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The book brings together the developments in theory and practice in time-limited working strategies emerging in the
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The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common that distinguishes them from, say, physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the
* A major contribution to scholarship on Hegel, moral philosophy and critical theory* An original approach from a well known author, moving smoothly between philosophy and social theory* Draws together a wide variety of themes and concerns