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The Possibility of Disinterested Action
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What are the Humanities For?
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Rage, Time, and the Politico-Religious Revenge Banks
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Short for a Book, Long for a Commentary: Pippin’s Nietzsche
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A Tapestry of Pain
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A Tradition Uncovered
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On Jesting
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Unifying Historical Perspectives
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Reputation and Disenchantment
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A Classic Statement of Logical Empiricism
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Cultural Curmudgeons
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The Realization of Something New: The Life of the World to Come
by Andre van Loon If stones and metals had been its only building blocks, the world would not have woken from its deep sleep. It could rely, however, on the life-will of the most basic bacteria....
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Explicating Explication: Carnap’s Ideal
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World in a Bag
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Felix Kaufmann and the Merging of Traditions
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Kaufmann’s ‘Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften’
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What’s New About ‘New Realism’?
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The Living Truth
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Vanishing Points of Representation: How They Change and Why
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Knowledge in a Conspiratorial World
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