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In The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social change implicit in the writings of radical social theorists, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-19
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-60%
62,20€
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What does the study of Plato’s dialogues tell us about the modern meaning of ‘sex’? How can recent developments in the philosophy of sex and gender help us read these ancient texts anew? Plato and Sex addresses these questions for the first time. Each chapter...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-19
Collection :
Feminist ReVision
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Führungskräfte arbeiten heute in einem unsicheren Umfeld mit wachsenden Anforderungen und immer variableren Rahmenbedingungen. Dennoch müssen sie Sicherheit ausstrahlen und ihren Mitarbeitern eine Orientierung bieten. VieleFührungskräfte empfinden dies als belastend und...
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Springer
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2013-04-18
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Confucian political philosophy has recently emerged as a vibrant area of thought both in China and around the globe. This book provides an accessible introduction to the main perspectives and topics being debated today, and shows why Progressive Confucianism is a...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-18
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-7%
20,40€
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Impossible objects are those about which the philosopher, narrowly conceived, can hardly speak: poetry, film, music, humor. Such "objects" do not rely on philosophy for interpretation and understanding; they are already independent practices and sites of sensuous...
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Polity
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2013-04-17
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21,60€
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This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It is the first introduction in any language to cover all of his major work and offers an accessible presentation and searching evaluation of his significant contributions to the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-17
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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20,40€
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»Der Weltraum, unendliche Weiten. Wir befinden uns in einer fernen Zukunft. Dies sind die Abenteuer des neuen Raumschiffs Enterprise, das viele Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernt unterwegs ist, um fremde Welten zu entdecken ...« Spätestens jetzt bekommt der wahre...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2013-04-16
ePub
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Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil. In the past the dicourse about evil in our religious, philosophic and literary traditions has provoked thinking, questioning and inquiry. But today the appeal to evil is being...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
Collection :
Themes for the 21st Century
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Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,' ‘ought,' ‘must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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21,50€
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Ist heute Religionsfreiheit hierzulande die Regel, so standen im 18. Jahrhundert religiöse Spielräume zumeist nur einer Minderheit offen, den Gebildeten. Denn subjektiv tragender Sinn wird in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte nicht nur durch explizite Religion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-16
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Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers. A new edition of this successful and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Blackwell Philosophy Guides
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-9%
33,95€
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This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics. Thematically organized...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of humanity seems like the residue of a bygone age?What role should educators play in a world where young people find themselves...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
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Everything you ever wanted to know about modern political theory, but never dared to ask … This book offers a concise introduction to the main ideas and arguments of the major political thinkers of modernity. It considers the following key thinkers: Hobbes, Locke,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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John Locke (1632-1704) has a good claim to the title of the greatest ever English philosopher, and was a founding father of both the empiricist tradition in philosophy and the liberal tradition in politics. This new book provides an accessible introduction to Locke’s...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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This book brings together twelve of the most important legal philosophers in the Anglo-American and Civil Law traditions. The book is a collection of the papers these philosophers presented at the Conference on Neutrality and Theory of Law, held at the University of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Law and Philosophy Library
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For those like myself, who found the politico-philosophical terrorism beginning its reign at the beginning of the 1960s intolerable, analytic philosophy in contrast could not but offer the comforting image of what a democratic philosophical community should be:...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Philosophie de la connaissance
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Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. Although much of his...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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20,40€
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This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and evaluation of Ernest Sosa’s profound and wide-ranging philosophy, in epistemology and beyond. A balanced, fair and critical volume, it offers a sensitive appreciation of his wide philosophical purview, a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-03-14
ePub
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