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What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claims to advance its anti-democratic project in the name of ‘the People’. How can the Left respond in a way that is true to both its radical...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-08-28
Collection :
Radical Futures
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This book presents a collection of philosophical essays on freedom and tolerance in the Netherlands. It explores liberal freedom and its limits in areas such as freedom of speech, public reason, sexual morality, euthanasia, drugs policy, and minority rights. The book...
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Springer
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2018-08-27
Collection :
Law and Philosophy Library
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This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne’s deep influence on German aesthetic...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-24
Collection :
Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
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Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has reignited fierce debate on the subject. These thousand-odd...
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Polity
Parution :
2018-08-23
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Gehirne unter Spannung Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung verändert unsere Kommunikation, unsere Bildung, unser Sozialleben, nicht zuletzt unsere Wahrnehmung von uns selbst. Wie wirken sich diese Veränderungen inzwischen und zukünftig auf Gesellschaft, Familie...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-23
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Connecting Virtues examines the significant advances within the fast-growing field of virtue theory and shows how research has contributed to the current debates in moral philosophy, epistemology, and political philosophy. Includes groundbreaking chapters offering...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2018-08-20
Collection :
Metaphilosophy
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The book is organized around 4 sections.The first deals with the creativity and its neural basis (responsible editor Emmanuelle Volle).The second section concerns the neurophysiology of aesthetics (responsible editor Zoï Kapoula). It covers a large spectrum of different...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-20
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This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings’s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-08-17
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In this monograph a fundamental distinction is made between law and juridical thinking. Law is the content of legal rules and the systems of legal rules. Juridical thinking is the handling of the law by the lawyers. To this distinction corresponds a basic distinction...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-16
Collection :
Law and Philosophy Library
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Central banks have become the go-to institution of modern economies. In the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, they injected trillions of dollars of liquidity – through a process known as quantitative easing – first to prevent financial meltdown and later to stimulate...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-08-16
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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This monograph proposes a new way of implementing interaction in logic. It also provides an elementary introduction to Constructive Type Theory (CTT). The authors equally emphasize basic ideas and finer technical details. In addition, many worked out exercises and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-16
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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This book presents a philosophical interpretation to numerical cognition based on dual process theories and heuristics. It shows how investigations in cognitive science can shed light on issues traditionally raised by philosophers of mathematics. The analysis will also...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-12
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On the occasion of Habermas’s 80th birthday, the German publisher Suhrkamp brought out five volumes of Habermas’s papers that spanned the full range of his philosophical thought, from the theory of rationality to the critique of metaphysics. For each of these volumes,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-08-08
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By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental crisis? Can so many live well? Or should world population be controlled? The population...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-08-08
Collection :
Political Theory Today
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From citizens paying taxes to employees following their bosses' orders and kids obeying their parents, we take it for granted that a whole range of authorities have the power to impose duties on others. However, although authority is often accepted in practice, it looks...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-08-08
Collection :
Key Concepts in Political Theory
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* This ebook has been aesthetically optimized for digital reading* INCLUDED TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. Published posthumously, The Art of Controversy is one of the most popular books written by Arthur Schopenhauer. It provides us with invaluable advice on how we should go...
Editeur :
Alicia Éditions
Parution :
2018-08-07
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This monograph details a new solution to an old problem of metaphysics. It presents an improved version of Ostrich Nominalism to solve the Problem of Universals.This innovative approach allows one to resolve the different formulations of the Problem, which represents an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-06
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When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-07-26
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This volume of essays offers direct comparisons of historic Western and Buddhist perspectives on ethics and metaphysics, tracing parallels and contrasts all the way from Plato to the Stoics, Spinoza to Hume, and Schopenhauer through to contemporary ethicists such as...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-07-18
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It is widely thought that the cognitive science of religion (CSR) may have a bearing on the epistemic status of religious beliefs and on other topics in philosophy of religion. Epistemologists have used theories from CSR to argue both for and against the rationality of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-14
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