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The Search for Atlantis
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Authors: Stephen Kershaw
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
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The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination. Bu
Life Death
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Pages: 323
Authors: Jacques Derrida
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death—now in paperback. One
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Language: en
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This reading of Plato's Republic illuminates the power of myth in the shaping of history. It demonstrates the pervasiveness of myth in Plato's dialogues as well
The Great Philosophers: Plato
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Authors: Bernard Williams
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