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Public and intellectual debates have long struggled with the concept of values and the difficulties of defining them. With The Genesis of Values, renowned theorist Hans Joas explores the nature of these difficulties in relation to some of the leading figures of twentieth-century philosophy... read more

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This book asks a clear question: how do values and value commitments arise?

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  1. Hans Joas (Author)
 

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