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      The Mind’s Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism

      Vincent Descombes

      Presents a critique of contemporary cognitivism and develops a philosophy of the mind. Examining American cognitivism and French structuralism, this title offers a general critique of the philosophies that view…

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      Proust: Philosophy of the Novel

      Vincent Descombes

      This text argues that Proust the novelist is bolder than Proust the theorist. By this the author means that the novel is philosophically bolder, that it pursues further the task…

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      The Institutions of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism

      Vincent Descombes

      Holism maintains that a phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. Yet analysis–a mental process crucial to comprehension–involves dismantling the whole to grasp it piecemeal and relationally. Wading…

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      Puzzling Identities

      Vincent Descombes

      As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So how can it describe membership in various groups, as in ethnic and religious identity? Bringing together an…

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      Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious

      Jacques Bouveresse

      Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? Offering a view of the texts in which Wittgenstein…

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      Modern French Philosophy

      Vincent Descombes

      A critical introduction to modern French philosophy.

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      Aire: The River and its Double

      Georges Descombes,Julien Descombes,Corinne Van Cauwenberghe,Vincent Corrent,Francois Gerber

      A documentation of a seminal and internationally recognised re-naturalisation project for a river in Switzerland.

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