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Am 8.2.2021 feiert Hans Albert seinen 100. Geburtstag. Hans Albert ist der wichtigste Vertreter des Kritischen Rationalismus im deutschen Sprachraum und weit darüber hinaus. Aus diesem Anlass verfassten 19 Freunde, Schüler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen Forschungsbeiträge...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-02-02
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This book is above all an example of philosophical reflection in Africa, refuting traditional commonplaces concerning the continent. The texts comprising this volume disprove the misconceptions that Africa has never understood itself and has never contributed to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-02-01
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Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term. In this book, Graham Smith...
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Polity
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2021-02-01
Collection :
Democratic Futures
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Migration dominates contemporary politics across the world, and there has been a corresponding surge in political theorizing about the complex issues that it raises. In a world in which borders seem to be solidifying while the number of displaced people soars, how...
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Polity
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2021-01-28
Collection :
And Political Theory
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Is it possible to abolish coercion and hierarchy and build a stateless, egalitarian social order based on non-domination? There is one political tradition that answers these questions with a resounding yes: anarchism. In this book, Carissa Honeywell offers an...
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Polity
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2021-01-28
Collection :
Key Concepts in Political Theory
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What do sex doll sales, locust swarms and a wired-brain pig have to do with the coronavirus pandemic? Everything—according to that “Giant of Lubliana,” the inimitable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek. In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19...
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Polity
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2021-01-22
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This book argues that Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra employs circular and cyclical (diurnal and seasonal) symbols to communicate both the life-affirmative and the cosmological aspect of "recurrence" as a unifying idea. It shows that twelve day cycles, which run...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-22
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Bringing together scholars from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, The Language of Argumentation offers a unique overview of research at the crossroads of linguistics and theories of argumentation.In addition to theoretical and methodological reflections by...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-20
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The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the...
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Polity
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2021-01-14
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This important intervention interrogates keystone features of the dominant European theoretical landscape in the field of populism studies, advancing existing debates and introducing new avenues of thought, in conjunction with insights from the contemporary Latin...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-01-14
Collection :
Critical South
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A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-01-12
Collection :
Reading Philosophy
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This volume brings together contributions that explore the philosophy of Franz Brentano. It looks at his work both critically and in the context of contemporary philosophy. For instance, Brentano influenced the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, the theory of objects of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-11
Collection :
Primary Sources in Phenomenology
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This collection brings together different philosophical points of view discussing two important aspects of human life, namely love and friendship, within the broad context of comparative philosophy. These points of view differ in terms of their cultural orientations -...
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Springer
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2021-01-10
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An ambitious comparative introduction to Asian thought, expertly written for undergraduate courses in Asian Studies, Asian philosophy and neighboring disciplines Recent decades have witnessed a sharp increase of interest in the cultures and regions of South and East...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-01-08
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This book analyses global issues holistically and offers pragmatic solutions from a Jainism perspective. Accordingly, it presents a fresh vision of individual development, social transformation and cosmic wellbeing based on the central tenets and practices of Jainism....
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-04
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A reader-friendly introduction to the essential concepts, theories, and questions in analytic philosophy of religion Does God exist? If so, what is God's relationship to us? Do we have free will? This is Philosophy of Religion surveys foundational topics in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-12-29
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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This volume focuses on philosophical problems concerning sense perception in the history of philosophy. It consists of thirteen essays that analyse the philosophical tradition originating in Aristotle’s writings. Each essay tackles a particular problem that tests the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-15
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This book explores the idea of a new cosmopolitan Japanese identity through a socio-cultural analysis of contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It is the first monograph to apply the idea of cosmopolitanism to this writer’s global popularity widely known as...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-09
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This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the relation between semiotics, law & art. Focusing on Greimasian semiotics, it examines specific works of art (from Giotto to Banksy) that deal with the theme of justice, promoting a more sensitive and humanized...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-03
Collection :
Law and Visual Jurisprudence
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From populist propaganda attacking knowledge as ‘fake news’ to the latest advances in artificial intelligence, human thought is under unprecedented attack today. If computers can do what humans can do and they can do it much faster, what’s so special about human...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-12-03
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