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  The Poverty of Historicism

  by Karl R. Popper

  Hailed on publication in 1957 as "probably the only book published this year that will outlive the century," this is a brilliant of the idea that there are fixed laws in history and that human beings are able to predict them.
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  The Great Philosophers

  Popper: The Great Philosophers (The Great Philosophers Series) (The Great Philosophers Series)

  by Frederic Raphael

  Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: The Great Philosophers. Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ideas of history's greatest thinkers, these brief, accessible, and affordable volumes offer essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western... (more)
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  Theory And History: An Interpretation Of Social And Economic Evolution (The Liberty Fund Library of Ludwig Von Mises)

  by Ludwig von Mises

  Ludwig von Mises was the leading exponent of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. He has long been regarded as a most knowledgeable and respected economist, even though his teachings were generally outside the 'mainstream'. "Theory and History" is primarily a critique of Karl Marx, his materialism, and his prediction of the inevitability of socialism. Marx attributes the... (more)
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  New Science

  by Giambattista Vico

  A bold new translation of a masterpiece of early social science that has found enthusiasts among such artists and scholars as James Joyce and Harold Bloom. Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the history, mythology, and law of the ancient world. It... (more)
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  On Foucault (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

  by Alison Leigh Brown

  This brief text assists students in understanding Foucault's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON FOUCAULT is written by a... (more)
• Prophetic Principles: Crucial Exegetical, Theological, Historical & Practical InsightsRon du Preez#44; Editor

  

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  Prophetic Principles: Crucial Exegetical, Theological, Historical & Practical Insights

  by Ron du Preez#44; Editor

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  Untimely Meditations

  by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  The four early essays in Untimely Meditations are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of his later writings. They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship among art, science and life. This new edition... (more)
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  Metahistory

  The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

  by Hayden V. White

  "Metahistory is something more than a study of philosophies of history (although it is that too, and no doubt the most important work in the field since Collingwood): it is also a methodological manifesto, a more sustained argument for a deep-figural hermeneutic than has been worked out anywhere before now." -- Diacritics "This is a daring, ingenious... tour de force. White has produced a profoundly original... (more)