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Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-11-06
ePub
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21,50€
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Umbrüche im politischen System eines Staates stellen auch das Rechtssystem vor gewaltige Probleme. Das gilt in besonderem Maße dann, wenn es darum geht, systematische Menschenrechtsverletzungen eines diktatorischen Regimes nach dessen Ende rechtlich aufzuarbeiten. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), one of Husserl’s closest students and friends, ranks among the most eminent of the first generation of phenomenologists. His magisterial Controversy over the Existence of the World, written during the years of World War II in occupied Poland,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Jürgen Moltmann’s Doctrine of the Image of God examines the doctrine of the Image of God in the interpretation of contemporary theologianJürgen Moltmann. A Reformed theologian from Germany, Moltmann espouses the doctrine in a way that creates a blurring of the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-05
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This book is a result of studies on psychoanalysis, politics, and art. The topics in this book range from populism, the limits of the political, identity, melancholy, the peculiarity of psychoanalytical interpretation to the connection of theatre and politics....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Peace and Peacemaking in Paul and the Greco-Roman World compares the Apostle Paul’s understanding of peace with various conceptions of peace in the Greco-Roman thought world of the first century. In contrast to similar studies that focus on the question of pacifism in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Wissen ist nicht zu denken ohne seine unter historisch variablen Konditionen realisierte Vermittlung. Erkenntnisse und Methoden werden an unterschiedlichen Orten und mit historisch variablen Praktiken transferiert. Der Band schafft Grundlagen, um die komplexen Vorgänge...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Analysis of language as a combination of both a structural and a lexical component overlooks a third all-encompassing aspect: dynamics. Dynamic Linguistics approaches the description of the complex phenomenon that is human language by focusing on this important but...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Das Buch präsentiert Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Forschungsfeld der angewandten Philosophie. Es wird untersucht, welche Möglichkeiten und Grenzen für das Modell einer anwendungsorientieren Erkenntnistheorie in Hinblick auf den Alltag bestehen. In Zeiten der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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This book features papers written by renowned international scholars that analyze the interdependence of art, phenomenology, and social science. The papers show how the analysis of the production as well as the perception and interpretation of art work needs to take...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes richten einen umfassenden, interdisziplinären Blick auf das Thema des Rationalen und des Irrationalen im deutschen Sprachraum. Um dem Phänomen näher zu kommen, werden die Ausdrucksformen dieses Begriffspaares vom Mittelalter bis in die...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Betrayal has never gone out of fashion. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon – from antiquity to the present, from the realm of politics to the most personal relationships. This book gathers essays by scholars from the fields of philosophy, comparative literature, classics,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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This book is a reconstruction and presentation of the fundamental assumptions of the so-called weak thought, as elaborated mainly by the Italian hermeneutical philosopher Gianni Vattimo and the Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica in his ontology. Both Noica and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Ancient Greek philosophers generally accept the claim that e?da?µ???a is within our power to achieve, regardless of circumstance. Conversely, external goods – physical health, education, social standing – are frequently present or absent due to circumstances beyond our...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity.Do the private practices of intellectuals match the standard of their public principles?How great is their respect for truth? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics. In this new book George Crowder examines some of the leading responses to multiculturalism, both supportive and critical, found in the work of recent political theorists. The book provides...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-30
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This volume explores timely topics in contemporary political and social debates, including: the new atheisms, the debate between Habermas and the Pope on the fate of modernity, and the impact of new scientific developments on traditional religions.This book collects...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-10-30
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The French philosopher Jacques Rancière is well known across the world for his groundbreaking contributions to aesthetic and political theory and for his radical rethinking of the question of equality. This much-needed new collection situates Rancière's thought in a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-25
Collection :
Theory Now
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This volume surveys the major philosophical concepts, arguments, and commitments of the Confucian classic, the Analects. In thematically organized chapters, leading scholars provide a detailed, scholarly introduction to the text and the signal ideas ascribed to its...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-10-24
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Fresh translations of key texts, exhaustive coverage from Plato to Kant, and detailed commentary by expert scholars of philosophy add up to make this sourcebook the first and most comprehensive account of the history of the philosophy of mind. Published at a time when...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-23
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