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This book discusses legal rules for three functional commercial conflict situations under the laws of the U.S.A., mainly analyzing the U.C.C., the Bankruptcy Code, Common Law and Equity. In this context, the term conflict situation is meant to address a certain type of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Translated by Ciaran Cronin. In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-03-03
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-72%
56,50€
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This accessible and highly readable book is the first full-length biography of Hegel to be published since the largely outdated treatments of the nineteenth century. Althaus draws on new historical material and scholarly sources about the life and times of this most...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-02-27
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67,80€
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This new edition of Alexander Miller’s highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of contemporary...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-02-27
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30,00€
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Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This wide-ranging and accessible study explores the work of the classical pragmatists...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-02-27
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20,40€
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In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration? What should be tolerated? Why is toleration important? Beginning with some key insights into what we mean...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-02-27
Collection :
Key Concepts
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50,90€
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This volume investigates the notion of reduction. Building on the idea that philosophers employ the term ‘reduction’ to reconcile diversity and directionality with unity, without relying on elimination, the book offers a powerful explication of an “ontological”, notion...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-02-19
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This book explores both the possibilities and limits of arguments from human nature in the context of human rights. Can the concept of human nature provide a basis for understanding fundamental rights? Is it plausible to justify the claim to universal validity of human...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-02-18
Collection :
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
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This book gives a critical assessment of key developments in contemporary French philosophy, highlighting the diverse ways in which recent French thought has moved beyond the philosophical positions and arguments which have been widely associated with the terms...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-02-14
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-7%
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Das Buch versammelt Studien zu Edith Stein und Bernhard von Clairvaux, zu Rilke und dem Duineser Engel, zu Max Planck und der modernen Dante-Kosmologie, zur klassischen Oper und zu Nikolaus Cusanus sowie den ersten Nachtrag zur Literaturrezeption der späteren Karmelitin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-11
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The paradox within the title of this book refers to its principal theme, that of elucidating our innate capacity to transform/convert from an inauthentic everyday mode of being to an authentic one. This study provides an analysis of affect as a means of highlighting a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-11
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In this book, an international team of scholars from leading American, British and Continental European universities, led by Richard Swinburne, Eleonore Stump, William Wainwright and Linda Zagzebski, presents original ideas about three currently discussed topics in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-11
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Philosophy in Minutes distils 200 of the most important philosophical ideas into easily digestible, bite-sized sections. The core information for every topic - including debates such as the role of philosophy in science and religion, key thinkers from Aristotle to Marx,...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
Parution :
2014-02-06
Collection :
IN MINUTES
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Mit den Begriffen «Potenzial» und «Potenzierung» lassen sich zwei Momente fassen, die die theoretische Arbeit von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern ebenso wie die kunstwissenschaftliche Arbeit über diese Theorieproduktion beschreiben. Das Potenzial künstlerischer Theorie für...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-05
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Get a glimpse of what it means to be a Buddhist in today's world.Buddhism: All that Matters follows the daily lives of four fictional characters who represent four Buddhist traditions (Theravada, Chinese Pure Land, Japanese Zen and Tibetan), describing what being a...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-01-31
Collection :
All That Matters
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All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live. How should public policy respond to this diversity? In this important new work, Brian Barry challenges the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-24
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The main purpose of the present volume is to advance our understanding of the notions of knowledge and context, the connections between them and the ways in which they can be modeled, in particular formalized – a question of prime importance and utmost relevance to such...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-01-17
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This book offers new reflections on the life world, from both phenomenological and hermeneutic perspectives. It presents a prism for a new philosophy of science and technology, especially including the social sciences but also the environment as well as questions of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-01-15
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Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we can cash in for an even better one - peace. War, he argues, is central...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-14
Collection :
Global Futures
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-65%
45,20€
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The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil presents a collection of original essays providing both overview and insight, clarifying and evaluating the philosophical and theological “problem of evil” in its various contexts and manifestations. Features all original...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-14
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