; EN; index; pb

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Kuhn explores the ways in which Decameron's sexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context.

Columbia, 2005; 177 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Tad Schmaltz presents a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early scholastic philosophy that provides its historical context. Schmaltz argues that Descartes accepted what, in the context of scholastic debates regarding causation, is the antipode of occasionalism, namely the view that creatures rather than God are the causal source of natural change.

Oxford, 2007; 237 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Why do we eat animals. And would we eat them if we knew how they got to our dinner plates. Jonathan Safran Foer here offers a provocative exploration of what we eat and why. Foer was inspired by the impending birth of his first child to decide once and for all how best to eat, not just nutritionally but also morally. His quest led him to visit factory farms, dissect the emotional components of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his basic thoughts about right and wrong.

Little, Brown, 2009; 341 pp.; EN; index; hb

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