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L’Uomo senza qualità di Robert Musil si muove in modo costante tra i due poli di crisi e possibilità. Questo studio analizza tre categorie, assi portanti della modernità, che nel romanzo illustrano questo movimento dialettico: il Soggetto, lo Stato, la Storia. Con...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Unübertroffen war die Markusrepublik darin, sich selbst in Wort und Bild immer wieder neu in aller Pracht und Herrlichkeit zu erschaffen. Der entstandene Mythos zeigte Wirkung – im positiven wie im negativen Sinne. Wer im 16. und 17. Jh. in der Kontroverse um die beste...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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This book is a comprehensive study of the experience of alienation in its many and inter-related manifestations as attested in the late-antique East. It situates Christianity’s enduring legacy in its early historical context and explores the way estrangement from all...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of intellectually stimulating new essays that address the philosophical issues relating to risk, ethics, and other aspects of climbing that are of interest to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-01-13
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Philosophy for Everyone
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Artistic Judgement sketches a framework for an account of art suitable to philosophical aesthetics. It stresses differences between artworks and other things; and locates the understanding of artworks both in a narrative of the history of art and in the institutional...
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Springer
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2011-01-13
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Covering interesting and varied philosophical terrain, Cycling - Philosophy for Everyone explores in a fun but critical way the rich philosophical, cultural, and existential experiences that arise when two wheels are propelled by human energy. Incorporates or reflects...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-01-11
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Philosophy for Everyone
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Written with insight and humor, College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone investigates a broad array of philosophical issues relating to student sex. Examines the ethical issues of dating, cheating, courtship, homosexual experimentation, and drug and alcohol use Considers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-01-11
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Philosophy for Everyone
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From Santa, elves and Ebenezer Scrooge, to the culture wars and virgin birth, Christmas - Philosophy for Everyone explores a host of philosophical issues raised by the practices and beliefs surrounding Christmas. Offers thoughtful and humorous philosophical insights...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-01-11
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Philosophy for Everyone
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This anthology takes the ever-controversial discussion of pornography out of solely academic circles; it expands the questions about porn that academics might tackle and opens the conversation to those who know it best—the creators and users of porn. Features essays...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-01-11
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Philosophy for Everyone
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The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical issues associated with cannabis use. A frank, professionally...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-01-11
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Philosophy for Everyone
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This volume is a collation of original contributions from the key actors of a new trend in the contemporary theory of knowledge and belief, that we call “dynamic epistemology”. It brings the works of these researchers under a single umbrella by highlighting the...
Editeur :
Springer
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2011-01-06
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Synthese Library
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Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD. Provides coverage of the Presocratics through...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-01-06
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The volume will consist of a series of interpretative studies of Locke’s philosophical and religious thought in historical context and consider his contributions to the Enlightenment and modern liberal thought.
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Springer
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2011-01-05
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The philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein continues to have a profound influence that transcends barriers between philosophical disciplines and reaches beyond philosophy itself. Less than one hundred years after their publication, his early masterpiece 'Tractatus...
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Springer
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2011-01-04
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Synthese Library
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Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis,...
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Springer
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2011-01-04
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In recent decades, there has been much scholarly controversy as to the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). The old picture of his thought as strictly idealistic, or committed to the ultimate reduction of bodies to the...
Editeur :
Springer
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2011-01-04
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The New Synthese Historical Library
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The bestseller from our pre-eminent philosopher, A.C. Grayling'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'. Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-12-09
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The follow-up to THE MEANING OF THINGS which continues A.C. Grayling's philosophical journey through lifeThe most important question we can ask ourselves is: what kind of life is the best? This is the same as asking: How does one give meaning to one's life? How can one...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-12-09
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Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier. In other words, an art critic. In 1759, his friend Grimm entrusted him with a project that forced him to acquire "thoughtful notions concerning...
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Springer
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2010-12-09
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The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. GraylingEveryone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is achievement and pleasure, and which has the respect of people one, in...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-12-09
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