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“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations,...
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Polity
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2024-03-28
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This book offers a cutting-edge perspective of design for space to increase astronauts’ wellbeing and performance creating a more sustainable and inclusive environment, but without to forget beauty. The relevant aspect is that these design principles are now also...
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Springer
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2024-03-25
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This book contains essential contributions to enrich and broaden the application field of pragmatics. It provides an example of how the fruitful reflections and refined conceptual distinctions born in the philosophical field can find a practical application in...
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Springer
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2024-03-21
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The absolute of the sensible is none other than stabilized explosion, that is, explosion which comprises return. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2024-03-21
Collection :
Harmattan Hongrie
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Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad Max Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral responsibility, society...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-03-20
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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From ancient philosophy to contemporary theories of fiction, it is a common practice to relegate illusory appearances to the realm of the non-existent, like shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. Contrary to this traditional mode of drawing a metaphysical distinction...
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Polity
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2024-03-12
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This book is dedicated to the life and work of logician Janusz Czelakowski on the topic of logical consequence. It consists of three parts – a biography, a survey and research sections. The volume begins with an autobiographic chapter by Janusz Czelakowski followed by a...
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Springer
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2024-03-12
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This collection of original articles draws from a cross section of distinguished scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. It is focussed primarily on the philosophy of Aristotle but comprises as well studies of the philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Epicurus. Its authors...
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Springer
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2024-03-12
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The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, transformations within the arts, sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture, innovative policies and laws, and historic international agreements. Yet the means...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-03-12
Collection :
Key Concepts
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THIS IS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY “A masterful introduction to ancient philosophy. Fitzpatrick knows the contemporary scholarship on these authors, so he can shift from summarizing their thought to scrutinizing individual arguments. Meanwhile the writing remains so accessible...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-03-07
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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The perfect introduction to contemporary epistemology, completely overhauled for its third edition In Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, pairs of specially commissioned essays defend opposing views on some of today’s most compelling epistemological issues and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-03-01
Collection :
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
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This book deals with the question of understanding religion and its relationship with politics in the context of developing countries. It reviews specific theories, such as modernisation theory, marxism, liberalism, hermeneutics and critical approach to explain...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-03-01
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It is wrong when someone cannot exercise their rights in a court of law because they have no money to pay for a good lawyer, because they are too scared of the possible consequences, or because they simply don’t know that the law protects them. But does that mean...
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Springer
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2024-02-29
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This edited volume is the first in English that covers the philosophy of feeling and related topics in Japanese philosophy on Nishida Kitaro and fellow thinkers. Part I focuses on Nishida Kitaro’s philosophy of feeling, including, but not limited to, comparisons with...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-02-29
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White supremacy and American-style individual autonomy are mutually supportive and co-dependent. Attacking white racism will not dislodge white supremacy, which the author contends is the greatest danger facing America. That can only be accomplished by making concurrent...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-27
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Based on a deliberative democracy, this book uses a hermeneutic-critical methodology to study bibliographical sources and practical issues in order to analyse the possibilities, limits and consequences of the digital transformation of democracy. Drawing on a two-way...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-02-20
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Der Band widmet sich der Frage, wer verantwortlich ist für einen ethisch angemessenen Umgang mit Energie. Dazu sollen zunächst in einem ersten Schritt die normativen Grundlagen von Energieverantwortung skizziert werden. In einem zweiten Schritt werden mögliche...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-02-19
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This book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are provided by Sadra and Hegel respectively. Sadra is presented as having a project that is similar in scope to Hegel’s own.
The author argues that while...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-19
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Quick Read
Parution :
2024-02-16
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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.
This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.
- Reading time of the complete text: about 4 hours
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Quick Read
Parution :
2024-02-16
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