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Title: WHAT REASON PROMISES
ESSAYS ON REASON, NATURE AND HISTORY
By: Wendy Doniger (Editor), Peter Galison (Editor), Susan Neiman (Editor)
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £110.00


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ISBN 10: 3110455110
ISBN 13: 9783110455113
Publisher: DE GRUYTER
Pub. date: 20 June, 2016
Pages: 284
Synopsis: This collection of essays demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds. Reason stakes a bigger territory than the enclosed yard of universal rules. Nature expands over a far larger region than an eternal category of the natural. And history refuses to be confined to claims of an unencumbered truth of how things happened.
US Grade: College Graduate Student
Publication: Germany
Imprint: De Gruyter
Returns: Non-returnable
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