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New Books in May

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

Emancipation after Hegel:  Achieving a Contradictory Revolution by Todd McGowan (Columbia University Press, 2019).

Against Nature by Lorraine Daston (MIT Press, 2019).

A Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Language:  Central Themes from Locke to Wittgenstein by John Fennell (Routledge, 2019).

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck edited by Ian M. Church & Robert J. Hartman (2019).

The Habermas-Rawls Debate by James Gordon Finlayson (Columbia University Press, 2019).

The Shared World:  Perceptual Common Knowledge, Demonstrative Communication, and Social Science by Alex Seemann (MIT Press, 2019).

The Poetry and Music of Science:  Comparing Creativity in Science and Art by Tom McLeish (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism by Michael Huemer (Routledge, 2019).

The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School edited by Peter Gordon, Espen Hammer & Axel Honneth (2019).

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